Upcoming Shows
JURIED SHOW | SMALL WORKS
Our next juried show will be titled “Small Works”. Our juror for this show will be interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and entrepreneur Miranda Aisling of Miranda’s Hearth. The opening reception for the show will be held Thursday, December 7 from 6 to 8 p.m., and the show will run through Saturday, December 23.
Entries may be submitted through Tuesday, December 5 during regular gallery hours (Tuesday to Friday 11–6 (including Thursday til 8), Saturday 12–5, Sunday 11–4, and by appointment).
We look forward to seeing your creative entries for the show and welcoming you at the reception. Future shows will include Wearable Art, Youth Art, and more.
Details and rules of participation (please review before entering)
Downloadable registration form
Online registration
JUROR | Miranda Aisling’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see throughout her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and entrepreneur.
In 2013, she launched her book Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something which became the subject of a TEDx talk in March 2014. This message, that everyone makes something, is at the center of her work both as the founder of Miranda’s Hearth and as an artist and community organizer.
Prior to focusing full-time on Miranda’s Hearth, Miranda worked as the Director of Operations & Visual Arts at The Umbrella Community Arts Center in Concord, Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Mary Baldwin College’s Program for the Exceptionally Gifted and a M.Ed. in Community Art from Lesley University. She has taught at the Museum of Fine Arts, The Umbrella Community Art Center, and The Staunton Augusta Art Center, among other places.
While sharpening her skills as a community organizer, Miranda has also continued to focus on her own art and creativity. She is a committed oil painter whose pieces focus on process, experimentation, and play. Her brightly colored canvases are rich in detail and thick with layers. In addition to making abstract oil paintings and writing books, she is a classical pianist and a singer-songwriter.
Entries may be submitted through Tuesday, December 5 during regular gallery hours (Tuesday to Friday 11–6 (including Thursday til 8), Saturday 12–5, Sunday 11–4, and by appointment).
We look forward to seeing your creative entries for the show and welcoming you at the reception. Future shows will include Wearable Art, Youth Art, and more.
Details and rules of participation (please review before entering)
Downloadable registration form
Online registration
JUROR | Miranda Aisling’s mission is to reconnect art to daily life, a purpose you can see throughout her work as an interdisciplinary artist, community organizer, and entrepreneur.
In 2013, she launched her book Don’t Make Art, Just Make Something which became the subject of a TEDx talk in March 2014. This message, that everyone makes something, is at the center of her work both as the founder of Miranda’s Hearth and as an artist and community organizer.
Prior to focusing full-time on Miranda’s Hearth, Miranda worked as the Director of Operations & Visual Arts at The Umbrella Community Arts Center in Concord, Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Mary Baldwin College’s Program for the Exceptionally Gifted and a M.Ed. in Community Art from Lesley University. She has taught at the Museum of Fine Arts, The Umbrella Community Art Center, and The Staunton Augusta Art Center, among other places.
While sharpening her skills as a community organizer, Miranda has also continued to focus on her own art and creativity. She is a committed oil painter whose pieces focus on process, experimentation, and play. Her brightly colored canvases are rich in detail and thick with layers. In addition to making abstract oil paintings and writing books, she is a classical pianist and a singer-songwriter.
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“I thought about the word ‘profile’ and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we’re looking at a person’s profile online, or say a newspaper is writing a profile on someone, and we assume it’s the whole them we’re seeing. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you’re only seeing half the face… It’s never the way you would remember seeing them. You never remember someone ‘in profile.’ You remember them looking you in the eye, or talking to you. You remember an image that the subject could never see in a mirror, because you are the mirror. A profile, photographically, is perpendicular to the person you know.”
— David Levithan, Every You, Every Me
— David Levithan, Every You, Every Me
Building Reflections in Crystal Ball, West Cedar Street,
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
Walker Evans
1930–1931
© Walker Evans Archive
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts
Walker Evans
1930–1931
© Walker Evans Archive
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
SOLO SHOW | EQUINE FAIR
Thank you for joining us for “Equine Fair,” our show of the works of painter Judith Corrigan of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her work has been exhibited throughout Connecticut, as well as in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and France.
“I have sometimes seen in the gaze of a horse, the inhuman beauty of a world from before the event of mankind.”
— Bartabas
Artist’s Statement
Growing up in the Catskill Mountains on the banks of the Hudson River, from a young age I gained a strong connection to the contours of the land and the rhythms of nature. As a child I spent summers on a farm in southwestern Massachusetts where domestic animals, horses especially, captured my young imagination, embedding in my psyche images of majestic size and graceful beauty. These early images, coupled with a love of music and dance, developed subconsciously over the years, giving rise to colorful, mysterious paintings of human figures and animals intertwined in the dance of life.
Visit Judith’s website
“I have sometimes seen in the gaze of a horse, the inhuman beauty of a world from before the event of mankind.”
— Bartabas
Artist’s Statement
Growing up in the Catskill Mountains on the banks of the Hudson River, from a young age I gained a strong connection to the contours of the land and the rhythms of nature. As a child I spent summers on a farm in southwestern Massachusetts where domestic animals, horses especially, captured my young imagination, embedding in my psyche images of majestic size and graceful beauty. These early images, coupled with a love of music and dance, developed subconsciously over the years, giving rise to colorful, mysterious paintings of human figures and animals intertwined in the dance of life.
Visit Judith’s website
RECENT JURIED SHOW WINNERS
We had a fabulous opening night for our Flora & Fauna juried show! Thanks to all the artists, families, and friends who came by to view this inspiring show and to meet each other. Thanks also to everyone who helped make the show possible, and to all who support the arts in West Acton. Pictured: second place winner Lynn Nafey, first place winner Julia Berkley, juror Joelle Feldman, gallery assistant Mary Ashley, gallery owner Margaret Burdine, and third place winner Elaine Seidel.
Future juried shows will include Opposites/Mirror Images, Wearable Art, and Youth Art. We look forward to seeing your creative entries for the shows and welcoming you at the receptions.
Future juried shows will include Opposites/Mirror Images, Wearable Art, and Youth Art. We look forward to seeing your creative entries for the shows and welcoming you at the receptions.