"Home Town Art Show," Digital art by Richard Harding at the AOR Gallery at High St. Cafe March and April 2009
Tribute Race, by Richard Harding copyright
The Art On Rotation Gallery is pleased to have Richard Harding show his fine art photography at the AOR Gallery at the High St. Cafe 310 High St. Clinton for March and April 2009.
Richard L. “Dick” Harding and the Art on Rotation Gallery are hosting a reception at noon Saturday, March 7, for the exhibit of Harding’s photography and digital art at High Street Café, 310 High St. (next to the post office), Clinton. Refreshments will be served.
Artists statement -
Also story found in The press Release in the Times Courier March 4, 2009 by Richard Harding
Twenty years ago, the term “millennium” was simply unknown to the jet-set generation. They simply let it lay by the side of the road, without a second thought. Understandably, since the word only goes public every 1,000 years, it is easy to see how people might be unfamiliar with the Y2K terminology.
Yet in his Millennium Diary of 31,000 digital photos, Clinton photographer Richard Lowell Harding chose his hometown as his special subject matter. One photographer … one digital camera … one town.
Harding, a published author, photographer and painter, is no stranger to historical events. Almost 23 years before 2000 and 32 years ago this month, Harding asked the question “heard around the world” to newly elected President Jimmy Carter during a Town Hall meeting in Clinton:
“Mr. President, what can you do to create a meaningful and lasting peace in the Middle East?”
Carter’s answer on March 16, 1977, led to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1979. He was the first president ever to speak out publicly in favor of an independent Palestinian state.
Harding’s artwork, which includes selections from his 31,000-photograph collection of digital images of Clinton taken since 2000, will be on display throughout the month of March in the diner.
Responding to questions from Times & Courier reporter Patrick Brodrick two decades later, Harding said he felt another brush with history while driving into town in the 1990s.
“I saw the road sign that said, ‘Welcome to Clinton, Established 1850,’ and it dawned on me that the town’s 150th anniversary was going to fall exactly on the new millennium year, 2000 A.D.,” Harding told the reporter.
Harding set out on a mission to capture the entire year 2000 in pictures.
According to the newspaper story, Harding also had the town recognized as the official Millennium Town, USA, by Congress in Washington; opened a Y2K historical museum at the Bigelow Free Public Library; and photographed 2,000 school children in the same picture. He also won first prize, a $1,000 award, in the Campbell Soup National Millennium Photo Contest, and by the end of 2000 had amassed 2,800 digital photos of Clinton from the millennium year.
Harding says the photos “showed clearly that God had not forgotten the official Millennium Town, USA, for a single second, minute, hour, day, week, year, decade, century or millennium.”
Rather than stop there, Harding continued to document small-town life and now has more than 31,000 pictures, archived on 607 CD-ROM disks at Clinton High School. He claims the world record for first and largest millennium photo diary in history.
Eleston Simons of Comcast Cable broadcasts some of Harding’s photos on Clinton’s cable-access television station, showing images of local elections, athletic contest, parades and other events.
To see more images go to the gallery or go to http://www.flickr.com/walkdoc
To purchase call Sheryll Collins 978-549-5822 or e-mail artrotationgallery@gmail.com
"My Painting Passions," an oil painting exhibit by Kathy Hebert at the AOR gallery at the Thayer Memorial Library March- April 2009
"Lake Champlain Sunset," by Kathy Hebert
The Art on Rotation Gallery is pleased to have Kathy Hebert exhibit at the Art On Rotation Gallery at the Thayer Memorial Library Lancaster, MA. all of March and April 2009.
Kathy is a local artist who lives in the Lancaster area. She teaches oil painting and drawing at the local vocational evening adult ed program and in her home. Kathy's paintings are full of light, grace and beauty. Her work also has a sense of peace and joy. This exhibit is extensive and is one not to miss.
Artist's Statement-
This show reflects what I love to paint – everything! Having been a non-artist for half of my life, being able to paint what I see is a lovely bit of heaven. I never thought that I would be able to draw and paint. Now I teach other “non-artists” how to draw and paint. That is almost as rewarding as painting itself.
I bring my camera wherever I go and many of my paintings were done from my photographs. Sometimes my Dad sends me a couple of his photos and I am very fortunate to be able to paint from them. Every so often I throw in a few still life as a challenge to my artist’s eye. I never know what I am going to paint next and I am always intrigued by the things that call to me. Sometimes it is the light, sometimes it is the color or maybe it’s the subject matter.
This summer, I decided to make my own website – from scratch. This was a monumental undertaking as I am not gifted with technical ability. With the help of a few “Dummies” books I managed to put a site together featuring my paintings and the cards that I make from them.
In the past few months I have collected quite a few photos of areas close to my heart around Worcester, Florida and Vermont and I am really looking forward to painting them in my studio with my students this winter.
I firmly believe that we are all creative. It is just a matter of finding a good teacher and then doing the work. I was very fortunate to have studied with Helen Van Wyk. Her wisdom and method of teaching opened up a whole new world to me. I expect to be painting for many more years to come.
To see more go to the gallery or to her website
To purchase call Sheryll Collins 978-549-5822 or e-mail artrotationgallery@gmail.com
Compilation, a multimedia art show at the Sovereign bank in Clinton
The AOR gallery multimedia art show is now on exhibit at the Sovereign
Bank on High St. Clinton, MA from February 7 through March 31, 2009
during the banks operating hours. The show is a wonderful mix of
different media and styles represented by several different artists.
Thank you all who are exhibiting.
High St. Cafe discount coupons are available on the art exhibit table at the bank.
The artists are- Stephen Collins, Sheryll Collins, Helen Garcia, Kathy
Hebert, Richard Harding, Sid Solomon, Ann Hill, Belinda Mazur, Mary
Jensen and Nina Gonnella.
I want to thank Stephen Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harding, Ann
Hill, and Sid Solomon for helping put up the show.
Please come and see it. We have a new sign with the website on it. We
also added more paintings before the bank closed Saturday.
Come see this beautiful show.
Call us: (978) 368-3300
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