Happening at the park
We are pleased to welcome Sayzie Carr and her art exhibit, titled “Webs and Beds.” Carr’s display will feature bold colors and patterns on textiles. The exhibit will be on view December 2 through 30, 2022.
Carr is an artist whose work encompasses painting, textiles and teaching. Residing in Western Massachusetts, she creates her art drawing inspiration from the natural beauty of the Berkshires.
After receiving a degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, Carr began her career immersed in the New York City. Granted a studio at PS 122, a vibrant community-run art and performance center in the East Village, she took advantage of the many opportunities it presented to help shape her career over three decades. As well as being dedicated to her ongoing studio practice of painting, Carr extended her skills to fabric design and found a niche designing and creating fabric sculptures, puppets, and costumes for theatre and movies, as well as painting backdrops and creating textile installations for displays, theatre, and promotional events. Presently, combining her life-long love of textiles, sewing and painting has become her medium as an expressive art form.
Carr’s exhibit at the park is a materials exploration with textiles: dyes, threads, yarn, and mattress ticking. Mattress ticking conjures associations with antique mattresses, beds, tents and dormitories. Carr uses the fabric to evoke a place of rest, meditation and dreaming and hence the imagination—the subconscious and collective consciousness. Using bedding metaphorically, Carr re-patterns the patterns, breaking up the stripes by cutting and piecing to reinsert time and care. The utilitarian fabric is remade into an abstract work of art, transformed and reinterpreted.
An opening reception to welcome Carr and her exhibit will be held on Saturday, December 3 from 4 to 6 pm.
Celebrate Holiday in the Depot with us! We invite you to join us at the park on Friday, December 9 from 6 to 8:30 pm to participate in the festivities. We’ll have fire pits with make-your-own s’mores with National Iron Bank, hot apple cider from Averill Farm, fresh donuts thanks to Ericson Insurance Advisors, and hot chocolate and other treats from the Mayflower Inn & Spa. We’ll also enjoy live holiday music played by Sharon Ruchman on the piano and a kids activity provided by the Gunn Memorial Library.
Additionally, be sure to check out other events going on around the depot, too, including Santa's arrival on a horse-drawn wagon and the town Christmas tree lighting at 6 pm!