Sell & Tell: A Meetup for Art Market Vendors
Join fellow art market vendors for a supportive and social skill-sharing event. You’ll have the opportunity to learn valuable tips and tricks, test out different display setups, and swap or acquire tools you no longer use. Plus, you’ll get to connect with a vibrant community that you typically only see from a distance at their tents or tables!
We’re just getting started, but we envision future topics covering fabrication recommendations, pricing strategies, promotion, wholesaling, packaging, and more.
Please note that while these meetups are intended for sellers of art goods, they are free and not transaction-focused. However, if you’d like to bring a small supply of your stock as samples, for trades, or for no-pressure sales, you’re welcome to do so. <<
We’re hoping to have it be more group-share than individual lecture-y, so thinking folks can bring one item that’s useful for them at markets (that they plan to hold onto; this is just for showcase purposes), plus one question or tip to share. Plus, feel free to bring items you no longer need, so you can swap around or resell if it’s handy for someone else.
Any questions, let us know. Hope to see you there!
Synth-tember 2025 Opening Reception
Synth-tember is an annual event series celebrating the intersection of art and science. The 2025 event at New Alliance Gallery in Somerville, MA, will showcase local art under the theme "Deviations." Artists have interpreted this theme freely, highlighting how art and science enhance the human experience through technology. The exhibition is open to the public, beginning with an opening reception on September 12 featuring electronic musical performances.
Synth-tember 2025 Community Day
Synth-tember 2025 features a community day on September 27, which will be open to the public and emphasize discovery and education. The programming includes guest lectures, workshops, a synthesizer ‘petting zoo,’ and more!
Multiple Exposures
A new exhibition at New Alliance Gallery, titled "Multiple Exposures," showcases the work of 17 photographers from the Boston area in the local Somerville arts space. The exhibition draws from a diverse pool of artists at Mass Art, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), and the Lumentation photo lab, celebrating the unique perspectives within Boston’s photography scene.
Curated by Duncan Wilder Johnson and Matt McWilliams from New Alliance Gallery, along with Javier Molina from Lumentation, the photographs were selected by the artists themselves. This selection reflects their subjects and visions, providing an authentic insight into the interests currently circulating within the local photography community. The exhibition includes a wide range of themes, from portraiture and experimental processes to cityscapes and personal documentary work.
This event continues New Alliance Gallery's mission as a multifaceted community art space, which also hosts musical performances, electronic art installations, and offers affordable workspaces for local artists. Look forward to this and future events and exhibitions at this converted industrial building, located between Market Basket and Greentown Labs.
The opening reception for the show will take place on February 21st at 7 PM and will feature live music from Otis Shanty and Time and Place.
Heavy Holidays 2024
Join us for our annual holiday party on 12/6! This year, our theme is “Disassembly Required.” This theme hints at the process of deconstruction, whether that means taking apart traditional concepts, breaking down artistic forms, or examining the holiday season from a new perspective. It serves as both a literal and metaphorical reminder that creation often requires some form of disassembly first, allowing space for reimagining, rebuilding, and reinterpreting.
Boston Tech Poetics Meetup
Boston Tech Poetics’ November meetup at hosted at the gallery on Tuesday, 11/12, 6–8:30 pm. Several artists from the show will be present for a meet ‘n’ greet! We encourage you to come by, not just for the Synth-tember component, but to get involved with BTP, which is a great, active, and welcoming group!
Synth-tember 2024
An annual series presented by New Alliance Gallery
Synth-tember is an event series designed to embrace the intersection of art and science. Our focus is on interactivity, connection, and community.
Curated by Jess Baggia of New Alliance Gallery and Allison Tanenhaus, Synth-tember 2024 features works that inspire and delight the human experience through technological means. Our premiere featured art from a plethora of mediums: video, light, kinetic sculpture, projection, and audio.
A Fixed Perspective
How has your perspective changed during the year and a half? The work presented in “A Fixed Perspective” is a dialogue between the pandemic, isolation, lock-downs, separations, and political disorder, impacting how you perceive the world around you. Have you emerged from this pandemic with a new visual perception? Have you developed, regressed, or remained? Has this new vantage point influenced the way you think or work? Artists selected for this show have created work during 2020-2021 that speaks to their personal connection to this experience. Together, we have experienced a global-sized shift that has impacted each of us differently, yet simultaneously. The future is unknown; however, each of us now has a perspective on this collective experience. In “Forced Perspective”, we explore how art can help communicate, through hardship, helping us relate to uncertainty. It’s here, in this work, that the time taken from us is returned to reflect, share, create, and move forward into the uncertainty, with a sense of community and understanding.