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  • Saturday, March 13, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The Sacred Forest Opening Reception

    The works in Sacred Forest convey the power and spirituality that we feel in the presence of an ancient or immense grove of trees.

    Inspired by a concern for the environment, and motivated by mounting evidence that trees around the world are increasingly at risk, Lynn Avery has created a series of powerful, large-scale paintings that speak both to trees’ immense power and their uncertain future.

    The Sacred Forest is Avery’s way of promoting public awareness of the issues surrounding the future of our natural world. The opening reception for the exhibit will take place Saturday, March 13, from 1 – 3 pm in the Hunnewell Building of the Arnold Arboretum, 125 The Arborway, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The reception is free, and you may find more information by calling 617-384-5209, or by emailing marc_devokaitis@harvard.edu. Directions to the Arboretum may be found at www.arboretum.harvard.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.