With its relative affordability and accessibility, Nahcotta’s “Enormous Tiny Art” show has turned many art lovers into art collectors over the years. More than 40...
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True hand
For some people, it’s the mountains. For Seacoast native Lisa Noonis, it’s the ocean that moves her. “It’s just a vital force for me,” she...
Full of feeling
Christopher Volpe might change how you feel about local landscape paintings. The difference is in really feeling something. His paintings often start outside, en plein...
Back and forth
words and photos by Chloe Kanner The way we move together, through, and around a Kirsten Reynolds installation is a kind of dance. It’s not...
Crayon time
Coloring books for adults aren’t a fad or a new phenomenon (and, despite the name, aren’t raunchy), but they have had a recent surge in...
Carving out time
She was searching for something else in the tangle of technology, when Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne came across an old email from her husband. Before they were married...
Magic in the making
The thrill of working with glowing molten iron lasts as long the sculptures made from it. It’s been more than 10 years since Lauren and...
The fourth dimension
Sculpture is an invitation, according to art consultant Rebecca Reynolds. It wants to share a space, and asks for a response. It demands and rewards...
Casting shadows
Thomas Berger may be the most recognized stone sculptor in the Seacoast. His work has become a part of the landscape at destinations like the...
Looking up
Above: “Sky Grammar V” by Kate Doyle Drift Gallery’s Ali Goodwin finds light in art and life after cancer by Chloe Kanner It’s been five...
First Fridays
This Friday, June 5, there are two opportunities to get overwhelmed by just how much local galleries have to offer. This preview will help you...
The playing field
It’s the bottom of the ninth. Two outs. Three balls, two strikes. But the pitcher’s mound and the bleachers are empty. Tyler Lafreniere, a Brooklyn-based...
Chases garage opens for season
Above: Stick Fort by Cait Guinta Chases Garage opens its gallery for the season with a reception for “Sticks and Stones” on Saturday, May 23,...
Drink and Draw starts up at 3S
A new event, currently scheduled for the last Tuesday of every month, invites all creative types to Drink and Draw at Block Six, the restaurant...
The eyes have it
Sam Paolini is a visual artist, clothing designer, community organizer, curator, publisher, and teacher. She is a force putting eyes on unconventional art. In 2010,...
In the present
Dragging a vintage ironing board to the ocean was Rose Marasco’s way of honoring someone she read about, a housewife without time for her art....
Modern family
Above: wood sculpture by Edwin Scheier, collection of Brian and Stephanie Fischer; sugar bowl by Mary Scheier, on loan from the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen...
Call to Artists
A new creative collaboration between The Sound newspaper and the Prescott Park Arts Festival aims to put the press in Prescott Park. The two Portsmouth-based...
One good thing
Twenty years ago, Mary Harding thought she’d take some time away from work. She resigned from the Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, Maine after four years...
Thresholds and borderlines
Above: a detail from “Through Dangers Untold” by Jocelyn Toffic Jocelyn Toffic’s art takes her from the Seacoast to Iceland and beyond by Dylan Metrano...
Cabinet of curiosities
but its quirky charm remains When the Woodman Museum opened in 1916, its first curator lived on site, collecting winged things in a net at...
Dark side
pop-up show in Rochester Over the past four months, Beth Wittenberg has created roughly 250 drawings, halfway to her target of 500, for a series...
All welcome to “Draw On!” at UNH
Above: “To Build,” by Alexis Carter Kochka, 2014 oil on canvas On Saturday, April 4, the Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire...
These walls talk
Sarah Orne Jewett was so taken aback by some of the wallpaper in her uncle’s house that she described it, and the tiny spiders she...
In the details
Carly Glovinski alters perceptions with 3S Artspace’s inaugural exhibition words and photos by Chloe Kanner There’s a folding lawn chair with a rainbow motif, a...