Earth Month Exhibition Call for Art
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2023 Earth Month Exhibition
April 5 – 23, 2023
The Umbrella Arts Center Main Gallery
Reflections: Listening to Nature
Gallery
Family Activities Celebrate Global Publisher's 30th Anniversary
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From September 9-24, 2022, The Umbrella Arts Center is proud to host a series of immersive, family friendly arts experiences celebrating the 30th anniversary of Barefoot Books, the Concord-based, global multicultural children's book publisher.
Arts Gallery Updates
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Since the completion of The Umbrella’s renovations in the fall, The Umbrella community has benefitted from having three new art exhibition spaces: the expanded Main Gallery, the Black Box Gallery, and Gallery 3. The expansions to our Main Gallery have allowed us to hold a number of successful main exhibitions, including our current show, Aperture, an annual group show featuring more than fifty artists based at The Umbrella Arts Center.
Eight Artists, Hundreds of Visitors, for StoryArt Opening
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On the evening of Oct. 3, a few hundred visitors to The Umbrella turned out for the opening reception to StoryArt: Children's Book Illustration -- the first group exhibition presented in the newly completed Main Arts Gallery at 40 Stow Street. Guests had a chance to met and discuss the work with the eight award-winning artists featured in the exhibition, including: Priscilla Alpaugh, Sarah S.
Globe Features Joe Wallace's Explorations of Dementia
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Boston Globe writer Nancy Shohet West went behind the scenes to explore the root inspirations and stories that drove writer/photographer Joe Wallace to tackle the topic of dementia in his project "Beginning at the End: Portraits of Dementia," on display during an extended run through July 7, 2019 at The Umbrella Gallery.
May 10, 7:30: The Art of Craft Beer Opening Reception
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The Umbrella Visual Arts, in partnership with the True West Brewing and The Gallery at Villageworks (525 Mass Ave., Acton), welcomes the public to a fun and festive opening reception for the exhibition, "The Art of Craft Beer".
Free Basketry Demo Feb 23
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Saturday February 23, 1:00-3:00PM
Free and Open to the Public
The public is invited to participate in a basketry demonstration by several artists participating in The Umbrella Community Arts Center's "Migration" Fiber Arts Exhibit running through Feb. 28 in Concord.
THE ARTISTS
Join us for Parallel Paths: Andy Newman & Gregory Maguire now on view in the gallery
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The gallery hums with the bustling of materials and machinery this season as we prepare to enter the next phase of our renovation project. Although it feels like the dust just settled a few short years ago on construction in the current gallery space, we are thrilled to vision programs for the future. In this exciting time of change, we hope you will enjoy the last events in our current gallery space on the 2nd floor.
