Archived - Shows And Events

November 6, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - This exhibition includes Artists from the Golden Age of Illustration—a period of extraordinary creative ferment from 1875 to World War I—include Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, and Kate Greenaway, as well as later but accomplished practitioners Frank Adams, L. Leslie Brooke, and W. Heath Robinson. The Droller’s modern holdings, spanning the last quarter of t...

October 15, 2016 - Buick only Car Show. Peer Judged Awards. Best Of Show, Top 12 Buicks & Samuel Cernak Award. Raffle Tickets, 50/50 Tickets, Raffle ticket (1 per car, gas card). Food Available. Music by DJ Joe. Cost: $10.00 per car.

August 20, 2016 - Join us for our Sixth Annual Car, Tractor, Truck & Motorcycle Show! This event promises to be the largest and best ever! The Amherst New Hampshire Lions Club is host with the sponsorship of local merchants. All proceeds go to local charities. Come and join us for a day of fun and camaraderie!

August 6, 2016 - First 100 will receive awards, best of show, most original, puzzled award and host award. variety of music, prizes and food will be availed.

June 19 - October 23, 2016 - This exhibition has a selection of independent work, watercolors and paintings that connect McCloskey to such prominent American painters as Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper, will also be showcased. The recipient of two Caldecott Medals and three Caldecott Honors, McCloskey was a major force in twentieth-century picture book art. Americana on Parade: The Art of Rob...

The exhibition considers McCloskey’s entire career ranging from his early publications Lentil, Homer Price, and Centerburg Tales, which recall the artist’s youth in rural Ohio, to the family-based stories set in his adopted home state of Maine. A selection of independent work—watercolors and paintings that connect McCloskey to such prominent American painters as Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hoppe...

May 17 - November 27, 2016 - The museum will mark Beverly Cleary’s 100th birthday with the exhibition Louis Darling: Drawing the Words of Beverly Cleary. Darling’s iconic images brought Cleary’s beloved characters to life. Though Cleary’s stories have since been re-illustrated, it was Darling’s vision–matched with Cleary’s words–that helped define these stories as modern classics. Louis Darling: D...

April 14–July 24, 2016 - For this exhibition, the Mead Art Museum commissioned contemporary artists to complete these designs in the spirit of the Exquisite Corpse. Each participant was allowed to select designs from the Mead’s holdings and extend them into full compositions. They were given complete freedom to create anything they could imagine, as long as their creations were connected to the li...

April 5 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition entices visitors to take a closer look at Carle’s art to uncover these hidden references. Flip labels reveal some of the people and places important to him. Eric Carle has made many pieces of unforgettable art during a 50-year career that includes more than 70 books.

March 8 - June 5, 2016 - In this exhibition twenty recently restored seminal paintings by Weisgard to their original splendor; they will make their public debut. Weisgard won the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for The Little Island, the product of another partnership with Wise Brown. He worked with other authors and wrote a handful of books himself. Original art from Cinderella (1939), Red Light/Green Li...