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Sandy Cleary Community Art Gallery
Issues Call to Artists for Upcoming Exhibitions
After completing a successful year of operation, the steering committee for the Sandy Cleary Community Art Gallery located at the Nashua Center for the Arts is holding a Call for Artists for the 2024-2025 season.
The Gallery holds four rotating exhibitions annually, for three months each rotation. The Spring Rotation, from April to June, is for student art and is managed by representatives of the Nashua School District. Each of the other three rotations will feature a mix of artwork by student, emerging, and recognized local visual artists with a goal of reflecting the demographics of Nashua, the most diverse city in New Hampshire.
The Call for Artists to fill the twelve slots in the Summer, Fall and Winter rotations is open now, with the deadline to apply on April 31. All artists who live or work in Nashua, along with members of the Nashua Area Artists Association and the Hollis Art Society are eligible to apply online at www.nashuacommunityarts.org/gallery. The new exhibition will begin in July.
“A community gallery where local artists can show and sell their artwork to a wide audience without a registration fee or commission is an important part of the community outreach of the Nashua Center for the Arts,” said Carol Robey, gallery curator and chair of the steering committee. “The selection process is focused on art that is representative of and interesting to members of the community.”
The Gallery opened on April 1, 2023, with a special exhibition honoring the memory Meri Goyette, Nashua’s leading arts advocate and supporter for over 50 years. It was followed by the student art exhibition that featured nearly 50 pieces by students from kindergarten to seniors in high school. The summer and fall rotations featured local artists Timothy Foley, Esmeldy Angeles, Bonnie Guercio, Hsiu Norcott, Christian Ramirez, Marilene Sawaf and Emily Contino. The current exhibition displays the photography of Seth Dewey, Craig Michaud, Dan Splaine, and Brenda McDougald.
Nashua Community Arts and the Nashua the Arts Commission are collaborating to provide management of the Gallery for Spectacle Live, the operator of the facility.
In addition to Arts Commissioner Robey, other members of the gallery steering committee are Arts Commissioner Judith Carlson of Nashua Community Arts; Jake Crumb, Spectacle Live; Meghan Durden and Angela Walsh of the Nasua School District; Marilene Sawaf, Nashua Area Artists Association; and Carolyn Maul, Hollis Arts Society.
The mission of the nonprofit Nashua Community Arts includes supporting the Nashua Center for the Arts to ensure it is a community cultural facility that enhances quality of life, serves a resource and gathering place for the community and links the arts and cultural activities to the community at large, making them accessible to all. The Nashua Arts Commission includes support of the Nashua Center for the Arts in its Arts and Culture Plan adopted by the Board of Aldermen in 2022.
The Nashua Center for the Arts, managed by Spectacle Live, is located at 201 Main Street in downtown Nashua, NH. For program schedules, tickets and additional information go to www.nashuacenterforthearts.com
For more information please contact:
Judith Carlson judcar603@gmail.com 603-305-0162
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