Current Exhibits
Founders Gallery:
Gallery on the Green is operated by the Canton Artists’ Guild – a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) entity
Gallery on the Green Presents: The Marcia Reid Marsted Retrospective in the Founder’s Gallery plus two solo exhibits: images, illusions, insight by Karen Israel, Mariann Weiss, and Ruth Jacobson in the Upstairs Gallery and in the Spotlight Gallery, Now Here by Kathleen Borkowski.
Canton, CT - Friday, May 29 through June 27, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6, 6:00-8:00 pm
Presentations in conjunction with the Marsted Retrospective by Margery Winters of Roaring Brook Nature Center:
Friday, June 5, Butterfly Gardens Are For The Birds 7-8 pm
Friday, June 19, Native Plants: Handsome is as Handsome Does 7-8 pm.
Cost: Free – open to the public
On view in the Founder’s Gallery is The Marcia Reid Marsted Retrospective, a memorial tribute to the artist, a northwest Connecticut native and a prolific, dedicated, and beloved member of the art community who created haunting, poetic and whimsical photographs and paintings.
Marcia Reid Marsted was an avid photographer, painter and gardener. Her photography reflected her love of light and shadow, and her intense curiosity about and delight in the world around her. She studied and was inspired by her home, her garden, the wider world through extensive travel and, eventually, herself and her surroundings during chemotherapy for a second cancer diagnosis.
Marcia’s photographs have been in numerous solo and group shows throughout the northeast, New York and California since 1989, including many at the Gallery on the Green, where she was a member starting in the 1980s, following in her mother’s footsteps. Marcia was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and was the recipient of grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the Greater Hartford Arts Council.
Karen Israel, Mariann Weiss, and Ruth Jacobson are exhibiting images, illusions, insight in the Upstairs Gallery. These three artists met several years ago and they admired each other’s diverse ways of interpreting the world. They shared love of lush color, slightly off-beat sense of design, and creating narrative. Karenlovingly elevates her subjects through story-telling and strong contrasts. Her flowers and animals convey an amazing sense of dignity, almost a regal quality. Her landscape paintings bring to mind atmosphere and movement. Mariann’s work brings to mind the dreamlike, visual poems of Marc Chagall. Her unabashed love of tangling plants, animals and humans together are journeys into illusions. They are sometimes whimsical but always immensely personal. Ruth sees colors, energies, liquid light in every person, every object, and every moment. She is forever seeking insight into one’s heart, soul, hopes and dreams. Her childhood dream of traveling the world as assistant to Margaret Mead, learning about others’ culture, became a theme in her life.
In the Spotlight Gallery, Kathleen Borkowski presents an exhibit of her artist’s books, Now Here. The books in her exhibit reflect spaces she has “occupied over her life and, in turn, have taken up residence in me.” The work centers around lettering and book arts. “Writing, drawing and painting are ways for me to think about my life and dream with my hands.” Language and letters often become texture rather than text. She uses traditional manuscript tools and techniques, as well as homemade tools and commercial artist supplies.
Borkowski’s fascination with medieval manuscripts and calligraphy began in high school. Since then, she has worked as a graphic designer, full-time mom, used bookstore owner and professional calligrapher. Some of her clients include Calvin Klein, Dodd Human Rights Center, Susan Koman Foundation and ATT. Kathleen continues to study lettering and related arts with many artists and masters from the U.S. and Europe.
