Gallery on the Green presents 57th Annual Open Juried Exhibition plus a Solo Exhibit by Roger Niland

Canton, CT - Friday, October 10th through Saturday, November 8th, 2025

Reception and Awards Presentation: Saturday, October 18th 6:00-8:00 P.M.
Cost: Free – open to the public

Gallery on the Green presents its 57th Annual Open Juried Exhibition. This highly anticipated competition draws artists from all across our state and beyond as they compete for multiple prizes. The exhibition will feature art in a wide variety of styles, media and subject matter including painting, prints, drawing, photography, ceramics and sculpture.

Our Distinguished juror is Peter Albano, artist, curator, and gallerist. He is the Visual Arts Manager at Real Art Ways. Peter is a recipient of numerous fellowships and grants and his work as a muralist was recently featured in the Dream Murals exhibition at the Hartford Art School. He has practiced art making primarily as a painter and installation artist for more 15 years making the transition to using fabric and quilted material as the primary medium to make his artwork. As a painter, the motifs of his work have orbited around masculinity and ego for years.

Prizes are expected to total over $1,500 thanks to generous donations that include: Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Arts Fund, Inc.; Award in Memory of Peg Douglass; Northwest Community Bank Prize; Mitchell Auto Group Award; Neu Abstract Award; A&J Quality Roofing, LLC. Award; Jerry’s Artarama Prize; Smith Edwards McCoy Architects Prize; object|resonance Prize; New Hartford Art League Memorial Award; and the Rita Q Memorial Award. In addition several prizes are funded through endowed funds held in the Canton Artists’ Guild accounts.

The Spotlight Gallery features: Plane Truth by Roger Niland. Roger says: “I’m still learning. Walking in the woods and painting landscapes have long been my go-to therapies. I’ve worked with the conventional tools of color, shape, form and the rest to draw myself back and to invite others into my paintings.”

Roger lives in Unionville, Conn. with his partner, Mariann Weiss, an accomplished artist herself. They both are active members of the Canton Artists Guild, The Farmington Artists Circle, and The Avon Arts Association, where Roger has served on the Board of Directors and as the Scholarship Committee Chairman. He earned a BA in Art Education at Southern Connecticut University and a MA in Art and Literature at Wesleyan University. Roger worked for several years as a Licensed Chemical Dependence therapist until he retired from his position at The Institute Of Living.

His work has been shown throughout Connecticut, including The New Britain Museum Of American Art, the Gallery On The Green, Lost Acres Vineyard, Maple & Main Gallery, Seabury Assisted Living, The Granby Artists Guild, Various Avon Arts Association venues, The Lambert Hitchcock Museum, and at several nearby Libraries.