Co Creative Center New Bedford

Artists Share
2024-12-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-11-12 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-10-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-09-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-08-13 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-07-09 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-06-11 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-05-14 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | CoCreative Center Gallery, 137 Union Street, New Bedford, MA, 02740, United States
Supportive and friendly artist share and critique group. Meets monthly. All artists & friends welcome.

Join Artists Share! — the South Coast-based artist critique and discussion group hosted by Midori Creativity at the Co-Creative Center.

We welcome all artists and artist friends to come be part of the discussion. The group meets every month, aiming to help each other progress and grow in our work by sharing and exploring our art together. We laugh, share ideas, and have fun!

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Anomaly Poetry Open Mic Night
2024-11-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-09-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-08-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-07-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-06-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-05-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-11 19:00 - 21:00
We are back! Live and in person again for our Open Mic nights with Anomaly Poetry during AHA New Bedford.

JAZZ JAM
2024-11-14 19:00 - 20:00
WITH EMMANUEL “MANNY” ESCOBAR

The Z invites musicians and music lovers to grab your instruments for a no-cost jam session led by sax player and music educator Emmanuel “Manny” Escobar!

Shed all your cares, enjoy live music, improv and jam out with us. Musicians, vocalists, visual artists ,and audience welcome. No prior jam experience or tickets necessary.

The free Jazz Jam takes place on select AHA! First Thursday Nights: November 14 (7-8PM), February 13 (6-7PM), March 13 (6-7PM), and May 8 (6-7PM).

Join us!

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Acushnet Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

EMMANUEL “MANNY” DAVIS-ESCOBAR

Emmanuel “Manny” Escobar is a dynamic musician and educator, with roots firmly planted in Jazz, R&B and Afro-Latin creative traditions. He is a graduate of the Alice S. Pfaelzer Conservatory at Merit School of Music and Berklee College of Music and studied under Jan Berry Baker at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Emmanuel has performed and recorded with; Esperanza Spaulding, Reggie Workman, Loren Allred, Mayra Andrade, Pentatonix, Thaddeus Hogarth, Louis Cato, Roberta Miranda, Jermaine Paul, Cesaria Evora Orchestra, Grace Evora, Mika Mendes, Boy Ge Mendes, Tito Paris, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Emmanuel is an endorsing educator for Cannonball Musical Instruments, Rigotti Reeds and Syos Mouthpieces, a signed performing artist with Nightshift Entertainment – New England, adjunct faculty at Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts, and Music Director at Providence Country Day School.

Co-Creative Sessions: Zine Making 2
2024-11-06 18:00 - 20:00
Using a single piece of paper, we will create a zine, or small self-published book, filled with your personal, already experienced, knowledge. Bring your favorite special-interest info or something you’ve been studying or writing about, and a few collage items (small stickers, small images and text or papers” that represent this topic! I will have general art supplies, but may not have everyone’s area of interest or languages represented in my collage options.

Co-Creative Sessions is a free and accessible online series geared to enrich, educate and connect creatives through a series of workshops and training sessions. New Bedford is the home of artists, creatives, change makers, designers, entrepreneurs and community enthusiasts and the Co-Creative Session embraces the pulse that makes New Bedford so unique while expanding our knowledge and connections!

With great thanks, this program is funded and supported by the Mass Cultural Council, New Bedford Economic Development Council and NB Creative.

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Aneshia Savino (she/ze/they) is an independent apothecary, dancer, and scribe, and a graduate of the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque. Ze has performed in clubs, art galleries, ritual theater, fundraising, and art stages including Burning Man and AS220. Aneshia has previously worked at farms, co-ops, and organizations working for equitable access to natural and cultural resources. Their recent zines include “It lurks beneath…”, “Debitge: poems for the Core”, and “Lesser-known Moral Panics of Southern New England”. They love choreographing rituals/ceremonies and producing events with their family, friends, and communities, including Queer Arts Council’s Pride Block Party, New Moon Dance Party, and In Place-Mapping New Bedford’s Hidden Italian and Jewish Neighborhoods.

Co-Creative Sessions: Artful Mending
2024-10-20 14:00 - 16:00
Join Elaine Alder at Co Creative to mend your clothes. Learn how to repair your clothes in eye-catching ways that not only fix but enhance them, telling a story and encouraging others to resist fast fashion, too. Your clothes have taken care of you, so take care of your clothes. Mending is an ecologically sustainable practice that can divert trash from landfills, extend the life of your beloved garments, and express your personal style.

Co-Creative Sessions is a free and accessible online series geared to enrich, educate and connect creatives through a series of workshops and training sessions. New Bedford is the home of artists, creatives, change makers, designers, entrepreneurs and community enthusiasts and the Co-Creative Session embraces the pulse that makes New Bedford so unique while expanding our knowledge and connections!

With great thanks, this program is funded and supported by the Mass Cultural Council, New Bedford Economic Development Council and NB Creative.

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Elaine Alder is a textile artist, printmaker, and ceramicist whose work is driven by curiosity, tenderness, and hope for the future. Through their work with natural and reclaimed fibers, they explore empathy, reciprocity, and belonging, with a focus on kinship that transcends taxonomic boundaries.

Linocut Print Making
2024-09-21 14:00 - 17:00
with Taylor Hickey

A guide through designing, carving, and printing your own black and white linocut print. Up to 15 participants for a 3-hour workshop. I may be able to fit it into 2 hours if needed, especially if there are fewer participants. Weekends or evenings at the Co-Creative Center. I have done a handful of these workshops at the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, UMass Dartmouth, and the New Bedford Art Museum with great results.

Co-Creative Sessions is a free and accessible online series geared to enrich, educate and connect creatives through a series of workshops and training sessions. New Bedford is the home of artists, creatives, change makers, designers, entrepreneurs and community enthusiasts and the Co-Creative Session embraces the pulse that makes New Bedford so unique while expanding our knowledge and connections!

With great thanks, this program is funded and supported by the Mass Cultural Council, New Bedford Economic Development Council and NB Creative.

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Taylor Hickey is a printmaker, bookmaker, and sculptor working out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Born in Southeast Texas, Taylor earned her BA in Drawing and Printmaking from McNeese State University in Louisiana. She went on to earn an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2021, developing a body of work which pays homage to the human endeavor to understand the universe at large.

Post-graduation, she has held various positions as a gallerist and arts educator. She served as the Assistant Curator at the New Bedford Art Museum from 2022-2023, taught Printmaking courses at the MFA Boston, and continues to teach Drawing Foundations for RISD’s Pre-College program in the summer. In 2023 she was an Artist in Residence at the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, and in April 2024 she curated an exhibition, “Look, But Look With Love” at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY. Additionally, her artwork has been included in various exhibitions and publications across the United States.

Co-Creative Sessions: The Subversive Art of Found Poetry
2024-08-22 17:00 - 19:00
with Beatrice Alder

Found poetry is a powerful tool for subverting texts and disrupting conventional narratives. In this class, we will look at compelling examples of found poetry and explore a few different techniques. After a brief introduction, participants will delve into creating their own found poetry by chopping up and rearranging some problematic classics, including Moby-Dick.

Co-Creative Sessions is a free and accessible series geared to enrich, educate and connect creatives through a series of workshops and training sessions. New Bedford is the home of artists, creatives, change makers, designers, entrepreneurs and community enthusiasts and the Co-Creative Session embraces the pulse that makes New Bedford so unique while expanding our knowledge and connections!

With great thanks, this program is funded and supported by the Mass Cultural Council, New Bedford Economic Development Council and NB Creative.

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Co-Creative Sessions: Zine Making
2024-08-15 17:00 - 19:00
with Beatrice Alder

Zine Making – This one-session workshop will cover the basics of zine-making—what is a zine, why the form is important, and how to fold one. Participants will be guided through a series of creative prompts to brainstorm ideas for content, and will have the chance to make and take home at least one mini zine.

Co-Creative Sessions is a free and accessible series geared to enrich, educate and connect creatives through a series of workshops and training sessions. New Bedford is the home of artists, creatives, change makers, designers, entrepreneurs and community enthusiasts and the Co-Creative Session embraces the pulse that makes New Bedford so unique while expanding our knowledge and connections!

With great thanks, this program is funded and supported by the Mass Cultural Council, New Bedford Economic Development Council and NB Creative.

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Could Not Have Done This Without You
2024-07-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-21 14:00 - 16:00
Ghost Writer Album listening party and collage show.

Fourteen New Bedford, Massachusetts area musicians and singers have dedicated themselves to a set of poems. Together they tell a story of love, loss, friendship, and contact. By shore, city, afterlife, and outer space.

Collage exhibition runs from July 19-28th in the Gallery.

Could Not Have Done This Without You Exhibition
2024-07-19 00:00 - 2024-07-28 23:59
Fourteen New Bedford, Massachusetts area musicians and singers have dedicated themselves to a set of poems. Together they tell a story of love, loss, friendship, and contact. By shore, city, afterlife, and outer space.

Check out our two album listening parties!

soft animal - opening reception
2024-06-06 18:00 - 20:00
photos & prints by Andrea Cacase

Soft animal is Andrea Cacase’s first solo exhibition featuring photographs and prints from the past few years. Her photography consists of landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, all taken on Polaroid film. The prints are a mix of photo emulsion transfers, monotypes, and etchings.

soft animal
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-07-13 23:59
photos & prints by Andrea Cacase

Soft animal is Andrea Cacase’s first solo exhibition featuring photographs and prints from the past few years. Her photography consists of landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, all taken on Polaroid film. The prints are a mix of photo emulsion transfers, monotypes, and etchings.

Poetry is a big source of inspiration for Cacase’s work. The title of the show comes from the Mary Oliver poem Wild Geese. In the poem, Oliver compares the struggle of the human experience to the natural world’s ability to move along effortlessly. She advices the reader to “let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” The poem celebrates nature’s grandeur and its ability to remind people, that even at their lowest moments, they’re part of something vast and meaningful.

The show also includes a collaborative project with friend and sculptor Tim Bearse entitled Mood of the Mason. Together they created a series of unique site-specific frames to display her images. The piece marries the soft etherial world of Cacase’s photography, with the rough hard-edged surfaces of woodworking and masonry. It’s a nod to the historic buildings in downtown New Bedford and the ways in which they’ve been restored and repurposed for our contemporary pursuits.

The frames were created using various digital fabrication techniques. Twenty locations were selected on the 40 foot rock wall located within the Co-Creative Center. Each location on the wall was then scanned and turned into a 3D model. The 3D models were then used to carve out the rock formations into the backs of 20 wooden blocks using a CNC router. Each frame nestles perfectly into the wall while displaying the various groupings of images. The piece requires the viewer to get up close and personal with each photo and frame to take in their unique shapes and forms.

Through My Mind’s Eye - Kim Barry
2024-04-02 18:00 - 2024-04-15 20:00
Opening Reception AHA! Night April 11

“Through My Mind’s Eye” is an exhibition of oil paintings, encaustic collages, and clay sculpture. I am inspired by the natural world which I ingest and synthesize through my creative processes. My memories, emotions, imagination take hold of subjects such as seed pods, fruit, veggies, and flowers which are transformed into vivid, gestural paintings, textural wax collage or dynamic clay sculptures. Peppers will have intimate relationships, garlic explode into life and oranges pulsate with lurid, visceral color referencing internal body parts.

Kim Barry is a painter, potter, sculptor, and art educator. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Sculpture and from University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth with an MFA in Painting. Kim has lived in the south coast of Massachusetts most of her life and is a member of Hatch Street Studios in New Bedford, South Coast Artist, an exhibiting and teaching member of the Providence Art Club, Rogers Gallery in Mattapoisett, The Drawing Room in New Bedford, Westport Art Group, Marion Art Center, Cape Cod Cultural Center, and owner of Clay Trout Pottery in Mattapoisett. Her work is informed by the beautiful, south coast environment and the natural objects she encounters. Ms. Barry states, “My pockets are always full of shells and the bits I discover along my walks. Through deep observation and my intimate response to the natural world, I find a bounty of inspiration for my paintings. My subject matter such as fruits, flowers, veggies, or shells can often reference the human form, gesture, memory, emotion, sensuality or simply capture the energy of a time and place.” Ms. Barry also produces a line of sculpted tile and hand-thrown plant pots at her Clay Trout Pottery Studio in Mattapoisett.

Sacred Seasons Circle
2024-03-21 18:00 - 19:30
Circles are an ancient form of gathering people together to share conversation and knowledge.

Join us as we gather, explore, and reflect on ways to observe and celebrate the solar and lunar cycles.

During Circle there will be space and time to connect with each other, the cycle of seasons, and ourselves.

This is a tender hearted, collaborative circle where ideas will be welcomed and incorporated into our sessions.

register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sacred-seasons-circle-tickets-831957947617

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