Community Day #7
Beverly Hallam
Study for Pink and Red Poppies (2007)
Ink & acrylic on paper
7.5” x 10”
COMMUNITY DAY #7
Saturday, October 28, 12pm-3pm
We are thrilled to host our 7th Surf Point Community Day on Saturday, October 28, with several exciting ways to participate:
1-2pm: Join Surf Point alum and art historian Olga Herrera ‘22 for a talk about Surf Point’s founders and history based on archival research. (Among her many impressive achievements, Olga has curated “Maria Luisa Pacheco: Geographies of Abstraction—Madrid, La Paz, New York” at the Art Museum of the Americas, opening Thursday, October 19.)
12-3pm: Watercolor painting in Beverly Hallam’s light-filled, spacious studio. Examples of Hallam’s floral paintings will be on view, and a simple bouquet & vase will be set up for you to paint from observation. Surf Point alum Tessa Greene O'Brien '22 and other Surf Point alumni will be there to gently guide. Watercolors and paper will be provided; feel free to bring your own! Kids welcome.
12-3pm: Self-guided tours of Wild Knoll Foundation Garden, a public art project by alum Carly Glovinski ‘21, inspired by writer May Sarton, and a short walk from the Surf Point building.
12-3pm: Plant sale! The end of October and first week of November are still a great time to get herbaceous perennials in the ground. For a small donation, pick up some plant divisions from Wild Knoll Foundation Garden. Proceeds will help support the next growing season of this living work.
Other highlights:
All are welcome, including dogs on leash
View works by Surf Point alumni from our recent (reviewed) exhibition at the George Marshall Store Gallery, checklist with prices here.
Peruse the books in our 1,000 volume art library
Walk the trails on our 46-acre property
Explore the tidal pools and oceanfront
Visit Buoy Gallery; George Marshall Store Gallery; and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) and make a day of it! On view in Ogunquit are a portrait of SPF co-founder Mary-Leigh Smart and a painting by her mother, artist Mary B. Call.
Community Day is free and open to the public. Please complete this form to register. Address and directions to Surf Point will be emailed to registered participants on Friday, October 27. Email info@surfpointfoundation.org with any questions or if you would like to volunteer.
Olga U. Herrera is an art historian, independent curator, scholar and a A Surf Point Resident in September 2022. Currently she is the Managing Director of the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiatives at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on the intersections of globalization, networks of cultural production, and circulation of modern and contemporary art of the Americas. She is the author of American Interventions and Modern Art in South America (University Press of Florida, 2017) winner of the 2018 SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication; Toward the Preservation of a Heritage: Latin American and Latino Art in the Midwestern United States (University of Notre Dame, 2008); and editor of the books Scherezade García: From This Side of the Atlantic (AMA, 2019), and iliana emilia García: The Reason/The Object/The Word (AMA, 2019). Herrera earned a Ph.D. in Latin American modern and contemporary art history and theories of globalization from George Mason University. Her upcoming co-curated exhibition Maria Luisa Pacheco: Geographies of Abstraction—Madrid, La Paz, New York will open at the Art Museum of the Americas on October 19, 2023.
AND…save the date for SURF POINT COMMUNITY DAY #8:
Saturday, April 27, 2024!