‘Ambition’
Date: November 8, 2023 -December 9, 2023
Location: The Wedeman Gallery at the Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lassell College
Theme: Some embrace ambition without hesitation, making it the necessary companion of hard work and elevating it, while others' attitudes toward their ambition are less straightforward. Careers, money, family, health, housing, location, and politics are in the air. In unprecedented numbers, high-tech workers, teachers, and healthcare professionals alike are leaving their jobs, retiring early, renovating homes, and relocating to other parts of the country to "listen to their bodies," "follow their dreams," or "feed their souls." Many artists experience this shift en masse as they delve deeper into their work, change directions, and expand their view of achievement. This exhibition explores new definitions of success and evolving personal and global perspectives on AMBITION.
‘MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS PART OF YOUR CREATIVE ARSENAL XI’
DATE: Summer 2024, 1 - 3 PM
Location: Virtual Event, Marketing—like Art—can mold and shape itself into whatever you want.
Notes: The first hour will be about getting your "marketing house" in order with Lisa, and the second is about social media with Jennifer.
Image by Susan Scavo Gallagher
'Boston Muse: Womxn’s Art'
DATE: march 4 - April 12, 2024
Location: The Scollay Square Gallery, The Galleries at Boston City Hall
Theme: “Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture, and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint." - Lois Mailou Jones.
This exhibition showcases art inspired by Boston's history, geography, and social diversity. The Atlantic shoreline, rocky terrains, federalists, brutalists, colonial architecture, the public gardens, the changing seasons, Symphony Hall, and art and design districts describe Boston. The Boston Women’s Heritage Trail discourages disparities by highlighting the outstanding accomplishments of a diverse range of women throughout history. Boston Muse: Womxn’s Art acknowledges the atrocities committed against native Americans, racial tensions, and gender discrimination. The exhibiting artists draw from the extraordinary power and rebellious spirit embedded in the nature and culture of this city and the immigrant experience. They embark upon new journeys in the physical, societal, and personal landscapes to create work that questions, challenges, and celebrates diversity and acceptance of self and others.
‘where do we come from? what are we? where are we going?’
DATE: April 28, 2024 - September 1, 2024
Location: The Art Complex
Reception: May 12, 2024, 1-4 PM
Theme: This exhibition is titled after questions posed by Paul Gauguin in his 1897 painting. It highlights the vast life experiences and heritage of our NAWAMA members. Where their families migrated from, what made them artists, why they focus on a particular interest, and where they may go with their work, each selected artist will write an artist statement/bio that their work will hang.
‘Together as one.'
DATE: July 5 - 28, 2024
Reception: First Friday
Location: Galatea Fine Art
Theme: We are all one; we are all the same. The strength to be one and understand the world as creators, artists, and humans through our craftsmanship, heavy and love-filled hearts, and hope for change speak volumes through our hands.
‘Art with Intention’ I & II
Date: May 16-June 13 to August 3-September 4.
Reception: #1: Saturday, May 18, 2-4 pm, #2: Saturday, August 3, 2-4 pm
Location: Gallery Sitka South, 227 Spring St, Newport, RI
Theme: Art enhances the story and the space we live in. Our Art, Our Story, restores the harmonious balance in times of much-needed healing, our new, continuous love, and the human spirit of hope, and the world comes to life - a jolt of energy, esse, community, and love.
'Art poses a question, and Creativity is understanding the answer,' Cuban artist Maria Magdalena Campos Pons said.
‘Permanent Impermanence’
Date: August 16 - September 14, 2024
Location: Dartmouth Cultural Center
Theme: Our artistic creations represent the impermanence of everything. Despite continuous change, we often invest as if life is fixed and unquestionable, such as our relationships, jobs, income, and housing. There is absolute peace and understanding, a mindfulness to accept nothing lasts forever.
‘TIME’
Date: JULY - SEPTEMBER 2024
Location: John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Seaport, (front, atrium & harbor park) non-juried
Theme: 'TIME' is a group exhibition that explores all things that have their turn to change with time. In us, past, present, and future meet. In our lives, we are the conduits where time collides, and cultures change. As artists, we present these changes in ways others can’t – change, endings, and new beginnings.
‘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.
