Margaret Jacobs, a Mohawk tribe member and Dartmouth College alumna who works primarily in sculpture and jewelry, is one of three recipients of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ 2018 Rebecca Blunk Fund. The award recognizes Jacobs for artistic excellence and achievement, and comes with an unrestricted $3,000 prize that is meant to support the creation of new work.
The Enfield artist and her husband Justin O’Rourke are currently at work on the sculptural installation Steel Umbrella, which was one of two works selected to appear on the new Mascoma River Greenway when it opens in Lebanon next month.
Of Note
AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon will celebrate today’s summer solstice — and the one-year anniversary of its “Bente Building,” the sculptural studies building named for AVA’s longtime director, Bente Torjursen — with a Summer Solstice Party tonight from 5:30 to 7:30.
The event, free and open to the public, will include raku (Japanese pottery) and hot forging demonstrations, a pop-up sculpture exhibition, music, food and drink.
A discussion on the theme of “Women in Conservation” will take place at the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich tonight from 6:30 to 8:30, featuring Joan Hoffman, a South Royalton-based landscape painter and former national parks artist-in-residence, and Christina Marts, deputy superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock and Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish.
Openings and Receptions
Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m., Hanover’s Hood Downtown will hold an opening reception for its final show before the Hood Museum of Art re-opens in January 2019.
The reception is for “The Firmament,” an exhibit of drawings by Toyin Ojih Odutola that explore the conceptualization of race. On view through Sept. 2.
Aidron Duckworth Art Museum in Meriden will host an opening reception Saturday afternoon from 3 to 6 for the outdoor sculptural installation “Parliament of the Souls,” by the Vershire artist Sande French-Stockwell. After an artist talk from French-Stockwell at 4, dance artists Hanna Satterlee of Burlington and Jessie Owens of Jeffersonville, Vt. will perform a piece choreographed specifically to accompany the installation. Through Oct. 28.
Also on view at the Duckworth is “Exhibition XXXI: Forms Hidden, Forms Revealed,” curated from three series of Duckworth’s work. The show continues through July 22, as does “Strata Series,” an exhibit of new prints by Sheri Hancock-Tomek.
Column II, an outdoor sculpture by artist and musician John McKenna, is on view at the Duckworth through Oct. 22. McKenna grew up in Norwich and lives in Barrington, R.I.
“Its Honor is Hereby Pledged: Broken Treaty Quilts,” an exhibit of quilts by Gina Adams, the new artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College’s Studio Art Department, opens Tuesday in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery in the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hanover. Adams will give an artist talk at 4:45 p.m. in the Loew Auditorium of the Black Family Visual Arts Center. Her show continues through July 22.
“Light Field,” an exhibit of paintings by Alison Weld, opened Wednesday at BigTown Gallery in Rochester, Vt. where it will have its opening reception Sunday at 4 p.m. Weld, based in the Adirondacks of upstate New York, will give an artist talk and engage in a Q&A. The show continues through July 21.
Ongoing
AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon. “Hiding in Plain Sight” shows watercolors by Tom Leytham, of Montpelier. The Boston-based painter Pennie Brantley shows work in “Roads Taken.” Scott Gordon, of Norwich, shows artwork made from repurposed steel in “Unintended Objects.” All three shows continue through July 6.
Center for The Arts, New London. Work is shown in three micro-galleries: at New London Inn, showing paintings by Vicki Koron, of Sunapee; at Bar Harbor Bank and Trust, featuring work by Newport, N.H. oil painter Ludmila Gayvoronsky; and at Whipple Hall Gallery, which displays the work of Proctor Academy students.
Chelsea Public Library. “Common Objects and Uncommon Places,” a show of acrylic paintings by Chelsea artist, and founder of the Chelsea Art Collective, Carrie Caouette-De Lallo, is on view through June.
Chew & Co. Design, Hanover. The closing date for an art show by recent Dartmouth graduates has been extended to mid-August.
Converse Free Library, Lyme. Kathy Swift, of Lyme, shows “Japanese Ink Paintings on Paper” through June. Ten percent of sales go to Friends of Lyme Library.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon. The D-H Arts Program’s spring exhibit features work by two Upper Valley oil painters, Ludmila Gayvoronsky of Newport, N.H., and Rae Newell of Bridgewater Corners. The other artists are watercolorist Diane Bell of Weston, Vt.; Evelien Bachrach of Hancock, N.H., who works in multiple mediums; acrylics painter Laura Ewing of Cambridge, Mass.; and photographer Ira Gavrin of Marlborough, N.H.
Gifford Gallery, Randolph. Tina Valentinetti, of Moretown, Vt., shows wildlife and landscape photographs at the Gifford Medical Center gallery through July 11.
Howe Library, Hanover. “O This Verdant Valley,” an exhibit by the Upper Valley’s en plein air Odanaksis Art Group, is in the Ledyard Gallery through Aug. 1.
Long River Gallery and Gifts, White River Junction. A show of encaustic (wax) paintings by Piermont artist Stephanie Gordon continues through August.
Library Arts Center, Newport, N.H. Today is the last day to see the Selections Exhibit 2018, showing work by the seven winners of the Library Arts Center’s annual juried regional exhibit: Shari Boraz, Cyn Cooper, Betsy Derrick, Stacy Friedman, Elizabeth R. Moore, Gail Smuda and John Teti. The juror was Doris Nelson, former director of the Library Arts Center.
New London Hospital. The latest rotating art exhibition features Garrett Evans, a South Sutton, N.H.-based photographer; Bow, N.H., photographer Charles S. “Whitey” Joslin, Jr.; and Enfield painter Penny Koburger. Through Aug. 31.
Norwich Public Library. “Miss Match — Pixels to Paint: Photos Re-Imagined,” a collaborative exhibition between Norwich artists Becky Cook and NatEli Boze, shows through June 30.
Osher at Dartmouth, Hanover. Norwich painter Jo Tate shows work through next Thursday.
Philip Read Memorial Library, Plainfield. “Marking the Moments,” an exhibit of oil paintings by Plainfield artist M.J. Morse, continues through Aug. 15.
Roth Center for Jewish Life, Hanover. In “Commentary: Fiber Art by Shari Boraz,” the Hanover artist’s hand embroidery remarks on such themes as feminism, nature and symbology. Through July 8.
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish. An art installation in the Caretaker’s Shed by students from Claremont’s Stevens High School and Springfield (Vt.) High School examines “Nature and Change.” Through July 1.
“The Etcher’s Journey: A Retrospective of Prints by Charles A. Platt and Stephen Parrish” features the work of two Cornish Colony artists, in the Picture Gallery through July.
“Natural Forces: Three Sculptors’ Visions,” featuring work by Fabienne Lasserre, Clive Moloney and Rosalyn Driscoll, is scattered around the site through Oct. 31.
Scavenger Gallery, White River Junction. In “Rebirth,” owner Stacy Hopkins shows recent mixed-media assemblages and prints, as well as jewelry, her primary medium.
Steven Thomas, Inc. Fine Arts & Antiques, White River Junction. Work by Upper Valley “vintage” artists, such as Alice Standish Buell (1892-1964), Arthur B. Wilder (1857-1949) and Ilse Bischoff (1901-1990) is on view.
Tunbridge Public Library. “Reverence,” a show of paintings by Randolph artist Jan Fowler, continues through next Thursday.
Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction. A show by Carol Lippman, a part-time resident of West Newbury, Vt., runs through June.
Woodstock Gallery. New work from Patty Castellini’s summer collection of monotypes shows through Saturday, with more of the Enfield printmaker’s work continually on display at the gallery.
Zollikofer Gallery, White River Junction. “Birds of the Bayous,” watercolors by Norwich resident Judith Miller, shows alongside “Lichen,” photography by her son Scott McClure Miller. Through June 30.
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