The mission of Arts at the Armory is to provide an inclusive and accessible venue for arts, cultural and community events, exhibitions, markets, classes and more.
Exciting news! With recently expanded reopening guidelines and an entertainment license in place, The Center for Arts at the Armory is seeking event organizers to use our outdoor seating area for arts and cultural programming. Would you like to host a concert, a poetry reading, an outdoor market or even a private event on our lawn space? We’d love to host events that can recur on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis, but can be flexible for one-off events as well. For more information, please click here.
Peaches and Pittsburgh by Clem Aurelius, acrylic on canvas, 10″ x 8″
ROOTED will be hosting an exhibition by Clem Aurelius entitled “Darkness, Warmth, and Miscellaneous Items” through May/June 2021.
Artist Statement by Clem Aurelius: I hope my art brings you a feeling of movement, peace, sadness, tranquility, or something that maybe I myself have never felt. But, I hope you receive a feeling of something, because we are dying from the moment we are born and while we are stuck between one period of nonexistence and another, it’s nice to feel alive once in a while.
Statement by Hank Fay, Curator: We don’t often see outsider art in this area. The proliferation of drawing studios, adult-ed plein air safaris, art schools and the art programs of major universities tips the scale in favor of the cognoscenti. Many of us have been taught at some point how to paint. Not so for Clem Aurelius, self-taught artist. He has taught himself to depict vivid emotion with graphite and charcoal on plain white paper, where the places he paints seem happier than the people.
I sincerely hope that you can face the challenge of spending some time with these portraits, but be warned: the feelings are intense.
Kitauna Parker is an emerging artist who recently graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Kitauna is a fine art oil painter who has been shown in local galleries and in public spaces with Artists for Humanity. She is also a Martial Arts instructor at Northeastern University as well as a United Cerebral Palsy Personal Care Assistant, and an Artist’s for Humanity alumna.
About her own art she has this to say: “Growing up in the urban streets of Boston has sculpted my resilience, empowering my voice to be as big as my art. As an artist, I celebrate the human connection with marks, color, shapes, and sometimes even language. From making an art club in grade-school to selling my first painting at 15, art has always been my still small voice, not only for me but for my community. My art is my freedom, its my way to fight back. With my art, I want to bring people together, connecting individuals from all different cultural backgrounds to share in the beauty of the same thing: the human mark.”
Visit Kitauna’s work at ROOTED Armory Cafe & Farmstand through March and April, 2021.
