Visual Arts

YV Art Museum in Acton holds sculpture symposium

August 23, 2024
A three-week art symposium is underway at YV Art Museum on Quarry Road in Acton. This is the museum’s thirteenth annual “New Art Archaeology Symposium”, held this year August 4 to August 25. Participating artists David Adilman, Marin Murakoshi, Yin Peet and Dankha Zomaya are creating sculptures on a stone pile next to the YV studio and gallery. The stone pile now holds seventy-nine sculptures by 32 artists from 12 countries. At the completion of the symposium on August 25, the museum will hold an opening reception at 2 p.m. with an artists’ talk, to celebrate the accomplishment. Adilman, Murakoshi,…

Pond exhibit pairs arts and nature

September 21, 2024
Pairing sculpture with the outdoors is as natural as pairing earth and water, fire and air, or the moon and the stars. And experiencing this delightful adventure at Linda Hoffman and Blase Provitola’s Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard is a fine example. Now in its 18th year,…
A man with grey hair, beige pants, and a blue t-shirt rests his hand on the top of a large granite sculpture of a dog head, with other granite boulders behind.

Making boulders come to life at the YV Museum

August 30, 2024
The reception for this year’s three-week artist residence sculpting at the enormous stone field at the YV Museum in Acton on August 25 was attended by an enthusiastic 35 people. In its 13th year of the residence where artists select a boulder to carve from the huge boulder…
A woman with black hair, big pink glasses, and wearing a purple dress holds an award (the Black Excellence on the Hill Award).

Julie Pierce promotes a vibrant Acton

April 30, 2024
Julie Pierce, Acton’s Economic and Community Development Director, was completely surprised and honored when she recently won a “Black Excellence on the Hill” award from the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus. Unbeknownst to her, State Representative Simon Cataldo, who represents parts of Acton, had nominated her for…
A Victorian-era cast zinc fountain planted with colorful flowers.

The Fountain at the Oval Garden

April 27, 2024
Acton Garden Club, in cooperation with the Town of Acton, has renovated the Oval Garden in front of Acton Town Hall to honor the Acton Garden Club’s organization in 1934 and to celebrate its 90 years of service to the community. A Civic Development grant was sought by…
A group of people around a stone marker and street sign

Acton Hosts Creative Placemaking Workshop

November 6, 2023
Last winter, when the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) was looking for two communities to participate in a Regional Trails Creative Placemaking Project , Acton stepped up. Economic and Community Development Director Julie Pierce recognized an opportunity to use art to enhance our new trails and adjacent business…
Facade of Tuttle House in Acton

Victorian Home Tour

June 12, 2023
On Saturday, June 17, a Victorian Home Tour will take place in South Acton Village. The J.W. Tuttle House is considered one of the finest examples of Victorian Italianate architecture in Massachusetts. The house is furnished with authentic 19th century art and period furnishings. The tour will offer…
Photograph of bronze statue of a woman, with live woman placing purple flowers into statue's hand.

Acton Sculptor’s Boston Women’s Memorial is Celebrated

May 8, 2023
Acton sculptor Meredith Bergmann’s Boston Women’s Memorial was honored on Sunday, May 7 at Emmanuel Church in Boston on its 20th anniversary. The Memorial, on Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay, is an approachable and touchable statuary tribute to Massachusetts leaders Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phyllis Wheatley.…

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