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April 3 – May 12, 2013
"Mystical Ground" Works by Claudine Metrick
Regions Gallery

Claudine Metrick will lure you into Mystical Ground with her works featured
in the New Bedford Art Museums Regions Gallery.
Artist Reception AHA! April 11 6-8pm
April 26 – September 29, 2013
"The Frigid Zone: William Bradford's Arctic and Other Studies"
City Gallery

The Arctic was to the Victorians what outer space was to the Eisenhower and Kennedy generations.  Public fascination with this remote region fueled a demand for images and accounts from those who had ventured into the polar north.  Among those both caught up in and capitalizing on the spirit of the times was artist William Bradford, whose scenes of the wild, frozen scenery of Labrador and Greenland appealed to an eager audience.  Over the course of five trips taken in the 1860s, Bradford compiled volumes of drawings, studies, notes and (with the help of George Critcherson and John Dunmore) photographs that he later used as references for the monumental canvases created in his New York studio.

From April 26 through September 29 the City Gallery at the New Bedford Art Museum will present The Frigid Zone: William Bradford’s Arctic Studies, an exhibit focusing on the preparatory sketches and photographs created during Bradford’s expeditions.  The images of glaciers, fjords and ice flows are part of the New Bedford Free Public Library’s larger holdings of Bradford drawings, paintings and studies.  

Join us for the opening reception at NBAM on Friday, April 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.  NBAM’s opening coincides with that of Arctic Visions: Away then Floats the Ice Island at the New Bedford Whaling Museum from 5:00 to 9:00 pm, offering visitors the chance to see both exhibits the same evening.
May 9 – August 8, 2013
"New Bedford Harbor in a New Light"

May 9 to August 8, 2013
New Bedford Art Museum
Opening Reception, Saturday, May 11 from 3pm to 6pm
LIST OF ARTISTS

May 21 to August 22
The University Art Gallery at UMass Dartmouth Star Store
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 13 from 6pm to 9pm
LIST OF ARTISTS

The New Bedford Art Museum is pleased to announce the exhibition, "New Bedford Harbor in a New Light," featuring recent work by more than thirty artists working within a range of different media.

This all encompassing exhibition is curated by Kim Barry, Willoughby Elliott, and Lasse Antonsen.

In an open call, the three curators invited artists to create work inspired by the New Bedford harbor, history and culture. The works on display range widely in terms of subject matter, referencing ocean eddies, acidification, the fishing industry, pollution, immigration and personal history. Stylistically the exhibition spans from gestural mark making in oil painting, through photography and sculpture, to meditative video work exploring the many sources of water that feed into the harbor.

The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog featuring work by each artist with a statement about their work. The catalog also includes essays by noted scholars, historians, and researchers from the South Coast.

Get a sneak peek here

Sponsored by:


With dedicated support from:
Virginia L. Barry / Jack & Nancy Braitmayer / John K. and Laurie Bullard / Paul & Elaine Chervinsky / David & Patricia Considine / Nancy Crosby / Bob & Vickie Cunningham / Bob & Sue Daylor / Leslie J. DeGroot / Kathy Dinneen Allan & Priscilla Ditchfield / Tom Gidwitz & Gail Davidson / The Memory of Mary Howland / Margaret Howland / Bob & Mona Ketcham / Frances & Clinton Levin / Demarest Lloyd MacDonald / Tony Sapienza / Alan & Linda Solomon / Captain & Mrs. Robert Walker / University of MA Dartmouth Foundation

LIST OF ARTISTS

MAY 9 – AUGUST 8, 2013
NEW BEDFORD ART MUSEUM
Scott Anderson
Lasse Antonsen
Anastasia Azure
Carolynn Baker
Kim Barry
Heather Bentz
Richard Creighton
Willoughby Elliott
Cynthia Farnell
Brenda Figuerido
Ron Fortier
Keith Francis
Yvonne Leonard
Elizabeth Lima
Eric Lintala
Peter Michael Martin
Mark Millstein
Holly Popielarz
Joan Potkay
John Robson
Suzy Schireson
John Sladewski
Leni Stoeva
Randy Swann
Marguerite White
Erik Wilhelmsen		 MAY 21 – AUGUST 22, 2013
UMASS DARTMOUTH AT STAR STORE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
715 PURCHASE ST.,
NEW BEDFORD
Donald Beal
Brooke Mullins Doherty
Cynthia Guild
Severin Haines
Peter Lipsitt and Susan Israel Beatriz Oliveira
David Ricci
David Richardson
Stacy Latt Savage, Yasmin Flefleh-Vincent, and Elizabeth Dooher Carl Simmons
Alison Wells
Elizabeth Wilkinson
Kurt Wisneski

With Special Features:

CORNER OF HAMILTON & FRONT STS., NEW BEDFORD
John Magnan - "Habitat"

NEW BEDFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
794 Purchase Street
Mark Millstein - Video
Our Point of View
May 9 – June 2
Downstairs – Lower Vault
Opening Reception, Thursday, May 9 from 5pm to 8pm

As an extension of our education outreach program, New Bedford Art Museum is proud to present the photography and journaling work of this year’s Our Point of View programming.  Eight dynamic, seventh grade girls from Roosevelt Middle School devoted themselves to twelve Wednesday afternoons in order to develop their skills of observation and forever change the way they see the world through the tool we call a camera.  The photography component, taught by local photographer Neil Alexander, was coupled with a creative journaling session with educator Colleen Brady Kearney.   Both the writing and imagery created by these middle school girls will be on display in the Lower Vault Children’s Gallery: an insider view at the sometimes joyful, sometimes challenging world of local, middle-school girls.
Lost and Found
May 9 - 19
Downstairs - Community Gallery
Opening Reception, Thursday, May 9 from 6pm to 8pm

Nativity Preparatory School in collaboration with U.G.L.Y. Gallery and the New Bedford Art Museum present “Lost and Found”. Using the work of local artist Dave Guadalupe as a conceptual jumping off point, students from Nativity Preparatory School created a multi-media installation.  Art teachers Jennifer Scott and Chase Stevens facilitate students' explorations and expression, as together they create site specific work about love and sacrifice in their lives and their communities.
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