Destination: New England by New Venture Media Group

DESTINATION: NEW ENGLAND

Summer is here! Don’t waste a moment or a weekend. All you need for that special getaway is right here in New England: art, poetry, performances, all sparking relaxation, contemplation, and fascination. And always a little education. Pack lightly—and often—as you embark on adventures of art and intrigue.

The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home Lenox, MA

The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home is a National Historic Landmark and cultural center dedicated to the legacy of American author Edith Wharton, who resided there from 1902 to 1911. The Mount offers tours, lectures, readings and more for all ages. Explore the 113-acre property, tour her classically inspired mansion, and experience French and Italian gardens preserved with the botanical arrangements once planted by Wharton herself. Admission to the historic house is ticketed, yet the grounds, Bookstore and Terrace Café are free. After nine years hosting the exhibition, the

historic grounds are now the official home of the annual sculpture show formerly known as SculptureNow. The exhibition, now titled Sculpture at The Mount, showcases works of varying scale and media produced by emerging and internationally established artists. On view through October 20, this immersion of art in the natural world is free to explore. Join free monthly artist-led tours from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on July 21 and August 18.

Massachusetts Design Art and Technology Institute —New Bedford, MA

Massachusetts Design Art and Technology Institute (DATMA) is a non-collecting contemporary art institute. DATMA is currently in its sixth season, titled TRANSFORM: Reduce, Revive, Reimagine, which explores the intersection of artistic expression and environmental consciousness. This season showcases art alongside the South Coast region’s recent innovations in robotics, marine research and wind energy. TRANSFORM: Reduce, Revive, Reimagine brings audiences into a

world of reused materials and sustainable practices through free programming and public art installations, including a new sculpture by artist Bordalo II, among others. The Art of Technology: Exploring Transformative Innovations of the South Coast is a photography exhibition highlighting technological innovations currently bringing the South Coast into a new era. The exhibition is on view at Tonnessen Park and the entrance of the Seastreak Ferry building in downtown New Bedford. DATMA is also offering a wide variety of free educational programming throughout the season.

Nantucket Historical Association

Nantucket, MA

The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is proud to present Tony Sarg: Genius at Play, the first comprehensive exhibition of the life and work of illustrator, puppeteer, author and designer Tony Sarg. Sarg is perhaps most famous as the father of modern puppetry in North

Kathia St. Hilaire at work in her studio. Her Invisible Empires is on view at The Clark through September 22. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli.

America and as the originator of the now-iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. The exhibition is on view at the Nantucket Whaling Museum and was organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in partnership with the NHA. In addition to the exhibition, NHA has plans to bring a recreation of Sarg’s 75-foot sea monster balloon to Nantucket this summer. Sarg summered on and was inspired by the island for twenty years, and the original sea monster balloon was unveiled on the island in the summer of 1937. On August 5, as part of the free event Sarg Community Day at Children’s Beach, a replica of the balloon, created by Bill Smith of Smith Special Productions and Ballonworks, will appear. Don’t miss the opportunity to see a lifetime of work by one of America’s foremost puppeteers.

Jaye Alison Moscariello—Sandisfield, MA

Jaye Alison Moscariello is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator. She will be honored as one of

eleven artists, and the only American, selected for the Mark Rothko 2024 International Painting Symposium, held from September 15 to 27 at the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils, Latvia. Locally, Moscariello’s work can be found in numerous shows throughout

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Massachusetts. Connection, a large work on paper from her “Bold New World” series, is on view through August 3 at the Arthaus Gallery in Allston as part of the exhibition Being Human. “Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?” at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury continues through September 1 and features two paintings from Moscariello’s “Le Jardin” series. A short film as well as several photographs by Moscariello will be part of Farm and Table at the New Marlborough Meeting House Gallery in New Marlborough, on view July 26 to August 25. Moscariello also works as a curator for the upand-coming Sandisfield Arts Center. Upcoming shows include Unearthed, on view July 13 to August 11, and Small Works, on view August 17 to September 8.

Hancock Shaker Village—Stockbridge, MA

With twenty historic buildings and a working farm and garden, Hancock Shaker Village is open April through December for self-guided tours, demonstrations, talks, and programs ranging from concerts to goat yoga. The museum celebrates the history and legacy of the Shakers, a religious group that lived communally. Explore two exhibits on view through August 31, Artistry of the Shaker Sisters and Instruments of Inspiration. Artistry of the Shaker Sisters showcases needlework samples by Shaker Sisters and watercolors by Martha Hunt Corson, who lived with the Hancock Shakers in her childhood. Instruments of Inspiration offers a selection of “gift drawings” from the 1840s and 1850s, visual representations of supposed visions from Shaker founder Mother Ann, alongside drawings from contemporary artists Alyssa Sakina Mumtaz, Sue Muskat and Julia Whitney Barnes. On the National Historic Register, Hancock Shaker Village is the most compre-

This exhibition is made possible by Denise Littlefield Sobel. Guillaume Lethière, Woman Leaning on a Portfolio (detail), c. 1799, oil on canvas. Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, museum purchase, 1954.21. Photo: Worcester Art Museum/Bridgeman Images

Sarg’s 75-foot sea monster balloon. Courtesy of NHA.

hensively interpreted Shaker site in the world and the oldest working farm in the Berkshires.

The Clark Art Institute—Williamstown, MA

The Clark Art Institute’s summer calendar is packed with exceptional art and free events and activities, including free extended evening hours on Wednesdays from 5 to 9 p.m. through September 25. The Clark’s summer exhibition is Guillaume Lethière, on view through October 14, the first major monographic exhibition ever presented on the artist, who rose to the heights of success in revolutionary France. Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires, on view through September 22, shares stories handed down to St. Hilaire through her parents, who immigrated to the U.S. from Haiti, and explores the island nation’s history and the long shadows it casts through this emerging artist’s distinctive practice combining printmaking, painting, collage and weaving. Fragile Beauty, Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass, explores how makers from across time and around the globe have taken inspiration from plants, animals, and other aspects of nature to create dazzling objects.

Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism, opening July 13, is timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the First Impressionist Exhibition, held in Paris in 1874. A range of works from the Clark’s permanent collection and select loans from public and private collections offer a “behind-the-scenes” look at Degas’s innovative methods, materials, and supports.

the lakes gallery at chi-lin—Laconia, NH

Located in a restored 1780s farmhouse and surrounded by Japanese gardens, the lakes gallery provides a lovely historic setting in which to view art and take a rest in scenic Laconia. When

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visiting, don’t expect a traditional gallery experience. Artwork is hung in the historic hallways, stairwells and rooms upstairs in the farmhouse. On view through July 21 are two concurrent exhibitions, Lens Remembrance and Ritual & Reminiscence. Lens Remembrance is the gallery’s first all-photography exhibition. It features the work of Maine photographer Linda Mahoney along with seven other photographic artists from Maine and New Hampshire. Ritual & Reminiscence showcases the installation work of fiber artist Dayna Talbot. Next, from July 21 through September 8, find Another World on display, featuring the work of Jan Roy and Rose Umerlik. The exhibit also includes the art of intuitive artist Pat Wild and the words of poet Jean Flanagan.

AVA Gallery and Art Center—Lebanon, NH

For 50 years AVA Gallery and Art Center has offered a robust yearly exhibition series. Five spacious contemporary exhibition spaces embrace

the historic roots of a mill factory. AVA's campus consists of two buildings, a renovated factory with studios, classrooms and galleries, and a sculptural studies facility for working with clay, wood, metal, and stone. AVA is committed to exhibiting New England artists through meaningful and engaging contemporary art, cultivating an exchange of ideas and dialogue between the local art community and beyond. AVA’s 2024 Juried Exhibition is on view through July 13. Upcoming, Forces of Nature is on view July 26 to August 24 and features the work of Stephanie Roberts-Camello, Deborah Pressman, Lia Rothstein and Marina Thompson. The prints and sculpture of Samuel Neustadt, collage and monoprints by Erika Lawlor Schmidt and Axel Stohlberg’s sculpture will also be on exhibit at this time. Gallery talks and exhibition openings are free and open to the public.

Currier Museum of Art—Manchester, NH

The Currier Museum of Art is an essential

resource for the arts and art education in New Hampshire and beyond. Its current exhibitions include Elisabeth Kley’s Cymodocea, on view in the museum’s Welcome Gallery through August 18, which combines Kley’s signature black-andwhite ceramic sculptures with wall paintings to create a high-contrast environment rich with references. On view through September 2 is Filippo de Pisis and Robert Mapplethorpe: A Distant Conversation, which highlights the elective affinities between the 20th-century Italian painter, de Pisis, and Mapplethorpe, one of the most influential American fine arts photographers of his generation. It is the first retrospective exhibition of de Pisis in the United States. Also on view is Stories of the Sea, a show that explores maritime themes by bringing together extraordinary loans alongside a wide array of artworks from the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition even features including Vincent van Gogh’s first outdoor painting.

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