Image: Returning exhibitor Jeanne Maguire Thieme will be displaying her works in watermedia including “Summer Vitality” at site 9 at Art in the Park
Art in the Park returns for its 67th year, presented by Monadnock Area Artists Association (MAAA).
This weekend, more than 80 New England Artists will be pitching their tents and displaying oils, watermedia, photography and more. An art raffle benefits area student scholarships. (Last year MAAA awarded two $2000 scholarships to Keene and Monadnock students going on to study art at Keene State College.)
Admission is free; live music will be provided by New England singer and guitarist Randy McGravey, and Frisky Cow gelato offers refreshments. Art in the Park is a family-friendly two-day event, Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend (August 30 and 31), 10am-4pm at beautiful Ashuelot River Park on West Street in Keene. Sponsored by Mascoma Bank, Putnam Foundation, Indian King Framery, Hannah Grimes Marketplace, Savings Bank of Walpole and Hamshaw Lumber.
Of the 86 artists expected, 46 are from the Monadnock Region and another 29 from other parts of NH. There are five registrants from Massachusetts, three from Vermont, one each from Maine and New York. And Kyle Stuckey, an area native, returns from his home in North Carolina to exhibit.
Twenty-six artists specialize in oil painting; twenty work in “Watermedia,” comprising watercolor, gouache and acrylics. Eleven artists are entered in the category, “Pen and Ink, Printmaking and Colored Pencil,” five are pastel painters, sixteen are entered in the “Mixed Media, Collage and Sculpture” category. In the “Photography and Digital” area, there are eight exhibitors.
Member artists pay only $100 for their tent space, a fee the organization keeps low in support of our artists. For many of our participants, they count on sales from Art in the Park to cover their material costs for the entire year. For a number of our artists, this is their biggest show of the year.
Sixteen exhibitors at Art in the Park also exhibit at the member Gallery @ Syd’s, which, with its Art in the Park tent set-up upstairs (pictured below), is like a year-round Art in the Park. Note: A special post-Art in the Park event is being held at the Gallery @ Syd’s on Saturday, Sept.6, 3-4PM. Art in the Park review.
2025 Map showing Artists’ Site Numbers
