Reported today in the papers…
Down Street Art will begin June 26 and run until Oct. 31.
Scott Stafford of the Berkshire Eagle reported that the four new galleries are:
• Maya III, 73 Main St., which will feature a third incarnation of Jarvis Rockwell’s translation of ancient Hindu pyramids with a 9-foot-tall stepped pyramid lined with toys, action figures and dolls. He also will be there this summer creating an original wall drawing.
• North Adams Artists’ Cooperative Gallery, 107 Main St., which will features local artists working in a variety of media, including painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture, textiles and hand-blown glass.
• Primary Secondary Volumes 1 & 2, 28 Holden St., which will feature the work of artists currently employed at Mass MoCA to create the conceptual Sol Lewitt paintings at the upcoming Lewitt Gallery. These artists have works of their own that will be featured on Holden Street in two editions – the first from June 26 to July 25, and the second from July 31 to Aug. 29.
• Lumens, 61 Main St., which will be an interactive installation in three locations – the North Adams space, in Greylock Arts on Summer Street in Adams and on the Internet at turbulence.org. The installation will consist of dozens of donated household lamps. Through a complex series of proximity sensors, a group of lights will come on as a visitor approaches, as will some of the lamps in the Adams gallery, and vice versa. Many of the lamps have stories behind them on the Turbulence Web site, and when someone is reading the story on the Web, that lamp will illuminate in the gallery. Lumens will open July 10.
Other galleries promoted as part of Down Street Art include the Brill Gallery, Eclipse Mill Gallery, River Hill Pottery, Kolok Gallery, Art Space, Widgitz, , Chapel for Humanity, North Adams Antiques & Gallery, MCLA Gallery 51, Suncatcher Glass, Hudsons at MASS MoCA.
According to Tammy Daniels at iBerkshires.com, “An individual may create art but it takes a village to create a platform for its appreciation.” Even the Mayor piped in and said:
Arts is an economic factor unto itself. It plays the single most important role in changing the image of our community.
Thank you to everyone who is helping make the arts possible in North Adams! See also the article in today’s Transcript, by Jen Huberdeau.
For online maps, a printable map, and many arts links, go to DownStreetArt.org
