Arts

Walk with ‘Six Walks’ author Ben Shattuck

Join Dartmouth author Ben Shattuck on Friday, Oct. 7 for a literary walk through Destruction Brook Woods, located on Slades Corner Road. The walk will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. During the hike, Shattuck will read from his debut book “ Six Walks: In...

Artists take their talents to the shores for plein air contest

Dozens of artists took to the sidewalks and sands around Padanaram Village Saturday to capture scenic seascapes and marshes for this year’s Wet Paint Padanaram plein air competition. The contest, which is now in its fourth year, is hosted by the...
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Works from two dozen artists fill cultural center for September

The Dartmouth Cultural Center held its monthly opening reception on Friday, Aug. 26 for a show that featured a variety of art styles ranging from abstract splatter paintings to impressionistic pastels and realistic still lifes. This month’s...

Cultural Center opens Aug. exhibit: Abstract Acrylics

The Dartmouth Cultural Center hosted a reception on Friday, Aug. 5 to welcome this month’s exhibit. The show, titled “Abstract Acrylics,” featured the works of the center’s gallery director, Jill Law, some of her adult students, and two other local...

Dartmouth crafters show off their works during annual Art Drive tours

This weekend saw the return of the Art Drive to Dartmouth’s roads. The event, which is in its 14th year, featured 27 artists from Dartmouth and Westport who opened their homes and yards to showcase a variety of media. Painter and printer Judith...

Cultural Center to hold opening reception for “Abstract Acrylics” gallery

On Friday, Aug. 5, the Dartmouth Cultural Center will hold an opening reception for its August exhibit titled “Abstract Acrylics.” The reception will run from 5 to 7 p.m. and the exhibit will be on display for the rest of the month. The Cultural...

Padanaram Fest brings artisans and crafty kids to Dartmouth

Purses made from traditional Vietnamese fabrics. Nicknacks and vases made from smooth cement. Lemonade for the children’s hospital. Padanaram Fest returned to Elm Street on Saturday, July 30 featuring dozens of artisan booths lining the street and a...

Sign up for Wet Paint Padanaram

Sign ups are now open for the fourth annual Wet Paint Padanaram Plein Air. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24. Rain date is Sunday, Sept. 25. Artists will gather at designated areas of the village and harbor to paint...

Art Drive to kick off Aug. 5

The annual Art Drive Open Studio Tour will return to town Aug. 5 though 7. The Art drive showcases professional works created by some of the area’s premier painters, ceramic artists, photographers, jewelers, fiber artists, woodworkers, and metal...

Art lovers flock to the Southcoast for open studio tour

Art lovers from around the state made their way to Dartmouth on Saturday and Sunday to visit local artists who opened their workshops to the public as part of the South Coast Artists Open Studio Tours. The tour, which will return next month on Aug...

South Coast Artists to host open studio tours

On July 16 and 17 and August 20 and 21 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., South Coast Artists will host tours of local artist studios in Dartmouth and other neighboring towns. The tours will feature about 75 artists with 15 of them located in Dartmouth. For a...

Cultural Center exhibit highlights some of Dartmouth’s best views

Sailboats resting peacefully on their moorings, vanishing into a haze of fog. Wildflowers swaying in the breeze as the last amber light of an August day cuts shallowly across a grassy field. Seafoam washing gently onto a sandy beach, rippling over...

Cultural Center to host solo exhibit with local photographer

The Dartmouth Cultural Center will host an opening reception for its July exhibit on Friday, July 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will feature the work of local photographer Michael Morris.

Music from Land’s End to come to Dartmouth

Music from Land’s End, a popular chamber music group featuring several internationally acclaimed musicians, will play a concert at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Dartmouth on Saturday, July 16. The concert will follow a mixed program including the...

Community band readies for full slate this summer

The sounds of summer are coming to town. With the school year ended and the season in full swing, the Dartmouth Community Band is preparing for its biggest year of music yet. Conductor John Furtado noted the band, which includes people of all ages...

Westport Art Group awards scholarships to two Dartmouth High grads

The Westport Art Group announced the winners of its annual scholarship program on Tuesday, June 7 naming two recent Dartmouth High Graduates as the recipients. The two winners are Jordyn Peckham, who plans to attend Rhode Island School of Design,...

Dartmouth Music Festival cancelled

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the inaugural Dartmouth Music festival scheduled for June 11 has been cancelled. The festival was scheduled to be held at Memorial Stadium.

Cultural Center hosts local artist JP Powel for solo exhibit

Dartmouth artist JP Powel held his first solo show at the Dartmouth Cultural Center on Friday, June 3, displaying a portfolio of oil paintings depicting landscapes of New England and beyond. Though Powel’s works have a consistent style that...

Cultural Center June exhibit: Local artist JP Powel

The Dartmouth Cultural Center will host a solo exhibition from local artist JP Powel beginning on Friday, June 3 when the center will hold an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Powel’s work includes paintings of landscapes that incorporate a unique...

The otter said what?!: Local authors to give presentation on audio project

Listen to wiseacre mockingbirds, blowhard toads, impish chipmunks, Cockney otters, obnoxious literary agents, conspiratorial weasels, badgers with a brogue, and sweet singing water rats tell their story in an audio/visual presentation sponsored by...

First annual Dartmouth Music Festival June 11

The Dartmouth School Music association will host its first annual music festival at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, June 11. The festival, which will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., will feature craft and vendor tables, concessions, activities for kids,...

Cultural Center hosts Westport artist for solo exhibition

The Dartmouth Cultural Center welcomed its third exhibition of the year on Saturday, May 7 with a reception with the Westport-based artist Catherine Hafer, whose oil paintings and pencil sketches now adorn the center’s walls. Hafer described her...

Shrek the Musical opens at Dartmouth High

Once upon a time… The Dartmouth High Theater Company opened its spring production of Shrek The Musical on Thursday, May 5 delighting the audience with farcical fairytale folly adapted from the motion picture. The show was the troupe’s first live,...

Local choral ensemble to perform at area churches

Sine Nomine, a local choral ensemble, will welcome spring with two upcoming concerts at Southcoast area churches. The group, which features multiple Dartmouth residents, will perform at Holy Name Church, at 107 Camp St., Providence on Saturday, May...

Cultural center to host exhibition from local artist

The Dartmouth Cultural Center will host a solo exhibition from local artist Catherine Hafer beginning on Saturday, May 7 when the center will hold an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Hafer’s work includes portraiture and interpretive art.

In debut book, Ben Shattuck retraces Thoreau while finding himself

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There’s a new addition to the “local-ish authors” section at Davoll’s General Store — one from co-owner Ben Shattuck . Last month, the Dartmouth essayist and artist made his authorial debut with “Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau,”...

Dartmouth High Theater Co. prepares for Shrek The Musical

Musicals have (p)layers. The Dartmouth High Theater Company is just a couple of weeks away from the opening of “Shrek The Musical,” the troupe’s first live, open-to-the-public musical since 2019. Shirley Byers, who is co-directing the musical, said...

Everybody rock: Bishop Stang theater to present 'Grease'

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Grease is the word at Bishop Stang High. This weekend, the school’s theater company will put on a production of the classic musical about 1950s greaser culture and teenage love — the first time the show has hit the Stang stage since the 1980s. “The...

French chanteuse makes U.S. debut at UMass Dartmouth

La vie est belle! Celebrated French chanteuse Mathilde Mauguière made her American debut on Thursday, April 21 at a free concert hosted by UMass Dartmouth’s Boivin Center for French Language and Culture. The singer said that while she has sung in...

Local Artisan Show returns to Dartmouth for garden sale

The Local Artisan Show was back in Dartmouth on Saturday, April 23 at its new home at Doves Foot Pottery where artists’ booths were scattered around a picturesque garden full of spring foliage. The show featured a dozen different vendors with...

Creativity, couture hits the UMass runway

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Combining chic with comfort is looking to be the next top fashion trends at UMass Dartmouth. Friday saw the return of the annual fashion show to the College of Visual and Performing Arts auditorium, where students showcased a variety of outfits —...

Dartmouth High AP art students hold first in-person show since 2019

Dartmouth High’s AP art students returned to the Old Russells Mills Schoolhouse for their first public show since 2019 on Tuesday, April, 12, hosted by the Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society. The show was titled “Studio 555” and featured...

See a celebrated French chanteuse at UMass Dartmouth

The Boivin Center for French Language and Culture at UMass Dartmouth is sponsoring a free concert featuring French chanteuse Mathilde Mauguière on Thursday, April 21 at 4 p.m. The performance will be held in the College of Visual and Performing Arts...