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ArtsWorcester is proud to announce that Gloria Hall, public art administrator and preservationist, will receive the 39th ArtsWorcester Award. The ArtsWorcester Award is given annually to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to arts and culture in this city. Its recipient list serves as a history of arts leadership in Worcester. Ms. Hall is the founding director of Art In

by Anya Kohan   ArtsWorcester holds a special place in Dolly Vazquez’s heart, partly because she met her own sweetheart here at a gallery opening nineteen years ago. Let’s start from the beginning, though, shall we? Back in 1993, Vazquez began working in Worcester at CENTRO Las Americas, where she collaborated with ArtsWorcester on a biannual exhibit for Latinx artists,

Announcing the prize winners for Now in Technicolor a juried members' exhibition On view through September 19, 2021 Congratulations to the prize winners for Now in Technicolor: A Juried Members' Exhibition, all of equal merit and distinction. Three winners  and three honorable mentions were selected by jurors Joshua Croke (Founder, Action! By Design), Stephen DiRado (artist and professor at Clark University), and Birgit Straehle

Urban Green and Blue a collaboration with Preservation Worcester  Urban Green and Blue is a juried exhibition of paintings featuring Worcester’s urban green and blue spaces: the city’s public parks, wildlife sanctuaries, nature reserves, publicly accessible reservoirs, lakes, rivers, streams, and ponds. This exhibition gives ArtsWorcester artist members an opportunity to work outdoors in a plein air tradition, and highlights the importance

The Nineteenth ArtsWorcester Biennial on view June 3 through August 1, 2021  The Biennial is almost here! From over 470 submissions, juror Beth C. McLaughlin, Artistic Director and Chief Curator at Fuller Craft Museum, selected 63 works for inclusion in this celebrated exhibition. Prize winners, including the winner of the Sally Bishop Prize, will be announced during our Biennial Block Party on

Join us for a Downtown Block Party! June 12, 11 AM - 3 PM   El Salón, the JMAC, and ArtsWorcester are joining forces for a huge downtown block party of art, music, and outdoor celebration! Come downtown for artwork from the El Salón collective and the artists of the Nineteenth ArtsWorcester Biennial, music from Crocodile River Music, WICN, and

Black Art: Collecting and Being Collected with Valerie Cooper, Najee Dorsey, Gloria Hall, and Toby Sisson    Speakers: Valerie Cooper, Appraiser and Founding Partner of Picture That, a fine art consulting firm, based in Stamford, CT Najee Dorsey, Artist, Founder and CEO of Black Art in America a business that promotes the African American arts community, based in Columbus, GA Gloria

They Travel Together Leslie Schomp, Mary Kenny, Andrea Olmstead  ArtsWorcester at the Davis Art Gallery April 1 through June 13, 2021 in person & online In the upheaval of last spring, a particularly special exhibition had to be put on hold. One year later, we are pleased to announce the opening of They Travel Together, an exhibition of work by Mary Kenny,

questions & answers The Pay It Forward Fund   ArtsWorcester artist membership fees are the lowest in the state for comparable organizations--but are sometimes still too much. The Pay It Forward Fund, supported by artists for their fellow artists, alleviates membership and Biennial submission fees whenever needed.   When artists join or renew, many tack on an additional $10 or

Announcing the selected artists from Inside Voices in partnership with the Fitchburg Art Museum  Marjorie Rawle, Terrana Assistant Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, had a daunting mission when she arrived in our galleries last week to select only ten works out of one hundred on view in our latest members' show. Ultimately, Rawle selected these ten works for exhibition at FAM

The 2020 Artists Yearbook is here! Eighty artists accepted our invitation to create a self-portrait for this project, each bearing their unmistakable signs and individual styles. The Yearbook gave artists a reason to make something new during these last lonely months, and brings us together in a new way. Open it to see some familiar faces and the incredible artistic

Material Needs Grants winners 2021 nine artists will receive funding    We congratulate the recipients of the 2021-22 Material Needs Grants. These grants, generously funded by an anonymous donor, support the materials and equipment needed to make new art in Worcester County. Jennifer Davis Carey, $1,100 for enamel materials to create works inspired by African textile traditions and patterns  

Leaders and Influencers: Three Figures in Black Art History with Erin Corrales-Diaz, Worcester Art Museum Sunday, February 21, 2021, 6:30-7:30 PM   Join us for a short presentation and discussion led by Erin Corrales-Diaz, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of American art at the Worcester Art Museum, on two major Black artists and a collective, and the legacies they left for contemporary

Expand your knowledge of contemporary Black art and culture, nationally and locally, with these resources and ongoing conversations.

Go inside: Inside Voices Part One: Developing the Theme and Call for Art Welcome to a new series about our Call and Response partnership with the Fitchburg Art Museum!   For this ninth Call and Response, “Inside Voices” prompts artists to consider a wide range of interiors, including domestic environments, psychological subjectivity, bodies, architecture, and sculptural containment. These spaces reveal