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Name: Twice the Speed of Bliss
Start: 2025-01-13T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-22T23:00:00-04:00
Location: The Umbrella Arts Center

Twice the Speed of Bliss

When

1/13/25 to 3/22/25 11:00 pm

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Website: https://theumbrellaarts.org/twice-speed-bliss

Location: The Umbrella Arts Center

40 Stow St

Concord, MA 01742

United States

Contact: John Penney

Event Description

Paintings and Drawings by Kat O'Connor

January 13 - March 23, 2025, Opening Reception February 13, 6 PM

On view in The Umbrella Arts Center Allie Kussin Gallery are recent paintings and drawings by Kat O’Connor, a full-time artist and art instructor living outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States. She is a Copley Master with the Copley Society of Artists and was honored with a Co/So Fellowship and Residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 2023, and was a 2021 Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts Resident. She was awarded a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship for her drawings, and two ArtsWorcester Material Needs Grants. She has led painting classes in Texas, New Mexico, Italy, Greece, and throughout New England. O’Connor works in watercolor, acrylic, oil, and drawing media. Her work can be viewed at katopaints.com and @katopaints.

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