BIRD HOUSE COMPETITION

At NIAD Art Center's Open Garden
A Collaborative Art Event with Piedmont's PAINTS (Promote Art in the Schools) and NIAD

Reception on Sunday, May 2, 2004 from 3-5pm


NIAD Art Center showcases artistically crafted bird houses and bird art created by local artists of all ages and backgrounds including professional bird house makers, a glass artist, a silk artist, NIAD artists, and many others. The houses and related art will be judged by local bird house "experts" and given awards in late May. The winners of the competition will also be announced on stage at the renowned Piedmont High School Bird Calling Contest on June 4.

These unique art pieces are donated to Piedmont PAINTS (Promote Art in the Schools) and will be raffled off during the month of May. All proceeds go directly to Piedmont's school art programs. Come preview the bird houses and bird art, meet the artists, visit NIAD, and enjoy refreshments and live music.

ANATOMY OF THE ARTIST

A Look Inside The Art & Artist of NIAD
Featuring Portraits by Nationally Acclaimed Photographer Hugh Shurley

Reception on Thursday, June 10, 2004 from 6-8pm


ANATOMY OF THE ARTIST is an exhibit featuring nationally acclaimed photographer Hugh Shurley and a selection of artists from NIAD. Hugh's beautiful tinted portraits, with superimposed images of the artists' work, are a personal expression of selected artists with whom he has had the pleasure of working at NIAD. This insightful exhibit explores who these artists are and shows us what they can create. See their artistic process, examine their tools, and admire their progression. Come take a personal look at NIAD and its artists, and celebrate Hugh's interpretation through his portraits.

HIGH TOUCH, LOW TECH

At the Florence Ludin-Katz Gallery/NIAD Art Center
A Joint Art Exhibit with Piedmont High School and NIAD Artists

Reception on Thursday, March 4, 2004 from 6-8pm

Art instructor Pat Macias and her visual arts classes from Piedmont High School join selected NIAD artists for an art exhibit featuring works that visually stimulate the sense of touch. Piedmont High art students explore how art is created by the visually impaired. Co-curated by NIAD's textile instructor, Jan Moore, this exhibit also showcases art by NIAD artists with low vision, highlighting their interpretation of texture. Come see... and be touched by unusual textiles, ceramics, sculptures, and more.

ART FROM THE HEART

NIAD Art Center Gallery
December 1, 2003 through January 23rd, 2003

Reception/Gift Sale on Saturday, December 6, 2003, 2 - 5pm


NIAD Art Center's annual holiday art exhibit and gift show. Collectable "Outsider" art and handmade gift items include paintings, drawings, prints, collages, quilts, weavings, furniture, ceramics and jewelry unlike anything you've seen before! 45 artists will be showcased along with art from their highly regarded instructors. Special reception and gift sale on Saturday, December 6, from 2-5pm includes live entertainment, refreshments and raffle. Admission to the NIAD art gallery is free, and all items are available for purchase.

She has chosen the paintings of seven NIAD artists for "Images of Note": Willie Harris, Sara Malpass, Deatra Colbert, Donald Walker, David Martin, Vincente Villeneuva, and Sam Gant. In the work of these seven people is an expression of what Grossman calls "something freeing (that exists) in the work of completely untrained artists, which seems to burst forth from someplace else."

The two guest artists for the show will be celebrated "Outsider Artists" J.B. Murry and Barry Simons. Murry was a Southern artist who achieved international acclaim in the Outsider Art world late in his life; Barry Simons is a poet and painter from Southern California.

Sy Grossman, with his jazz quintet, "Just Friends", (named after an old jazz tune), will play throughout the opening to add to the ambience. Music, of course, is also important to the naming of the show: "Images of Note."

"Every definition of the word "note" can apply here," Grossman says. "It means musicality, lyricism, something of importance. It can mean a kind of message, and the message here reveals itself both in the subject matter of the artwork and in the lyricism, the musicality, of the artists strokes themselves.

TROPICAL FLAVORS

On view at the Berenberg Gallery, Boston from June 25-July 31, 2003, celebrates summer by bringing together six artist who share a deep connection to nature. NIAD artist Sylvia Fragoso is joined by Kerry Damianakes, J. Goodrich, Emily Malin, Gabrielle Sichel and Stuart Williams.

Sylvia Fragoso's drawings celebrate life in a joyful way that reflects a love of nature, people, animals and the vibrant color combinations of her Hispanic heritage. She uses colored pencils, felt pens, and paint to create mosaic and web-like compositions rich with transformations in which people can become animals, flowers become people, and eyes become suns. Her work has been exhibited in California, Japan and China as well as at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.

Berenberg Gallery is Boston's only gallery exclusively dedicated to the dynamic creations of contemporary folk and self-taught artists and is located at 4 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA
Summer hours: Tuesday ­ Friday, 11 am ­ 6 pm. Saturday 11 am ­ 5 pm
For more information call (617) 536-0800.

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