A community gallery showcasing regional visual arts
Saturday, May 3rd the BGA (Belmont Gallery of Art) will open at 1:00 PM. At 2:00, Dr. George Mutter will take us on a journey through time. This will be a one hour, in-person presentation which is free and open to the public. Due to limited capacity at the gallery please RSVP to reserve your seat as soon as possible.
Immerse yourself in a series of exotic and unfamiliar settings faithfully captured over the last 150 years of 3-dimensional photography. A series of tableaux are thematically organized to reflect common experiences of community, danger, beauty, amusement, and innovation around the world and back in time. This is a unique virtual adventure which, by transcending social, environmental, and technological differences allows each viewer to discover the essence of what it is to be human. Images are selections from over 28,000 recently digitized original, 19th and 20th century, stereophotographs in the vaults at Photoarchive3D. Most have not been seen by the public in the last century, and all will be projected in three dimensions as originally intended.
George Mutter and Bernard Fishman have over five decades of combined experience searching for, and studying, historic stereophotographs. The prospect of bringing these to a broad audience through digitization launched what has become a fruitful collaboration. The result is a freshly digitized archive of approximately 35,000 original stereo images covering many subjects, most of which have not been seen by the public in the last century.
George Mutter trained in medicine at Harvard and Columbia and is currently a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He is a prolific scientist and educator, having authored over 120 scientific papers, and delivered numerous invited lectures internationally. Bernard Fishman is an Egyptologist trained at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. He worked in Egypt with the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago before becoming a nonprofit institution administrator. He is presently the Director of the Maine State Museum in Augusta, Maine.
WHEN: May 3, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
WHERE: Belmont Gallery of Art
Town Hall Complex, Homer Municipal Building; 19 Moore St, 3rd floor
Belmont Center, MA 02478
WHEN: Sun., March 10 • 2pm
Join the artists, their friends, and family in a lively celebration of making art!
Alina Artyunova
Nicole Bernstein
Edward Cardini
Julliette Carignan
Naomi Ellenberg-Dukas
Irene R. Fairley
Bert Halstead
Helen Hankin
Kay Hudgins
Richard Hill
Barbara Kibler
Anne S. Katzeff
Carol Leonesio
Jessica Lomeli
Sally Naish
Lauren Palmer
Darisse Paquette
Nan Rumpf
Janet Smith
Jill Strait
Sudakshina (SuWani)
Connor S. Thompson
Belmont Public Schools 2016 art reception: Richard Hill, Anne Katzeff, Rebecca Richards
We are looking to replenish our group of volunteers and need your help pronto! To ensure that the Gallery continues to operate smoothly, we need people to step up and help out in assisting with publicity, media and community relations.
The Marketing Coordinator organizes the publicity for the Gallery. He/she writes the text for all promotional materials, including news releases, postcards, posters, and social media. The Coordinator helps manage media relations. This key role works closely with BGA Director, Rebecca Richards, and the Gallery’s Graphic Designer. It’s a great opportunity to build up your marketing portfolio while contributing to the ongoing success of a local arts organization (now in its 11th year).
The Graphic Designer works closely with the BGA Director and Marketing Coordinator, integrating the marketing text with images for strong visual communications. Using the Gallery’s established branding specifications, the designer creates engaging posters and postcards, and applies the designs to all promotional print and web materials.
Interested in helping your local art gallery? We’d love to talk with you! Email BGA Director, Rebecca Richards, ASAP: admin@belmontgallery.org
The Belmont Gallery of Art invites all visual artists, from Belmont and the region, to propose original solo, joint or group exhibitions for our Gallery.
All Artists must be at least 18 years of age.
No exhibition proposal for a solo exhibition will be accepted, if the artist has had a solo exhibition at the BGA in the preceding 24 months.
The BGA cannot accept for exhibit graphic, realistic or explicit depictions of nudity This is a matter of courtesy, not censorship. While it is BGA’s ambition to present thought-provoking and challenging artwork, the BGA is a Town of Belmont agency, operating in a municipal building. Since the Gallery is, in effect, borrowing space from the town, it is simply good manners not to use it, without officials’ knowledge or consent, in a way that might embarrass the town or drag its officials into controversy.
The Proposal should consist of the following items, presented in the following order:
Note that all typewritten documents should be prepared in Microsoft Word or Apple iWork software.
Proposals should be submitted by US mail to:
Belmont Gallery of Art
P.O. Box 66
Belmont, MA 02478
Proposals may be submitted at any time. However, to be assured of consideration for the following season (September – June) a proposal must be postmarked no later than 5:00 p.m., June 1st. Proposals postmarked after that time may, nonetheless, in the Curatorial Committee’s sole discretion, be considered for the forthcoming season but, in all events, will be considered for the next succeeding season.
Submitting a proposal for the Curatorial Committee’s consideration constitutes an agreement to abide by the BGA’s Exhibition Terms and Specifications, which is included as an attachment to this Open Call for Artists
At least once a year, exhibition proposals for the following season are reviewed by the BGA Curatorial Committee or by a guest juror designated by the BGA Curatorial Committee. The Committee reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to accept or reject exhibition proposals or to modify exhibition proposals as a condition of selection, for example, by asking the artist to partner with other artists or that a particular artwork be removed from the exhibit.
The proposing artist(s) will be notified of the Committee’s decision at the address provided on the Exhibition Proposal Cover Sheet.
Here are all of the forms and helpful documents you’ll need when planning for an exhibit at the BGA:
For further information, artists may the BGA at admin@belmontgallery.org
