Posted Tuesday December 06 2016 at 06:18 am
Shop this holiday season at the state's alternative craft and art market. Handmade Holiday Market features scarves, jewelry, cards, original artwork, photos, and other gifts by local crafters and artists of all abilities!
Now Through December 22, 2016.
Artist Reception December 8th 4-7pm at the Open Door Gallery.
Posted Tuesday September 13 2016 at 9:34 pm
Ellen Mansfield, "Stop Waste", Paint on Canvas
Art has long been a powerful medium for individuals to convey messages and concepts that may otherwise be difficult to express. Have you ever wondered how your individuality, your community, or your identity can be portrayed in artwork? Have you ever thought about who and what is being represented in artwork, and how art can add to these conversations of social justice?
In partnership with the Open Door Gallery and the Disability Policy Consortium, the Disability & Intersectionality Summit curated this exhibit that sheds light on the theme Disability and Intersectionality. The exhibit explores this theme through the creative works of artists with disabilities whose identities and artwork have also been shaped by their experiences of disability, gender, race, sexuality, age, or ethnicity.
"Intersectionality" examines how intersecting identities such as gender, race, class, ability, sexual orientation, religion, and age interact, and proposes that we should think of each element as inextricably linked with other elements in order to fully recognize an individual's identity.
The exhibit runs from September 1, 2016 - November 10, 2016. Opening reception September 15, 2016 from 4-7pm. More information at VSA's Open Door Gallery website.
Posted Wednesday April 27 2016 at 07:14 am
Photo by Jared Charney
Jon Sarkin is a prolific, even compulsive, artist who creates elaborate drawings and paintings. After a life-altering brain injury, Sarkin became obsessed with drawing. As the images kept coming, the artist unearthed some of the dark and unknown places in his brain. He cannot stop. He doesn't want to stop.
Sarkin's work has been exhibited in New York's Museum of Modern Art, New England's deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, VSA's Open Door Gallery in 2012, and is displayed in private collections throughout the world.
Jon Sarkin - The Unchained Brain
Open Door Gallery
April 28 - July 29, 2016 9am - 5pm
Reception May 5, 2016 4-7pm