EVENTS: THURSDAY & SATURDAY

THURSDAY OCT 21

Opening from 6-8PM for three, count 'em, THREE new shows at the MIT List Center.

Click here for more event information (http://listart.mit.edu/upcoming_events).
Click here for more information on the three artists (Frances Stark, Emily Wardill, Melvin Moti).

Can't make the opening? Not a problem - this triumvirate of shows will be up until January 2.

SATURDAY OCT 23

Opening from 2-4PM for Michael Oatman's All Utopias Fell at Mass MoCA.

Can't make the opening for this either? Not a problem - the show will be up for years.

Opening Friday Night.

Friday night, from 6-8PM at the newly renovated West Cambridge Youth and Community Center/VFW Post, there will be a reception for a contemporary project in portraiture by artist Michael Oatman. His talent was commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council to innovate a community-oriented installation at the long-awaited opening of the center.

This spring I had the pleasure of assisting Oatman with this project. Before he arrived in Boston to create portraits of residents from the West Cambridge area, I biked around the area posting advertisements serving as calls-for-participation. Once the creating began, my role changed from that of errant poster-courier to that of studio assistant and gopher. Both experiences taught me much about my own neighborhood.

The address of the center/ VFW post is at:
680 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA

For more information, visit the City of Cambridge:
http://www.cambridgema.gov/deptann.cfm?story_id=2299

Say hi if you stop by : )
Cheers - J.