Welcome to ArtWeek Nashua 2020 – It’s Here!

Televised Week of Celebrating the Arts!
Saturday October 17th through Sunday October 25th

City Arts Nashua, in collaboration with Access Nashua, Community Television, created ArtWeek Nashua 2020: The 7th Annual Meri Goyette Arts Awards Luncheon and the 16th ArtWalk have become a weeklong virtual televised event.

If you live in Nashua and have Comcast, check out Channel 96. Don't have cable or live in Nashua? No problem!  All programming is streamed on the Access Nashua, Community Television website.

How to Connect with our Virtual Event: 

City Arts Nashua transformed its two biggest in-person, signature events into this virtual celebration during the ongoing pandemic to keep all participants safe while still highlighting and celebrating the continuing artistic endeavors of working artists and important ongoing support from the patrons of the arts who received Arts Awards.

ArtWeek Nashua 2020 at a Glance: 

ArtWeek’s programs will be hosted by Sid Ceaser, a longtime Nashua photographer, who also was a part of City Arts Nashua when it was a fledgling arts organization. City Arts Nashua and Access Nashua will present in-depth interviews with a variety of area artists in a variety of genres and mediums, as well as in-depth conversations with the Meri Goyette Arts Awards winners for 2020. Interviews can be found on Access Nashua, YouTube and on each profile page. Click a name for more information.

Artists

Throughout the week, and throughout each day on City Arts Nashua’s social media, there will be profiles of other area artists and their works, and posts about each artist will be displayed on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn as well as on this website. Please click on the following artists names to read more about them.

Artists

#CITYheARTSNASHUA Movement

The current Covid-19 health crisis has interrupted our daily lives and routines. It has presented a challenge to our financial, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Here is the good news; Art heals! The arts can allow you to share your unique experience of the coronavirus. We asked the Nashua community to submit their art - a song, a creative expression, a photo, a performance, a painting - to show us how they have been creating and coping during this pandemic. Post on social media and tag #CITYheARTSNASHUA. The results were overwhelming and beautiful. Please take a moment to enjoy and we hope that you find a way to heal during these unique times.

KidsWalk 2020

A pandemic was not going to stop us from celebrating our young artists during ArtWeek Nashua 2020! We asked our younger artists to submit what they have been creating over the last several months. Many submitted drawings or paintings, short videos, performances, photography. Their creativity showed no boundaries and we are proud to celebrate all of their uniqueness. KidsWalk 2020 also included a safe, socially distanced scavenger hunt through the city of Nashua. Mini art kits were placed around the city with photos as visual clues on where to find the kits. To our special younger artists - remember, the world NEEDS your art. Please keep creating and being awesome!

Hey kids, remember, the world needs your art!
Email images and videos to kidswalk@cityartsnashua.org

Clues as seen on the City Arts Facebook Page! https://www.facebook.com/cityartsnashua

 
 

Arts Awards Ceremony & Tribute to longtime Arts Patron Meri Goyette

The grand finale of ArtWeek Nashua 2020 will highlight and profile the great and longtime work of the recipients of the 7th Meri Goyette Arts Awards, and celebrate the one and only Meri Goyette.

2020 Awards

Photos by Allegra Boverman, and File

Highlights Include:

  • Local radio host and author Mike Morin will MC for the Arts Awards for the second year

  • Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess will make remarks and present awards

  • Sing Like a Bird, the multi-talented duo of Dove Morissette, and Susan Donohue will perform 1950s standards

  • Katrina Tsao of Nashua will perform on piano

  • Special Video Tribute to Meri Goyette also hosted by Mike Morin, with special guests and friends, video edited by Dave Waldman

Photos by Allegra Boverman

Special Thanks to our Sponsors

New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The Nash Foundation, Great American Downtown, 

Nashua Arts Commission, Access Nashua, Kalil & Kress, Nashua Area Artists Association, Berkshire Hathaway, Southern NH Health, Picker Artists Collaborative