AHA
ARCTIC VOICES
Opening Reception and an ArtTALK
Thursday, November 14
5 - 8PM
Free For All
5-8PM
Arctic Voices Opening Reception
November 14 - February 23, 2025
The New Bedford Art Museum in partnership with the New Bedford Free Public Library and Look North Gallery presents Arctic Voices, an exhibition representing artistic responses to the Arctic region across time and cultures. The exhibition offers a range of perspectives from 19th-century explorers-artists, Inuit and Indigenous peoples of the Arctic region, and 21st-century contemporary artists.
6PM
ArtTALKS with Artist Lene Tangen
Lene Charlotte Tangen (b. 1971) is a Norwegian glass artist. Lene began her career working with ceramics as a medium for helping women immigrants transition to living in Copenhagen. In her twenties she traveled extensively as a stewardess for Scandinavian airlines, lived in several countries and studied Ayurvedic medicine in Sri Lanka.
A glassblowing class in 2002 ignited a passion that led Lene to pursue a career as a full-time glass artist. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Bornholm in 2011 and moved back to her native Norway in 2014, longing for the cold winters and ice-covered landscapes. There she set up her own casting and cold-working studio.
Her work has been exhibited at the The European Museum for Contemporary Glass in Germany, at shows such as SOFA Chicago and Collect London and most recently at the National Museum in Oslo in 2023.
In 2021 she was awarded a ten-year working grant from the Norwegian government.
She lives near Oslo in a house in the forest with her two daughters, Serine and Lilje. Surrounded by wildlife, she enjoys the peace of snow and frost most of the year.