Group Art Show@ the Cloister Gallery at St. Andrew's Church

Group Art Show@ the Cloister Gallery at St. Andrew’s Church

The Cloister Gallery at St. Andrew’s Church is featuring an exhibition of artwork by local artists Joyce Bartlett, Crias Corrigan, and a group of youth artists from Raw Art Works in Lynn, MA. Joyce Bartlett is sponsored by Cloister Gallery partner, the Marblehead Zen Center. The show will open with a reception on Sunday May 17th from 11:15am-12:30 p.m. and run through Thursday July 16th. The Cloister Gallery at St. Andrew’s Church is located at 135 Lafayette St., Marblehead. The Gallery hours are M-Th 9am-4pm, F 9am-12pm, Sa 8:30-11:30am, Su 8am-12pm. The Gallery is handicapped accessible. For more information, please call 781-631-4951 or visit standrewsmhd.org/cloistergallery.html. For information on the Marblehead Zen Center, call 781-724-2508 or visit www.marbleheadzencenter.org.

Joyce Bartlett has been drawing and painting since childhood, and has experimented with a wide range of materials including pencil, charcoal, watercolor, acrylic, oils, and mixed media. She is a self-described “mad scientist” when it comes to media—combining oil paint and other mediums in rather unusual combinations. Crias Corrigan is an oil painter, printmaker, photographer, and also produces art in dry and mixed media formats. As a resident of Essex Massachusetts, he continuously delves into the local flora, fauna and natural landscape. Raw Art Works has passionately pursued its mission to ignite the desire to create and the confidence to succeed, using the power of the arts to transform young lives, serving at-risk youths in downtown Lynn. In their “In a Word” exhibit, these young artists answered the question, “What three-letter word represents what you value in your life?” They were challenged through observational drawing to depict their own hands in sign language spelling out the word while creating a composition to further describe how the word related to them.