Sandisfield Arts Center

Gallery Show: Winners of the Daniel Manacher Young Artists Prize
2022-08-14 - 2022-09-07 | MA
Show runs through September 7th. Gallery is open during regularly scheduled events or by appointment. To arrange an appointment please contact Adam Manacher @ 617-645-6525.
Winners:
Julia Rose Miner:

Formed A New
2020
Acrylic Paint, Faux Fur, and Joint Compound on Board
36”x24”

Statement:
Hi, my name is Julia Rose Miner. I am a painter who lives and works in the small, artistic town of Stockbridge, MA. In my most recent collection, my textural paintings of abstracted landscapes explore the ideas of innocence and decay. I use a pallet that consists of candy, stuffed animal materials, and vibrant pastel colors. These works play with the corrosion of nostalgia while holding onto a childlike optimism. At the age of seven I was diagnosed with a visual impairment, called Stargardt Disease, leaving my world altered with a constant vibrating visual texture. I use the sense of touch as a source of sight to navigate through life and art. This is how I experience the world and I feel compelled to use these tools when making my work. In my practice I translate bits and pieces of visual information to fabricate a new reality that lies in the comfort of unease. I welcome and encourage both delight and putrefaction to coexist. Building layers I construct and paint distorted and discolored imagery inspired by my everyday surroundings. My work embraces the ideas of joy and deterioration while abstracting the world.

Natasha Wein:

Spaces: Suburbs
2022
Acrylic paint, gouache, and water-soluble ink pencils on paper
24×18 inches

Statement:
“Spaces” explores the interface between external and internal experience, specifically how we hold the spaces and relationships we inhabit in our minds as memory. The mental landscapes we foster and the narratives we tell ourselves about those landscapes inform our sense of belonging and resilience. In this series, I used my longing for contentment amidst a particularly distressing and uprooted period in my life to influence my use of color and shape; by painting with intention, I created an external space with movement and possibility from where I could work with my internal distress and, in turn, repaint my psychic wallpaper. When we strip back the cognitive clutter, a more honest rendering of our experiences and desires can be exposed, and one that is often more sincere and playful. This way of working can decongest complicated and backlogged feelings so they can be integrated into our present experience. I used tape as a tool to create territories of paint and water-soluble ink pencils to make lines connecting territories of color. We often think of boundaries as points of separation, but they are more meeting points that allow for a relationship to occur. This was a process of experiential learning through process—a practice in clearing spaces and rendering passages to navigate memories, circumstance, and dreams.

Alorah Welti:

Eve Adam Lilith (Red White Blue)
2022
Paint and decoupage on plastic skeletons
approximately 20×20 inches

Statement:
My work, primarily in mixed media, paper, and fiber, asks and seeks to answer the question of what is sacred. As someone with synesthesia, a sensory neurodivergence that connects senses like sound and color, I am eternally searching for the visceral and dreamlike. Texture, saturation, and reclamation are fundamental to my practice, as are myth and feminist spirituality. I am endlessly inspired by fertility, ancestry, and the constant presence of history in all things.

Introduction to Smartphone Photography with Master Photographer Thad Kubis
2022-08-20 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Spend time with local photographer and teacher Thad Kubis and learn the basics of smartphone photography (Android and iPhone) and then go way beyond the basics to fully use, control, and create with your smartphone or tablet camera. Thad will cover composition, HDR, Live mode, basic and more advanced editing functions, and a lot in between.
Masks required!

Selections from The Well-Tempered Clavier & Other Keyboard Works by Bach
2022-08-20 19:00 - 21:00
We are thrilled to present the well-known Bach disciple, Andrew P. Sheranian, founding director of The Bach Project at Ashmont Hill Chamber Music, bringing Bach to our stage and Steinway!
Andrew P. Sheranian, a Boston-based pianist/organist and conductor, will perform keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach, including a selection of preludes and fugues from the WellTempered Clavier. The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier) is a collection of keyboard music that Bach wrote in the 1720’s, utilizing every possible major and minor key: 12 preludes and fugues for the major keys, and 12 preludes and fugues for the minor keys, for a total of 24. But, Bach being Bach, he did it twice, publishing two books with unique compositions in each key: an astonishing feat! Mr. Sheranian will perform some of the most outstanding examples from the WTC as well as some miscellaneous pieces to round out the program. See Program details below.
About Andrew Sheranian
Since 2010, Andrew Sheranian has been Organist and Master of Choristers at the Parish of All Saints, Ashmont in Boston, an Anglo-Catholic church known for its commitment to excellence in liturgy and music. His duties at Ashmont include recruiting, training, and conducting the Choir of Men and Boys, as well as playing the parish’s two pipe organs: C.B. Fisk Opus 103 of 1995 and Skinner Opus 708 of 1929, the latter installed in 2015 during Mr. Sheranian’s tenure.
Prior to taking up the post at Ashmont, Andrew Sheranian served as Organist and Choirmaster at Christ’s Church in Rye, New York for seven years. In 2003, Mr. Sheranian completed his Master of Music degree through the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, as a student of Martin Jean. His undergraduate training took place at New England Conservatory of Music, under the tutelage of William Porter, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree.
A lifelong disciple of Johann Sebastian Bach, Mr. Sheranian is the founding director of The Bach Project at Ashmont Hill Chamber Music, a baroque ensemble of instrumentalists and singers aiming to perform the full spectrum of Bach’s music in performances at All Saints’ Ashmont. Next season’s performances are October 2 at 4:00 with Reginald Mobley (countertenor), and March 5 at 4:00: The St. John Passion.
This program made possible in part by a donation from our neighbors, Jeffrey Gonyeau and Jack Dennerlein.
PROGRAM: Keyboard music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Mr. Sheranian will provide brief comments on each of the works.
Partita No. 5 in G major (BWV 829)
Praeambulum
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Tempo di Minuetto
Passepied
Gigue
from The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book II
F minor (BWV 881)
D major (BWV 874)
C minor (BWV 871)
E major (BWV 878)
F-sharp minor (BWV 883)
from The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book I
B major (BWV 868)
G-sharp minor (BWV 863)
F-sharp major (BWV 858)
B minor (BWV 869)
C major (BWV 846)
The Italian Concerto (BWV 971)
I: [no tempo indication]
II: Andante
III: Presto
