M.E.S.A. (Museum Enrichment Series for All) featuring artist Kelly Slater

Join Lynn Museum/LynnArts on the second Wednesday of each month at noon for M.E.S.A. (Museum Enrichment Series for All). This virtual lecture series will cover wellness, genealogy, and current events and hear from local experts, community members, Museum staff, and others.

Kelly Slater is a self-taught artist specializing in figurative abstracts of the Northeastern landscape. Her particular obsession is trees—most recently, old-growth trees. Starting with a 2017 residency at Mount Greylock State Reservation, she has focused on several woodlands and groups of trees in the northern Berkshires and northern New Hampshire. In 2022 she received a Sustaining Practice Grant from the Collective Futures Fund to research a multi-year project centered on depicting old-growth trees of Massachusetts, teaching tree-inspired art workshops, and sharing information about the benefits of both old-growth and urban forest trees.

Kelly is currently incorporating more found and sustainable materials in her prints and paintings—including recycled and sustainably sourced papers, handmade inks made from plant materials and egg yolk, and charcoal and wood duff collected from forests. Her goal is to produce environmentally sustainable artwork with a robust and dreamlike intensity that hints at a powerful world within and behind the visible world.

Kelly works out of her home studio in Saugus, MA.

Kelly’s exhibition “A Closer Look at Trees: From Old-Growth to Our Urban Forest” is on view through August 26, 2023.

The program will take place over Zoom and live-streamed on Facebook.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.