“I believe in art as a means of materializing visions of liberation, healing from trauma, and manifesting change, at both individual and collective scales,” trans artist, children’s book illustrator, and…Continue Reading →
“Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; we know not exactly where or how” reads a moss installation by Heidi Schork and Jerome Jones at Boston’s Jamaica Pond, quoting…Continue Reading →
Roxbury artist Rixy’s exhibition “Enter the Cúcala” is on view at Simmons University’s Trustman Gallery, 300 The Fenway, Boston, from April 4 to May 13, 2022. “This series investigates Rixy’s…Continue Reading →
“Earth Day 2022, Time to Panic! The art of protest in the age of climate crisis” at Storefront Art Projects, 83 Spring St. Watertown from April 9 to 30, 2022,…Continue Reading →
“Dance of Opposites” is an exhibition of drawings by Meg Alexander, clay sculpture by Jody Burr, and paintings by Isaac Jaegerman at Drive-By Projects, 81 Spring St., Watertown, from April…Continue Reading →
“I long for the old forgotten moods,” the painter Charles Burchfield once wrote, “for endless summer days spent in the Ohio hills … for the old burning optimism—for the joy…Continue Reading →
By the 1990s, Marilyn Pappas was making textiles depicting ancient Greco-Roman sculptures of goddess. “I felt that even in their broken, battered state—they wouldn’t have a head, or one breast…Continue Reading →
The sad little girl with tears on her ebony face was crafted around 1922 by Leo Moss. It’s said the African-American carpenter and handyman from Macon, Georgia, began making dolls…Continue Reading →
Spotted an osprey eating what looked like a fish along the Saugus River and Northern Strand Community Trail in Saugus today, April 8, 2022. Also saw red-wing blackbirds, geese, grackles,…Continue Reading →
“This is the whole secret—this is an alphabet,” children’s book creator Ed Emberley has told Cambridge artist and writer Caleb Neelon about the philosophy behind his celebrated how-to-draw books. Take…Continue Reading →