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SELECTIONS Artist Spotlight: CHERYL SHANAHAN⁠ ⁠ Se SELECTIONS Artist Spotlight: CHERYL SHANAHAN⁠ ⁠ Selections 2026: Selected Winners from the Juried Regional is on exhibit through MARCH 20th, and we are thrilled to highlight each of the Selections Winners.⁠ ⁠ ARTIST STATEMENT⁠ ⁠ Pastorale⁠ ⁠ Pastorale is a celebration of and a reverence for the variety of family-owned farms in New Hampshire. Works in this exhibition showcase farms where artist Cheryl Shanahan buys produce, proteins, and peonies. It is important to the artist to support local businesses, and farms are an integral part of the local economy.⁠ ⁠ Pastorale is also a commentary of life lived in what ancient Greeks referred to as “Kairos” time – “the right or critical time” – flow state. Modern society is in a wrestling match with chronological time: our calendars, planners, watches, meetings generally dictate how the days are run – and the reality is that it’s really a contemporary construct or experiment.⁠ ⁠ Pastorale celebrates those who work in rhythm with Nature’s pace and flow and honors the spaces where the built environment meets the natural one.⁠ ⁠ Stay tuned for more highlights of our other Selections Artists.⁠ ⁠ Selections Artists (Listed Alphabetically)⁠ PETER ANDERSON⁠ CHRISTINE ANDREWS⁠ JEAN CHASE FARNUM⁠ SHAWNE MORRILL RANDLETT⁠ ELIZABETH PIERONI SCHULTE⁠ CHERYL SHANAHAN⁠ ROBIN WILLIAMS⁠ ⁠ Show Jurors: SHARI BORAZ + MEG McLEAN⁠ Gallery Hours: Tues.-Fri. 11am-4pm | Sat. 10am-2pm⁠ Admission to Library Arts Center Exhibits is always free and open to the public.⁠ ⁠ This show is generously sponsored by Sugar River Bank
SELECTIONS Artist Spotlight: ELIZABETH PIERONI SCH SELECTIONS Artist Spotlight: ELIZABETH PIERONI SCHULTE⁠ ⁠ Selections 2026: Selected Winners from the Juried Regional is on exhibit through MARCH 20th, and we are thrilled to highlight each of the Selections Winners.⁠ ⁠ ARTIST STATEMENT⁠ ⁠ No Longer and Not Yet⁠ ⁠ My work explores the idea of portals: thresholds between states of being, moments where choice, loss, and transformation coexist. Through ethereal abstract botanical forms, I investigate life, death, and the spaces in between: the choices, pauses, crossings, and unseen shifts that shape our internal experiences.⁠ ⁠ Working in mixed media allows me to build layered surfaces that feel both fragile and enduring. Botanical imagery appears not as literal representation, but as symbolic language—roots, blooms, and dissolving forms echoing cycles of emergence, decay, and renewal. These elements act as markers of transition, inviting viewers to consider what it means to move forward, to let go, or to stand briefly at the edge of change.⁠ No Longer and Not Yet, as a body of work inhabits liminal thresholds, spaces between endings and beginnings, certainty and possibility: where transformation is ongoing and unresolved. Each painting functions as a visual portal, offering a space for reflection rather than resolution. The work does not offer answers, but instead holds space for contemplation, honoring the complexity of becoming and the inevitability of transformation⁠ ⁠ Stay tuned for more highlights of of our Selections Artists.⁠ ⁠ Selections Artists (Listed Alphabetically)⁠ PETER ANDERSON⁠ CHRISTINE ANDREWS⁠ JEAN CHASE FARNUM⁠ SHAWNE MORRILL RANDLETT⁠ ELIZABETH PIERONI SCHULTE⁠ CHERYL SHANAHAN⁠ ROBIN WILLIAMS⁠ ⁠ Show Jurors: SHARI BORAZ + MEG McLEAN⁠ Gallery Hours: Tues.-Fri. 11am-4pm | Sat. 10am-2pm⁠ Admission to Library Arts Center Exhibits is always free and open to the public.⁠ ⁠ This show is generously sponsored by Sugar River Bank
Join us this Saturday for a Gallery Drop-in! ⁠ Upc Join us this Saturday for a Gallery Drop-in! ⁠ Upcycled Spring Crafts for Kids and Adults ⁠ part of the 'Make-and-Take' Series⁠ Sat. March 14th | Drop in 10:00am-2:00pm⁠ Free!⁠ ⁠ Drop in to the Arts Center gallery this Saturday to see the current exhibit and to make fun some fun upcycled spring crafts for all ages with artist Pam LaFountain. Everyone is welcome to join the fun!
UPDATE: This class has been canceled. Last chance UPDATE: This class has been canceled. Last chance to register for this Saturday's fun felting class! 🍀⁠ Needle Felted Leprechauns ⁠ with instructor Jennifer Boyd ⁠ Saturday, March 14, 9:00am-1:00pm⁠ ⁠ Open to all levels. $45 tuition (includes all materials) ⁠ ⁠ In preparation for Saint Patrick’s Day join us in the studio to create your own needle-felted Leprechaun! Learn all the basic felting skills with one-on-one attention for each student to individualize your creation through color and design choices that make your leprechaun truly one-of-a-kind. Leave this class, designed for beginner and intermediate students, with a finished project you are proud of, new needle felting skills, and a deepened sense of creative community. Pre-registration is required.⁠ ⁠ Register for this class online at: https://libraryartscenter.org/classes-for-adults/

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