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The Art of the Crawl

4/28/2023

Yep, Westerly has a First Friday Art Crawl!

Join us for First Friday Westerly Art Crawl. EIGHT art spots to visit. Galleries, artist studios even a museum!.

The Artists Cooperative Gallery - ACGOW will be opening their 28th Regional Art Exhibition and the Westerly High School seniors show is on view at The United Theater.

AiR Studio Gallery will be showing work by Providence Artist Sumo Bunni, paintings by Dan Welden renowned artist and master printmaker along with a selection of photographs and paintings by AiR co-owners Annie Wildey and Michael Fanelli.

Westerly Camera & Darkroom will have a cool exhibition by local photographer Steven Morse.

The Space has a pop-up of local creative vendors.

Artists Alicia Piccolo, Heather Doherty, Kevin Gilmore, Antonio Forte and Red Couch Studio offer a rare peek into their studios and...

...the Living Shark Museum offer an opportunity to get up close and learn more about these intriguing ocean dwellers.

Keep your eyes peeled for this art stop sign in windows.

But we will also have pocket size maps available at each venue so you wont miss a stop!

Hope to see you Friday!

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Spring Back - A Fairytale

4/13/2023

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Art is a Fairytale

Fairytale by Shari Weschler.

Fairytale by Shari Weschler is one of the paintings on view this month at AiR studio Gallery.

Autobiographical, Shari taps into her dreams for messengers and guides to be the protagonists in her work. Helping her to process emotional energy. Rabbits and hares appear often.

Unselfconscious and unapologetic. In Fairytale, Shari let’s rip on the canvas like a whirling dervish using both hands, working with paint as a vehicle to purge emotion as her imagery reveals itself. Emerging from the distance, breaking through the layers and veils of paint.

We can see just enough to offer a hint at a narrative. But can’t be sure.

Could it be a nod to Empress Catherina who was known for her passion for birds of prey and a famous Women falconer. Or the goddess Circe who was associated with hawks. An old world vulture, and believed to be descended from the griffin, the guardian of the mysteries of life & death.

It isn’t clear who Shari might have conjured up from mythology and our collective unconscious, or what the message is. But we are invited to speculate and perhaps craft a contemporary fairytale of our own - what do you see?