Exuberance: An art exhibition celebrating color, and coloring outside the lines.

Join the Art Wellesley team for a special exhibition featuring the work of:

Elizabeth Cohen

Annie Newman

Jenny Schneider

The exhibition will be up at the Project B Gallery at Saxonville Mills in Framingham from

April 12th to April 28th. Join us for the following special events:

Opening reception in conjunction with Open Studios          

Friday April 12 6-8pm

Meet the Artists in Project B Gallery                                     

Friday April 26 5-7pm

Exuberance: An art exhibition celebrating color, and coloring outside the lines.

Join the Art Wellesley team for a special exhibition featuring the work of:

Elizabeth Cohen

Annie Newman

Jenny Schneider

The exhibition will be up at the Project B Gallery at Saxonville Mills in Framingham from

April 12th to April 28th. Join us for the following special events:

Opening reception in conjunction with Open Studios          

Friday April 12 6-8pm

Meet the Artists in Project B Gallery                                     

Friday April 26 5-7pm

This exhibition, featuring fifteen regional artists, has been carefully curated and juried by Signe Haas and Carolyn Letvin.

Please join us at the Opening Reception to celebrate the work of the following artists:

Patricia Busso

Cat Bennett

Erin Donnellan-Kroninger

Deborah Drummond

Ania Gilmore

Nancy Gruskin

Hilde-Kari Guttormsen

Carol Holtz

Timothy Kadish

Jo Lobdell

Janet Montecalvo

Nancy Rich

Stacey Roberts

Daniel Rocha

Darrell Smith

Exhibition on view at Tolles Parsons Center in Wellesley from April 10- June14.

In this 2.5-to-3-hour session, Carolyn Letvin will demonstrate the process of making and enhancing prints made from fish. 

Originating in Japan during the mid-1800s, this process was used by fishermen to record their catches for accuracy when selling the fish. It subsequently became a popular nature printmaking art form of its own. Using acrylic paint, Carolyn will create two fish prints, then show how revising the edges and body texture, creating a life-like eye, and doing direct printing from leaves make the fish image come alive on the paper. At the end of the demo, audience members will have the opportunity to make their own “chop” or stamp, used by Asian artists as signatures to authentic prints like theirs.

Carlos Santiago is a Puerto Rican-born artist who lives and works in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Before moving to Boston, Carlos obtained his bachelor’s in fine art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. He subsequently worked for ten years as a design professional in the fashion industry in New York City.

Carlos will engage viewers in the process of painting. He will talk about his work and demonstrate his technique in a casual, interactive painting session. Carlos’ still lifes walk a line between representational a nd abstract art, with his primary source of inspiration being flowers and vases. He finds complicated patterns, shapes, and repetition; elements that show up in all of his paintings.

www.carlossantiagoart.com

A dynamic inspirational conversation on creativity and the process of making.

What does it mean to make?  How do I start?  Why do it?  What if I am not talented?  These are some of the questions that permeate our thoughts when considering our notion of creativity.  This talk will explore the varied and powerful state of inspired expression that drives us to make and how to harness it.  Using common sense strategies, simple philosophical offerings, and short demonstrations, artist Timothy Kadish will present a thesis on how human nature is Creative Nature. 

www.timothykadish.com

Join artist Cat Bennett for a three-hour experimental drawing workshop. We’ll use crayons to draw from observation. No matter your experience, you can use your “beginner’s mind” to go to your edge and free yourself up. The class is fun, supportive, and open to all skill levels.

Cat was an illustrator for magazines, newspapers and children’s educational books for over 30 years. Today, she teaches drawing to find creative freedom and continues to make and exhibit her own art.

Paper and some supplies will be provided. Please bring brushes and watercolor paints, if available to you.

$60 plus $10 Fee for Material

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Wellesley based artist and ArtWellesley cofounder Laura Robert will bring a wide range of salvaged material and everyday objects to the classroom. Inspired by a live model she will lead participants in creating one-of-a-kind sculptures using their imagination and a variety of assemblage techniques. Think “kid in a candy box.” This workshop encourages playing with materials to uncover the unexpected.

Robert is an artist, an active member of her community, and a businesswoman. She completed her bachelor’s degree in art & psychology from Lesley University. Robert is a co-founder of Art Wellesley, an elected member of both Wellesley Town Meeting and the Natural Resources Commission, a member of the Wellesley Free Library Art Committee, and works in Financial Services, and Consultative Sales.

AW is partnering with the Wellesley Free Library on this workshop. No previous experience is required. 

Free.

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Artist Talk: Making sense of the world around me – in shape, pattern and color.

Hull-Leavitt’s talk and demonstration, offered in partnership with the Wellesley Free Library, will focus on her recent work, some of which is on display at the Tolles Parsons Center starting September 28. Her energetic tablescape paintings – The Dinner Party series – celebrate joy and abundance with dynamic color and familiarly festive shapes.

Hull-Leavitt is a painter working from observation and intuition, interpreting her experiences through patterns, shapes and color. She sees dynamic compositions in fleeting moments and responds to them with loose brush strokes and gestural marks, favoring expression over exact likeness.

“Painting is my way of being very present in the world. My art comes from observing what’s around me, an emotional response to what I see and an exploration of materials that leads to its own kind of discovery and storytelling,” reflects Hull-Leavitt.

Art has been a consistent force throughout her life. Raised in NY, going to museums and art fairs was a usual family outing. After graduating from Hampshire College with a BFA, she spent her career as a founder and creative director of a design firm specializing in biotech while raising her now grown family. She paints full time and shows throughout NY and New England.

Free.

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Art Wellesley is pleased to announce our second curated art exhibition at the Tolles Parsons Center (TPC) with the Wellesley Council on Aging (COA) where AW is facilitating a rotating exhibition program. Each show will celebrate the work of a small group of artists, displaying a body of work from each. The Tolles Parsons Center is a vibrant community facility that offers a welcoming setting for visitors of all ages during open hours throughout the year. Featured artists in the Fall exhibition include: Betty Canick, Daphne Confar,Fionna Kennedy, Caryl Hull-Leavitt, Randy Parker, Chelsea Sebastian, Ruth Scotch, Beth Shedd, and Joelle Tomb.

AW is delighted to have had Elizabeth Cohen serve as our inaugural juror for the first two exhibitions. Elizabeth is a practicing artist with a studio in Framingham who has lived and worked in Wellesley for 25 years. She holds a B.A. in English from Tufts University (1988) and a M.A.T. from Simmons College (1990).

Free event. No RSVP required.