SOUTH COAST ARTISTS TO PRESENT FREE DEMONSTRATIONS
South Coast Spring Arts Week
May 6-7, 2023
Artist Demonstrations at Hatch Street Studios!
SCA members will be demonstrating their art and process during the Hatch Street Studios, Open Studio Event May 6th from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 7th from 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. during the Southcoast Spring Arts events.
A series of fascinating and fun art demonstrations will take place on Saturday May 6 and Sunday May 7 as part of South Coast Artists ongoing educational mission. The demonstrations, which are free and open to the public, will take place at in the large assembly room on the second floor of Hatch Street Studios, 88 Hatch Steet, New Bedford.
These demonstrations are part of a South Coast Artists collaboration with Hatch Street Spring Open Studio event, which takes place throughout the building that weekend. Visit Hatch Street Studios—well known as New Bedford’s largest community of visual and performing artists—for more information.
Both events are part of Southcoast Spring Arts Week—a weeklong celebration of the place and presence of the arts in our communities. Local arts and cultural organizations, as well as artists and creative entrepreneurs, present innovative, creative, affordable, and participatory art and cultural events in communities across the South Coast region from Fall River to Wareham.
SCA DEMONSTRATION SCHEDULE
Saturday, May 6 (event open 11-2)
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Robin Nunes will demonstrate her specialty of oil painting with a palette knife. Robin is a professional whose art is a powerful interpretation of images she has captured from Key West to the quintessential coast of Padanaram. She has understudied with and been influenced by artist Michele Byrnes.
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Deborah Allard will demonstrate the process of fabric collage and how she uses the elements of fabric design and color to create tactile images that are then quilted, framed and/or worn as a garment. Her work presents fabric collage as interpretations of photographs, images, and text that inspire her. Her canvases are then quilted and framed for wearing or hanging.
Sunday, May 7 (event open 11-5)
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Stephanie Stroud will demonstrate how she paints with wool by needle felting, mixing colors by carefully layering and creating texture and depth with color. Discover how fluffy bits of wool can be transformed into impressionistic landscapes.
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Kathrine Lovell will be demonstrating a unique technique called “Fantastical Joy”, develop during Covid by fellow artist, Heather Bentz. This explorative, meditational approach to painting on paper is a wonderful road to self-expression and an introspective experience of watercolor, pencil, and metallic paints. Each piece begins with a simple drawing, then leads Ms. Lovell into expanding the image in a give and take of thought and process.
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Amy Thurber of Doves Foot Pottery will turn leaves into functional pottery during her hand building demonstration. Using finely textured stoneware clay and hand tools, Amy will take you through her process. She will also demonstrate how she brings the leaf impressions to life using under glaze washes.
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Barbara Healy will demonstrate oil paintings in the glowing colors that are her trademark. Barbara’s paintings are inspired by the diverse colors of light in the coastal landscape where she lives. She frequently paints plein air using all her senses to share her vision. Brushstrokes over glimpses of color intentionally reveal some of the painting process.