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Trident Gallery is pleased to present Nest, a third annual partnership with the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon to present a program of visual and performance art with a natural history theme. This year's program explores bird nests as wondrous natural objects, as emblems of shelter, and as the monuments of crucial junctures in the cycle of life and death. On view from January 30 through March 6 will be six prints from John James Audubon's Birds of America and Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America; a painting by Audubon's associate and Massachusetts native Isaac Sprague; a remarkable series of photographs of nests by California artist and author Sharon Beals; photographs by Winston Swift Boyer and Nadine Boughton; and a drawing by Gabrielle Barzaghi. Public gallery hours during Nest are Saturday 10–7; Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday 10–5. On Saturday, February 6th, at 7:00pm, an evening of performance art, Nest: The Performances, will develop the exploration and invite public participation. Cellist Kristen Miller and dancer Sarah Slifer Swift will present a new duet, Kate Tarlow Morgan will create a performance environment, and other contributors will share poetry and movement. On Saturday, February 13th, 5–7pm, the gallery will host a public wine and cheese reception to celebrate the exhibition. Trident Gallery is delighted to be joined this year by the Rocky Neck Art Colony in establishing a winter tradition of exhibitions and programming celebrating the birds of Cape Ann and the nature of all Massachusetts in partnership with Mass Audubon, with the wider aim of reaffirming human continuity with the natural world and the power of art to deepen our sensibilities. Rocky Neck Art Colony's exhibition of multi-media avian art For The Birds will be on view January 28 – March 6. See RockyNeckArtColony.org for further information and notices of a public reception, a talk on John J. Audubon by ornithologist Chris Leahy, an auction of artful birdhouses, an