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Inside & Out, 30″ x 40″ x 1.5″, 2020, oil on wood panel<\/p><\/div>\n

This month\u2019s exhibit in Northern Essex Community College\u2019s Linda Hummel-Shea ArtSpace Gallery is a homecoming for Newton, NH painter Kale Baker, who graduated from Northern Essex in 2014, before transferring to Montserrat College of Art, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting.<\/p>\n

Titled \u201cVessels\u201d, the online exhibit includes 11 oil paintings, capturing a wide range of subjects from plants in a greenhouse at the Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, NH to the Merrimack River and the New England Coast. It will be available through April 15, when the NECC Student Show begins.<\/p>\n

The online exhibit<\/a>\u00a0includes an artist vita and statement<\/a>, a video interview with the artist<\/a>, and the exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a student, Baker \u201cexhibited an innate understanding of the use and interaction of color\u201d, according to Marc Mannheimer, her former professor and the director of the ArtSpace Gallery. While her work has evolved, becoming less abstract, that talent for color continues, he says.<\/p>\n

In an interview that is a part of the exhibit, Baker says that her work can be viewed in a larger context, as part of a statement about climate control and the vulnerability of nature, or more simply. \u201cIf people want to see my work as just a potted plant, that fine, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Green Echo, 30″ x 30″ x 1.5″, 2021, oil on wood panel<\/p><\/div>\n

A 2010 graduate of Newburyport High School, Baker earned her Associate Degree in General Studies: Art & Design<\/a> from Northern Essex with an almost perfect GPA in 2014 and her bachelor\u2019s from Montserrat in 2017.<\/p>\n

Starting at Northern Essex was a \u201cwonderful experience\u201d, she says, which prepared her well for transfer.<\/p>\n

Located in the Bentley Library Building on NECC\u2019s Haverhill Campus, the\u00a0Linda Hummel-Shea ArtSpace Gallery\u00a0features exhibits by NECC students, faculty, and artists from around the region and the world. During the pandemic, the gallery has closed and exhibits are being held online.<\/p>\n

Northern Essex\u2019s Department of Art & Design offers many courses in fine art and design leading to an\u00a0Associate Degree in General Studies: Art & Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For additional information, contact Marc Mannheimer, gallery coordinator at\u00a0mmannheimer@necc.mass.edu<\/p>\n

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Northern Essex Community College has campuses in both Haverhill and Lawrence. It offers\u00a0approximately\u00a060\u00a0associate degree and certificate programs as well as hundreds of noncredit courses designed for personal enrichment and career growth.\u00a0 Each year,\u00a06,000\u00a0students are enrolled in credit associate degree and certificate programs on the Haverhill and Lawrence campuses; and\u00a0another 2,000\u00a0take noncredit workforce development and community education classes on campus, and at businesses and community sites across the Merrimack Valley.\u00a0 For more information, visit the website at\u00a0www.necc.mass.edu\u00a0or call 978-556-3700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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