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A3 @ NORTH GALLERY
Exhibit at North Gallery Cooley Dickinson Hospital Exhibition Dates: November 7 – December 27, 2025 Public Hours: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm daily ART AND HEALING Art Forum Online December 18 at 7:30 pm (Click for video) |
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Paula Hite, In Between, acrylic on paper; Rochelle Shicoff, Autumn Party, watercolor and trim
A3 @ NORTH GALLERY:
Artists from Gallery A3 Exhibit at Cooley Dickinson Hospital
As part of the Art and Healing Program sponsored by The Friends of Cooley Dickinson, five artists from Gallery A3 will exhibit their work in the hospital’s North Gallery during November and December. Ten percent of the artists’ sales benefits programs and services at the hospital and its satellite health care facilities, such as the renovation of the emergency department and the new pediatric wing.
Rhea Banker, who manages the Art and Healing Program at Cooley Dickinson, explains that the ongoing project of displaying rotations of local artwork in the hospital comes from a strong conviction that art can be an important part of people’s healing process. “It can be so scary, as you all know, coming to the hospital, so to have some things of beauty on the walls of the hospital just brightens up a part of each day,” Banker says. This includes patients, their families, and hospital staff. “I've heard from nurses, doctors, technicians, maintenance people. They can’t wait to see what new work comes in when we change the exhibit. And I love for the artists to be part of this, to hear from the people who are actually in the environment, expressing so much gratitude and joy from seeing the art.”
Banker usually coordinates exhibits in the hospital for individual artists or for two-person shows but is excited to display works by five artists from Gallery A3. “It's more challenging – as you know – to get a group together, but it's such a varied look and it creates more dialogue among the patients in the hospital.”
The five artists from A3 work in a variety of media, subject matters, and styles. Repeating bands of vibrant color dance and weave through Paula Hite’s recent abstract acrylic paintings on paper. Evelyn Pye's oil paintings are abstracted landscapes exploring the shapes and feeling of the land in winter and summer. Rochelle Shicoff is a visual storyteller, always communicating, in a series format, with lines, colors and shapes. A mixed media artist, Diane Steingart creates evocative abstract and semi-representational pieces that focus on her memories, feelings, and experiences. Monotype prints and watercolors by Janet W. Winston explore the New England coast and the world of butterflies.
Online Art Forum on Art and Healing
On Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 7:30 pm on Zoom, Rhea Banker of the Art and Healing program at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, will join the exhibiting artists. She will speak about the important role of art in a hospital setting, and about Gallery A3's two exhibits at North Gallery this year. Pre-register for this program, which is free and open to the public, by clicking here.
On Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 7:30 pm on Zoom, Rhea Banker of the Art and Healing program at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, will join the exhibiting artists. She will speak about the important role of art in a hospital setting, and about Gallery A3's two exhibits at North Gallery this year. Pre-register for this program, which is free and open to the public, by clicking here.
Rhea Banker, View Along Tunulliarfik, photograph
ABOUT RHEA BANKER
Rhea Banker is a photographer and award-winning book designer. After living and working in New York City for 30 years, she now makes her base in northwestern Massachusetts. Much of her work is inspired by journeys to far rocky edges of the world, including Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Greenland, and Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. Her abstract studies of patterns within the Earth’s ancient surfaces have been exhibited in a variety of museums, galleries, and cultural centers, including locations in Copenhagen, Denmark; Edinburgh, Scotland; Scotland's Outer Hebrides; New York, New York; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and several museums in Greenland.
Her most recent work is focused on explorations along Greenland's west coast over the last five years. These images are responses to the deep connections she experiences between stone, sea, and ice as we witness a new epoch in the life of our fragile planet. She has also done site-specific work and has permanent installations for the Stornoway Airport, Isle of Lewis; Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland; St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York; and the University of Pennsylvania Berks Campus, Pennsylvania.
Website: https://rhea-banker.com/
Rhea Banker is a photographer and award-winning book designer. After living and working in New York City for 30 years, she now makes her base in northwestern Massachusetts. Much of her work is inspired by journeys to far rocky edges of the world, including Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Greenland, and Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. Her abstract studies of patterns within the Earth’s ancient surfaces have been exhibited in a variety of museums, galleries, and cultural centers, including locations in Copenhagen, Denmark; Edinburgh, Scotland; Scotland's Outer Hebrides; New York, New York; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and several museums in Greenland.
Her most recent work is focused on explorations along Greenland's west coast over the last five years. These images are responses to the deep connections she experiences between stone, sea, and ice as we witness a new epoch in the life of our fragile planet. She has also done site-specific work and has permanent installations for the Stornoway Airport, Isle of Lewis; Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland; St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York; and the University of Pennsylvania Berks Campus, Pennsylvania.
Website: https://rhea-banker.com/
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER AT NORTH HALL
Exhibiting Artists
PAULA HITE
Repeating bands of vibrant color dance and weave through Paula Hite’s recent abstract acrylic paintings on paper. Paula Hite is a painter and mixed-media artist living in Amherst, MA. Her works merge drawing, painting and collage. Primarily she chooses to work abstractly with allusions to nature and with specific attention to color, movement, edges, and layered mark-making.
EVELYN PYE
Conway artist Evelyn Pye's oil paintings are abstracted landscapes exploring the shapes and feeling of the land in winter and summer. Each of Pye’s paintings is a moment of immersion, of being in the landscape, at the pond, and within the experience of perception. She began her career making public art installations where the viewer could enter the work and experience a sense of surround. Evelyn also paints intimate paintings of people in the midst of action or reflection, a brief moment captured.
ROCHELLE SHICOFF
Rochelle Shicoff is a visual storyteller, always communicating, in a series format, with lines, colors and shapes. Her commitment to the visual arts is long and strong. From six years of age, when she received an easel, she has been creating and teaching art. Shicoff was the recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting and co-authored The Mural Book: A Practical Guide for Educators published by Crystal Productions, which was specifically written for K-12 teachers.
DIANE STEINGART
A mixed media artist, Diane Steingart creates evocative abstract and semi-representational pieces that focus on her memories, feelings, and experiences. Diane paints with acrylics, and uses oil pastels, graphite, colored pencils, crayons, and paper collage. Her tools include knitting needles, stencils, pens and pencils as well as various brushes. She layers each piece until the composition emerges. Diane lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and their two dogs.
JANET W. WINSTON
Janet W. Winston's inspiration for her art comes from a deep attraction to landscape and the natural world. Whether with painting or printmaking, she searches for organic flowing forms, colors, and shapes in the chosen view. Her monotype prints reveal her interest in the world of butterflies and her watercolors focus on the coasts of Maine and Cape Cod. Janet taught art in the Amherst public schools for 25 years and is a member of Zea Mays Printmaking Studio in Florence.
Exhibiting Artists
PAULA HITE
Repeating bands of vibrant color dance and weave through Paula Hite’s recent abstract acrylic paintings on paper. Paula Hite is a painter and mixed-media artist living in Amherst, MA. Her works merge drawing, painting and collage. Primarily she chooses to work abstractly with allusions to nature and with specific attention to color, movement, edges, and layered mark-making.
EVELYN PYE
Conway artist Evelyn Pye's oil paintings are abstracted landscapes exploring the shapes and feeling of the land in winter and summer. Each of Pye’s paintings is a moment of immersion, of being in the landscape, at the pond, and within the experience of perception. She began her career making public art installations where the viewer could enter the work and experience a sense of surround. Evelyn also paints intimate paintings of people in the midst of action or reflection, a brief moment captured.
ROCHELLE SHICOFF
Rochelle Shicoff is a visual storyteller, always communicating, in a series format, with lines, colors and shapes. Her commitment to the visual arts is long and strong. From six years of age, when she received an easel, she has been creating and teaching art. Shicoff was the recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting and co-authored The Mural Book: A Practical Guide for Educators published by Crystal Productions, which was specifically written for K-12 teachers.
DIANE STEINGART
A mixed media artist, Diane Steingart creates evocative abstract and semi-representational pieces that focus on her memories, feelings, and experiences. Diane paints with acrylics, and uses oil pastels, graphite, colored pencils, crayons, and paper collage. Her tools include knitting needles, stencils, pens and pencils as well as various brushes. She layers each piece until the composition emerges. Diane lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and their two dogs.
JANET W. WINSTON
Janet W. Winston's inspiration for her art comes from a deep attraction to landscape and the natural world. Whether with painting or printmaking, she searches for organic flowing forms, colors, and shapes in the chosen view. Her monotype prints reveal her interest in the world of butterflies and her watercolors focus on the coasts of Maine and Cape Cod. Janet taught art in the Amherst public schools for 25 years and is a member of Zea Mays Printmaking Studio in Florence.