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Local Artists’ Work to be Featured in Studios Without Walls 2025

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Watertown artist Dawn Scaltreto and Watertown’s Arts & Culture Planner Liz Helfer will be part of the Studio Without Walls 2025, “Dream Along the River,” which takes place near the Longwood T station in Brookline. See more information provided by Studio Without Walls. Studios Without Walls 2025, 26th Annual Exhibition “Dream Along the River” 

Studios Without Walls has chosen 17 site specific sculptures in a remarkable variety of mediums, with a range of messages from equality to the environment, & social action. We have incorporated work by disabled artists from Gateway Arts, Boston Green Academy and the Community Academy of Science and Health. Bette Ann Libby’s “Dream Finder” will be part of Studio Without Walls 2025. Creating an oasis of art that enables the viewer to interpret, transform, heal, inform, relax and play among this unique collection.

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Contemporary Printmakers’ Work on Display at Mosesian Center for the Arts

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Lisa Barthelson’s “Random Remix I: Family Debris” is part of the latest exhibit at the Mosesian Center for the Arts. The following announcement was provided by the Mosesian Center for the Arts:

At Mosesian Arts printmakers are combining traditional printmaking techniques with contemporary approaches. Contemporary Printmaking: From Tradition to InnovationDates: May 9–June 27, 2025Opening Reception: Thursday, May 29, 5:30–7:30 PM

The Mosesian Center for the Arts is excited to showcase work that uses at least one or more printmaking processes. Contemporary printmaking is both shaped by tradition and innovation. This exhibition explores the variety of ways that contemporary artists approach printmaking from employing traditional techniques to more alternative methods and materials.

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Creative Chats Features Artist Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

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The following announcement was provided by Matt Hanna, host of Creative Chats:

Matt Hanna of Little Local Conversations will lead the featured conversation with painter, printmaker, and collage artist Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. They’ll chat around a question that Julie has been spending time pondering on within the topic of creativity and the creative life. Creative Chats is a way to gather creative people face-to-face to mingle, hear a featured conversation on the topic of creativity and the creative life, and then engage in the conversation themselves in small groups. Little Local Conversations Presents Creative Chats!: With Guest Julie Fei-Fan Balze

Friday, May 16th, 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m.

Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St. More info here (https://www.littlelocalconversations.com/events/creative-chats-with-guest-julie-fei-fan-balzer)

Come to get inspired, to reflect, and connect.

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Hear from the Artists Behind the New Additions to Watertown’s Community Sculpture Walk

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Artist Joe Chirchirillo installed a new painted metal sculpture on the Community Sculpture Walk. (City of Watertown)

New pieces have been installed on the Watertown Community Sculpture Walk. On Saturday, a walk is planned where artists will discuss their sculptures. See more information from the City of Watertown. There is a Community Sculpture Walk on the Community Path in Saltonstall Park on Saturday, May 17, 2025, from 11 a.m.-noon.

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Latest Local Podcast Episodes Feature Assistant City Manager & Creative Chat with Arts Organizer

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Recent episodes of the Little Local Conversations podcast featured Watertown’s Assistant City Manager for Community Development and Planning, Steve Magoon, as well as, the most recent Creative Chats with artist and arts organizer Kristen Kenny. In Little Local Conversations, host Matt Hanna discovers and connects the people, places, stories, and ideas of Watertown. Podcast guests include community leaders, business owners, non-profit organizers, artists and creatives, and other folks doing interesting and important work in the city. Hanna provided the following information about the episodes:

Steve Magoon

Meet Steve Magoon! He’s the Assistant City Manager for Community Development and Planning for the City of Watertown.

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Armenian Museum’s Exhibit Features Work of Contemporary Artist Varujan Boghosian

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“Self-Portrait as a Lion,” is part of the Armenian Museum of America’s exhibit of the art of Varujan Boghosian. The following announcement was provided by the Armenian Museum of America:

The Armenian Museum of America of Watertown (Boston) recently announced a new exhibition of 45 works by Armenian-American artist Varujan Boghosian. “Fragments of Memory: The Art and Legacy of Varujan Boghosian” offers a rare opportunity to experience the elegant, poetic constructions created by an artist who left a profound mark on the world of contemporary art. Curated by Ryann Casey, the exhibition is sponsored by the Alan and Isabelle Der Kazarian Foundation. Varujan Boghosian (1926–2020) was more than just an artist; he was a mentor, a teacher, and a friend to many.

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Exhibit of Watertown Photographer’s Work on Display in Cambridge

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“Summer Street, Boston,” is one of Joseph Levendusky’s photos that will be displayed at CambridgeSeven + the Paul Dietrich Gallery. The photographs of Watertown’s Joseph Levendusky will be displayed at a gallery in Cambridge through late June, and a reception will be held on April 24. See more in the announcement from CambridgeSeven + the Paul Dietrich Gallery. JOSEPH LEVENDUSKY TO EXHIBIT NEW WORK AT PAUL DIETRICH GALLERY 

CambridgeSeven welcomes Photographer Joseph Levendusky to the Paul Dietrich Gallery with a new collection of photographs 

WHO: CambridgeSeven + the Paul Dietrich Gallery

WHAT: A Sense of Place – Photographs by Joseph Levendusky. Shot in color during 2023 and 2024, A Sense of Place comprises 22 images which were captured close to home in places that presented themselves as intriguing but perhaps overlooked.