Happy Holidays from the directors,
​Michael Tillyer and Susan Foley

For a year of strong support of a mission
​that preserves humanity, thank you!

❖ HAPPENINGS ❖

December 2024
ARTS NIGHT OUT RECEPTION
Friday, December 13, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

DECEMBER EVENTS:
ELIZA MOSER: Fine realist paintings by this classically trained oil painter

C. SOLOMON HOLMES: "Story of a Shepherd", looping video installation

JONATHAN STARK: Single-line compositions oversized drawings

LESLIE DAHLQVIST:  Enviroment inspired fiber artworks with sculpture by David Moriarty

ANDREW MAGEE: large oil finger paintings

PETER MISHKIN: Colorful oil paintings

DECEMBER 14, 4:00 p.m.:, The Cure for Unhappiness by Hilary Sloin (1963-2019)
a celebration of the life with readings from her newly published collection of stories and essays

COMING IN JANUARY 2025 
MICHAEL TILLYER: Sculpture as Three-D Cartoons
FOUNDERS DISCUSSION, Michael Tillyer: How I came up with the idea to start the Anchor House of Artists

NEVAmuseum Tillyer and Foley Collection:

SPECIAL EVENT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 4:00 P.M.

A reading: The Cure for Unhappiness by Hilary Sloin (1963-2019),:
a celebration of the life with readings from her newly published collection of stories and essays

Join us for a celebration of the life and work of the late Hilary Sloin with readings from her newly published collection of stories and essays released by Stray Dog Collective. This collection of stories and essays gives fullest expression to the pitch-perfect humor and compassion of a writer whose work deserves a much wider audience than it reached in her lifetime. With surprising precision Hilary Sloin evokes the tangled inner lives of diverse people navigating the day to day of work, love, sex, and sanity.

Hilary Sloin authored plays, stories, and the novel, Art on Fire (Bywater Books, 2014), which won the ALA Stonewall Book Awards / Barbara Gittings Literature Prize. A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Sloin was awarded a scholarship to Marlboro College in Vermont to study writing. She lived for many years in New York City and later in Western Massachusett

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

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• 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
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• Provide art education to income-sensitive citizens

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