This January, Loading Dock Gallery presents Hello there!  4th Annual Greater Lowell Regional Art Show. Working together, students from Chelmsford High School, Groton-Dunstable Regional High School, Innovation Academy Charter School, and Tyngsborough High School present art designed to spark conversation. Hello there! celebrates young artists’ voices, with work that exemplifies the energy and courage of a rising generation.

Throughout the pandemic, high school students were isolated. Precaution disconnected students from their community. Hello there! reintroduces young artists to each other and the world. Created with a focus on hands-on education and collaboration, this show explores the hard-learned truth that contact is a basic human need. We must return to socializing, safely, now. Hello there! invites us to engage, compare, communicate. Their art addresses what we feel and how we think, as well as the challenges facing our world.

Hello There! runs from January 5-30, 2022 at the Loading Dock Gallery. Join the artists for a reception Saturday, January 8 from 3-5pm, during Western Avenue Studios Open Studios, January 8, which runs noon-5pm.

Loading Dock Gallery is located at 122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA. It opens Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5:30pm, and Sunday noon to 4pm. For more information, call 978-415-9889, or visit www.theloadingdockgallery.com.

Loading Dock Gallery is part of Loading Dock Arts, Inc., a 501c3.