New Bedford Art Museum

Creating music instruments in harmony with Nature through the use of biomaterials and biomimicry has been an integral part of Rosenkrantz's artistic practice for many years. Learn more about her piece at her Art Talk at the Art Museum on 12/14.

"As a beekeeper, I have spent countless hours observing the remarkable behaviors of these industrious insects. Bees, with their innate ability to communicate through combs at a 309Hz frequency, have always captivated my imagination as that frequency is also found within the guitar range. Their harmonious society, built on intricate rhythms, offered a unique window into the world of sound and vibration. It was within this crossroads of my passion for beekeeping and my love for music that the Pawtuxet guitar project was born.

I began to discern the blueprints underlying the bees' combs and their behavior. This understanding allowed me to design a specific hive and guitar soundboard bracing that gently guided and encouraged my bees to create combs where I needed them for the instrument resonance, thus becoming co-creators in a harmonious partnership between nature and artistry.

The resulting combs, shaped by the bees' collective efforts, became an integral vital part of the instrument, diffusing organically the note, as an natural amplifier. Each note produced by this organic guitar resonated with the essence of the bees' hive, offering a harmonious reminder of the interconnected web of life, where their collective wisdom reverberates through our shared existence. The Pawtuxet guitar is an ode to profound connections within Nature."

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Rachel Rosenkrantz Atelier Rosenkrantz
309Hz, 2020
Honeycombs, cedar, spruce, bubinga, rosewood, mahogany, Nomex paper, bee's wax finish, and propolis

Our newest exhibition, "Gateways to Awareness" explores the role of memory, perception and the five senses in our appreciation of art while engaging the viewer in multi-sensory experiences.

"Sonotron" is a sound-sculpture and light installation based on audio immersion, sacred geometry, and therapeutics, wherein viewers can enter the piece and be bathed in frequencies.

Therapeutically, the sounds are intended to have positive effects on the viewer. Various frequencies used are associated with expanding consciousness, achieving clarity, awareness, balance, and a sense of wellbeing, as well as relaxation and the relief of anxiety and pain. The geometric form itself is based on the study, practice, and application of sacred-geometry energetic principles, anchoring unique and powerful energies associated with universal connection and oneness, as well as assisting with higher states of consciousness. In regard to these elements, it is the artist’s intention that this work functions as a bridge between physical and spiritual phenomena, as well as to encourage a form or interaction that is rooted in active receiving and absorption.

Experience the work for yourself now through December 31

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Derek Hoffend
Sonotron, 2013
Steel, Sound, Speakers, Wood, Fabric, RGB LED Spotlights, Computer, Software and Amplification Gear
11’ x 9’ x 10’

Would you like to learn how to make handmade jewelry for your friends and loved ones this holiday season?

This Friday from 1:00-4:30 I'll be teaching a jewelry making workshop at the New Bedford Art Museum

Tickets can be found here:

https://newbedfordart.org/elegant-earrings/?fbclid=PAAaZPkysP6xPLG9wwHpquoX60Yo5lTpj6sHoTlLP-fASU0hUJ-C8q2L76_Gw

It's wintertime at the Art Museum

This month is our Northern Lights Holiday party, a Call For Artists with a $1K cash prize, art classes and more.

We'll see you there.

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Brace yourselves for the electrifying showdown in the Second Lightning Round of our Poetry Slam Battle! 🔥 Sparks will fly, words will dance, and only one poet will emerge victorious. 🎤⚡ Who will triumph in the battle of verses? Join us at the Art Museum and witness the poetic storm unfold!
Wednesday, 11/29
6-8pm
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Partnered with @.poetry , New Bedford Free Public Library and

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Visit the New Bedford Main Library's Youth Services on Monday, Nov. 20 from 6-8pm to create a clay owl with Devin from New Bedford Art Museum !


New Bedford Public Schools
Greater New Bedford Youth Alliance
Mass Cultural Council

November Dock-u-mentary: Mami Wata Join New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center on November 17 at 7pm for a screening of Nigerian fantasy film Mami Wata!

Happy to be part of the group show "Gateways to Awareness" at the New Bedford Art Museum. 🐝🍯
Opening November 9th, closing December 31st.

Work from you new glass professor; Kim Savoie
Teaching: Handmade Glass Pendants, Thursday, Nov. 9
Sign Ups: bit.ly/newbedfordart

This collection, from her Senior Thesis project at MassArt capture the remanence of a tree to personify their death and what was left behind.

After her undergraduate studies, she worked in various studios, including three years at the She then helped open a glassblowing school at Pairpoint Glass Company. Teaching is her passion, and she now focuses on it while expanding her glasswork collections.

Her class will teach you how to cut and assemble sheet glass while learning safety and glass techniques for both cold and hot glass. This class is suitable for kids and adults, no prior experience needed. Ages 14+.

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🍂 Fall for art this season with our calendar of events 🍂
In addition, this week from Thursday-Sunday, Art Museum admission is waived. Donations are welcome.

Join us for a scarf making class, floral workshop, an Opening Reception and more.

We'll see you there.

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It's the last day of our exhibition, "Under The Sheltering Sky".

The exhibition explores cultural narratives about nature and provides context on the life and legacy of John James Audubon. Designed to spark conversations among viewers and connect the City of New Bedford's historic art collection to important topics of current interest, the exhibition inspired by DATMA's 2023 shelter theme juxtaposes Audubon’s 19th century prints with examples of contemporary art.

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John James Audubon
Nuttalls’ Lesser-Marsh Wren, 1832
Hand colored engraving
New Bedford Free Public Library, gift of James Arnold, 1866

Andrea Cukier
Diptych with Brown Thrasher and Other Wonders, 2023
Mixed media on paper (painting and collage)

William White
American Robin, 2021
Hand-carved White Pine

Last chance to see "Through Darkness to Light"
Closing October 29

This exhibition features unforgettable color photographs, ephemera, and narratives that together begin to tell the story of the Underground Railroad.

Apart from the thousands of lives saved from slavery, the Underground’s greatest achievement may have been its creation of a truly free zone of in*******al activity, where African Americans not only directed complex logistical and financial operations, but also supervised networks that included white men and women who were accorded no special status because of their color. If the long, disheartening history of slavery showed white Americans at their worst, the history of the Underground Railroad reveals people—white and black alike—at their bravest and most self-sacrificing best, as an enduring model of in*******al collaboration for our own time, and for times to come.
—Fergus M. Bordewich, historian and author

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Jeanine Michna-Bales
Eagle Hollow from Hunter’s Bottom
Just across the Ohio River, Indiana
2014
chromogenic color print
25 1/4 x 36 1/4

Hidden Passage
Mammoth Cave, Barren County, Kentucky
2014
chromogenic color print
25 1/4 x 36 1/4

From your new professor; Kayla Conner

In our Tarot Card class, students will design a custom watercolor tarot card, explore Major Arcana symbolism, align with Zodiac signs, and master basic watercolor techniques to create a unique card to take home with Kayla Conner, from

Conner is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, poet, and educator. Kayla primarily works in watercolor using sacred geometry, esoteric symbolism, specifically tarot, which she has been practicing for over a decade.

Wednesdays: October 25th- November 8th
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Members: $85.50
Non-members: $95
Sign Up: fb.me/e/1oAg2dsA2

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⚔️ Meet Your Warriors ⚔️

It's the first Lightning Round of the ultimate poetry battle where the winner has the chance to enter and compete for the Champion Title.

Wednesday, Oct 25
6-7pm
Free for all with complimentary admission to Museum galleries

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Partnered with Anomaly Poetry , New Bedford Free Public Library and

The New Bedford Art Museum will close early for maintenance today, October 20th at 2:30pm. We will reopen with our usual hours (THU-SUN 9:00am-5:00pm) tomorrow, October 21st.

Work by Andrea Cukier from our "Under The Sheltering Sky" exhibition, open now through October 29

https://newbedfordart.org/exhibitions/

John Woodrow Wilson was a sculptor, painter, and printmaker, best known for his powerful portraits of Black men, with a distinct interest in both politically and socially conscious art.

Wilson’s interest in socially relevant themes arose in part from his exposure to the Social Realism that dominated American art during the Depression of the 1930s and continued through the early 1940s. The artist was further motivated by strained racial relations within the United States, and Wilson’s vulnerable social position as a black artist in the twentieth century is often reflected in his work.

See more of Wilson's work in "Looking at Black Portraiture" now through December 3rd.

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Frederick Douglass in Three Poses
Signed, numbered 3/8 and dated 19__, 1.r.
Black pastel on paper
15" x 22"

Studies for Bronze Statue of Frederick Douglass
Titled, 1.1.
Black pastel on paper
15" x 22"

A New Bedford resident, William White, a self-taught wood carver, creates an original type of folk art with his straightforward naturalistic style of wall sculptures. White’s main oeuvre is carved animals, especially birds, mounted on found pieces of wood, often driftwood, a choice reflecting his locale.

White employs nuanced colors and fine textures to achieve a striking verisimilitude with his subjects, while his settings for them suggest domesticity more than the great outdoors.

See White's work and more in "Under The Sheltering Sky" now through October 29

"Through Darkness Into Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad" from photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales

In practice, the Underground Railroad was a model of democracy in action. As Isaac Beck, a stationmaster in Ohio, put it, “There was no regular organization, no constitution, no officers, no laws or agreement or rule except the ‘Golden Rule,’ and every man did what seemed right in his own eyes.”

Fugitives were always in danger of recapture. Some were snatched by professional slave hunters from their homes or places of work in New York, Boston, and elsewhere, and shipped back south in chains, while many conductors and stationmasters were prosecuted under the Fugitive Slave Law. Conductors caught below the Mason-Dixon line could expect no mercy. Calvin Fairbank, a divinity student from New York, was arrested for transporting a fugitive family out of Kentucky, where he served thirteen years at hard labor in the state penitentiary and suffered regular flogging. Seth Concklin, another New Yorker, was murdered after his capture with a family of freedom seekers in Indiana, and his body tossed in the Ohio River.

See this exhibition now through October 29.

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Wading Prior to Blackness
Grant Parish, Louisiana
2014
chromogenic color print
17 1/4 x 24 3/4

Within Reach
Crossing the St. Clair River to Canada just south of Port Huron, Michigan
2014
chromogenic color print
25 1/4 x 36 1/4

Produced in partnership with the

Our exhibition, "Under The Sheltering Sky" explores cultural narratives about nature and provides context on the life and legacy of John James Audubon. Designed to spark conversations among viewers and juxtaposes Audubon’s 19th century prints with examples of contemporary art.

J.J. Audubon's masterful hand-colored engravings invite the viewer into spectacularly staged avian theater pieces. American Robin’s montage of bird families feeding their young on an extravagantly lush branch is set in a neutral background with each highly stylized fan-like leaf exquisitely rendered and arranged to serve as a visual foil to the dynamic action.

Despite the flurry of activity in the scene, there is an eerie stillness, which is not a surprise when you discover that Audubon created still-life displays of birds he had killed, stuffed and wired to an armature as models to base his illustrations.

See "Under The Sheltering Sky" now through October 29

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Purple Martin, 1832
Hand colored engraving
New Bedford Free Public Library, gift of James Arnold, 1866

American Robin, 1832
Hand colored engraving
New Bedford Free Public Library, gift of James Arnold, 1866

Art talks: Spaces Of Erasure, October 18th.
Tickets: fb.me/e/1guSYiF7G

In conjunction with the exhibition, Under The Sheltering Sky, Peter Macapia presents a lecture discussing buildings and spaces that have been erased from the history of Black American experience. Through a series of historical and political analyses, we ask: what is the difference between the disappearance of space and spaces of erasure?

The sites of erasure we will examine in this talk include the Slave Theater in Brooklyn (1984), Black Wall Street in Tulsa – the Tulsa Massacre (1921) and Osage Avenue in Philadelphia (1985).

Peter Macapia's work in art, architecture, and philosophy explores geopolitics and space. He is a visiting critic at Columbia and Yale and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Presidential Fellowship from Columbia University where he received his PhD.

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Unknown Source, Street view of the Slave Theater marquee
Tulsa's Greenwood District in 1921, bswise/ Flickr/public domain
Osage Avenue, Philadelphia Daily News, May 1985

Make a glass pumpkin with us 🎃
Thursday, October 19th
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sign Up: fb.me/e/Jxyo9v7S

Students will have the chance to cut and assemble pieces of sheet glass to make pumpkin pendants to be fused in a kiln after class. Each student will make 2 pieces in one hour and learn the safety and science behind cold and "warm" glass. Learn cold glass and hot glass techniques to create pumpkin pendants or other hanging fall glass decor. This class is great for kids and adults! No experience necessary. We will provide the supplies

Art Class at the Museum: Mask Maker Studio 🎭
Monday October 16th and Monday October 23rd
5:30pm-8:30pm
Sign Up: fb.me/e/2QFRsY3J9

Create your own Paper Mache Mask that you can wear for Halloween or hang up as a spooky decoration. First Session will be planning,prepping, and applying the paper mache. Second session is to paint and decorate the mask. All supplies included! Children are welcome to join! 8+ years.

Devin "Nived" McLaughlin is a versatile mixed-media artist hailing from the vibrant city of New Bedford, MA. With artistic styles spanning from classical to abstract, Nived draws boundless inspiration from the contrasting tapestry of the post-industrial urban hubs and serene rural landscapes of South Coast New England. Their heart beats for fostering creative communities and cultivating an enduring love for the arts. As a mentor and educator, Nived has guided countless individuals through the captivating world of painting

Meet your pottery instructor, Jillian R. McEvoy

McEvoy once described her work as being "...influenced by natural forces and environmental transformations which occur over time, including textures and surfaces of plant-based materials. These visual observations informed my approach toward surface manipulation. Clay is an ideal medium to explore the natural world because the physical process in clay mimics changes and progressions in nature."

Jillian McEvoy's works have been exhibited in the Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition 2018 in Albany, N.Y. Her works have also been exhibited in SUNY Cortland’s Student Select Exhibition in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, Jillian McEvoy received the Jo Schaffer Award in Art History, and in 2019 she received the Gerald N. DiGiusto Award in Studio Art. In 2017, she was chosen to create a painting of the campus’ Old Main building for the 2017 SUNY Cortland Holiday Message.

Sign up for her class: bit.ly/3rDTZjA

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Viewing art makes you healthier. Studies show that benefits are found in people who both create or consume the arts......so go CREATE or CONSUME.

Join the New Bedford Art Museum tomorrow, October 12 for OCTOBER AHA! for the opening reception of artwork created by individuals in the day program at LifeStream.
https://newbedfordart.org/events/

October AHA night at the Art Museum is our opening reception in partnership with LifeStream, Inc.

LifeStream's day program participants showcase their artwork while receiving therapeutic and developmental services tailored to enhance independence and support individuals with greater needs.

This work was created by Jim, who has an acquired brain injury and picked up painting and drawing. Before he acquired a brain injury, he flew small airplanes, traveled the country, and wrote 4 books among other things. Jim is a man of many talents and recently has showed interest in photography. He loves nature and meditating, he believes in the power of crystal healing and is very excited to show people the product of his new profound hobby.

See this exhibition 10/12 - 11/12
RSVP: fb.me/e/GqadNKut

Thursday, October 12th
5-7pm
Free For All

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It's Spooky Season at The Art Museum 👻

Our classes & events for the month of October featuring pumpkin carvings, tarot readings & creating, fall glass-making and more.

🎃 We'll see you there

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