City Arts Nashua presents: 17th ArtWeek & KidsWeek Nashua 2021!

About Our Weeklong Event

We at City Arts Nashua had to think outside the box last year by creating a new format for our traditional ArtWeek. Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are again featuring a virtualArtWeek and KidsWeek Nashua!

With a variety of quality arts-related programming, we are helping our creative community reach an even larger audience with social media connections and shared programming to be offered Sat., Oct. 16 – Sun., Oct. 24, 2021.

In this way, we hope to invite in a broad audience in a format that allows people to tune in from anywhere!

We kick off ArtWeek by exploring the art scene in the Nashua area, letting you meet local artists and performers via video footage. These segments, which will be televised and shown on various online platforms, have been professionally filmed by Access Nashua Community Television who generously helped create and broadcast this excellent programming. With our virtual format, you don’t have to be from the Nashua region to join us in supporting our creative community! ArtWeek will conclude on Sun., Oct. 24.

How to View ArtWeek

Throughout the week, and throughout each day on Access Nashua Community Television, City Arts Nashua’s website and social media there will be profiles of artists and their works, posts about each artist will be displayed on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, along with Twitter and LinkedIn. Events and programming televised on Access Nashua Community Television Channel 96, can be found onaccessnashua.org, City Arts Nashua’s website, social media pages and City Arts Nashua’s YouTube channel. We will update soon with the programming schedules.

Live/in person events:

• Eric Escobarwill hold a live artmaking performance and create our ArtWeek installation piece as he has done for the last several years at our previous in-person ArtWalks, at 30 Temple St., Nashua on Sat., Oct. 16 at 10:00 a.m.
• Self-guided public sculpture tourof the works of the Nashua International Sculpture Symposium. Maps are available at Picker Artists Studios at 3 Pine St., Nashua, or using the Distrx app, which will also be available on City Arts Nashua's website: www.cityartsnashua.org

How to participate in KidsWalk!

Our popular scavenger hunt is back and even better this year! Yes, we may have to stay socially distanced, and yes, we are all tired of Covid restrictions, but this year we are making even more mini art kits and even more fun content for our young artist friends to enjoy! With a little help from Access Nashua Community Television and Nashua-based photographer Sid Caesar, Woz Watts and Sid the puppet are going undercover as superheroes, hiding new, fun art kits for kids to find at various public sculpture locations throughout Nashua. Five of these kits will contain a very rare, very exclusive CREATIVITY STONE, which will grant the artist that discovers it unlimited creative power! During ArtWeek, 50 mini art kits, containing paint, sewing or sculpture projects will be hidden at various Nashua International Sculpture Symposium site locations. Hints will be revealed through our City Arts Nashua social media, and maps of sculpture site locations will be available at The Picker Artists Studios, at 3 Pine St, Nashua. Be sure to watch for Woz and Sid on Access Nashua Community Television and City Arts Nashua’s social media! Join in the fun, and find your creativity superpowers!

Participating ArtWeek artists and performers:

· Eric Escobar live artmaking performance

· Tim Foley paintings and drawings in many styles, media, genres

· Positive Street Art urban arts, including murals,delivered in a productive and interdisciplinary way, building stronger communities through a variety of workshops, events

· Damien Rigden interdisciplinary artist creating books, songs, art, and photography

· Robert Lembree fine art photographer with a love of travel, landscape and human interest

· Nancy Goodwin/UpbeatNH Youth Orchestra

· Carol Lake live special events painter, plein air art, fine art, portraiture,sculpture; travels globally for special event painting

· Ruth Boland/League of NH Craftsmen basketmaker who also wants to highlight the League of NH Craftsmen and its galleries celebrating N.H. artisans

· Sumeet + Gracelynn Mehta/myllyynnis food photography Mother - daughter team

· Teresa Moler Watercolor artist and puppeteer performing since childhood

· Madeleine LaRose creates local landscapes in pastels and acrylics

· Bonnie Guercio creates mixed-media collages

· Lisa Culpa landscape photographer focused on New England scenery, nature and textures Karina Mitchell/Membitinteractive art created by pairing traditional mediums with emerging technology; collaboration, remixing and using public domain assets are central to these works

· Nona Angelini painting/sketching; mixed media figure drawing, small sketches, brings awareness to current social issues

· Lindsay Rinaldi of Nashua Community Music School will highlight musical work in the community; one children's video will appear in partnership with Nashua Public Library

· Leslie Pasternack/Lemon Punch Theatre Lab a theatre artist who teaches scene study, physical comedy, more to adults

· Ricardo Cortez work rangesfrom dark abstract to soft whimsicalphotography

· Douglas Huntley abstract mixed media artist working currently on "splatter paintings" as a new technique to apply colors onto textured canvas surface

· Janice Donnelly paints bright, colorful and happy landscapes in oils focusing on untouched areas of New Hampshire

· Olivia Powell immersive, performative, and imaginative writing from a circus of stories

· Loretta Hubley recomposes scenery she has experienced through etching and painting to inspire contemplation of the spiritual messages embodied in nature

· Marjorie Hogan/Quint-Essential Winds flutist

· Brenda McDougald landscape photography

· Bitter Pill father + daughter and more rhythm and bluegrass band from New Hampshire

· Joseph Bryant pyrography, custom wooden plaques canes/walking sticks, wood carving

· Nonda’s Gallery a multimedia enigma, a visionary fairy tale

Our event hashtag for when you share our content:

#ArtsConnectNH

#NHArts

#cityartsnashua

#nashuaart

#artwalknashua

#LoveNashua

#2021ArtWeekNashua

#publicart,

#musicNashua

For more information and our social media platforms:

City Arts Nashua website:http://www.cityartsnashua.org

City Arts Nashua Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cityartsnashua

City Arts Nashua Instagram page:https://www.instagram.com/artwalknashua/

City Arts Nashua YouTube channel:https://youtube.com/channel/UCypBL2b9Hg23cx-zPf0a6kQ

Access Nashua Community Television stream: http://accessnashua.org/stream.php

Special thanks to our sponsors:
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Great American Downtown, Nashua Arts Commission, Access Nashua Community Television