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New Artists and New Energy Emerge at Housatonic Galleries and Artists Art Walk and Group Show, August 20-21, 2011 What:             aHa! Art Walk Where:            Village of Housatonic, Great Barrington, MA When: Saturday, August 20 and Sunday, August 21, 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. The village of Housatonic, the mill-strewn part of Great Barrington has long been [...]

Seeds is a delightful art, craft, and fine furnishings store located at 34 Railroad Street, in Great Barrington, and the also delightful proprietress, Robin Ban, along with her husband (and extremely talented artist and sculptor) Dai Ban, is starting a gallery program within this space. Called The Window Gallery at Seeds, Robin is producing a [...]

Timeframe would likely be summer 2012, possibly in conjunction and co-promoted with Berkshire, Massachusetts area Art Walks.  Drop me a line if this sounds interesting to you. Assemblage is now a prevalent art form, but still not well known. This show-either juried or invitational-would offer New England’s assemblagists the chance not only to present  their [...]

The terracotta arch is beige/brown glazed, with bone-like texture. Woods include oak, ash, hickory, and cherry; lens in faces of arch is Plexiglas with art paper; light shields made of Plexiglas. Illumination comes from two separately switched sources: an incandescent fixture within the arch, and halogen fixtures beneath, fir desktop/tabletop lighting. Size: 28 in. (h) [...]

Which of us… is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest — and for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay? – Sesame and Lilies, Lecture I (“Of Kings’ Treasures”) John Ruskin (1819-1900) Un Corps “It brings a new meaning for ratatouille, I’ll tell [...]

While I see myself making new pieces of art furniture and lamps (see Commissions and Lamps, Etc.), and making all-clay wall vases and lighting sconces is too much fun to ignore, my main interest is in assemblage work. And what is assemblage? Here’s the American Heritage Dictionary (4th ed.) definition: Assemblage, n. The act of [...]