Pembroke Art Festival 2025
2025-08-09 10:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-10 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Black-white-transparent
Welcome to the 58th Annual Pembroke Arts Festival
August 9th – 10th, 2025
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Visit the Artists Exhibition
Saturday Aug. 9th, 10am – 6pm
Sunday Aug. 10th, 10am – 4pm
Free Concert Saturday Night
Wrap up your day with PAF’s concert on the green from6:30pm – 9:00pm
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PEMBROKE COMMUNITY CENTER
128 Center Street, Pembroke, MA
Image by Jody Reagan 2025

The Wright Building Artists at Frame Center Gallery
2025-08-11 00:00 - 2025-09-11 23:59 | Frame Center Hanover, 152 Rockland Street, Hanover, MA, 02339, United States
Over 25 artists from the Wright Building in Rockland will be on display in Frame Center’s Gallery starting August 11th through September 11th. Stop in during normal business hours to view these wonderful pieces. There will be a Closing Party the night of September 11th from 6-8 pm. We hope to see you!

Art on the Half Shell - Summer Evenings at the Duxbury Art Complex
2025-08-14 17:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-21 17:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-28 17:00 - 20:00 | The Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden Street, Duxbury, 02332, United States
Enjoy a summer evening at the Art Complex Museum!

Thursdays, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Starting Thursday, July 31, 2025
View some art, enjoy the evening’s programming, and have a nibble. Oysters from Duxbury Oyster Company will be available for purchase (3 for $5!), along with alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
July 31, 2025: Live, acoustic guitar by Jamie Hutchison. Visitors can participate in a bird-crafting activity with Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene. Learn practical ways to help protect birds.
August 7, 2025: Curator Talk of the museum grounds and plantings, with Contemporary Curator, Craig Bloodgood.
August 14, 2025: Mosaic demo with Education Coordinator, Sally Dean.
August 21, 2025: Learn about the works in the Monotype Guild of New England’s exhibit with Contemporary Curator, Craig Bloodgood.
August 28, 2025: Learn about Sano Gofu, the artist and designer who designed the museum’s tea hut, Shofuan. Led by Collections Curator, Julia Courtney.

Duxbury Art Complex - New England Mosaic Society: Ten Years on the Cutting Edge
2025-08-17 00:00 - 2025-11-02 23:59 | The Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden Street, Duxbury, 02332, United States
New England Mosaic Society:
Ten Years on the Cutting Edge
August 17 – November 2, 2025
Reception: September 21, 2025, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, the New England Mosaic Society is delighted to present this juried exhibition featuring the work of its members.

Mosaics as an art form is constantly stretching and expanding to be used in endlessly different ways. This exhibition features work made from multitudes of materials, used in unexpected and compelling ways, which completely relate to the current world and circumstances.

Art Week for Kids at The Art Complex Museum
2025-08-18 00:00 - 2025-08-22 23:59 | The Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden Street, Duxbury, 02332, United States
Summer Art Workshop for Kids

Monday—Friday
August 18-22, 2025
8:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
For Grades 1 through 5
Instructors: Sally Dean Mello, Michelle Levesque, Beth Bailey

This week-long program invites children entering 1st–5th grades to discover and express their creativity through sketching, hands-on art projects, and exploration of materials. Guided studio sessions and engaging activities will encourage students to engage with their senses, trust and develop their creative intuition, and experience firsthand how art can build community and connection.
Throughout the week, the rich resources and inspiring exhibits of the Art Complex Museum will serve as our muse, sparking imagination and creativity. Participants will also collaborate on a meaningful community art project, which will be proudly presented to family and friends on the final day of the program. Projects will include drawing, mural painting, sculpture and mosaics.
Snacks and beverage provided. Students should bring their lunch.

Fee: $550.00
Registration:
1. Use this link to complete payment: https://artcomplex.org/product/artweek_2025aug/
2. Use this link to access the Registration form:
ArtWeekRegistrationForm_2025
The form must be returned to the museum by June 30, 2025 to complete the registration process. You can download and email the form, print and mail it, or bring it to the museum. See the form for instructions.
24 students maximum

Faces and Places: A Solo Exhibition by Bart Blumberg
2025-08-23 08:00 - 2025-10-11 17:00 | Gift Cards – $500, Valentine’s Day
Photography by Bart Blumberg. The opening reception will be on Friday, August 29th, 5:30-7:00 PM. Location: Ventress Library in Marshfield, MA Sponsored by NRAS

"SALT AIR"
2025-09-01 00:00 - 2025-10-31 23:59 | Duxbury Free Library, 77 Alden Street, Duxbury, MA, 02231, United States
“SALT AIR”
A collection of works from Barbara Chaisson
About the Artist

Barbara Chaisson is an award winning acrylic painter and mixed media artist with an upbeat sense of color and design. She enjoys painting all things coastal New England – especially the sailing activity surrounding the Boston Harbor Islands. After capturing a scene plein air, she returns to her studio to add the line and collage work.
She received her formal training at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, earning a B.F.A. degree in Design. She then spent many years as an art director & designer in Boston’s advertising industry. Her work won awards for clients including AT&T, American Express, Bose, Dunkin Brands, Gillette, IBM & McDonalds.
Her art direction and design background is evident throughout her paintings.
Her work is a balance of bold color harmonies paired with strong compositions.
She is an exhibiting gallery artist at South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA and Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA. She is also a member of North River Arts, Hull Artists, Plymouth Center for the Arts and Duxbury Art Association.
Her work can be found at Expressions Fine Art & Contemporary Craft in Scituate Harbor.

"Here Comes The Sun" by Rita Berkowitz
2025-09-02 00:00 - 2025-09-30 23:59 | Norwell Public Library, 64 South Street, Norwell, MA, 02061, United States
Here Comes The Sun: Rita S. Berkowitz

Artist Reception
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 1:00 – 3:00 PM Meeting Room, Norwell Public Library 64 South Street, Norwell MA, 02061

Artist Statement:
Every morning as the sun rises we are promised a new beginning. A time to rethink who we are and what we would like to achieve in our lives. It represents the Cycle of Life, like a daily reincarnation. Ancient people thought of the sun as the source of life. The Mayan people thought the sunrise brings warmth into consciousness.
Blessed with images of Scituate, Massachusetts, on the marsh, to see the most beautiful sunrises to welcome in the day. No matter the weather, the sunrise gives us a feeling that it is all okay and we can go forward to be who we truly want to be.
The poem, “Paint Me a Sunrise,” by Linda Harrison, read at many memorial services, from that moment forward Rita Berkowitz has been embracing the sunrise not only as a memorial but as a meditation to begin every day. We begin with the thoughts “How we can reinvent ourselves, to become the people we really want t to be, to decide who we are today and from this point forward.

Synchronicity
2025-09-05 00:00 - 2025-10-03 23:59 | The James Library & Center for the Arts, 24 West Street, Norwell, MA, United States
The James Library Presents
“Synchronicity”

Our September Show is a gathering of 4 artists hailing from the North and South Shore. Each using a different medium; assemblages, wood cuts, gouache, acrylic, watercolor and oil paint. This variety of art dovetails together to create “Synchronicity
Join us for an evening of art, conversation, and community in our historic gallery. Whether you’re a longtime visitor or new to The James, this show offers a fresh perspective on our shared region and creative spirit.

Featured Artists
• Michael Weymouth After a successful career as a graphic designer and photographer in Boston and San Francisco, Michael has returned to his first love: painting. His richly textured works explore life in Maine and beyond. michaelweymouthart.com

• Sally Dean A Barnstable County native and BFA graduate of Tufts/SMFA Boston, Sally creates mixed-media paintings, prints, murals, and mosaics. She’s also Education Coordinator at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury. @sallydeanart

• Mary Langner Inspired by Duxbury’s landscapes and seascapes, Mary captures nature’s light, color, and texture in oil paint. She balances technical mastery with deep emotional connection. marylangnerfineart.com

• Ann Marie O’Dowd From bright acrylic portraits to vibrant still lives, Ann Marie’s “it’s only paint!” ethos fuels her playful, pattern-driven work. A MassArt photography alum, she’s exhibited locally and internationally. @amopainting

Opening Reception for "Synchronicity"
2025-09-05 18:00 - 20:00 | The James Library & Center for the Arts, 24 West Street, Norwell, MA, United States
The James Library Presents
“Synchronicity”
Our September Show is a gathering of 4 artists hailing from the North and South Shore. Each using a different medium; assemblages, wood cuts, gouache, acrylic, watercolor and oil paint. This variety of art dovetails together to create “Synchronicity
Opening Reception
Friday, September 5, 2025 | 6:00–8:00 pm
On View
September 5–October 3, 2025
Join us for an evening of art, conversation, and community in our historic gallery. Whether you’re a longtime visitor or new to The James, this show offers a fresh perspective on our shared region and creative spirit.

Featured Artists
• Michael Weymouth After a successful career as a graphic designer and photographer in Boston and San Francisco, Michael has returned to his first love: painting. His richly textured works explore life in Maine and beyond. michaelweymouthart.com

• Sally Dean A Barnstable County native and BFA graduate of Tufts/SMFA Boston, Sally creates mixed-media paintings, prints, murals, and mosaics. She’s also Education Coordinator at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury. @sallydeanart

• Mary Langner Inspired by Duxbury’s landscapes and seascapes, Mary captures nature’s light, color, and texture in oil paint. She balances technical mastery with deep emotional connection. marylangnerfineart.com

• Ann Marie O’Dowd From bright acrylic portraits to vibrant still lives, Ann Marie’s “it’s only paint!” ethos fuels her playful, pattern-driven work. A MassArt photography alum, she’s exhibited locally and internationally. @amopainting

Soft Horizons
2025-09-06 00:00 - 2025-10-02 23:59 | Hingham Library’s Dolphin and Clemens Gallery, 66 Leavitt Street, Hingham, MA, United States
The Art of Jaynia Matherwiez: Soft Horizons: Paintings of Sea and Sky
On Display from September 6 to October 2

About the Artist
Growing up on the Massachusetts coast instilled in Jaynia Matherwiez a lifelong appreciation for the water, a theme that deeply resonates in her abstract seascapes. Following a career in educational publishing and web design, Jaynia rediscovered her artistic drive in 2022. Her paintings, often created with palette knives and brushes, utilize a rich spectrum of blues and greens to evoke the ocean’s spirit. Beyond seascapes, she also explores intuitive abstract and mixed media pieces. Connect with Jaynia and view more of her art on Instagram.
Website: matherwiezart.com

My Wall: Private Collection
2025-09-06 00:00 - 2025-10-02 23:59 | Hingham Library’s Dolphin and Clemens Gallery, 66 Leavitt Street, Hingham, MA, United States
The Art of Betsy Taylor: My Wall: Private Collection
On Display from September 6 to October 2, Clemens Gallery of the Hingham Library
About the Artist
Elizabeth Lee Taylor, AKA Betsy Taylor, earned her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design in 1974.
Born and raised in the Rochester, NY and Finger Lakes regions, her focus was primarily drawing and graphics, specializing in figures for commercial illustration.
With a group of professional artists Betsy helped form the Earth & Arts Center in a historic stone gristmill in her village of Honeoye Falls, NY. As it grew it reorganized as a non-profit Art Center, offering art classes with a fantastic gallery to help support and enrich it, becoming Mill Art Center & Gallery.
With her cohorts Betsy taught drawing and painting classes there, installed exhibits, sold her works and the art of hundreds of artists. She managed Mill Arts Center & Gallery for 18 years until she and her husband moved to MA.
Betsy serves Hull Artists on the Board of Directors; manning Gallery Nantasket; as Curator for Gallery Nantasket and Hull Artists’ outside venues; creating graphics for posters and ads.
You can find her paintings in Gallery Nantasket, the Hull Public Library and in Nantasket Beach Resort.

Artist Reception "Here Comes the Sun"
2025-09-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Norwell Public Library, 64 South Street, Norwell, MA, 02061, United States
Artist Reception for
Here Comes The Sun:
Rita S. Berkowitz

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Meeting Room at the Norwell Public Library
64 South Street, Norwell, MA 02061

Artist Statement:
Every morning as the sun rises we are promised a new beginning. A time to rethink who we are and what we would like to achieve in our lives. It represents the Cycle of Life, like a daily reincarnation. Ancient people thought of the sun as the source of life. The Mayan people thought the sunrise brings warmth into consciousness.
Blessed with images of Scituate, Massachusetts, on the marsh, to see the most beautiful sunrises to welcome in the day. No matter the weather, the sunrise gives us a feeling that it is all okay and we can go forward to be who we truly want to be.
The poem, “Paint Me a Sunrise,” by Linda Harrison, read at many memorial services, from that moment forward Rita Berkowitz has been embracing the sunrise not only as a memorial but as a meditation to begin every day. We begin with the thoughts “How we can reinvent ourselves, to become the people we really want t to be, to decide who we are today and from this point forward.

Closing Reception for "Art by the Bay"
2025-09-07 13:00 - 16:00 | Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, MA, United States
108th Annual Art by the Bay
Member Show
Closing Reception Sunday September 7, 1-4pm
The Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, MA,
June 16 -September 12, 2025.
Open Mon-Thurs, 10am-5pm and Fridays 10am-1pm
Evenings and Weekends by chance or by appointment.
Email info@duxburyart.org with any questions.

Weathered Beauty
2025-09-10 00:00 - 2025-11-14 23:59 | Savage Godfrey Gallery, 693 Main St, Norwell, MA, 02061, United States
Savage Godfrey Gallery Presents
Weathered Beauty
a collection of works from Christine Bodnar, Suzette Lebenzon, and Ken Shanno

This fall, the Savage Godfrey Gallery will open its fifth exhibition Weathered Beauty. Paintings by Christine Bodnar and Suzette Lebenzon, along with sculptures by Ken Shannon, explore our connection with nature and evoke the sense of tranquility we often seek within it. With bold colors, rich textures, and expressive forms, these paintings and sculptures will resonate with nature lovers.
An opening reception will be held at the Gallery on Thursday, September 11th from 6-8 pm. We are excited to announce that this exhibition will complete Savage Godfrey Gallery’s first year in business. It has been a joy to join the Norwell business community. We look forward to hosting another year of unique exhibitions and forging new connections within the South Shore community.

Christine Bodnar’s passion for painting is deeply intertwined with her fascination with color and how it can change the mood and feeling of a moment. She is a contemporary realist with an expressive style, and relies on the light she encounters painting en plen air to set the drama of color, shadow, and the rhythm in a composition. She balances her time creating acrylic paintings, pastel on paper, and teaching. Bodnar lives in Marshfield, paints in Rockland and exhibits her work nationally.

Ken Shannon is driven to find and transform often overlooked, natural materials. Each weathered piece of driftwood holds a unique story of inherent beauty, change, and renewal. Inspired by the raw textures, organic forms, and the rich history of the ocean and its shores, Shannon engages with each uncut piece. By assembling and giving new life to these found materials, Shannon invites viewers to appreciate the art in nature’s transformative power and reflect on our own connection to environmental cycles. Shannon lives and works in Cohasset.

Suzette Lebenzon allows herself complete license to create images that interest her, crafting visual poems that express her wishes, feelings, and experiences on Cape Cod and around the South Shore where she grew up. She embraces a bold, expressive style of mark-making that is deeply tied to memory and is unconcerned with accurately representing a specific place. Recently, exploring reflective water surfaces and the surrounding vegetation has captivated her. Lebenzon lives and paints in Welfleet; she exhibits her paintings on the Cape, South Shore and NY.

Opening Reception for "Weathered Beauty"
2025-09-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Savage Godfrey Gallery, 693 Main St, Norwell, MA, 02061, United States

Structure to Sculpture
2025-09-12 00:00 - 2025-10-25 23:59 | SSAC, 119 Ripley Rd, Cohasset, MA, United States
South Shore Art Center presents
“Structure to Sculpture”
By Artist Jared Hadfield
and curated by Bill Houser

On Display at South Shore Art Center from September 12th through October 25th
Opening Reception Thursday September 18th from 6 to 8 pm

Four Friends Show
2025-09-12 00:00 - 2025-10-25 23:59 | SSAC, 119 Ripley Rd, Cohasset, MA, United States
South Shore Art Center presents
Four Friends
A collection of works by
Donna Haig Friedman, Joanna Drew, Lisa Marder, and Carol Branton

Hull Artists Open Studios 2025
2025-09-13 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-14 10:00 - 16:00 | Gallery Nantasket, 121 Nantasket Ave, Hull, MA, United States
List of Participating Artists
and Their Locations

58th Annual Juried Art Show - Opening Night Celebration at Plymouth Center for the Arts
2025-09-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Plymouth Center for the Arts, 11 North Street, Plymouth, MA, 02360, United States

Close to Home
2025-09-18 00:00 - 2025-10-18 23:59
Close to Home
Paintings by Nancy O’neill
September 18th through October 18th
Duxbury Senior Center, 10 Mayflower Street Duxbury, MA 02332

Opening Reception
September 18th from 4 – 6pm
All are Welcome!

Midnight Mythology
2025-09-18 00:00 - 2025-10-18 23:59 | Anne Henning Gallery, 19a Depot Street, Duxbury, MA, United States
The Anne Henning Gallery is please to present Midnight Mythology, a solo exhibition by lens based artist, Donna Garcia. This exhibit expresses the artist’s vision of the material world through abstraction, mythology, and metaphor.

Opening Reception: Thursday September 18th, 6pm – 9pm
RSVP: anne@annehenning.com, refreshments will be served.
Exhibition Dates: September 18th through October 18th
Gallery Hours are Thursday through Saturday from 10am – 1pm, please contact the gallery for additional viewing hours.

Opening Reception for Close to Home
2025-09-18 16:00 - 18:00

Opening Reception for "Structure to Sculpture"
2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00 | SSAC, 119 Ripley Rd, Cohasset, MA, United States

Opening Reception for "Four Friends"
2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00 | SSAC, 119 Ripley Rd, Cohasset, MA, United States
South Shore Art Center presents
Four Friends
A collection of works by
Donna Haig Friedman, Joanna Drew, Lisa Marder, and Carol Branton
Opening Reception Thursday Sept. 18th from 6-8pm

Opening Reception for Midnight Mythology
2025-09-18 18:00 - 21:00 | Anne Henning Gallery, 19a Depot Street, Duxbury, MA, United States
