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NASHUA — On Aug. 12, 4 new native artists might be featured on the reception for the summer-fall rotation within the Sandy Cleary Community Art Gallery.

Open to the general public, the gallery is positioned on the Nashua Center for the Arts, 201 Main St. Doors will open at 4 p.m. with the reception ending at 6 p.m.

The exhibition runs by means of the tip of November and paintings is offered on the market by contacting the artist.

Peter Houde is a Nashua native and third technology licensed public accountant on Main Street. He studied artwork and accounting at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont and went on to graduate faculty on the Rhode Island School of Design. Decades later, Houde remains to be portray, drawing and illustrating. “It is our creativity that helps make us who we are. It allows us to forge our lives, and influence the world around us, hopefully in a positive way,” he mentioned. Houde might be reached at [email protected].

Maxwell Irwin was born and raised in Nashua. He participated within the design and visible communications program at Nashua High School after which pursued the humanities at Colby-Sawyer College, studying drawing, ceramics, images, typography and printmaking. He graduated with a BFA in graphic design with a concentrate on images. Outside of observational images, Irwin’s portfolio contains live performance, occasion and cosplay images. He travelled throughout the nation with the Nashua-based hardcore band Set The Bar Low as its touring photographer. “Showcasing high-passion social gatherings is one of my greatest motivators,” he mentioned. Irwin might be reached at [email protected].

Guy Riendeau is a panorama and cityscape photographer. His background in structure, promoting and images has formed each his inventive imaginative and prescient {and professional} profession as a enterprise proprietor and architectural gross sales consultant. Over the years, Riendeau refined his craft by means of workshops in Chicago, Paris, New York City and different worldwide places. He studied beneath acclaimed photographer Serge Ramelli and earned a Master of Photography diploma in 2024. Riendeau was lately printed in Noir International Photo Magazine and obtained a certificates of recognition of their summer season 2025 problem. “My latest color collection, Making Time For Shore – Coastal Scenes and Lighthouses, reflects my fascination with nature’s quiet strength and the enduring beauty of maritime landscapes,” he mentioned. Riendeau might be reached at [email protected].

Carol Walser Robey is a retired Nashua pediatrician. She started portray with New Hampshire space artists Kevin Dadoly, Stephen Previte and Paul Ingbretson 15 years in the past. She joined the Ingbretson Studio full-time the place she studied artwork historical past, determine drawing, portray and composition. Robey is a juried artist member of the Rockport Art Association and Museum and the North Shore Arts Association in Massachusetts, the place she has obtained recognition for her works. These embrace a silver medal in 2019 from the Guild of Boston Artists. Robey additionally reveals at New Hampshire Antique Coop in Milford. She is a Nashua Arts commissioner and curator of the Sandy Cleary Community Art Gallery. “I grew up spending much time in the outdoors studying nature. I appreciate handmade objects and tools, New Hampshire’s countryside, Gloucester, Mass. coastlines and flowers from my large gardens. They are among my favorite subjects to paint,” mentioned Robey. She might be reached at [email protected].

Nashua Community Arts and the Nashua Arts Commission are collaborating to supply Spectacle Live, the operator of the ability, with planning, operation and administration of the gallery. Exhibitions embrace acknowledged native artists, rising artists and scholar artists with a objective of reflecting the demographics of Nashua, probably the most various metropolis in New Hampshire.

The mission of the nonprofit group contains supporting the Nashua Center for the Arts to make sure it’s a neighborhood cultural facility that enhances high quality of life, serves as a useful resource and gathering place for the neighborhood and hyperlinks the humanities and cultural actions to the neighborhood at giant, making them accessible to all. The Nashua Arts Commission contains help of the Nashua Center for the Arts in its Arts and Culture Plan adopted by the Board of Aldermen in 2022.

Program schedules, tickets and extra info can be found at nashuacenterforthearts.com.