Coming your way March 1 !

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MICHELE SMITH

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We are closed on New Years day, but open on January 2 and the next day, and the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that, and after that, and after that. Actually, we will be open every day other than New Year’s Day until December 25 when we close for Christmas Day.

We will never forget our best buddy, our friend, our crisis calmer Little Guy.   

Both Chris and I still look in the window expecting to see his little face waiting for us to come to work… It’s going to take a long time to get over him leaving us.

And our so missed Buddy that came to work with me every day…  Still trying to adjust with sadness.  

However, as you can see by our Christmas card,  we have opened our doors and our hearts to two new kittens rescued from Spittal Pond that nobody wanted or only wanted one.   To break these two apart would be criminal, and so we have taken both in.   They are the most loving (yet still very shy) beautiful kittens.  Full of life and personality and it just may be the ticket to help us through.  

Toppy is new to us as well.  She lives with me, but is fitting in well with working the Gallery.    Greeting people and offering opinions on the art work, when she’s not taking a nap behind the desk.

And so as we make a turn into a New Year, we leave two best friends behind but create a new chapter to offer love and happiness to our three new lives.   And that we believe…   Is a good thing.

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Saturday, October 14. VERDMONT

The Bermuda Plein Air Group supports the Bermuda National Trust with Verdmont’s Open House.

You can find us painting from 11:00am until 2:00pm

You may purchase a painting right off the easel. All sales go towards The National Trust with a portion going to support the Plein Air Group.

ART AND HISTORY keep them alive!!!

BERMUDA PLEIN AIR EXHIBIT

OCTOBER 15

You can find the Bermuda Plein Air painters capturing various scenes in Dockyard between 12noon – 3:00.

Meet and chat with the artists and then come to our Opening which holds one year of our journeys and stories around the Island.

Our Opening is from 3:30 – 5:30pm.

On September 10 2023, The Bermuda Arts Centre held the ‘NAUTICAL’ Show.  We partnered with the Bermuda Sloop Foundation and have given part proceeds of our sales to support them, because they are wonderful neighbours and we feel what they do for children is awesome as well as our belief that sailing is a form of Art.  
We offered an award and prize of $1,000 to the ‘Best in Show’ at our opening, held on the Bermuda Sloop. Lee Petty won the award and imagine our surprise when the award was accepted by her daughter Rachael Petty, (Lee was off Island) who informed us that Lee would not be accepting the money, but instead donating it back to our new ‘Senior Art Therapy’ Programme.

The Bermuda Arts Centre will be starting a new ‘Senior Art Therapy’ Programme in January 2024. The programme is designed for seniors that are willing to get out of the house but may not be able to do so with certain disabilities or transportation. The programme will offer various artistic classes from painting to ceramics, with transportation to and from the various locations. It will start once a month but the Bermuda Arts Centre is hoping to gain interest and be able to offer more classes, more often with more senior activities.

I have attached a photo of Lee’s ‘Best in Show’ painting.  Our judges comments: “Your painting has it all – several modes of boating, a sense for Bermudian custom and community, a composition that moves the eye across and painting, and a palette that captures a certain time of day with great beauty. First Prize” Please visit her website: leekitsonpetty.com or email: [email protected]
If you would like to sponsor a Senior Art Therapy’ class or help at an art session please contact Heidi Cowen at the Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard: Tel: 534 2809 or email: [email protected]