and…we’re back!

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After thriving through more than a year of hybrid learning during the pandemic, Cedarwood Waldorf School reopened its doors fully to students and faculty this September. The New Five Collective is honored and delighted to share their exhibit For the Love of Tress; installed by director, Robin Lieberman, and ever-supportive colleague Patricia Lynch, with her keen eye and vast experience, just in advance of the school’s reopening. We have already received rave reviews from faculty and staff!

We are also especially delighted to announce that the gallery space is now complete with a beautiful gallery-grade lighting system. We have been saving artists’ contributions and others’ donations for eight years now in hope of achieving this goal. Earlier on, a generous parent installed a gallery level hanging system, for which we will forever be grateful. We also want to give a huge shout out to Jeremy Smith, Facilities Manager at Cedarwood, for designing the lighting system and coordinating its installation with Viking Electric. And last, a big thank you to a patron of The Art Hall who anonymously donated the fixtures from Globe Lighting.

For the Love of Trees was imagined and manifested over many months during the first year of the pandemic and its exhibition space changed several times due to a series of understandable, unfortunate, and recurring pandemic-related restrictions. Hope in the hearts of the Collective’s membership (MJ Connors Davison, Robin Lieberman, Patricia Homan Lynch, Jannebeth Rӧell, and Jenny Siegel) kept the creative fires burning, stoked by their regular meetings in support of one another’s ongoing work.

Fittingly, The New Five Collective was the last group of artists to show their work at The Art Hall as the pandemic unfolded and closed the school to in-person learning. And now with the emergence of the delta variant, they have once again gone with the flow and have delayed the opening reception, even as the show is up. Please keep checking back here or with our curator, Robin, as we hope to host a Closing Reception on Friday, October 01^st, to include artists’ presentations usually slated for our opening.

We at The Art Hall are delighted that The New Five Collective can at last offer their art in this newly refined space as a salve to our collective healing in this still dynamic and uncertain time. We hope that this show does just that for all who enter and remember our connection with our trees. A portion of all sales will be donated to Friends of Trees.