favorite new studios?

[cos]

Other than Mixit Studios (the printing place at the end of Winslow just off the bikepath) and the Russians at the former masonic temple, I think every studio I saw this year was one I hadn't been to before. At least one, Skye Kismyth Schulte, was new this year, but I'm sure several of the others have been around for years and I just never went to them. I thought about it afterward and even with the most optimistic estimate of how many studios you could get to in an hour, it'd take at least 25 full days of open studios to see them all! I wonder if we have more new studios each year, than one could see that year, even without visiting old favorites.

So let's share. What are some new (to you) studios you saw this year that you especially liked?

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[frederic.livejournal.com]

Two new ones (at least to me) that I liked:

Sara Theophall and her quirky oil paintings.
H.M. Townsend had some neat work using multiple layers of stacked etched glass. A variety of depth and topological effects.

Well the Russians at the old Masonic Temple were also new to me this year after having heard a lot about them previously.

[cos]

Which number was Townsend? (So I can find it on the map and maybe remember for next year - I tend to remember things by location more than by name)

[ron_newman]

You can look up artists by name on the SOS website.

[frederic.livejournal.com]

See above comment, but here's Townsend's 4-1-1 (http://www.somervilleopenstudios.org/regform/artistProfile.php?artistID=364).

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about Skye Shulte.
This was my first year so I hardly know who was what, but Richard A Chase, and the Museum of the Modern Renaissance were my favorites. I also liked the art of one of the women I saw at the Clarendon Church, but I forget her name offhand. I liked *all* the pottery.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

There were 340 artists at 110 locations... are you saying you can't handle more than 4 locations in an entire day? Are you required to create a work at each studio as well?

[ron_newman]

depends on the location. You could easily spend all day at Vernon Street, or over an hour at Mixit or Joy Street or Mad Oyster.

[cos]

Some studios can take as little as 10 or 15 minutes to see, but there are some locations you could spend half your day at. And even if you didn't actually look at any of the art, or even step in side, it would take a number of 6 hour days just to walk a route that goes by all of them.

You could certainly see more than 4 locations (20, or 25) on the day you spend going house to house around Davis Square, just looking at the 1-3 artist locations. But you can't see everything that way.

[siderea]

Thanks to your recommendation I stopped at the Museum of the Modern Renaissance, and I was blown away. I hadn't been planning on doing SOS at all.

[lena-a-mermaid.livejournal.com]

There was so much going on this weekend, I didn't get to as many studios as I'd like to. Why does everything happen everywhere on the first weekend in May.

Stoodio 53 at 53 Beacon Street was fun. The guys there were all really nice, they even had a keg. Plus all the artists and the people looking at the art at this house signed my candidate signature pages.

The nudes at Richard Chase on Orchard Street were pretty spectacular, but I know you were there since I saw both you and agnosticoracle there while I was there. I entered his drawing for a portrait sitting, but I'm not sure where I'd display it if I won. Who'd want to see that! :-)

The Nave Gallery had some interesting stuff and it is right near my house as was Skye Schulte Kismyth Art.

I made a special point to visit the Museum of Modern Renaissance because of your earlier recommendation. I'd never been in and had no idea that it was there.

Nancy Fulton on Dover St had one particularly beautiful watercolor that I fell in love with. Rather too pricy for me right now though.