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Have Some Fun Helping the Chelmsford Art Society!
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MICRO VOLUNTEER
What does that mean? Help as much as you can, when you can, doing what you like and are good at.

One event, one task, one skill
Much is needed in many different ways

Sample Stuff You Can Do
Take pictures at events – Share our News

Use Skills You Have
Are you good with word, excel, websites, money?

Tasks for Who You Are
Extroverts – Talk to people
Introverts – Work behind the scenes
Party People? Feed artists, friends & guests
Are you Tall? Save us from ladders when we hang our shows. 🙂

A bit of help from everyone will keep us going
A bit more will make it Fun!

MORE INFO & SIGN UP HERE!

Graduating Seniors at Merrimack Valley Schools
$1,000 Scholarship

The Chelmsford Art Society invites graduating seniors in Chelmsford and surrounding towns to apply to our annual scholarship program. The Shirley Lavoie Memorial $1,000 Scholarship is open to students furthering their education at a 2 or 4-year university, college, art school or institute in Fine Arts/Visual Arts.
This includes the broad range of careers in art today; architecture, product design, ceramics, glass, fashion & interior design, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, graphic design, illustration, comic art, animation, film/video, digital art, video game design, etc.

Completed applications include: the application form, an artist statement, college acceptance letter and a portfolio of your art. Your portfolio should include 6-10 artworks in a variety of media and subject matter.

The Scholarship Committee will invite each applicant in for a short interview and portfolio review. Applicants should bring 3-4 pieces of their art to the interview; sketchbook pages can be included. Digital art, larger 3D pieces and photography projects can be presented on a tablet or laptop. Portfolios will be judged on artistic ability, creativity, and the understanding and use of color, design and composition.

The scholarship winner is expected to provide several matted or framed pieces for display in our 4th of July Art Festival at the Chelmsford Center for the Arts.

Important Dates
Application Deadline Friday, May 9th
Candidate Interviews: the week of May 12th – 16th
Student Notification: by Monday, May 19th

Scholarship Presentation: July 1^st
At the Awards Ceremony of the 54^th Chelmsford Art Society 4th of July Art Festival

APPLY NOW!
2025 Scholarship Application

~HOLIDAY PARTY & FINE ART SALE ~
Wine, Food & Fun

Just 2 days Away!
Tuesday December 3rd
6:00pm – 8:00pm

This week Tuesday is the fun night!

Bring friends, family, colleagues
Everyone is Welcome!

See why everyone is saying
“Beautiful” “Vibrant” “Impressive Skill”

82 artworks by 42 member artists
Find a great gift!

Artists in Show
Maureen Baker, Ali Barnes, Richard Bohne, Rituparna Bose, Britton Boughner, Eileen Byrne, Nita Casey, Sandra Chinavare, Christine Chisholm, C. Thomas Christiano, Virginia Cramer, Catherine Crawford, Kathy Cryan-Hicks, Esther Donlon, Lee Fortier, Donna Gordon, Diane Harvey, M Barbara Howes, David Johnson, Rennie Keller, Anandita Kumar, Mitali Kumar, Priti Lathia, Susan Lippman, Barbara Ludinsky, Sylvia Mallory, Paula Mingolelli, Subroto Mukherjee, Ivan Orlinsky, MaryAnne Pellegrini, Nan Quintin, Jim Ramsay, Ezequiel Rivera, James Roberts, Christine Robinson, Carol Rodgers, Erin Rychalsky, Elaine Seidel, Ortha Splingaerd, Pushpa Srivastava, Stan Sundstrom, Susan Szablak and Joe Whalen

Chelmsford Library
25 Boston Rd, Chelmsford MA
https://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/
The Library is fully accessible with parking; overflow parking is available across the street.

This Chelmsford Art Society Art Show is funded in part by a grant from the Chelmsford Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the state Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Chelmsford Art Society
Fall 2024

FALL MIX & MINGLE 
Tuesday October 29nd
7pm-9pm

Chelmsford Center for the Arts
Cabaret Room – 1st floor

Everyone’s welcome, artists, art lovers, members and non-members! See friends, meet new members and hear about our 2024-2025 season plus see all the great ways to help keep our Art Society going. Food & drink for all.

Please RSVP at ChelmsfordArtSociety@gmail.com

First Collegiate Scholarship Winner
Flow Caron
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Animation Major, Creative Writing Minor

We are thrilled to announce that Flow Caron is the winner of our first ever Collegiate Scholarship!

Our main fundraising for our scholarship are our raffle baskets at the 4th of July Arts Festival. This year through the generosity of our sponsors and the support of our community we raised enough money to have a second scholarship! SPONSORS PAGE

Higher education is so expensive and talented young artists need help not just to begin but to continue their studies. So this year we are happy to announce the first Chelmsford Art Society Collegiate Scholarship.

Flow Caron
First Year at MassArt: The first year has been really eye opening, it’s really helped me find myself as a person and strength in my artistic voice. Now that I’ve finished my studio foundation year I can finally start to use what I’ve learned and put it into my animation work and my stories.”
Above “Icarus” acrylic on canvas

Boston: I love the area because there’s a lot of schools near by and a lot of fun food places and shops to go to.

An Art Community: Being surrounded by like minded people who understand the struggles I’ve gone through and enjoy the same things I do has helped me grow as a person. I’ve been really fortunate to find family in this school and have learned so much as an artist and what my art means to me.

Emotions of Art : I was treating my trauma as something that should be hidden away, but that enforces the stigma of pain being taboo. Now I know how powerful my art and story are. I’m no longer afraid to show the disgusting and uncomfortable parts of my trauma through art.

It is wonderful to continue to support this emerging artist.
Last year Flow won our 2023 Scholarship 
See her amazing animation
Something Old Becomes Something New

We can’t wait to see what she creates next!