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Elected Artists Exhibition ‘Up in the Attic’ on View

The June show at the Essex Art Association (EAA) is the Elected Artists’ Exhibition Up in the Attic.

The exhibit runs through Saturday, June 24. The EAA Gallery is located at 10 North Main Street, Essex, and gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. daily, closed Tuesdays. For more information, visit essexartassociation.com or call 860-767-8996.

The exhibit theme evokes images of boxes of old photographs, a rocking horse and a dollhouse, or maybe a sewing machine. Stored and forgotten treasures found up in the attic make us remember and dream.

The exhibition awards juror, Melanie Carr, is a Connecticut-based artist who received her MFA from the College of Art and Design at Lesley University in 2011. Carr began her studies in visual art after serving in the United States Navy as an operations specialist onboard the USS Willamette (AO-180) in Pearl Harbor. After 10 years at the New Britain Museum of American Art, her most recent role as curator of new media, she is now adjunct professor at Central Connecticut State University where she teaches drawing. Carr has work in the collections at the New Britain Museum of American Art, The Loomis Chaffee School, and the Boston Public Library, as well as many private collections. For more information, visit www.melaniecarr.com.

Awards in the amount of $1,900 will go to exhibiting artists for their work in various media, plus one EAA artist will be given a solo exhibit in the Exit Gallery during the 2018 gallery season.