Artist and Writer Linda Hoffman will give a slide show presentation and read from her new book, The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir, recently published by Loom Press, Lowell, MA.
Visit this beautiful estate of author, Edith Wharton, and see 30 wonderful outdoor sculptures including Linda Hoffman’s bronze sculpture, Refuge.
Join us to share in Hoffman’s unique journey to bring an abandoned apple orchard back to health and see it become the first pick-your-own organic orchard in Massachusetts. There were many setbacks and gifts along the way that Hoffman will share. There will be time for questions and a lively discussion.
Sponsored by the Pepperell Conservation Trust, The Lawrence Library, and the Pepperell Garden Club,
To register click here.
Join me for this reading at the best bookshop in Worcester! I’ll read a few selections my new memoir, The Artist and the Orchard, and we can have a lively question and answer time together.
In-Person* Author Event with Linda Hoffman!Thursday Apr 28 2022 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us with local artist and author Linda Hoffman who saved an orchard and reshaped her life at Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, Massachusetts.
About The Artist and the Orchard
When Linda moved to the farm she didn't know anything about apple-growing. More than twenty years later, the farm is one of the few organic pick-your-own orchards in New England, as well as a hub for a thriving community of visual artists, writers, and spiritual seekers. Hoffman, the mother of three children, a Zen practitioner, and a breast cancer survivor, has now written about her extraordinary journey in The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir.
Author Linda Hoffman will read from her memoir as well as discuss her life, her work, and the writing of this book. There will be lots of time for questions and answers. Signed copies of the book will be available for sale through the library or purchase from your local bookseller or online. This is a zoom event! Please register here!
Maynard Public Library
77 Nason Street
Maynard, MA 01754
978-897-1010
Refuge installed Outdoors
Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery, 50 Douglas Road, Whitinsville, MA
ValleyCAST collaborates with the New England Sculptors Association to bring a beautiful and unique exhibit of sculpture inside the gallery, out on the Community Plaza, and around the grounds of the Whitin Mill Complex.There are over 30 sculptures included in this exhibit from artists all over New England.
Prizes for favorites will be awarded by people’s choice for first, second, and third place. Come explore the grounds and gallery to see all the amazing sculpture “Inside and Out” and then vote for your favorites by casting a ballot inside the gallery!
Closing Reception for the public: Friday, February 25, 2022 from 5:00-7:30 PM
(No Opening due to Covid)
Regular gallery hours for this exhibit will be held Mondays through Fridays from 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00.
The gallery will be closed on Monday, January 17, 2022 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and on Monday, February 21, 2022 for Presidents Day.
Visits outside of regular gallery hours are by appointment only by contacting cristi.collari@openskycs.org. Voting ends February 18, 2022. Exhibit ends February 25, 2022.
Artist Linda Hoffman saved an orchard and reshaped her life at Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, Massachusetts. When she moved to the farm she didn’t know anything about apple-growing. More than twenty years later, the farm is one of the few organic pick-your-own orchards in New England, as well as a hub for a thriving community of visual artists, writers, and spiritual seekers. Hoffman, the mother of three children, a Zen practitioner, and a breast cancer survivor, has now written about her extraordinary journey in The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir.
Photo credit: Kelly Fitzsimmons
Join Linda Hoffman for a reading from her new book, The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir, followed by an opportunity to ask questions and purchase a signed book. Reservations are required and can be made online at https://gpl.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/the-artist-and-the-orchard-a-reading-with-linda-hoffman/ or by clicking the calendar of events on the library’s website.
At the book’s launch at Sanctuary in Maynard, MA. October 30, 2021
Join artist and writer, Linda Hoffman, for the launch of her debut book at Sanctuary in Maynard, MA. Doors open at 1:30 P. M. Free and open to the public. Hoffman will be reading from the book and answering questions. All guests must show proof of vaccination.
GAIA, wire, Danielle Krcmar. Photo: Robert Hesse
The seeds are planted all around us. Our work as creative beings is to see the budding growth, cultivate the opening flower, and share the ripened fruit. Join us as we tap into the inspiration of mother nature at this beautiful organic farm.
We’ll begin with an introduction to Old Frog Pond Farm and its namesake—the Japanese poem by the haiku master, Basho.
old pond
frog jumps
splash
Artist and writer, Linda Hoffman, named the farm after this haiku when she moved there in 2001. Following her introduction to the Japanese haiku and how we can use its teachings in longer poems or prose writing, Cheryl Perreault will share a poem and story inspired by a powerful rainstorm she witnessed one summer at Cape Cod. Linda and Cheryl will both talk about how their attentiveness to the natural world partners with their spiritual practice.
Participants will then go off on their own to find the seeds for their own poem or story. There will be plenty of time to wander the trails in the woods, around the pond, or through the orchard. You might even taste a few berries, a peach, or a fresh apple on your journey. We’ll then gather together and share our discoveries.
Previous writing experience is not required. This workshop is open to all who are interested in using words to explore our interconnectedness with the natural world—words that are alive, words that try to express the inexpressible moments in which there is a merging between writer and object.
The workshop will take place on Saturday morning August 14th from 10:00—12:30 pm, rain or shine. Suggested fee is sliding scale: $15—$60 payable to Old Frog Pond Farm. Bring notebooks, sketchbooks, and dress for the weather. There are trails both in the sun and shade. You are also welcome to bring a lunch if you’d like to stay after and picnic. Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio is located at 38 Eldridge Road, Harvard, Massachusetts. To register: send your check or venmo:@oldfrogpondfarm.
Linda Hoffman is a sculptor, writer, and the orchardist at Old Frog Pond Farm. This fall, Loom Press, will be publishing her memoir, The Artist in the Orchard. She writes a blog on Apples, Art and Spirit at https://www.lindahoffman.com/. She is a senior Zen student at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York, and her dharma name, Shinji, means Truth in the Soil.
Cheryl Perreault is a poet, writer and spoken-word artist. She and musician/recording artist Steve Rapson have recorded two CDs of spoken word poetry accompanied by guitar. She has worked as host/producer of a number of programs for community arts and healing arts including Wake Up and Smell the Poetry(with HCAM-TV), The Women's Art Forum, The Labyrinth Roundtable/Speaker Series and most recently, Common Ground Storytelling (HCAM-TV). She and Cynthia Franca are co-editors of two anthologies of community poetry and stories including Hopkinton Through Poetry and Hope Through Community: Words and Images in Response to a Global Pandemic.
Questions: studio@lindahoffman.com or cbperreault@gmail.com
Gallery View: Photo credit: Dayle Doherty
In When We Were Trees, Linda Hoffman and her daughter, Ariel Matisse demonstrate through the mutuality and interconnectedness of their art how women empower each other when they connect with nature, trees, and their own bodies.
When We Were Trees, opens with Linda Hoffman’s sculpture of “Eve”, the fallen woman, unable to resist the tantalizing offer of the serpent, condemned for thousands of years because of this transgression. Hoffman believes there is a different story. Hoffman’s Eve wanted to know the truth about who she was and the meaning of her life. She tasted the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge for her own self-discovery.
The exhibit features individual work such as Matisse’s “Willow” and Hoffman’s “Birthing Tree”, as well as collaborative pieces like, “Tangled Up in Trees”, and groupings of sculptures where each artist takes up a theme such as “hands” and the “female body.”
The wall sculpture, “Grafting a Life”, is a large grafted “tree” and the first sculpture they worked on together, the one that led Matisse towards her signature medium of wire. The diversity of women depicted by Matisse in her small wire sculptures show how each finds their own narrative of strength and purpose. Each figure represents the individual energy formed with wire during a live session with a model.
Hoffman, a Zen Buddhist, considers Eve to be one of one her spiritual ancestors. Several of the watercolors in the exhibit are from the series, “Kaddish” which Hoffman painted in response to the eleven Jews killed in the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
In creating art, we transcend tragedy, we integrate the parts of ourselves that we have kept hidden, and we have the opportunity to tell new stories and discover new and shared identities. When women empower women, they can heal the world.
Hoffman is the curator of an annual outdoor sculpture exhibit at Old Frog Pond Farm. A contributor to WBUR’s Cognoscenti, she writes a blog, Apples, Art, and Spirit. Her memoir, The Artist and the Orchard, will be published by Loom Press in the fall of 2021. A Zen Buddhist, her dharma name, Shinji, means Truth in the Soil.
REFUGE, bronze, Linda Hoffman. Photo: Brent Mathison
Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds’ annual exhibition provides seventeen selected artists with a unique opportunity to showcase their sculpture in a majestic environment specifically designed to nurture the creative arts. The exhibition draws over 7000 viewers to the 4.5-acre sculpture garden located in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Cultivating the Heart, mixed media sculpture with bronze hearts and two old cultivators by Linda Hoffman part of “The Light gets In”. Photo credit: Martha Stewart
Studios Without Walls at Brookline’s Riverway Park presents an exhibition of seventeen site responsive sculptures with the theme “The Light Gets In” from May 28 - September 6, 2021.
Participating Artists: Gail Jerauld Bos, Karen Christians, Anne Eder, Jamaal Eversley, Barbara Fletcher, Jennifer Fuchel, Liz Helfer, Linda Hoffman, Janet Kawada, Bette Ann Libby, Madeleine Lord, Julie Lupien Nussbaum , Stacey Piwinski, Maria Ritz, Marnie Sinclair, Allen M. Spivack,
Margot Stage, Dave Stefanovic , Rebecca McGee Tuck
For information: http://www.studioswithoutwalls.org/
REFUGE, bronze, Linda Hoffman Photo: Brent Mathison
In Beyond the Walls, juried artists represented by the New England Sculptors Association display their works of ceramic, metal, stone, and other media throughout Fuller Craft Museum’s 22-acre outdoor surroundings. With no unifying thematic focus, Beyond the Walls reflects a wide spectrum of artist predispositions and goals, with forms that integrate novel forms, powerful narratives, eclectic uses of material, and creative techniques.
Reception for the Artists will be on May 9 (May 10 raindate).
The 21st annual juried exhibition of Studios Without Walls presents "2020 See Change". The temporary environmental exhibition will feature the work of 16 sculptors. For the concept of "2020 See Change" each artist proposed a work around the idea of transformation, for example transformation of the earth, of culture, of materials, of self.
This is the 13th year for Studio Without Walls to be hosted by the Brookline Division of Parks and Open Spaces at The Riverway Park. Along with the integration of sculpture in the natural environment., there will be a printed visual art treasure huntto further engage children.
Studios Without Walls members have exhibited together since 1999 in Brookline and Boston. All members are professional artists who have exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, some teach in local institutions and have work in public and private collections. Please visit www.Studioswithoutwalls.org for photos of previous shows.
New England Sculptor’s Association in collaboration with the Attleboro Arts Museum exhibit, TAKE A STAND. Opening reception is April 18 2 - 4 pm. The museum is located at 86 Parks Street, Attleboro, MA.
I will be exhibiting these two new sculptures..
Father and Child, Linda Hoffman, 2020
Eve in Tree Harp, Linda Hoffman, 2019
September 28 (10am - 4pm) & September 29 (12 - 4pm) 2019
Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio
38 Eldridge Rd, Harvard MA 01451
Linda Hoffman
Lynn Horsky
Amy Kilham
Ariel Matisse
Walk with the 2019 Plein Air Poets to the sites that inspired their poems and listen to them read their words. This event is free and there will be a reception following the walk.
A chapbook of the 2019 collection of poems will be available for purchase. The chapbook will be a beautiful full-color book with poems and corresponding sculptures displayed together designed by one of our artists, Lynn Horsky.
Milton, MA
Indoor Sculpture: June 22nd - September 29th
Come and walk through this outstanding exhibit, featuring Linda Hoffman’s work, in the gorgeously picturesque landscape of the Eustis Estate Museum.
Take a self guided tour around the beautiful grounds of Old Frog Pond Farm and witness the wonderful fusion of art and nature.
All are welcome!!
Open Every Sunday Beginning May 26th, from 1-5pm
Closes October 13th
Music will be played all afternoon and refreshments will be served!
Come one come all!
The Egg, by Yin Peet
Castle Hill at the Crane Estate
290 Argilla Rd., Ipswich, MA 01938
May 18 - November 11, 2019
Take a walk through the woodland paths and gardens to see works by New England’s finest sculptures, featuring work by Linda Hoffman.
Eastern Sun Western Sun, Two Bronze and Goldleaf Tree Harps
On view at The Gallery at Indian Hill
Camilla Blackman Hall at Indian Hill Music, 36 King Street, Littleton MA
General Exhibit Hours: M-F: 9am-8pm and Saturday: 8am-4pm*
Artist Reception: Friday, April 26, 6-8pm. Public welcome.
*PLEASE NOTE: Contact Indian Hill before planning your visit as there could be an event in our gallery space: 978.486.9524 (press 0).
This exhibit, Kaddish, is named after the ancient Hebrew prayer recited to mourn those who have died. Interestingly, this prayer never mentions death, but is a chant of praise and concludes with a supplication for world peace.
Come and enjoy the art of Linda Hoffman and Ariel Matisse in this exhibition held at Hopkinton Center for the Arts.
The exhibition runs from January 25th until March 15th, all are welcome to attend!
Opening reception to be held Friday March 1st from 6-7:30pm.
Hopkinton Center for The Arts
98 Hayden Rowe Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
Join us for the First Annual Bolton & Harvard "Open Studio" weekend! Many talented artists from Harvard and Bolton will be displaying their work at multiple locations throughout these towns. Linda Hoffman's Studio at Old Frog Pond Farm will be open. The studio will also be showing wire sculptures by Ariel Matisse and jewelry by Amy Kilham. Visit openartstudios.org for more information on this event!
Drummers! We are in the heart of summer and playing en plein air - the way it should be! Come join our joyful community and drum with us every Friday evening at Old Frog Pond Farm (please visit this site for directions!). Moussa is our gifted teacher who will take us into West Africa through the richness, complexity and beauty of it's rhythm. We are now playing the new rhythm, Soukauroubani.
If you need a drum just let us know! All are welcome - from beginner to advanced! We hope to see you in class!
Please let us know if you are coming!
Contact Blase Provitola
Moussa has some nice drums for sale from Mali as well a his CDs. Visit:
Free outdoor sculpture exhibit along the Newton Upper Falls Greenway from June 25 - Sept 9. For more information on the event please visit Studios Without Walls.
Grounds For Play, Sculptures that Excite the Imagination showcases members of the New England Sculptors Association. Work ranging from the whimsical to the complex will be located in the woods and walking areas of the Fuller's 22 acre surroundings as well as in the galleries and the courtyard. I’ll be creating an installation, “Just Sitting”, in the water moat of the museum. For more information see the Fuller website.
https://fullercraft.org/event/grounds-for-play-sculptures-that-excite-the-imagination/
Just Sitting, part of installation for the Fuller Craft Museum exhibit, Grounds For Play.
