DESTINATION: NEW ENGLAND
Fall is here! Dusk arrives a little earlier and while summer’s warmth will linger, autumn’s crisp chill is unmistakable—calling out to light sweaters and turtlenecks, waiting to be unpacked. Fall in New England is incredibly vibrant. It’s a season of art openings and cultural events, blooming foliage, and discovering pockets of New England you never knew existed. Promise yourself you’ll find one or two this season. There is so much to experience in the region’s cities, coastlines, and in the mountains. Breathe it all in.
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. This season, DATMA is exploring 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.
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.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art—Amherst, MA
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is the international champion of picture book art. The Carle houses a rich and deep collection of art by more than 300 picture book artists, including Eric Carle (author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and more than seventy other popular picture books), and illuminates its collection
through exhibitions, education, programming, and artmaking. Current exhibitions include Pictures at Play: Metafiction in Art, on view through November 3, Sprouting Stories: Plants & People in Picture Books, on view through December 9, and of Fuzuê! Invention & Imagination in the Art Roger Mello, on view through January 5, 2025. Upcoming exhibitions include Artful Collaboration: Eric Carle & Ann Beneduce, on view from September 7, 2024, to March 9, 2025, exploring the working relationship and collaborative friendship of Carle and editor Ann Beneduce.
Mathias Fine Art—Boothbay, ME
Mathias Fine Art in Trevett, in the town of Boothbay, is known for its presentation of fine examples of collectible contemporary art. This year’s summer exhibition entitled Relief presents an exploration of the meaning of relief as an art term and as a word, which in common usage denotes a release from discomfort or distress. Different forms of relief elements are
An exploration on paper, wood, clay and
WHO:
Bartsch, Bettinson, Callas, Culver, Keller, Marohn, Prien Schultze, Shiber & others
WHEN: thru Sept 29 Wed - Sun 12 pm - 5
thereafter by appointment
to be found in the displayed images and sculptures. Ten New England and New York artists have explored various materials from clay and granite to steel, wood, paper and glass for this exciting group show. Viewing this diverse exhibition of relief with examples of low relief, relief prints, relief carvings, molded paper, 3-D printing and collages is akin to involving oneself in a scavenger hunt where new discoveries lead to surprises and pleasurable insights.
Mathias Fine Art is located on Barter’s Island, the site of one of the few remaining draw bridges in the state and where visitors can explore two Boothbay Region Land Trust preserves.
Center for Maine Contemporary Art Rockland, ME
Experience the art of this generation and the next. The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) was founded in 1952 and has grown
TRANSFORM: Reduce, Revive, Reimagine
A public art series uniting sustainable art and cutting-edge technology with a new 20-foot tall sculpture by Lisbon street artist Bordalo II. The season also features more exhibitions and all-ages public programming in New Bedford from now through October 2024
Open and free to all. Explore at www.datma.org
since then into the state’s leading contemporary arts organization. Located in scenic downtown, the CMCA creates opportunities for new developments in contemporary art through exceptional exhibitions and education programs that communicate the transformative power of art in our time. CMCA’s exhibitions and educational programs are made to inspire and attract visitors of all ages and backgrounds. I Forgot to Remember Myself: Katarina Weslien is on view from September 28, 2024 to May 4, 2025. Three exhibitions, Cut, Bend, Burn: Letha Wilson, From the Collection of Lord Red: Kyle Downs; and Paint the Air: Lauren Luloff, open on September 28, 2024, and close on January 12, 2025.
Jaffrey Historical Society—Jaffrey, NH
Bird lovers and art patrons alike will enjoy the Jaffrey Historical Society’s recently acquired Warfield Collection, on view at the Jaffrey Civic
Center through September 17. The Warfield Collection comprises of fifty highly detailed and exquisitely crafted wooden birds. The artists, Robert and Virginia Warfield, lived and worked in Jaffrey from 1960 to their deaths in 1990 and 2004, respectively. Over the course of their careers, the Warfields carved and painted more than 7,000 of these objects, which can be found on display worldwide. The Warfield Collection was originally bequeathed to The Sharon Arts Center in 2008. Following the Center’s closure in 2019, the fate of the collection was left in limbo. The Jaffrey Historical Society was finally able to purchase the collection, with the help and support of Bob Warfield, Robert’s son, and bring these beautiful pieces home.
Currier Museum of Art—Manchester, NH
The Currier is an essential resource for the arts and art education in New Hampshire
and beyond. Current exhibitions include Olga de Amaral’s Everything is Construction and Color, on view through January 12, 2025, in the museum’s Welcome Gallery. Originally from Colombia, de Amaral is globally recognized for her contribution to fiber art, often working with materials that she sources locally, such as raw wool, wood branches, luffa, horsehair, plastic and gold. On view September 26, 2024, through February 2, 2025, is Dan Dailey’s Impressions of the Human Spirit, a retrospective examination of the transformative New Hampshire-based sculptor, whose creative ideas and inventiveness expanded the vocabulary of art. Also on view through November 3 is Stories of the Sea, a show that explores various maritime themes by bringing together a wide array of artworks from the museum’s permanent collection alongside a number of extraordinary loans, including Vincent van Gogh’s first outdoor painting.
