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FPAC's Annual Summer Park Party
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Our 5th Annual Summer Park Party was a great success--a beautiful evening, delicious food, and lots of neighbors.
 A big THANK YOU to The Channel Cafe for grilling up hot-dogs, and to Barlow's, Flour, Sagarino's and Sportello for their generous and delicious donations.
 Special Thanks to The Boston Children's Museum's Bridget Matros for judging the Summer Snow Globe Competition!
The winners were:
Best overall:
Karen McFeaters
(prize: Channel Cafe Gift Certificate)
Most Historic/Best Crafted:
Jose and Isabel Santos
(prize: FPAC Book)
Most Likely to be Reproduced Overseas:
Lisa Knox
(prize:Flour Gift Certificate)
Most Fabulous Failure
Joanne Kaliontzis and Jean Hangarter
(prize: sketchbook for planning your 2012 submission)
and honorable mention to:
Michela Davidson: Most Likely to serve as Fort Point's next urban arts center
Volunteer Lawyers for The Arts of Massachusetts/Arts and Business Council: Most mysterious to a pseudo-outsider
Carol Bugarin: One that needs most to glow in the dark
Anna Leliwa: Most delightful
Twelve Chairs: Most sadistic and also most magical
 
 
all park party photos: Jean Hangarter |
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Come catch a summer sea-breeze and see some great art this month in Fort Point:
Next week, stop by after work for a double opening at 12 Farnsworth: Dawna Davis' Evolution is featured at Made in Fort Point, and You hold it in your mind all the time opens at Art at 12, Thursday August 11, from 5-8pm. Also on Thursday, the artists of Here We Are, Who Cares? will be at the FPAC Gallery at 300 Summer Street to discuss their work. Artists' Talk: 7:00pm. On Wednesday August 10th from 5:30-7:30, join us for a closing reception for Wendy Shapiro's White Series at 35 Channel Center, part of FPAC's Art Lending Program. Read on for details and plus our member artists' shows and more art news: |
at Made in Fort Point
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is our featured artist
for the month of August
Opening Reception
Thursday August 11th, 5-8 pm
For the month of August Made in Fort Point will be featuring Evolution, a collection of works by Dawna Davis. Evolution is a mixed media exhibition featuring paper-making, watercolor, photography, wire jewelry and wall hangings. A love of color, motion, travel and whimsy is key to all Davis' creations. Says Davis, "My wire pieces allow me to use a free flowing, unstructured style that suits my experience and personality." Each piece is a unique blend of shapes, coils and spirals that wrap together with Swarovski crystals, prisms, semi-precious stones, sterling silver and gold-filled wire or with heavy colored plastic coated wire and artistic wire. Experimentation with wire and all it encompasses continues to lead Davis' artwork down the evolutionary road.
Opening Reception Thursday August 11th, 5-8 pm
Meet the artist and enjoy complimentary refreshments from
FPAC, Sportello, and Sagarinos
image: D.Davis
Made in Fort Point sells the art, craft and design of over 75 Fort Point Arts Community members
hours:
Monday-Friday 11am-6pm
Saturday 11am-4pm, Sundays by chance
12 Farnsworth Street, just off Congress
617-423-1100
Thanks to Berkeley Investments
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 You hold it in your mind all the time
August 11- September 30, 2011.
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 11th, 5-8 pm
Artist Talk and Closing Reception: Saturday, September 24th, 2 pm
You hold it in your mind all the time: An exhibition of experimental work about physicality and perception. Artists: Michele Jaquis, Heidi Kayser, Jeremy J. Quinn, Sarah Rushford, Marguerite White, Tom Wojciechowski
The exhibition includes projected and monitor based video, sculpture, drawing and photography that takes an experimental, scientific, or analytic approach to the investigation of the mysterious nature of somatic knowledge.
Informed by philosophy, narrative, and neurobiology, You hold it in your mind all the time expresses and questions the folded duality of the self; the notion that the body is our infinitely personal, private selfhood,and is also a physical object in the outside world. Art theorist Gabriele Brandstetter writes of this strange doubleness "The body is a being of two leaves; from one side a thing among things and otherwise what sees and touches them."
Opening Reception Thursday August 11th, 5-8 pm
Meet the artists and enjoy complimentary refreshments from
FPAC, Sportello, and Sagarinos
images above: Michele Jaquis "It's not You It's Me"  hours:Monday-Friday 11am-6pm Saturday 11-4pm, Sundays by chance 12 Farnsworth Street, just off Congress
617-423-1100
Thanks to Berkeley Investments
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Here We Are, Who Cares? Part II
Through September 2, 2011.
Artists' Talk: Thursday 8/11, 7:00pm
Sofia Botero, Dell M. Hamilton, Heather M.La Force, Daisy Patton, Ingrid de Aguiar Sanchez
Here We Are, Who Cares? implies a variety of readings. It is at once breezily flippant and a shrug of indifference at the world's follies and clashes. Subtly sarcastic, this is an ironic announcement of a group of artists whose work ranges from absurd humor to profound pathos. Rooted in accumulated narratives, migratory paths and fragmented evidence alluding to collective memory, Here We Are Who Cares? permits viewers to inhabit several little universes, where things belong to no one and paradoxically everyone.
image: image: Heather M.La Force, A Panorama of Expression
FPAC Gallery
300 Summer Street, lower level
adjacent to The Channel Cafe
Gallery hours:
Monday 9am-3pm
Tuesday-Friday 9am-9pm
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FPAC's Art Lending Programs
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FPAC currently has art lending programs with two residential buildings in Fort Point. We feature solo exhibits of local artists, which change every four months. For more information on our art lending programs, contact Gabrielle Schaffner at Gabrielle@fortpointarts.org
 At 35 Channel Center:
Wendy Shapiro: White Series
through early September
Closing Reception, August 10th, 5:30-7:30pm
viewable by appointment
 At 25 Channel Center:
Karen McFeaters: Boston on Canvas
through early September
open for viewing Monday-Friday 10am-4pm
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| More art and events around Fort Point this month | | Other art events and shows in the neighborhood in August:
 FP3 Gallery presents AQUATIC, an exhibition of the work of three photographers working with water as a source or subject. Works by: Lora Brody, William Hamlin, Thom Lussier. AQUATIC is a collaboration with The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. Through September 28, 2011 at 346 Congress Street. Monday and Friday 10-6, Saturday and Sunday 10-4
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Bob's Your Uncle Gallery is showing Eunju Kang: Flowers and Abstracts. Eunju's work ranges from beautiful monoprints of flowers to mixed media abstracts which combine glue, collage, carving, nailing, tearing and layering. Through September 2011. 25 Channel Center Street.
image: Kang
 Twelve Chairs presents: Boston by Boston, a Glovebox Production: paintings by Jodie McMenamin and Jay Higginbottom. Twelve Chairs is a home furnishings shop and interior design studio at 319 A Street.
image: J. Higginbottom  The Grand Circle Gallery "Travels through Africa" is extended through Labor Day. Vintage Travel Posters Celebrate 60 years of Tourism to the African Continent at Boston's Grand Circle Gallery. Hours: Wednesdays, 11-2, Thursdays 11-7, Friday 11-2, Saturdays 11-3 at 347 Congress Street.
Specail Event: As part of a series of special cultural events this month, Grand Circle Gallery is pleased to present Fatou-Carol Sylla, artistic director of Cambridge's Under the Sun Dance and Drum, for an interactive event and performance on Thursday, August 11th, from 5:30pm-7:30pm. The event will include a lecture and demonstration of West African songs, rhythms and dancing, with audience participation welcomed. Admission is free and it is open to all ages.
"Neighborhood Snapshots" an exhibition of photography by Elisa H. Hamilton, Karen McFeaters, and Larry Plitt, will be on view in The Gallery at Fort Point Framers, located at 300 Summer Street Suite M4
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Our members are showing around town and beyond:
 Leslie Miller's papercuts are on exhibit until the 27th of August at Kitchen on the Common in Cushing Square, Belmont, MA.
image: Miller
 Five artists from the Axiom Group, including FPAC member Heidi Kayser, spent five days wilderness camping on Bumpkin Island in Boston Harbor, where they collaboratively worked on individual projects. The works ranged from the absurd use of solar power, a border control and processing station for alien invaders to the island, an installation made of 74 rolls of film shot on the island, text installations integrated into the landscape, and a performance involving a winged costume made of burnt campfire wood. Works created on Bumpkin Island will be on display in You Are My Sunshine: Axiom at Bumpkin Island, August 19th- September 7th
image: Axiom Gallery
 Mike Hammecker has launched a new website for his art work. The piece is titled "90" Acrylic on Magazine cutout, 3" x 3" 2011. You can see his latest work at www.mikehammecker.com
STAT, presented in collaboration with Fort Point Theater Channel:
STAT is a series of interdisciplinary performance events. Like ancient Greek theater, they fuse social functions & sociopolitical ideas. Each event will be site-specific, and based on a particular concept, combining new writing with performances by local actors and artists, music & dancing. The concept in question is liberty. August 19, 20, 26, and 27 at 10 Channel Center St, Fort Point. Boxing and poetry at 8:30 PM, play at 9, dancing afterwards. $10 suggested donation. 18+
 Steven Muller and Robert Siegelman are featured artists in That's So Gay Boston Pride Exhibit show at Bunker Hill Community College, a group exhibit of Boston-area GLBT artists whose work explores the Gay Liberation movement , politics, and identity. Through August 5th.
image Siegelman
 Works by Sterling Mulbry are included in the show Picture Books at Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA. June 7- August 6 , 2011.
image: Mulbry
 Ann Scott 's paintings can be seen in Provincetown on Cape Cod at Lyman Eyer Gallery this summer.
image: Scott
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 The Fort Point Arts Community, Inc. of South Boston (FPAC) is a non-profit founded in 1980 to enrich the Fort Point area with an artists live/work population that contributes to the district's and the City of Boston's cultural life. In Fort Point, artists not only create art, we present two Open Studios events each year, develop and support permanent studio space, organize art lending programs, run galleries and a store, produce temporary public art, and are active participants in determining the future of our neighborhood. We encourage new ideas, collaboration, connections, and economic growth.
image above: George Vasquez
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