Press Release - May 2010 - Open Studios at the Brookline Arts Center
The Brookline Arts Center Presents work and demonstrations by Faculty, students and Gallery Artists for Open Studios: Join the celebration of art and meet local talent May 1 & 2
During Brookline Arts Center's Open Studios weekend on Saturday, May 1 and Sunday, May 2, 2010, visitors to the Brookline Arts Center will have a chance to enjoy hundreds of new artworks by its faculty and students.
Brookline Arts Center artists will present exhibitions of new painting, photography, jewelry, metalwork and enamels on Sunday, May 2 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the studios of the historic Brookline Arts Center. The exhibiting artists include: Jenn Sherr, Sarah Cunningham, Heather Wang, Anne Steinman, Claudine Metrick, Linda Goldberg, Dania Vazquez, Clement Liu, Adam Marcinek, Karenna Maraj, Dianne Brooks, Deanna Christo, Olga Goldus, Polina Marshakova, Lyudmila Rudyakov, Patricia Timothy and Elizabeth Warshaw. The artwork and crafts will be available for purchase
Other highlights will include demonstrations of art media by Brookline Arts Center students, faculty and exhibiting artists on Saturday, May 1, including one Q&A from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.entitled "To Print or Not to Print" by photographer Clement Liu
The demonstrations will include an informal talk by photographer Clement Liu of special interest to amateur photographers who want to turn their digital snapshots into finished photographs. It is entitled "To print or not to print… And what to avoid if you do" and will cover:
*Photographers who make their own prints, and who don’t
*How digital prints differ from traditional prints, and how to adjust
*Some basic digital printing problems: what causes them, how to fix them, how to prevent them in advance.
*The rewards of making prints.
Also on display in the Brookline Art Center Galleries will be “The Tribal World of Venkat Raman Singh Shyam”, the first one-man show in the United States by a celebrated Pardhan Gond artist of India, curated by John H. Bowles.
Brookline Artists Open Studios will take place all over Brookline May 1 & 2, 2010 from 11am to 6pm. Experience the dynamic impact of viewing original artwork and talking to over 60 artists in various settings throughout Brookline. There is free admission to all studios: for more information visit the BAOS website: http://brooklineartists.com/open_studios.cfm
For more information about the artists of the Brookline Arts Center, visit the Brookline Arts Center web site at www.brooklineartscenter.com or call 617-566-5715. Maps for Brookline Open Studios can be picked up at the Brookline Arts Center.
The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth Street, Brookline, at St. Mary’s Street. This property, which is listed in the State Register of Historic Places, has received a matching grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund through the Massachusetts Historical Commission, Secretary of the Commonwealth, William Francis Galvin, Chairman. It is one block from the MBTA green line and close to bus lines CT#2 and #47 from Cambridge and Roxbury.
The programs of the Brookline Arts Center are supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
For more information, visit www.brooklineartscenter.com or email bac@brooklineartscenter.com.