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High school senior contributes newest Wellesley traffic box painting

May 23, 2023 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

It’s traffic-box painting season in town, and Wellesley resident Clara Eikeboom is adding her artistic talents to the two signal boxes outside the Wellesley Police station on Washington St. After submitting an application and preliminary designs in March to the Wellesley Public Art Committee, the Winsor School student got word that her plans were perfectly lawful. By early May she’d set up a shade shelter and started sketching her designs onto the metal surfaces.

Wellesley traffic box art
Wellesley traffic box art shows police cars through the years. Traffic box artists receive a stipend  of $1,000 for their time, transportation, and supplies.

“I got the idea because I really enjoy the electrical boxes all around the Wellesley, and I dreamed of doing one myself.”

Eikeboom also dreamed of a spring spent outdoors, beyond the four walls of a classroom. Thus, her perfect senior project was born. “I’m so glad I can do this and I don’t have to be in school,” she acknowledged.

One of the two boxes she’s painting is themed “Police Cars During the Ages.” One side portrays a Model T; another side a Crown Victoria, and another, a modern-day electrical model. For that last one, Eikeboom pointed to WPD’s fully electric 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E parked nearby. “I had a model for my drawing right here.”

For her second box, Eikeboom painted a Sherlock Holmes silhouette as a nod to the famous British fictitious case solver; and a large fingerprint, to symbolize the scientific side of criminal investigations.

Wellesley traffic box art
Clara Eikeboom says nobody’s heckled her during her time painting the boxes. Her location outside the police station probably doesn’t hurt. Police officers have been very supportive, checking in on her as they come and go. They even gave her an official WPD water bottle.

For his part, Wellesley PD chief Jack Pilecki was glad to have the chance to see the boxes outside the station livened up. He and Eikenboom together came up with the themes for the boxes. “I am extremely happy with how they are turning out. Clara has been amazing. I hope everyone who sees them likes them also,” Pilecki said.

Eikenboom expects to finish up the project within a couple of weeks. After that she’ll travel to Minnesota to work in a kitchen at a  German language summer camp. “This will be my third summer working in the kitchen,” she said. Fluent in the language, She welcomes the opportunity to communicate with other German-speakers from all over the country and abroad. Next fall, it’s off to Bucknell University.

The Traffic Box Art Program is a collaboration between the Wellesley Public Arts Committee and the Wellesley Police Department. Since 2020 local artists have painted about a dozen signal boxes at high-visibility intersections to enhance the visual experience in Wellesley.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Wellesley Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency, and a grant from the Community Fund for Wellesley’s Al Robinson Fund for the Arts.


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An hour in a Wellesley garden—library in full bloom at Foundation event

May 18, 2023 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

The Wellesley Free Library Foundation celebrated spring with an opening reception for the organization’s “Books in Bloom” fundraising event. Guests moved around both floors of the library to appreciate stunning floral interpretations of much-loved fiction, non-fiction, and picture books. The opening night reception  featured live music by the Wellesley High School MTB Jazz Trio. Guests enjoyed raw bar by Wellesley’s own Row 34 chef-owner Jeremy Sewall; savories from Waski’s Cheese Shop; and treats from Ware Baking Co.

Proceeds from the event help The Library Foundation to fund enhancements such as expansion to the library’s collections in the form of new databases, evolving materials formats, expanded reference materials, and more. Their motto: “We take what you love and make it better.”

The flowers arrangements (along with the food and the open bar) are gone, but here are some pictures.

Wellesley Free Library Foundation, Books in Bloom
Pedestal sponsored by The Lara and Chelsea Collaborative. Book inspiration: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Floral designer: Alison Campbell, Hen and Chick Gardens

 

 

Wellesley Free Library Foundation, Books in Bloom

 

Wellesley Free Library Foundation, Books in Bloom
Pedestal donated by Justin and Lisa Harrison. Book inspiration: Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea, by Elizabeth Suneby, illustrated by Rebecca Green. Floral designer: Wellesley Natural Resources Commission

 

Wellesley Free Library Foundation, Books in Bloom
Pedestal donated by Sexton Test Prep. Book inspiration: Tails with Gig: Stories from the Dog Blog, by Katherine L. Babson Jr., illustrated by Katherine K. Macdonald. Floral designer: Cindy Jaczko

 

Wellesley Free Library Foundation, Books in Bloom
Pedestal donated by Julia Marriott and David Harding. Book inspiration: The Making of Butterflies, by Zora Neale Hurston, illustrated by Ibram X. Kendi. Floral designer: Petals & Branches

 

Wellesley Free Library Foundation, Books in Bloom
There isn’t always an open bar just outside the library’s Childrens Room. More’s the pity.

 

Wellesley Free Library Foundation, Books in Bloom
Pedestal donated by The Madden Davis Real Estate Group. Book inspiration: Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri. Floral designer: Wellesley Gardeners’ Guild members Judy Terpilowski (left) and Kathleen Carney-Mark. Not pictured: Vivian Baguer Holland

 

Wellesley Free Library Foundation, Books in Bloom
Thanks to Wellesley High School Key Club members for their warm welcome to the event. From left: Seva, Maisie, Anna, Evan, and Dhruv

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Wellesley Society of Artists celebrates art with show and auction

May 15, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

The Wellesley Society of Artists will present “Celebrating 90 Years of Art and the Next Generation of Artists,” featuring the artwork of 30 WSA member artists on display at Simons Park on Saturday May 20, 10am- 4pm, as part of the 25th Annual Wellesley’s Wonderful Weekend celebrations.

Wellesley Society of Artists

This show is especially important because the sale of its artwork benefits the WSA Wellesley High School Art Achievement Award, which is given annually to a high school student. As the WSA celebrates its rich 90-year history, the society also looks to the next generation of artists, particularly local student-artists here in Wellesley. The WSA believes it is essential that the community nurtures and supports not only the creative work of its current artists, but also the voices of this next generation of artists.

All the artwork can be enjoyed  online through September 7 and viewed in-person on May 20, 10am–4pm, at Simons Park (next to the main branch of the Wellesley Free Library). “Celebrating 90 Years of Art and the Next Generation of Artists” is supported in part by a generous grant from the Wellesley Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

“Paint the Town” auction

Wellesley Society of Artists (WSA) and Page Waterman Gallery & Framing are hosting “Paint the Town”—a Plein-Air Painting Event with a charity auction in conjunction with Wellesley’s Wonderful Weekend, with painting on May 20, and the charity auction on May 23, at Page Waterman Gallery.

Artists will be painting around the Town Common and Wellesley Square from 4pm-dusk on May 20. Over a dozen local artists, including WSA members and students from Wellesley High School, Dana Hall and Wellesley College, will be painting local scenes. The paintings will be auctioned off at ticketed charity auction at the Page Waterman Gallery, 592A Washington St, Wellesley, on Tuesday, May 23, 6:30pm. Proceeds will benefit the Wellesley Veterans Association.

Buy your tickets here or at Anderson’s Jewelers in Wellesley. Food will be donated by Captain Marden’s and others. Maybe we’ve buried the lead, but celebrity auctioneers will include Bob and Deborah Brown from The Swellesley Report. Dan Lothian, former CNN White House Reporter, and Blake Lothian, 20-year-old NASCAR race car driver, and others will be on hand to pick up their slack.

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Spring wanderings around Wellesley: Streetscape Curator comes to town; Village Church helps fight hunger; Wonderful Wellesley events ramping up

May 4, 2023 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

In our wanderings around town lately we’ve met some interesting people and seen some pretty sights. Matthew Dickey, behind the popular Instagram account Streetscape Curator (40k followers), was the featured speaker at a Mass Hort event last weekend. The Dorchester resident travels all over Massachusetts (and beyond), seeking out interesting homes and buildings, and telling their stories through crisp, beautiful pictures and meticulous research. During his talk at Elm Bank Reservation about the historic Manor House, Dickey told the crowd that the home was built for Alice Cheney Baltzell. Alice was the daughter of Benjamin Pierce Cheney, who founded what would become American Express.

Mass Hort just scored a $600K grant from the State to shore up the 100+ year old 40k sq. ft. building.

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Streetscape Curator Matthew Dickey speaks in front of the Manor House in the Italiante Garden at Elm Bank Reservation, Wellesley.

 

Elm Bank Reservation, Manor House, interior
A peek inside the Manor House.

Feeding Frenzy at Wellesley Village Church

It’s been a long-standing yearly tradition at Wellesley Village Church for parishioners to don hair nets and plastic gloves, join the assembly line, and put together healthy, non-perishable meals to benefit food pantry clients across the region. In partnership with End Hunger NE, over 100 church volunteers worked last Sunday toward providing food to families and individuals facing food insecurity. With inflation bumping up the cost of food by 9.9% in 2022, according to the US Department of Agriculture, the need for food assistance is only growing.

If you’d like to volunteer to package meals at the End Hunger NE warehouse (203 Oak Street, Pembroke, MA, awning #7) just sign up for a time. It’s a meaningful bonding opportunity for a group—people who arrive together serve next to each other on the assembly lines. Half of each team works the food bins and half weighs, seals, and boxes the meals.

More info here on how it all works.

Wellesley Village Church, Feeding Frenzy
Wellesley Village Church, Feeding Frenzy. Matthew Martin of End Hunger NE (in the striped shirt) keeps the energy going as he works toward the goal of ending hunger in the Northeast.

Artist Wendy Letven swings by Beth Urdang Gallery

At Beth Urdang Gallery in Wellesley Square, multidisciplinary artist Wendy Letven stopped by for a reception and to talk about her work which includes sculpture, wall reliefs, wall installations, mobiles of painted aluminum and cut paper, and watercolors.

Based in New York, Letven teaches Art and Design at Parsons School of Design and at Montclair State University. You can see her work at the gallery at 15 Central St., and also check out the striking window display next to Tutto Italiano.

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Artist Wendy Letven, flanked by her works: “Blue Spinner” (left), made from acrylic, enamel, and aluminum ; and “Outer Orbit,” made from acrylic, Enamel, wire, and aluminum.

Spring in bloom at the Hunnewell tennis courts

 

Hunnewell tennis courts, spring

 

Hunnewell tennis courts, spring


More spring happenings during Wonderful Wellesley

Wonderful Wellesley is all about what’s happening in town including special events, new stores and restaurants, special offers and more.

Sing and dance with Boston’s beloved, award-winning family music entertainer, Vanessa Trien (of Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys), well known for her lively, interactive concerts for the whole family. Bring your kids and get ready to sing, dance, twirl, jump like a monkey, and tickle like a tickle monster with Vanessa and Jumping Monkey sidekick, Adam Rothberg.

DATE: Saturday, May 6
TIME/LOCATION: 11am concert in Linden Square Courtyard. Plus, the Frozen Ice Cream Truck with be giving out FREE ice cream to the first 200 kids, while supplies last.
TIME/LOCATION: 3pm concert in Wellesley Square in front of iCode

Concerts last approximately 45 minutes. Rain date is Sunday, May 7, same times.


More music with Wellesley Symphony Orchestra

Wellesley Symphony Orchestra will hold its “Cathedrals of Light” spring concert on Sunday, May 7, 3pm, at  MassBay Community College auditorium at 50 Oakland Street, Wellesley Hills.

This program consists of music inspired by the idea of cathedrals, and the idea of inspiration itself.

Music performed will include :

  • Jennifer Higdon’s “blue cathedral” “
  • The Sunken Cathedral” written for piano by Claude Debussy and arranged for orchestra by Hubert Mouton
  • Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s “Fratres” (Brothers), written in 1977
  • 5th symphony by Jean Sibelius

The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra offers a pay-what-you-can ticket pricing system, though recommends $30 per ticket. Tickets can be purchased online.

All attendees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and present proof of vaccination at the door. Per WSO and MassBay policy, all attendees must be masked at all times.


Save the date: Wheels of Wellesley Car Show

DATE: Sunday, May 21
TIME: 11am-3pm
LOCATION: Central Street in Wellesley Square, from Juniper to Fire Station 1

Filed Under: Art, Entertainment, Kids, Music

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Wellesley College senior art exhibition: ‘Remember a Place Not Here’

May 2, 2023 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

This year’s Wellesley College Thesis and Senior Exhibition, Remember a Place Not Here, opens on Friday, May 5. It features work in media like oil painting, traditional printmaking practices, and weaving alongside digital film, virtual reality, and 3D rendering, made by over 40 students in more than 15 different majors from studio art to neuroscience and economics.

Opening Reception: 4:30 – 5:30 pm on Friday May 5
The exhibition will be on view in Jewett and Pendleton West from May 5 – 20.

Note: If you are not a member of the Wellesley campus community, do not plan to see the show on May 19 or 20. Graduation ceremonies are occurring on these days.

This exhibition is open to the public. The Jewett Arts Center should be open 10 am – 5 pm every day for the duration of the show. Works on view in Pendleton West may be accessed via Jewett. Campus visitors must park in the parking garage (near the ‘west entry’ arrow on this map).

You can preview the show online.


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Wellesley High student art being showcased at Clever Hand gallery

April 3, 2023 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

The Clever Hand, a cooperative gallery in downtown Wellesley celebrating its 50th year, is hosting its annual showcase of artwork by the students of Wellesley High School’s Ceramics Intensive and Jewelry and Metals Intensive classes.

Ceramics teacher Amie Larson explains that for the ceramic pieces on display, her 13 students were asked to make vessels using techniques of piercing or texturing, or were coil-thrown. The inclusion of coil-thrown vessels, pots made using the combined techniques of throwing on a wheel and adding coils, made it possible for the students to make pieces taller than they would otherwise have been able to.

Shayla Vines, teacher of the Jewelry and Metals students, says that her 22 students were commissioned this year to design and fabricate 3 large site-specific kinetic mobiles for a Wellesley High School hallway. The Clever Hand is excited to display these pieces before they are permanently installed in the school.

The exhibit is open to the public through April 15 at the Clever Hand Gallery, 52 Central St., Wellesley.

(Information submitted by The Clever Hand’s Ann Schunior.)

Tristin Gardner, Ceramics clever hand
Tristin Gardner, Ceramics
pottery with handle: Alex Alessi
Pottery with handle: Alex Alessi

 

Anna Thomas - detail of Metals mobile
Anna Thomas: Detail of Metals mobile

 

Lizzie Lahive, Metals student
Lizzie Lahive, Metals student

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Art submissions sought for exhibition at Wellesley’s Tolles Parsons Center

March 29, 2023 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Art Wellesley, a community arts organization, is joining forces with the Council on Aging to bring an art exhibition to the Tolles Parsons Center (500 Washington St.) in June.

Submissions are due by April 15.

Shows, featuring works of 3 to 5 artists, will rotate bi-annually. The initial show will run through September.

People of all ages will be welcome to visit the exhibition, which will feature a June 1 reception.

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Tolles Parsons Center


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Is this our Swellesley Stonehenge?

March 19, 2023 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Wellesley resident and artist Chelsea Sebastian shared this photo of the mural at the LINX building on Linden Street, commenting on the remarkable shadow from the house next door. “Was it the artist’s intention? Is it our Swellesley Stonehenge?”
Good questions…
Linden Street mural
Photo courtesy of Chelsea Sebastian

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Artists sought to paint more Wellesley traffic boxes this spring

March 12, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

Wellesley is looking for amateur and professional artists interested in making a handful of its plain old traffic boxes beautiful.

The program, overseen by the Wellesley Public Art Committee and Wellesley Police Department, began in late 2020. The deadline to apply for this round is Friday, April 28.

Artists will receive a stipend for their time, transportation, and supplies. Painting must be done during June and July.

The traffic boxes for this round include standard individual boxes at:

  • Weston Road at Linden Street
  • Wellesley College / Central Street & Weston Road
  • Crest Road at Linden Street

A pair of oversized traffic boxes are also offered for this round. These are at Hunnewell Field near the Tot Lot on Washington Street.

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Traffic box across from Wellesley College entrance on Rte. 16

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We spruce up our swell office with help from the Wellesley RDF and local businesses

March 9, 2023 by Deborah Brown 3 Comments

One of the reason Swellesley’s editors love our job is because our workplace is all over town. Just last week we interviewed a local business owner, shot video of the new lacrosse wall at Sprague Field, and picked up multiple story ideas in the course of our wanderings. At some point, though, we’ve got to hunker down and write the stuff up. That’s when we retreat to our swell office suite, which is what we call a converted upstairs bedroom and bathroom of our home.

Earlier this winter, Mrs. Swellesley looked at the bathroom in dismay. The place was a shambles, she decided, in desperate need of a fresh coat of paint, and more. The framed insect prints hanging on the wall were looking very 1990’s. The cellular window shade, an early 2000’s holdover, had years ago (yes, years) been on the losing end of a battle with a Swiffer stick. A stab wound sustained by the window shade during the cleaning skirmish never did heal. How had appearances been permitted to sink so low?

It took a village to get the Swellesley corporate bathroom back into shape, but it’s almost done. And the results are fabulous. Regular readers know that our home decor depends heavily on Wellesley Recycling and Disposal Facility Reusables Area finds, sprinkled with shop-local goodies. It’s a system that suits our former worker’s cottage, a this-old-house kind of place.

Our home-sweet-home is is kept in condition by the loving attention of maintenance professionals who actually relish working on a 150+ year-old place. There are two types of home-repair guys who walk into our house. There’s the kind who crosses the threshold, looks around, and kind of sighs. Then runs for the nearest exit. And there’s the kind who crosses the threshold, smiles,  and says, “Ah, I just love an old house.” We only work with the latter.

We also can take advice. When we called in our regular handyman to tackle the upstairs painting job, he looked at all the sanding, caulking, and priming to be done and gave it to us straight: “You need to hire a real painter.”

So we called in Ian Reeb of Reeb Fine Painting & Paperhanging. Ian didn’t blink. After writing up a detailed estimate with such music to our ears as “fill any holes or imperfections” and “scape off all loose and flaking paint from ceiling” and “prime all walls and ceiling with oil-based primer,” we knew we’d found our man. Ian didn’t come cheap, but he was worth every penny. He and his assistant were there when they said they would be, came every day until the job was finished, kept a clean worksite, and produced meticulous and beautiful results.

Wellesley bathroom
Executive washroom for The Swellesley Report. The painting was done by Reeb Fine Painting & Paperhanging. Wall color, Nantucket Gray; cabinetry and trim color, Ivory Tusk; both from Benjamin Moore.

On his way out, Ian commented that we didn’t exactly have the typical Wellesley house. “I can walk around most of them with my eyes closed,” he said. If you’ve been spoiled rotten by living in a house that’s been built to code (or renovated into that kind of submission), don’t try to walk around our house with your eyes closed. From kitchen to family room to mudroom, like a New England woodland, the terrain is varied. The sight lines offer no untrammeled view across a vast tundra of square footage. We don’t have an open floor plan. We have rooms.

After the painting was done, it was goodbye framed insect prints, hello found art, sourced from our dear RDF. An internet search suggests our find is paper art handcrafted in the Mexican amate tradition. Artisans source tree bark from cuttings of a tree called the Cream Micrante Blume (also known as the Jonote Colorado tree), which grows in the coffee zones of Mexico. They then boil the bark, soak it in water overnight, and beat it to a pulp with a flat stone. Next, the material is dehydrated, and the bark strips are placed into a design. Once the design phase is complete, the work dries in the sun for 12-18 hours.

Another amazing RDF score.

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Wellesley RDF find—paper art in the amate style, an ancient tradition of paper making originating in Mexico.

We took our amate paper art to Ryan Black at Page Waterman Gallery for framing and were thrilled with the results. We know that no matter what we drag into Page Waterman—RDF-found photograph, 1970s embroidery project stitched by my mom, inspired winter painting of Elm Bank diminished by an uninspiring frame —it will be treated with the same time, attention, and respect given to the actually valuable art the gallery’s team regularly handles. Ryan is an amazing and prolific painter in the Boston School style, an American impressionist way of looking at subject matter. This talented artist handles the front of the Page Waterman house, and brings everything he knows about color, design, scale, and proportion to every project. I love visiting the frame room and testing out different frame and matting combinations with Ryan. Sometimes my project comes together almost immediately. Sometimes I change my mind a half-dozen times (or more) within an hour (or more). It doesn’t matter to Ryan. There’s never any rush. The job takes as long as it takes to get it right. And Ryan makes sure it always turns out right.

Lest you think we’ve gone over-the-top with tastefulness in this bathroom update project, let me reassure you. Mrs. Swellesley is still the same person who rescues half-dead plants from the clearance table at the Linden Square CVS, and finds a place on the dining room hutch for  any piece of thrifted plain white china she can find. The two-headed turtle our older son made in a Wellesley Middle School art class remains as bathroom decor. As does the wooden box our younger son made in shop class.

Wellesley bathroom
A two-headed turtle is slow, but the young artist’s time at home moved all too fast.
Wellesley bathroom
During a WMS back-to-school night stop at the wood shop, the teacher was brought nearly to tears when talking about all the projects that languished in the classroom, forever unclaimed. “Your kids work really hard in this class.” he said. “Make sure their projects get home.” And so here goes your proof of our flawless parenting—the hand-carved toilet paper storage box not only made it home, but ascended to glory as indispensible bathroom decor.

In this crazy thing called work-home balance, the new paint job and the art with its neutral-cool vibe represent “office.” The kid-made turtle and carved box symbolize “home.” Somehow in the course of this bathroom update, work, home, and the fuzzy line between the two have come together in harmony. It’s a swell life in this swell town we’re lucky enough to live in and write about every day.

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