Jul 27 Saturday
MAINE QUILTS 2024 - Opening Night Preview Wednesday, July 24, 7–9 p.m.
Workshops with Reeze Hanson, Jane Haworth, Michelle Renee Hiatt, RaNae Merrill, Robin Ruth, Marge Tucker and Adam Rateliff. Over 500 quilts: Antique, Contemporary, Display, Judged and Raffle.
Special Exhibits: “Finding Home” with Sarah Ann Smith; “Where Will Your Compass Take You” a selection of quilts from Robin Ruth Designs; and “Best of QuiltCon 2024”. The theme row challenge is “Mariner’s Compass” All Points Lead to Maine”. Merchants Mall, Noon Lectures, Raffle Quilt, Quilters Walk Raffle, Children’s Classes, and Thursday night banquet with keynote speaker Sarah Ann Smith.
Air conditioned; convenient, free parking. For more information: visit www.mainequilts.org and find us at Facebook.com/MaineQuilts
This exhibition explores the unforgettable art and satire of MAD, from its beginnings in 1952 as a popular humor comic book to its emergence as a beloved magazine that spoke truth to power and attracted generations of devoted readers through the decades. MAD’s influence and cultural impact will be explored in this landmark installation, which features iconic original illustrations and cartoons created by the magazine’s Usual Gang of Idiots—the many artists and writers who have been the publication’s mainstays for decades. For more information, go to https://www.nrm.org/2023/11/mad/#exhibition
The Vanessa Noel Shoe Museum in Nantucket, located at the historic 1720 building 'The Seven Seas' on 46 Center Street, welcomes visitors free of charge from July 1 to August 11. Housed in the historic 1720 building once occupied by Captain George Pollard Jr., known for inspiring Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick through his ill-fated voyage on the Essex, the museum explores the evolution of footwear as a reflection of human culture.
The summer exhibit features a remarkable array of shoes, including ancient Inca footwear from the Tenth Century and cutting-edge Korean shoes crafted with 3D printing technology from the 22nd century. The Icon Collection includes notable shoes worn by Greta Garbo, George H. W. Bush, Harlem Globetrotters, model Kim Alexis, and NYC Mayor Eric Adams, among others.
Additionally, visitors can view over 500 designer shoes from hostess Susan Gutfreund's collection and explore displays highlighting sustainable production techniques with leather skins and plant-based leathers. Operating seven days a week from 10 AM to 6 PM, the museum invites everyone to discover the historical and cultural significance of footwear, celebrating their role as symbols of creativity, resilience, and social identity across centuries.
William Baczek Fine Arts, in Northampton, Massachusetts is pleased to announce our Summer 2024 Show. The group exhibition comprises over 75 works by twenty-six artists, including paintings, photographs, prints, and sculpture in both representational and abstract styles. The exhibition will be open from Wednesday, June 19, to Saturday, August 31.
Join us to make your own art inspired by the art and antics of MAD Magazine!Inspired by the progressive, provocative, and always playful MAD magazine, join us for drop-in art-making every Saturday, this summer. Projects will highlight different aspects of MAD magazine, featuring recurring characters, comic strips, bits, and other highlights of its history through drawing, collage, and more.
MAD fans of all ages are welcome, but no previous experience required!Materials providedJune 22nd will feature a special 90-minute artist-led workshop on gag writing with Emily Flake and Jason Chatfield
The Canton Artists’ Guild began in 1960 and has been continuously operating ever since, making it the longest running of any artist guild in Connecticut. The membership, which today draws on artists from 30 surrounding towns, is presenting work in celebration of this 64th Anniversary. Paintings, drawings, graphic arts, sculpture, ceramics, fiber/beadwork and photography are displayed in two large galleries of the circa 1872 former school house that is now Gallery on the Green.
Also on display is a solo show entitled “Winged Things” by Cynthia Cooper. There is a wondrous combination of whimsy and and beauty in her semi-abstract shaped paintings that were inspired by dragonflies, moths and beetles. Cooper uses pattern, repetition and mathematics to create evocative and rhythmic works of art. Always embracing contradictions, Cooper mixes straight lines that drop into curves, ordered systems with additions of randomness, and solidity with motion to form kaleidoscopic compositions that vibrate with tension.
Cooper has a B.F.A. in printmaking from The Pennsylvania State University and had additional training at University of Hartford Art School. Her work has been widely exhibited and has won numerous awards including Best in Show at recent exhibits at both the West Hartford Art League and at the Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich. Her work is held in many private collections as well as in the permanent collections of Penn State University and The New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain. She lives in Farmington with one other human, two plump cats and two 36 year old cockatoos.
The reception for both shows is Saturday, July 6th from 6:00-8:00 pm and will include refreshments. The show and reception are free, and the public is warmly invited.
Jul 28 Sunday