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Mosesian Center Hosting Rock & Roll Celebration with Art Show, Gala

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The Mosesian Center for the Arts will host Art & Soul, with a gala featuring an acclaimed Rock & Roll historian, a concert and a BBQ dinner to go along with an art exhibit featuring portraits of rock musicians. Gala
On Thursday, April 12th, The Mosesian Center for the Arts will honor Peter Guralnick, Rock ‘n’ Roll historian extraordinaire and acclaimed author, known for his prize-winning two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and his most recent biography, Sam Phillips: The Man who invented Rock ’n’ Roll. The evening’s Rock ‘n’ Roll celebration – Art & Soul, a fundraiser for the Mosesian Center for the Arts (MCA) kicks off with a Memphis-style BBQ dinner followed by a spirited conversation with Guralnick and storied writer, and editor Mark Feeney, followed by a Rock ‘n’ Soul Revue featuring Giant Kings with Special Guests Barrence Whitfield, Dennis Brennan, Andrea Gillis, and Jesse Dee! Giant Kings are Chris Cote, Duke Levine, Kevin Barry, Marty Ballou, Andy Plaisted, Paul Ahstrand, and Mark Earley

For more information about the gala click here: http://www.mosesianarts.org/index.php/shows/mosesian-live/2018-mosesian-award-gala
Exhibit
On view March 22 through May 18, 2018 during regular business hours and during evening and weekend theater events. Opening reception March 23, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (free and open to the public). Coinciding with our Annual Mosesian Award Gala that will honor Rock ‘n Roll historian, acclaimed author and prolific storyteller Peter Guralnick, the Art & Soul exhibition features professional and emerging contemporary art, as well as fan art, that is inspired by, pays tribute to or otherwise celebrates musicians, bands and music culture.

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Watertown Art Gallery Features Works Made with Bold Application of Paint

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Watertown-based Room 83 Spring is hosting an exhibit called “Eye Feel,” featuring paintings where the paint has been applied thickly by hand, with a stick or straight from the tube. 

Paint and touch are paramount in Room 83 Spring’s current exhibition Eye Feel with Susan Carr, Tatyana Gubash, Katy Helman, Lavaughan Jenkins, and Ellen Wineberg. Each artist’s work has an insistent presence, which is articulated by the generous application of paint in the impasto technique. Straight from the tube, paint stick, or finger, paint is built up, slathered, and encrusted, often with colors colliding serendipitously on the surface. This deep investment in the physicality of the materials is imperative to expression, asserting object-ness and actuality. The heft of the paint preserves the hand’s mark-makings, becoming a narrative in itself, with the haptic quality underscoring a relational, even conceptual intent of the works.

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New Rep Theatre Announces Productions for 2018-19 – Its 35th Season

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Watertown-based New Repertory Theatre announced the lineup for the company’s 35th season. See the announcement below:

Next year, New Repertory Theatre will celebrate 35 seasons of presenting plays that speak powerfully to the vital ideas of our time and continue a tradition of producing theatre that is bold, timely, and essential. We’re excited to share with you a season we’ve entitled AWAKENING, featuring seven illuminating and thought-provoking works. At New Rep, we believe that theatre can be a sanctuary, a place for all to come together as a community in conversation. Time and time again we hear from our audiences that the work that we do is important and that you come to New Rep to see smart, eye-opening plays that spark meaningful dialogue.

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Find Out How to Try Out for Christmas Revels 2018 Which Features a Nordic Theme

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Revels singing group announced it will be holding auditions for its annual Christmas production in Watertown soon! Audition for The Christmas Revels! Announcing Volunteer Chorus Auditions for the 2018 Christmas Revels: A Nordic Celebration of the Winter Solstice
Directed by Patrick Swanson; Megan Henderson, music director
WHEN:  Sunday, March 4  & Monday, March 5, 2018
(4-6 pm children) (7-9:30 pm adults)
WHERE:  Belmont-Watertown UMC (formerly Grace Vision Church), 80 Mt. Auburn Street, Watertown, MA
Revels seeks a diverse and talented volunteer chorus of adults and children (ages 7-12) to join our family for 18 performances of The Christmas Revels at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, December 14-29, 2018. While Revels uses a number of professional performers in its productions, its volunteer chorus of adults and children are at its core.

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Watertown Artist’s Works Being Shown at Weston Library

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The works of Watertown’s Paul Angiolillo are now on display at the Weston Public Library, and a reception will be held on Jan., 18, 2018. The Watertown-based artist carves and sculpts both outdoor and indoor works. He creates sculptures, furniture art, and functional objects out of natural and found materials, he aims for the evocative, engaging, and sometimes whimsical. “​New Works”​ will be shown in ​​the gallery at the Weston Public Library, ​​87 School St., Weston, MA, through Jan. 30​.

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Mosesian Center Hosts Free First Day Event with Fun for the Whole Family

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Mosesian Center for the Arts will host a free event on Jan. 1, 2018 with activities for kids and more. The center released the following announcement:

Celebrate the New Year at the Third Annual First Day at the Mosesian Center for the Arts! Free family fun featuring: Art & Theatre Activities, Fortunes, a Ball Drop at Noon, a Live Performance from Karen K & the Jitterbugs at 12:15, New Year’s Photo Booth, Dance Party & more! Bring a nut free snack or purchase one from on-site and enjoy our indoor picnic area and dance party!

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Watertown Artist Receives $15,000 Grant from the Boston Foundation

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Maya Erdelyi of Watertown is a recipient of the 2017 Boston Foundation’s Brother Thomas Fellowship, according to Lesley University. A faculty member of Lesley University’s Animation and Motion Media department, Erdelyi will receive a $15,000 unrestricted grant. In addition to helping fund her work, the Brother Thomas Fellowship is an affirming boost for Erdelyi. “They’re recognizing me as someone who’s working hard. It’s encouraging me to continue.

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Watertown Gallery’s New Show Features Work of Three Artists, Multiple Mediums

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Room 83 Spring is pleased to present Border Realms featuring installations and assemblages by Lisa Olson, mixed-media sculpture by Amy Podmore, digital paintings by Wendy Seller. These three artists work with  images of the body and metaphor to capture and describe surreal situations and narratives. Lisa Olson’ Child Keeper series navigates danger. Letterpress descriptions and reliquary objects of un-named and head-redacted orphans are arranged into a black, white and sepia installation. It is a spookily realistic fiction.