The Marblehead Arts Association will unveil six new exhibits on Saturday, March 1 and host an artists’ reception on Sunday, March 2, 2-4 p.m. The MAA is located at 8 Hooper St. in the King Hooper Mansion.
The six exhibits include “Through the Students’ Lens,” a collection of photographs by students from Marblehead, Salem and Gloucester high schools, along with Bishop Fenwick and Phillips Academy.
“This is the third year we’ve done the exhibit,” MAA photographer Larry Dunne told the Current. “The idea is to give local high school students the opportunity to have their photographs displayed in a gallery. There are some absolutely beautiful works.”
Teachers submit their students’ photographs to the MAA.
“There’s black-and-white, color, portraiture work… each year is different,” Sands added.
The Marblehead student photographers featured in the exhibit are Owen Dulac, Sydney Berman, Evan Carroll, Colin Hart, Charlie Roszell, Caroline Crosby and Campbell Crane.
In the Hooper Mansion’s ballroom, works by new MAA members will be displayed.
“There will be a wonderful variety of painting, photography and 3D work,” said MAA Art Chair Lisa Richardson Bach.
Some of her own bead and glass work will be featured.
Other exhibits include:
“The More We See” by Abby Record: “She paints based on her expansive travel; you’ll see sites like museums and people enjoying themselves,” Richardson Bach said.
“Encore Provence” by Linda Lea Bertrand: These plein air paintings of New England landscapes have an “impressionist color sense,” according to Richardson Bach.
“Art as the Pulse of Economics” by Elisa Zhang: This teen artist is a student at Phillips Academy who works in pottery, photography and fine art.
“Impressions on Canvas” by Birthe Peterson Winer: This is a retrospective of works by a longtime MAA member who passed away in 2024.
These exhibits run through April 12. Entrance to the MAA is free and open to all. For more information, visit marbleheadarts.org.
