Mystic Museum of Art is currently featuring three new exhibitions: "Linda DiFrenna: Life, Death, and In Between," "The Outsider Art of Ruby C. Williams," and MMoA’s 63rd Regional Exhibition.

All of these exhibitions will be on display through Oct. 5.

Individually, the three exhibitions present vivid contrasts in the practice of contemporary art. Taken together, they display the diversity of new art forms and techniques.

DiFrenna works in mixed media and manipulated photography, focusing on the balance between image and material. She blends innovative photographic processes with intimate and personal concepts and images.

Williams, who is a farmer, minister, and grandmother, is also a self-taught folk artist who took up painting in the early 1980s to pass the time while waiting for customers at her family’s produce stand along Florida’s State Road 60. Over the last three decades, her brightly colored signs, rich with folk wisdom and observations of daily life, have drawn in as many visitors as the vegetables and pies they advertise. Her family has farmed their land near Bealsville, Florida for generations — ever since Ruby’s great-grandmother, Mary Reddick, a freed slave, helped found the town.

In 2005, Williams received the Florida Folk Heritage Award. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums including the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C.

This year, MMoA’s Regional Exhibition marks its 63rd anniversary since the inaugural event in 1956, when MMoA was still the Mystic Art Association. The 63rd Regional Exhibition is a juried show open to all artists working in all mediums. This year the juror was Emily Handlin, the Marsted Curatorial Fellow for Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum. In all, 100 works were chosen for exhibition out of a field of 300 submissions.

The museum at 9 Water St., Mystic, is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily but is closed Monday for Labor Day. Call (860) 536-7601 or visit www.mysticmuseumofart.org.