ACW Meeting Agenda: Recent ACW Events February After-Meeting Activity – Art Supply Swap and after swap donations to The Creative Chaos Emporium February 2026 - Blake Gallery at the Beebe Library – ACW exhibit – 14 participants Upcoming ACW Events: April 2026 – ACW Spring Exhibition and Sale:  The theme is ‘Past Tense’.  See more info further below Committee updates Local Art Opportunities Blake Gallery at the Beebe Library:   Has monthly openings for this year.  Contain the l

In commemoration of fifteen years of the Arts Collaborative of Wakefield, we are pleased to announce our spring art show Past Tense which invites artists to create art using the perspective of the past. Pulitzer Prize winning author Katherine Anne Porter once wrote: “The past is never where you think you left it.” Writer John Banville wrote: “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”  We all have a personal past, or a ‘past tense,’ and we are also part of a much larger h