For years, Jeffery C. Becton has been creating foreboding photographic images of the sea, flirting with those brave and foolhardy souls who choose to lie down next to her.
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Fallon Navarro a fierce advocate … and an imaginative artist
UMass Dartmouth MFA candidate may be best known for her role as leader in the Star Store fight, but the very reason she came to the program was to make art and to display it publicly.
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Painter Roy Rossow brings waterfront to life
Jamaican-born artist’s primary motif for his Whaling Museum exhibition is the busy New Bedford harbor, rife with an array of vessels of the sea, which he paints from his downtown studio.
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Remembering and honoring a great teacher, Sig Haines
After Haines’ death in June, I issued my old friend and Swain classmate Peter Dickison a challenge: take a canvas believed to be Haines’ last attempt at painting and finish it, finding some way to incorporate his marks.
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NBAM’s year-end exhibit inventive, eclectic and engaging
Due to the inventiveness and creativity of the eight exhibiting artists, “Gateways to Awareness” largely works as an intersectional point between art and science, vision and sound, private and public spaces and between the tactile and the ephemeral.
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‘Street Art’ poster book puts spotlight on New Bedford artists
“On the Wall Posters: Street Art” features the art of local and regional artists who have created art under the aegis of Superflat NB.
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Keith Francis opening eyes, challenging ideas with his art
Local critic and commentator Don Wilkinson debuts a column devoted to the arts with a particular focus on the regional creative community and their pursuits. This week he introduces a sculptor and painter currently showing a controversial piece in an Italian art center.