Spin: Installation Process and Methodology
2022-08-24 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-08-28 12:00 - 16:00 UTC | 5th Floor Mini Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01851, United States
View artifacts and look behind the scenes of creating jewelry castings from spin casting molds. This exhibit is in conjunction with Karen Christians‘ exhibition Spin showing in the Loading Dock Gallery August 31st through September 25th.

Roe v. Wade Overturned: Artists Respond
2022-09-22 10:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-01 10:00 - 16:00 | 3rd Floor Mini Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01851, United States
Roe v. Wade Overturned: Artists Respond is an exhibition with over thirty artists bringing together a variety of styles with work in photography, painting, mixed media, digital art and sculpture; shown in four Mini Galleries on the second floor, third, fourth, and fifth floors of Western Avenue Studios. The art addresses the loss of rights and autonomy for women through a wide range of imagery and emotion.
Curators: Michele Boll and Becky Kisabeth Gibbs
Participating Artists: Deb Arsenault, Deb Banerjee, Katie Blue, Peggie Bouvier, Deb Bretton-Robinson, Shoshana Burgett, Karen Chistianson, Katren Cleo, Gwen Corey, Sharon Cox, May DeViney, Margaret Emerson, Hope Greene, Arlene Hammel, Nan Hockenbury, Suzanne Hodge, Wendy James, Joshua Kennedy, Tracy Levesque, Nancy Lesofsky, Kes Maro, Dina Mordeno, Anne Plaisance, Barbara Poole, Laurie Simko, Lee Viliesis, Bruce Wood, Diana Zipeto.
Covid-19 Guidelines:
– Face coverings/masks are not required but recommended since some studios and businesses may require them for admission into their space.
– Guests who are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or have been instructed to quarantine by a medical professional should not attend.
– We will have hand sanitation stations throughout the building.There is no charge for this event. This event is dog-friendly. We just ask that you keep your pup on a leash.

Located in both the 2nd floor, 3rd floor, 4th floor and 5th floor mini galleries.

Spooky, Sci-Fi, Supernatural: A Celebration of the Strange
2022-09-30 10:00 - 16:00 | 1st Floor Mini Gallery, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01851, United States
A combination of borosilicate glass creatures and curiosities and deliciously bizarre paintings. Halloweenly delightful, spooky, fun and otherworldly.
Curator: Tracy Levesque
Participating Artists: Tracy Levesque, Peter Zimmerman, Hope Greene, Bruce Wood, Jay Hungate, Bill Hecht, Jack Snell.
Covid-19 Guidelines:
– Face coverings/masks are not required but recommended since some studios and businesses may require them for admission into their space.
– Guests who are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or have been instructed to quarantine by a medical professional should not attend.
– We will have hand sanitation stations throughout the building. There is no charge for this event. This event is dog-friendly. We just ask that you keep your pup on a leash.

Two-Day October Open Art Studios
2022-10-01 12:00 - 17:00 | Western Avenue Studios & Lofts, 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA, 01851, United States
Fall is in the air, which can only mean one thing, our semi-annual art celebration. Two days of art experiences, demos, and tons of new artwork to see. So come join us for our special two-day October Open Art Studios event on October 1st & 2nd, from noon until 5 pm on both days, and welcome fall with new art.

Foods truck of the event: Phoenix Rising Pizza on Saturday and Purple Carrot Bread Company on Sunday.

This month the Loading Dock Gallery hosts a show titled “RedHot”. New England Regional Juried Show with the 7th Annual Poetry Convergence With an artist reception from 3 pm until 5 pm and the Poetry Convergence begins in the gallery at 5pm.

Vibrational Portfolio
2022-10-01 12:00 - 17:00 | Storage Closet Gallery, 160 Western Ave, Lowell, MA, 01851
Sylv Litz’s show, Vibrational Portfolio, represent two distinct bodies of work. In the first group
of pieces, created at MICA, Sylv created a series of wrapped pieces made from upcycled
materials. They were created in difficult personal circumstances but Sylv transformed pain
and grief into something both radiant and beautiful. These works have the intense beauty of
bright jewels, binding up deeply personal themes with a simple poetic grace.
The textured acrylic pieces started simply as a way to rediscover joy. By not taking art too
seriously, and by allowing the trained eye to emerge only when it felt like doing so, Sylv freed
their process from the formality of art school. Sylv has created a body of linked thematic
pieces combining multiple techniques. The pieces have a synthetic feel, but their healing aura
came from a purer place of cleansings, breathwork and moon water.
The weaving of ideas and imagery becomes, for Sylv, a dance in the act of making. At the
end of the dance there is release.
Curator: Antoinette Indge
Participating Artist: Sylv Litz
Covid-19 Guidelines:
– Face coverings/masks are not required but recommended since some studios and businesses may require them for admission into their space.
– Guests who are experiencing Covid-19 symptoms or have been instructed to quarantine by a medical professional should not attend.
– We will have hand sanitation stations throughout the building. There is no charge for this event. This event is dog-friendly. We just ask that you keep your pup on a leash.

Visit the Storage Closet Gallery. Located in the lofts building, second floor by loft 204.
Open during open studios or by appointment.
