SAXTONS RIVER-The Saxtons River Art Guild (SRAG) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with events and exhibits.
A members’ exhibit is currently at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, through June 29 in the Rubin Gallery in the Level 3 hallway between the Main Entrance and the Cancer Center Clinical Space.
Twenty SRAG members are participating, showing work in a variety of media: oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, print-making, and colored pencil.
Exhibiting artists from New Hampshire are: Donna Cary, Alicia Drakiotes, Sandy Greene, Christine Justice, Sarah M. Larson, Marj Layman, Donna Bascom Lund, Judy Sylvester, Liz Winchester-Larson, and Lynn Zimmerman.
Exhibiting artists from Vermont are: Clare Adams, Cathy Conkling, Nancy DiMauro, Lori Ebare, Barb Greenough, Kathy Greve, Barbara Gutheil, Carolyn LaVoie, Mary Lea, and Linda Rothschild.
Saxtons River Art Guild has exhibited at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center previously, in 2017 and 2019. A reception with light refreshments for the new rotation of seven exhibits in all gallery spaces at DHMC is planned for Thursday, April 9, from 5 to 6:30 p.m, in the fourth-floor Williamson Gallery near the Main Entrance. There is a link to Google maps on the DHMC website.
How did SRAG get its start? In the 1960s, a group of artists who lived in Saxtons River or nearby got together for painting classes at one of the artist’s studio in Saxtons River. In the summer of 1976, these artists made plans to form a new art association called the Saxtons River Art Guild. The first meeting was in September 1976 at the Inn at Saxtons River, with 22 members attending.
Now in 2026, Saxtons River Art Guild is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage the advancement of the fine arts, with about 80 members throughout the Monadnock region in New Hampshire and the Southern Connecticut River Valley area of Vermont.
SRAG’s activities include exhibit and sales venues, workshops, open studio time September through May at the United Church of Bellows Falls, plein air gatherings June through August at various locations on either side of the Connecticut River, a monthly members’ newsletter, luncheons with guest speakers, and occasional trips to museums. An art scholarship is awarded yearly to a qualified local high school senior planning to enroll in a four-year major in the arts.
Membership in SRAG is open to anyone interested in the fine arts. For more information, contact Liz Winchester-Larson at lizart39@yahoo.com, 603-876-5083 (studio), or 603-202-2104 (cell).
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