(Last update: 04/29) Here are some of the exciting shows and events CAA Members are taking part in. We’ve also included external opportunities & news from other organizations! If you have an exhibit, open studio, class, or call for art coming up – click here to fill out our form!
CAA MEMBER NEWS
PAUL BECKINGHAM
Academic Artists Association 71st Annual Exhibition
Virtual Exhibition
For more information: https://academicartistsassociation.org
About | My painting won Academic Artists Merit Award (Oils). This is a regional juried realism show and is virtual-only this year, but ordinarily shows in Vernon Ct.
EDWARD BOCHES
Postcards from Allston
Virtual Exhibition presented by Brookline Arts Center
For more information: https://greetingsfromallston.com
About | The Brighton Ave exhibit features 25 large, colorful photographs of Allston’s changing landscape and street art.
MIA CROSS
Mural
Jack’s Abby
For more information: https://jacksabby.com/blog/2021/04/artist-profile-mia-cross/?mc_cid=2926549f0c&mc_eid=51f2ef17df
About | Back in January when we were dreaming of warmer months and reopening our outdoor Beer Garden, we got to thinking about how we could improve the space. We decided that the big blank wall that spans the length of our building in the Beer Garden needed a facelift.
That’s where local artist Mia Cross comes in.
ESTELLE DISCH
Memory and Justice
Virtual Exhibition presented by Brookline Arts Center
For more information: https://brooklineartscenter.com/2021-exhibition-calendar/estelle-disch/
About | My most engaging project during the past few years has been developing an art show based on my connection to Argentina. One of the most notorious detention, torture and assassination centers during the last Argentinean dictatorship is in Buenos Aires. Five thousand people were detained at the former School for Navy Mechanics (aka ex-ESMA) and only about 200 emerged alive. Babies born there were stolen and placed in illegal adoptions. Detainees were drugged and thrown out of airplanes over the river or the sea in the notorious Death Flights. Torture was a constant. My goal in this work is to evoke a sense of what happened there using the buildings and trees as subjects. I imagine them as witnesses, expressing their own version of outrage. That said, the images include some bright spots and peaceful aspects, suggesting hope and justice. In 2004, the ex-ESMA became a Memory and Human Rights Space (Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos). All profits from the sale of the prints go to the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (www.abuelas.org.ar).”
IVANA GEORGE
Online Art Show featuring the Sustain series
Live Online
April 17
For more information: http://www.ivanadamiengeorge.com/live-art-show
About | Do you want to talk? I miss discussing inspiring ideas with you. While in-person Open Studios haven’t been viable lately, I still want to connect with you and share my artwork and creative process. If you miss these connections, click the link in my bio to learn about the Free Virtual Art Show! I am hosting it on April 17th (Saturday) at 7:00 pm!
I am passionate about eating delicious food and living an environmentally sustainable lifestyle. One of the ways I reduce my carbon footprint is by eating a predominately plant-based diet and growing my own produce. I share my passions for sustainable living and food through my images in my series Sustain. I will share the creative process and more about the inspirations behind the style of these works.
ALLISON JUDD
primaryPRISM
Jameson & Thompson Picture Framers
April 1 – May 26, 2021
For more information: https://gallerytempo.com
Featuring the works of: Juan Jose Barboza Gubo, Field Kallop, Alison Judd, and Kayla Mohammadi
LINDA KHACHADURIAN
The Charitable Confectioner
Channel 9 Cambridge & via station’s livestream
1st & 3rd Tuesdays of each month @ 5:30 pm EST
For more information: http://www.charitableconfections.org/television-show–the-charitable-confectioner.html
About | A new, live television series for channel 9 Cambridge with edible artist Linda Khachadurian that merges social causes with edible art.
REBECCA MCGEE TUCK
Up-cycling Detritus
Sculptors Alliance, Online
April 15 – May 30, 2021
For more information: http://www.sculptorsalliance.org/exhibitions-archive/up-cycling-detritus
Other featured CAA Members: Michèle Fandel Bonner, and Madeleine Lord
ON-KYEONG SEONG
Graft
Kingston Gallery
For more information: http://www.kingstongallery.com/exhibitions/2021/june-on-kyeong-seong-graft.php
About | For On-Kyeong Seong, the natural world embodies beauty and ugliness. Her exhibition, Graft, is influenced by observing nature under magnification. The distinctive shapes and forms resemble unusual monstrous objects, which are then transformed into magical elements in her work. Using a sewing machine to freehand “draw” on her surfaces, her mind and hand are freed from rational control, allowing for the subconscious to surface. On-Kyeong then blends this free expression with more controlled mediums such as oil paint, mixed media, and collage to reveal abstracted natural forms.
JULIA POWELL
Artist Talk
It all Matters: Regrets and Reinvention
For more information: https://web.cvent.com/event/d8b60c08-f11d-4523-8e7e-5e5a06aec63e/summary
Join professional artist Julia S. Powell to discuss her personal journey from high school athlete to corporate attorney to professional full-time artist. Powell will discuss her story, mistakes that turned into gifts, and reinvention. Julia believes that the idea that it is “too late” to change something or move into a new creative realm is neither true nor helpful — and that everything you have done in your life to get you where you are now is an important layer of you. In short, it all matters, even and especially the parts of your life you wish you could paint over.
PONNAPA PRAKKAMAKUL
Samantha: Stillness in the Chaos
Kingston Gallery
For more information: http://www.kingstongallery.com/exhibitions/2021/june-ponnapa-prakkamakul-samatha-stillness-in-the-chaos.php
About | Ponnapa Prakkamakul reflects on the Pali word Samatha (Thai สมถะ), or tranquility of the mind through meditative activities. The word is also commonly used in the Thai language to express a lifestyle that is based on only the essentials. In her solo exhibition, Samatha: Stillness in the Chaos, Prakkamakul draws upon her background as a painter and a landscape architect to immerse herself in her surroundings. Her practice was greatly influenced by the shelter-in-place order issued in March of 2020; Prakkamakul looked outwards to find a sense of daily calm. Staying indoors, feeling disconnected from the outside world, she decided to observe and paint the morning sky looking south from her apartment window. Each morning she began her day capturing the color of the sky with a clear mind. This meditative process guided her to contemplate and reflect upon the recurrence and impermanence of life.
Prakkamakul’s meditative installation, 33 Weeks At Home, a collaged panoramic landscape of sky color at 6am from March 16 to October 31 in 2020, covers three walls of the center gallery. Also on view is Universe Within, a stereographic collage of the sunrise at the Atacama Desert in Chile.
PANDEMIC LENS
Pandemic Lens created by CAA Member, Steve Bennett features artwork by artists that express their reaction to these surreal times and their vision of what the days and years ahead might look like.
Featured CAA Members so far:
- Nilou Moochhala
https://pandemiclens.com/2020/09/16/the-virus-series/ - Susan Kottler (3 posts)
https://pandemiclens.com/author/skottler/ - Tanya Hayes Lee (4 posts)
https://pandemiclens.com/author/thlee/ - Anne Beinecke (2 posts)
https://pandemiclens.com/author/abeinecke/ - Nancy Crasco
https://pandemiclens.com/2020/08/17/reimaged/ - Steve Edson (3 posts)
https://pandemiclens.com/author/sedson/ - Jaina Cipriano
https://pandemiclens.com/2020/09/25/empty-spaces/ - Susan Seifer
https://pandemiclens.com/2020/10/02/shelters/ - Kathryn Geismar
https://pandemiclens.com/2020/10/19/socially-distanced-painting/ - NEW! C. J. Lori (10 posts)
https://pandemiclens.com/author/cjlori/ - Adriana Prat (3 posts)
https://pandemiclens.com/author/aprat/ - Jim Kociuba
https://pandemiclens.com/2020/10/27/new-normal/ - Kim Triedman
https://pandemiclens.com/2021/01/21/life-on-the-inside/ - Peter Erickson
https://pandemiclens.com/2021/02/16/on-the-bridge-of-sighs/ - NEW! Jane Sherrill
https://pandemiclens.com/author/jsherrill/
PEARL WHITE
OPA SAlon Exhibition of Traditional Oils
Quinlan Visual Arts Center
For more information: https://www.quinlanartscenter.org
About | My painting “Shadow Dancing” was accepted into the OPA’s 2021 Salon Exhibition of Traditional Oils. This was the only painting I sent it and I am thrilled to have it part of the show, as only 300 of the applications are accepted.
EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS
These may be opportunities from outside organizations. Please look at the information links to see who to contact.
Info Session, with Collective Futures and Public Art at NEFA
Grant Information Session
More Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-funding-opportunities-collective-futures-fund-public-art-at-nefa-tickets-151150419975?utm_campaign=8bd15485a3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_30_01_43_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Boston+Art+Review&utm_term=0_274aefc88d-8bd15485a3-63679373
Join Boston Art Review for an info session with Collective Futures Fund and Public Art at New England Foundation for the Arts. This workshop style conversation will provide artists and collaboratives with an opportunity to learn about several funding opportunities available across Boston, Massachusetts, and New England.
This information session will include presentations about several of the available awards along with breakout rooms for Q+As with the grant administrators.
2021 Salem Arts Festival Mural Slam
Call for Artists
Submission Deadline: May 14, 2021
More Information: https://creativecollective.typeform.com/to/SisNIJJU
The City of Salem’s Public Art Commission and the Salem Arts Festival are teaming up to present the 6th annual SAF Mural Slam. This dynamic live painting event engages the public with creative producers and contributes to downtown Salem’s cultural vitality.
The site for the 2021 SAF Mural Slam is Artists’ Row, a historic marketplace that has evolved into a vibrant corridor of galleries and public art at the heart of downtown, located at 24 New Derby Street. Selected SAF Mural Slam artists will have the opportunity to present their work alongside the skilled artisans of Artists’ Row and will benefit from exposure to Salem’s million+ annual tourists. (Live painting is subject to COVID regulations, in the event that we can not present this in person, we will allow the artists to create in more distanced private and/or public locations)
Harpo Foundation Invites Applications for Visual Arts Grants
Grant
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2021
More Information: http://www.harpofoundation.org/apply/grants-for-visual-artists/
The Hopper Prize Invites Applications From Visual Artists
Call For Art
More Information: https://hopperprize.org/#apply
Brookline Arts Center – Mural Project
Call For Art
Submission Deadline: June 4, 2021
More Information: https://brooklineartscenter.com/submit-a-mural-proposal/
The Brookline Arts Center is seeking proposals for a temporary mural to be exhibited in our Annex Gallery in Fall 2021. Artists are invited to develop a plan for a site-specific temporary mural, based on any theme or narration they wish. The artist selected will design, create and exhibit their proposed installation.
Boston LGBTQIA+ Artist Alliance
Call For Art & Monthly Portfolio Reviews
Read more about the call for art, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s_JIb_36UTxObrVDk422qQziCkkoS2yr8sGs11NT9us/viewform?edit_requested=true
Read more about the Portfolio Reviews, here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RgTzh42m-Mku8NVzeOPHTPFVN9vbIzTLX4mj6gK8Bzw/viewform?edit_requested=true
Gallery 263 – FLORA
Call For Art
Submission Deadline: April 22 at 11:59 PM
More information: https://www.gallery263.com/artist-opportunities/flora/
The botanical world is woven into the realms of art and science, providing materials for artmaking, a muse for inspiration, a reminder of our mortality, evidence of a complicated history—including colonization, and, perhaps even a way to decenter our human perspective. Beyond the simple beauty of plants lives contemporary solutions for sustenance and global sustainability. Gardening, foraging, and spending time outdoors can serve as solitary acts of escapism and also foster connections to both the bounty and precariousness of the plant world. Gallery 263 invites artists based in the United States to submit artwork that evokes the wonder of plants or questions our preconceived notions. The exhibition is juried by artist Mark Dion.