Exhibits
Attractions: New Art Coming to the Brookline Arts Center—reception Thu 9/30, 5:30-7:30 PM
Aug 20, 2010-Oct 1, 2010
Main Library, Foundation and Emery Cases, and The Gallery in Hunneman Hall
The Brookline Public Library is presenting an advance view of the contemporary artists who will be exhibiting at the Brookline Arts Center during the next two years. Attractions: New Art Coming to the Brookline Arts Center will feature painting, drawing, ceramics, photographs, collage, jewelry and cast metal sculpture made by contemporary artists working across eastern Massachusetts. The artists vary in background: some are young professionals, or "emerging" artists, while others are established and well-known working artists. Attractions will be on view from August 20 to September 30, 2010. The public will be able to meet the artists at an artists' closing reception on Thursday, September 30 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Participating artists are: Heather Wang, Margaret Langdell, Leslie Shershow, Karenna Maraj, Sean Malloy, Luca Ricco, Marc Mancuso, Eric Myrvaagnes, Taryn Wells, Jenn Sherr, Linda Goldberg, Judy Diamond, Dianne Brooks, Evelyn Berde, Jessie Nickerson, Gerald Shertzer, Yanick Lapuh, Vladimir Barsukov, Lois Swirnoff, David Sturtevant, Sue Christensen, Tamar Etingen, Mary Broderick, Elizabeth Lyman and Pablo Friedman.
The Brookline Arts Center is a non-degree school for the visual arts committed to stimulating individual creative expression to enhance community life by providing high quality, affordable programming in the visual arts. The Arts Center was originally founded in 1964, and its gallery has presented monthly exhibitions since 2002.
The Arts Center programs are supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
"Express Yourself"—Creative Work by Young Adults
Aug 25, 2010-Oct 1, 2010
Main Library, Lobby Case
Recreation: Go Green Summer Reading Recycled Art, created by local teens, is on view through Sept. 30 on the first floor of the Main Library in the Lobby Case. Our summer reading theme this past summer has been Go Green, and so local teens worked on crafts and projects to reuse materials to create something new. Our art exhibit is here to show the work our teens have done creating wallets out of comics, artwork from duct tape, and purses out of hardcover books. Also featured is a giant 3D origami dragon representing all of the hours teens have spent reading over this summer—constructed of recycled papers and folded partly by the teens themselves!
A.E. Ryan: new sculpture
Oct 4, 2010-Nov 1, 2010
Main Library, Foundation Case
Amy Beth Harrison, installation: "Raised Beds"
Oct 4, 2010-Nov 1, 2010
Main Library, Lobby and Emery Cases
Mixed Media—reception Sat 10/16, 2-4 PM
Oct 5, 2010-Nov 2, 2010
Main Library, The Gallery in Hunneman Hall
Jessica Finch, curator
The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian: Oaxacan woodcarving
Nov 4, 2010-Dec 1, 2010
Main Library, Lobby, Emery and Foundation Cases
Presented by the Visiting Mexican Artists Program; Nina Hasin, curator
Sponsored by a grant from the Brookline Commission for the Arts
Catherine Zimmerman: paintings
Nov 5, 2010-Dec 2, 2010
Main Library, The Gallery in Hunneman Hall
Sarah Smith: Getting Published—A publishing house offers to publish your book—then what?
Dec 5, 2010-Jan 2, 2011
Main Library, Lobby Case
Follow the path to publication of one book through editing, design, publicity, and jacket (Sarah Smith's newly published The Other Side of Dark, set in Brookline). How are books published in the new ebook era? How are ebooks changing traditional publication? What helps to make your book, or a friend's book, a success?
Boston Camera Club: photography—reception Thu 12/9, 6:30-8 PM
Dec 5, 2010-Jan 2, 2011
Main Library, Foundation and Emery Cases, and The Gallery in Hunneman Hall
Main Library Exhibit Areas
First floor:
- Foundation Case — located in the west entrance foyer near School St.
- Lobby Case — in the main lobby across from the Circulation Desk.
- Emery Case — in the main lobby across from the new fiction books.
- Brookline 300th Display Case — in the Reference Room
Children's Room:
- at the entrance
- across from the Circulation Desk
- all around the room.
The Gallery in Hunneman Hall — located on the second floor
The Gallery in Hunneman Hall is open up to 30 minutes before closing as long as the hall is not is use. For scheduled programs and events, click on Calendar in the upper right-hand corner of our web page at brooklinelibrary.org. If the track lights are off when you arrive, the (labelled) switches are just inside the door to your right.