Month: July 2020

OMAA Online: ARTifacts – Charles Woodbury: Open Studio #2

July 16, 2020

Welcome back to OMAA Online and our Artifacts Series! OMAA Curator and Collections Manager Ruth Greene-McNally takes you through Charles Woodbury: Open Studio, an installation re-imagining Woodbury’s workspace as it appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founder of the  Ogunquit Summer School of Drawing and Painting, Woodbury is  credited with establishing Ogunquit’s reputation…

OMAA Online: ARTifacts – Vanitas Vita Beauty & Brevity

July 9, 2020

Welcome back to OMAA Online and our Artifacts Series! Today, artist Kathleen Speranza creates a floral arrangement with Curator and Collections Manager Ruth Greene-McNally. Set against the backdrop of “Vanitas Vita: Kathleen Speranza,” OMAA’s current exhibition of Speranza’s ethereal floral still-life paintings, the artist discusses her work, its relationship to 17th-century Dutch vanitas paintings and…