Please join us in celebration of SoMA's 1st year. It has been a great year of growing, learning, and creating

Brickside Pizza from Ivoryton, will be here slinging slices and pies (cash or card) They will have gluten free options available.

Complimentary SoMA sangria + refreshments will be served.

Frank Natter Jr. of Face Arts Music, will be here for an acoustic set from 5:30-7:30.

Shell & Bee Studio, RiverFire Glass, and River Valley Dance Project will be inviting those into their spaces for open studio

Our gallery walls will be covered in works from local collage artist, Molly Lund.

Molly Waite Lund is a self-taught analog collage artist living in Essex, Connecticut. Her artistic journey began in 2020, mostly through happenstance, after retiring the previous year. Where once time was in short supply, now there was the blank canvas stretching out into the future, more time with family and more time with self. Collage has provided an unbounded avenue of expression and filled her days with new purpose. Drawing on a diversity of life experiences, including an education in science, professional work in radiation therapy and teaching, and extensive time spent either at her family’s remote cabin in Maine or boating on Long Island Sound, Molly has a unique perspective on the world and has found her voice in collage.

A commitment to lifelong learning has spilled over into Molly’s fascination with the collage process. Her growth in this field has been influenced by many collage artists, past and present, including Eileen Agar, Kurt Schwitters, Froyle Davies, and Jessa Dupuis. Building on the fundamentals learned from these artists, Molly uses her observation skills to identify novel relationships between seemingly disparate objects. The physical movement of collage pieces permits her to conceive a new order and vision of the world. The completed collage challenges the viewer to consider this new reality.