Art Wellesley is the brainchild of residents and artists Annie Newman, Julie Vari-Nikolewski, and Laura Robert, three friends with a shared vision. During Covid, they banded together to bring vitality back to their diminished downtown by exhibiting art in now empty storefronts creating a months-long storefront exhibition and two pop-up gallery shows.
With a long history of collaborating on community art projects in Wellesley – from Art in the Park to the Traffic Box Art Program – they decided, in 2021, that the time had come to formalize their broader agenda. Art Wellesley was conceived to make the visual arts an integral part of the fabric of the community.
