MAYOR MANZI NAMES E.T. KIRBY AS THE APRIL ARTIST OF THE MONTH
Kirby’s Work on Display in the Mayor’s Office

Mayor William M. Manzi has named E.T. Kirby as the April Artist of the Month. Ms. Kirby a Methuen resident and the grandmother of U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Mark F. Mozdziez who was recently stationed with the 99th Securities Forces Squadron at Joint Base Balad in Iraq.

For several years, Kirby’s work has found its way into the lives of hundreds of patrons throughout the United States. Credits and awards are numerous, spanning many years with major Boston art exhibitions, galleries, and art colonies of Cape Ann as well as accreditations by the Salmagundi Club of New York, and the historic Marblehead Arts Association of Massachusetts. Kirby paints in varied media including egg tempera, dry brush English watercolor, acrylic, and oil, creating a vast range of landscape and botanical statements. The Boston Globe critiqued Kirby’s work as “a thoughtful form of poetry in the realm of art today…spiritually refreshing”.

Born and educated in Boston, she now resides in Methuen to be close to her family. The artist has also enjoyed several years in Charleston, South Carolina and Woodstock, Vermont; overlooking green mountains and valleys where she continually exhibits, receiving recognition in ‘The Artist’s Profile’ publication.

Mayor Manzi stated, “It is my pleasure to display Ms. Kirby’s work in my office. I also had the pleasure of recently meeting her brave grandson, Mark, when he was home from Iraq. She and her entire family are a great asset to our community. I encourage the public to come by City Hall and view her fine work.”

The Methuen Artist of the Month Program was created by Mayor Manzi three years ago in order to give members of the Methuen Arts Community a forum to display their work and to encourage participation in Methuen’s growing creative economy. Methuen artists interested in being considered for Artist of the Month should contact the Mayor’s Office.