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  • Saturday and Sunday, August 18 – 19, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – An Introduction to Impressionist Painting in Oils & Acrylics

    Join in the fun of painting with impressionist techniques using color boldly, outdoors, in the botanical setting of Tower Hill Botanic Garden. This two day painting workshop on August 18 – 19 from 10 – 4 with Marcia Wise will enhance the use of color, color placement, values, and technical skills, and provide individual attention as well as group discussions & critiques.

    Oil paints, acrylics, and water soluble oil paints can be used in this workshop. A materials list will be sent upon registration. $150 for Tower Hill members, $165 for nonmembers. Register at https://towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org/pages/event-registration-form—an-introduction-to-impressionist-painting-in-oils-and-acrylics

    A native of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, instructor Marcia R. Wise began painting lessons as a child studying in Provincetown, Ma. with impressionist painter Henry Hensche. She received formal training at L’Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux Arts in Paris, France; The Art Institute of Boston; and Boston University. Marcia worked as an art teacher in public and private education, and she is now a full time studio artist with gallery representation in Boston & Provincetown, MA., Santa Fe, NM, Los Angeles, CA., New York, and Milford, DE. She also continues to teach private students as well as painting workshops locally, nationally and internationally. Each year Marcia takes people to paint in the Tuscan landscape in Italy. Marcia’s work has been in local and national exhibits as well as in juried shows, publications, and collections. Please visit her website at www.marciarwise.com.  Image below courtesy of Boston Voyager Magazine.

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  • Through April 30 – Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

    The Main Gallery of the Art Institute of Boston, 700 Beacon Street, Boston,  is honored to present this historic exhibition of photographs by Joel Meyerowitz entitled Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks,  organized by Aperture, presenting large format color photographs by master photographer Joel Meyerowitz, the first photographer to document New York City’s parks since the 1930s, when they were photographed as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s WPA program.

    In this stunningly beautiful exhibition the viewer discovers the hidden pockets of wilderness that still exist within the urban environs of New York City. Meyerowitz received this unique commission from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document, interpret, and celebrate one of New York City’s greatest legacies: the nearly 9,000 acres of parks in the five boroughs that have been left or returned to their most natural state. The images in this book are drawn from the thousands that make up the HP Archive of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

    In creating this work, Meyerowitz has drawn upon his childhood memories of a New York with “green space—open and wild, alive with rabbits, migratory birds, snakes, frogs, and the occasional skunk… [That] gave me my first sense of the natural world, its temperament and its seasons, its unpredictability, and its mystery.”

    JOEL MEYEROWITZ (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 international exhibitions. He is a two-time Guggenheim fellow, a recipient of both NEA and NEH awards, as well as a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. He has published over fifteen books, including  Aftermath: The World Trade Center Archive (2006). He lives in New York and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery. For more information call 617-585-6676, or email Andrew Mroczek at amroczek@aiboston.edu.

  • Saturday, May 1, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Medieval Gardens Workshop

    This one-day workshop on Saturday, May 1, from 10 – 4, traces the history and evolution of medieval gardens in western Europe, from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance. Topics of discussion include the varieties and influence of monastic gardens, the impact of the water gardens of Islamic Spain, and the exquisite ornamental gardens of the fifteenth century, designed solely for pleasure and sensual delight. Selected slide images of paintings and manuscript illuminations illustrate details of medieval gardeners at work, the tools they used and the surprising views of their garden designs.

    The image below is the re-created medieval garden Commanderie des Templiers de Coulommiers.  The buildings were part of a monastery belonging to the Knights Templar.  The garden design, inspired by paintings of medieval gardens, was designed by Joel Chatain, a landscape architecture graduate from Versailles, and the work was carried out by young volunteers.  Extensive use is made of wattle fencing.

    The course is taught by Priscilla Baumann, Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Boston University, and is part of the Lesley University/Art Institute of Boston’s  Spring Seminar Series in the Arts.  The cost of this workshop is $100, and it will take place at University Hall, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Room 4-040.  To register, or for more information, log on to www.lesley.edu/aib/EXTRA/courses.html, or email darcadip@aiboston.edu.

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  • Saturday, February 20, 1 – 3 pm – Summer in Winter: Paintings by Anthony Apesos

    The Arnold Arboretum invites you to a reception with artist Anthony Apesos on Saturday, February 20, from 1 – 3 pm, at the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall in the Arnold Arboretum.  The exhibit, Summer in Winter, will be on view January 9, 2010 through March 3, 2010, and Mr. Apesos will also give an artist talk on Thursday, February 25, from 6:30 to 8 pn.  For more information log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

    Anthony Apesos has been painting the Arboretum since he moved to Jamaica Plain in the early 1990s. His recent series of paintings shows the Arboretum at the height of summer’s verdant glory. A perfect antidote to winter weather, Apesos depicts the wide-ranging Arboretum landscape in deep summer, from the rugged outcrops of Hemlock Hill to the meadows from which dawn redwoods spring.

    Anthony Apesos is a professor of painting and art history at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. His paintings are inspired by such landscape artists as George Inness, John Constable, and Samuel Palmer.