Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center
Outdoor Banner Exhibition · 2026
Art on
the Square
We're bringing the art outside this summer with large-format prints of original artwork hung along the square. Meet this year's artist lineup below and click any name to see more of their work.
Alanna Porter
Chesapeake, Virginia
Primaries 3
Alanna Porter creates digital art that explores shape, contrast, and movement through the use of primary colors.
Arlet Gomez
Palm Beach, Florida
Where Cities Begin
Arlet Gomez explores how memory, imagination, and faith help us envision places of belonging. Her work often reflects themes of childhood wonder and the creation of meaningful spaces.
Chris Jeanguenat
Suffolk, Virginia
A Girl, Her Sword, and the Raging Sea
Chris Jeanguenat fills her canvases with hidden meanings and delightful surprises, inspired by an endless curiosity about the natural world. Her paintings celebrate beauty, resilience, and the magic waiting just beneath the surface of everyday life.
Christine Cittadino
Eatontown, New Jersey
Open Wide
Christine Cittadino is a pencil enthusiast and pastel artist from Monmouth County, New Jersey. She is inspired by colorful, strange, and eclectic subjects, often exploring themes of life and transformation.
Kim Hamlin
Newmarket, New Hampshire
Franconia Ridge, White Mountains
Kim Hamlin is a New England-based oil painter enamored with natural landscapes. Her painting is based on a photo taken by a friend while hiking Franconia Ridge in the New Hampshire White Mountains.
Matthew Finger
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Bright Orbits Merged
Matthew Finger creates abstract works that explore color and texture through repeated geometric shapes arranged in a puzzle-like style. His mixed-media pieces combine painted collage, wood, board, resin, and other materials.
Fabio Arber
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Critical Thinking
Fabio Arber combines original photography and digital painting to create layered compositions. His work explores decision-making, memory, instinct, and the complex process of finding clarity amid competing influences.
Robin Frisella
Candia, New Hampshire
Bold Elegance
Robin Frisella creates pastel paintings that explore the quiet elegance of floral subjects. Her work uses pastel’s rich, painterly qualities to reveal both strength and delicacy while celebrating beauty in stillness.
Summer Langille
Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Twilight Over Mud Pond
Summer Langille creates intricate paper-cut collages inspired by the natural world surrounding her studio in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
Sarah Haskell
York, Maine
The Space Between
Sarah D. Haskell is an artist with a passion for thread, public art, and building community through creative endeavors. Her artwork explores the crossover between text and textile, investigating the mystery of encoded fabrics and the hidden language of cloth.
Ellie Kay
Portsmouth, Virginia
Donatello in Data Entry
Ellie Kay is a photographer whose work examines how many talented contemporary artists are constrained by everyday jobs. Her portrait series pays homage to overlooked artists and questions modern systems of artistic patronage.
Jazmine Beatty
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Cloudkissed Sistas
Jazmine Beatty is an artist, designer, and educator whose practice is rooted in amplifying underrepresented voices. Her work explores social justice, cultural identity, and youth empowerment.
Scott Hyde
Peterborough, New Hampshire
What the Lilies Overheard
Scott Hyde is a Fine Arts instructor whose paintings invite viewers to observe nature, search for understanding, and wander imaginatively through painted landscapes.
Ka-Son Reeves
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The Artist
Ka-Son Reeves explores the art found in everyday experiences. His work focuses on the moments of joy, beauty, pain, and struggle that connect people through shared humanity.
Julio Julio Gonzalez
Fort Myers, Florida
Batista Draconified Klimt
I begin each of my works non-objectively, using color and gesture without a predetermined concept, then intuitively develop the composition by obscuring and revealing forms that manifest themselves as landscapes, figures, creatures, or objects. I title the finished works based on what I see in them once they're completed, inviting viewers to understand my interpretation of the work while leaving room for them to create their own story.