‘TIME’
Date: July 2, 2024 - October 1, 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.
‘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.
‘Art with Intention’ I & II
Date: May 16-June 13 to August 3-September 4.
Reception: #1: Saturday, May 18, 2-4 pm, #2: Sunday, August 11, 1-3 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.
‘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.
Juror Aimée Burg is the Gallery Director of The Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Aimée holds a BFA from Pratt and an MFA from Yale (both in Sculpture) and is a builder and developer of objects, people, and communities. She spent a decade as co-director of Art Lot, an outdoor exhibition space in Brooklyn. She has also dedicated much time to education, most recently in early childhood education, and is the founder of the nature-based Zero Foot Hills artist residency in Durham, CT. Aimée curated the pilot “Keyhole Residency" to understand better the needs of artists working in the building and how it can support a residency program that is rewarding and transformative.
‘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.
'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.
‘MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS PART OF YOUR CREATIVE ARSENAL XI’
DATE: Fall 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
‘Ambition’
Date: November 8, 2023 -December 9, 2023
Location: The Wedeman Gallery at the Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lasell University
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.
MEMBER APPRECIATION SOIREE
DATE: SEPTEMBER 29, 2023, STARTING AT 5 PM
Location: New Bedford Yacht Club
'Nothing Permanent'
DATE: July 14 - August 26, 2023
Reception: July 15, 5-7 PM
Location: Dartmouth Cultural Center
Theme: 'Nothing Permanent' is a group exhibition of 2D and 3D works where change is welcome for all the reasons, a sense of responsibility, an invite of shared empathy, hope, and a need for action as Nature may force you to accept and resign. Nature's change is inevitable and continuous. The artists in this exhibition question, celebrate, and explore Mother Earth in all its beauty, concerned with the planet's fate from our gluttony, searching for empowerment, and never stopping to encourage change.
‘DANCE WITH ORANGE’
DATE: JULY 3 - 27, 2023
THE GALLERY NIGHT RECEPTION: JULY 20, 5-7 PM
Location: URI Providence Campus Gallery, in collaborative partnership with the URI Providence Campus Arts and Culture Program
Theme: A color or emotion; I mix it up because I am orange. The melting marmalade to tangerine sunbeams, setting the tawny sky ablaze. Orange is no hiatus color or emotion, just one isolated yet important orange brushstroke that demands a stare and focal point of the artwork, exciting, bringing the viewer in, making the eye travel around from all that is orange; marigolds and orange juice in a tequila sunrise; she is the color of the flames of the sunset and sunrise to monarch butterflies dancing on tiger lilies as the song the oriole sang snacking on papayas and mangoes to alluring autumn leaves.
‘FEMALE’
Date: june 14 - october 7, 2023
THE NORTH ADAMS’ FIRST FRIDAYS RECEPTION: July 7, 2023, 6-9 PM
Location: The Berkshire Art Museum
Theme: ‘FEMALE’
Without females, could we survive? Your touch is courage; we journey through you, and a person's desire reflects in you. You tame even the wildest storm; the climate changes from overwhelmed to admiration, a tutor of life regardless of race, language, creed, and culture. The world listens to delight; you are the giver of life, a mother, a femme fatale, a female.
‘We are not women; we are gods.’
Date: June 12 - August 11, 2023
Reception: June 15, 6 to 8 PM
Location: Multicultural Arts Center
Theme: 'We are not women; we are gods.' this is a group exhibition of 2D and 3D works that capture the lyrical genius of Halsey's words, I am 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 a 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.
‘Pattern Play’
DATE: May 27 - June 21, 2023
Reception: Saturday, May 27, 2-4 PM
Location: Gallery Sitka South, 227 Spring St, Newport, RI
Theme: A kaleidoscope of patterns awaits as the power of color transforms a piece of art, and refresh design is in the success of pattern-pairing. Art is defined by patterns from the artist's preparation to execution to the rhythm and rhyme in a piece; you'll find ways everywhere in art. Pattern Play inspires and is carefully connected and enjoyed with the eye-catching threads around us to form these 2D and 3D small works. Juried by Tamar Russell Brown, Managing Owner of a 20-Year / Woman-Owned & Operated - Branding/Social/WebDev Design Studio in NYC & MA at Sitka Creations® LLC
‘we’ve been around forever’
Date: May 7 - June 11, 2023
Reception: Saturday, May 6, 3-5 PM
Location: Cotuit Center for the Arts
Theme: Women have been around forever and creating since time began. See how our mind wonders - our imbued and blurred vision - to comprehend Society in a 2D and 3D curated exhibition, where everything is implanted as if we were only flesh without a soul."
‘Contrast’
DATE: May 5 - May 28, 2023
Location: Galatea Fine Art
Theme: "Contrast" The art world has many shades, is defined as differences, and is widely used as a principle of art. Here the heavy future is reflected in the Artist, the weight on the water, and the strain of the rock; the stage is here to play between art elements like color, value, size, texture, and other aspects of choice.
‘MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS PART OF YOUR CREATIVE ARSENAL X’
Date: March 2, 2023, 1—3 PM
Location: Virtual Event, Marketing—like Art—can mold and shape itself into whatever you want it to be.
Notes: The first hour will be about getting your "marketing house" in order with Lisa, and the second is about social media with Jennifer.
‘trust the process’
Date: October 2022 – January 2023
Closing and Awards Reception: December 14, 2022, 4-6 PM
Location: John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Seaport, (front, atrium & harbor park) non-juried
Theme: Trust the Process embraces the ups and downs of the artistic course and allows our trust in our creative journey, our modus vivendi.
‘MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS PART OF YOUR CREATIVE ARSENAL VIII’
Date: May 19, 2022, 1- 3 PM
Location: Virtual Event, Marketing—like Art—has the power to mold and shape itself into whatever you want it to be.
Notes: The first hour will be about getting your "marketing house" in order with Lisa, and the second hour will be social media with Jennifer.
‘SHELTERING IN PLACE SOCIAL V’
DATE: may 15, 2022, 3-5 PM
Celebrate as we continue to thrive. This social connection is essential for creatives. It is an informal and fun platform for our stories. The Highlight is our Art Salon which gives our colleagues a glimpse into the artists' narratives of resilience, healing, solidarity, freedom, and more. Enjoy!
‘MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS PART OF YOUR CREATIVE ARSENAL VII’
Date: March 3, 2022, 1- 3 PM
Location: Virtual Event, Marketing—like Art—has the power to mold and shape itself into whatever you want it to be.
Notes: The first hour will be about getting your "marketing house" in order with Lisa, and the second hour will be social media with Jennifer.
‘Nourishing the Senses’
DATE: January 25 - February 19, 2022
Location: The Wedeman Gallery at the Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lassell College
Theme: Our five senses create moments delivered through time—historical moments, ours or others' epic stories, along with hands-on experiments exploring the mystery of the mind and body. Andrew Harvey may have said it best: “If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”
‘Changing lives, Changing future.’
Date: January 15 - April 30, 2022
Location: The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, Seaport
Theme: 'Changing lives, Changing future' is a group exhibition of 2D and 3D works. Change is constant, and art is a journey from the moment we wake up, and the moment we fall asleep, and everything in between.
‘MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS PART OF YOUR CREATIVE ARSENAL VI’
DATE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1 - 3 PM
Location: Virtual Event, Marketing—like Art—has the power to mold and shape itself into whatever you want it to be.
Notes: The first hour will be about getting your “marketing house” in order with Lisa, and the second hour will be social media with Jennifer.
‘SHELTERING IN PLACE SOCIAL IV’
DATE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021, 3-4 PM
Notes: Come celebrate as we continue to thrive, able to connect, share, and salute the many great things occurring this year. This social connection is essential for creatives. It is an informal and fun platform for our stories - alive, noteworthy, always original. The Highlight is our Art Salon which gives our colleagues a glimpse into the artists' narratives of resilience, healing, solidarity, and freedom, and anything they may be working on. Enjoy!
‘MANIPULATION IS ART AND PLAY’
DATE: NOVEMBER 5 - 28, 2021
Location: Piano Craft Gallery
Theme: Artistic manipulation is mysterious, unseen—she is a force of nature, a master of the dark and light and all in-between. Explore this group exhibition of 2D and 3D works that give you a glimpse into the artists' minds—their desires and cravings as they purposefully change, alter, or influence their material of choice. Juried by Arts Educator and Host of The Podcast 'Hood grown Aesthetic' Althea Bennett, Feature films, television, and commercials prop maker and set dresser Rebecca Rose Greene and Gal Friday Consulting Haley Neville.
‘ART FORWARD’
DATE: NOVEMBER 1 - 30, 2021
Location: Galatea Fine Art
Theme: 'Art Forward' is a group exhibition of 2D and 3D works that explore all things that have their turn to change with time. In us, past, present, future meet. They collide and synthesizes cultures - allowing time to change, end, begin a new. Change is life, inconsistent as our future is time's excuse. The future frightens us, too vast and vague but change is hopeful, healing, and leaves us smiling ahead.
‘THE 15 WORD EXERCISE’
DATE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 14TH AT 11:30 AM
Location: Virtual Event
Notes: Please join us in an Interactive Workshop hosted by NAWA member Pat Zalisko, which has been adapted by Pat as "The 15 Word Exercise". An exercise designed to provide artists with a fun, useful, and amazingly quick tool to learn how to talk and write about your art, within a relatively short period of time. The 15-word exercise can easily be adapted to critique, write and/or talk about an artist's body of work. It is a particularly useful tool for writing an artist statement, a necessary component of any artist's portfolio. The exercise is adapted from one created by USC Professor and NAWA member, Fran Gardner, who also generously gave Pat permission to share it with our colleagues. Zoom Participants are encouraged to bring a writing implement and paper or electronic device for recording their impressions. Everyone will be asked to actively participate in the exercise. This is one of the most useful exercises an artist can learn. Please attend.
‘SOME LIKE IT HOT II’
DATE: JUNE 2021
Location: A Virtual Museum of Art featuring NAWAMA, NAWASC, NAWAFL, and FOUR VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE GALLERIES OF ART
Susan G Hammond Gallery
Nella Lush Gallery
Liana Moonie Gallery
JEROKA Gallery
‘SHELTERING IN PLACE SOCIAL III’
DATE: SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2021, 3-4 PM
Notes: Come celebrate as we continue to thrive, able to connect, share, and salute the many great things occurring this year. This social connection is essential for creatives. It is an informal and fun platform for our stories - alive, noteworthy, always original. The Highlight is our Art Salon which gives our colleagues a glimpse into the artists' narratives of resilience, healing, solidarity, and freedom, and anything they may be working on. Enjoy!
‘WOMXN’
DATE: MARCH 20 - MAY 2, 2021
Location: Marblehead Arts Association
Theme: ‘WOMXN’ is in the mind, in the heart, and in the soul. This invitational group exhibition of 2D and 3D works explore being masculine and feminine at the same time. The willingness to endure, summit to or at least try. To stand up for what is right or to be able to feel the good in our hearts.
‘MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS PART OF YOUR CREATIVE ARSENAL III’
DATE: THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1-3 PM
Location: Virtual Event
Notes: The first hour will be about getting your “marketing house” in order with Lisa, and the second hour will be social media with Jennifer.
‘A YEAR IN BLUE’
DATE: NOVEMBER 27, 2020 - JANUARY 4, 2021
Location: 460 Harrison Ave, Alpha C1, Boston, MA
Theme: 'A Year in Blue' small works 2-D and 3-D exhibition. Blue is the deepness of the oceans, the frailness in emotions, the memories in our heads, damages left in our hearts but ultimately Blue is the beauties of what we call life, all that is love and art. Dates: November 27, 2020 - January 4, 2021, with a portion of profits going to Pine Street Inn.
‘MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA AS PART OF YOUR CREATIVE ARSENAL II’
DATE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 1-3 PM
Location: Virtual Event
Notes: The first hour will be about getting your “marketing house” in order with Lisa, and the second hour will be social media with Jennifer.
‘SHELTERING IN PLACE II SOCIAL’
DATE: December 13, 2020, 3-4:30 PM
‘Marketing and Social Media as part of your creative Arsenal'
Date: Friday, December 11th, 2020, 1-3 pm
Location: Virtual Event
Notes: The first hour will be about getting your “marketing house” in order with Lisa, and the second hour will be social media with Jennifer.
‘South End Holiday 2020 Stroll - A Year in Blue exhibition’
DATE: December 3, 4, and 5, 2020
In collaboration with South End Business Alliance (SEBA) and South End Local, we warmly invite patrons to enjoy the South End businesses e.g. Retail, Restaurants, Galleries, Non Profits, Hotels, Markets, Local Services as they open their doors to patrons in strict adherence to state guidelines, mask-wearing, and social distancing are required.
‘inspirational journey’
DATE: october 15 - november 29, 2020
Location: The Vendue Art Hotel Charleston, SC
Theme: Inspirational Journey: An exploration of the influences which have become the visual language of art. In honor author Pat Conroy’s writing and his service to the community.
Developed and Sponsored NAWA SC, NAWA MA, and NAWA FL Chapters and Sponsored by Robert Lange Studios
'Art and Activism'
DATE: OCTOBER 27 - November 23, 2020
Location: 460 Harrison Ave, C6, Boston, MA
Theme: ‘Art and Activism’ a group show of 2-D and 3-D works to confront and blur the dichotomy between art and activism, as well as create narratives of resilience, healing, solidarity, and freedom.
‘area code’ Art Fair
DATE: AUGUST 3 - 31, 2020
Location: Area Code Art Fair
The first art fair exclusively featuring contemporary artists with ties to New England. NAWAMA will be featured in the fair’s main online section—juried by Octavio Zaya.
‘collectable’
DATE: July 25 - september 7, 2020
Location: Rockport Art Association & Museum
Juried by Jennifer Liston Munson, a former senior member of the Exhibitions and Design Department at the MFA and Executive Director of Armenian Museum. Jennifer received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Loughborough College of Art and Design in England. Prior to her work as a senior member of the Exhibitions and Design Department at the MFA, she was a 2001 Traveling Scholar at the MFA. Jennifer maintains a professional art practice. Her work is in many corporate & private collections.
‘some like it hot’
DATE: July 1 - august 25, 2020
Location: A Virtual Museum of Art debut featuring NAWAMA, NAWASC, NAWAFL
Theme: Hot Thoughts, Cold Emotions, Hot Theories, and Cold Notions.
A sassy, bold exhibit to kick off the summer, and shake off the pandemic blues. These works of art emulate time, place, a momentary observation, or a feeling we have universally experienced.
FOUR VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE GALLERIES OF ART
Susan G Hammond Gallery; Nella Lush Gallery; Liana Moonie Gallery; SLIH Gallery
Sheltering in Place Social
DATE: JUNE 7, 2020, 3-5 PM
EXTREMES AND IN-BETWEENS
Rocky Neck Art Colony | Main and Lower Gallery, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
August 1, 2019 – September 1, 2019
Juried by Martha Swanson (Renown Artist and sits on RNAC Board) and Patricia A. Conant (Interim Director).
Member artist Sallie Strand was interviewed by Bijou online magazine with a mention of our upcoming show at Rocky Neck Art Colony. Please click here for the interview!
BREAKING POINT
The Brush Gallery, 256 Market Street, Lowell, MA 01852 - Saturday, April 27, 2019— Thursday, June 6, 2019
Brush Gallery website, juried by Jim Dyment, Executive Director and Former writer for Artscope Magazine.
PLACES AND SPACES
Small work exhibit. AlteRnaTive Art Space@ SoWA, 460 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118 - Friday, March 1, 2019 - Sunday,
March 31, 2019
REAL TIME
The Piano Craft Gallery, 793 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02118—January 4, 2019 - Sunday, January 27, 2019
Piano Craft Gallery website
NATURAL FORCE
The Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, 300 Fenway, Boston, MA 02115—Monday, April 23 - Friday, June 1, 2018
Trustman Art Gallery website
RADAR
RADAR, Boston Act I': February 11th - March 11th, 2018 @artlery160 Gallery, 160 Federal St, Boston, artlery.com/artlery160
and RADAR Saratoga Springs Act II: @artlery160 at Harrison-Lobdell Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY: March 15th - May 4th, 2018
A PARALLEL PRESENCE
January 23–February 10, 2018—Wedeman Gallery, The Yamawaki Art & Cultural Center, Lasell College, 47 Myrtle Avenue, Newton, MA 02466. www.wedemangallery.com
COURTING THE UNCONTROLLABLE
January 3–January 28, 2018—PART I • Galatea Fine Arts, 460 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA
January 31–February 25, 2018—PART II • Galatea Fine Arts, 460 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA • galateafineart.com
WITH EYES OPEN
December 19, 2017–March 2, 2018—Thompson Gallery at The Cambridge School of Weston, 45 Georgian Road, Weston
csw.org/page/Arts/ThompsonGallery
BLANK CANVAS
Saturday, October 7–Sunday, November 5, 2017—Junior League of Boston Designer Show House at The Historic 1853 William Flagg Homer House
661 Pleasant Street Belmont, MA 02478 • www.bostonshowhouse.org • Media Coverage: The Boston Globe, Boston.com, Boston Design Guide, GlobalDesignPost and WCVB5'
ALWAYS SPEAKING
Sunday, July 30–Tuesday, September 19, 2017—Centennial Gallery at the Musculoskeletal Center, 4 Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA
(non-juried, each artist is guaranteed up to two works in the show)
WOMEN
July 3 to July 30, 2017 —Charles Gallery, 196 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930, charlesfinearts.com
UPWARD TREND
March 28 to April 22, 2017 — Hills Gallery, Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MAjuried by Elena Bachrach (Executive Director) and Sara Demrow Dent.
OPENING RECEPTION: April 8, 7–9pm
BOTANICA
October 5 to November 20, 2016 — At the Cahoon Museum in Coutit, MA —Juried by Museum Director Sarah Johnson.
CONTINUUM
June 23 to August 6, 2016 — "Tradition meets Innovation" At the Fountain Street Gallery, Framingham, MA —Juried by co-gallery directors Marie Craig and Cherie Clinton.
Media Coverage: Metro West Daily News ‘Women’s talents, past and present’
BREAKING GROUND
June 17 to September 16, 2016 — At Endicott College, Walter J. Manninen center for the Arts, 376 Hale Street, Beverly, MA —Juried by the Dean of Visual and Performing Arts Mark Towner and the Coordinator of Visual Arts Kathleen Moore. Media Coverage: Artscope Magazine feature, article by Will Broddus, Salem News
WOMEN OF VISION
June 5 through August 28, 2015. A glimpse into the minds of local female artists at Women of Vision at the Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge showcases a variety of works across multiple mediums. Media Coverage: Rebecca Joy from Scout Cambridge Magazine
STROKES OF GENIUS
October 10 to November 15, 2015 — Women in the Arts, Past and Present. Rockport Art Association & Museum, Maddocks Gallery. Juried by Jane Young, Chase Gallery, Boston. Media Coverage: American Art Review (Vol. XXVII No. 5), Gloucester times