PETERSHAM – On Sunday, April 6, the Petersham Art Center will open its 2025 exhibition season with a public reception from 4 p.m.-6 p.m., featuring an array of spring-themed artwork.

“Welcome Spring! A Group Show” will fill the Barbara Ellis Gallery with a bouquet of spring-themed artwork by 13 area artists. Using a diverse range of mediums and styles, the artists invite viewers to share their expressions of the changing season.

From Jane Duderstadt’s Petersham studio will come three never-before-exhibited cut and folded hand-painted paper medleys. Also working with paper is Princeton artist Leonard Haug, whose new spring-inspired mosaic pieces focus on feelings of joy and happiness.

Looking back on a long career in the arts, participating painter Linda Paul Ganson, remembers taking her first art class at the Petersham Craft Center at the age of 10. For her, “Spring is a welcoming time of the year where plant forms emerge and develop into amazing blooms of color and intricate displays of nature’s wonder.”

Two artists working with colored pencils are Ken Levine of Petersham and Mathilde Duffy of Barre. Levine is a lettering artist and found object framer who infuses his work with humor and irony. For Duffy, the arrival of spring inspires her to “appreciate the cycle of life and observe its intricacies, patterns, and designs.”

Janet Palin, a self-described “painter of landscape using pastels since 1996,” joins painters Tracey J. Maroni and Susan Pepper in drawing inspiration from nature and being outdoors. Watercolor artist Donna Eaton will present a trio of atmospheric scenes she’s found while meandering the cart roads and woods of central Massachusetts.

Oakham neighbors Elaine Griffith and Dena Hengst celebrate the transition from winter into spring as one of the most cherished times of the year. Visitors will enjoy Griffith’s themes of gardening and listening to a brook babble. Hengst’s paintings of water explore ice and snow giving way to warmth, growth, and new life, “a time when light breaks through the darkness, colors return to the landscape, and water flows with new energy.”

The Petersham Art Center, located a short distance from Petersham Common on 8 North St., is a nonprofit organization offering classes, exhibits, and a retail fine art and handmade crafts shop. The center is open Thursday through Sunday, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through April 27.