Join us this Thursday, December 3rd from 5 to 7 p.m. at MCLA Gallery 51 for an opening reception of:
99¢ & up: art for a new economy.
In these dire times of shrinking bank accounts, government bail-outs, and increasingly abstract concepts of value, there is an ever-growing need for creative survival and re-inventions of “worth.” With a price tag somewhere between 99 cents and 99 dollars, this is a perfect opportunity to stock up on unique, affordable gifts. All items can be taken at the time of purchase, and gift wrapping will be available.
Featuring works by: C. Ryder Cooley, Laura Christensen, Forest Graham, Ellen Grenadier, Henry Klein, Jamie Mohr, Daniel Field, James Fissel, Melanie Mowinski, Mark Mulherin, Lisa Nilsson, Sean Riley, Rich Remsberg, Jarvis Rockwell, Anna Katrina Sacramento, Gregory Scheckler, and Ven Voisey.
Were you missing DownStreet Art Thursdays?? We were… so coming this Thursday we present…
DOWNSTREET ART ON ICE!!!
Galleries host artist receptions and new exhibitions, performances will take place throughout town, businesses stay open late and the North Adams Christmas tree will be lit as Santa gives gifts and local school bands play holiday music. Evening highlights include:
* 5-7pm: Exhibition openings including: ** MCLA Gallery 51: 99Cents & Up: Art for the New Economy; ** North Adams Artists’ Co-op: Ornament; ** Berkshire Artist Colony: YuleMasHannuKwansMadon; ** Gallery at Tangiers: New work by local artist; ** Maya III: Artist reception; and ** Avalon Seafood Gallery: Group show of gallery artists
* 5:30pm: Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, Main Street
* 5:30pm: The Drury Band performs
* 6-8pm: North Adams’ Trolley (FREE downtown rides)
* 7pm: MCLA’s Jazz Band performs, 77 Main Street
* 8pm: Marcus is Walking at Main Street Stage, 57 Main Street
Join us this Wednesday, November 18 at 7:30 p.m. at MCLA’s Church Street Center for Animalia.
Animalia is an inter-species fairytale that combines live music on singing saw, accordion and strings with movement and projection. Performed within a landscape of mesmerizing video and archival film, Animalia invokes visions of secret bee societies and haunted circus scenes.
A multimedia performance, Animalia offers metaphors of flight as departure points from environmental collapse and the hallucinatory effects of war. By appropriating the masculine power symbol of the buck ‘rack’ and reinserting it onto feminine characters, the narrative blurs the divisions between masculine/feminine identity and human/animal forms.
Created by artist-musician C. Ryder Cooley, this project was developed in part at the Byrd-Hoffman Watermill Center and with the support of NYFA, the MacDowell Colony and the Yaddo Foundation.
There will be an AFTER-PARTY at MCLA Gallery 51 at 9 p.m. to check out the exhibit Nest, which includes an installation piece of Ryder’s. Come meet the artists, see some cool artwork, and eat some tasty treats.
Join us this Thursday, December 3rd from 5 to 7 p.m. at MCLA Gallery 51 for an opening reception of:
