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somopenstudios.livejournal.com

Want to get involved in making this year’s Somerville Open Studios great? Don’t miss our final meeting for SOS2014!

March 31: Membership & Volunteer Meeting
In this last membership meeting of the season, we will focus on volunteer needs and getting the word out about SOS. We are looking for help distributing posters and mapbooks; staffing the SOS infobooths during the event; and assisting the trolleys that take visitors around the event. Come meet other volunteers and coordinators and help us make this year’s SOS a success for artists and visitors.

There will also be an opportunity to screenprint your own Tshirt with the SOS logo—stay tuned for more details!

Monday, March 31, 7-9pm
Mad Oyster Studios
2 Bradley Street
[click for directions/parking]

Not able to make the meeting? You can still volunteer for SOS here: http://somervilleopenstudios.org/participate/volunteer.php
Choose what you’re interested in from the list and we’ll get in touch with you soon!

Want to hear more about SOS events? Sign up for our email list at www.somervilleopenstudios.org to get the latest!

Emily Garfield
Coordinator, Somerville Open Studios 2014
www.somervilleopenstudios.org
coordinator@somervilleopenstudios.org

twilighttremolo.livejournal.com

Hi all, if you're not familiar with the Koppleman Gallery in Aidekman Arts Center, it is one of the nearest points of the Tufts campus to Powderhouse Square -- just past the field -- so it's a stone's throw from Davis. I am one of the co-curators for this particular exhibition, so it's shameless plug time, but any of you interested in art (or in this case, history and art) should keep this gallery on your radar.

Snapshots: 15 Takes on an Exhibition is to take place at the Tufts University Koppleman Gallery May 6-18, 2014. Opening reception Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 5:30-8pm.

Museum Studies students at Tufts were given a challenge: choose an image that inspires you from the photographs in Historic New England’s exhibition, “The Camera’s Coast,” and use it as a jumping-off point for a full-blown exhibition plan. In May, the Tufts University Art Gallery will host an exhibition that will offer a peek into their minds, with mini-exhibitions showing what each of them came up with.

The student-planned exhibitions range far and wide from the source collection, which depicts late 19th and early 20th century life in coastal New England. They focus on such diverse topics as fashion and food; labor and leisure; immigration, shipwrecks, maritime voyages and social mores of the past and present. These fifteen curators from a variety of disciplines demonstrate the many paths the imagination can take when challenged to design a dream exhibition around a single photograph.

See the Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/snapshots15takes

sjcap.livejournal.com

There will be a public meeting concerning the proposed sale of the Somerville Main Post Office and the fate of the interior 1937 mural, 'A Skirmish Between British and Colonists Near Somerville in Revolutionary Times' by artist Ross Moffett hosted by the Somerville Historic Preservation Commission on Thursday March 6 at 7pm at City Hall. All fellow Somervillians who want to see this public treasure preserved, rather than sold off to the highest bidder, should attend this meeting.

Across America, the US Postal Service is liquidating historic post offices in the name of budget cuts. Many of these buildings contain significant New Deal era public artworks, like in Somerville. USPS has identified our main post office in Union Square as the only such post office in Massachusetts to be auctioned off. (Why us?) While the buildings are often repurposed, the beautiful artworks inside often get removed from public display and effectively become restaurant or office decorations for the new owners, available for viewing by appointment only.

If you have any concerns about the privatization of Somerville's historic post office or the preservation of the irreplaceable Moffett mural, it is important that your voice be heard now. Very important. The fate of Somerville's most cherished historical public art piece could be determined in the coming weeks. Please take the opportunity to join your neighbors and attend this meeting on Thursday to discuss the steps being taken to preserve Somerville's magnificent New Deal art legacy for generations to come.

Public Meeting: Potential Adverse Effects of USPS Proposed Sale
Somerville Main Post Office (National Register of Historic Places
Hosted by Somerville Historic Preservation Commission
3rd Floor Conference Room, Somerville City Hall
93 Highland Ave. Somerville
Thursday March 6, 7pm

If you can't join the discussion at City Hall, comments can also be forwarded to the Historical Commission at historic@somervillema.gov

cometparty.livejournal.com

hi everyone!

This is my first time posting here. I'm relatively new to Boston (arrived in April) and I'll be moving to Somerville in May. One of my friends there got me involved in planning the first-ever Somerville Skillshare happening Sunday, March 2nd at the Armory between noon and 6pm. The event is 100% free thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, and all ages are welcome. Here's a sampling of the nearly 40 classes we'll have on offer:

—urban beekeeping
—basic bicycle maintenance
—windowsill gardening
—photography (two different classes!)
—origami
—intro to parkour
—salsa dancing
—how to start a worker-owned co-op
—imaginary mapmaking
—songwriting
—creative writing (I'm teaching this one!)

We'll also have some great local sponsors at the Armory as well: Flatbread, Slumbrew, and Taza Chocolate. Full class listing, teacher Q&As, and more information on the Skillshare website. (We'll be posting the schedule very soon.) You can RSVP via Eventbrite (this is helpful since it gives us an idea how many people are planning to attend.)

Thanks so much for reading and we hope to see you there! Please let me know if you have any questions.

all the best,
Camille
(cometparty@gmail.com)

somopenstudios.livejournal.com

Marketing II: Engaging the Public
Sunday, February 16, 5-7pm
Mudflat Studios, 81 Broadway, Somerville MA

Presented by arts marketing specialist Jesa Damora of FunnelCake Marketing
Designed for SOS artists but open to all

How do people find you and your work? The second talk of this interactive series is about how to identify and grow your various markets. We'll also be covering how to use the tools to do this, including mailing lists, using an email marketing service, physical mailings, flyers, and social media; and we'll cover how to coordinate this with the work that SOS does itself. The talk will feature guest speaker Kara Brickman from The Awesome Foundation.

Join the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/222815084573524/
Tweet about it using hashtag #talkSOS
More information about the series is on Somerville Open Studios' website at http://somervilleopenstudios.org/

bex77

Do you subscribe to the Boston Globe? Did you get a silver envelope in the mail from them this week about their GRANT program? Do you enjoy the shows put on by Theatre@First and PMRP? If so, I want to ask a simple favor:

Please do two things:

1) Take the check-like paper, fill in

Name of Certified 501(c)(3): Massachusetts Community Theatre Corporation

location: 13 Park Ave, Somerville, MA 02144

2) Put the paper in the postage-paid envelop and mail it. That's it.

For each person that does this, Theatre@First and PMRP's parent organization will receive $50 in free ad space in the Globe, and be listed on their website as a GRANT recipient. This will increase our visability and help us continue to produce wonderful shows!

THANK YOU!

-Beckie Hunter, President
Theatre@First, Somerville, MA

somopenstudios.livejournal.com

Calling all Somerville artists!
Did you want to participate in Somerville Open Studios this spring?

Register now!
Registration ends TOMORROW and no late registrations are accepted.

www.somervilleopenstudios.org/join

Registration takes only 5-10 minutes, is all online, and gets you participation in one of the biggest open studios events in the country.
Somerville Open Studios is a city-wide celebration of local art in which artists open their homes or studios to the public for one weekend. All artists who live or have a studio in Somerville are eligible to participate. This year the event will be May 3-4, with an optional preview event on May 2nd. For more information see http://somervilleopenstudios.org/

If you've already registered, thank you!
And whether or not you register, it would be a huge help to make sure your Somerville artist friends know about it. Direct them to this post or invite them to our Facebook event here.
Thank you for making the Somerville art scene awesome!

ron_newman

The Nave Gallery Annex celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow afternoon and evening with a six-hour-long party. See the Doodle show (featuring

ifotismeni and other local cartoon artists), eat delicious baked goods, and listen to music from Yani Batteau and other local musicians.

The event runs from 2 to 8 pm at 53 Chester Street, next door to Redbones.

ifotismeni

Hi everyone!

The Nave Gallery Annex (53 Chester Street, right next to Redbones) is having the opening night reception for Doodle, an art show on cartooning in all its forms, this Friday, January 10, from 6-8 pm.

Here's the full press release with some images from the show and a full description of what this show is about: http://navegallery.org/wp/cartoons-take-the-spotlight-at-the-nave-gallery-annex/

Here's the official info for the opening reception, as well as the Facebook event, if you are the Facebooking type.

As some of you know, I'm one of the artists featured in this event, so I have a vested interest in this! I'll be at the opening reception and hope to see some familiar faces. Come on by and see some cool stuff!

somopenstudios.livejournal.com

Attention Somerville artists (and those with a studio in Somerville):
Registration for Somerville Open Studios 2014 is open!

Somerville Open Studios is a yearly event for all Somerville visual artists. The event is free and open to the public, and we promote it to the Boston area and beyond. There's a fashion show as part of the weekend, a group show that members can participate in, and various events geared towards fostering the artistic community and helping artists connect and build their practice.

Visit our website at SomervilleOpenStudios.org for more info and to sign up!

Registration is open now through January 31st, 2014.
Somerville Open Studios is the weekend of May 2-4, 2014

If you need help signing up, stop by one of our registration events where you can come grab a coffee with us and we'll walk you through registration in person:

Sunday, January 12, 5-7pm
Bloc 11 Cafe, 11 Bow Street, Union Square

Thursday, January 16, 7-9pm
Diesel Cafe, 257 Elm Street, Davis Square

We're also offering a talk for artists geared towards people who are on the fence about Open Studios:

Wednesday, January 15, 7-9 pm
A talk by SOS marketing advisor Jesa Damora: Why Participate in SOS?
(with guest speakers Resa Blatman, Ellie Laramee-Byers, Stan Eichner, and Skunk)
followed by in-person registration
Brickbottom Gallery - One Fitchburg Street

Happy registering!!

- Emily Garfield, SOS Coordinator 2014

toricosta.livejournal.com

Each year, the Nave Gallery hosts Wrap Around, a sale of handmade goods to benefit the Somerville Homeless Coalition. This weekend is the very last weekend of the sale. Stop by, get some warm prettiness for yourself or to give as a gift, and help a truly fantastic organization.

Bonus: If you come by Sunday from 3-5, there will be an artists reception to close out Reliquary, a really fantastic exhibition held in concert with the sale. There is a HUGE yurt with rubber duckies and a floor covered with cocoa shells from Taza.

LOCATION:
Nave Gallery (Teele Square), 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA

SALE HOURS:
Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5 pm

MORE INFO:
www.navegallery.org

ron_newman

A Little Free Library is a neighborhood box of books, where anyone can take a book or leave a book for others to read. Somerville has three that I know of:

The Book House at 44 Kidder Avenue, built by Todd Kaplan and Rivkah Lapidus

The Little Library of Ball Square, housed in a converted phone booth in front of True Grounds, 717 Broadway. Akil Williams and James Fox built this for the Friends of the Somerville Public Library, as part of the Somerville Arts Council's and Nave Gallery's Phone Art Box project.

The Little Library of 22 Willoughby Street, built by several neighbors on that street.

( Photos behind this cut )

ron_newman

Davis Square's annual Midnight Madness shopping event is this Thursday, December 5, from 6 pm to midnight. Participating shops this year, in order from west to east:

Sunshine Lucy's, 93 Holland St.
Dave's Fresh Pasta, 81 Holland St. (Closes at 9 pm)
Boston Shaker, 69 Holland St.
What's Nü?, 67 Holland St.
Found, 255 Elm Street
Magpie, 416 Highland Ave.
Davis Squared, 409 Highland Ave.
Comicazi, 407 Highland Ave.
When Pigs Fly, 378 Highland Ave.
Kickass Cupcakes, 378 Highland Ave.

Also, the same night from 6 to 9 pm, the Nave Gallery Annex at 53 Chester St (next to Redbones) is holding an opening reception for their new exhibit, "65°: An Exhibition of Contemporary Encaustic Art"

ron_newman

Mimi Graney of Union Square Main Streets has posted a list of open studios and craft markets happening all over Somerville next weekend, December 7-8.

Open Studios are at Artisan's Asylum, Washington Street Art Center, Mudflat, and Vernon Street Studios.
Craft markets are at Precinct in Union Square, Brooklyn Boulders, and the Armory.
Check Mimi's post for specific days and times of each event.

ETA - four more events not on Mimi's list:

Harvard Book Store Winter Warehouse Sale, 14 Park St in Somerville, Saturday and Sunday 12/7-8, 10 am - 6 pm.

NOCA Holiday Fine Arts and Crafts Show, 66 Sherman St in North Cambridge, Sunday 12/8, 12-5 pm.

Opening reception for Brickbottom Gallery's show "(chain reaction)", Sunday 12/8, 3-5 pm

Annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair at The Loft, 438 Somerville Ave, Sunday 12/8, noon to 6 pm

francescadavis.livejournal.com

The Somerville Arts Council is conducting a survey on the city's creative community and they could use your help. They're even sweetening the deal - complete the survey and you'll be entered to win one of four $50 Amazon gift cards.

From the Somerville Arts Council:

Much of our success at the Somerville Arts Council is contingent on our listening to the creative community in Somerville. Our programming seeks to reflect the rich cultural diversity of the City and the artists, designers, and performers who have made it home. Similarly the policies we push at the City level attempt to be responsive to the needs of local artists.

As Somerville approaches a crossroads in terms of the type of change and development it expects, we need to develop surveys and reports to understand the needs of the creative community and identify points of leverage for policy intervention. Toward that goal, we are launching an asset survey and analysis with UMass Center for Policy Analysis.

Although there is no clear definition of the creative economy, it essentially encompasses those businesses, organizations, and individuals who produce and distribute cultural goods, services, and intellectual property - from art, film, photography, and music to architecture, advertising, and jewelry design.

Somerville is well-known for attracting and supporting artists; this report will make legible to others in the State how to serve the creative community. While economic impacts are an inherently crude measure of artistic expression, they are an important part of the larger narrative of how creative activity increases cultural and economic well-being.

Please take the survey now. It is only 12 questions.

All information, whether personal or financial, collected in the survey will be kept in strict confidence before being aggregated for the report.

Thanks for your support.

Take the survey.

toricosta.livejournal.com

Each November, the Nave Gallery hosts the Wrap Around Sale, a sale of handmade knitted/crocheted/sewn goods to benefit the Somerville Homeless Coalition.

We kick off the sale with a Cupcake Reception. Details on the reception and sale are below. Hope you can make it!

CUPCAKE RECEPTION:
Saturday, November 16
1-5 pm
Call for Cupcakes

LOCATION:
Nave Gallery (Teele Square), 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA

SALE HOURS:
Saturday & Sundays, 1-5 pm
Closed Thanksgiving weekend

We are also accepting donations for the sale, which can be dropped off from now through Nov 8 at:

Nave Gallery, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville
Nave Gallery Annex, 53 Chester St, Somerville
Blue Cloud Gallery, 713 Broadway Ave, Somerville
Magpie, 416 Highland Ave, Somerville
SCATV, 90 Union Square, Somerville

navegallery.livejournal.com

Science and art mash up in a show of works with mathematical and scientific themes. Stop on by the Nave Annex in Davis Square and check it out.

OPENING RECEPTION:

Saturday, November 2, 6-8 pm
Exhibition details

LOCATION:

Nave Gallery Annex (Davis Square), 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA

EXHIBITION DATES:

November 2 – November 23, 2013

rachelmello.livejournal.com

A public art project re-purposing a rapidly disappearing material culture--the once ubiquitous phone booth.

Join us on Sunday, October 27 to tour the five boxes completed in Somerville's newest public art project. Complete with refreshments, artists on hand, and the Mayor. The phone booth has become forgotten. What's a City to do with abandoned boxes on sidewalks and building walls... turn them into public art said Mayor Joe. And behold, the Council has teamed up with the Nave Gallery to reach our industrious public artists to commission more public art in the City.

If you appreciate quirky serendipitous public art in Somerville, please come by.
The fabulous folks at Diesel Cafe are providing coffee and hot cider for the start of the tour.

We'll start the tour with Rachel Mello's [hey! that's me!] phone-box at
2 p.m., at the corner of Highland Ave. and Vinal Ave. (by the turn in for Main Library).

and then continue every twenty minutes, with the Mayor.
2:20: Pauline Lim (East Somerville)
2:40: Friends of Public Library (Ball Square)
3:00: Gary Duehr (Davis-- there are actually *two* art boxes in Davis!)

If you wish to do a box please submit an application to the Nave at navegallery.org/wp/phone-art-box-call.
For more information and to see visuals of the boxes please go to:
www.somervilleartscouncil.org/phone

The Phone Art Box Project is a joint venture of the Somerville Arts Council and the Nave Gallery

lamar99.livejournal.com

Anyone have any idea why the white line on bike path. Goes all the way to Arlington. Intentional I would think but for what reason??

toricosta.livejournal.com

DATE & TIME:
Saturday, Sept 27, 10:00 am-2:00 pm

LOCATION:
Ball Square, Somerville, MA (Right in front of Blue Cloud Gallery)

WHAT’S HAPPENING:
Somerville by Yarnstorm is a public art project that combines art, craft, and activism to support and promote the work of the Somerville Homeless Coalition.

From April through October, one special tree a Somerville neighborhood will receive a warm and fuzzy makeover.

October’s tree will be themed Circles and Squares, and will take place in right outside Blue Cloud Gallery in Ball Square.

Somerville by Yarnstorm is part of The Wrap Around Project, and is supported in part by the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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somopenstudios.livejournal.com - Get involved with SOS: Meeting Monday March 31
twilighttremolo.livejournal.com - Save the date for Snapshots: 15 Takes on an Exhibition
sjcap.livejournal.com - Help Save The Somerville Post Office Mural
cometparty.livejournal.com - Somerville Skillshare
somopenstudios.livejournal.com - Free art marketing talk this Sunday
bex77 - Help Somerville Community Theater
somopenstudios.livejournal.com - Artists: Registration for Open Studios ends TOMORROW
ron_newman - Nave Gallery Annex first anniversary party - TOMORROW (Saturday 1/25)
ifotismeni - 'Doodle' art show opening reception: this Friday at the Nave Gallery Annex
somopenstudios.livejournal.com - Register for SOS 2014 today!
toricosta.livejournal.com - Last Weekend of the Wrap Around Sale
ron_newman - Visit the Little Free Libraries of Somerville
ron_newman - This Thursday 12/5: Davis Square Midnight Madness, and also an art opening
ron_newman - Open studios and craft markets all over Somerville next weekend, 12/7-8
francescadavis.livejournal.com - Creative Economy Survey
toricosta.livejournal.com - Wrap Around Cupcake Reception
navegallery.livejournal.com - Opening Reception for Peer-Reviewed Submissions
rachelmello.livejournal.com - Phone Art Box Project Tour: Sun. Oct. 27
lamar99.livejournal.com - White Line on Bike Path
toricosta.livejournal.com - Circles and Squares: Yarnstorming Ball Square this Saturday

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Get involved with SOS: Meeting Monday March 31

Save the date for Snapshots: 15 Takes on an Exhibition

Help Save The Somerville Post Office Mural

Somerville Skillshare

Free art marketing talk this Sunday

Help Somerville Community Theater

Artists: Registration for Open Studios ends TOMORROW

Nave Gallery Annex first anniversary party - TOMORROW (Saturday 1/25)

'Doodle' art show opening reception: this Friday at the Nave Gallery Annex

Register for SOS 2014 today!

Last Weekend of the Wrap Around Sale

Visit the Little Free Libraries of Somerville

This Thursday 12/5: Davis Square Midnight Madness, and also an art opening

Open studios and craft markets all over Somerville next weekend, 12/7-8

Creative Economy Survey

Wrap Around Cupcake Reception

Opening Reception for Peer-Reviewed Submissions

Phone Art Box Project Tour: Sun. Oct. 27

White Line on Bike Path

Circles and Squares: Yarnstorming Ball Square this Saturday

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