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| Welcome to Needham Art Association. Join us and enrich your art!
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Mission
To encourage the visual arts and art education in our community through support and enrichment. Membership
is open to practicing artists and all lovers of art. Each spring we award a scholarship to a deserving student of Needham
High School who intends to pursue art at college.
"First I saw the mountains in the painting; then I saw the painting in the mountains."
Chinese Proverb. |
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Demonstrations
We hold monthly meetings from October to May each season, consisting of demonstrations, slide lectures and
critiques by visiting professional artists who work in a variety of media. The meetings are held in the Community Room of
Needham Public Library, 1139 Highland Avenue (Rosemary Street entrance), on the first Tuesday of each month, at 7.00 p.m.
Guests are welcome.
"Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you." Robert Henri. |
Demonstration
in oils by portrait
artist Dianne Panarelli-Miller |
At the Friends'
Gallery
in Needham Public Library |
Exhibits
We hold several major exhibits and sales of our members' work each year, at least two of which are judged
by outside professional artists and ribbons are awarded. We also have ongoing smaller exhibits at various Needham business
locations, currently including Middlesex Savings Bank, Travel Service Bureau, Rino Salon D'Italia, Bronwen Flowers, and also
the Wellesley Center for Progressive Health (Marino Center).
"Art is a feeling you'd like to share." Dorothy Fader. |
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Membership
Annual membership is $20 (exhibiting), $18 (non-exhibiting), and free for Needham High School students (who
may exhibit). Members need not be Needham residents. To join, or for more information, contact us at needhamart@comcast.net, or write to: Needham Art Association, PO Box 322, Needham Heights, MA02494. |
Or simply come along to our next meeting! See the calendar pages for details.
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