The Joy of Summer in Art New England

The July/August issue of Art New England is packed with uplifting, inspirational, and just plain fun art-related things to do and see. I wrote about Vermont's delightful Farm to Ballet project here: https://artnewengland.com/open-for-joy/

There's also this: Public Art: DATMA 2021 Honors Women in the Fishing Industry and a review of the amazing 60 years of Paul Gruhler's life in art: Paul Gruhler—Harmonics: 60 Years of Life in Art, The Chelsea Series 1963–1978 at Highland Center for the Arts, but you have to buy the print magazine or get a subscription to read the whole thing.

Cynthia Close

Armed with an MFA from Boston University Cynthia plowed her way through several productive careers in the arts including instructor in drawing and painting, Dean of Admissions at The Art Institute of Boston, founder of ARTWORKS Consulting, and president of Documentary Educational Resources - a nonprofit film distribution company. She now claims to be a writer.

In addition…
To support this claim, she is a contributing editor for Documentary Magazine and writes regularly about art, cinema, and culture for, Artist’s Magazine, Art & Object, Pastel Magazine, Art New England, Vermont Woman, and formerly for Professional Artist Magazine. Her creative non-fiction appeared in the 2014, 2016, and 2017 anthology The Best of the Burlington Writers Workshop. Her essays have been published in various literary journals including 34th Parallel, Across the Margin, Adelaide, Agni, Bacopa Literary Review, The Black and White Anthology, Blood and Bourbon, The Brooklyn Film Arts nonfiction prize finalist, From Whispers to Roars, The Longridge Review, Montana Mouthful, Orson’s Review, The Seasons of Our Lives, Swallow Press, The Twisted Vine, Wagon Bridge Press, and The Woven Tales Press, among others. She has read publicly at many venues including the Cornelia Street Café in NYC. She was the inaugural art editor for the literary and art journal Mud Season Review launched in 2014.