‘BY HEART’
DATE: SEPTEMBER 23 -NOVEMBER 6, 2024
RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 23, 2024, with SC & FL CHAPTERS
Location: Annette Howell-Turner Center for the Arts, Valdosta, GA
Coordinator: Pat Zalisko & Annette Crosby, *Prospectus out in June. A future solo show prize may be awarded at the curator's discretion.
Theme: It references the intuitive sense we all have and rely upon in creating our work and using our materials. It can also reference how we sense, memorize, and process the outside world to respond to it in our work.
‘Self-awareness and Love’
DATE: October 2-26, 2024
Location: The Wedeman Gallery at the Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lasell University
Theme: Who do you create for when you create?
A work of art does not just exist. It comes to life between two people, one creating and one visually taking it in via the studio or a packed show. You are not creating for no reason. You have to choose a person or someone to create for. If you are not creating for anyone or a cause, then all art is the same; the work of art does not exist; you do not exist.
Let's create a scene for our Member Appreciation Celebration.
Date: November 3, from 4 to 7 pm
Location: The Art Gallery [TAG], 460 Harrison Ave 2C, Boston
Enjoy this celebratory and fantastic evening with your inspiring colleagues as we reflect on an amazing year. Celebration is the pause for breath we need to process change. Food, drinks, and great conversations in the picturesque setting of SoWa Art & Design District, Boston, will add warmth and energy to your fall adventures before we get into the holiday season. Through art and the joy of life, we invite you to find excitement at every turn. In 2025, let's continue to navigate positive change and what’s essential in our organization’s ever-growing culture.
'Windchill Factor'
Date: March 23 - April 19, 2026
Location: Karen and Ted Koskores Gallery
Theme: Windchill, the phenomenon where the perceived temperature drops significantly due to the wind, is a powerful metaphor for broader social and environmental challenges. The windchill amplifies the effects of cold weather and societal inequities.
The artists of NAWA-MA (National Association of Women Artists, Massachusetts) engage with themes of awareness, adaptation, stability/instability, and the interconnectedness of all beings. This timely multimedia exhibition, entitled Windchill Factor, consists of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations that address women's unique experiences and perspectives and the obstacles they have had to overcome throughout history. Women are potent collaborators with the foresight to facilitate the environmental and social change necessary for a healthy future.
The themes explored in “Windchill Factor,” combined with the mutual support of creativity and the validation of expression, deem this show relevant for artists and viewers now and in the future.
Juror Brynn Wartman, the Gallery Director of Karen and Ted Koskores Gallery, has showcased artists' work for over 40 years.
'We are not women; we are gods' V2
date: April 1-26, 2025
Location: The Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Theme: 'We are not women; we are gods.' V2 is a group exhibition of 2D and 3D works that capture the lyrical genius of Halsey's words: I'm not a legend; I'm a fraud. We want this life to mean much more: blink, blink, flash, the old life's gone, the blinds pulled back to bright new dawn - a life worth living at what cost we were made a name, all for everlasting fame. In our lives, we are the conduits where time collides, and societal ideas of women change. As artists, we present these changes in ways others can't – change, endings, and new beginnings.
Of Two Minds: Adapt or Die means Dancing between Art and Coexist on Earth
date: September 12-28, 2025
Location: Piano Craft Gallery, Inc.
Theme: Of Two Minds: Adapt or Die means Dancing between Art and Coexisting on Earth; the art world is a shaky hand of fate. Draw us in, drown us, and fulfill us. Waking up and changing our lives is an all-consuming passion for Artists who do not choose art; art chooses them to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
About Face
Date: July 18 - August 16, 2025
Location: Dartmouth Cultural Center
Theme: What does About Face mean to you? Is it a 190-degree turn, as in the military, or is it about the complexity of the human face? We often forget to look back to see where we have been while others are in perpetual evaluation. Some people find safety in their past; others try to block it out. The face tells an ever-changing story of pain, pleasure, curiosity, and love. As artists, we look more profound than the physical veil of emotion and express how it came to be.
‘Breakthrough’
Date: July 2025 - October 2025
Location: John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Seaport ( atrium & harbor park) non-juried
Theme: Why play with themes and materials when we do not know the outcome? Everyone has a creative breakthrough at least once in a lifetime. The Artists exhibiting in this urban and water space express themselves and invest in their creative process. Acceptance is sometimes dark, but a breakthrough is a choice that makes you; the breakthrough is what made you. Understanding is the ultimate breakthrough that is not to be left in the hands of others, so be aware and focused on your next breakthrough. Works chosen by Kaveh Mojtabai, the founder and publisher of Artscope Magazine
‘Chance Moments’
Date: July 2026 - October 2026
Location: John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Seaport (front, atrium & harbor park) non-juried
Theme: Is the world around us the "purest" form of chaos that happens suddenly or by chance with no apparent cause, “we ran into each other by pure chance”? The Artists in this exhibition can avoid or push back authority, resist restrictions, and challenge traditions. In a sense, they are chaotic, neutral characters who may disrupt organizations in doing so; they would have to be motivated by a desire to help inform people vs. to hurt people; what spectrum of chaos do you fall into today as our life journeys may change and alter these chance moments? Works chosen by Kaveh Mojtabai, the founder and publisher of Artscope Magazine
