The Massachusetts Pollinator Network, with the Erving Public Library, as part of the Popular Pollinators Series, presents the Pollinator Art Show at the Library, 2 Care Drive, Off Route 63, Erving, Massachusetts 01344. The opening reception will take place Sunday, May 19, at 2. The show itself will be on display during library open hours in May and June.
One artist, Daisy Hebb, works with native plant and pollinator experts to design brilliant watercolor paintings, laced with notes and fun facts about our ecosystems. Artist John Barnett aims to capture natural beauty that we overlook because of its small scale. He uses macrophotography to explore local biodiversity, particularly of bees and other pollinators.
This Historic New England festival at Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut on October 14 is one of the leading juried fine arts and crafts shows in New England. It features over 150 New England artisans and their work: jewelry, painting, printmaking, woodwork, pottery, clothing, metalwork, and much more! Enjoy live music, a food court, and first floor tours of Roseland Cottage.
Members Free; Nonmembers $5; Children under 12 Free. Log in or join now to have your discount applied at checkout.
Please call 617-994-5914 for additional information.
Ceramics provide a vehicle for Natalie Andrew’s exploration into the sublime aesthetics inherent in lichen. An artist and a biologist, Andrew was permitted by the Arnold Arboretum’s curation department to observe the ‘spontaneous flora’ of lichens occurring in the landscape. The resulting works highlight the texture, depth, and form of lichen against the surface of ceramic.
Natalie Andrew is both a professional biologist and a visual artist whose explorations converge around mosses, slime molds, and other denizens of the forest floor. Integral to her practice is the crossing of the boundaries that separate art and science, allowing them to feed off of each other.
Natalie is currently a Resident Artist at the Harvard Ceramics Program, MA, is the 2018 Artist in Residence at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, KY, and has had residencies at Wellesley College, MA and the McColl Center for Art, NC. She lectures and gives workshops on art and science, and has exhibited in various galleries in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
As a scientist, Natalie has most recently worked at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization in Germany, researching flows and contraction behavior in protoplasmic slime molds. Her previous positions include postdocs at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, and she has published in Nature Cell Biology, PNAS, PLoS Computational Biology and others.
Natalie has received a Ph.D. in Biology, a Masters degree in Cognitive Science, and a Bachelors Degree in Physics with Electronics, all from the University of Birmingham, UK.
This Arnold Arboretum art show will run from Friday, October 14 through February 13. For more information visit www.arboretum.harvard.edu
Seed pods are incredible vessels, protecting seeds as they develop and assisting with their dispersal. Photographer Anna Laurent explores the evolution of different forms to fulfill these common functions. Individually, each photograph is a fine art portrait of a unique botanic specimen; as a series, the collection becomes a visual and scientific inquiry into the remarkable diversity of botanic design. The project began in urban Southern California and has extended to the rain forests of Hawaii, the deserts of northern Iraq, and public gardens throughout the United States, including the Arnold Arboretum. This Arnold Arboretum exhibit runs through January 26, 2014, but the artist will speak of her work at the opening reception on Saturday, October 26, from 1 – 3 at the Hunnewell Building lecture hall at 125 Arborway. For show hours visit www.arboretum.harvard.edu.
Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts, will present an exhibit of mixed media and prints of Kim Henry and Susan Jaworski-Stranc entitled “Latticework” from July 31 through September 8, and an artists’ reception will take place Thursday, August 1, from 6 – 7:30 pm. The reception is free and open to the public. Kim Henry is an artist and environmental scientist from Groton, Massachusetts, who has studied pastels. Her exhibit features mixed-media landscapes created with soft pastels and acrylic paints applied to an under-painting of scraps of mulberry paper. The mulberry papers come in a variety of colors and textures that she uses to capture the depth and fabric of the landscape. Her technique highlights what she loves most in the natural landscape: light and shadow on trees and slopes, lush vegetation and bright flowers, an glimpses of distant hills and secluded gardens. Susan Jaworski-Stranc is an artistic printmaker from Lowell, Massachusetts, who has studied at SUNY Buffalo and the University of Maryland. She also received her Teaching Certificate from the Massachusetts College of Art. Jaworski-Stranc specializes in the creation of reduction linoleum prints (see below.) Her exhibit will focus on tree forms within an informal landscape. Their unique shapes, linear beauty and textures are what she likes to describe in her block prints. Born from one block of linoleum, her relief prints have the color nuances and rich textural surfaces of an oil painting. For directions, visit www.towerhillbg.org.
Utilizing materials gathered from 25 years as herbarium preparator at the Arnold Arboretum, Susan Hardy Brown presents art that reveals and transforms the ephemera associated with her daily work. Painting with encaustic medium (beeswax and resin) enables her to preserve and layer the various elements of specimen collection: international newspapers pages used to press plants in the field, extraneous labels, seeds and plant parts. Her paintings renew these found materials giving a unique perspective into the realm of herbarium collections. The Arnold Arboretum will present Ms. Brown’s art in the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall from July 14 through September 16, and there will be a reception from 1 – 3 on Saturday, September 15, and an Artist Talk on Thursday, September 13, from 7 – 8:30 (register at www.my.arboretum.harvard.edu.)
When observing trees, change is a constant. The passing of the seasons, the weather, and the time of the day produce endless variations in light, shape, and color. Both subtle and abrupt, these changes challenge self-taught painter Ricardo Maldonado to embrace the shifting elements of the natural world, creating expressive yet wholly recognizable shapes that elicit unexpected emotions. The paintings of Ricardo Maldonado will be exhibited in the Hunnewell Building at the Arnold Arboretum beginning July 30 through September 11, and a reception with the artist will take place Wednesday, August 3, from 6 – 8 in the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall. The event is free. For more information, call 617-384-5209, or visit www.arboretum.harvard.edu/news-events/art-shows/. Below is “Forest in Fall” found at www.redbubble.com.
To Merill Comeau, the cacophony and chaos of plant life parallels our shared human experience of coping with a complex and shifting environment. In her large-scale fabric interpretations of the natural world, she makes use of incongruous materials with past lives: artists’ brush cleaning rags, a mother-in-law’s blouse, cast-off sheets from the Salvation Army, plastic mesh bags from garlic bulbs, vintage linens, and colorful fabric samples. The complexity of the work is compelling from a distance, but also draws viewers closer to engage in the sensual surface. www.arboretum.harvard.edu. Opening reception in the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall of the Arnold Arboretum will take place Saturday, March 12, from 1 – 3, and the show will be on exhibit through April 24.
Newton artist Roberto Mighty presents a public, new-media, fine art project, Trees of My City, in the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall of the Arnold Arboretum. His work focuses on dormant, dead, and decaying trees in surprising and beautiful ways. While photography is the main component of the Arboretum exhibition, the reception will also feature high-definition video and audio surround-sound installation. There will also be an on-line component using geotagged locations of the subjects portrayed in the show. Opening reception from 1 – 3 on Saturday, January 22. Show will remain on display through March 6. For more information, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu/news-events/art-shows/.
Somerville artist Tova Speter uses found wood as a conduit to artistic exploration. The grain serves as her guide on a journey into the lines, shapes, and flow of the composition of the particular piece. In transforming scrap wood into works of art, she conveys the idea that everything has an inherent beauty that will shine through when viewed from a new perspective. Her work is currently on display in the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, through December 12. For hours and directions, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu. The artist will donate a portion of the sales from this exhibition to Spontaneous Celebrations in Jamaica Plain.
