Exhibition News/ Links
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
WCUW 91.3 Community Silent Auction
Wednesday Dec 3 through Sunday December 21
The Opening Reception Wednesday, December 3, from 6–8 PM, showcasing works by Frank Armstrong, Lisa Barthelson, Louis Despres, Stephen DiRado, Dan Hunt, Don Hartmann, Howard Johnson, Rosemary Lebeau, Al Souza, Sue Swinand, and Jill Watts, along with special contributions from the WCUW family.
Silent bidding will take place during the Opening Reception, with a final opportunity to bid and collect purchased works during the Holiday Happy Hour on Sunday, December 21, from 5–7 PM (final bids accepted 5–5:30 PM).
Gallery hours: Mondays noon to 3 pm; Wednesdays 2 to 4 pm; Thursdays 1 to 3 pm; Fridays 11 am to 2 pm; or by appointment. Free to all!
The Harold Stevens Gallery is located inside WCUW, 910 Main Street, Worcester, MA. Parking in the Clark University lot across the street, or on the street.
https://wcuw.org/
UNWRAPPING, December
TAG The Art Gallery
First Friday: December 5, 2025
Exhibition Reception and Artist Talk: Sunday, December 14, 2025
Dec. 6 - Dec 27, 2025
Gallery Hours: Weds - Sunday 12 - 5pm
460 Harrison Ave, Unit 2c, Boston MA
https://newenglandartcenter.com/
Triennial Exhibition Reflecting on the Past / Dreaming the Future at Hampden Gallery, juried by Nick Capasso, Director of the Fitchburg Art Museum
Opening Reception: Friday, September 12, 2025, 5 - 7 pm
September 12 - December 3, 2025
Hampden Gallery, Fine Arts Center, UMass Amherst
131 Southwest Cir, Amherst, MA
Making Waves: The Boston Printmakers Members’ Exhibit 2025
Opening Reception: September 21, 2025, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
September 21, 2025 to January 11, 2026
The Art Complex Museum
189 Alden Street
Duxbury, MA,
https://artcomplex.org/exhibitions-2/
ImMigration at IMPACT 13 Trois-Rivières, Quebec, October 2025
Musée des Cultures du Monde in Nicolet, Canada
October 1 through December 2025
Motherhood as Muse, curated by Kathryn Geismar and Deborah Peeples
Artists Reception: Thursday October 23, 5:30 pm. Curators' tour 5 pm
Panel Discussion: Mothers Thinkers: Kate Holcomb Hale and Helena Wurtzel, exhibiting artists and Nicole Graev Lipson, author of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters Saturday Nov 1, 2025, 2pm
Artist Demo: Deborah Peeples, exhibiting artist and co-curator, Weds. Nov 12, 12:30
Panel Discussion: Panel moderated by exhibiting artist Joetta Maue, with exhibiting artists Lisa Barthelson, Merill Comeau, Anastasia Sierra at Ishibashi Gallery at Middlesex School, 1400 Lowell Rd, Concord MA, December 2, 6:30 to 7:30
Panel Discussion: Katherine Bradford, Kathryn Geismar, Alison Croney Moses and Deborah Peeples, exhibiting artists. Dr. Michelle Millar Fisher, Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Moderator, Thursday Dec 11, 6pm
October 23 to December 21, 2025
Concord Art Association
37 Lexington Road
Concord, MA 01742
https://www.concordart.org
Pieced: an exploration of collage, curated by Jessica Burko
Artists Reception: November 6, 2025, 5pm - 7pm
October 15, 2025 - January 9, 2026
Gallery hours: 7am - 10pm daily
Gallery at Atlantic Wharf
290 Congress St, Boston, MA
https://www.atlanticwharfboston.com/
Small Works 2025, a Members Exhibition
Public Reception, Friday November 7, 6 - 9pm
November 5 - December 14, 2025
ArtsWorcester
44 Portland St, Worcester MA
https://artsworcester.org/exhibition/small-works-2025/
Artists Links/ Media
Associate Member of Boston Sculptors Gallery
https://www.bostonsculptors.com/
Member of Boston Printmakers
https://www.bostonprintmakers.org/
Member of the Monotype Guild of New England
https://mgne.org/gallery/lisa-barthelson/
Member of New England Sculptors Association
https://nesculptors.org/
Member of the National Association of Women Artists Inc
http://theNAWA.org
Member of i3C artists group: inspiring awareness and action towards improving the human-made environmental and climate crisis through art
https://www.i3cartists.com
Conversations with artists using repurposed materials in their art practice
Lisa Barthelson Brings Composed Chaos to the Bedford Library with the Latest Art Gallery Exhibit ‘family debris, revisited’
https://thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/01/lisa-barthelson-brings-composed-chaos-to-the-bedford-library-with-the-latest-art-gallery-exhibit-family-debris-revisited/
WICN, Inquiry with Mark Lynch http://www.wicn.org/podcasts/audio/lisa-crossman-and-lisa-barthelson-plastic-imagination-fam
Meet Lisa Barthelson - Boston Voyager Magazine i Boston City Guide
Plastic Imagination, Fitchburg Art Museum Fall Exhibition 2016
WBUR Artery with Andrea Shea
http://www.wbur.org/artery/2016/10/13/fitchburg-art-museum-plastics
http://worcestermag.com/2016/09/15/fantastic-world-plastic/45832
http://www.telegram.com/entertainmentlife/20161002/plastics-spotlighted-in-fitchburg-art-museum-exhibit
Danforth Art Annual: 2016 Juried Exhibition
http://www.danforthart.org/assets/forms/Danforth_Art_Annual_2016_web-small.pdf
Ten Years of the Artist's Professional Toolbox, The Arts and Business Councli of Greater Boston
http://www.artsandbusinesscouncil.org/images/apt%20book_web.pdf
The Art of Science, The Science of Art, Worcester State University, juried by Nick Capasso
http://www.telegram.com/article/20151016/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/151019438
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlkQ5ARwanY
Artscope: Cornered: Circling Around Nebraska City with Lisa Barthelson by J. Fatima Martins
http://zine.artscopemagazine.com/2015/10/cornered-circling-around-nebraska-city-with-lisa-barthelson/
Catalogue for: Once, Monotype Guild of New England Exhibition Juried by Scott Schnepf:
http://mgne.org/once-exhibition-catalogue/
Once, climbing trees, making forts, a family debris installation by lisa barthelson
http://stage.telegram.com/article/20150515/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150519612
http://worcestermag.com/2015/05/07/rise-from-ruin-local-artist-turns-scraps-into-vision/33437
http://www.telegram.com/article/20150505/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150509831
Arts and Ideas with Sue Swinand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgRBdC4CDg
Catalogue for: Off the Wall, juried by Dr. Katherine French, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA
http://www.danforthart.org/assets/forms/exhibtion_OTW_2015_catalog_WEB_V2.pdf
ArtsWorcester Biennial 2015
http://www.telegram.com/article/20150501/ENTERTAINMENT/305019941
far and near, new works from Lisa Barthelson and Kay Hartung
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20150215/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150217890
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, an invitational, North Bennington VT:
Artscope article by J. Fatima Martins:
http://zine.artscopemagazine.com/2015/06/labor-of-love/
Ambient Folklore:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2014/08/11/boston-area-list/EBA4IAEfSg1hi3cv0ICyhM/story.html?comments=all&sort=HIGHEST_RATING
http://www.telegram.com/article/20140731/NEWS/307319992/0
http://www.clarkscarlet.com/ambient-folklore-a-cure-to-the-saturday-blues/
79th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum:
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20140630/ENTERTAINMENT/140639710/11553/ENTERTAINMENT?template=printart
Indoor Games:
http://worcestermag.com/2013/12/05/game-sprinkler-factory/19090
materialize, Lisa Barthelson + Denise Driscoll Exhibition press:
Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2013/05/15/two-artists-exhibiting-can-better-than-one/2idadPp3qDQz9o9Bhly5bO/story.html
Worcester T&G: http://www.telegram.com/article/20130417/TOWNNEWS/130419715/-1/telegramtowns&TEMPLATE=TOWNPORTAL&WT_TOWN=telegramtowns
Framingham Patch: http://framingham.patch.com/articles/5-things-you-need-to-know-today-may-17-297acbc0
The Landmark: http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2013-04-11/Rutland_News/Rutland_artists_work_on_display.html
MetroWest article &video
http://www.wickedlocal.com/framingham/news/x1353233911/Threads-of-creativity-run-through-Cotton-exhibit#axzz2ILjSX0DY
GoLocalWorcester: 13 to Watch in Central Mass in 2013: January 1, 2013:
http://www.golocalworcester.com/news/13-to-watch-in-central-mass-in-2013/
GoLocalWorcester interview: December 4, 2012:
http://www.golocalworcester.com/lifestyle/rutlands-lisa-barthelson-creates-art-out-of-the-mundane/
Illuminations Press:
Lisa Barthelson, artist Interview on NPR's WICN program: 'Inquiry', hosted by Mark Lynch: http://www.wicn.org/podcasts/audio/lisa-barthelson-artist
Barthelson Crane : here now Exhibition press:
Artscope article: http://artscopemagazine.com/asdyn/index.wr?is=33&a=12
Worcester Magazine article: http://worcestermag.com/2011/09/29/in-the-moment-130706023/8249
Attleboro Arts Museum's 'green' juried exhibition videos:
http://youtu.be/E8YHRVxYSoA
http://www.doubleacs.com/?q=node/2673
The Danforth Museum's 2011 'Off the Wall' Exhibition catalogue:
http://danforthmuseum.org/assets/forms/Annual%20Juried%20Show%202011%20-%20Online%20Catalog%20-%20Off%20the%20Wall.pdf
Blackstone Print Studio's 'undercurrents' Exhibition:
http://www.worcestermag.com/home/top-stories/Pieces-of-Eight-123984904.html
http://worcesterscene.com/nina-fletcher-in-undercurrents/
Lisa Barthelson, 'family debris series, a print installation' and Virginia
Fitzgerald, 'the dress project' Exhibition:
http://framingham.patch.com/articles/family-debris-transformed-into-art#photo-5233800
http://artscopemagazine.com/asdyn/index.wr?is=30&a=27
http://birthingagallery.blogspot.com
http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2011-03-03/Rutland_News
'mixed up' Juried Exhibition: Davis Art Gallery, Worcester
http://www.telegram.com/article/20110626/NEWS/106269606
'Perspectives' online publication pages 37, 38, 39
ttp://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e44bb62a?page=1#/e44bb62a/36
'family debris, new print installation' video by John Pascarelli:
http://pascarelligallery.net/quickie-art-show-tours/qast-2010-10-28-lisa-barthelson-family-debris.html
http://www.telegram.com/article/20101007/NEWS/10070712
Channel 13 video interview by Judy Langlois: http://www.wccatv.com/video/specials/aitpartistinterviews2
'Water Rings' Winner of Juror's Choice Gold Award
http://www.telegram.com/article/20100729/NEWS/7290659
http://worcestermag.com/2010/07/29/annual-migration-of-art-has-landed-99481139/6470
http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2010-08-05/Rutland_News/Rutland_artists_work_on_exhibit_at_Worcesters_Elm_.html
Additional media:
Art in the Park 2009
http://www.artsworcester.org/exhibits-events/2009/working-it-out-works-lisa-barthelson
http://artsake.massculturalcouncil.org/blog/artsake/index.php/2009/08/07/public-art-nested-in-worcester/
http://www.telegram.com/article/20090730/NEWS/907300869
Working it out
ARTSWorcester, 7/29/2009: http://www.artsworcester.org/exhibits-events/2009/working-it-out-works-lisa-barthelson
found nest after ice storm, Art in the Park 2009, Worcester MA
MCC ArtSake, 7/8/2009: http://artsake.massculturalcouncil.org/blog/artsake/index.php/2009/08/07/public-art-nested-in-worcester/
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 7/30/2009: http://www.telegram.com/article/20090730/NEWS/907300869
MetroWest Daily News, 8/19/2009: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1915486810/Eclectic-art-brings-park-goers-together-in-Worcester
Artscope, September/October 2009: http://www.artscopemagazine.com/asdyn/index.wr?is=21&a=7
o…out…obsessively: Worcester Magazine: http://worcestermag.com/2008/08/06/obsessing-over-o/4633