EXHIBITIONS
SHE SPOKE UP
Linda Pearlman Karlsberg
October 20 – November 12
Opening Reception: October 23 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM
She Spoke Up centers women’s voices through art that addresses advocacy, identity, and personal truth. In this series Karlsberg focuses on and elevates the work, contributions and words of women who have spoken truth to power and pursued freedom and equity, transforming the broader world. Integrating these women’s compelling words, text that speaks to their unique visions, and symbolic imagery of birds, the charcoal drawings offer layers of meaning while suggesting the depths of their achievement.
She Spoke Up reflects on the struggles and inequities of the past, underscores the harsh realities of the present, and highlights the transformative accomplishments of dedicated women. Linda Pearlman Karlsberg presents a powerful body of work that honors courage, expression and the act of being heard.
VISUAL ECHOES
Connie Saems
October 20 – November 12
Opening Reception: October 23 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Saben Board Room
Visual artist Connie Saems possesses the ability to enter fully into another artist’s imaginative world, working in true sympatico. When her subject is swimming, she swims, as she does in her rendering of poet Christine Jones’ book-length poem Limb of Water (One Bird Books, 2025); what emerges on the page feels fluid, buoyant, and alive. In her alliance with poet Wendy Drexler’s Harvest of What Remains (Lily Poetry Books, 2026), Saems' art enhances individual poems as well as section pages that vibrate with two strands of intersecting letter drawings, one that enacts the poet's journey as
she navigates being a primary caregiver for her husband, who has Alzheimer's, and the other
that reflects the progressive scattering of her husband's mind.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS IN 2026
LANDSCAPED IMAGINED
Michael McGuire
November 17 – November 28
Opening Reception: November 20 | 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Blue Room Gallery and Marlene Marrocco Vault
McGuire’s painting is slowly changing from the contemporary landscapes he is known for to a more abstract take on his surroundings. The newer works are less about a specific location and more about capturing an imaginary place that evokes a mood or feeling that the viewer can become part of. The literal landscape has changed with the use of simple lines to denote objects and the addition of figures in some works to bring an more personal emotion to the viewer.
Michael McGuire
SMALL WONDERS
November 18 – December 19
Opening Reception: November 20 | 5:00 - 7:00 PM
The Cultural Center of Cape Cod announces SMALL WONDERS, its 2026 Small Works Holiday Exhibit, a juried show of art that's reasonably priced and measures no more than 12" on any side (though the frame may extend beyond that).
We welcome work in many media (paintings, photographs, textiles, glass, sculpture, ceramics, collage, assemblage, mixed media, etc., but no video). There is no theme. People who purchase artwork will be able to take it home immediately. Suggested price: no more than $350.
Art makes a great gift, so we hope you'll submit your SMALL WONDERS for this special holiday exhibit.
