Malden Sketch Group show now on display

A poster for the Malden Sketch Group Exhibition.

The Seventh Annual Malden Sketch Group Exhibition, the largest ever, is currently on display at Commerce Place, 350 Main St. in Malden.
Sponsored by Preotle Lane & Associates, the exhibit will run until July 17 during lobby hours Monday through Friday 9-6 and Saturday 9-1.

Thirty artists from 12 communities -- Andover, Burlington, Hudson, Lynnfield, Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Wakefield, Wilmington, and Woburn -- are represented in the Commerce Place exhibit. Their work includes paintings, drawings, collage and etchings.

The Malden Sketch Group is one of the longest-running drawing groups in the Boston area. Members of the group drop in Mondays and Thursdays at Oak Grove Community Center in Malden from 7-9:30, Monday for life drawing, Thursdays for portrait drawing. The group consists of full-time professional artists all the way to enthusiastic beginners. No instruction is given but an atmosphere of support and encouragement prevails. A $6 model fee is collected each session.
For info. contact Judy.Greulich@comcast.net, 781-245-2337.