Exhibition News/ Links




Current and Upcoming Exhibitions




Fuller Craft Museum 2025 Members Biennial Exhibition: Town and Country
juried by Cicely Carew

Opening Reception: Saturday, noon - 2pm, May 17, 2025

Saturday, May 17  – Sunday, November 30, 2025

Fuller Craft Museum, 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA
https://fullercraft.org/current-exhibitions/   




COLORS, works by Kat O'Connor, John Pagano, Lisa Barthelson, Carrie Crane, John Hyden, Emanuel Manu Opuku, Robin Reynolds
Opening Reception: September 10, 2025, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Closing Reception and Artists Talk: 
Color and the Artistic Process: A Discussion with the Artists, Saturday Sept 27, 10:30am - 12:00
September 10 - 27, 2025
Krikorian Gallery
Worcester Center for Craft
https://worcestercraftcenter.org/events/colors/



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



Boundaries and Beyond, i3C & Guests, 
curated by Adriana G Prat and Susan Altman
Opening Reception with Liquid Spine: Friday September 12, 6 - 9 pm
Art & Soul Circle #1: Friday, September 26, 6:30-8:30 pm
Art & Soul Circle #2: Friday, October 24, 6:30-8:30 pm
Sept 12 - Nov 7, 2025
Arts Collaborative Medford
162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA
https://artscollabmedford.org


New Hampshire Art Association's, Biennial 2, juried by Bruce McColl, artist, curator and former Director of the Currier Museum of Art
Opening Reception: Sept 5, 5–8pm
Awards Ceremony (nearly $5,000 in prizes): Sept 17 at 5pm
Gallery Tours with NHAA Executive Director Amanda Kidd-Kestler: Sept 11, Oct 9, Nov 13 qt 6:30pm
Sept 5 - Nov 30, 2025
Gallery at Jimmy's, 135 Congress St, Portsmouth NH
https://www.nhartassociation.org/


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 Contempora
ry 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/



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
 





 
SALVAGE podcast with Natalya Khorover
Conversations with artists using repurposed materials in their art practice           
https://www.artbynatalya.com/salvage-podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FbJwP3P9c

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

bostonvoyager.com/interview/meet-lisa-barthelson/


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, N
orth Bennington VT
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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:

Illuminations interview on npr's WICN program:  'Inquiry', hosted by Mark Lynch:  http://www.wicn.org/podcasts/audio/barthelson-lebeau-and-crane-illuminations 

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

http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-new-york/670021/prince-george-art-show-opening-night-party

'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