The Beverly Public Library welcomes the use of the library’s exhibit spaces by individuals and community groups.
Exhibits are free and open to the public during regular library hours when community meetings or library programs are not in progress.
Sohier Room, Main Library
Art Exhibit: Solar in Beverly by Dan Nott
Did you know that Beverly hosts the oldest active solar site in the country? Over the past decade, the City of Beverly has installed 12.5 MW of solar photovoltaics, enough power over 900 homes with clean energy!
To make Beverly’s significant role in the past and present more accessible, the Beverly Sustainability Office enlisted artist Dan Nott to turn complex concepts about the City’s solar portfolio into a comic. How does solar energy work, and what impact does it have on our community’s goals to fight climate change?
Dan Nott, an artist, cartoonist, and educator from Massachusetts and now residing in Vermont, holds an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies. Nott teaches a graduate-level course on comics history, theory, and communities, and has published Hidden Systems, a nonfiction graphic novel exploring the internet, electric grid, and water systems through comics.
This project was made possible by the Accelerating Climate Resiliency grant program from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
Conrad Room, Farms Branch
Art Exhibit: Dunes & Sea by Cara Gonier
This July we welcome an exhibit by North Shore based artist, Cara Gonier, who will be exhibiting her series, Dunes & Sea. Enjoy several paintings depicting coastal calm on display.
Cara is an award-winning painter and printmaker whose work is exhibited and collected internationally.
Artists
Interested in displaying your work? Please see our Exhibit Policy and Exhibit Application.