DownStreet Art Returns to North Adams on July 25
Join the celebration of the 2nd DownStreet Art Thursday of the 2013 season, curb-side dance and music performances, business specials, live animals, mural unveilings, and nine new exhibition openings!
Below are the full details for this Thursday's DownStreet Art! Along with the events/exhibitions listed below, restaurants and businesses of North Adams will be remaining open late.
All events are free and family-friendly!
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New Murals! Peter Dudek's Mural Series "Houses Dreaming (And then Some"
Departing from 51 Main Street Click here for more information. Join artist Peter Dudek for an unveiling of his multi-paneled mural project. House Dreaming (and then some),” includes five different images posted in various places throughout the downtown area. It is DownStreet Art's fourth public mural commission. The public is invited to attend a mural 'crawl' guided by Peter Dudek, which will depart at 6:30pm from Gallery 51 on Main Street. Installed on walls on Main Street, near parking lots and on side streets, the murals create a back and forth, connect-the-dots type of experience for viewers, which require some backtracking to piece them all together. |
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Paint It Big! Paint It Public! The Rhinoceros, Teen Mural
Main St. alley between Sheer Madness & Eagle St. Music Gather at 5:30pm in the alley between Sheer Madness and Eagle Street Music as we celebrate the culmination of the work of local teenagers. A teen mural workshop led by artist Andrew Davis as a program of the Clark. Students create a mural based on Albrecht Durer's sixteenth century woodcut The Rhinoceros. |
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Adams Community Bank Gallery Caleb Hiliadis's "Kaleidoscope of Environments"
31 Eagle Street Click here for more information. July 25/ August 25 - "Kaleidoscope of Environments" Lifelong Berkshire-ite and nature lover Caleb Hiliadis explores the natural world through a photographic lens.Through his careful eye Hiliadis captures thoughtful depictions of life's everyday happenstances, causing the viewer to pause a moment and observe a specific life experience with a different perspective, through the eye of a photographer. |
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Gallery 51 Ibrahim Quraishi's "Dreaming Arizona"
51 Main Street Click here for more information. July 25/ August 25 - "Dreaming Arizona" Brought to fruition after months and months of research spent in the "cowboy lands”, "Dreaming Arizona" is a sensory experience that engulfs the viewer, making them a part of the installation itself. It is a metaphoric journey through the legendary Highway 64 that exposes the end of cowboy-ism through a series of seven films within seven different time frames and seven sets of large-scale photo prints. Further intensifying this immersive experience are the presence of live pygmy goats, who serve to complement this exhibit. Also joining Quraishi in creating this exhibit is frequent collaborator and Paris-based electronic musician Norscq, who has also been one of the key instigators of the French underground scene for more than 15 years. |
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PRESS: Letterpress as a Public Art Project Valerie Carrigan's "Liminality"
49 Main Street Click here for more information. July 25/ August 25 – "Liminality" Featuring the work of local artist, Valerie Carrigan, "Liminality" is an exhibition that showcases prints and artist books that mark the space between having departed but not yet arrived. Liminality is an intermediate state, phase, or condition. The work in this exhibition merges Valerie's personal experiences with the concept of liminality. And as always, the PRESS team will be operating the Vandercook press and printing the give-away-card-of-the-month throughout the evening! |
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Gallery 53 Solly Kh's "Messages From Iran"
53 Main Street Click here For more information. July 25/August 25 – "Messages From Iran" See what some might not want you to see, as DownStreet Art invites Iranian curator Solly Kh to North Adams, MA. "Messages From Iran" showcases the work of three of Iran's top artists, each exploring what it means to be a citizen of Iran, of the Middle East and of the larger global world in which we all live in. Solly dares to challenge the system, bringing us three beautiful, yet haunting Video works. ""These video artists belong to a generation whose childhood was spent on war and violence and who are now living under threat of boycotting and war from foreign countries. Despite of the situation they make effort to send their peaceful massage to all the word.” Come explore for yourself! |
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Branch Gallery Michelle Lauriat's "Spot Pond"
18 Holden Street Click here for more information. July 25/August 25 – "Spot Pond" Michele Lauriat presents"Spot Pond". The exhibition includes a series of 7ft tall watercolor drawings that are inspired by the conservation area, Spot Pond, in Melrose, MA. As a child, Michele would go to Spot Pond with her father and pick blueberries while he told her stories of his childhood adventures. Now, Lauriat's nephew explores the area with her; fishing and catching crawfish while she draws the beautiful surroundings. Come join Branch on the July 25th to see the reminiscent quality that Michele Lauriat beautifully expresses in her work. |
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Gallery 105 Tatianna Klacsmann "The Forest of And And And"
105 Main Street Click here for more information. July 25/ August 25 - "The Forest of And And And." Come and be whisked away by the whimsical and surreal art of Tatiana Klacsmann. Her work consists of drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures which uphold her aesthetic appreciation for beauty and precision over efficiency. The Forest of And And And calls into question the separation of beauty and monstrosity. As mythical creatures whose bodies fuse disparate pieces, chimeras represent both unity and division. Mounted directly to the wall, the chimeras are fantastical hybrids which occupy a liminal space between reality and the imagination. |
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Gallery 107 Art About Town's "Waubeeka!"
107 Main Street July 25/ August 25 - "Waubeeka!" A free evening of Native American culture, storytelling, music and tipi painting, fun for the whole family! Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow's, Berkshires favorite Jerry "Thundercloud” McDonald will share his Mohawk culture, history, song and dance. Jerry "Thundercloud” McDonald is a traditional performing artist of the Mohawk Nation and Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy.Native American vendors have been invited to share their traditional and contemporary arts and crafts. |
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Pop-Up Artist Booth Local Photographer, Ben Macino
Holden Street Click here for more information. July 25th - Ben Mancino Ben Mancino is a local nature photographer and MCLA Arts Management student. Mancino's photography consists of nature scenes, macro perspectives, and matchless portraits. Each photograph contains a distinct and timeless essence making Mancino stand out from the crowd. Come and see his work exhibited in a pop-up artist's booth on Holden Street. |
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Martha Flood Studio Gallery "Textile Design Studio" 38 Eagle Street Click here for more information. Working space and gallery by local textile artist, Martha Flood. Her designs are often inspired by textures and patterns found in the Berkshire woodland environments. The nontraditional natural images are examples of cutting edge pattern design and advanced digital fabric printing technologies. |
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NAACO Gallery "Playing with Nature: The Paintings of Sharon Carson and Ceramics of Stephen Fabrico" 33 Main Street Click here for more information. July 25/ August 25 - "Playing with Nature..." Sharon Carson will present a collection of new oil paintings which are based on the Berkshire landscape...focusing on the colors, rhythms and shapes found in nature, emphasizing personal creativity over realism. Stephen Fabrico complements Carson's paintings with an array of sculptural and functional ceramic work, incised with textural botanical motifs. |
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The Transcript Gallery "Ramblings of a Mad Shutterbug: A collection of images exclusively from Northern Berkshire County"
85 Main Street Click here for more information. June 20/ August 25 - "Ramblings of a Mad Shutterbug..." Daniel Morgan's "Ramblings of a Mad Shutterbug: A collection of images exclusively from Northern Berkshire County” is on view at The Transcript Gallery, located within the North Adams Transcript office at 85 Main Street, which will feature the works of three local artists this season, two of which are staff members. |
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Melody Rolph Solo Singer
Holden Street Parking Lot Kicking off the night is MCLA Senior, Melody Rolph. Hailing from a small town in New Hampshire has been singing since she was a little girl and loves to tinker around with various instruments. Her influences range from folk and classic rock to classical and musical theater tunes. Melody gets a lot of her artistic inspiration from her world travels, the beautiful Berkshires, various folk artists such as Joni Mitchell, and the country side that she grew up in. In the fall she will be a senior at MCLA with majors in arts management and Fine and Performing Arts. |
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Found Sound Nation & Bang On A Can's Falculty & Fellows
Holden Street Parking Lot Stage Click here for more information. Bang on A Can Music Festival at MASS MoCA & Found Sound Nation will be performing on the main stage. Found Sound Nation is an eclectic group of artists who have a strong sense of social engagement. Working with people across the globe, Found Sound Nation uses the expressive power of music, audio, and video production to give voice to underrepresented communities, unlock the creative potential of at-risk youth, and build bridges between communities separated by cultures, economic disparities, and geography. |
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Timur & The Dime Museum
Holden Street Parking Lot Stage Click here for more information. The dark glam opera band will present North Adams with a galactic multimedia show fusing avant-garde, pop & vaudeville sounds. Timur and the Dime Museum create a rich amalgam of sensibilities with Bjork fierceness, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins theatricality. Led by the rising opera singer from Kazakhstan Timur Bekbosunov, profiled in LA Weekly's BEST OF LA People Issue 2011, the band's stunning intensity brings songs to cure the new depression with a post-punk bohemian attitude.
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The Caravan Project Dance Performance by Koma
Holden Street Click here for more information. Koma of the renowned Japanese choreographer/dancer duo, Eiko & Koma, will perform his butoh-inspired piece, "The Caravan Project", as recently seen at MOMA in New York City. This performance piece is in conjunction with the "CARAVAN PLUS" exhibition at 69 Union Street, which opens July 26th. Come and witness an unforgettable and inspiring performance right on Holden Street!
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One Way Out
Outside of Eagle St. Music on Main Street Click here for more information. One Way Out is a local, North Adams-based rock and blues band. They will busking outside of the Eagle St. Music store on Main Street.
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Beer Garden
Mass MoCA Chalet Click here for more information. Nestled along the Hoosic River the Beer Garden serves local beer and functions as a site for community while providing income to fund the presentation of programming. |
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