St. Paul’s graduate brings glaring display to Hargate Gallery
For years, visitors to St. Paul’s School have enjoyed Joseph Wheelwright’s Moonstone sculpture along the path near the Lower School Pond. Now they can enjoy many of his other pieces. The 1966 graduate is currently showing his stone, granite and wood sculptures in the school’s Hargate Gallery, an exhibit that will be on display through May 31.
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On Friday at the Broken Ground School, Girls Scouts from the Concord area teamed up with LEtGo Your Mind to help teach the scouts about the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with the use of LEGOS.
Around the World event dishes out plenty of cultural knowledge
Rundlett Middle School hosted its Around the World event on Friday, giving visitors a look at countries representing some of the student population. And the best part was that not one plane ride was required.
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Figurative painter Chris Pothier is fascinated by people and that's why he paints them.
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Rundlett Middle School will host an Around the World event on Friday for students, as well as their siblings and families.
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The Pastel Society of New Hampshire’s 9th Annual Members Exhibition is currently being displayed at the Mill Brook Gallery and Sculpture Garden. Forty-nine artists from New Hampshire and beyond were selected to showcase both traditional and contemporary techniques. The exhibit will be at Mill Brook through May 31. The gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m
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We stopped by Buzz Ink Tattoo and Barber Shop last week to see what some of the employees and customers had permanently etched on their body.
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The documentary “The Granite Stoke,”by Concord natives Dylan Ladds and Ryan Scura, will premiere at the Music Hall in Portsmouth on Saturday.
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We checked out the annual health fair at Abbot-Downing School on Wednesday, and it was an educational good time. We learned about the dangers of smoking, how to eat healthy and how to talk people into giving us a ton of free pens.
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The League of N.H. Craftsmen Headquarters is home to a new exhibit from the N.H. Furniture Masters, the Guild of N.H. Woodworkers and the Prison Outreach Program. The 65 hand-crafted pieces will be on display through June 20.
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The Children of Incarcerated Parents summer camp at Camp Spaulding in Penacook allows for children to spend time with a parent who is in jail or prison. Over the last two summers, the children and parents have created murals titled ‘A Perfect Day with Dad.’ That original work is currently hanging in the Carolyn Jenkins Gallery at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate. The nine murals will be on display through April 24.
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McGowan Fine Art brings you into the land of bright colors and thought-provoking paintings with its latest exhibit, “Flowers, Orchards and Mountains: Paintings by Bruce McColl.” With winter in the rear view mirror and spring attempting to make a much-needed appearance, this display is a great way to bridge the gap. McColl, the director of the Currier Museum Art Center in Manchester, uses oil, watercolors and gouache to create these...
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We swung by the Kimby Jenks to get the lowdown on some of the property’s oldest residents.
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Every year, the students at St. Paul’s School put on an art exhibition. And that’s what you see here. But this is just a sneak peak of the more than 200 pieces on display in the Hargate Gallery through April 19. You really need to check it out.
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There’s a lot to like and even more to learn inside the Concord Community Music School.
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Betsy Janeway’s watercolor paintings will be on exhibit at the N.H. Audubon McLane Center through April.
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The Concord School District art show will be on display through April 15 at Steeplegate Mall. What you see here is just a small sample, as over 1,000 pieces make up the exhibit.
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The Jill C. Wilson Gallery at Kimball-Jenkins Estate is home to S.J. Costello’s latest exhibit through April 1. Costello shares her fondness for history, animals, sea shanties and sideshows in this exhibit.
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Photographs by Concord’s William Whitman are on display in the Carolyn Jenkins Gallery at the Kimball-Jenkins School of Art through March 17.
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Wildlife Encounters invaded the Concord Library on Friday and brought seven cuddly, slimy and prickly friends along.
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Celebrated musician, Vinx De'Jon Parrette, settles down in Concord and sets up shop.
Charity game helps bring new assistive technology to NHTI
The annual Wheelchair Basketball Benefit for the Zech DeVits Memorial Equipment Fund at NHTI raises money to help provide assistive technology to students with disabilities. DeVits, who was born with gigantism and skeletal dysplasia and required a wheelchair from an early age, died in 2005 at 22 years old, just weeks before graduating from NHTI. As for the 12th annual game on Thursday, the NHTI All-Stars narrowly defeated the Capital...
Nothing says Valentine’s Day like a little Love, Lust & Desire
The Love, Lust & Desire exhibit is on display at McGowan Fine Art through Valentine’s Day. More than 50 New England artists entered pieces priced at less than $300.
Photographer captured some of ‘Life’s’ most important moments
John Shearer spent years photographing some of the most famous moments in United States history. He covered the funerals of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Attica Prison riots and the “Fight of the Century” between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Shearer’s work is on display in the Hargate Gallery at the Hargate Art Center at St. Paul’s School through Feb. 15.
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The second annual Concord High School Film Festival will be held Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. in the Christa McAuliffe Auditorium.
Art & Bloom brings a slice of spring to the cold days of winter
The 12th annual Art & Bloom show, just a three-day display at McGowan Fine Art, was held during last week’s deep freeze. Members of the Concord Garden Club used floral arrangements to interpret pieces of art.
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“Hot Stuff: Feel the Heat!” a new exhibit at the League of N.H. Craftsmen’s retail gallery at 49 S. Main St., is designed to spark inspiration and light up the senses. Thirty-seven juried members of the League created pieces for the show. The multi media showcase is a blend of many styles and mediums and is on display through March 21.
It’s the best Insider photo gallery on history!
We took a trip down New Hampshire's memory lane last week at the N.H. Historical Society's Museum. Check out all the cool stuff we found.
Moore’s ‘Twice Seen’ exhibit gives unique look into the past
Photographer Richard Moore’s exhibit, “Twice Seen in the White Mountains,” is on display at the N.H. Audubon. Moore’s photographs blend 19th and early 20th century glass plate images with current views of the same location layered over each other.
