NAA’s 2026 Spring Judged Exhibit will be on display at the Morse Institute Library on March 3 – April 29 featuring original works by 35 NAA members.

More info: https://needhamartassociation.org/2026-spring-judged-exhibit/

An exhibition inspired by art’s healing potential. While art is not medicine, it can promote healing through inspiration and creativity. The process of creating can be calming and meditative. It can offer ways to express one’s emotions and find ways to talk about traumatic events, illness, upheavals but also joy and triumph. Art can express and communicate what sometimes is hard to put into words. It can also harness the power of healing that is in all of us. Creativity promotes a positive outlook and offers a pause from the daily routine.

First time showing my piece, “Torch.”

Theme: Pressure creates diamonds…

Threats to democracy are rising. Free speech is in jeopardy and the arts censored. The call to act has never been louder.

“We Create Diamonds” is a call to the creative community in response to the wide-spreading events sweeping the nation. With each day, we seem to be facing a new hardship — as well as pre-existing ones — that push us as a society to the limit of what we as a people can endure.

But despite these setbacks, the people have put pressure to advocate for change. This glimmer of resistance has become a beacon of hope, reminding us of what is important and allowing us to shine through even brighter than before.

How do we create diamonds? Our common unity, a deep and searing passion for a better and brighter future, is our strength not to simply endure, but to stand our ground and outlast all that is stacked against us. With the ever-growing pressure and uncertainty of what the future holds, we know one thing is for certain — the harder they push back, the brighter we shine.

More info: https://navegallery.org/wp/we-create-diamonds/