Thank you to our panelists for sharing their journey in creating community.
Big shout out to @michaelrosefineart@newmoondanceparty and @djchillydog for such an inspiring conversation and to our host, @sharaporterdesigns for offering us space outside New Bedford.
📸 by @westometric THANKS FOR SAVING OUR BUTTS WITH THE PHOTOS ! ! !
Thank you to everyone who came out for the opening of The Same Sea! What a night it wasđź’™
Thank you to the Portuguese Consul, Tiago de Sousa, for joining us and saying a few words; DATMA, for being such a gracious host; my dear friends in Faial who embraced this project wholeheartedly; and this incredible group of creatives who gave every fiber to the fabric of the Sister Cities.
✨Doors will be open on AHA! night✨May 14✨
from 4:30-6:30pm
DATMA is open Mon-Friday 9-5
If you haven’t seen it, please stop by and take it in.
ALSO… Applications are now open for 2027!
✨Link in Bio✨
#hotelpapel2026 #sistercity #artsresidency #faial #newbedford
Join us for our annual salon-style gathering to help raise funds for our upcoming public art projects!
This year’s event is hosted by Shara Porter Designs and features a compelling conversation between Michael Rose, founder & content creator for New England Art News, Andy Anello, founder & content creator for New Moon Dance Party, and Zoe “Chilly Dog” Benza, a contributing content creator for New Moon Dance Party and PVD DJ.
Tickets are $50, are 100% deductible, and come with tasty local bites and beverages curated by Anthi from @anthi_drawing_room
This event always attracts an interesting crowd. We hope to see you at @sharaporterdesigns next Tuesday after work. Tickets at or visit the event link in our profile.
@newenglandartnews@michaelrosefineart@newmoondanceparty@djchillydog@sharaporterdesigns
It’s time! The Hotel Papel exhibition - The Same Sea. - will be opening on APRIL 30!! 🎉
On view through August 9th, the opening reception of “The Same Sea.” will take place on:
Thursday, April 30
5:00 to 7:00 PM
Location: DATMA
1213 Purchase St, Floor 2, New Bedford, MA 02740.
This group exhibition will feature six South Coast artists that participated in the inaugural Hotel Papel sister city artist residency program including; Mason Terra (painter), Maggie Felisberto (writer), Abigail Marshall (photographer), Carley Byers (filmmaker), Lynne Byers (ceramicist), and Jackie Fournier Se’Ale (painter). The public is invited to attend, meet the artists, and experience the exhibition firsthand.
#hotelpapel2026 #thesamesea #artiseverywhere #faial #newbedford
Site #3 of our two-year project, “Being Seen: Celebrating SouthCoast Pride” has wrapped up its indoor exhibition while the exterior public art installation continues through spring.
Here’s a few shots from the show if you didn’t get to make it over to the fabulous Marion Art Center. What an uplifting exhibition to present during the cold winter months. Thank you to the +1,400 guest that came out to view the project. Site #4 will be announced soon!
For further reading of the exhibition content and the people we honor in the show, visit /beingseen/ to check out our extended online exhibition.
Thank you to E.D. Jodi Stevens and the @marionartcenter Board for hosting DATMA. Special recognition to our guest curator who organized the ancillary exhibition of local LGBTQIA+ artists, Kate Frazer Rego @katefrazerrego
#BeingSeen
#pride
#publicart
Just wrapped up this Spring’s Creative Workplace program with our friends at OSS. These students are off the hook with their laser cutting skills. Great work team! See ya in the Fall.
#girlsruletheworld
#tech #steameducation #futurepresidents
@oursistersschool rocks!
George Summers Jr. conducted an inspiring journaling workshop with DATMA on Saturday demonstrating design techniques as well as insight to finding and developing a creative subject matter.
- write a letter to a ghost
- write the words of the child in you.
- Find the life in every town.
- Don’t obsess over chronological order.
- React, then figure it out later.
- Create from a place of silence.
- Place an image as a marker to be revisited at a later date.
- oh, and the important one, check your pockets for glue sticks before doing your laundry. đź‘– đź‘•
Big thanks to our main supporter for this workshop, the Marion chapter of the Mass Cultural Council @masscultural that allowed us to offer this workshop to participants at no cost among other important workshop expenses. Additional thanks to our hosts at the @marionartcenter who offer only the best programs, classes, events, and exhibitions. We were proud to partner with the MAC on this workshop.
Our new Studio Safety Tech, Fallon is breaking in DATMA’s design equipment with mixed media painter, Jackie Fournier Se’Ale. We got to work with Jackie in the @hotelpapel program. You can see some of her work on @jackieseale.art Let’s see how working with our laser might add to her next painting.
Our #PlasticRooster splattered with blizzard snow basks in the streetlights of #DTNB.
Plastic Rooster by @b0rdalo_ii produced by @_datma . The #blizzardof2026 breaking records here in New Bedford can be found at the intersection of Union St. & 2nd St. at the YMCA New Bedford.
Thank you to our friends at @artmuseumnb for the 📸
@explorenewbedford@newbedfordcreative@ymcasouthcoast
Looking dreamlike in the quiet after the blizzard. #Threshold by @reigelman in New Bedford’s Custom House Square produced by @_datma . The #blizzardof2026 breaking records here in New Bedford.
Thank you to our friends at @artmuseumnb for the 📸
@explorenewbedford@newbedfordcreative
Datma @ the MAC - Being Seen: Pride on the SouthCoast is now open through March 13th. Free to the public! See you there. marionartcenter.org/on_exhibit
