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Past Exhibitions

“Through new eyes” was a unique collaboration between the History Center and a group of 14 local artists. Artists Dot Lorenze and Michele Borgeau approached the History Center with the idea of an exhibition inspired by items in the History Center’s collection. Artists were invited to tour the collections at the History Center and choose inspiration pieces for their artwork.
 
 With over 50,000 items in the collection, the possibilities for inspiration were almost unlimited. Artists’ inspirational items include articles of clothing, children’s toys, woodworking tools, a musical instrument, a dramatic peacock feather fan, and much more.
 
The exhibit displayed their original artwork alongside the pieces that inspired them allowing the viewer to see collection pieces from a new perspective . . . through the eyes of an artist rather than the eyes of a historian. 
 
Participating artists:
 
Michele Borgeau
Michele Bourgeau celebrates gifts of her youth through her art by playfully embracing elements of design and color to express ironic or poignant narratives. Michele’s work includes more traditional paintings in oil, watercolor or acrylic as well as a variety or unexpected mix of mediums, both traditional and unorthodox, at times in combination, collage and sculptural assemblage. Duality, identity, undefined beauty, adversity, resilience and sensory expressed narratives are some of the themes Michele explores.     www.michelebourgeau.com
 
Kate Delaney
Kate Delaney is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer. Since graduating with her BFA in Illustration from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design, she has worked as a freelance illustrator and muralist. Her work is largely inspired by culinary traditions, exploring the natural world, and celebrating local history. Kate hopes to provide a peaceful escape for the viewer.     www.katedelaney.net
 
Dave Drinon
Dave's works are a combination of "en plein air" and studio work. Dave's passion is to be out in nature. Whether it be on the ocean, in the mountains, or in a busy urban setting, he is fully engaged in the total experience of painting outdoors on location. Look for Dave and his easel around Andover this Spring and Summer.     www.drinonstudio.com

Joan Ellis
In my downtown Andover studio, I teach drawing classes to children and adults, and work independently as a Natural Science Illustrator. I use graphite, Micron pen, Ultra Fine Sharpie, and India ink, often enhanced with watercolors or colored pencils. My favorite subjects are local wildflowers, weeds, insects and birds.
 
Judy Eskin
Over the years, I have sewn clothing, quilted, embroidered, and built furniture. At age 39, I began a 20-year stretch of painting with watercolor. More recently, I realized that I prefer creating things directly with my hands and now work mainly in 2D and 3D mixed media collage.  My husband and I have lived in Andover for 28 years and raised our two daughters here. Now in retirement from a career in health care administration, I garden, sing with a small choral group, read extensively (mostly fiction), and co-lead a progressive political action group in Andover.
 
Diane Grieco
Throughout the years I’ve often worked with vintage and antique artifacts, both as sculptural elements, and as subjects to draw or paint. Dress-form figures, a vest made of dolls, and numerous drawings and paintings have all centered around the history-haunted, history-revealing things we keep; things that reveal sentiment, nostalgia, and attitudes held fast. Dolls provide the clearest silent voices; speaking of time, of place, of culture, of race, of all our wild complexity.
 
Karen Harris
I'm interested in the structure and design of images.  Sometimes I work in watercolors and drawings, sometimes photography.     www.karenharrispainter.com
 
Lisa Hertel
Lisa Hertel is a teaching artist with a studio, The Cogitation Zone, in Haverhill MA. She works in clay, alcohol inks, watercolors, wire sculpture, and encaustics (painting with hot wax). Everything she makes she can teach, and specializes in classes for the differently abled, children, and short-term classes for adults, all by appointment.

Lynne Kasparian
I am a ceramic artist who constructs her pieces by hand using a white clay body. The original motifs that I hand paint on them originate from my interest in using color and pattern. Additionally, I take design inspiration from nature, books, and observations in daily life. Each ceramic piece is functional, food safe, and created in the clay studio at the Essex Art Center in Lawrence.     Instagram @lynnekasparian
 
Dorothy Lorenze
My art career originally centered on graphic design, but I have been drawing all my life. When my children got older, I began oil painting in the traditional, representational style that I so admire, painting primarily still life, trompe l’oeil and interiors scenes. My art education includes Purchase College and the Art Students League and I have been privileged to study with several contemporary master oil painters.     www.dorothylorenze.com
 
Alan Michel
Alan Michel lives in Methuen Massachusetts with his wife Helene. He has his Master's degree in sculpture and has spent much of his life developing media arts educational opportunities for inner city teenagers in the Greater Boston area. During the mid 1970’s through the 1990’s Alan exhibited sculpture, painting and photography at the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Lewis Wharf, Boston City Hall, Jordan Marsh, Museum of Fine Arts, and the Boston Visual Artists Union and received recognition from the Massachusetts Cultural Council as a finalist for an individual fellowship in sculpture.  He founded the Bates Arts Center in Boston and directed HOME, Inc., a Boston non-profit for over 40 years until his retirement in the fall of 2017. 
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Alan's photo paintings track the cycle of renewal in nature, in cities under construction, and as reflected in how we inhabit and interact in our culture. The ebb and flow of life is captured and amplified in over lays and patterns with seasonal light and color providing us with a fresh look at the startling beauty and magnificent complexity that surrounds us.      alanmichel@alanmichel.com
 
Emily O’Hara
I am a metalsmith and fiber artist whose designs are often influenced by my weaving background. With Cazimi, a creative collaborative, I also create temporary public art installations incorporating elements from nature, fiber arts, and metalwork.     Instagram: @silverlabyrinthdesign
 
Kathy Reming
I am primarily a printmaker but often combine other mediums to solve creative problems. I love the gathering of information for a project and will often start in one place with an idea but end up somewhere else.      www.kathyreming.com
 
Susan Schön
Susan Schön is a surface pattern designer with over 30 years of experience. She ran her own hand-painted children’s clothing business, has created one-of-a-kind silk garments, designed wallpaper, upholstery fabric, Polartec® apparel fabric, gift wrap, gift bags, journals, cards, coir rugs, and more. Her work has been in stores such as Barnes & Noble, Cost Plus World Market, Pier One and L.L. Bean and Patagonia.  Expressing herself through creativity is not only the work of her career, but the core of her life.     www.susanschon.com

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