Jurors:

Maxine Farkas' many accomplishments include Director, Quilt 21: American Art Quilts for the 21st Century, Chair of the Women's Week Public Art Subcommittee, and Massachusetts Representative for Studio Quilt Associates. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and has been published in books and magazines in the US, Japan, and France.

Patrick Pierce is a sculptor and poet of long practice who has recently relocated his sculpture and painting studios to Lowell, Massachusetts. He has had multiple one-man and group shows in New York at the Denise Bibro Fine Art and other venues. In summer he exhibits with the Turtle Gallery on Deer Isle, Maine. His work is included in many private and organizational collections across the country and has been reviewed in the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Globe, and other publications.

Brenda Pinardi is a professor emeritus of the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and a painter with major regional and national exhibitions. Public collections include the New World Bank and the DeCordova Museum. Ms. Pinardi is represented by the Vorpal Gallery in New York City and San Francisco.

Artists:

Melinda Bruno
Shane Crabtree
Linda Dunn
Lynne Guimond Findlay
Celia Gilbert
Hannah Hammond-Hagman
Dian Hosmer
Christine Theo Hungate
Dan McCormack
Tacita O. Morway
Sheree Rensel
Lauren Simone
Marcella Stasa

Events:

(all events are free and open to the public)

Sunday, March 5, 3-6pm:
Opening Reception

Saturday, March 25, 3-6pm:
“Tea and Scones with the Artists of ‘Men, Women, Feminine, Masculine'”
Ayer Lofts will host an afternoon of tea and scones where visitors can meet and talk with artists from this year's show, in the gallery, free. There will also be slide presentations by some of the artists.