Art Installations Scheduled for June 14 for Art on the Trails: Number 9 at Beals Preserve in Southborough
Ceramics, Reeds, Caning, Mud, Acrylics, and Metal Wires
The Southborough Open Land Foundation invites the general public to visit Beals Preserve on Saturday, June 14, from 10 am to 5 pm to watch artists install their work for the 9th annual Art on the Trails. The Elaine and Phillip Beals Preserve is located on Main Street in Southborough, Massachusetts.
This year’s theme is Number 9. A juried exhibition of sculptural installations will be on view beginning June 14th and closing on September 14th. The exhibition is juried by Sculptor Madeleine Lord of Dudley, MA.
Thirteen projects will be exhibited this year. Artists participating are Sarah Alexander (Sutton, MA), Paul Angiolillo (Weston, MA), Clark Barnhart (Worcester, MA), Lisa Barthelson (Rutland, MA), Shawndavid Berry (Newport, RI), Pam Bonaguide (Wayland, MA), Chelsea Bradway (Southborough, MA), Trish Dehls (Woodstock, CT), Denise Johnson and the students of Margaret Neary Elementary School (Southborough, MA), Rebecca Long (Stow, MA), Julie Nussbaum (Cambridge, MA), Charles Smith (Jefferson NH), and Lee Williams (Shaftbury, VT).
Art Juror Madeleine Lord said of the selection process, “The works selected for this year’s Art on the Trails will hopefully give visitors a startle, a smile, and a pause to enjoy their placement in the landscape. Some are made from wood, so their return to a woodland trail is like a makeover reveal. Other works are composed of materials with origins completely foreign to nature, yet they combine like exotic tourists.”
Debbie Costine, Trustee of the Southborough Open Land Foundation (SOLF), said, “ Southborough Open Land Foundation(SOLF) welcomes the ninth annual Art on the Trails. We hope that all those who visit the Beals Preserve will enjoy the interpretations of “Number 9”—this year’s theme. A walk in a natural setting often slows us down to see, listen, and appreciate with more awareness.”
In addition to the installations, the program will include poetry written in response to the work and will be juried by poet Maura Snell. A prize-winning poem will be selected from submissions by award-winning poet Fred Gerhard.
To learn more about this event and download a map, visit www.artonthetrails.com or contact Catherine Weber at cweber@catherinemweber.com or 508-523-3605.
Our Partners
We are honored to have the generous support from the following organizations:
Southborough Open Land Foundation
The Southborough Open Land Foundation (SOLF) is a private land trust founded in 1988. The all-volunteer organization with over 300 local members and a board of 14 trustees, reserves and protects open space in Southborough, Massachusetts. SOLF manages 191 acres of open space as well as sponsoring a variety of nature-based recreational and educational activities in cooperation with the Southborough Gardeners, Arts Center at Southborough, Southborough Extended Day, Boy and Girl Scouts, Southborough Recreation, and other organizations including walks, plant lectures, trail maintenance, field trips for school children, snowshoe clinics, art shows, and Earth Day clean-ups. SOLF also collaborates with the Town of Southborough, other land trusts, and state and federal agencies
to conserve open space and promote biodiversity. Visit their website at solf.org.
Southborough Community Fund
The Southborough Community Fund (SCF) promotes a spirit of philanthropic giving to fund the critical needs and the wonderful wants of Southborough citizens. Established in 2014 by local residents as a fund of the Foundation for MetroWest, the SCF is a source of financial support, as well as a convening mechanism to foster innovation and collaboration across the townspeople and the organizations designed to benefit them. By providing opportunities in the areas of Family Support, Arts, Culture, and Environment, the Fund enables residents to make an immediate impact in their community. Visit their website at southboroughcommunityfund.org.
Additional funding comes from Jennifer Juliano, Middlesex Bank, Root to Rise Pilates, and Fay School.