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In this blast
:: Botanical Explorations: Mosaics and Paintings by Lisa Houck at the Art Complex Museum
:: Influencer at the Attleboro Arts Museum
:: Across Shared Waters at the Williams College Museum of Art
Sponsored By: Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Digital Silver Imaging, University of Hartford, New England Watercolor Society, The Boston Printmakers, Hood Museum of Art and the Artscope Tablet Edition
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This week we're presenting the Art Complex Museum, Attleboro Arts Museum and Williams College Museum of Art.
Spend a day at the museum this week with our offering of three exhibitions showing this month at museums across the region. From floral mosaics to artwork that explores and expands on Tibetan life and culture, there is something to pique anyone's interest.
Make sure to update your Artscope Magazine App in the app store and leave a review to get the complete experience for our January/February 2023 issue, out now!
As regulations regarding Covid-19 continue to change, please visit gallery or museum websites to confirm their current hours of operation.
-Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
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Botanical Explorations: Mosaics and Paintings by Lisa Houck at the Art Complex Museum
in Duxbury, Massachusetts, February 19 to May 14
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Lisa Houck, Round and Round, 20" x 12", glass smalti mosaic. Photo courtesy artist. | |
The Art Complex Museum presents Botanical Explorations: Mosaics and Paintings by Lisa Houck, an exhibition that features the intricate, colorful and expressive artwork of Boston-based artist Lisa Houck. Through her work with mosaics, Hauck creates "vibrant, imaginative images filled with color and pattern." Her work captures the shapes and formations of the natural world using found and created ceramic tiles. The opening reception for this show is on Sunday, Feb. 19 from 1 to 4 p.m. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 1 - 4 p.m. The Art Complex Museum is located at 189 Alden Street, Duxbury, MA. For more information, please visit here. | |
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Influencer at the Attleboro Arts Museum
in Attleboro, Massachusetts, through February 25
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C. Arnold Slade, Harbour Scene, oil. Attleboro Arts Museum permanent collection. Photo courtesy of Attleboro Arts Museum. | |
The Attleboro Arts Museum presents Influencer, an exhibition that highlights artwork from the museum's permanent collection and art produced by the museum's W. Charles Thompson Museum School students. As the exhibition's title suggests, the students were influenced by the work of masters held in the museum's collection. The students range in age from 5 -17 years and created works in acrylic paint, chalk pastel, graphite, ink, charcoal and clay. The museum is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Attleboro Arts Museum is located at 86 Park Street, Attleboro, MA. For more information, please visit here. | |
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Across Shared Waters at the Williams College Museum of Art
in Williamstown, Massachusetts, February 17 to July 16
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Tashi Norbu. Photo courtesy artist. | |
The Williams College Museum of Art presents Across Shared Waters, an exhibition of work by contemporary artists of Himalayan heritage alongside traditional Tibetan Buddhist artwork from the Jack Shear Collection. The show features Marie-Dolma Chophel, Dedron, Nyema Droma, Gonkar Gyatso, Tenzin Norbu Lama, Kesang Lamdark, Tashi Norbu, Karma Phuntsok, Pema Rinzin, Rabkar Wangchuk, and Palden Weinreb. The work of these artists explores "themes of identity, consumerism, place, and cultural expectations." Some utilize traditional Tibetan cultural markers while others work outside of that framework. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Williams College Museum of Art is located at 15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Williamstown, MA. For more information, please visit here. | |
Sponsored By: Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Digital Silver Imaging, University of Hartford, New England Watercolor Society, The Boston Printmakers, Hood Museum of Art and the Artscope Tablet Edition | |
Hopkinton Center for the Arts | |
Hopkinton Center for the Arts announces its 18th annual "Arts in Bloom Show," juried by Artscope Magazine Publisher and Founder Kaveh Mojtabai.
This competitive juried show follows the theme of "shift": a slight change in position, direction, or tendency.
Hanging 2D media and freestanding 3D artwork that has not previously been shown at the HCA is eligible.
The deadline to submit artwork is Monday, April 3.
For more information, visit hopsartcenter.org
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Leonard Castellanos, RIFA , from Méchicano 1977 Calendario, 1976, screenprint on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2012.53.1.
© 1976, Leonard Castellanos
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¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now at the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire, through June 17
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, presents ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of
Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now,
the traveling Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition that explores the rise of Chicano graphics within the early civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist, and LGBTQ+ social movements, and how later Chicanx artists have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.
The museum is open Wednesday,
11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m., and Saturday, 1 - 5 p.m.
The Hood Museum of Art is located at 6 East Wheelock Street, Hanover,
NH.
For more information, please visit here.
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University
of Hartford
Joseloff Gallery
| Bhakta, Chirag, still from video work, 2022 and de Leon, Genevieve, Star Series: Oc (Aries), 2022, Oil on panel. | New England Watercolor Society | |
CALL for ENTRY:
The Boston Printmakers
2023 North American Print Biennial
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Garrett Gould: “Wreath” (detail), wood, paint, whistles, 13” x 3” x 13”, 2022 (Photography: Clint Baclawski)
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Exhibition dates:
October 10 – December 9, 2023 at the 808 Gallery, Boston University
2023 Juror: Elizabeth M. Rudy, Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums
$12,000 in prizes.
Calendar for submission:
Call open May 12 through 2023, June 7, 2023
Notifications emailed.
Full information and prospectus, use this link:
bostonprintmakers.org/biennials/biennial-2023/
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