Needham Open Studios

Welcome summer! Summery art by Needham Open Studios artists Amy Cicala, Derrick Maurice Sanderson, and Naomi Wilsey.

Wear your painting clothes and come out this Saturday to help bring art to High Rock Middle School! Tomorrow, June 14! (It'll be hot, but there will be water and shade.)

Congratulations to Needham Open Studios artists Mark Richards and Judith Stein who both have work in “Country,” a national juried exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum. The opening reception for “Country” is tomorrow, June 13!

Congratulations to Needham Open Studios artist Audrey Markoff Dunn on her museum debut with her mosaic “Lollipop Tree” in the Tang Museum at Skidmore College.

Have you noticed a new selection of Art Outside banners in your usual haunts? They’re still traveling around town, bringing the joy of local art wherever they go!
(This program is supported in part by a grant from the Needham Council for Arts and Culture, a local agency which is supported by the Town of Needham and the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.)

Sign up for a silk painting workshop with Needham Open Studios artist Nicole Donson! PSA: Letting your creativity flow is good for your soul.

Get outside and enjoy the arts: two great ways to improve your mood! The Needham Poet Laureate Program has the perfect opportunity for you with our Poem Walk along the Needham Rail Trail, which features Amanda Gorman’s inspiring poem “Change Sings,” exuberantly illustrated by Loren Long. (Start at the Fisher Street Parking Lot.)

Up next: Newton Open Studios, this weekend May 30-31. Be sure to visit participating Needham Open Studios artists Rob Ondo, Anne E.G. Nydam, Berline Lee Chao, Hilary Hanson Bruel, Ronni and Amos Eisenberg, Nidhi Jha, Ariel Finelt Shoemaker, Ilona Fried, and Local Color Jewelry, (plus Needham OS regulars Irina Moroz and Gail Hansen).

View “Echoes of Liberty” this month at the Arts Wayland Gallery. In honor of America’s 250th, artists (including Needham Open Studios’ Judith Stein) respond to artifacts in the Wayland Museum.

Celebrate the next generation of ceramic artists with the Wellesley High School Ceramics Intensive Portfolio Exhibition at the Gorse Mill Gallery. The reception is tonight (May 18) at 6:00, and you’re guaranteed to be impressed!