Join us for an artist reception celebrating SMALL BUT MIGHTY, a group exhibition by River Street Artists of the Waltham Mills Artist Association. These works may be small in scale, but together they speak to something much larger: the importance of making, the power of community, and the necessity of art. Meet the artists, explore their work in The Allen Center galleries, and enjoy light refreshments. Free with registration.
Exhibition Overview
SMALL BUT MIGHTY brings together the artwork of River Street Artists, a community of visual artists working on the third floor of the Waltham Mills Artist Association in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Housed in a former textile mill along the Charles River, Waltham Mills has a long history of making. Today, the building continues that tradition as a home for artists working across a variety of media and creative practices.
The artists of River Street work in close proximity to one another every day. They share hallways, sounds, conversations, ideas, and the rhythms of a working studio community, while developing distinctly individual bodies of work. SMALL BUT MIGHTY offers an opportunity to bring those individual voices together outside of the studio environment and to present their work in conversation with one another. The resulting exhibition is not intended to impose a common theme or aesthetic on the artists. Instead, it celebrates the unexpected connections, contrasts, resonances, and tensions that emerge when a diverse group of artists is brought together.
The exhibition suggests that finding one’s voice does not necessarily require grand gestures. Sometimes it begins with something small: a mark, an image, an idea, a story, or a single work of art. SMALL BUT MIGHTY celebrates those individual gestures and the larger community they create.
Free Admission; Registration Required.
