The Dedee Shattuck Gallery is pleased to present our ninth annual Small Works exhibition. This highly anticipated exhibition features affordable works by many artists from our local community and across the country. We will showcase various media including painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, illustration, ceramic, woodworking, and textiles. This exhibition of affordable works, priced $1000 or less, with some items up to $1500, features many of the established artists that the Shattuck has previously showcased, as well as several bright new voices of emerging artists.

The Dedee Shattuck Gallery invites the public to an artists' reception to celebrate the opening on Saturday, December 7, from 5-7pm.

This will be Dedee Shattuck Gallery's final exhibition of 2019 before closing for the winter to re-open in April of 2020.

Presented by the Southcoast Film Forum

co-sponsored by Daniel Cook Fine Gardening

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FIVE SEASONS
The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

“For me, garden design isn’t just about plants, it is about emotion, atmosphere, a sense of contemplation. You try to move people with what you do. You look at this, and it goes deeper than what you see. It reminds you of something in the genes — nature, or the longing for nature.”
– Piet Oudolf

After completing a feature documentary on New York’s High Line, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Piper met the inspirational designer and plantsman, Piet Oudolf, and the idea for a new project was born. The documentary, FIVE SEASONS: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, immerses viewers in Oudolf’s work and takes us inside his creative process, from his beautifully abstract sketches, to theories on beauty, to the ecological implications of his ideas.

Intimate discussions take place through all fours seasons in Piet’s own gardens at Hummelo, and on visits to his signature public works in New York, Chicago, and the Netherlands, as well as to the far-flung locations that inspire his genius, including desert wildflowers in West Texas and post-industrial forests in Pennsylvania.

As a narrative thread, the film also follows Oudolf as he designs and installs a major new garden at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a gallery and arts center in Southwest England, a garden he considers his best work yet.

Piet Oudolf has radically redefined what gardens can be. As Rick Darke, the famous botanist, says to Piet in the film, “your work teaches us to see what what we have been unable to see.” Through poetic cinematography and unique access, FIVE SEASONS will reveal all that Piet sees, and celebrate all that we as viewers have been unable to see.

There will be a Second Showing, Sunday, November 24, 5 pm

Presented by the Southcoast Film Forum

co-sponsored by Daniel Cook Fine Gardening

SEATING SOLD OUT

Tickets: $10

FIVE SEASONS
The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

“For me, garden design isn’t just about plants, it is about emotion, atmosphere, a sense of contemplation. You try to move people with what you do. You look at this, and it goes deeper than what you see. It reminds you of something in the genes — nature, or the longing for nature.”
– Piet Oudolf

After completing a feature documentary on New York’s High Line, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Piper met the inspirational designer and plantsman, Piet Oudolf, and the idea for a new project was born. The documentary, FIVE SEASONS: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, immerses viewers in Oudolf’s work and takes us inside his creative process, from his beautifully abstract sketches, to theories on beauty, to the ecological implications of his ideas.

Intimate discussions take place through all fours seasons in Piet’s own gardens at Hummelo, and on visits to his signature public works in New York, Chicago, and the Netherlands, as well as to the far-flung locations that inspire his genius, including desert wildflowers in West Texas and post-industrial forests in Pennsylvania.

As a narrative thread, the film also follows Oudolf as he designs and installs a major new garden at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a gallery and arts center in Southwest England, a garden he considers his best work yet.

Piet Oudolf has radically redefined what gardens can be. As Rick Darke, the famous botanist, says to Piet in the film, “your work teaches us to see what what we have been unable to see.” Through poetic cinematography and unique access, FIVE SEASONS will reveal all that Piet sees, and celebrate all that we as viewers have been unable to see.

Preview Exhibit Here

Friday November 1, 6pm

Tickets: $15

RSVP by calling 508-636-4177 or by emailing monica@dedeeshattuckgallery.com

IMAGINE 5 is a new Boston based ensemble featuring five leading musicians and composers that bring together a contemporary and fresh sound to Jazz, Brazilian and World music styles. We have performed locally at the Cambridge River Festival, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Community Music Center of Boston, and several local venues, and we will be releasing our first album this Spring 2019.

Imagine 5

Fernando Brandão – flutes and compositions

Ryan Fedak – vibes and compositions

Caio Afiune – guitar and compositions

James Heazlewood-Dale – acoustic bass and compositions

Bertram Lehmann – drums, percussion and compositions

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Flutist, composer, author and educator Fernando Brandão has performed extensively as a bandleader, sideman, chamber musician and as a soloist with several ensembles and prominent orchestras both in his native Brazil and the US. Mr. Brandão is a Professor at Berklee College of Music and a faculty member of the Community Music Center of Boston, both where he’s been teaching for over 20 years. A leading educator in Brazilian music, he has been a guest lecturer in several colleges to talk its music styles, history and composers, and he is the author of the play-along book Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Jazz Conception, published by Advance Music. 

Since moving to the United States, Caio Afiune has been performing extensively as a leader and a sideman in Boston, New York, Vermont, Washington D.C, and Chicago, as well as Brazil and Australia. In 2014, he performed and gave workshops at the Panama Jazz Festival, and was selected to be part of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program, directed by Jason Moran. Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Caio did his undergrad at Faculdade Santa Marcelina. He later received a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory, where he studied with Jerry Bergonzi, Brad Shepik, Frank Carlberg, Jason Moran and Miguel Zenon. Caio is currently finishing his doctoral degree in jazz performance at New England Conservatory.

Vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and composer Ryan Fedak is currently finishing his undergraduate Jazz Composition program at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Born and raised in Connecticut, he has performed alongside Mike Manieri, Liam Teague, Samuel Torres, Felipe Salles, and recently opened for Spyro Gyra. He continues to perform in a variety of jazz, contemporary, and classical settings while teaching private and group lessons. Ryan's percussion ensemble piece, "Look Around You", was recently performed in Ireland by the Jim Royle Drum Studio. He will continue to enjoy playing, writing, and learning, and is beginning to do some freelance work in the video game music industry.

James Heazlewood-Dale is from Australia, where he graduated from Sydney Conservatorium with a full scholarship and first class honors. He later received a full scholarship for his studies at Berklee School of Music with a full scholarship. James is currently completing his Masters at New England Conservatory where he studies under the tuition of some world-class artists such as Dave Holland, Jerry Bergonzi, and Jason Moran. Having played with some of the world’s top jazz musicians such as Maria Schneider, Aaron Goldberg, Kurt Elling, Monty Alexander, Terence Blanchard, Donny McCaslin, George Garzone, Dave Douglas, Bob Moses, Jason Palmer, Ernie Watts and Will Vincent, he continues to be extensively active in the Boston music scene.

Drummer and percussionist Bertram Lehmann has been a sought-after performer within a multitude of musical contexts in the New England region and beyond for nearly three decades, performing in Jazz, Latin and World music genres, and for the past 15 years on the the faculty at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches in the Percussion, Ear Training, and Liberal Arts departments. He appears on over 30 CD releases, and has appeared or recorded with highly acclaimed artists such as Dave Liebman, Luciana Souza, Paquito D'Rivera, Randy Brecker, Romero Lubambo, Danilo Perez, David “Fuze” Fiuczynski, Oscar Castro-Neves, Eddie Gomez, Kenny Werner, the NDR Bigband Hamburg, and Dave Samuels' Caribbean Jazz Project.  He has performed at  venues such as Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum in New York City; Boston Symphony Hall, the American Repertory Theater, the Chicago Worldmusic, Festival, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., 'Jazz Yatra' Festival (Mumbai, India), Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), 'Panafest' (Accra, Ghana), Festival, Kumho Art Hall (Seoul, Korea), Istanbul Jazz Center, Dresden Staatstheater (Germany), and elsewhere in countries such as Bermuda, Ecuador, Mexico,  Spain, and Israel.

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Vulnerable Populations in the Mekong River Basin, Cambodia

On Wednesday, October 30 at 6:00 PM at the Shattuck Gallery, Dr. Taber Hand will give a presentation that focuses on Cambodia’s Mekong River and Tonle Sap Lake, which has the most productive freshwater fishery and the most complex hydro-ecological system in the world. This area supplies 70% of the country’s dietary protein and fats. More specifically, Taber’s presentation concerns the intertwined topics of the Mekong River watershed – its Tonle Sap Lake socio-economics, food security, hydrology/hydropower futures and sanitation (WASH) for floating community in a challenging environment.

Are there any “little green doors” for a sustainable future on Tonle Sap Lake or at other global hotspots with growing populations? Taber’s company Wetlands Work! (WW!) developed a unique wastewater technology, called the HandyPod, used at Tonle Sap Lake and other UN World Heritage and Biosphere Reserve sites where biodiversity and biological production (food) coincides with human populations.

WW! is a 10-year-old social enterprise business in Cambodia. The HandyPod is the only appropriate wastewater treatment technology for people living in conditions where traditional pit latrines do not work, including floating, floodplain and seasonally high groundwater environments, clay, mangrove muds, and beach sand. Simple, affordable sanitation in challenging environments is needed, with ever more urgency, for vulnerable populations, such as environmental and conflict migrants moving into fragile, productive habitats that are frequently inundated with water and often legally without private ownership. The explosive demographic trends for East Asian urban areas published by the World Bank are compelling and alarming, yet no planners talk about the basic sanitation that they require. WW!’s simple HandyPod system is a solution and the company is now implementing creative sanitation marketing strategies in Cambodian and Myanmar floating and floodplain communities, with project interests in Assam and Benin, as well as Asian beach tourism sites.

Please call 508-636-4177 or email monica@dedeeshattuckgallery.com to RSVP

It is fitting that as we will meet to hear some talented voices to emerge from Central and Eastern Europe, the Nobel Committee in Sweden has this month awarded the Literature prize to Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk, a novelist of a unique and singular vision. Tokarczuk’s writing is, at once, inescapably informed by her Polish life experiences, and universal. 

Communism fell across the Block in 1989 — it’s been 30 years now. The voices we will hear Saturday evening, those of two Poles, a Croat and a Russian, are similarly grounded in their legacies — occupation, socialism, privation, struggle; but laughter, family, and joy, too. From our perspective, that of 2019, those turbulent times are perhaps merely an inflection. For that normalcy, we rejoice.

A variety of refreshments will be available to sample.

Join us while John Borowicz and Robert Anderson talk about their work!

Admission: $5

THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature.
Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chester’s unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.

Featuring breathtaking cinematography, captivating animals, and an urgent message to heed Mother Nature’s call, THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM provides us all a vital blueprint for better living and a healthier planet.

Seminar: “English Poets and Their Times”

Date: Tuesdays October 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5 and 12

Time: 10am - 12pm

Facilitator: Ridley Rhind

Price: $50

Find more information here

Opening Reception

SUNDAY October 6, 5-7pm

Preview Exhibit Here

Admission: $3

Earthrise

Runtime: 30 minutes

Directed by
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Produced & Written by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Edited by Adam Loften

Cinematography by Adam Loften & Andrew David Watson

Original Music by H. Scott Salinas

Earthrise tells the story of the first image captured of the Earth from space in 1968. Told solely by the Apollo 8 astronauts, the film recounts their experiences and memories and explores the beauty, awe, and grandeur of the Earth against the blackness of space.

This iconic image had a powerful impact on the astronauts and the world, offering a perspective that transcended national, political, and religious boundaries. Told 50 years later, Earthrise compels us to remember this shift and to reflect on the Earth as a shared home.

Tickets: $10

Please RSVP by calling 508-636-4177 or by emailing monica@dedeeshattuckgallery.com

Kevin MacIsaac is pleased to present a program called “The Evolution of Folkmusic”. This program will be divided into two parts in which MacIsaac will talk and sing, showing us the connection between traditional and modern folk music. The first part will consist of traditional folksongs and ballads, while the second will consist of what MacIsaac calls “Modern Folk.” The  program, both informative and entertaining, will run for approximately and hour.

Join us while Barbara Rink, Pieter de Bruyn Kops and Daniel Mullen talk to us about their work!

Opening Reception
Saturday September 7, 5-7pm

The Dedee Shattuck Gallery is pleased to present Dutch Colorists, a group show including the work of Barbara Rink, Daniel Mullen, Pieter de Bruyn Kops, Rob Bouwman, Willem van der Weide, and Neil Fortune. These artists, all living and working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, represent an exciting new artistic movement: though they are not consciously a group nor work in the same mediums, their work revolves almost entirely around color. Color is the defining principal, the starting point, and abstraction blossoms from there.  In the words of the co-curator, Dutch-American artist Pieter de Bruyn Kops, “Abstract colorism is a celebration of light, of creativity, of painting. Color defines spatiality.” This show captures a bright phenomenon rippling through the studios of Amsterdam. 

In a country known throughout the world as the home to the early giants of Landscape and Figure painting (Vermeer, Rembrandt, van Gogh, Bruegel), and some leaders of Abstract Painting (Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Jan Schoonhoven), this show highlights another stage of Dutch painting: the spacious, playful, and abundant use of color.

Preview the Exhibit Here

The Moon and You

Friday August 30, 6pm

$10

Please call 508-636-4177 or email monica@dedeeshattuckgallery.com to RSVP

At its core The Moon and You is a charismatic husband-and-wife team. Melissa Hyman plays cello, Ryan Furstenberg plays guitar and banjo, and both sing in “voices that sound like they were made for one another” (Bill DeYoung, Connect Savannah). Together, the two form a sound that is warm and inviting, atmospheric and playful. Each is a well developed songwriter with a distinctive voice, and their songs range in style from classic to quirky. Lyrics-driven and intellectual with a keen ear for arrangement, they make music perfectly suited to a listening room or a pair of good headphones.

The Westport Cultural Council will host its eighth annual film series on three consecutive Wednesdays this summer - August 14, 21, and 28, 2019 at 7:00 pm.  It will be held at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, 1 Partners Lane, Westport, MA.

The film series, free and open to the public, is made possible through a grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust. 

This year, the Council presents three documentary films with the theme “A Potpourri of Characters” highlighting stories of amazing artist’s lives and their powerful achievements.  Each film will be introduced by a guest speaker or Council member, with a question and answer period to follow each showing.  

Wednesday August 28, 2019.  “Meow Wolf: Origin Story”  Directors Morgan Capps, Jilann Spitzmiller, 2018, 88 Minutes.

When a group of young, DIY artists in Santa Fe can't find a door into the art world, they open an entirely new portal from with their gift, passion, and tenacity.  Within just a few short years and a little help from George R.R. Martin, this group ultimately hits a cultural nerve and unexpected success with their exhibit, House of Eternal Return.

The Westport Cultural Council will host its eighth annual film series on three consecutive Wednesdays this summer - August 14, 21, and 28, 2019 at 7:00 pm.  It will be held at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, 1 Partners Lane, Westport, MA.

 The film series, free and open to the public, is made possible through a grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust.   

This year, the Council presents three documentary films with the theme “A Potpourri of Characters” highlighting stories of amazing artist’s lives and their powerful achievements.  Each film will be introduced by a guest speaker or Council member, with a question and answer period to follow each showing.  

Wednesday August 21, 2019.  “Love, Gilda”

Directed by Lisa D’Apolito, 2018, 86 Minutes.

Love, Gilda is a unique window into the world of Gilda Radner.  Director Lisa D’Apolito unearthed a collection of diaries and personal audio and video tapes documenting her childhood, comedy career, relationships and her struggles with cancer.

Tickets: $20

Please call 508-636-4177 or email monica@dedeeshattuckgallery.com to RSVP

Ben Noyes and JD Hunter are musical soulmates. They met following conservatory study, as avid chamber, orchestral and theater freelancers. They share intense curiosity about intonation and color and the dimensions of sound, always seeking to expand their definitions of music-making, and to extend the range of possibilities with their instruments.

They’ve recorded Ravel’s Sonata for cello and violin, a demanding piece they’ll perform at the gallery. They see the challenge as combining their individual storytelling powers, constructing a cohesive narrative throughout, and maintaining a dynamic relationship with the music – what does this music ask me to do at this moment?

JD and Ben will perform:

Zoltan Kodály: Sonata in B minor for solo cello, Op. 8, 1915

J.S. Bach: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003, 1720

Maurice Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello, 1922

The Westport Cultural Council will host its eighth annual film series on three consecutive Wednesdays this summer - August 14, 21, and 28, 2019 at 7:00 pm.  It will be held at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, 1 Partners Lane, Westport, MA.  

The film series, free and open to the public, is made possible through a grant from the Helen E. Ellis Charitable Trust. 

 This year, the Council presents three documentary films with the theme “A Potpourri of Characters” highlighting stories of amazing artist’s lives and their powerful achievements.  Each film will be introduced by a guest speaker or Council member, with a question and answer period to follow each showing.  

Wednesday August 14, 2019.  "Jean-Michael Basquiat: The Radiant Child "

Directed by: Tamra Davis, 2011, 88 Minutes.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon.  He became notorious for his graffiti are under the moniker “Samo” in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200 and became best friends with Andy Warhol.  Basquiat’s art and process has influenced many contemporary artists.

Guest Speaker: Bryan McFarlane was born in Moore Town Portland, Jamaica. He studied at The Edna Manly College of Art in Kingston and completed his MFA Degree at Massachusetts College of Arts and Design. He is a “Tenured Professor” of Painting and Drawing at U. Mass Dartmouth . Bryan has worked on projects relating to his art with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Center, M.I.T., the New Bedford Art Museum and the Museum of Science, Boston. His art has been exhibited widely.

More information on the exhibit here

Westport Summer Talks

Thursday, August 1 at 7pm

Dedee Shattuck Gallery

Program Research: Hannah Thompson

Thoreau wrote, “We need the tonic of wildness...we can never have enough of nature.” South Coast residents, and Westporters in particular, have worked hard to preserve the local wildness. Join us for a conversation on Westport’s natural beauty with Deborah Weaver and Ross Moran, environmentalists that ensure we have enough of nature to enjoy. Weaver is the executive director of the Westport River Watershed Alliance, and Moran is the executive director the Westport Land Trust. A brief Q & A will follow the conversation.

Summer Talks is curated by Jotham Burrello and Elizabeth Thompson. 

Speakers

Please join us as artist Meredith Davenport talks about her residency here at the gallery, sharing with us her ongoing project "Membering," working with images, stories and historical artifacts related to her family's history. Her ancestor, Josiah Davenport, was a native of Little Compton and the captain of a ship used in the slave trade.

Biography

Meredith Davenport earned her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her documentary projects have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times and on the cover of Newsweek magazine. She was a location producer and videographer in Colombia for the highly acclaimed HBO documentary "Child Soldiers”. She was invited to do a fellowship at Yaddo. She has received a Pew Fellowship and a Puffin Foundation grant. Her work has been exhibited in New York at the International Center of Photography and at Union Docs in Brooklyn. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Everson Museum in Syracuse and New York Foundations of the Arts Mark award. Her book "Theater of War" is published by Intellect Press and is distributed by the University of Chicago Press. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Westport Summer Talks

Thursday, July 18, 7pm

Dedee Shattuck Gallery

Design with Nature to Heal our Earth

Real wealth is “the technological ability to protect, nurture and support the needs of life.”

 —Buckminster Fuller

Join us for an inspiring evening of conversation with the renowned ecological design pioneers John and Nancy Jack Todd together with Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. Together they will discuss the issues at the heart of John's new book, Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship

Watson writes, John “has presented us with a highly accessible manual that has already resulted in boots-in-the mud solutions to extremely fouled waters around the world.  His eco-machines provide powerful examples of how to address serious environmental problems . . .  [and] enhance the wealth of economically disadvantaged and/or exploited communities.”

Summer Talks is curated by Jotham Burrello and Elizabeth Thompson.

The Harpweaver — Maeve Gilchrist

Tickets: $15

RSVP by calling 508-636-4177 or by emailing monica@dedeeshattuckgallery.com

THE HARP-WEAVER (SOLO SHOW)

The harp-weaver is Maeve Gilchrist’s first venture into solo performance since the release of her acclaimed album ‘the Ostinato Project in 2013 (a beguiling suite of solo harp compositions exploring the use of the two hands as separate instruments). The evening length solo concert is inspired by and shaped around the Edna St Vincent Millay poem The Ballad of the Harp Weaver manifesting in rich, textural harp-compositions, playful renditions of traditional tunes and re-imaginings of the text in both verse and song and . Some subtle electronics augment the soundscape and create an atmosphere that is both welcoming as other-worldly as instrument itself.

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Bio

Described by one critic as “a phenomenal harp player who can make her instrument ring with unparalleled purity”, Maeve Gilchrist has taken the Celtic harp to new levels of performance.

Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York, Maeve‘s innovative approach to her instrument stretches its harmonic limits and improvisational possibilities. She is as at home as a soloist with an internationally renowned orchestra as she is playing with a traditional Irish folk group or using electronic augmentation in a more contemporary, improvisatory setting.

She tours internationally as a band leader as well as maintaining a number of collaborations including a duo project with percussive dancer Nic Gareiss, a more electronics based project with Viktor Krauss and as a member of the Irish network commissioned ‘Edges of Light’ quartet: a multidisciplinary group featuring the piper David Power, dancer Colin Dunne and the fiddler Tola Custy. She has appeared at such major music events as Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Tanglewood Jazz festival, the World Harp Congress in Amsterdam and the opening of the Scottish Parliament. She has played with such luminaries asEsperanza Spalding, Tony Trishka, Ambrose Akinmusire, Solas and Darol Anger.

Maeve has released five albums to date, including her most recent recording Vignette, on Adventure Records, with Nashville legend Viktor Krauss while on her own label her solo Ostinato Project is a beguiling exploration of the possibilities of her instrument.

Maeve was the first lever harpist to join the faculty of the iconic Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she taught for five years before switching to a visiting roots department artist this spring. She has written several instructional books published by Hal Leonard Music. Also an in-demand composer and arranger; this year, Maeve premiered her first concerto for lever harp and symphony orchestra and is currently working on a number of commissions including a string quartet for Irish harp and string quartet to be premiered in Scotlandin the spring of 2018.

VIDEO LINKS:

(Maeve Gilchrist and Nic Gareiss) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncC8BRAWkVE

(Solo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xiW72V4S5s

(Solo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKAVlmbRnuA&t=26s

For further information see www.maevegilchristmusic.com

For DuoDuo booking please contact mikeg@mikegreenassociates.com

For all other bookings/inquiries email maevegilchristmusic@gmail.com

During his work as a writer and editor, Harting made his way to the camera as a comfortable accessory for the pen. Working in publishing with photographers he soon understood the need to complete his seeing in a darkroom. The discipline and limitations of film photography continue to concentrate his vision. The results have been included in  publications and exhibits, including two one-person shows in recent years.

Statement

As a photographer I have always been drawn to trees, their majesty, their solitary station, their strength. Within the camera's finder I choose one from among many and capture it.

Sometimes the chosen tree will fill the frame. Sometimes it stands alone. It can be anywhere, it may be planted on an urban sidewalk or mark the edge of a farmers' field or dwell in a thicket; it may be youthful and smooth or old and weary. Trees are everywhere. They may even be a nuisance for some, but for me they are divine.

As I look through my camera I imagine the finished product, which will be a black and white print. Framed by the viewfinder, with a click the subject is committed to film and to the longer process to extract the print from the negative.

And finally the finished product. I have chosen to present these prints without a frame, flush mounted, without even a border, just the image itself: the immediacy of a photograph with nothing between the viewer and the image.

Join us for an Artist Talk with artist Ana Flores as she tells us about her process and artwork!

Biography

Ana Flores is a sculptor, ecological designer, educator, curator, and activist. Her sculptural work focusing on cultural and ecological narratives is shown internationally and included in private, corporate and institutional collections throughout the United States and abroad. For over two decades she has been promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and groundbreaking collaborations between the arts and sciences. She has worked with communities to design award-winning outdoor installations, parks, and programming that engage people with the history of their local landscapes and the landscapes they carry within- as cultural heritage. Flores interest with deep ecology and histories of place is rooted in her own experiences of displacement, she was born in Cuba and arrived with her family in the United States as refugees. She now lives and has her studio in Charlestown, Rhode Island, surrounded by forest that is ancient Narragansett land.

As an educator, Flores has been teaching courses on Ecological Art and Designt at Bryant University,Smithfield for over a decade and has also taught the course at Rhode Island School of Design. At the Rhode Island School of Design, she was co-creator of the first course on Arts and Healing and formed an arts partnership called Manos that did many commissions and workshops in Healthcare settings. Flores has been a visiting artist and lecturer in institutions across the United States and abroad. In 2018 year she was the first Schumann Fellow in Environmental Art for the University of New Haven’s Lyme Academy School of Fine Art.

Community MusicWorks celebrates summer in the city in all its glorious contradiction: bustling commutes and quiet afternoons in the park; clangorous sounds from the world at large and quiet, inner rhythms; solitude in the midst of a crowd. It’s all here, via four glittering musical portraits: Hannah Kendall’s Citygates and Leoš Janáček's Idyll, Jessie Montgomery’s Strum and Steve Reich’s Duet. 

We seek solace in the stillness of the forest, or in the strength and resilience of a solitary tree.  For millions of years, trees have taken root into the earth and reached high into the sky for sunlight.  They symbolize the Universe, creating mythologies and artistic inspiration.  We stand in awe of their intrinsic grace, generosity and dignity. 

These six artists reveal deep reverence and connection to these sentient and essential life forms.

Greg Rose reminds us that each tree is unique, much like the diversity within a family or individuals within a community.

Deborah Coolidge creates temple rubbings of tree bark, her action revealing the underlying spirit and form of her subject.

Ana Flores says that spending time in Nature is an outlet that feeds her soul, referencing the natural world as a spiritual, inspirational, creative and educational resource.

William Harting seeks within his viewfinder one tree among many.   He captures the Divine. Without frames and flush-mounted, he offers the immediacy and intimacy of his photographs with nothing between the viewer and the image.

Renee Monteiro-Bernard uses a scanner bed to photograph natural objects as staged compositions celebrating the beauty and awe of the natural world.

Paul Rider recognizes trees as one of the elemental structures in our world. Their forms, against the sky when one looks up, can be mesmerizing.

More information to come

Ospreys are one of the few bird species that are found throughout the world. From forests in Hokkaido to rivers in Oregon and islands off Australia, Ospreys steal the show as nature lovers easily watch them build their massive nests and tend to their young. The fact that the Osprey is one of the few large birds that can hover adds to its mystique, and to watch it plunge into the water, emerging with a fish clutched in its talons, is truly a sight one will remember.

As widespread as Ospreys are, not long ago they were under threat of extinction. During the 1950s and '60s, scientists tied the decline of Osprey populations to the heavy use of DDT and other human pollutants. In the 1980s, Ospreys began a slow recovery due to the efforts of conservationists and through the resilience of the adaptable raptors themselves. Today they are again considered common in most parts of the world, although some populations remain threatened.

In this gorgeously illustrated book, Alan F. Poole, one of America's premier Osprey experts, has written a lyrical exposé of these majestic creatures, describing their daily habits and exploring their relationship with the environment. Ospreys celebrates the species' miraculous recovery from contaminants and hunters, chronicles their spectacular long-distance migrations, and unveils their vital role in bringing life to coastal habitats. Few other birds have such a hold on the human imagination. This book shows us why.

Featuring artworks by

Julie Zickefoose

Kris Rowe

Jacob Steinberg

Craig Gibson

David Jeffrey