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December 2023 Newsletter

FEATURED ARTIST: Heather Stivison

Heather Stivison - Life Sentence

Meet December featured artist: Heather Stivison.

 

Heather Stivison is an award-winning visual artist whose work has been exhibited in museums, universities, and galleries across the United States and in juried shows in Europe and Asia. She paints primarily in acrylic and oils and draws in charcoal and mixed media. She also maintains a fiber art practice.

 

Stivison believes in the importance of serving the arts community and her fellow artists. She currently serves as the president of South Coast Artists, Inc. She is an elected Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and serves on the Board of NAWA’s Massachusetts Chapter. Stivison is a former museum director, former president of both the New Jersey Association of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. She is a published author and is currently writing her second nonfiction book. A recipient of a research grant from the Arts & Crafts Research Fund, she has written and lectured on various topics within in that field. She is represented at Pleiades Gallery in New York City and by Imlay Gallery on Artsy. Stivison creates her work in Hatch Street Studios, New Bedford, MA.

 

Read Heather’s artist statement here.

 

Learn more about Heather on her website: www.heatherstivisonart.com

 

Heather Stivison - Searching for Answers

Current WCA MA Exhibition

Her Signature - A WCA MA Exhibition - EXTENDED


The WCA MA exhibition Her Signature has been extended until the end of December.

Gallery hours have been also been extended on December 7 and December 14.


Artists include: Alana Garrigues, Bonnie Iannotta, Deb Giordano, Helen Obermeyer Simmons, Jan Puccelli, Joan Sinatra Hathaway, Joanne Stowell, Nicol Wander, Samantha Durfee and Shara Osgood.

MEMBER NEWS:

Scaled Down at ArtsWorcester


WCA MA members Alana Garrigues and Joanne Stowell have pieces in this ArtsWorcester exhibition of small works. On view until December 17.


ArtsWorcester

44 Portland Street Worcester, MA

Gallery Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12:00-5:00 PM


The exhibition can also be viewed online here.

Gallery Sitka - Dawn Haley Morton - Small Works & Solo Show


Reception: Sunday, Dec. 10, 2:00-4:00 PM


Start at the mill and end up at The Bull Run! See all the work that Dawn has been working on and Shop Small! Dawn's work is photography on metal, which is new for her and we are excited to see the results. Come by for a snack and listen to Eddy perform some music.

Welcome one and all!


Gallery Sitka

2 Shaker Rd., D101, Shirley, MA 01464


Call for Art - New Dawn Arts Center


New Dawn Arts Center, founded and directed by WCA MA member Abigail Abbott, is currently accepting exhibition proposals for both solo and group shows. Formerly the Ashburnham Community Church, this spacious art center has two large galleries and room for works of all size.


Please send any proposals with images to aabbott@newdawnarts.org.


More information about New Dawn can be found at www.newdawnarts.org.


New Dawn Arts Center

84 Main Street

Ashburnham, MA 01430

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