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NORTH ADAMS OPEN STUDIOS

October 18 & 19, 2008

Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

North Adams will be alive with art. Downtown and nearby locations will host a multitude of the area's most talented, inspired, and accomplished artists.The city of North Adams will provide its antique trolley to shuttle peoplefrom location to location and MASS MoCA will provide free passes that may be acquired at all of the Open Studios locations.The Eclipse Mill, NoAMA Mill (located across from the Eclipse Mill on Route2), Windsor Mill, and Beaver Mill will showcase artists, as will the North Adams Cooperative Gallery, IO-Gallery, Gallery 51, Kolok Gallery, and other DownStreetArt.org participating galleries & businesses. For more information, and online representation of some of the works to be on display, visit NorthAdamsOpenStudios.com.


In celebration of the new art major at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, MCLA Gallery 51 will present “Passages and People: Work by MCLA Students,” in one of the Holden Street Annex Galleries as part of North Adams Open Studios, Oct. 18-19.“Passages and People: Work by MCLA Students” features the work of current MCLA students Jamal Ahamad ’11, Jordan Pagan ’09 and Natalie Tottenham ’10. Also expected to exhibit is former student Aaron Andrews ’08.

“These students make time during their busy college lives to create art that is not for a class or an assignment, but driven by their own need to make what’s in their imagination come to life,” said Melanie Mowinski, assistant professor of visual art at MCLA. “Sometimes it’s a realistic portrait of a friend, other times it’s a funked-up illustration of a family member. Students also experiment with mixed-media and collage, seeking artist mentors in the community.”

According to Mowinski, Pagan’s work features a technique learned from North Adams artist Debi Pendell, and Tottenham entered work that she completed while studying abroad this summer in France.

MCLA Gallery 51 Annex is on Holden Street in North Adams. It will be open in conjunction with North Adams Open Studios, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 18-19, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.