Salem Arts Association - Holiday Showcase 2025

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Holiday Showcase & Masters' Circle Exhibits

Salem Arts Association is excited to close our 2025 exhibition schedule with a showcase of our member artists. It's a great opportunity to consider the gift of art for your friends, family, or to treat yourself to something beautiful. Our current Salem Arts members are exhibiting their best work showing the community what we have to offer in all of our diverse styles and artistic disciplines.

On display through January 3, 2026.

Opening Reception Thursday December 4, 6-8 PM.

The 2025 exhibition season is generously sponsored by the Peabody Essex Museum

Tia Cole is an implementation expert at Creative Collective, who takes the team’s wild and innovative ideas and translates them into something tangible and workable. As an interdisciplinary local artist, community organizer, arts advocate, Tia has a throughline to the needs of working artists which she continues to use to educate the community about the benefits of the arts and its impact on regional and economic development.

In her role at Creative Collective, she has facilitated multiple public art projects in partnership with the Lynn Cultural Council, Artist Row Salem, and both the Lynn and Salem Public Arts Commissions. She dedicates her time to supporting the creative economy through community building and placemaking. She was a founding board member of Galleries at Lynn Arts, the Brickyard Collaborative makerspace, and Lynn Main Streets.

She is also a founding member of Mutual Aid Lynn, the social justice group Prevent the Cycle, board member of the Lynn Music Foundation, and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.

Awards

Daniel Breslin - Color Swatch #1

Acrylic on Canvas

A rainbow body.

This piece stood out from the doorway. The figure leans gracefully, reminiscent of a classic sculpture painted in bold colors, as if it's emerging from its background.

Tia Cole -

Pascale Queval - Midnight Mouse Heist

Mixed media

Clock and mouse.

I was first hit with the surrealism of this piece. I found myself revisiting it over and over again, taking away a new concept and interpretation each time it went from thoughts of Dahli to the Mad Hatter, or maybe the timeless slumber of Death or the broken man made construct of time?

Tia Cole -

Leah Feria Ordonia -
Hummingbird Phoenix Rising

Mixed Media (with sacred plant ceremony altar flowers and gold flakes)

This piece seems to freeze at a moment in time that marries decay with transcendence. The blush tones in its core radiate out an explosive burst of embers. There's a fusion of power and femininity with urgency and transformation.

Tia Cole -