BRUNSWICK — Gallery Framing will open its spring season with a reception on Saturday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. featuring the work of sister artists Barbara Bean and Jackie Melissas.

The sisters, both professional artists, share a lifetime of creative exploration. They grew up in New England, and will be displaying their work together for the first time.

Melissas is an established ceramic artist on the faculty of the North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, Ill. At the end of this academic year, she will be moving to Brunswick where she plans to establish a ceramics studio. The exhibit, titled “Common Roots,” celebrates the joining of family, mutual passions for creative work, and the eventual return to roots.

Bean is a member of the Points of View Gallery at the Brunswick Business Center and also of the Old Post Office Gallery in Georgetown. She exhibits regularly at both galleries and is also seen as a juried member of the Cambridge Art Association in Massachusetts. She works in mixed media, printmaking, assemblage and artist books. Her dedication to drawing is her contribution to this exhibit featuring her most recent works.

The artists share their visions and preoccupation with different media as well as common interests in nature, the garden and ground from which their art is created. It is a show of sharp attention to detail and structure, a news release said.

The show continues through March 29.

Gallery Framing is located at 12 Pleasant St. and is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, call 729-9108 or visit www.galleryframinginc.com.