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December 2024
Exhibition Opening: Mary Oliveira – On Spot Pond
This month's art exhibition at the Medford Public Library is "Mary Oliveira: On Spot Pond," featuring original watercolors the artist painted from a kayak on Spot Pond in Stoneham. Each painting represents a memory of time spent on the pond. Oliveira's work will be on display in the library's second-floor gallery throughout December during regular library hours. An opening reception with the artist will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday, December 6.
Find out more »Artist Reception: Mary Oliveira – On Spot Pond
The Medford Public Library presents an opening reception with Medford artist Mary Sullivan Oliveira, whose exhibition "On Spot Pond" is on view at the library throughout December. Displayed are original watercolors Oliveira painted from a kayak on Spot Pond in Stoneham. Each painting represents a memory of time spent on the water. Oliveira's work may be viewed in library's second-floor gallery all month during regular library hours.
Find out more »Colleen Green’s Feelin’ Chili’s Crispy Art Show at Deep Cuts
Deep Cuts is hosting a one-day display of "Feelin' Chili's Crispy," a collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and video by Lowell artist Colleen Green. Green writes, "The collection takes an irreverent, humorous, and sardonic look at the culture of American consumption, capitalism, homogenization, and privilege, while at the same time being a celebration of these very things which most of us, whether we like it or not, willingly indulge in. This show is the second thought that the inhabitants of…
Find out more »Moments in Medford Calendar Pop-up Exhibit
The Mystic Project invites you to a pop-up exhibit at Arts Collaborative Medford celebrating the artists whose work is featured on the organization's 2025 "Moments in Medford" calendar. The calendar showcases six artists and six writers from the Medford Housing Authority, along with an equal number from the wider Medford community. All proceeds from calendar sales will support the Mystic Project's programs for residents of the Medford Housing Authority. These include Artepreuners Youth, a weekly afterschool program where youth harness…
Find out more »January 2025
Exhibition Opening: Mixed Media Medley
This month's art exhibition at the Medford Public Library is "Mixed Media Medley," featuring a bright and uplifting medley of flavors (media) from four budding artists who are linked as friends and family. Textile artist Becky Lossing creates topographic Boston landscapes and bright touch-and-feel animals. Photographer Rebecca LeSaffre captures colorful New England landscapes and quiet moments. Collagist Courtney DeWolfe creates textured works that blend color, form, and found objects into whimsical compositions. And mixed media artist Grace Noblet transforms ordinary…
Find out more »Art and Soul Circle: Scavengers Out
Sanctuary and Hillside churches present an Art and Soul Circle program based on the "Scavengers" exhibition on view at Arts Collaborative Medford. "Scavengers" is a showcase and pop-up library celebrating the resourcefulness on artists. In this program led by Rev. Wendy Miller Olapade, come appreciate an artist's ability to use anything as a tool for creation and their drive to create anywhere and everywhere for anyone and everyone. This event marks the closing night of the "Scavengers" exhibition.
Find out more »Exhibition Opening Reception: The Threads That Ties Us
Arts Collaborative Medford invites you to a gathering to usher in the start of its 2025 gallery season featuring the textile-based exhibition "The Threads That Tie Us." The nine participating Greater Boston artists pull and snag from their environments to create new stories, ones that reconstruct history and reclaim the language of fabric. Each piece in the exhibition speaks to an experience and a journey. Viewers are invited into the fold to engage with their own histories and discover the…
Find out more »February 2025
Exhibition Opening: Lisa Goren – Unfamiliar Environments
This month's art exhibition at the Medford Public Library features the work of watercolor artist Lisa Goren in "Unfamiliar Environments - From Pole to Pole." Follow Goren’s artistic journeys from Antarctica to Iceland and near the North Pole as she searches for the ice on our planet. In addition, you can follow a series of animals that took over “human” spaces when she was unable to travel during the pandemic. Goren's work will be on display in the library's second-floor…
Find out more »Closing Reception: EventThem Winter Art Exhibit
EventThem Studios on Salem Street invites you to a closing reception for its Winter Art Exhibit featuring the work of eight local artists: Edie Tang, Art Alchemy by Pelly, Sophie Glikson Cahen, Lawrence Elentukh, Trippy Kitty, Sheena Draper the Artist, Sayantani Nandy, and Kanch by Kolika.
Find out more »March 2025
Exhibition Opening: Chris Rose – Surrealist Art Show
This month's art exhibition at the Medford Public Library is "Surrealist Art Show" featuring the work of Chris Rose, a painter and visual artist from Medford. Although in his art practice he draws mainly from life, for this show Rose has brought together a selection of works that are abstract, non-representational, or surreal. They were made over a span of years, with different methods and meanings in mind, rather than as part of a series. They are unified by a…
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