This is one of our most popular shows!

We are also accepting hand-made Christmas ornaments to sell on the tree! Make and bring your ornaments to Drop Off! All ornaments on the tree will be For sale! Mark your prices before you arrive.

Two options for entering the show:

With either option, entry is due by Sunday, October 17th

You will need to renew your GALA membership on your entry form unless you are a current member for the duration of the show. If in doubt, please email debgiordano59@comcast.net

This year we will be selling handmade tree ornaments during our Holiday Art Sale!

Everyone loves ornaments! Start making your one-of-a-kind ornaments! You have a few months.

Everything on our Christmas tree will be for sale. Ornaments must be handmade.

Bring your ornaments during the art drop off.

GALA receives 20% commission and you must be a member.

If you would like more information, email debgiordano59@comcast.net.

This popular critique class is back with Janet Dupuis as our leader. Mark your calendar! There may even be an art challenge given to interested artists. If you would like a challenge let Janet know in your email.

Email Janet to let her know that you will be joining us.

A great way to receive feedback from your artists friends. Come and bring up to 3 pieces of your art work to share with the group. Come join us with coffee, tea, cookies and laughs.

Together we can achieve our goals.

Water is a juried exhibition organized by GALA. The exhibition will be held at the Fitchburg Art Museum during the month of January 2022

Call for Artists Entry Form will be available in July 2021.

We are notifying you now so you may prepare for this exhibit. In July we will send out an email for you to register with more detailed information.

Awards and ribbons will be given, following a reception

All visual artists are invited to submit their best artworks on the theme for inclusion in the exhibition. All types of art styles may be submitted, including both 2D and 3D works, painting, sculpture, digital, printmaking, fiber, photography, graphic, mixed media.

The theme is Water. Intimately familiar to us all, we emerge from the womb clinging to it, and spend a lifetime wading through it at every turn. Even life forms that don't need oxygen for their survival absolutely need water, such is its preciousness. The visual representation of water, in any of its myriad forms, is acceptable for this exhibit. Artists are free to apply their own interpretation in representing the overall theme. Representational and abstract ideas based broadly on this theme, in any media, will be considered.

Alicia Drakiotes of Marlborough, NH has been designated the chair person for the upcoming Historical Society of Cheshire County (Keene, NH) upcoming exhibit by contemporary artists.

Man and Nature in the Monadnock Region has issued a call for entry of local area artists who are interested in entering the upcoming event which will open June 3rd 2022 through Sept 2022.

This will be the fourth cooperative exhibit that Drakiotes has chaired for HSCC, the first was "64 Miles: The Ashuelot River" in 2013. All works entered in the upcoming exhibit should be based on the footprint of the Monandock Region. Drakiotes can be contacted for further information by email: adrakiotes@aliciadrakiotes.com

Sept 4: Keene Music Festival

Sept 7: Holden Farmer’s Market

Sept 8: Peterborough Nh Farmer’s Market

Sept 9, 3PM: Jaffrey, NH Farmers Market

Sept 10, 9:30AM: Keene, NH Farmers Market

Sept 12, 2:30PM: Reunion Tap & Table, Grafton, MA

Sept 14, 3PM: Holden, MA Farmers Market

Sept 17, 3PM: Jaffrey, NH Farmers Market

Sept 18, 10AM: Milford, NH Farmers Market

Sept 21, 11:30AM: Murdock Senior Center Lunch, Winchendon, MA

Sept 21, 3PM: Holden, MA Farmer’s Market

Sept 22, 3PM: Peterborough, NH Farmers Market

Sept 24, 3PM: Jaffrey, NH Farmers Market

Sept 25, 10AM: Ashburnham, MA Farmers Market

Sept 28, 3PM: Holden, MA Farmers Market

Sept 30, 3PM: Orange, MA Farmers Market

Public reception: Thursday, September 2, 6:00-9:00 PM

Two new shows open in our galleries and online today! Sizzling in the West Gallery, thirty-four artists bring the heat for Now in Technicolor, a juried members' exhibition bursting with bold color. Discover a new side of nature in The New Herbarium, an exhibition of spore prints and cyanotypes by Madge Evers in the East Gallery. Join us for a public reception celebrating both shows on Thursday, September 2, 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

Both exhibitions are on view in our main galleries at 44 Portland Street and on our website through Sunday, September 19, 2021. Gallery hours run Thursdays through Sundays, 12:00-5:00 PM, and are always free.

About this exhibition

How does color transform our world? How does dramatic color alter our emotional perception of an artwork? What memories are conjured through vivid cobalt, blazing vermillion, or radioactive yellow? In Now in Technicolor, thirty-four artists explore the power of bold hues in portraiture, sculpture, new media, and more. Selected works range in subject matter from abstract to the familiar, and everything in between. Some focus on a singular color palette, while others feature a raucous medley of hues. Audiences are invited to contemplate the powerful nature of color and reflect on the ways vivid color impacts our shared and individual experiences.

About this exhibition

Evers reimagines the centuries-old process of collecting and preserving plants for science and art in our latest East Gallery solo show. As part of their reproduction process, mushrooms generate tiny aerosolized spores. Working with fungi cultivated for this purpose, Evers catches the spores and their pigment as they land on paper, filtering them with other plant materials and manipulating their powdery traces. In her New Herbarium series, Evers uses foraged plants to shape the light-colored spores on black paper. Inspired by early modern herbaria, in which plants were preserved for study, these works conjure a natural world both strange and deeply familiar.

Madge Evers is an educator, gardener, and visual artist. She uses foraged mushrooms and plants to make works on paper that focus on adaptation and regeneration. Her work has been shown in New England and New York, including at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, and the Fitchburg Art Museum. In June of 2020, she began to work full-time as an artist after teaching for 25 years in Rhode Island and Massachusetts public schools. She conducts art-making workshops for people of all ages.

ArtsWorcester

44 Portland Street

Worcester, MA 01608

508.755.5142

From Sitka Gallery: During the month of September, we are presenting artist Elizabeth Hughes in the Artist Walkway located at The Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, MA.

Artist's statement: "I began my adventure of artistic expression first as a dancer, then as a writer and poet. In my painting, I stay connected to the rhythm, form, and emotion that I first encountered dancing. Later on, my writing taught me how to let word influence my work as a visual artist.

I moved into visual art after visiting Mexico in 1993 to study Frida Kahlo on a Kinnicutt Grant from the Worcester Art Museum. I have studied collage, printmaking, drawing, and painting at The Worcester Art Museum. I continue to study, explore, and learn with each new piece — each new destination on my creative journey.

I am drawn to the exploration of the external and internal landscape. Using color and shape to interpret these landscapes — one of nature and another of the mind — I hope to convey a moment, a place, an emotion in time that edges toward the timeless. I feel the mystical in the landscape and in the creative process. It can be challenging to get this elusive quality down on paper or canvas within the confines of the chosen medium. I sometimes seem to lack the skill, the discipline, the faith to capture this feeling of timelessness. Yet I persevere toward communication with, and connection to, a sublime intimation of truth and beauty."

Elizabeth's studio is located in Newport, RI.

Artist: gallerysitka.com/elizabeth-hughes

Gallery: gallerysitka.com

Venue: The Bull Run Restaurant - 215 Great Road Shirley, MA

Arts Alive! proudly announces new a mini-grant program aimed at artists and creative businesses in the Monadnock Region. Applications for mini-grants of $50-$250 will open September 1. Grants will be aimed at and awarded to projects that help artists or creative businesses expand their professional abilities or increase how many people they can reach with arts experiences.

“We’re going to be really flexible with how this money can be used,” says Executive Director Jessica Getler. “Supplies for a project, marketing your work, a short term studio rental, getting work framed, booking time in a recording studio or performance space, hiring a babysitter and ordering takeout for several nights so you can focus on a project, gas for your car to get to a series of gigs, attending a workshop - whatever it is that will help you move towards the next level.”...

15 Eagle Court

Keene, NH

603-283-0944

A monthly interview series hosted by the Fitchburg Art Museum, featuring artists, staff, and community members discussing the power of art and its role in our everyday lives.

Drills and Strength

Tuesdays, 6-7:15pm

Drills and Choreographic Phrases

Thursdays, 6-7:15pm

Social Dance Practice—Hafla

BYOB

Thursdays, 7:15-9pm

$50 for a five class card

$15 Drop In

Social Free for students

$5 for guests

286 Front St.

Winchendon, MA

Create with us from home!

Explore the artistic techniques, concepts, and themes behind Fitchburg Art Museum’s permanent collection artworks through these fun creative projects. Explore the full list of tutorials.

These open-ended activities can be adapted for a wide range of ages, and require things found around the home as well as some common, inexpensive art supplies. Explore supplies lists and guidelines for creation.

Fitchburg Art Museum

185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA 01420

Phone 978.345.4207

ValleyCAST invites you to be part of a virtual community exhibition where artists of all kinds can share the creative practices that help them tap into a sense of flow.

Join us in sharing the everyday art habits that help you get into a flow, whether that’s automatic writing, doodling, improv music making, free writing, or even crocheting. This project is our way of encouraging regular art-making as a practice for mental wellbeing.

The exhibit will launch in mid-September, with rolling submissions accepted through October.

Learn more and read the full call for submissions here.

In partnership with Worcester Wares

ArtsWorcester is holding a design competition for limited editions of die-cut stickers and tote bags to be sold at Worcester Wares. We seek an original design that involves one or more of these ideas, or your interpretation or combination of them:

The winning design will be:

One design will be selected and the artist will receive $250. Stickers and bags displaying the winning design will bear the artist’s name, signature, or Instagram, as desired. The competition and the winning designer will also be featured in regional press releases, and the designer will be the subject of an interview and feature article on ArtsWorcester’s publicity platforms. Two honorable mentions will receive $50.

ArtsWorcester membership or previous professional design experience is not required.

The items bearing the winning design will be available Thanksgiving 2021 through Valentine’s Day, 2022, or until supplies are gone.

Designs should be submitted as a .jpeg file by Friday, September 17, 2021. Designs should fit within either a 2:3 (or 3:2) or 1:1 (square) aspect ratio, but are not constrained by a specific shape.

Questions? Email Allie at allie@artsworcester.org or call 508-755-5142.

ArtsWorcester

44 Portland Street

Worcester, MA 01608

508.755.5142

Artists are encouraged to enter 2 original pieces of art created within the last 18 months which convey the relationship between mankind and nature in the Monadnock Region. When appropriate, “gallery edge” is acceptable. 2D artwork must be properly framed and wired for hanging and not exceed 18×24 in. 3D art is accepted, but artists must supply a base. 3D art not to exceed 432 sq. inches. Please contact the exhibit committee with specifics about 3D art.

$25 registration fee. Save $5 if you register before 1/1/2022. For more information: adrakiotes@aliciadrakiotes.com

Artist compensation: Artists agree to contribute 25% of sale proceeds to the Historical Society of Cheshire County, but artists may designate more.

All proceeds contributed to the Society are tax deductible.

Townsend Artisan Market is looking for artists, photographers, and crafters to exhibit and sell their work in their new shop on Route 119 in West Townsend (the former Settle Shop). Spaces are available for rent on a monthly basis for craft items and wall space for artists at a 30% commission on sales. Contact Melissa Wison at melissa@townsendartisanmarket.com

Westminster now has a public art gallery open for showings by Westminster artists. "The Little Gallery at Town Hall" is now accepting applications from artists or artist groups who would like to exhibit 2-D work for a month-long show. For more information, visit the Town of Westminster website.

Art Support is a website dedicated to providing support and resources for artists of all types.

The following is just a small list of support provided to artists: Organizations Helping Visual Artists, US Government Art Organizations, State Agencies and Art Commissions, Non Governmental Art Organizations, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Laws Regarding Visual Arts, Artist Consultants, Grants for Artists & Grant Assistance, Artist Health Insurance, and many other legal support and resources for Massachusetts artists.

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Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) and check out the MCC blog ArtSake

The Painter's Keys where you can subscribe to twice weekly letters from artist Robert Genn.

Visit the Arts Marketing Project website for info, ideas, tools and training on marketing art.

Mini Grants for Professional Development are available through NewVue Communities. More information.

Heywood Hospital Wound Care Center  Gardner, MA  (GALA Sponsored Venue)

Contact Vicki Heidorn at  surroundingsgallery@gmail.com  or 978-630-2340

The Townsend Meeting Hall Art Gallery Townsend, MA

Contact Alice Struthers at astruthers1@comcast.net or 978-597-2057

River's Edge Arts Alliance Hudson, MA

The Arts Alliance has quarterly exhibits at the Hudson Town Hall, so if you are interested in a solo exhibit of your work, contact Danielle Moskowitz at (978) 562-1646 or dmoskowitz@upwitharts.org.

Falmouth Artists Guild Falmouth, MA

Post Road Art Center  Marlborough, MA

Levi Heywood Memorial Library Gardner, MA

The Library is always looking for exhibitors to show their work in the Art Gallery. If you are interested in exhibiting as an individual or a group, please contact the Library Director, Kathleen D. Leslie at 978-632-5298 or kleslie@cwmars.org

Workers' Credit Union  Gardner, MA

The West Boylston Arts Foundation (WBAF) is always looking for artists, crafters, or musicians that would like to offer workshops or classes.

There are many ways to volunteer! Please email info@galagardner.org to express your interest in helping out with our organization.

Please send your news "publication ready" to news@galagardner.org. See previous newsletters for example formats and the type of info to provide. We strongly recommend that you include a digital image related to the news as well as your website address & links to any venues. Image filenames should include the name of the artist and the work. Please post your press releases online whenever possible and submit a link.

If you would like your business logo inserted into our monthly newsletter for only $50 per year, contact us at info@galagardner.org.