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Subject: NAA May 2015 Newsle/er
Date: Monday, May 4, 2015 at 10:24:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:
Linda Rinearson
NAA Newsletter
newtonartassociation.com
May 2015
NAA Annual Soiree
Sunday May 31, 2015 - 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
High School Art Scholarship
Awards to be presented at our May meeting on May 14th
CALENDAR
Newton Art Festival for
the entire month of May
May
3: Sunday 3:00 - 5:00
Demonstration
May 14
& Scholarship Awards
Vincent Crotty
Landscapes in Oil
Header: detail from "Killaloe, Co. Clare"
by Vincent Crotty
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3: Sunday 3:00 - 5:00
NAA Critique
6: Wed 6:30 pm
Portfolio Presentation
New Art Center
7: Thurs 7:00 pm
NAA Board meeting
New Art Center
14: Thurs 7:30 - 9:00 pm
NAA Demo Senior Ctr
Vincent Crotty
American Landscapes
in Oil
PLUS Scholarships
Vincent Crotty is an Irish-born artist
who has been living in Boston since
1990. Regarded for his original
landscapes, interiors and figurative
paintings, Vincent's paintings reveal a
remarkable understanding of light -transforming everyday subject matter
into images that are memorable and
moving.
Painting from life as often as he can, Vincent explores the places & faces of
both Atlantic coasts. Inspired by the 20th Century Ashcan School, his
paintings of New England celebrate the gritty corners of urban life. In
Ireland, he captures the silvery gleam of wet galvanized roofs and bursts of
winter sunshine illuminating wild landscapes.
15: Friday at noon
Newton Library
DEADLINE for show
application
Vincent was born and raised in Kanturk, County Cork and studied sign
painting and interior decorating at Fás, a trade school in Cork City, Ireland.
This training gave him an understanding of paint chemistry and the
fundamentals of drawing. "My background in trade school has given me a
hands-on approach rather than a cerebral one. Being self-employed has
31: Sunday 6::00-9:00 pm
forced me to follow my here-and-now instincts as an artist. I take a fearless
Annual NAA Soiree
approach and slap on paint liberally. I harness happy accidents."
Scandinavian Living
Center, West Newton
SUMMER BREAK
September
2-29: NAA Library Show
3: Thurs 7:00 pm
NAA Board meeting
New Art Center
9: NAA Library Show
Reception 7-8:30 pm
In 1990 Vincent immigrated to Boston to seek out further art training. In the
Boston area, he studied painting with artist John Kilroy and figure drawing
with Paul Rahilly at Mass College of Art. He attended the Scottsdale Artists
School, studying with Mark Daily and David Leffel. He has taken workshops
with T. Allen Lawson, Kevin MacPherson, Matt Smith, and John Stobart, and
he continues to travel widely to pursue workshops and plein air painting
events.
In addition to his gallery shows, Vincent's paintings have been featured as
set designs for theater companies and touring productions including Atlantic
Steps, the Cork City Ballet, the Huntington Theater Company, Kieran Jordan
Dancers, and the WGBH Celtic Sojourn productions. Four of his paintings
were used on the film set in the 2003 Clint Eastwood movie Mystic River.
www.vincentcrotty.com
10: Thurs 7:30 - 9:00 pm
NAA Demo Senior Ctr
NEW MEMBERS
Plovnick, Herb
Greetings NAA Members!! It's once again time to pARTy!!!
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Greetings NAA Members!! It's once again time to pARTy!!!
Please join us for our end of the year
Soirée
Sunday, May 31, 2015
** MAY 2015 **
Attend at least one
activity each week!
~ 6 PM Wine & Cheese ~ 7 PM Dinner
Scandinavian Cultural Center
NORDIC HALL
245 Waltham Street, West Newton, MA
r.s.v.p. to Myra Abelson at [email protected]
Send in your "acceptances" and $25 checks (made out to NAA) to:
Myra Abelson, 63 Alderwood Road, Newton, MA 02459
Next NAA Show
Please RSVP by May 15th
September 2 - 29
Newton Library Show
Application in the June
Newsletter
Opening Reception:
Sept. 9th, 7 to 8:30 pm
Membership
Renewal
2015 - 2016
~~~~
Application will be
mailed out to members
and former members in
a separate email.
It's also available on our
NAA website
Newton's Festival of the Arts
May 2015 throughout Newton
See the VIDEOs at youtu.be/_Smr3hi3Ov0
and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNprrMvzPZE
This is the month for Newton's Festival of the Arts. Take the advice of one
woman who said she was planning on attending at least one event per week
with a different friend... and catch up with her social life!
Buy a ticket to an event you might not otherwise attend!
www.newtoncommunitypride.org/festival
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