Belmont Gallery of Art

A community gallery showcasing regional visual arts

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Bits and Pieces

ART REPURPOSED – Mosaic, Collage & Assemblage

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Participating Artists

Tala ABUNUWAR
Agusta AGUSTSSON
Gabriela ANSARI
Ann BAUSMAN
Sheila BENEDIS
Emily BHARGAVA
Laurie BOGDAN
Peggie BOUVIER
Cynthia BRODY
Bobby BROWN
Chris CARTER-HUSK
Elizabeth CARTER
Jane CODER
Nancy CRASCO
Anne CUMMINGS
Justine CURRAN
Cassie DOYON

Joan DRESCHER
Naomi ELLENBERG-DUKAS
Ottavio FORTE
Diane FRANKLIN
Julianna GRANT
Joan GREEN
Maria GREEN
Martha HELLER
Leah KOLIDAS
Bette Ann LIBBY
Ruth LIEBERHERR
Edith LORING-THOMAS
Amy Lou MARKS
Susan MASSAD
Carolyn MAY
Karen MCCARTHY
Anastasia O’MELVENY

Lauren PALMER-MERRILL
Paula PITMAN-BROWN
Rebecca RICHARDS
Natalie RUSS
Rani SARIN
Vanessa SCHUKIS
Ruth SCOTCH
Laurie SIMKO
Doris SMITH
Christine SOELTZ
Adine STORER
Lisa THOMPSON
Keith TORNHEIM
Susan TORNHEIM
John WILLIAMS
Carol WINTLE

The Gallery is Open Again!
View Exhibit In Person!

Town Hall Complex
Homer Municipal Building
19 Moore St, 3rd floor
Belmont Center, MA 02478

BGA Hours

Thurs. 10-4, Fri. 10-12, Sat. and Sun. 1-4
Visitors also Welcome Mon. – Weds. 10-4

You can also view online at our Virtual Gallery:

View Online!

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Please Join Us!
Online Virtual Reception!
Meet the Artists

March 31, 2022, 7-8:30pm

Live-Streamed Reception!
Special Thanks to Producer Julie Destefano and The Belmont Media Center!

Details on https://virtualbga.org/events!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

BITS and PIECES MOSAIC MIRROR WORKSHOP

Instructor Amy Lou Marks
Past President of the New England Mosaic Society

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Two Workshop Sessions Offered:

Date: Saturday, March 26, 2022 | Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm  
OR
Date: Saturday, April 2, 20222 | Time: 9:30 – 4:30 pm

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Location: Amy’s Mosaic Studio, 111 Riverview Ave. Waltham, MA
Cost: BGA & BAA Members: $150 (includes supplies)     
All others: $160 (includes supplies)
Skill Level: All levels welcome. No previous experience with mosaics or art is necessary
Minimum # Students: 4 | Maximum: 6
In this one day hands-on workshop, you will learn how to design a beautiful round mosaic mirror. You’ll create intricate and simple patterns using the richness of millefiori, beads, recycled jewelry and glass. The possibilities are endless.

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BITS and PIECES In-Person Spring Workshops

This April and May
Weekends at the BGA!
Family Mosaic Workshop
Instructor Emily Bhargava, NEMS
and
Embroidery/Stitching WorkshopInstructor Ann Kegel Bausman

Details on https://virtualbga.org/events!

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Collage and Story-Making (#2) with Carol Wintle

Pink Afternoon, collage by Carol Wintle.
Pink Afternoon, collage by Carol Wintle.

“Pink Afternoon #2”

a free, fun, intergenerational, hands-on event
all ages welcome (children, teens, younger & older adults)

When: November 20, 2016, 1-4 pm
Drop in anytime to this casual, fun art-making afternoon
What: Collage & Story Making

Gallery Open: 1:00-4:00pm
View the exhibit “Voices Surface” of three artists: Carol Wintle, Helen Canetta, & Anne Johnstone’s mixed media collages. Do early holiday shopping in a relaxed atmosphere. Some art is priced as low as $100.

Collage-making and Conversation: 1:30-3:30pm
Make a collage. Artist Carol Wintle will be available for guidance. All materials will be provided, (feel free to bring your own). Kits are available containing (4”x6” artist card, non-archival glue stick & scissors). Plenty of paper visuals, markers, crayons etc. will also be available. Use the 3 artist’s collage styles, in the “Voices Surface” show, to inspire your own creation. Take your time. Bring your unique, homemade 4”x6” collage home with you.

Gift Certificate Drawings for Workshop Attendees!
Throughout the afternoon drawings for Gift Certificates from local sponsors, including Susanna clothing for women, Sterling Cleaners, 2323 Salon/Lulu’s Kids Cuts, and a private art lesson from mixed media collage artists Carol Wintle and Helen Canetta will be awarded to several lucky attendees.

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Collage and Story-Making with Carol Wintle

Pink Afternoon, collage by Carol Wintle.
Pink Afternoon, collage by Carol Wintle.

“Pink Afternoon”

a free, fun, intergenerational, hands-on event
all ages welcome (children, teens, younger & older adults)

When: November 6, 2016, 1-4 pm, Drop in any time
What: Collage & Story Making

Gallery Open: 1:00-4:00pm
View the exhibit “Voices Surface” of three artists: Carol Wintle, Helen Canetta, & Anne Johnstone’s mixed media collages. Do early holiday shopping in a relaxed atmosphere. Some art is priced as low as $100.

Collage-making: 1:30-3:30pm
Make a collage. Artist Carol Wintle will be available for guidance. All materials will be provided, (feel free to bring your own). Kits are available containing (4”x6” artist card, non-archival glue stick & scissors). Plenty of paper visuals, markers, crayons etc. will also be available. Use the 3 artist’s collage styles, in the “Voices Surface” show, to inspire your own creation. Take your time. Bring your unique, homemade 4”x6” collage home with you.

Gift Certificates: 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, & 3:30pm
Every 30 minutes someone will win a gift certificate from one of our sponsors: Susanna (clothing store for women); Sterling Cleaners, 2323 Salon/Lulu’s Kids Cuts, art items from Play Time, and private art lessons from Carol Wintle & Helen Canetta.
Conversations with artist Carol Wintle, story creating: 1:30–3:30pm
Artist Carol Wintle will be available to converse with people about collage-making and to co-create stories from visual art.

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Voices Surface

Mixed Media/Collage Inspired Exhibit

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“Voices Surface” features three distinct styles from three unique women artists: Anne Johnstone, (and Belmont Art Association members) Helen Canetta and Carol Wintle.

Mark Your Calendar!
Gallery Talk: Sun., Oct. 23, 2-4pm

 

Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 23, 7-9pm
Live Music and Light Refreshments

 

Voices Surface artists (l to r) Anne Johnstone, Helen Canetta and Carol Wintle, with BGA Director Rebecca Richards, at exhibit opening Sept 23.
Voices Surface artists (l to r) Anne Johnstone, Helen Canetta and Carol Wintle, with BGA Director Rebecca Richards, at exhibit opening Sept 23.

Belmont artists Mathilde Duffy, Juliette Carignan and Kay Hudgins with former BGA board member Christine Sandvik (center) and BGA director Rebecca Richards.
Belmont artists Mathilde Duffy, Juliette Carignan and Kay Hudgins with former BGA board member Christine Sandvik (center) and BGA director Rebecca Richards.

Stay tuned for additional October Friday night hours!

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Animal Art

Wonderfully diverse, thought-provoking, fun exhibit

We’re Kicking off our Tenth Season with a Roar

Please join us in celebration of:

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10% of sales will be donated to the MSPCA
to rescue abandoned and abused pets.

Sharon Whitman, Water Dance
Sharon Whitman, Water Dance

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!

Prizes were awarded for the following categories

 

Honorable Mentions

 

Exhibiting artists include many established local and regional talents and several newcomers
Terri AckermanKen HarveyIris Osterman
Eric AlmquistElaine HawkesDari Paquette
Neri AvrahamRichard HillRich Perry
Carol BerneyJanel HoutonSara Reilly
Nicole BernsteinJanet Clingerman HsiaoMarcia Schloss
Iris ChandlerKu-chan HsiaoTony Schwartz
Christine ChangKay HudginsRuth Segaloff
Lisa CohentSOfi InbarMarian Stanton
Warren CroceKwan Kew LaiLee Strasburger
Jennifer DubostWei LiDick Stroud
Norma DumontMiranda LoudDiana Tsomides
John DykesArch MacInnesGeoff Wadsworth
Eleanor ElkinCaitlyn MarshNadine Wallack
Irene FairleyJamie MaxfieldBev White
Cara FitzGibbonCarolyn MaySharon Whitman
Ottavio ForteJudy LoveJohn Williams
Terry GipsFrances McCormickTimothy Wilson
Joan GlinertAnastasia O’MelvenyJohn Wood
Virginia GreenblattJoan Onofrey
 More Artwork in the Show

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