Linda Huey: Botanical Adaptations
April 26 – May 29, 2012
Reception May 3, 5:30-7:30pm

In a statement on our culture’s relationship with nature, Huey uses ceramics as her medium and with it sculpts a revelation of her concern for the environment. The recycled rebar she uses as stems for her oversized clay flowers inform the notion that natural elements are dependent on the industrial fixtures surrounding them. Her plants have a suggestion of beauty with a posture that is defensive, controlled and protected. Viewers are challenged to not only observe the initial beauty of these flowers, but to also understand the underlying issues manifested through them. These botanical representations serve to provoke discussion about the current status of the environment and investigate the ambiguous relationship we as a culture have with nature.

Text & Context Photography Exhibition
April 26 – May 29, 2012
Reception May 21, 5:00-7:00pm

In conjunction with our free Monday night series, text & conText, arsenalARTS presents an exhibition featuring 3 photographers: Daniel Lovering, Mark Peterson, and Lynn Whitney.

Join us on May 21 @ 7pm as Mark Peterson & Lynn Whitney discuss their work at the creative process at our last text & conText discussion of the spring. This is a free event.

Quilters' Connection 35th Annual Quilt Show
June 1-3, 2012, Admission $6

Friday, June 1, 10:00 am – 5:00pm
Saturday, June 2, 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, June 3, 10:00am – 3:00pm

The exhibition of over 200 quilts, many of which are for sale, will include pieces ranging from classic to cutting edge. Items made by guild members are offered for sale in the popular boutique. The show will feature guided tours and demonstrations of quilting techniques. A fabulous raffle quilt designed and made by guild members will be on display, and raffle tickets will be on sale for $1 each for the Sunday drawing. For more info, please visit http://www.quiltersconnection.org/

Toy With It
Michele L'Heureux
June 7 – August 17, 2012
Reception June 14, 5:30-7:30pm

Through the layering and manipulation of surface and materials, Michele’s work references the constant process of discarding, reviving, and recreating our identities. Intrigued by the fact that at any given time, certain fragments of our identities rise to the surface, Michele investigates the layers of ones identity and the attention that different elements of our identity seek. Within this framework, her paintings also explore ambiguity: how you can't always be sure what you're seeing at any given time, and particularly how it relates to gender.  Her paintings and blocks examine--and attempt to dismantle--societal notions of gender as fixed and binary. Her work explores the mutability and performance of gender through the use of gender-laden symbols, marks, and images that are disrupted, layered, entwined, and partially occluded, creating ambiguous spaces where multiple meanings/identities can exist simultaneously. 

Annual Members Show
June 14 – August 17, 2012
Reception June 14, 5:30-7:30pm

The arsenalARTS Annual Members Show is a group exhibition of multi-disciplinary mediums in art, ranging from drawing and painting to pottery. All of the artists are members of the center and supporters of the arsenalARTS mission.

Artwork Submissions for the 2012 Members Show are now closed. The full list of exhibition artists will be posted soon.

Image by Jodie Baehre Mcmenamin, 2010 Members Show artist

Check back soon for more artist opportunities.