Happy Spring! We are busy planning our signature events for 2021 in a safe and fun manner. Stay tuned to what we have in store for you!

ART LIVES!

Nashua International Sculpture Symposium has teamed up with Mint Printworks to create awesome canvas totes. This fundraiser runs through April 16th.

https://mintprintworks.printavo.com/merch/artlives

The proceeds from the sales of these bags go to the purchase of tools and materials for the 2021 Symposium, which runs from May 20 to June 12 this year.

GIVE BACK WHERE IT COUNTS

Friends, for the month of April 2021, we at City Arts Nashua will receive a $1 donation from each purchase of the $2.50 reusable GIVE BACK WHERE IT COUNTS Bag at the Shaw's Supermarket store located at 300 Main Street, Nashua N.H.

Every little bit helps to support our ongoing arts promotion work and upcoming plans for our signature events! And THANK YOU!

RECENT NEWS

With her new ‘Cut and Paste’ exhibit, longtime Nashua arts advocate and benefactor Meri Goyette shows her creative side, Nashua Telegraph, 4/24/21
https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/local-news/2021/04/24/with-her-new-cut-and-paste-exhibit-longtime-nashua-arts-advocate-and-benefactor-meri-goyette-shows-her-creative-side/?cscache=16192663264q575a920b

NASHUA – Decades after she began carving out a few hours here and there from her already full-time, twin careers of assisting her husband in his medical practice and raising their children to do some volunteering with the city’s fledgling arts community, one could say Meri Goyette has now come “full circle.” Goyette, after all those years lending a helping hand here, dispensing a bit of valuable advice there, and stepping up whenever called upon for the benefit of Nashua’s arts community – often in the form of sorely needed financial support – is making her first foray into the creative side of the arts world.

Goyette’s debut project, titled “Geometric Abstraction through Cut and Paste,” became an exhibit that is on display now through June 11 in the front lobby windows of The Telegraph offices, 110 Main St. Goyette’s friends at City Arts Nashua collaborated with The Telegraph for the exhibit, which is “open” all the time because it is set up for viewing from outside the Telegraph lobby.

Until now, according to City Arts Nashua, Goyette wasn’t an artist, “she was busy with, and committed to, helping artists to succeed. “She didn’t make art. She made art happen.” Rare is the artist, certainly, who makes his or her debut on the exhibit scene at age 95. But Goyette has never been one to let the calendar make her decisions for her.

Her “Cut and Paste” series was, in a way, inspired by the pandemic; still fairly active for her age, Goyette found herself spending more time at home, where one day she picked up some paper, fabric, a tube of glue and a pair of scissors and began creating. Soon Goyette had found “her own mode of artmaking,” according to CAN, which became a series of “statement collages in various sizes,” some of which she turned into collectible greeting cards.

“Meri is such an inspiration to all of us in the arts here in Nashua,” CAN president Lisa Bissonnette said. “We are so fortunate that she serves on our advisory board, and partners with us to support City Arts Nashua’s mission.”

City Mural Tradition makes for a colorful cityscape, Union Leader, 4/15/21
https://www.unionleader.com/voices/gate_city/gate-city-mural-tradition-makes-for-a-colorful-cityscape/article_e30e908d-b09d-5e23-af0a-ca2e31fad0fd.html

Nashua readies open air art gallery, Union Leader, 4/1/21
https://www.unionleader.com/voices/gate_city/gate-city-nashua-readies-open-air-art-gallery/article_9d3fdb47-1145-57ec-ae37-b2e5d64399aa.html?block_id=1037895

Nashua's murals bring art and inspiration into everyday life, Union Leader, 2/27/21
https://www.unionleader.com/nh/arts_and_ent/nashuas-murals-bring-art-and-inspiration-into-everyday-life/article_16165ec9-22cb-509d-846e-5870eb0e6393.html