Laconia Gallery

Cathedral Creates showcases the artwork of students from Cathedral High School, our neighbors in the South End community. Cathedral Creates highlights the hard work and art making practices from students in grades 7-12 and the school’s cherished alumni. Throughout the year students have explored various mediums, artists, and techniques, while creating meaningful work rooted in self-expression. We invite the viewer to join us in celebrating our Boston youth as they share their creative voices through art.

The Stephen D. Paine Scholarship is awarded annually by the Boston Art Dealers Association to support students in their final year in studio art programs at colleges in the city of Boston.

In the beginning, there was Earth, then there was Air, and then there was Water. And then we humans were given Fire. We use Fire to keep us warm and to cook our food. We use Fire to turn off the dark and to build ever more useful machines. But by burning Earth, we have polluted our Air and poisoned our Water. We must stop pretending we are here to conquer the Elements, and learn, again, how to join the deep-time dance of our Planet.

Heideman makes large, hand-embroidered oils on stretched canvas, and hand-embroidered watercolor collages on paper. These biomorphic “mash-up” images areinspired by a kind of scrambled nature. Her love of the natural world and interest inscience have inspired this body of "hybrid” stitched works. The entities she conjures liveoutside nature’s taxonomies. But these intermixed scenarios represent only one sort ofhybridity in the work. Another is the optical hybridity that results from stitching throughthick oil paint or into watercolor collages. With the varied weights of yarns and threads anew tactile topography emerges. “Interologies” is a neologism she coined for the title ofthis exhibition. As Heideman says in her artist’s statement, “We live in many worlds: inside/outside;plant/animal; natural/supernatural. In my work

A celebration of the flora, fauna, and other elements of the natural world that are threatened by climate change and by human disregard for its beautiful inhabitants. Through painting, photography and sculpture, the artists of this exhibition invite the viewers to become engaged in the important work of protecting and preserving the habitat we share with all living things. Augusta AugustssonPhilip GersteinBecky Kisabeth GibbsRuth Ginsberg-PlaceLisa GorenMarianne A. KinzerYvonne LamotheSusan LeskinJoseph LiebermanC. J. LoriRobin MacDonald-FoleyJennifer Jean OkumuraVicki Kocher ParetLisa ReindorfErin StarrDominick Anthony Takis Joanne Tarlin