The Institution for Savings Gallery, located on the first floor of the Firehouse, hosts 12 art exhibits each year. Artists are invited to submit examples of their work for review and selection by our Visual Arts Committee once a year. All art is for sale and proceeds benefit the artist and Firehouse Center for the Arts. A reception is scheduled for each show and offers a great opportunity to meet the artists.

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Saturday and Sunday: 12 Noon to 5:00 PM

2023/24 Call For Artists NOW OPEN


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Featured Artist:



Sharon Bignell
More Than Just Flowers

ON EXHIBIT:  February 21, 2024 - March 17, 2024

"I want to share beauty and vibrant color through my paintings."

Artist Bio

Sharon Bignell is an artist born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.  Sharon excelled in art in school and has always enjoyed all forms of art.  She even designed and made clothing for herself and her children.  Compelled to create beauty, she became a professional hairstylist which allowed her to sculpt color and paint hair.  Now residing in Amesbury, Massachusetts, her children grown and more time to paint, she has returned to her long-time passion of painting.  She enjoys the creamy textures of oil.  She paints animals, landscapes, seascapes, portraits and flowers (her favorite).

Sharon is an avid realist oil painter and mostly self taught.  She has had many classes with local artists and attended workshops in Boston at The Academy of Realist Art.  She has been selected for many juried shows at the Newburyport Art Association and has also exhibited there.  Sharon has also exhibited at Art in the Barn in Essex and many local restaurants, coffee houses and hospitals.    

View Sharon's Online Gallery

 


Past Artists

Gareth Jones
Paris Collection

ON EXHIBIT:  January 24, 2024 - February 18, 2024

About the Artist

 

Olga Hunyadi
Spaces

ON EXHIBIT:  January 2, 2024 - January 22, 2024

About the Artist

 

Sam Kimball
Intersect

ON EXHIBIT:  November 29, 2023 - December 24, 2023

About the Artist

Cassie Doyon
Sorjourns

ON EXHIBIT:  November 1, 2023 - November 26, 2023

About the Artist

 

 

 

Diana Stelin
Seascapes - The mystifying power of water

ON EXHIBIT:  October 4, 2023 - October 29, 2023

About the Artist

 

Pamela Page Traver
A Printmaker's Retrospective

ON EXHIBIT:  September 6, 2023 - October 1, 2023

About the Artist

Will Putnam
One Lens: An Interconnected World

ON EXHIBIT:  August 9, 2023 - September 3, 2023

About the Artist

 

Lisa Nelson
EXPLORING THE WORLD IN FULL COLOR

ON EXHIBIT:  July 12, 2023 - August 6, 2023

About the Artist

 

Fallon Rae
MARKS OF EXPANSION

ON EXHIBIT:  June 14, 2023 - July 9, 2023

About the Artist

 

BAYDA'S ART BY THE SEA

ON EXHIBIT:  May 17, 2023 - June 11, 2023

 About the Artist

Brooke Lambert
PRESS ON

ON EXHIBIT:  April 19, 2023 - May 14, 2023

 About the Artist

Layane Smith
CONNECTING WITH NATURE

ON EXHIBIT:  March 22, 2023 - April 17, 2023

 About the Artist

Jill Rosati
UTOPIC

ON EXHIBIT:  February 22, 2023 - March 19, 2023

 About the Artist

Tamara Nikotina

ON EXHIBIT: January 25, 2023 - February 19, 2023

 About the Artist

Jordan King

SLIDESHOW

ON EXHIBIT: December 28, 2022 - January 22, 2023

 About the Artist

Johanna Finnegan-Topitzer

FOREST, SEA, AND MYTH

ON EXHIBIT: November 30 - December 25, 2022

 About the Artist

Anne Silber

LIMITED EDITION SERIGRAPHS

ON EXHIBIT: November 2 - 27, 2022

About the Artist

Jim Kociuba

THE KOMOREBI PAINTINGS

ON EXHIBIT: October 5 - 30, 2022

About the Artist

Rosalie Cuticchia

IN THE ABSTRACT

ON EXHIBIT: August 10 - September 18 

About the Artist