Fitchburg Art Museum – Regional Show

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Fitchburg Art Museum / 25 Merriam Parkway
Fitchburg, MA 01420
Phone: (978) 345 – 4207
Fax: (978) 345-2319
www.fitchburgartmuseum.org

Press Release

celebrating 75 years - Fitchburg Art Museum opens the 75th regional show on sunday, 27 JUNE

The Fitchburg Art Museum celebrates 75 years of its annual Regional Art and Craft show. The exhibition will run from Sunday 27th June until September 5th with over 150 artists on display. Julia Courtney, Curator of Art, Springfield Art Museum will jury the show and select the very best to enter this extra special exhibition.

Kristina Durocher, the Museum’s Curator believes “the Museum is unique in that for seventy-five years it has encouraged and inspired regional artists to exhibit their work while most museums no longer display art created within their community. I'm proud to continue this

tradition of support for artists working in North Central Massachusetts."

This exhibition of local artists is as popular in 2010 as it was in 1935. It exists to encourage, discover, and support regional creative talent and extends to adult who live in towns and cities within a 25-mile radius of the Museum. This year, the Museum is introducing two exciting elements – a new $250 prize for members, and free admission to those who celebrate their 75th birthday this year. Workers Credit Union, the exhibition sponsor, president and CEO Fred Healey is delighted by “the creativity and range of artistic expression of the art submitted for the exhibition. There's truly something for everyone to appreciate and admire."

The exhibition is supported by Cultural Councils of Acton/Boxborough, Ashburnham, Fitchburg, Harvard, Hubbardston, Leominster, Littleton, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Princeton, Stow and Townsend.

The Exhibition starts with an opening reception on Sunday 27 June from 1– 3 p.m. Please call on 978 345 4207 or visit www.fitchburgartmuseum.org http://www.fitchburgartmuseum.org for further details. The Museum is wheelchair accessible and is located at 25 Merriam

Parkway, Fitchburg, MA 01420.

About the Fitchburg Art Museum

The Fitchburg Art Museum is North Central Massachusetts’s oldest and most treasured cultural institution, founded in 1925 through a bequest of artist and educator Eleanor Norcross. Fourteen galleries house a diverse collection of over 3,000 objects spanning more than fifty centuries. These include American and European paintings, prints, drawings and decorative arts as well as Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Asian and pre-Columbian antiquities, and changing exhibitions.

Highlights from the permanent painting collections include masterworks from John Singleton Copley, Rockwell Kent, Georgia O’Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Raoul Dufy and Joseph Wright of Derby.

Hours: Wednesday – Friday, Noon – 4pm, Saturday and Sunday 11 am – 5 pm. Closed Monday’s.

Admission: Free for members; $7 for adults. $5 for seniors and students (13+). Fitchburg Art Museum supports Fitchburg’s First Thursday program and is free from 4.30 p.m. – 8 p.m. every first Thursday of the month. The Museum is wheelchair accessible.

Info: Call 978 345 4207 or visit www.fitchburgartmusuem.org/.

Contacts: Peter Timms – Director. Email - . Phone – 978 342 4207 ext 301 - Fiona Casey –Director of Marketing.

Email – or phone – 978-342-4207 ext 312