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Lowell Open Studios

Lowell Open Studio draws thousands of art lovers to Lowell during the last week of September of each year. Come out to Lowell and prepare yourself for a wonderful art viewing and buying experience!

Ongoing Happenings

First Saturdays

You can visit me most first Saturday in my studio at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. If you plan to come by drop me an email at the Contact Me link, to give me a heads up that you are planning on stopping by.   Here at Western Avenue Studios we have more than 160 working artists in our buildings. Please come and check us out.  Be prepared to see a lot of art and probably get visually tired. I suggest for the first time visitor to start on the 5th floor or the original building that has the Western Avenue sign over the door.  Go in through the short hall to the freight elevator press the button to call the elevator and the nice assistant that will be more that happy to take you to the fifth floor.  You can use the stairways at the end of each floor to zig zag your way down to the first floor. If you are still not to over stimulated by color, forms and loaded with art that you purchased, then go over to the A mill to see more artists studios. Touring the studios is a great way to spend a day.  Studios are open at 12 PM and close at 5 PM every first Saturday of the month. Be sure to stop by my studio on the 4th floor number 402 and say hi! Click here for directions to WAS.

NEWS!

Artist Professional Toolbox

Wow, so many things are new! Last week on June 14, 2008, I completed the Artists Professional Toolbox (APT) course in Boston, MA. The APT is geared to artists who have been out of art school for ten years or either still emerging or mid career and need help in areas like: the business of art, estate planning, taxes for the artists, approaching galleries, marketing art and other related subjects. The speakers were informative and the materials helpful.

I want to give a shout out to former Executive Director Brenda Ulrich, best of luck in your new endeavor; it was great getting to know you and I look forward to seeing you in the future. And to present Executive Director Jim Grace, you are wonderful person and such a gift to the APT and the artists you serve. It is a pleasure knowing you both. I look to being a Fellow of the APT during the coming years. May we all continue to grow, prosper and be our personal best. I highly recommend the program - it has been instrumental to help me get things accomplished that I have been lax on (like updating my web site!)

Mass Impact

A BIG thanks to Thaddeus Miles and the board of Mass Impact for funding my grant proposal to help 6 juniors at Lowell High School create work to build a portfolio to submit to an art school of their choice upon graduating. The student's chosen will have the opportunity to further their abilities of figure drawing and painting from a live model in my studio and to learn to photograph and digitalize their work for presentation.  I met these talented students while teaching Mrs. Rebeka Blakeney's arts major class of 20 earlier this spring. My hats off to both these six talented students and Mass Impact!

Best of Show Award

Juror Judith McCarthy of the Provincetown Art Association picked my piece  Seth Speaks to receive the Best of Show award in this years Regional Abstractions II show at the Arts League of Lowell Gallery.  Artists from Lowell, MA and as far as Boston submitted over eighty pieces of work to by juried by Ms. McCarthy. I feel honored that my piece merited such a prestigious award by such a well-respected jurist.