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• Art In Bloom 2025

  • When
    2 May 2025
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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  Join MA-NMWA's tour of Art in Bloom and celebrate spring’s arrival at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For more than four decades, this much-loved event has paired art from the MFA’s collection — from ancient to contemporary — with floral interpretations created by New-England area garden clubs, professional floral designers, and MFA volunteers.

  Stay at the MFA following our one-hour tour to view even more of the 45 interpretive arrangements inspired by artworks from the museum's collection.

  MA-NMWA Supporting Members will have early booking privileges for this tour.

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• June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart

  • When
    21 May 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 3 Chapel Avenue, Andover, MA
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  Join MA-NMWA for a tour of June Leaf: Shooting form the Heart, a major exhibition devoted to the artist June Leaf (1929–2024), whose enigmatic, beguiling, and often irreverent work is both endlessly experimental and uncategorizable. Drawing from the artist’s vast archive along with loans from select private and institutional collections, June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart will consider the breadth of Leaf’s 75-year career. Arranged thematically, it will be the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work in more than three decades. Leaf’s enchanting and provocative sculptures, both kinetic and stationary, paintings, and works on paper will be intermingled and placed in dynamic conversations across media, revealing the artist’s sustained engagement with such motifs and themes as theater and performance, the human drama, dance, gender, motion, urban life, mythology, and interpersonal relationships.

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• Artist Talk: Tara Sellios and Ask Now the Beasts

  • When
    4 Jun 2025
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Fitchburg Art Museum, 185 Elm Street, Fitchburg, MA 01420
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  Join MA-NMWA to hear from artist Tara Sellios in front of her exhibition Ask Now the Beasts at the Fitchburg Art Museum.
  

  Tara Sellios is a Boston based artist whose monumental photographs highlight the beauty of the grotesque. Sellios creates still life vignettes from organic materials including animal bones, insect specimens, and dried flowers which she photographs using a large format 8 X 10 camera. Printed at a large scale, her photographs capture the vivid details of her materials. Sellios’s imagery takes inspiration from Christian devotionals including illuminated manuscripts, altarpieces, and stained glass windows while engaging with historical traditions of still life painting, particularly Dutch vanitas paintings. Sellios’s series, Ask Now the Beasts, derives its title from the Book of Job, exploring the concepts of the harvest and the apocalypse. In this new work Sellios considers the cyclical nature of Earth, intertwining symbols of death and references to life with the beauty of decay.

  We will enjoy an introduction to the Fitchburg Art Museum from Curator Emily Mazzola, PhD, and will also have the opportunity to view a new exhibition celebrating Eleanor Norcross, founder of the Fitchburg Art Museum.

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