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Redfern Arts Center At Keene State College Hosts

Season Preview Party Of Political Comedy, Rock Music, Modern Dance, Film And TheatreKEENE – The Redfern Arts Cen-

ter at Keene State College invites the community to a Season Preview Party on Wednesday, September 19, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Following a catered reception in the Redfern lobby, people will get a sneak peek of season highlights including vid-eo and live performances by Apple Hill String Quartet and members of Keene State’s Departments of Mu-sic and Theatre and Dance.

The Redfern’s 31st season rang-es from the political satire of Cap-itol Steps to the 1970s music of rocker Todd Rundgren and Eth-el String Quartet to hip-hop art-ist Baba Brinkman’s take on evolu-tion and Chicago’s Griffin Theatre Company’s hit production Letters Home. This roster of performanc-es includes modern dance legend Donald Byrd’s moving homage to Jewish artists of the Holocaust, Alaskan-born dancer Emily John-son’s performance installation ex-ploring cultural identity and place, and Keene State faculty dancer Candice Salyers’ series of dance so-los. New Hampshire’s own Apple Hill String Quartet returns to the Redfern stage with MIT compos-

er Christine Southworth and the Alloy Orchestra plays their origi-nal score during the screening of the silent science fiction classic The Complete Metropolis.

In addition to classical music by Apple Hill String Quartet, the Pre-view Party will include a jazz/per-cussion piece by Keene State mu-sic faculty member Chris Swist and a scene from last year’s production of Rashomon by the Theatre and Dance Department. KSC dance fac-ulty member Candice Salyers will present a short dance from a solo work in progress. Sara Coffey from the Vermont Performance Lab will provide context and discuss Em-ily Johnson’s piece Niicugni. Staff from the KSC Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will speak about the collaboration between the Redfern and their de-partment to co-present Spectrum Dance’s provocative work based on Jewish artists who performed in Nazi death camps. In the lobby, vis-itors can view a display of posters, artwork, puppetry and costumes by the Redfern and the Departments of Art, Theatre and Dance while listening to the acoustic music of

Wooden Dinosaur.The Season Preview party is free,

but reservations are requested. To RSVP, please call the Redfern Box

Office at 603-358-2168 or email boxoffice@keene.edu.

Apple Hill String Quartet will perform at a Season Preview Party on Wednesday, September 19, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College. Following a catered reception in the Redfern lobby, people will get a sneak peek of season highlights including video and live performances by Apple Hill and the Keene State’s Depart-ments of Music and Theatre and Dance. The Season Preview party is free, but reservations are requested. To RSVP, please call the Redfern Box Office at 603-358-2168 or email boxoffice@keene.edu.

Sharon Arts New Exhibit

“Set of Opposites” by Rian Kerrane

“PRINTIVALE!” Runs Through Oct. 27PETERBOROuGH -- An exhibition of contemporary, tradition-

al, and “installation” printmaking titled “Printivale!” will open at the Sharon Arts Center September 7 and run through October 27. 

Curator of the exhibit is Peterborough book artist/printmaker Erin Sweeney. The recipient of an MFA in Book Arts and Print-making from the university of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she was awarded the Elizabeth C. Roberts Prize for Graduate Book Arts, Sweeney teaches and exhibits nationally.

Exhibiting Artists include Bryan Baker, Amanda Benton, Tia Blassingame, Chad Creighton, Amanda D’Amico, Christine De-strempes, Tim Donovan, Soosen Dunholter, Nick Fournier, Re-becca Gilbert, Joseph Hart,  Amos Kennedy, Rian Kerrane, Sarah Lewtas, Colette Lucas, Pilar Nadal, Bobby Rosenstock, Annie Sil-verman, Paige Simpson, Erin Sweeney and Caroline Ziegler.

On Sept. 22 from 1 to 3 pm there will be an Artists Panel Discus-sion at the Gallery. Participants include Amanda Benton, Aman-da D’Amico, and Caroline Ziegler, all from Philadelphia, who will discuss the various printmaking techniques they utilize--comput-er-generated prints, offset printing, and letterpress printing. There will also be a letterpress demonstration.

For more information see www.sharonarts.org or call 924-7676. Exhibition Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, and Sunday 11 am to 5 pm.

The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship be-tween artists and the community through education, exhibitions, and the promotion and sale of arts and crafts as well as through special programs and events.

Sharon Arts center offers a wide variety of art classes and pro-grams in their School of Art & Craft, 457 Rt. 123, Sharon, as well as a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery located at 30 Grove Street and Depot Square in Peterborough. 

New Faces In Old Places For Fall Art TourMake new (artist) friends, and

keep the old on this year’s Fall Fo-liage Art Studio Tour.  The FFAST tour starts its fifth season with two new members and three guest art-ists.

New stops on the tour are the studios of pastel artist Linda Des-saint in Antrim, and photographer/woodturner Lindsay Freese in Nel-son .  Three guest artists will exhib-it their work alongside established members of the tour. Mary Wood Carnog joins Nelson painter Frank-ie Bracklie Tolman’s studio; still life painter Anne Murray joins pot-ter Shana Brautigan in Rindge, and painter Dave Bulger will share wa-tercolor artist Jeanne Thieme’s stu-dio in Swanzy.

“We’re excited about these new faces on our tour!” say organiz-ers Gill Truslow and Thieme.  “It’s important to keep things fresh for our collectors and visitors.”  This

year’s tour of  24 artists in 18 stu-dios offers both fine art (oils, water-color, pastels, drawing, sculpture, photography) and fine craft (pot-tery, woodturning and furniture, fiber, jewelry, glass), with the natu-ral beauty of the Monadnock region offering a colorful backdrop to all.  Eight towns in the area are repre-sented.

A preview show begins with an opening reception at The Works Bakery and Café in Keene, NH on Thursday, October 4 from 7-8:30 p.m. and runs through Thursday, November 1.

The tour itself is open on Sat-urday and Sunday, October 6 and 7, from 10-5 p.m. each day.  For a downloadable map and brochure, visit www.fallfoliageartstudiotour.com .  For information on obtaining a brochure, contact Nathan Kart-heiser at 899-2849 or email him at nkartheiser@gmail.com.

Encaustics by Danielle M. Le BrisJAFFREY – Encaustic paintings

by Danielle will be featured in the first floor Display Cases at the Jaf-frey Civic Center from August 24 through September 20. 

Danielle was born and raised in Versailles, France where she dis-covered art at a very young age as she played in Louis XIV’s gardens and wandered through the Pal-ace’s many rooms.  She studied art in France, England and at the uni-versity of the Arts in Philadelphia.  She graduated from the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and is the recipient of many awards for her drawings and paint-ings.  Her work is in private collec-tions throughout Europe and the uS.

“I paint from visual memories, recalling the emotional impact of a particular moment in time. The most vivid of these memories come from my childhood experiences va-cationing in Brittany and my artist journey to the Marquesas Islands in search of Paul Gauguin’s vision. Savage landscapes and tumultu-ous seas have left everlasting im-

pressions on me.  An early morning green sky wounded by a burst of in-tense red has left me speechless, a Medusa’s shadow floating upon still water made me tremble with excite-ment and I felt wonder and awe at mysterious landscapes tormented by howling winds.  These and simi-lar moments are inspirations for my art.

“I work with encaustic (bee’s wax with colored pigments), oil, acryl-ic and oil pastels on paper, canvas, archival panels and wood. The jew-el-like transparent color and lumi-nous quality of the wax both reveal and conceal as the painting is built up in layers.  The final effect is rich both in lush texture and deep op-tical space that is most dramatic when viewed in person.

The Jaffrey Civic Center is locat-ed at 40 Main Street, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, (next to Library, park-ing in rear.) Hours are: Tues 10-6, Wed – Fri 1-5, Sat 10-2. Admission is always free.  For more informa-tion about the Center, you can call 532-6527 or find our website, www.jaffreyciviccenter.com.

Artist J. Jorge Paris Photography Exhibit At New Hampshire Antique Co-Op

MILFORD –  New Hampshire Antique Co-op is pleased to an-nounce Micro/Macro: Looking in, Looking out, a premier exhibit of works by New Boston, NH artist J. Jorge Paris. This exhibit features a collection of Paris’ current works of enigmatic assemblages — digi-tal photographic images taken with a microscope or macro lens. The show is on view in the Tower Gal-lery at New Hampshire Antique Co-op from September 10 through November 30.

An opening reception will be held on Sunday, September 23, from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. in the upstairs Gallery at New Hampshire Antique Co-op. All are invited to enjoy a fall after-noon of wine, cheese, photography, art and antiques. J. Jorge Paris will be on hand to discuss his work, techniques and inspirations.

Quirky objects, old relics, live efts, past presidents and paint pal-ettes are all fodder for Paris’ imag-ination, which he then translates into assemblages to photograph. The end results are archival digital prints, which Paris terms as mac-ro images and microtondos.  “I call the photos made with the micro-scope ‘microtondos’ because of the

circular images created by the mi-croscope lens,” states Paris.  “Each photographs’ effect is intended for viewing in its printed size in scale to the human body. Because I use microscopes and macro lenses, the focal plane of the works is extreme-ly shallow. This pushes the inkjet process into some dreamy passag-es when printed on matte rag paper. The art is the inkjet print as object.”

J. Jorge Paris is the artist pseud-onym of Joe Perry (b. 1952). Perry completed a 30-year profession-al career in social work in 2008. During undergraduate years at St. Anselm College in the early 1970s, he studied art history, drawing, photography and painting. Work-ing as a gallery assistant at the Chapel Arts Center under the men-torship of Prof. Joseph Scannell was formative for Perry as it offered opportunities to create art, meet artists, and be a part of a commu-nity immersed in art as both pro-cess and product. For more than 40 years, Perry has studied and created art, including oil painting, photog-raphy, sculpture and assemblage. In 2010, he completed his studio in New Boston, NH, where he main-tains a home with his wife Barbara.

New Hampshire Antique Co-op is located 1.5 miles west of the Milford Oval at 323 Elm Street/Rte. 101A, Milford. For more informa-tion, call 673-8499  or visit online at www.nhantiquecoop.com.

Amherst Artist on Exhibit at Maison de L’Art in Nashua

NASHuA – Maison de l’Art is displaying a collection of Amherst artist Gail Siergiewicz’s paintings in a solo exhibit from September 5th through September 19th, Mai-son de l’Art is located at 57 E. Pearl Street in downtown Nashua.

Ms. Siergiewicz studied interior design at Hesser College, Manches-ter, NH. She also enrolled in the BFA program at the New Hamp-shire Insitute of Art where she ma-jored in painting. Gail now creates art daily in her Amherst home stu-dio and is represented exclusively by Maison de l’Art in Nashua, NH.

Her stunning and unique abstract paintings are made from mixed me-dia and incorporate modeling clay, glass mosaics, canvas strips and collage. Ms Siergiewicz says of her work :”I want my paintings to feel great to the touch as well as be visu-ally appealing”.

Ms Siergiewicz mixes her own paints, using acrylics, inks, mica and gel mediums. Mica is a metal-lic substance found in stones. She also uses found objects, such as wire, glass, stones, shells and an-tique objects. Some of her work is also painted on glass, done primar-ily with alcohol inks.

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“Tapestry” by Gail Siergiewicz

“Fields of Gold” by Daniell M. Le Bris

Acorns, 30” x 20”, photograph by J. Jorge Paris

Little dog with other dog + dia-monds, 24” x 24”, photograph by J. Jorge Paris

Take the Fall Foliage Art Studio Tour, October 6 and 7.