CURRENT and UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

  Join us on Sarturday, November 7, 2026 from 1:00-2:30 pm for a conversation with the artists about their work.  Free admission. Four Southcoast artists embrace Nature as both subject matter and material. The paintings, sculptures, and assemblages in this exhibition are both tactile and draw on Nature’s broad palette, textures, and patterns, with references to the sea, the land, and the celestial all at once.    Stephanie Stroud produces impressionistic wool felt paintings of New England landscapes that are tactile in both process and appearance. She employs two felt-making techniques, the first of which is needle-feltsing the dyed, unspun wool, deliberately and delicately layering color to capture light, texture and depth in soft impressionistic scenes. The needle felted paintings are then washed in a process called wet felting, which involves soap, hot water and friction to bond the wool fibers together, resulting in traditional landscapes created in an...

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Opening reception: Sunday, October 18 from 1-3 p.m. The Night Watchers began as a series of imagined guardians—quiet figures who stand at the threshold between the familiar and the unknown. Part animal, part myth, and part memory, they are protectors of dreams, stories, time, and the unseen moments that shape our lives. Although each painting carries its own narrative, together they create a world where symbolism, imagination, and personal mythology invite viewers to discover their own meanings. While these paintings may appear to have arrived unexpectedly, they are the result of a much longer journey. Throughout Lemelin’s career, he has explored many artistic traditions, learning from the painters and storytellers who inspired him. Looking back, The Night Watchers did not emerge from nowhere; they grew from years of searching, experimenting, and gradually letting go of the expectation that his work should resemble anyone else’s. Lemelin says this series represents less a...

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Elizabeth Ellenwood, Arctic Reefs 1, 2025 Elizabeth Ellenwood and Kelsey Miller approach the environment through acts of looking, collecting, recording, and creating. Though their practices emerge from different mediums and methodologies, both artists are deeply connected to the ways landscapes and seascapes hold evidence of change. Their work asks us to consider water, ice, mud, and debris as materials that carry memory, curiosity, and ideas. Both artists reflect a shared impulse to slow down and pay attention through their practice. Ellenwood looks outward through the lens, while Miller works through physical contact and accumulation; both transform encounters with the environment into visual records that are personal and scientific.  Surface/Shoal considers landscape not as a fixed backdrop, but as a living, shifting archive. The works reveal environments in states of transition and ask what it means to bear witness to those changes. In bringing these two practices...

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