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Aug 11 Thursday

Art & Museum Exhibits

“Through the Camera Lens”, an on-line photography exhibit

Burnett Gallery at Jones Library

08:00 AM - 11:00 PM, every day through Aug 31, 2022.

Jerrold Meyer, a UMass Professor Emeritus, long-time Amherst resident, and amateur photographer, is presenting an on-line photography exhibit through the Burnett Gallery of the Jones Library in Amherst, MA. This exhibit reflects Meyer’s aim of memorializing the places he’s visited and the things he’s seen as interpreted through the art of photography. The photos selected for showing were shot in Iceland, Kenya, Venice, San Antonio, Nova Scotia, Zambia, Thailand, and Scotland. The exhibit, which begins on August 1st and continues through the remainder of the month, is available on-line only and can be viewed at https://www.joneslibrary.org/virtualburnett.

Aug 11 Thursday

Schoharie County Sunshine Fair

Cobleskill Fairgrounds

$17 admission Aug. 9-11 and $20 Aug. 12-14

09:00 AM - 12:00 AM, every day through Aug 14, 2022.

This 145-year tradition features midway rides, live music, a circus, Aquatic Acrobatic Show, Hog Diggity Dog ("hogs & dogs" show), racing pigs, demolition derbies, truck and tractor pulls, livestock events, Clydesdales, Heritage Village, chainsaw carving, exhibits, demonstrations, favorite fair food and more.

Music acts include 5-Zero Band and the Fair Street Horns (8pm Tuesday), T.G. Sheppard (8pm Wednesday; $10 limited reserved seating), Jason Wicks (8pm Thursday), Skeeter Creek (8pm Friday) and The Electric City Horns (8pm Saturday).

Other highlights: Harness Racing (noon), Barrel Race (7:30pm) on Tuesday; Pony Pull (10am), Gymkhana Junior (4pm) on Wednesday; Ugliest Cake Contest (11am), Kiddie Tractor Pull (7pm) on Thursday; Dairy Open Show (10am), Tractor Pull (6pm) on Friday; Iona Irish Dance Troupe (12:30pm, 4pm), Truck Pull (6pm) on Saturday; Hay Bale Toss (1pm), Chainsaw Sculpture Auction (3:30pm), Demolition Derby Championship (5:30pm) on Sunday

Pay-one-price daily admission (ages 3 & older) is $17 Tuesday - Thursday and $20 Friday - Sunday and includes midway rides, shows and attractions, and parking. See website for senior and military appreciation days and pre-sale season passes.

Fair hours: 9am - midnight. Midway hours: 4-10pm Tuesday and noon-10pm Wednesday - Sunday

More information: 518-234-2123 or SunshineFair.org

Aug 11 Thursday

Art & Museum Exhibits

Lincoln Memorial Centennial Exhibition: The Lincoln Memorial Illustrated

Norman Rockwell Museum

0/$20

09:00 AM - 04:00 PM, every day through Sep 04, 2022.

Created in collaboration with Chesterwood to honor the Lincoln Memorial’s centennial in May 2022, this exhibition will highlight the work of illustrators and artists who have incorporated the Lincoln Memorial into their art as a symbolic element – an instantly-recognizable icon upon which to build meaning. Approximately fifty historical and contemporary artworks by noted illustrators and cartoonists will be featured, as will archival photographs, sculptural elements, artifacts, and ephemera.

Aug 11 Thursday

Art & Museum Exhibits

Nathan Shepard: Oils & Gouaches, with Poems by Megan Buchanan

Next Stage Arts

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Aug 12, 2022.

Nathan Shepard was born in New Hampshire in 1966. Both of his parents were artists who encouraged him to draw and paint from an early age. He later studied oil painting, sculpture and art history at Bradford College and The Museum School, Boston.
Nathan discovered a love for mural painting in 1996, inspired by artists such as Diego Rivera, Thomas Hart Benton, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and his own father, Robert Shepard. The first of many trips to Mexico in the early 1990's resulted in a period at the Instituto Allende, Guanajuato, to further his study of mural painting. He spent a winter painting at the Vermont Studio Center and has studied plein air with Caleb Stone during multiple trips to Monhegan Island, Maine.
Nathan’s commissioned murals have been found in restaurants in Chiapas, farmstands on Martha’s Vineyard, on a New Mexican main street, as well as in private collections. In 2016, he contributed a mural for Whatever the Outcome, an innovative arts organization on Martha’s Vineyard focused on supporting education. Most recently Nathan’s work was featured in a summer show at the Canal Street Art Gallery in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
In addition to murals, Nathan paints landscapes and still life in gouache and oil. Whether it is the juniper-covered hills of New Mexico, the dramatic coastline of his ancestors’ home at Manchester-by-the-Sea, the vibrancy of Mexico, the fullness of fruit in a bowl or flowers in a vase, or the seascapes of Maine or Martha's Vineyard, Nathan always aims to explore the underlying spirit, history and nature of a scene or place.
After thirty years on the Vineyard, Nathan moved to Vermont in 2018 where he is inspired by the way sunlight and shadow model treelines, barns and metal roof slopes. He currently works from his home studio in Putney.
Megan Buchanan is a poet, dancemaker, organizer, and educator. Her poetry collection Clothesline Religion (Green Writers Press, 2017) was nominated for the 2018 Vermont Book Award. Find her work in Iterant, The Sun Magazine, Mom Egg Review, A Woman’s Thing, as well as numerous anthologies including Dream Closet: Meditations on Childhood Space (Secretary Press), Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry, and also Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection (GWP), and the brand-new collection, The Path to Kindness, edited by James Crews. Her work was featured on public display at Art at the Kent in 2020 and is currently part of the collaborative poetry + land trust project, Writing the Land.
She’s currently researching and preparing for an upcoming performance residency at BMAC which will run from mid-October 2022 through January 2023 – a new iteration of a collaborative, interdisciplinary performance project about radioactivity, rivers/oceans, grief and love.
She’s grateful for past support from the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Performance Lab, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Born in Laguna Beach, California, Megan first came to New England as a teenager to attend Northfield Mount Hermon School. She moved to Vermont with her two children in 2010. She currently works at three area schools, supporting students with learning exceptionalities. Make contact at www.meganbuchanan.net.

Aug 11 Thursday

Art & Museum Exhibits

Summer 2022 Group Exhibition

William Baczek Fine Arts

10:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through Aug 31, 2022.

William Baczek Fine Arts, in Northampton, Massachusetts is pleased to announce our Summer 2022 Show. The group exhibition highlights the work of the gallery’s artists, including Larry Preston, Charlie Hunter, Robert Sweeney, Andrew Haines, Travis Louie, Jana Brike, Anne Lilly, Sara Catapano, Guy Laramée, Chie Yoshii, and Mallory Lake, with new work from Scott Prior, Jamie Young, Laura Gurton, Jeff Gola, and Andrae Green. There are a variety of mediums on display, from traditional oil painting, acrylic paintings, ceramic sculpture, abstract prints with hand-applied crystals, with styles from hyperrealism to nonobjective abstraction. The exhibition will be open from Tuesday, August 2, to Wednesday, August 31.

Selections from this exhibition and other works by gallery artists can be seen on the gallery’s web site at www.wbfinearts.com. For more information about this or upcoming exhibits please call the gallery at 413-587-9880 or email at info@wbfinearts.com. The gallery is located at 36 Main St. in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 – 5, and Sunday from 12 – 5.

Aug 11 Thursday

Art & Museum Exhibits

IMPRINTED: Illustrating Race

Norman Rockwell Museum

$0/$20

10:00 AM - 04:00 PM, every day through Oct 30, 2022.

Imprinted: Illustrating Race examines the role of published images in shaping attitudes toward race and culture. More than 100 works of art and artifacts of widely circulated illustrated imagery will be on view, produced from the late eighteenth century to today, which have an impact on public perception about race in the United States. The exhibition will explore stereotypical racial representations that have been imprinted upon us through the mass publication of images. It culminates with the creative accomplishments of contemporary artists and publishers who have shifted the cultural narrative through the creation of positive, inclusive imagery emphasizing full agency and equity for all.

Aug 11 Thursday

Art & Museum Exhibits

OUR AMERICA/WHOSE AMERICA?

Ferrin Contemporary

10:00 AM - 06:00 PM, every day through Sep 25, 2022.

Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present OUR AMERICA/WHOSE AMERICA?, a dynamic group show of contemporary artists responding to specific and deeply problematic histories in the history of ceramics.

Our America, Whose America will present a dialogue between contemporary artists and a collection of commercially produced ceramics. This collection of historical objects, collected over many years by Founding Director Leslie Ferrin, are in the form of plates, souvenirs, and figurines from the early 19th through mid-20th centuries. The items were produced in England, Occupied Japan, and various factories in the USA. The exhibition title was chosen from a series of plates produced by Vernon Kiln that features illustrations of American scenes by the painter Rockwell Kent.

In response to this historical collection, contemporary works by nearly 30 participating artists will provide new context and interpretation of these profoundly powerful objects. Seen now, decades and in some cases centuries later, the narratives they deliver through image, characterization, and stereotype, whether overt and bombastic or subtle and cunning, form a collective memory that continues to impact the way people see themselves and others today.

Ferrin Contemporary is open Sun - Mon 11am – 5pm, Tues by appt, Weds - Sat 10am - 6pm.

Aug 11 Thursday

Art & Museum Exhibits

Art Exhibit: Sandy Renna, Gifts from Nature

Salmon Falls Gallery

11:00 AM - 05:00 PM, every day through Aug 28, 2022.

Join Salmon Falls Gallery to appreciate and learn more about Warwick, MA woodworker Sandy Renna’s turned wood vessels and the process through which he transforms rough wood into elegant objects.

The exhibit features wood objects and photographs that illustrate the many steps involved in transforming a rough cut log into a polished finished piece, and reveals a glimpse of the time and patience it takes to create his unique bowls and vessels.

Sandy Renna’s respect of nature and an understanding of a tree’s connection to the world is apparent in every piece he makes. Holding one of his bowls encourages reflection on the beauty, strength, and endurance of these majestic trees long after they have fallen. In reverence to the tree’s beauty and contribution to his craft, Sandy’s own inspirational photographs will be on display. The trees that surround us and literally give us the ability to breathe are honored, as is the connection between humans and nature.

Statement from Sandy Renna: “Each piece of rough lumber presents a beautiful mystery waiting to emerge on the lathe. My mission is to interfere as little as possible with the hidden natural gem and to allow each unique grain pattern a voice. The eventual shape, like the grain, is mostly based on the wood’s orientation within the log. The inspiration for these pieces is the trees themselves, rescued from the wood pile and fallen limbs. To honor their majesty, I transform them into beautiful objects as a fitting memorial and an ongoing reminder of one of Nature’s most amazing gifts to us and the earth."

Aug 11 Thursday

Swing Sunday

Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center

16 / 20

03:00 PM - 06:00 PM, every month on Sunday through Nov 27, 2022.

Swing Sundays - Last Sunday afternoon of each month at Hawks and Reed in downtown Greenfield with alternating bands The O-Tones and Butterfly Swing Sunday, November 28 3 pm - beginner swing dance lesson with Christine and Mark of Linday League of Western MA 4 - 6 pm dance to the Swing and Motown tunes of The O-Tones Masks and Proof of Vax and ID required for entrance We all need safe live music and dancing! Please join and bring a friend!

Aug 11 Thursday

The Philadelphia Orchestra: Beethoven’s Eroica

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

$35-$111

07:30 PM - 09:00 PM on Thu, 11 Aug 2022

Twenty-six-year-old violin superstar Randall Goosby makes his SPAC debut performing Bruch’s youthful yet expressive Violin Concerto No. 1.
Also featured on this program is Composer Jessica Hunt’s Climb, a letter-through-time to Beethoven, expressing her gratitude for his work. Hunt relates Beethoven’s personal struggles to her own experience with chronic illness.
A vast ode to heroism, revolution, and freedom, the “Eroica” is considered by many to be the greatest of not just Beethoven’s symphonies, but the greatest of all time. From its indelible opening theme to its thundering finale, the “Eroica” Symphony is one of Beethoven’s most popular works.

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