Art Shows

ACCEPTED ART LISTS

The following work, identified by last name and title has been accepted into our spring art show. If your name is not on the list your work has not been accepted. If all work that you delivered has been accepted, we look forward to seeing you at our reception March 13, 1-4pm. If you submitted your accepted work digitally, your work must be delivered to the House of Art, 200 Main Street, Monson, MA on Saturday, February 27, 2010 between 11am & Noon Be sure to note the pickup requirements on the documents located below.

Print Shop: Accepted artists are eligible to sell prints, cards, and the like in our print show during the show. See Guidelines.

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Art Show Committee Mission Statement

The goal of the Art Show Committee is to provide a venue in the Town of Monson for artists, from throughout New England and beyond, who produce quality art in a variety of media, to exhibit and sell their work to a regional audience. The Committee will seek to engage the residents and businesses of Monson in its work to enhance the sense of community pride and foster a greater appreciation of the visual arts. By doing so, the Monson Arts Council will increasingly become recognized as a catalyst for the arts in the region.

Unanimously approved 8/3/09

Monson Arts Council Showcases Nearly 100 Regional Artists

To review the archived Call for Papers, Print Shop Guidelines and Submission Guidelines, click here.

MONSON, MA – Works by 94 artists from five states will be on display in the Monson Arts Council’s 17th annual spring art show, Black & White & Everything in Between, March 13 through 28 at the House of Art, 200 Main Street. The exhibition is open on weekends only, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sundays, noon-4 p.m.

One of the region’s largest art shows, the annual exhibition attracts artists, art lovers and collectors from throughout the region. All works in the exhibit are available for purchase. In addition, prints by many of the participating artists will be for sale in the shop at the House of Art.

Cash prizes totaling $2,500, underwritten by Monson Savings Bank, will be awarded at the artists’ reception on March 13, 1-4 p.m. That event will be sponsored in part by Adams Discount Liquors.

This year’s exhibit features two artistic families including a mother/daughter from Hampden, Nanci Sarisley Costanzo and Ashley Costanzo. Nanci was a participating artist in the first Monson show 17 years ago and is an art teacher at Elms College. Husband and wife artists Jerry and Roberta Wilson from Wilbraham both have work in the current show also.

Jurors for this year’s show were Robert Floyd, photographer and owner of the Robert Floyd Gallery in Southampton; pastel artist Barbara Groff of Vernon, CT, and a two-time winner of the President’s Award in previous Monson exhibits; and sculptor Thomas Kellner of Royalston, who is on the faculty of the Worcester Art Museum and a lecturer at Annamaria College.

A Wine Tasting, sponsored by Hardwick Winery and Vineyard, is planned March 20, 1-5 p.m. Other sponsors for the exhibition include Giclée of New England, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Preview Magazine/ The Valley Advocate. All events are open to the public and there is no admission charge.

A program featuring the Prize Winners will be posted on this website after the opening, March 13.

2009 Spring Art Exhibition

Here are a few images from our 2009 show, including one by one of our 2010 jurors, Barbara Groff which was an award winner last year.

Beryl Salinger Schmitt of Longmeadow, MA was awarded the $1200 Best of Show Prize at Monson Arts Council's 16th Annual Art Exhibition & Sale. The award was announced at the Artists Reception of the exhibit, GAiA, on Saturday, April 18. Anita Licis-Ribak of Amherst took first Place and a $500 award with her photograph titled Ascent, Jon Murphy of Walkill, NYreceived a $400 second place award for his work, a giclee print of a black and white ink drawing, Tree of Life. Jurors, Gloria Russell of Wilbraham, Stu Wetherbe of Holyoke and Bruce MacDonald of Adams, selected these awards, as well as five honorable mentions.

Roland Desrocher of Monson Savings Bank, which underwrites prize monies at the Monson show, selected a pastel by Barbara Groff of Vernon, CT. for the $300 President's award. The Committee Choice Award was split between Fran Gianfriddo of Brimfield for his painting entitled "Wreck-Clamation" and Juliet Bacchas of Monson for her ceramic sculpture, Maybel. A People's Choice Award, selected by attendees at the Artists Reception, went to Steve Wilda for his pencil drawing, April Fool Cover.

The Path to Las Animas, a large (24' x 36"" oil painting by Peter Barnett of Monson was one of the works selected for the Monson Arts Council 16th Annual Spring Art Exhibition and Sale Spring Beginnings, a pastel by Barbara Groff was given the President's Award in 2009. Also shown here a linoleum print entitled Trees by Kara Bigda of West Brookfield, MA. Click any of the images to enlarge.