SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024 | 10AM - 12PM | INCLUDED WITH ADMISSION
What is marine art and what can it be? Watch a classic marine art painting come together in front of your eyes as contemporary painters, Nick Fox and Patrick O’Brien, put paint to canvas inside the new exhibition, Reflective Impressions: The American Society of Marine Artists 19th National Exhibition.
About the Artists
Nick Fox
Nick Fox is the founder and director of the Center for American Marine Art. He is also an award winning marine artist and currently serves as president of the American Society of Marine Artists. After graduating from Harvard College, Nick worked in the business world at International Creative Management and the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. When his wife was getting her Ph.D at Yale, he ran the acquisitions department at Yale University Press, as well as the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Human Rights Watch publications, and Yale Judaica. He also served as an editor of the Journal of Law and Humanities at Yale Law School. He is a three-time Emmy Award nominee for his television writing with WGBH in Boston. Nick has worked as an educational consultant with many non-profit cultural institutions around the country, including PBS, The New England Conservatory, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Minnesota Orchestra and the Music-in-Education National Consortium. He has provided pro-bono outreach content for the Mystic Seaport Museum and recently served as Director of Special Projects for the National Maritime Historical Society.
Patrick O’Brien
Patrick O’Brien is an award-winning artist whose striking paintings depict the classic age of sail. A full time artist since the 1980s, his clients have included National Geographic, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Smithsonian. O’Brien’s paintings have been featured several times on the cover of Naval History magazine, published by the U.S. Naval Institute, and the cover of Sea History magazine, published by the National Maritime Historical Society. His paintings have been used on numerous book covers, and shown in The New York Times. In 2010 the U.S. Naval Academy Museum mounted a retrospective exhibition entitled of O’Brien’s work. He won the Distinguished Service Award from The National Maritime Historical Society for his body of artwork, and the Outstanding Service Award from the American Society of Marine Artists. O’Brien lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and son.
FreshWATER New Look Weekend
January 26 - January 28, 2024
New Look Weekend General Admission Rate: $5 | MMAM Member General Admission: Free
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