2024 Members’ Holiday Show
November 21 - December 21
Newburyport Art presents the 2024 Members’ Holiday Show featuring over 100 artworks by NAA artists members.
Featured Artist | Lance Hidy
November 21 - December 3
Newburyport Art presents a featured solo exhibition from member artist Lance Hidy
Featured Artist | Heidi Caswell Zander
November 7-17
Newburyport Art presents a Coastal Blues, a featured artist exhibition by Heidi Caswell Zander.
Featured Artist | Anne Duncan
October 25 - November 5
Newburyport Art presents a featured solo exhibition by artist Anne Duncan.
NAA Fall Juried Show
October 25 - November 17
Newburyport Art presents the Members’ Fall Juried show juried by artist Susan Erony.
Abstracts & Abstracted Expressions
October 3-20
Newburyport Art presents Abstracts & Abstracted Expressions, a show dedicated abstract works of all disciplines and media. This exhibit includes a highlight of the Abstract Artists Group of New England (AAGNE) in the Hills Gallery.
23rd Annual Art Auction & Party
September 21 (doors open at 5:30pm)
The Annual Art Auction & Party is the NAA’s largest fundraising event, enabling its continued mission of promoting and exhibiting members’ work, and providing art education and access to the visual arts for the entire community. Join us for a night of cocktails, cuisine, and competitive bidding!
Featured Artist | Rick Hamilton
August 30 - September 14
Newburyport Art presents a featured solo exhibition from member artist Rick Hamilton.
Plein Air Exhibition
August 8 - 25
Join the NAA in celebrating a show dedicated entirely to plein air pieces! A French expression meaning to paint outdoors, artwork created en plein air aims to capture the ephemeral effects of light as moments in space and time. Nature in its quiet, or dramatic gestures, people captured in private moments in public places, street scenes capturing the interplay of buildings, sun, shadows, textures, humanity in movement - all will be on display on our gallery walls!
Featured Artist | Lisa Arcomano
July 26 - August 4
Newburyport Art presents a featured solo exhibition from member artist Lisa Arcomano.
Scenes of Newburyport
July 26 - August 4
Newburyport Art is excited to announce the open-call show Scenes of Newburyport, centering an artistic focus on coastal landscapes, maritime themes, and the local environment. Featuring over 150 works by members and non-members alike, come visit the gallery to partake in artistic representations of the community around us - including some notable depictions of the beloved Plum Island Pink House!
Works on Paper: Paper Works!
July 5-21
Come visit the NAA to visit a show exclusively about showcasing paper — a foundational tool and a regular feature of many artists' practices. This exhibition will feature all types of works on paper, works of paper, works about paper, sculptural works, book works, collage, and so forth. From July 5th to the 21st, our walls will be adorned with over 150 works by our artists, to be enjoyed by art lovers coming from far and wide!
June Gift Shop
May 31 - June 30
Small seasonal Items are available in our gift shop space! These works showcase excellence in art & design through smaller format works. The work available makes for a perfect gift or addition to the home!
NAA National Juried Show
May 24 - June 30
Newburyport Art is proud to announce its first National Juried Show, juried by Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) Curator Jane Winchell — the Sarah Fraser Robbins Director of PEM’s Dotty Brown Art & Nature Center and Curator of the museum's Natural History collection. An opening reception will take place from 5-7pm on Friday, May 24th, with a small awards presentation led by the juror.
Art Adventure Grant 2024 Exhibition
May 2 – 19
Through the generous support of The Hemphill Family Foundation, Newburyport Art is proud to administer the annual Art Adventure Grant. This year’s award is $2,000, and applicants have each been invited to show one of their works as part of a representative exhibition in the NAA’s second-floor Hartson Gallery.
Flowers for OpArt
May 2 – 19
Flowers for OpArt runs alongside OpArt's annual exhibition, bursting with anything and everything "flowers". It runs physically adjacent to OpArt's exhibition, visually demonstrating the community's warmest support for this wonderful and very important program. A portion of the proceeds from sales of artwork in Flowers for OpArt will directly benefit OpArt programming.
20 Years of OpArt
May 2 – 19
A community favorite every year, the annual OpArt Exhibition packs the NAA Sargent Gallery to the brim with over 100 joyful and colorful works of art. This exhibition helps to mark the 20th Anniversary of OpArt.
Featured Artist | Sophy Tuttle
April 17 – 28
Newburyport Art presents a featured solo exhibition from Sophy Tuttle: Fellow Creatures. Sophy is also one of the featured muralists of the NBPT Murals Project.
Featured Artist | Deb Desmond Meserve: Saltwater Grounding
April 5 – 14
Newburyport Art presents a Featured Artist solo exhibition by member artist Deb Desmond Meserve: Saltwater Grounding.
We Share One Sky
April 5-28
We Share One Sky is an exhibition featuring over 80 area artists who responded to the words and concept: “we share one sky”. Works include painting, mixed media, photography, sculpture, poetry, and more. A wide range of artist perspectives are explored through an equally wide range of subject matter — including wildlife, landscapes, cityscapes, community, the environment, and the abstract.
Friends | The Grog Restaurant
April 1 - June 1
Three accomplished watercolorists will exhibit work that will be on view to the public and available for sale from April 1 through to June 1, 2024, at the Grog Restaurant In Newburyport.
Abstract Artists Group of New England at Metzy’s Cantina
April 1 - May 31
Visit Metzy’s Cantina to take in an exhibition of work featuring members of the Abstract Artists Group of New England (AAGNE), an NAA Featured Interest Group.
Newburyport High School National Art Honors Society Senior Show
March 20–30
Come celebrate the annual exhibition by Newburyport High School seniors involved in the National Art Honors Society!
Spring Gift Shop
March 14 – April 28
Small seasonal Items are available in our gift shop space! These works showcase excellence in art & design through smaller format works. The work available makes for a perfect gift or addition to the home!
Colors of March
March 1 – 30
The Colors of March takes inspiration from March as Women's History Month. For decades, the colors of white, green, and purple (and even a little gold) have come to be associated with March and honoring Women's History. This exhibition is centered around these colors in acknowledgement and celebration of this impactful month.
Young & Budding
March 1 – 17
Newburyport Art is celebrating the younger generation of artists in our greater community! Artists grades 1-12 from a range of schools will be exhibiting in Newburyport Art’s Hills Gallery.
With Gratitude: A special exhibition to thank our 2023 100% Auction Donors
March 1 – 30
This is a special ‘thank you’ exhibition featuring artists that donated 100% of their sale proceeds from the 2023 Art Auction to Newburyport Art. We are so thankful for their generosity, and we are so proud to highlight their magnificent work in this special exhibition.
Members’ Winter Juried Show
February 1–25
The 2024 Members’ Winter Juried Show features 124 diverse works of art, selected by a special committee of artist-jurors: Judy Miller Bailey, Rosalie Cuticchia, Susan Spellman, Tom Bailey, and Verne Orlosk.
Winter Gift Shop Items
February 1 – March 10
Small holiday items are available in our gift shop space! These works showcase excellence in art & design through smaller format works, making for a perfect gift or addition to the home!
The Maine Idea
January 18 – 28
Newburyport Art presents The Maine Idea, an exhibition inspired by the themes of Maine in honor of Past President Jean Trim and her dedicated service to Newburyport Art, with a special posthumous collection of work by Christa Trim.
NAA Master Artist Exhibition
January 18 – 28
Over 60 works of art from 40 artists are on display in the Sargent Gallery. Newburyport Art’s Master Artist Exhibition celebrates some of the most distinguished members of the Association.
Featured Artist | Maria Nemchuk
December 8 - 22
Newburyport Art presents Pleinly Noted, a Featured Artist solo exhibition by NAA Master Artist member Maria Nemchuk. On view in the Hills Gallery, this collection of over 30 gorgeous oil paintings focuses on the work Maria created en plein air from the early Covid pandemic in 2020.