{"id":30724,"date":"2013-10-21T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2013\/10\/21\/nature-inspired-exhibit-opens-in-neccs-artspace\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:13:24","slug":"nature-inspired-exhibit-opens-in-neccs-artspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2013\/10\/21\/nature-inspired-exhibit-opens-in-neccs-artspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Inspired Exhibit Opens in NECC&#8217;s ArtSpace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7201\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7201\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2013\/10\/Resa-Blatmans_Spinneret-newsroom.jpg\" alt=\"Resa  Blatman&#039;s Spinneret \" width=\"375\" height=\"332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7201\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resa  Blatman&#039;s Spinneret <\/p><\/div>Somerville artist Resa Blatman, who creates large paintings on intricately designed, multi-layered, laser-cut surfaces, is exhibiting her works in a show titled \u201cNature Paintings\u201d at Northern Essex Community College\u2019s ArtSpace, in the Bentley Library on the Haverhill campus, 100 Elliott St., through November 23. An opening reception will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, from 3 to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by NECC\u2019s art and design department, this show features 10 pieces of both large and small scale work.<\/p>\n<p>Blatman is the recipient of several grants, and her work has been featured in numerous magazines and online journals.<\/p>\n<p>She received her BFA in graphic design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she\u2019s been teaching advanced level graphic design since 1997; she also holds an MFA in painting from Boston University.<br \/>\n In addition to her larger pieces, Blatman also creates small paintings on Mylar, paper, and wood panels.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m currently painting nature scenes that speak to environmental issues and how our thirst for fossil fuels affects our landscape and our natural resources. The laser-cut surfaces for these paintings are less ornate and the paintings themselves are darker; they include tornadoes and melting glaciers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She has exhibited extensively throughout New England including the New Art Center, Newton, Tufts University Art Center, Medford, and Gallery 360, Northeastern University.<\/p>\n<p>Blatman says she was born an artist. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking in a creative field is what comes naturally to me and I can\u2019t imagine doing anything else with my life. I love working with my hands and I enjoy the concentrated and dedicated time in my studio,\u201d she says. \u201cI get enormous satisfaction from making work that conveys my thoughts and feelings more articulately than I can in words. I also feel happy, satisfied, grateful, and honored to have a job that I love; to come home from my studio every day, feeling as if I\u2019ve done something meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit Blatman\u2019s Facebook Page.<\/p>\n<p>NECC offers an Associate Degree in General Studies: Art. Here is more information on the art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/academics\/courses-programs\/areas\/design\/general-studies-art\/\">program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somerville artist Resa Blatman, who creates large paintings on intricately designed, multi-layered, laser-cut surfaces, is exhibiting her works in a show titled \u201cNature Paintings\u201d at Northern Essex Community College\u2019s ArtSpace, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":30726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nature Inspired Exhibit Opens in NECC&#039;s ArtSpace - 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