Somerville Open Studios: Saturday, May 6, and Sunday, May 7 from 12-6 PM

For Somerville Open Studios, the Washington Street gallery and studios present an array of work from our diverse and dynamic members at 321 Washington Street, Somerville, just outside Union Square. Our members work in many media: traditional silver gelatin, digital, and panoramic photography; assemblage, collage, drawing, painting, small sculptures, installation, book arts and much, much, more! Featured artists include: Artists featured include: Meghan Bailey, Jennifer Erbe, Gretchen Ann Graham, Kerrie Kemperman, Ariel Kessler, Lee Kilpatrick, Iaritza Menjivar, and Mimi Silverstein

Opening Reception - Saturday, April 15, 2023 6-8pm

Organic Mechanisms by Meghan Bailey

Washington Street Art Center presents a solo exhibition of local artist Meghan Bailey. Her current body of work remakes the original form of tools and machines using the formal language of abstraction, design, and decoration.

Opening Reception - Saturday, February 11, 2023 6-8pm

Borrowed Time — A Community-Sourced Time Machine by Bess Paupeck

Time disappeared, spread out, sped up and slowed down in different ways for all of us during the long months of pandemic lockdown. Borrowed Time is a community-sourced installation-exhibition made of borrowed time pieces, creating space for us to come together and consider the meaning of all of our time – something we ourselves create and define, lose, share and borrow.

Opening Reception - Friday, December 2, 2022 5-7pm

For “Secret Santa,” an upcoming exhibit at Washington Street Art Center, artists were inspired by swapped ideas for the creation of this group show.

Opening Reception - Oct. 15, 2pm - 4pm

New paintings by Maggie Cedarstrom.

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 17, 2022, from 6-8 PM

For the ninth year, the Somerville Toy Camera Festival celebrates the moody, quirky, and creative results that happen when photographers are forced to loosen their controls, submit to the light, and embrace the accidental. The Festival includes simultaneous shows at Washington Street and the Nave Gallery, and features related programming including artist talks, panel discussions and social events.

You can get all the info here including full event listings and hours for all the galleries.

Proof of vaccination and masks required

Opening Reception - Jul. 9, 5pm - 7pm

The Road to Zoe, a mixed media exhibition by artist Valerie Imparato, explores themes of Miscarriage, (In)Fertility, Pregnancy, and Motherhood.

Somerville Open Studios: April 30 and May 1 from 12-6 PM

For Somerville Open Studios, the Washington Street gallery and studios present an array of work from our diverse and dynamic members at 321 Washington Street, Somerville, just outside Union Square. Our members work in many media: traditional silver gelatin, digital, and panoramic photography; assemblage, collage, drawing, painting, small sculptures, installation, book arts and much, much, more!

Saturday, February 5, 12-4pm through Saturday, February 19, 12-4pm

Washington Street gallery and studios in Somerville, MA, is pleased to announce a small works show and fundraiser with proceeds going to the Somerville Homeless Coalition.

Opening Reception - Sept. 18, 6pm - 8pm

Back to the Drawing Board presents what we’ve been working on during these pandemic months, as our building was closed to the public but our creative practices remained in full swing.

Saturday, May 1st, 12-6pm and Sunday, May 2nd 12-6pm

Several of our Washington Street members are participating in Somerville Open Studios. This year it is a hybrid event.

Virtual Reception/Artist Talk - Jun. 20, 7pm - 9pm

Virtual Reception Zoom Meeting
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Washington Street Arts presents its inaugural virtual exhibition of the COVID-19 era, a solo show by studio member Catherine Aiello, opening June 20. Power and Service, an online and interactive exhibition, features multimedia work that reflects on and illuminates Aiello’s experience working in the food service industry.

Opening Reception - February 1, 6pm - 10pm

“Gelatus,” an exhibition of photographs by Vanessa R. Thompson uses everyday items associated with comfort, such as toys and food, to ladle the familiar into the uncertain.

Opening Reception: December 5, 2019 from 7:30pm-9-30pm

In Valerie Imparato’s powerful new show, “An Ode to My Mother,” painting and collage offer revelations on motherhood, illness, transition, and becoming. Imparato says she created these works as a response to her mother’s degenerative illness.

Opening Reception: November 8, 2019 from 6-9 PM

Please join us at Washington Street Gallery, 321 Washington Street, Somerville, MA, for “The Art Outlet: Affordable Art for Everyone” A Group Exhibition Curated by Maggie Cedarstrom at Washington Street gallery Opening on: Friday November 8 6-9 pm on view November 9 through 30 Saturdays 12-4 pm.

Opening Reception: October 5, 2019 from 6-8 PM

The Washington Street gallery presents “Scribing: An Art of the 21stCentury,” with Kelvy Bird. Scribing, a visual practice that maps ideas as people talk, is presented here as art. This exhibit also features three workshops: The Art of Scribing, Levels of Listening, and Systems Scribing.

Opening Reception: September 7, 2019 from 6-8 PM

For our seventh year, the Toy Camera Festival takes over Somerville! The festival takes place at the Washington Street gallery, the Nave Gallery, and the Brickbottom Gallery. See http://www.somervilletoycamera.org/ for a complete roster of selected artists, links to artists' sites, and info on additional Festival events!

Opening Reception: August 9, 2019 from 6:30-10 PM

In Gretchen Graham’s Unsee This, black and white film photographs are not only what they seem at first glance. Like events unfolding in dreams, or images seen in clouds, the photographs in this show require interpretation to reveal the latent images. The metallic sand of Block Island, footsteps in the snow, and water stains on the MBTA subway walls all reveal hidden shapes and figures.

Opening Reception: July 19, 2019 from 6-9 PM

“Tasty: A Group Art Show About Snacks” is a riff on our popular group show “The Beer Show” from last summer at Washington Street and the Cutter Gallery. With the idea of consumption and indulgence in mind, our studio members and friends create art inspired by what we eat for fun or in the meantime.

Opening Reception: June 1, 2019 from 6-9 PM

“Interiors” explores the depiction of inside space--whether that is the domestic interior, the cellular structure, or the psychological subconscious: what lies within or beneath the surface? This showcase of two- and three-dimensional artworks takes you to the heart of the matter.

Opening Reception: May 4, 2019 from 12-4 PM

For Somerville Open Studios, the Washington Street gallery and studios present an array of work from our diverse and dynamic members at 321 Washington Street, Somerville, just outside Union Square. Our members work in many media: traditional silver gelatin, digital, and panoramic photography; assemblage, collage, drawing, painting, small sculptures, installation, book arts and much, much, more!

Opening Reception: April 6, 2019 from 7-10 PM

“Threads: Memory and Identity” by Lauren Leone explores personal identity, using hand and machine stitching on a range of fabrics, including old family linens. Leone reflects on the hazy subjectivity of past experience, how memories shift and take on new meanings over time, and how hers have impacted her identity as an art therapist, daughter, wife, and woman.

Opening Reception: March 1, 2019 from 6-8 PM

In this fourth exploration of creative engagement, the members of Washington Street studios invite a friend from outside the studio to participate in the show. Some pairs collaborate, some influence each other, some just provide support and inspiration.

Opening Reception - November 10, 6pm - 9pm

Eau de Henri is a collage homage to Henri de Toulouse Lautrec. When Mary Lewey crossed paths with a posterbook of his works, it prompted the collage artist to work at a larger scale than usual.

Opening Reception - October 13, 6pm - 9pm

Participating artists offer their creative take on the subject of fear. Monsters real and fantastic or existential dread—what lies beneath the cover of darkness, the uncertainty of the future. What are you afraid of and how do you cope? Dark humor can transform the fearsome into the ridiculous.

Opening Reception - September 8, 6pm - 9pm

We're pleased to be presenting the Somerville Toy Camera Festival once again! Join us for the Washington Street 2018 reception. Check out also the other exhibits at the Nave Gallery and Brickbottom.