Featured artist Piya Samant discusses her dedication to painting every day and how she works in series. She is also a recipient of a Material Needs 2018 Grant. To learn more about Piya’s process, read our interview and view her work on her website.

Material Needs Grants, funded by an anonymous donor, support the expenses of supplies and materials for the creation of new art in Worcester County. With this gift, we are able to distribute grants to artists between $500 and $1,500. We generally exhibit the work produced in the following exhibition season (awards made in early spring of 2019 will fund the

Call for Art: Paperphilia Celebrating the Printers Building Please submit your work online by Thursday, January 31, 2019. ArtsWorcester announces the call for Paperphilia, a juried exhibition of works on or of paper. Paperphilia will be the soft opening of our new galleries in the Printers Building, and with it, we pay tribute to the industrial heritage of our new home. Guest juror

Neil Wilkins shares his thoughts on taking a new direction toward multi-media encaustic painting: “Once I began working in encaustic, I felt immediately that I had opened a small door to a very large world.” Read more from this Featured Artist in our interview, and check out his work at www.neilwilkins.com.

Featured Artist Christina Giza is a dedicated watercolorist and has been painting for twenty-five years. Read our interview to see what inspires her practice and learn how she got her start. To see more of Christina’s work, visit her website: www.artbychristina.faso.com.

Join us for Teen Nights this fall! Monday, September 24 and Monday, October 22, 2018 – Featuring award-winning painter and illustrator, Raúl Gonzalez III.

Join us Tuesday mornings in September and October for Life Drawing in the gallery!

Featured Artist Adam Cutler talks about dividing his creative process between tactile sketching and digital risk-taking. Find out more in our interview, and view his work online at www.motionlessvisions.com and www.mondaymoshmonsters.com.

Our current Featured Artist, Karen Nunley says that watercolors and monotypes allow her to create quickly and spontaneously, experimenting with abstract motifs as they develop human and plantlike traits. See more of Karen’s work on her Facebook page or at the Monotype Guild of New England.

Submit your work and be part of the very last “One!” Register the single piece you want to exhibit most, regardless of medium or theme. The deadline is Wednesday, May 30.

In her pastel and oil depictions of urban and natural environments, Featured Artist Janet Schwartz implements soft edges, dramatic lighting, and distortions caused by adverse weather conditions. Learn about her process and inspiration in our interview, and see more of her work online at www.janetschwartzart.com.

Join us Tuesday mornings in May and June for life drawing in the gallery!

The Central Massachusetts Portfolio Review, a partnership between the Fitchburg Art Museum and ArtsWorcester, is an opportunity to have your portfolio or in-process series viewed and critiqued by area professionals and curators. Receive focused, informed feedback on your work, learn what’s working and what’s not, and advance your career in a serious and  supportive environment.

An official note that Nancy Kathryn Burns, of the Worcester Art Museum, Julian Wade of the Printers Building Trust and Davis Publications, and Jennifer Davis Carey, of the Worcester Education Collaborative, have been nominated to join ArtsWorcester’s Board of Directors, and a vote will be taken on their nomination Monday, April 9, 2018, at approximately 7:30 PM.

It was only last spring that James Dye won the Sally Bishop Prize at our 2017 Biennial, granting him a solo exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum. That exhibition, Exploring the Myths of James Dye, opens April 7, and features 21 dip pen, India ink drawings by the artist, whose meticulously rendered works blend themes from ancient myths with iconography that