Seven by Seven: Paints, Pastels and Poems
April 1 – May 22, 2013
Artist Reception and Poetry Reading: 
Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

This exhibition features the vibrant work of seven Falmouth area painters: Kate Aubrey, Sigrid Hecker, Betty Jameson, Ruth Leech, Sam Lyman, Claudia Smith-Jacobs and Jeanne Swan.  As part of the creative process, each artist has been paired with a local poet whose work serves as both inspiration and resource. 

The Great Musicians of Jazz & Blues: Portrait Paintings by Sean Cassidy
April 1 – May 1, 2013
Artist Reception: 
Sunday, April 7, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

In this series of bold, energetic and lively portraits of great Jazz and Blues musicians, Sean Cassidy imbues each painting with both the spirit of the musicians and the sensations of the music that made them famous.  His use of gestural marks, rich colors and a responsive style serve to bring the personas of such greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Josephine Baker and others to life. This exhibition is a companion to the The Golden Age of Jazz lecture on Saturday, April 13th at 10:00 am.

Mapping the Mind: Paintings by Sean Cassidy
April 1 - May 22, 2013

The connection of mind and body has always been an enigma and continues to be pondered and explored in art. The symbolic nature of our unconscious thoughts and dreams play an important role in the dichotomy of mind and body. Figurative art opens the possibilities of metaphor for exploring the nature of being human. These components are explored in this work through juxtaposing and layering imagery through the media of painting over the aerial maps.

Senioritis: Artwork from the Falmouth High School Senior Class
May 3 – May 22, 2013
Artist Reception: 
Thursday, May 9, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Celebrate the artwork of over 60 Falmouth High School graduating seniors. This exhibition is a perennial favorite, full of surprises, young energy and samples of work in painting, sculpture, ceramics, multi-media and more.

Fantastical Birds: Quietus in Flight
New paintings by Juan Travieso
May 24 – July 7, 2013
(This exhibition has been extended through July: date TBA)

Fanciful, colorful and fabulous, Juan Travieso’s paintings of birds are irresistible.  His winged creatures are animated and articulated by vibrant colors and abstract designs without loosing the innate qualities of their breed. Owls, parrots, bluebirds, robins and other varieties abound. 

This outdoor exhibition of natural “fairy” habitats includes the work of local artists, naturalists and those with an affinity for the mystery of the woods. Stop inside Highfield for your fairy house map, and head off to explore the building, grounds and woods in search of these miniature, secret hideaways. As this is an outdoor exhibit subject to weather conditions, please visit early in the season to avoid disappointment! Participating artists include: Sheila Payne, Amy Wilson Sanger, Glen Carliss, Helen Koehler, Jenny Junker, Andrea Moore, Skee Houghton, Sue Beardsley, Basia Goszczynska, Bobbi Bailin, Jane Parhiala, Angela Lynn Turner, Molly Bang, Alfie Glover, Barbara Whitehead, Sally Egan, Anne Halpin, Julie Child, Pauline Kim, Rebecca Edwards and Salley Mavor.

Signatures:
15 Artists Making Their Marks in Mosaic
July 10 – September 1, 2013
Artist Reception: July 12, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Exhibition Lecture: July 12, 7:00 pm
Rachel Sanger Lynch: "What Lies Beneath Our Feet; Hunting and Foraging for Native Stone"

This exhibition includes the work of 15 outstanding national mosaic artists who have stamped their marks in the field of contemporary mosaics. The work of this eclectic group not only represents a cross section of styles from abstract to portraiture, but also demonstrates the diversity of materials used in contemporary mosaic making. Linda Dadak of Creative Glass Designs curates this exhibition of the highest quality and most innovative mosaic fine art being created today.

Pocketful of Posies by Salley Mavor
September 4 - October 31, 2013

This exhibition presents the award-winning fabric reliefs that Salley Mavor created to illustrate Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes. This 72-page, full-color, hardcover children’s book, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has won the 2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Picture Book and the Golden Kite Award for picture book illustration from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. These charming, meticulously designed and executed artworks are a delight to behold and a joy to exhibit at Highfield Hall.

“Engaging with these works is like searching for stars in the night sky–at first we don’t recognize the extent of the delicate endless stitching, but as we keep our eyes focused, more and more appear. Surely her thread is gossamer, her fingers unimaginably nimble.”
– Art New England

America the Beautiful:
The Words of Katherine Lee Bates
interpreted in Fiber and Paint
September 4 - October 31, 2013

Under the guidance of curator Shawn Nelson, a group of 22 Cape Cod fiber artists and painters  worked in pairs to inspire each other in a weaver/painter collaboration of Falmouth native, Katherine Lee Bates’ America the Beautiful. Reinvigorating the poem’s original intent and giving new meaning to Bates’s patriotic lyrics, each pair of painters and weavers chose a line from the song and worked in partnership on its interpretation to produce images that would offer the viewer a new sense of the anthem’s vision and inspiration.