ArtBeat 2016

Get ready, Davis Square!

 

Sommerville's ARTBEAT happens today. 

Two stages, 70+ vendors, and a "toddler rave."

How can you resist?

Put on your sunscreen and stroll on down. 

Food, music, and vendors

waiting to show you a good time. 

My friend and studio pal Arlette Laan will be there with her delightful dolls:

Sock dolls to love.

 Easy, car-free access via the Red Line and the bike path.

Support the arts.

Show up.

Enjoy. 

And maybe buy something.

Your support keeps artists keep going.

Supply Sale

This August Lowell Fiber Studio joins the artists of Western Avenue Studios for a building-wide 

ARTISTS' DE-STASH SALE

Imagine: Five floors of artists, 

letting go of supplies. 

Paints, trim, paper, yarn, fabric. 

You name it, it will probably be here  on August 6. 

Come to Studio 512 to grab thermofax screens at bargain prices

Gently used and brand new. Text, florals, images, and texture. 

Jump start a new project. 

Share ideas.

The Great Artists' De-Stash is part of  

Western Avenue Studios Open Studios 

August 6, 2016

122 Western Avenue, Lowell, MA

Noon-5

Free parking

Food Truck 

 Start on the fifth floor!

BackWall Gallery, Lowell

The Loading Dock Gallery has expanded to a new space, the BackWall Gallery, beside the former entrance. Four times a year a new artist will be featured to represent the Gallery 24/7. I'm honored my work is up this quarter.

Ten years ago, I emptied my mom’s home. 

Among the piles, I found photo albums.

 

Some from my childhood. Many from my dad's youth. One from my mother's childhood. They breathed with the freshness of the dreams.

The images of people, once children, now gone, overlap with my own memories:

of being the little sister  and of raising my girl.

They say each time you unpack a memory, it alters.

Our present rhymes with our past.

We embroider. We forget.

But the outline remains.