A community gallery showcasing regional visual arts
Textile Art ShowThe Belmont Gallery of Art is pleased to present its first-ever all textile art show featuring the work of nationally and internationally known quilt artists Sylvia Einstein, Beatriz Grayson and Nancy Halpern.
Opening Reception: Sun., Feb. 28, 2-4pm
Gallery Talk: Sun., March 13, 2-4pm
The exhibit will feature more than 50 photographs that capture and reveal Morse’s heart and mind through several decades worth of work.
Helen Morse takes fine arts photographs which are windows into her own heart and mind; some are manipulated, some are not, but all represent her unique view of the world. In recent years Morse has also begun to paint on canvas as well. Her paintings may be separate from her photographic work, but they flow from the same emotional and aesthetic wellspring. Don’t miss this opportunity to look back at 40 years worth of meaningful, beautiful, and sometimes provocative work that has shaped the world of this artist.
Gallery Talk: Sun., Jan. 31, 2016, 2–2pm
Check out pictures from Helen’s art talk.
The BGA exhibit coincides with the Boston Printmakers biennial Juried Exhibition. There will be other satellite print shows around Boston.
Exhibit features work by 25 members of the Printmakers of Cape Cod. Show includes monotypes, linocuts, woodcuts, serigraphs and more.
One of several satellite shows coinciding with The Boston Printmakers Biennial Exhibition
Special Additional Hours: Sat. , Nov. 7, 12-3
That’s right, the Belmont Gallery of Art opened its doors to the public for the very first time in July 2005. In the years that followed, we mounted over 60 unique, compelling, inspirational exhibits showcasing the talents of several hundred local and regional artists from New England and beyond. The BGA has also enlightened and entertained thousands of visitors, and served as an anchor and outlet for Belmont’s own prodigious community of artists. Now, that’s something to celebrate!
To mark this extraordinary milestone, the BGA has its 10th Anniversary Show — fittingly entitled “Celebrate!” — to honor the work of the many artists who made our first ten years a rousing success. The show features one work from each participating artist.
It was a special evening celebrating our milestone anniversary with good wine, delicious food, live music, interesting people, raffle, and lots of art.
Catered by Bon Appetit * Wine from Cambridge Wine and Spirits * People’s Choice Awards * Raffle/Silent Auction * Festive Dress
Free Admission, $10 voluntary donation encouraged
Thank you to all of the fine folks and organizations who donated items to our raffle/silent auction:
September 18, 2015: Rebecca and Anne were guests on the Belmont Media Center’s show “What’s Going On?”. Huge shout out to all of the BMC folks: Jan Knight (our hostess), Janet Amdur (producer), Jeff Hansell (director), Jane (sound), and Dave (camera and yummy brownies)!
02478 is the summer exhibition of the Belmont Art Association (BAA), and offers an opportunity to meet many of the artists—both amateur and professional—who live and work in our community. Showcasing work by BAA members, the exhibit includes work in a wide variety of media from painting, drawing, printmaking and collage, to sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and photography.
Founded in 2013, the Belmont Art Association’s mission is to “create a community of and for Belmont-based visual artists by sharing information and resources and creating opportunities to display their work.” For more information about the organization visit their website.
Closing Reception: September 11, 6-8pm
Monday through Thursday 10am–4pm
Fridays 10am–1pm
Sunday, June 28 – 1–4pm
Thursday and Friday 10am–4pm
Sunday 1–4pm
This show is an annual spring tradition at the Belmont Gallery of Art. Come see and celebrate the work of Belmont’s young K-12 artists. A wonderful sampling of work is showcased from the visual arts program and curriculum within the schools. Featured are pieces in a wide variety of media including paintings, ceramics, prints, drawings and three dimensional work.
Reception: May 21, 2015, 6-8pm
Families Reception: May 27, 2015, 6-8pm
Meet the artists and the teachers who inspire their creativity.
Gallery Hours:
Thursday, May 28 – 10am – 4pm
Friday, May 29 – Regular gallery hours, 10am – 4pm, extended hours 6-8pm
Sunday, May 31 – CLOSED
Thursday, June 4 – 10am – 4pm
Friday, June 5 – Regular gallery hours, 10am – 4pm
Sunday, June 7 – 1-4pm, FINAL DAY OPEN TO PUBLIC
Jonathan Hansen, Senior Lecturer on Social Studies and Faculty Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, is currently working on a biography of Fidel Castro (Young Castro, to be published by Simon and Schuster). Research for the book provides frequent occasions to travel to Cuba. While on these trips, he has become inspired by Cuban people and culture, and has taken many intriguing photographs which are shown in this exhibit.
Guest Curator: Astrid Martinez-Jones, Founder/Director of Latin Art Space.
Artist Gallery Talk: April 30, 7:30pm
As a historian, I am drawn to the sedimentary quality of private lives, public spaces, and political and cultural institutions. The collection of photographs, taken while at work on a biography of the young Fidel Castro, represents my attempt to capture the geological layers of Cuba’s built environment, while conveying the dynamism and exhuberance of its social life.”
— Jonathan Hansen
Thank you to everyone who attended this fascinating mix of art, history, and culture. Pictures taken by Anne Katzeff and Rebecca Richards, BGA committee members.
Helen Morse, BGA committee member, took most of these photos. Thanks Helen!
The Harvard Gazette has a terrific article about Hansen and our exhibit! Read More.
Did you know that teabags can be used for more than just brewing delightful cups of tea?!
In this exhibit, Christiane Corcelle transforms teabags and their components into works of art. This show has many surprises and is sure to make people think outside of the box.
We invite visitors to experience the unique work found in Belmont artist Christiane Corcelle’s one-woman show Kaleidoscope: The Art of Tea. This eclectic and unique exhibit includes both two- and three-dimensional objects created using the common tea bag.
For years, the French-born Corcelle has collected discarded objects as part of her creative process. Since 2011, she has been working with used tea bags and their components, including strings and labels to create over 100 unique pieces that explore variations in composition, repeating patterns, and recurring elements in a deeper way, and from a greater variety of perspectives.
Corcelle says:
I have always been interested in the idea of re-using everyday objects in my art. Living in a society of consumption, I want to share the many fascinating aspects of what one can do with simple everyday “trash” objects such as used tea bags.”
Corcelle transformed the tea bags and labels by altering them, sewing them, rolling them, gluing them, adding found objects to them, or printing on them. The finished pieces are unified and coherent, but individually they are all unique.
After seeing this beautiful and unusual show, gallery visitors will likely never look at a tea bag quite the same way again,”
— Rebecca Richards, co-director of the BGA.
Here are some pictures from that event:
Thanks to all who attended!
Christiane Corcelle’s artwork has been exhibited throughout the US, China, Vietnam and Peru. Her works are in a number of private and public collections, including the MFA, the Boston Public Library, the Vietnam Fine Arts Association in Hanoi and the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. She has taught workshops and classes at the Maud Morgan Center, Shepherd Print Studio, the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and Framingham State College. Corcelle serves on the board of the Boston Printmakers, an international association of printmakers from North America.
Since opening its doors in July 2005, the Belmont Gallery of Art has presented over sixty shows featuring the work of dozens of artists. The BGA was awarded a Gold Star Award from the Mass Cultural Council in 2007 in recognition of its support for artists in Belmont and surrounding communities.
Photovoice is a public research process that gives cameras to people
who have been disempowered, to take photographs of their
communities. These photos are narrated with the goals of promoting
critical dialogue and knowledge of personal and community issues
and to promote possible solutions to policy makers.
The exhibit was created as part of a “peer-led anti-stigma program”
which was implemented at Waverley Place and was developed by the
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston Univ.
Wheelchair accessible. On-street parking.
Small works of art, priced affordably at $200 or less, will be on display for a couple of weeks at our beautiful gallery. A great opportunity to get holiday gifts and support your local art community. Paintings, etchings, prints, fabrics, jewelry, sculptures, photographs, collage, scarves, notecards, giclees…. we’re sure something will catch your eye! Unlike gallery policy the remainder of the year, items may be taken home with you at the time of purchase.
| Fridays, Dec. 12 & 19: | 10am-4pm AND 5pm-8pm |
| Saturdays, Dec. 13 & 20: | 10am-4pm |
| Sundays, Dec. 14 & 21: | 10am-4pm |
| Wednesday, Dec. 17: | 10am-4pm |
| Thursday, Dec. 18: | 5pm-8pm |
| Terri Ackerman Nicole Bernstein Christine Chang Janet Clingerman-Hsiao Lisa Cohen Mathilde Duffy Norma Dumont Joanna Dunn |
Eleanor Elkin Naomi Ellenberg-Dukas Ottavio Forte Erika Hartwieg Ben Havens Ku-chuan Hsiao Anne Katzeff Caitlyn Marsh |
Carolyn May Sophia Mone Helen Morse John Norton Sara Reilly Adine Storer Ian Todreas Carol Wintle |
We are pleased to present “Continental Drift: Printmakers Converge”, an exhibit of work by members of the Boston Printmakers and the Icelandic Printmakers Association. This cross-cultural show was inspired by the Boston Printmakers August 2014 trip to Iceland and the resulting collaboration between the two groups of artists. “Continental Drift” showcases the similarities as well as the differences that exist between the two printmaking groups—but ultimately forges a bridge between the two cultures. “Continental Drift” showcases the art that was created during that process—first exhibited in Reykjavik two months ago and now displayed in Belmont and Newton.
The Belmont Gallery of Art’s Opening Reception for “Continental Drift” takes place Friday, Oct. 24, 6-8pm.
The Scandinavian Center’s Nordic Hall will host its Artists Reception and Talk, Thurs., Nov. 20, 5:30-7:30pm.
In addition, the Belmont Gallery of Art will host an Artists Print Talk with American and Icelandic printmakers Nov. 23, 2-4pm.
All events are free and open to the public.
“The exhibit’s title, “Continental Drift: Printmakers Converge,” reflects the action of cultures, and continents, coming together via printmaking–colliding–if you will—and then drifting apart,” says Boston Printmakers artist Bob Tomolillo, who organized the group’s trip to Iceland. Tomolillo says that art is everywhere in Iceland and that the visitors from the US were inspired by what they saw in the country’s strive to protect its cultural heritage and connection to the “sacred” landscape.
Society has long embraced the printed image: from the earliest depiction of saints in medieval woodcuts through Andy Warhol’s Pop Art silkscreens of modern day symbols. Printmaking as an art form is practiced around the globe—with the images as varied as the regions and cultures that practice the craft. “ Continental Drift: Printmakers Collide” gives art lovers the opportunity to celebrate printmaking traditions—new and old–from two unique–yet connected–world cultures: the US and Iceland.
The Scandinavian Cultural Center’s Nordic Hall in W. Newton hosts a “Continental Drift” companion exhibit through November with a collection of recent prints by Icelandic artists “inspired by landscapes and human nature.”
The 60+ prints in the “Continental Drift: Printmaker’s Converge” exhibits showcase a variety of ancient and modern printmaking techniques including etching, Chine-colle, silkscreens, monoprints, woodcuts, intaglio, lithography and digital and electro-photo processes.
Nordic Hall Icelandic Prints exhibit/Artists Talk information can be found at www.scandicenter.org.
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Animals — from beasts of prey to household pets — have been a staple of artistic expression since cave painting at the very dawn of humanity. Whether as totems, allegory, decoration, or simply for their “fearsome symmetry,” animals have been a presence in the works of history’s greatest masters from DaVinci’s horse studies, through Rousseau’s primitive wildlife, to Picasso’s bull fetish. Yet, the role of animals in art is often overlooked. We have terms for ‘portraits,’ ‘landscapes.’ and ’‘still lives’, but none for art with animal subjects. ‘Animal Art’ gets no respect.
Belmont Gallery of Art opens its tenth anniversary season with a long overdue appreciation of Animals in Art, featuring animal artworks in a variety of media — painting, sculpture, photography collage, fabric art — selected by jurors and veterinarians, Dr. Suzanne Kay and Dr. Dawn Binder, from Belmont’s Cushing Square Veterinary Clinic.
The menagerie is a ‘must-see” for art lovers and animal lovers of all ages. And visitors can help homeless and abused pets at the same time. Ten percent of all sales of artwork will be donated to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell to support its mission to find loving families for abandoned and mistreated pets.
Thank you to everyone who attended our opening reception (Sept. 19) and CONGRATS TO ALL of the artists displaying work!
| Terri Ackerman | Ken Harvey | Iris Osterman |
| Eric Almquist | Elaine Hawkes | Dari Paquette |
| Neri Avraham | Richard Hill | Rich Perry |
| Carol Berney | Janel Houton | Sara Reilly |
| Nicole Bernstein | Janet Clingerman Hsiao | Marcia Schloss |
| Iris Chandler | Ku-chan Hsiao | Tony Schwartz |
| Christine Chang | Kay Hudgins | Ruth Segaloff |
| Lisa Cohen | tSOfi Inbar | Marian Stanton |
| Warren Croce | Kwan Kew Lai | Lee Strasburger |
| Jennifer Dubost | Wei Li | Dick Stroud |
| Norma Dumont | Miranda Loud | Diana Tsomides |
| John Dykes | Arch MacInnes | Geoff Wadsworth |
| Eleanor Elkin | Caitlyn Marsh | Nadine Wallack |
| Irene Fairley | Jamie Maxfield | Bev White |
| Cara FitzGibbon | Carolyn May | Sharon Whitman |
| Ottavio Forte | Judy Love | John Williams |
| Terry Gips | Frances McCormick | Timothy Wilson |
| Joan Glinert | Anastasia O’Melveny | John Wood |
| Virginia Greenblatt | Joan Onofrey |
