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Newton Free Library Events August 14 - 20, 2023

Schools and Libraries

August 16, 2023

From: Newton Free Library

Fantasy Watercolor Silhouettes
Wednesday, August 16 at 3pm

Paint a scene from out of this world using watercolors and other media. Bring your imagination and have fun while flexing your creativity.

Location: Virtual

Registration required

SCORE Small Business Counseling
Thursday, August 17 starting at 9am

SCORE volunteers provide area small business owners with free, one-hour counseling and advice sessions.

Location: Room A and Virtual

Registration required

BookTalk! Summer Reading: Climate Edition
Thursday, August 17 at 7pm

Join us for a BookTalk focused on the climate. Topics of discussion will range from science-fiction CliFi to environmentalist focused non-fiction. Bring your favorite climate-related book and learn about some of our favorite books on this topic.

Location: Third Floor Rear Arc

Registration required

Coming Up

Evening with FBI Special Agent Julia Cowley -- Lead Profiler On The Golden State Killer Case
Tuesday, August 22 at 7pm

DIY Pressed Flower Cards
Wednesday, August 23 at 7pm

SCORE Small Business Counseling
Thursday, August 17 starting at 9am

Genealogy Class: Q & A and Open Discussion
Monday, August 28 at 6:30pm

Art shows on view August 2 - 30

Just Another Boring Still Life Show? by Julie AngelaTheresa, Gallery

My work is about capturing objects and people in a moment of time; not the time itself, there's no reference to what is going on where the object or person exists. Backgrounds are abstract as to not place the subject matter in a specific time. My aim is more to capture the subject. When starting a new work I asked myself, “Is this a new object? Is it old? Has it been used before? Is the person aged? Are they bright, new and shiny? Or have they been worn down from many years of use?”

Contact Julie: [email protected]

Recent Prints by Jo Ann Rothschild,  Main Hall

These etchings and monoprints mark a return to printmaking for the artist, whose recent exhibitions concentrated on painting. This work is exploratory, rather than aiming for a known result. Gesture, repetition, accident and the grid are elements that construct the images. Prints prioritize touch, the sense of the human. Rothschild says “When I print, I love knowing that centuries earlier, Rembrandt used the same process.”

Contact Jo Ann: [email protected]

Main Hall Display Cases on view through August 31

Ryder Flowers

Susan Ryder uses paper to create two- and three-dimensional art pieces evoking domestic landscapes, flowers, fashion and objects that bring joy. Her process includes the use of a desktop cutter and a mountain of Xacto blades!

Susan exhibits her work in art galleries around New England and Europe. She has done custom work for the Peabody Essex Museum and the DeCordova Museum. She can be found through her website at SusanRyderDesign.com.