How You Can Help Andrew & The Other Former Tenants of 491 & 493 Myrtle Avenue
Friday June 26, 2009
Above photo by Geralyn Shukwit.
Thank you to those who have given or have expressed a desire to give already!
For those of you in and around New York City there will be a benefit for all the former tenants of 491 & 493 Myrtle Avenue at Chez Lola from 5 – 7pm this Sunday June 28th. Chez Lola is located at 387 Myrtle Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Please bring a donation or if you have services to provide, clothes to spare, furniture that is collecting dust, come on by. Chez Lola has generously offered to help coordinate people with things and people in need of things.
Also, there will be a fundraiser this Saturday June 27th from 4 – 9pm at Sophie’s Bar, 507 East 5th Street (between Avenues A & B) for Anh Nguyen, another NYU/ITP alum and victim of the collapse.
If you live in western Massachusetts or the Albany New York area you are invited to donate at the Summer Street Fair this Sunday June 28th from 6 – 9pm on Summer Street in Adams, Massachusetts. Look for the Greylock Arts table near 93 Summer Street. People are encouraged to bring donations or small things. If you have larger items to offer we suggest bringing a list so that we may see if Andrew or the others have a need for and can accommodate such things.
If you can’t make it to any of these events consider sending your donation to the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project. Please make checks/money orders out to the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project at 472 Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205. Specify “491 & 493 Myrtle Emergency Fund” in the memo field. MARP has offered to temporarily hold donations until they can be disbursed to the affected tenants. For more information please call 718-858-1484 and ask for Edit.
Councilmember Letitia James is also taking donations for the victims here. There are a couple of websites, here and here, where you can donate to Anh and Andrew directly. Also, you can make donations directly to Jess Banning, another victim, here.
- Matt & Marianne
Andrew's Home
Monday June 22, 2009
Above photo by Geralyn Shukwit.
The good news is that nobody was injured or killed, but we have something really unfortunate to report today. The home of Andrew Schneider, who just a few weeks ago performed at Greylock Arts, was destroyed yesterday when the building he lived in collapsed. Andrew has lost essentially all of his worldly possessions, including his art. Many may remember his solar bikini, which was featured in an exhibition at Greylock Arts in 2007. If you have anything to offer Andrew (money, a new toothbrush, a replacement bike, words of encouragement) please contact us, and we will see that he gets it. A benefit for all the victims is in the works and we will post those details in the future. Video of the unbelievable destruction has been embedded below.
Brooklyn Building Collapse from Cameron Hickey on Vimeo.
Andrew is a really great guy, and he needs your help!
- Matt & Marianne
BArT Opening
Tuesday June 16, 2009
Video of the opening reception.
Thanks to all the students, faculty, and staff at BArT for a successful exhibit and opening reception. And thanks to everyone in the community who came out in support these students’ work. The exhibit is the culmination of a visiting artist program supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Check out the video above of the opening reception, and if you missed the opening stop in on Sunday June 28th from 6 – 9: p.m during the Summer Street Fair.
- Matt & Marianne
Bascom Lodge Group & Andrew Schneider At The Salon
Tuesday May 26, 2009
Video of the Bascom Lodge Group talk.
Video of Andrew Schneider’s performance of Wow and Flutter.
Saturday we held the Storefront Artist Salon, a monthly gathering of local artists. The May salon was co-produced by the Storefront Artist Project and ourselves. It featured a talk by the Bascom Lodge Group about their plans for the lodge, which is in Adams and sits atop Mount Greylock. Plans include lodging, dining, and cultural programming including an artist residency program. The talk was followed with a performance by Andrew Schneider and his Experimental Devices for Performance. Thanks to Andrew for making a Herculean effort to be here. And Thanks to Peter, John, and Brad for sharing their exiting news with us. And thanks to all those who attended! Videos of the talk and performance are available above for those who couldn’t make it.
– Matt & Marianne
Congratulations To Our Friends At CATA!
Sunday May 3, 2009
We attended this year’s Mission: Imagination – Annual Performance, a tremendously enjoyable event full of tap dancing, singing, Shakespeare and more.
Congratulations to our friends at CATA!
- Matt & Marianne
Wearable Expressions Opening
Saturday April 18, 2009Thanks to everyone who came out for the opening of our latest exhibit, Wearable Expressions. For those of you who missed Marianne’s demonstration of Alexander Reeder and Yutaka Kitamura’s Touched by Strangers see the video documentation of the opening reception above.
- Matt & Marianne
Facebook'd
Tuesday April 7, 2009
We’re excited to announce that Greylock Arts is now on facebook! If you’re a member we encourage you to become a fan and follow us there.
- Matt & Marianne
Kidspace Inaugural Event
Saturday March 21, 2009
Today we attended the opening of the new Kidspace at Mass MoCA with it’s inaugural exhibition Cribs by Matt Bua. The new space is fantastic and the exhibition is great! We were so happy to see such a tremendous turnout. Everyone should definitely check it out.
In the meantime, congratulations to our friends at Kidspace!
- Marianne & Matt
Evening of Photography with Wanda Wojtaszek
Saturday March 21, 2009
Last night we were invited to Mary Ann Wojtaszek’s house for an evening of photography featuring the work of Wanda Wojtaszek. It was such a treat! Wanda has been doing floral and nature photography for years and has a truly impressive catalog of thousands of slides. Such beautiful work. Thanks, Wanda!
- Marianne
Announcing Recollecting Adams
Monday March 2, 2009
As soon as we moved here we discovered that people in Adams love to talk and are great storytellers. So, I have begun recording some of my favorite people’s stories and illustrating them.
Recollecting Adams is a year-long project (from 12/08 through 12/09) with new episodes going up every two weeks.
Recollecting Adams a 2008 commission of New Radio Performing Arts (Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. “Recollecting Adams” is also part of the larger project “Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses“ a collaboration of Turbulence and Greylock Arts and MCLA Gallery51.
You can see current episodes here:
http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/recollecting/index.php?id=6
Hope you enjoy it!
- Marianne
Windows 2.0: Waves by Henry Klein
Wednesday February 18, 2009
We’re so pleased to launch the second in our Windows 2.0 installation with two wonderful “Wave” collage works by Henry Klein. They will be up through March. Please take a stroll down Summer Street and see them in person!
- Matt & Marianne
Happy Valentine's Day!
Friday February 13, 2009
We hope you and yours have a wonderful Valentine’s Day. In the meantime, we suggest you celebrate it with Sadie and Ephraim Hatfield’s Love Like RSS.
- Marianne & Matt
Announcing Windows 2.0 & The Hatfields
Tuesday January 20, 2009
We are so pleased to announce Windows 2.0, our new series featuring works by local artists in our storefront windows throughout these winter months.
The first installation is by multi-media duo, Sadie and Ephraim Hatfield. There are two video-based works, R.I.P. NTSC which commemorates the soon-to-be-end of analog broadcast television,
and Geistulator a video work that examines the television as a portal to evil. Hope you enjoy them!
- Marianne
Adams Friends of Animals
Friday January 16, 2009
We’re so excited to report that we’re working with the newly formed Adams Chapter of the Humane Society, or the Adams Friends of Animals.
They currently have a pet food pantry — donations can be dropped off and picked up at various locations in Adams.
You can read more about it at our new website: http://humane.newadams.es
- Marianne & Matt
Announcing Two Web Comics Exhibitions
Sunday January 11, 2009
We are so excited to launch two online exhibitions of comics.
The first is curated by the amazing John Mitchell. We’ve enjoyed his articles in the transcript tremendously. Given his appreciation of comics and graphic novels, we could think of no better individual to pull together an assortment of works online. You can see it here: http://greylockarts.net/dot-comics
The second is brought to you by our good friends at the Trees & Hills Group. The Trees & Hills Comic Group formed in late 2005 with a goal of uniting cartoonists and other comic creators in New Hampshire, Vermont and western Massachusetts. This exhibition is a collection of their members’ works as part of Hourly Comic Day 2008. You can see it here: http://greylockarts.net/trees-and-hills-hourly-comic.
Hope you enjoy them both as much as we do!
- Marianne & Matt
Domain of Mount Greylock - Video Portal
Tuesday December 9, 2008
We’re delighted to announce Domain of Mount Greylock – Video Portal by David Lachman.
Adams and North Adams sit at the base of Mount Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts. It is their unifying landmark and, according to local legend, a spiritual beacon. A drawing of the landscape is used as the organizing structure for a series of embedded video clips. Seeded with videos by the artist, the domain is now open to everyone (artists, citizens, kids). Submissions should be relatively short and can be video art, documentary, animation, personal stories related to place, family histories, short film, experimental, or anything else. A united portrait of the towns, their people, and their history will be created by many voices contributing to the domain.
Domain of Mount Greylock – Video Portal ia a 2008 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It were made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
See the commission here:
http://turbulence.org/works/domainofmountgreylock/
Requires Flash 8.
- Matt & Marianne
Algorithmic Art Opening
Sunday November 23, 2008
Many thanks to everyone who braved the winter weather and came out for the Algorithmic Art opening reception. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. In the photo above, artist Richard Harrington discusses his 1618 series with artists Tristan Perich and Lesley Flannigan.
- Marianne
Residency with Kidspace at MASS MoCA
Monday October 20, 2008
We are so excited to be working with Kidspace at MASS MoCA in an artist teaching residency!
Earlier this month, Illuminations a technology-based exhibition by artist Adam Chapman opened at Kidspace. As part of that, we will be working for the next few months with the fourth graders at three schools, (Sullivan Elementary, Greylock Elementary, and Brayton Elementary), working with art and technology.
Working alongside Kidspace interns, Jo and Kristen, we’ve been looking at how computers needs instructions, how birds fly in flocks, and how artists through the ages have been using rules and structures to create images. In the collage above, students combined the images they individually collected related to two separate words they picked from a hat (“dots” and “sink”) to create a new image.
This week, we go into the computer lab. Thanks, Kidspace!
- Matt & Marianne
Touching Gravity 2/Tilt
Wednesday October 15, 2008
We’re so pleased to announce Touching Gravity 2/Tilt, a Turbulence Commission by Caryn Heilman (LiquidBody MediaDance), with music by Nana Simopoulos.
Touching Gravity 2/Tilt is an interactive, aerial videodance superimposed on a composited image of two rivers in the towns of North Adams and Adams, Massachusetts. The two New England locations are (re)connected through a colorful, fluid, multilayered dance that incorporates the movement of the natural landscape from each town.
Touching Gravity 2/Tilt is part of the larger project Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses. Other commissions include: Lumens by Matthew Belanger, Sean Riley and Ven Voisey (in collaboration with MCLA Gallery 51); “Domain of Mount Greylock – Video Portal” by David Lachman (coming soon); and “Recollecting Adams” by Marianne R. Petit (also coming soon); in addition to historical essays by Paul W. Marino and Eugene Michalenko.
See it here:
http://turbulence.org/works/touching_gravity
Requires Flash 8.
Intel Core Duo Mac or PC highly recommended.
- Matt & Marianne
Summer Street Business District Tour
Friday August 1, 2008
Last night the Adams Historical Society presented a walking tour of the Summer Street Business District filled with historical facts about our street and the merchants who once made this a thriving commercial area. We learned about the immigrants who built Summer Street, and about some of the over 60 stores that once lined it. The German butchers and bakers, the Polish Catholic church and school, the speakeasy that existed here during prohibition, and the Pociask family, who built the building where Greylock Arts now resides. The Pociask’s lived and ran a department store here until the 1960’s. Summer Street is so rich with history, and the people of Adams clearly want to see this commercial area thrive again.
- Matt