Happy New Years from the directors,
​Michael Tillyer and Susan Foley
For a year of strong support of a mission
​to celebrate diversity in the arts...

This coin jar helps to kickstart another year of making art action happen. Can you get a coin into the jar?

❖ HAPPENINGS ❖

January 2025

SPECIAL JANUARY SCHEDULE
First Night, December 31, 4-9 p.m.

We are taking a little bit of a winter break.
Below is the schedule of days and times the galleries will be open
 
● Wednesday, January 8, 2-6 p.m.
● Thursday, January 9, 2-6 p.m.
● Friday, January 10, 2-8 p.m.

● Wednesday, January 22, 2-6 p.m.
● Thursday, January 23, 2-6 p.m.
● Friday, January 24, 2-6 p.m.
● Saturday, January 25, 2-6, 2-6 p.m.

JANUARY EVENTS
ARTS NIGHT OUT →      Friday, January 10, 5-8 p.m.

● One by One, Michael Tillyer's Sculpture
This month, Michael Tillyer, the founding director of the New England Visionary Artists Museum, will exhibit his sculpture at the NEVAspace.

● Tillyer and Foley Collection
Selections from a collection stemming back fifty years.

● Artist's Talk, Saturday, January 25, 4-6 p.m.
Tillyer will give a talk on how he opened the subsidized space, Anchor House of Artists in 1997, that became the NEVAmuseum in 2017. The talk is a fundraiser for NEVAmuseum, $10-$20 suggested.

SPECIAL EVENT SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 4:00 P.M.

Artist's Talk: Michael Tillyer
"What made me decide to open the Anchor House of Artists, in 1997 and how'd I do it."

Self-identity is made of determined will, but will can be determined by life circumstances, and life circumstances are often the result of social pressure and inheritance. Words are important. Their meanings are determined by common understanding. Titles like "artist" and "mentally ill" bring crucial social determinants on self-identity. What we do is more often viewed socially as the expression of who we are seen to be. If what we create is seen as mentally ill art, while it can be rewarding in some marketing spheres, it can equally be oppressing in light of social status. Because life gave me the opportunity, I used my privilege to open a space for creatives to redefine their studio lives by what they do well rather than by how they are labeled. Labels define surfaces but are blind to the spirits that move beneath. Art need not be an escape; it can be freedom. This is what our studio platform is meant to support. What came of that is another thing to speak about.

Tillyer Interview, FRIDAY January 3,  9:45 am - 10:00 am, on ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis at WHMP 101.5FM & 1400AM 

CLOSING NEW YEAR'S EVE
​4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

JONATHAN STARK:
​ONE LINE MAKES A DRAWING
Exhibition: October 9 - November 1       Gallery Talk: October 19, 2:00 P.M

Oversized drawings, each from one line that undulates into unique compositions.

Since the 1990s, Stark discovered the self-settling technique of creating large compositions in ink on paper using one single, undulating line. He has had a consistent output from his very private studio since then. The technique is easily imitable and has been by Internet-based copyists like Dallas-based Tyler Foust, who has made a commercial success with the process after Stark had a show there and his images were published in online posts. Stark's drawings are deeply personal, abstract, and non-commercial. They were included at events featuring Oliver Sacks and Temple Grandin at Cooper Union and John M. Green Hall in Northampton.

His work is included in local fine collections, in Houston, NYC, and Washington D.C​

The Little Things:
Fine realist paintings by Eliza Moser

Appreciating the little things in life: from small pictures with big messages, to large paintings celebrating the little moments, this show will feature works by local artist Eliza Moser. The following collection will be a mix of old and new favorites, especially small works, all centered on celebrating the little things that bring peace and joy into our daily lives. A classically trained oil painter, her work primarily focuses on still lifes or narrative portraits, and has been described in an article included in the online journal, Era Contemporary as having "a sense of quiet presence, a deliberate and grounded reverence for her subject matter. Her works are simple yet fully and completely executed with feeling."

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The Accidental Shepherd: Photo Dairy of  C. Solomon Holmes

The photographs that comprise this series were taken over a two year period between 2016-2018 while living and working on a sheep farm in Huntington, Massachusetts.​

​From the catastrophic loss of family, my entire support system was either dead or estranged. The camera provided me  purpose to talk about dark and light. Becoming a shepherd, I felt compelled to document a rare and unique world that I had not only been allowed to enter, but a world I  had been entrusted to maintain. This collection communicates the various stages in the cycle of life and death.

See more.at "A Shepherds Life"

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Leslie Dahlqvist:
​The Peaceful Mind Project 

Direct and pleasurable, Dahlqvist evokes her home, "My hilltown environment inspires my work; each weaving symbolizes a specific place or feeling. Often, an image will come to me while I’m meditating, or I will have a general idea of an image when I start weaving, and it continues to develop while I work. I wish my work to be calming and healing for the observer."

​Amidst her wall art exhibit, she is installing  new paintings and sculptures from her husband, David Moriarty.

Leslie Dahlqvist Tapestry

David Moriarty Painted Carved Wood

Finger Paintings
Andrew Magee

Raised in an academically accomplished family, Magee had an enriched artistic childhood. He focused on zoological subjects. His avian illustrations were included in a bird identification manual published by a Massachusetts Wildlife agency. Later in life, he settled on making large action paintings with organic references. He makes these with thick oil paints applied with his fingers in latex gloves. 

Peter Mishkin
​Ways of Seeing



Selecting what to represent in a painting is a defining act. What an painter sees is specific to that person. Mishkin chooses limited details rendered in color harmony. His abstract paintings are presented along side of still life canvases.

POETRY ● MUSIC ● ART ● HUMANITY

Our Mission

• Subsidize artists living with neurodiverse conditions through the Anchor House of Artists supported studios
• Conserve & research regional self-taught and visionary art
• Give New England artists the platform to self-stage exhibitions the way they see it
• Celebrate new music and performance
• Provide art education to income-sensitive citizens

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CURATOR OPPORTUNITY
New England Visionary Artists Museum is offers two-month slots for curator projects. Preferred projects offer a talk and exhibit presenting self-trained New England artists living or deceased who work outside the academic tradition. Applicants will include documented credentials: Vitas, articles and images, and references. Apply online or on-site.                                   CLICK IMAGE→

Because art is incidental to the life of the creative hand who crafted it,
let the artists speak.