Funded work 2022

Watertown Arts Market August 13, 12pm - 5pm

Samba Workshop and Percussion Festival - May 14, 2022

With Master Clinician, Marcus Santos

A workshop model opportunity to learn basic hand-drumming skills, rhythms and cadences.

Patrick J. Touhey Memorial Weekend - April 29 - May 1, 2022

https://www.patsytouheyweekend.com/copy-of-home-2

Watertown Saltonstall Park Concert Series

https://www.watertown-ma.gov/761/Saltonstall-Park-Concert-Series

Performances in 2022

The Concert Series is a series of free performances at Saltonstall Park, 149 Main Street, Watertown. The concerts take place immediately following the Watertown Farmer's Market, from 6:30-8 PM. Audience members are encouraged to bring chairs and blankets. Download the Saltonstall Park Concert Series 2022 poster (PDF), or view it below. Special thanks for the Watertown Cultural Council and Massachusetts Cultural Council for their support.

Gallery Reception: "The Art of Living Together" by Zhonghe (Elena) Li

April 26, 2022

Zhonghe (Elena) Li has been visiting Mount Auburn Cemetery for many years, but her deep connection with the place developed after the Covid-19 pandemic started, when Mount Auburn became a sanctuary for her during social isolation. Her almost daily walks at the Cemetery became a source of her artistic creativity and led her to envision a project, The Art of Living
Together, about the vital interconnectedness of art and nature and the ways the two are balanced at Mount Auburn.
In 2021, Li was awarded a grant from Mount Auburn’s Artist-in-Residence program to spend a year turning her vision for The Art of Living Together into a reality. Based on her observations of wildlife, plants, and trees, as well as her reflections on life and death over Mount Auburn’s 175-acre landscape, she has produced a diverse array of Chinese papercuts and pleinair watercolors that show the delicate balance between people and nature and interconnectedness of all beings.

Photos by Watertown Free Public Library and Jennifer Johnston, Mount Auburn Cemetery

Watertown Public Schools Strings Go To Symphony May 6, 2022

The WPS elementary string players from Hosmer, Lowell, and Cunniff took a trip to the symphony today! Big shoutout to all of our students for being awesome audience members, our parent chaperones for all of their help, and teacher chaperones Mr. Saunders and Miss Varsos! What a great day to listen to the Boston Symphony!

This program was supported in part by a grant from the Watertown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.