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Contemporary artist Heather Stivison is participating in Hatch Street Studios' Spring Open Studio event. Hatch Street Studios is a community of artists working in a wide range of mediums including painting, weaving, sculpture, woodworking, print-making, pottery, photography and more. Individual studios are open to visitors by appointment. Twice a year, the artists join together and throw open the doors to their two grand brick and stone buildings at 88 and 90 Hatch Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and invite the public to visit.
Stivison will be on hand both days to answer questions about her recent work, and to discuss working method, techniques, and inspiration. Dozens of paintings line the walls, inside and outside of this studio. Works available range from giclee prints, to matted works on paper, to large-scale original oil and acrylic paintings.
Light refreshments will be served, and live musicians will be strolling throughout the buildings during the weekend.
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Heather Stivison is an award-winning visual artist whose work has been exhibited in museums, universities, and galleries across the United States and in juried shows in Europe and Asia. Her work, which often is narrative-based, spans a wide variety of 2-D disciplines, including oil, acrylic, and watercolor painting, drawing in various mediums, fiber art, and mixed-media wall art with found objects,
She currently serves as Chairman of the Board of South Coast Artists, Inc. She is an elected Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and serves on the Board of NAWA’s Massachusetts Chapter. She served as the founding president of the Dartmouth Cultural Center, and has co-chaired Dartmouth’s Local Cultural Council. Stivison is a former museum director, former president of both the New Jersey Association of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. She is a published author and is currently writing her second nonfiction book. A recipient of a research grant from the Arts & Crafts Research Fund, she has written and lectured on various topics within in that field.
She holds an MFA in painting from UMass Dartmouth, and is represented by Pleiades Gallery, 547 W27th Street, New York City.
Works from Heather Stivison's water series will be shown, along with a series of small acrylic contemporary paintings. Visitors will also have the opportunity to preview some of the works that will be in her upcoming solo show, Heather Stivison: Borders and Boundaries.
88 Hatch Street, Studio #315, New Bedford, Massachusetts 02745
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