August and September Events

Rose Bryant has always loved making, building, and exploring processes. To her, each paint mark is a process of creating something that fills her heart and makes magic in front of her eyes. Rose typically paints medium to large abstract acrylic paintings that sometimes include representational elements like trees, birds, water, and flowers; however, she also paints color and movement… just for the fun of watching what comes off the brush. To Rose, that’s what’s so fascinating, and she never tires of it.

Rose tells us: “Currently, I own and operate Art Up Front Street Studios and Gallery, where artists rent studio space and present their work in the front gallery. We are celebrating 10 years this September 2026. I love the interactions with other artists here while they are in process….the giving and taking of ideas, asking advice, watching them and hearing their thoughts.”

When Rose arrives at SAA, she will have three canvases, each with a color underpainting that will be used for demonstration purposes. During the process, she will sketch out in paint a very loose, rough, and abstracted image…like trees, or a landscape, or a water scene. On those beginnings, Rose plans to add color as she would do when creating her work in my studio. The purpose of having three canvases is to explore how different colors “work” on different backgrounds. Rose sometimes finds that she can keep things simple (which offers great excitement!). Sometimes, though, she can add too much detail or too many specific representational elements that cause her anxiety. With a bit of luck, this process with three canvases keeps her from getting “locked in” or anxious, but it will be more of an abstract color experiment. We will see!  Please come join Rose for an adventure in unexpected color, on September 13 from 2-3:30 pm. 

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

The exhibition features a compelling collection of works ranging from shipwrecks and abandoned amusement structures, to glowing city streets, weathered cottages, forgotten objects, maritime scenes, and symbolic Americana.Rather than documenting literal locations, Leahy paints emotional landscapes — places charged with memory, absence, longing, and preservation. Many of the works evoke remnants of another era: rusting ships stranded at sea, silent phone booths, vacant carnival rides, fading architecture, and small personal relics that feel suspended between past and present. “Each painting is like a preserved fragment,” says Leahy. “A moment, a feeling, or a place held still before it disappears.”

The exhibition reflects Leahy’s ongoing fascination with abandoned spaces, maritime imagery, and emotionally symbolic environments. Her expressive use of color transforms familiar subjects into meditations on endurance, loss, nostalgia, and resilience. At once haunting and hopeful, Time in a Bottle invites viewers to reflect on the places, objects, and experiences that continue to live within memory long after time has moved on.

He continues to explore other media – graphite, colored pencil, acrylic markers, pastels, and others, but keeps coming back to acrylics… at least so far. Dave loves to travel and has always been drawn to the seashore and related scenes; boats, fish shacks, sand dunes, seagulls and reflections on the water. This show is focused on small boats and sailboats. 

Dave is honored to be president of Seacoast Artist Association, and an exhibiting member of Seacoast Artist Association, Kittery Art Association, and juried member of New Hampshire Art Association. 

These images were photographed from the shore, from among the waves, and from above. They focus on the scenes that frame this story and on some of the moments where the surfers are not just part the beauty – but revel in the joy of being part of it.

Ed Moran is a former news and sportswriter who began a photography career after nearly 30-years at the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer, covering breaking news, politics, and investigative projects around the world before switching to sports, covering a variety of topics including the business of sports, sports features and projects eventually becoming the hockey and winter Olympics beat writer, covering the NHL for 10 seasons.

As the police investigated the site, they too saw the object hovering where Muscarello had seen it. Headlines nationwide told the story. The rest became history as the police and investigators nationwide tried to determine what young Muscarello saw that night.

Come see the beautiful of assortment of UFO work by these creative artists in September!

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