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The Gift of Visual Exchange: Anya Leveille
by Chenoa Baker Exchange is “an act of giving one thing and receiving another (especially of the same type or value) in return” for the goal of reciprocity, multi-sided conversation, central place for cross-pollination in the [arts] ecosystem. This editorial series translates a think tank of art and people into writing about artists, activists, and…
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What was possible to say
by Michaela Blanc Julia Csekö’s work reminds us of what it means to approach the visual arts as a form of education and social engagement. As a multidisciplinary artist, her practice embraces painting, sculpture, video performance, installation, and most recently, printmaking to comment on social, cultural, and political issues. The serial nature of her artistry…
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Meet The Beacon Gallery Team: Presley Ackeret
While there have been many opportunities to learn about Beacon Gallery’s amazing artists through our ongoing Beacon Gallery Connections blog series, we don’t often get the chance to spotlight the important individuals contributing to such work behind the scenes. The Beacon Gallery Team is a small but mighty one, and we would love to be able to…
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Beacon Gallery Connections: Amy Ford
We are pleased to introduce Artist Amy Ford. Amy is one of two Beacon Gallery artists featured in our current exhibition, Art Therapy. The show focuses on the important theme of art as therapy, for both the artist and the audience, through their unique figurative styles. Drawing upon their own inspirations and distinctive approaches, Ford’s…
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Beacon Gallery Connections: Martha Chason-Sokol
We are pleased to introduce Beacon Gallery’s inaugural Artist in Residence, Martha Chason-Sokol. As both an artist and the founder of Art Lab Everett, Chason-Sokol uses art as a way to speak to our contemporary culture and political climate, emphasizing the democratic nature of art through her creative processes. Martha Chason-Sokol uses discarded, found materials…
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Artist Meclina Priestley Participates in Sheltered, a Group Show at UMass Dartmouth
Beacon Gallery is excited to share that artist Meclina Gomes Priestley, who is represented by the gallery is featured in a meaningful group show entitled Sheltered, at the University Art Gallery, College of Visual & Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth-Star Store Campus, which started on May 24th and runs until September 8, 2022. Priestley joins…
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Beacon Gallery Connections: Domenic Esposito
Massachusetts-based artist Domenic Esposito got his start in the corporate finance world before leaving to pursue his passion for art. Having trained at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Stonybrook Fine Arts, Artist Asylum, and Prospect Hill Forge, Esposito brings a combination of professional education and lived experience to his works which seek to…
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Beacon Gallery Connections: Sharon Whitham
Both a creator and activist, Sharon Whitham combines her two passions through her prints and mixed media works. She expresses her concerns about climate change and its environmental impacts through her art and through her involvement with Shared Habitat Earth (SHE). Whitham explains that members of SHE “are creating art to show nature’s beauty as…
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Beacon Gallery Connections: Nicci Sevier-Vuyk
Learn more about artist Nicci Sevier-Vuyk in connection to her featured artwork in Beacon Gallery’s June-July 2022 group exhibition, “A Delicate Balance.”
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Beacon Gallery has the unique opportunity to meet and work with a range of artists, partners and members of the wider art community. Beacon Gallery Connections allows us to take a closer look at their personal journey, and get a better understanding of their relationship to art.