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May 2023
Oil Painting with Laura Tryon-Jennings (May 2023)
Wednesdays (5 class session) May 24, 31 June 7, 14, 28 (no class June 21) 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Oil painting for adults of all skill levels. Laura teaches each student individually, so they can paint at their own level and paint a subject befitting their skills and needs. Each session focusses on learning the basics of oil painting materials, foundations of color theory, color mixing, composition, and critique, and demos. For each session, there is an optional assignment or…
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Gentle Yoga with Kezia Bacon (June 2023)
Wednesdays (4 classes) June 7, 14, 21, and 28 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Suitable for beginners, this 1-hour class includes centering, warm-ups, and gentle yoga postures to help you stretch, strengthen, and tone your body while calming your mind. Details and Registration: https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_bacon_monthly/
Find out more »Chair Talk Workshop with Mary Coogan
Saturday June 10, 2023 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Using Coogan's "The Secret Lives of Chairs" exhibit as a starting point, this two-hour workshop is an opportunity to share your own real or imagined chair stories. Be a selective editor and bring photos, drawings, rumors, poems, fabric samples--even a chair!--to the workshop with you. This support material will help you reveal the past lives or your imagined futures for the chairs you love or miss or want. Come celebrate the…
Find out more »Saturday Yoga with Kathleen Young (June 2023)
Saturdays June 10 and 24, 2023 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Gentle flow yoga with Kathleen Young is a one-hour class that incorporates simple flowing sequences to warm up the body as well as slower paced movements focusing on alignment, strength, balance, and flexibility. Fee: $15.00 per class Details and Registration: https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_kathleenyoung_2023/
Find out more »July 2023
Gentle Yoga with Kezia Bacon (July 2023)
Wednesdays (4 classes) July 5, 12, 19, and 26 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Suitable for beginners, this 1-hour class includes centering, warm-ups, and gentle yoga postures to help you stretch, strengthen, and tone your body while calming your mind. Details and Registration: https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_bacon_monthly/
Find out more »Saturday Yoga with Kathleen Young (July 2023)
Saturdays July 8 and 22, 2023 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Gentle flow yoga with Kathleen Young is a one-hour class that incorporates simple flowing sequences to warm up the body as well as slower paced movements focusing on alignment, strength, balance, and flexibility. Fee: $15.00 per class Details and Registration: https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_kathleenyoung_2023/
Find out more »Beginning Acrylic Painting Workshop (July 2023)
Thursday July 27, 2023 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. There is nothing like the experience of painting outdoors. Join Kelley and Sally to give it a try! Whether you are an absolute beginner or have never tried acrylics, come enjoy a day of plein air painting! Learn how acrylic paints work and how a simple setup can work to get you out and painting. Weather permitting, we will paint landscapes on the beautiful grounds of the museum. If it's rainy,…
Find out more »August 2023
Gentle Yoga with Kezia Bacon (August 2023)
Wednesdays (5 classes) August 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Suitable for beginners, this 1-hour class includes centering, warm-ups, and gentle yoga postures to help you stretch, strengthen, and tone your body while calming your mind. Details and Registration: https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_bacon_monthly/
Find out more »Mini Mosaics with Deb Aldo (August, 2023)
Saturday August 26, 2023 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. This class is an experiential montage of colors and setting patterns that strike your fancy. No rule, just guidance. Hands-on, slow and relaxing, this class begins with a short explanation and demo. Students will fill a round base with pieces of glass, stone, shell, pebbles, and other great stuff. (Hanging hardware included.) Create the first piece for practice and a second piece because it was fun to create the first piece! Details…
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Artist Mary Coogan explores "The Secret Lives of Chairs" in this pop-up exhibit. "More than an aid to sitting, beyond form and function, a chair can hold history, and there sits its secret life."
Saturdays and Sundays, June 3 through 24th, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Reception Sunday, June 3, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Mary is also teaching the "Chair Talk" workshop on Saturday, June 10, from 10:00 a.m. to noon. See our website for registration.
#artcomplexmuseum #duxbury #chairart #seeplymouth
Love this concept!
Join us for a Gallery Talk on Thursday, May 25th. Learn about artist, author, and illustrator, Wanda Gág, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the 5-year journey of assembling the "TAG" exhibit.
Coffee at 10:30 and the talk begins at 11:00 am.
Shown: Un-crating one of Tula Telfair's paintings after its journey from New Jersey.
#artcomplexmuseum #wandagag #seeplymouth Tula Telfair Artist
Now THAT'S a big painting!
Pop-up Exhibit!
Oil paintings by students of Laura Tryon Jennings, on display in our Alden Studio Gallery.
Exhibit and Reception:
Sunday, May 21st, 1:00-4:00 pm
#artcomplexmuseum #oilpainting #seeplymouth
Opening Sunday, May 21st is Aaron Norfolk: Audio-Video, a collection of paintings. Join us for the opening reception from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
Shown: Aaron Norfolk, Untitled, 2022, oil on panel
#artcomplexmuseum #artmuseum #seeplymouth
Collection Spotlight: Mother and Child
This carved soapstone sculpture shows a kneeling woman with an infant in a carrier on her back. Her eyes and necklace, made from ivory, stand out against the dark color of the stone.
Creating carvings from natural resources like stone and bone is a traditional craft of Inuit artists. Soapstone, a softer stone, is easier to carve. Figures of animals, birds, men, women, and children are popular motifs. In the hunting culture, the carved figure of mother and child contrasts with imagery of male hunters, and represents the giving and nurturing of life.
Wishing all mothers a beautiful Mother's Day!
Mother and Child, c. 1940
Unknown artist, Baffin Island, Canada
#artcomplexmuseum #inuitart #mothersday #artmuseum #seeplymouth #duxbury
It's back: Drum Circle on May 13!
Frequently called “in-the-moment music-making,” participants sit in a circle and play drums and/or hand percussion instruments. Participants engage together to create a group rhythm and cooperate in rhythm games. Facilitated by local percussionist Ed Sorrentino, Percussion Department Chair at the South Shore Conservatory.
Other sessions are scheduled for June 10, July 8, and August 5.
Registration required. See artcomplex.org/programs/classes-workshops/ for details.
#artcomplexmuseum #drumcircle #duxburyma #seeplymouth South Shore Conservatory
Me too! First thing 💗
I spot Kim Arouca
If you haven't yet seen Lisa Houck's "Botanical Explorations," visit the museum this week! This joyful, colorful show includes mosaics, watercolors, and a large print, and it closes on Sun, May 14.
The museum is open Wed-Sun, from 1:00-4:00 pm.
Shown: "It Flowers All Year Round," (Detail), 2020, mosaic
#artcomplexmuseum #mosaic #watercolor #print #seeplymouth #duxbury #artmusuem
Aaron Larget-Caplan returns to the Art Complex Museum to perform his solo program, "Looking Bach, Listening Forward." The program includes music from his forthcoming album, "Spanish Candy," music by J.S. Back, and a premiere by Daniel Felsenfeld.
The concert is free. Seating is first-come, first-served. We reserve the right to cap attendance if the capacity of the room is exceeded.
#artcomplexmuseum #concert #duxburyma #seeplymouth Aaron Larget-Caplan, Guitar Artist
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Pop-up Exhibit!
"growing pains," an exhibit of creative works by high school students, will be open for two weekends:
May 6 & 7 and May 13 & 14, from 1 to 4pm.
This exhibit was guest-curated by Duxbury High School senior Bella Marino, and is the culmination of her internship at the museum.
Shown: Charlotte Tobin, "Portland Plein Air," 2022
#artcomplexmuseum #popupexhibit #studentart #seeplymouth #artmuseum
Duxbury Public Schools
The herring are running! The herring has long been an integral part of the local ecosystem, and in the spring, they return from the sea to spawn in the river in which they were born.
Join us on Saturday, April 29th, 1:00-3:00 pm, to learn more from Brian Taylor, Environmental Educator from the North and South Rivers Watershed Association. Family activities. Free event.
#artcomplexmusuem, #duxburyma, #herring, #seeplymouth North and South Rivers Watershed Association
