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Georgia Spanos Retrospective Art Exhibit

A Retrospective Exhibit of paintings by Georgia Spanos will be on display November 2, 2024 to January 31, 2025 at the Floral Arts Gallery on Route 110 in Westford.

Georgia was born in Peabody, MA, and studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts. She has been painting for over 75 years, and she is still painting! Georgia lives in Chelmsford and is a long-time member of the Chelmsford Art Society. She started the Floral Arts Gallery, on the second floor of the Floral Arts building in 2009. In addition to her own paintings, she has displayed the artwork of many local artists and photographers.

This Retrospective exhibit is a large selection of Georgia’s impressive artwork in various media that include oil painting, acrylics, pastel, ink and watercolor. Her favorite subjects are landscapes and portraits; plus she paints beautiful flowers and still life’s. Many of her paintings have been made into cards, which are also for sale at Floral Arts. This exhibit will be in the gallery through January 31, 2025. Georgia’s artwork may be seen anytime the Floral Arts building is open (Mon-Fri. 9-5:00; and Sat. 9-3:00).

A Reception for the Artist will be held:
Time: Saturday Nov. 2, 2024 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Place: Floral Arts Gallery, 129 Littleton Rd (Route 110), Westford, MA.

This event will feature Georgia’s artwork, refreshments, and live music by Don Ouellette.

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

NEXT WEEK!!

Reception & Scholarship Awards Ceremony
Thursday, July 17th, 2025
6 – 8:00pm
Chelmsford Library

Come One Come All to the Chelmsford Library!
See friends, meet new members, enjoy wine & food and maybe find a gift for family, friend, colleague or you!

Tell Everyone You Know
It’s going to be a fun night & we want a big crowd!

From the moment it went up everyone has said it’s a great show with 73 works of art by 42 Members and 6 by Scholarship winners!

Member Artists in the Show
Maureen Baker, Ali Barnes, Neville Bennett, Britton Boughner, Eric Brown, Peter Cerreta, Kate Crawford, Helen DeAndrade, Patrick Doherty, Brenda Fredericks, Heidi Goddard, Donna Gordon, Diane Harvey, Barbara Howes, Shea Kenny, Anandita Kumar, Mitali Kumar, Joan Latourneau, Kathleen Leonard, Sue Lippman, Barbara Ludinsky, Daria Luzanova, Ivan Orlinsky, Gillian Orlinsky, Mary Anne Pellegrini, Jennifer Pool, Kim Ramsay, Jim Ricca, Ezequiel Rivera, Jim Roberts, Christine Robinson, Carol Rodgers, Elaine Seidel, Laurie Simko, Ortha Splingaerd, Pushpa Srivastava, Bob Stegmaier, Kathleen Sullivan, Stan Sundstrom, Susan Szablak, Trina Teele, Sophia Upton, Joe Whalen

Scholarship Winners

High School ~ Madison Koufos
Dracut High – Tuft’s School of Art & Design

Collegiate ~ Herin Lee
Billerica High – Rhode Island School of Design

With summer in full swing and so many art shows in the region thank you for being a part of ours!

This Chelmsford Art Society Art Show is funded in part by grants from the Chelmsford, Dracut and Westford Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the state Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Flow Caron

1st Collegiate Scholarship Winner
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.

Congratualtions Flow!

It is wonderful to continue to support this emerging artist.

Last year Flow won our 2023 High School Scholarship, see her winning entry here

Watch the amazing animation she created in High School
Something Old Becomes Something New

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

Herin Lee
2024 Scholarship Winner
Billerica High ~ Rhode Island School of Design

We are excited to announce that Herin Lee is the winner of our 2024 Scholarship! This amazing artist graduated Billerica High and is going to Rhode Island School of Design RISD this fall.

Herin has wonderful talent in several mediums and has won awards in the Massachusetts Art Education Association – Emerging Artists Recognitions Exhibits and the Scholastic Key Art Awards. She also scored in the 1.36% of the world wide AP Drawing Exam.

This year her painting “Vulnerable” (above) was the Grand Prize Winner in the Congressional Art Show 6th District . It will be exhibited at the Capitol Building in Washington DC for one year.

Herin Lee

“I have always loved art. I grew up drawing everywhere, even on the furniture and walls of our house, and I never grew out of that passion. Creating art provides me the time to reflect and investigate, explore and experiment, recognize and reconcile so that I can continue to grow and evolve. Art helps me to voice unconventional ideas and show my passionate views on life, despite the deeply rooted Asian values that encourage modesty and restrained expressions.

“What I Can’t Show” installation
Evocative in the light or dark, close up you can see the technical skill and imagination that went into her “What I Can’t Show” installation created and exhibited at Studio Noma in Waltham. Herin drew on her cultural background creating Korean masks in paper mâché, then personalized them with individual colorful printmaking, hanging them with ribbon and LED lights .

Full List of Awards
2024
Congressional Art Show GRAND PRIZE Vulnerable
MAEA Amazing Emerging Artists Recognitions Exhibit/ BIPOC STUDENT AWARD Anger Unfolding
Scholastic Art Awards GOLD KEY Anger Unfolding
Scholastic Art Awards GOLD KEY Afloat
Scholastic Art Awards SILVER KEY Still Life
Scholastic Art Awards HONORABLE MENTION Jacob
2023
MAEA Amazing Emerging Artists Recognitions Exhibit/ MAEA ART EDUCATOR AWARD Under the Covers
Congressional Art Show BEST OF SCHOOL Under the Covers
2022
Scholastic Art Awards SILVER KEY Censored
Scholastic Art Awards SILVER KEY Piecing My Roots Together
MAEA Youth Art Month Exhibit Still Life

We wish her wonderful success in her future in art.

Congratulations Herin!