The Attleboro Arts Museum’s popular Gift Shop is open Tuesday- Saturday, 10a.m. – 5p.m.

 

The Gift Shop features an innovative mix of handcrafted items by local/regional/national artists and artful, cutting-edge manufactured items. Partial proceeds from the purchase of a handcrafted item supports the artist that created the piece as well as the Museum – while sales from mass produced items benefit the Museum. In all cases, your purchases are supporting and endorsing the arts.

 

The Shop maintains a popular selection of unique house wares, jewelry, accessories, greeting cards, innovative toys, ceramics, original art, books and more. It is famous for annual expansion “extravaganzas” during December and March/April.  These special shop days feature additional creative products and are linked to major Museum events.

Supporting the Community

The Attleboro Arts Museum has established many collaborations with local agencies and non-profit 501(c)3 organizations. We believe that our community will strengthen when groups of concerned citizens work together and support one another. One way the Museum supports community agencies is by selling products (books, cards, holiday gifts, etc.) created by a local organization in the Museum Gift Shop.  If you are interested in learning more, please download our Museum Gift Shop/Community Partner Guidelines.

 

We accept all credit cards, checks and cash.  Stop in for the perfect gift.

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The Attleboro Arts Museum is open Tuesday – Saturday; 10am – 5pm.

Admission is free.  Donations are welcome.

Location: We are located in Downtown Attleboro, MA – across from Attleboro City Hall at 86 Park Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts, 02703

CLICK HERE to contact us

Parking: Please park in our free lot on the Emory Street side of the Museum and enter the Museum through the Emory Street doors.  You can access this parking lot by turning right off of Park Street onto Morey Street (just past the Museum).  Make a left turn into our lot at the corner of Morey and Emory Streets.

Groups Tours: We welcome groups of visitors.  Please call to learn more about special group tours for schools and community organizations.  (508) 222-2644 x15.

The Attleboro Arts Museum is accessible.

 

Directions

From 95 North:
Exit 3 to Rt. 123
Turn right onto Rt. 123 to downtown Attleboro. Turn right onto Park Street at the main intersection downtown. Go under the stone railroad bridge and through next traffic light. The Museum is on left at 86 Park Street, across from City Hall. Parking and our entrance are located around the back of the building.

From 95 South:
Exit 5 to Rt. 152 South.
Turn left at end of exit ramp to intersection of Rt. 152. Turn right onto Rt. 152, Traveling into Attleboro.  Follow directions below.

From Rt. 152 South (Note: there currently is a detour on Rt. 152.  Follow the detour signs to get back onto 152.  Please allow an extra few minutes if you are attending a Museum event):
Traveling into Attleboro, go to Attleboro Center.  DETOUR WILL OCCUR ON THIS ROAD. At the intersection of Routes 123 and 152 turn left at the lights onto Park Street. (123 East). Go under the stone railroad bridge and straight through the next traffic light. Museum is on the left. Parking and our entrance are located around the back of the building.

MBTA Commuter Line: Take the Providence/Stoughton Commuter Line train to Attleboro Station.  The Attleboro Arts Museum is conveniently located a few blocks away from the Station (just a 10 minute stroll to the Museum).

The Community Gallery is located in the lobby of the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Emory Street entrance, 86 Park Street, Attleboro, MA.  The Attleboro Arts Museum is pleased to offer this prominent gallery space as a solo exhibition opportunity for both our promising and professional artist members. 

To learn more about exhibition opportunities in the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Community Gallery contact office@attleboroartsmuseum.org or 508-222-2644 x15.

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February 2012:

The Work of Tally Forbes – Paris and Beyond, Sketches and Paintings

The gesture of land and figure gives expression to the wonder of life.  What I see with my eyes is just the half of it.  What I paint is the other half.

Most of my paintings begin as a series of small sketches.  For the most part I sketch from photos I have taken with my iPhone while I travel.   When I sketch, I am looking for the gesture of the scene, how the people and the surrounding area work together.   I manipulate and combine my iPhone images to capture a composition that emits energy and provokes conversation between the viewer and the painting.  My goal is to actively engage the viewer in each piece. What is happening here?  What is the atmosphere, the sounds, the aromas, the conversations?   What are those shadows?  Who is going where, and why?

I begin with a pen working fast to capture the action in the sketch. Shadows dancing, people and shapes in action interest me. Their gestures represent to me the energy of life in its purest form.  In my final watercolors, I add and subtract elements that contribute to the larger format, building the composition almost like a collage as I paint.

I think of my work as an “abstraction” of reality.   I am interested in the interaction of the shapes and forms taken from real life, but abstracted to fit my particular vision of the world.

– Tally Forbes