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| Jeri Coppola's open studio at Spire Studios in Beacon, NY last weekend |
Artists in and around Cold Spring, NY are opening their studios this weekend. Check out the list of participating artists/venues and get all the pertinent information at coldspringarts.com.
Studios are scheduled to be open from 12-6p today and tomorrow. As part of the events, Collaborative Concepts' Saunder's Farm Project is holding its mid run reception from 1-6 and Concrete Gallery is holding an opening reception for new works by Susan English from 5-8pm.
In past years, many of these artists would have participated in the Beacon Open Studios (held this past weekend) as several one point or another did work in Beacon. That there are such a number to constitute a sizable presentation in Cold Spring this weekend speaks, in part, to the mini diaspora that occurred recently when the old Beacon High School was sold, fostering uncertainty about the viability/affordability of artists maintaining their studios there.
Last week's episode of the Dead Hare Radio Hour included a little bit of audio from the Beacon Open Studios.
On the subject of studios, Bad At Sports Episode #311 features (in the second half of the show) an interview with Joe Lanasa who runs the Fulton Street Collective. Fulton Street Collective is a studio and gallery building in Chicago that houses artist studios leased by individual artists but it also features a membership level, shared studio program. This "standard" membership of $125 per month entitles the member a small storage area and use of shared studio spaces along with the use of available tables, easels, etc. This shared workspace concept is similar to that enabled at Beahive in Beacon and Kingston, but scaled up a bit for the visual artist.
Something to think about. And something that I think would be very workable and beneficial in for artists in the Newburgh/ Beacon area.
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