Rachel DeCavage, owner of Cinder & Salt, and a founder of the Middletown Arts Fest, which just wrapped up its second summer season, marks off sidewalk spaces before vendors start arriving.
Today, an encore broadcast of a lively walk n talk along Main Street during one of last summer’s Middletown Arts Fests. If you’ve never been to one of these first Friday events, this episode will give you a taste of what’s in store: arts, crafts, food, music, dance, the works. The upcoming one is on Friday, July, 7, from 5 to 8 pm. If you go, be sure to look for my tent, with the Girl’s Got to Focus Banner, and say hello.
Letting you know, by the way, that WESU is in the final days of its spring pledge drive, and still in need of help to reach its modest $25,000 goal. If you haven’t shown your love of community radio with a donation of any size, please donate and give what you can. Thanks.
Now, a step back into last year’s Middletown Arts Fest, n opportunity to continue my quest to make Middletown an arts destination. Enjoy!
Today’s episode kicks off a summer’s worth of favorite previous episodes! It’s a conversation with two painters who live and work in Provincetown and Truro on Cape Cod, Peter Hocking and Helen Grimm whose work you can on Instagram at @p.hocking and @hgrimmpainter. Enjoy!
Art-relatedly: I want to bring to your attention a fun event that I’m proud to say I’ll be taking part in over Father’s Day weekend, June 17th and 18th. It’s the annual Summer Arts Festival on the Essex Town Green, two days of art and fine crafts by some of the region’s most exciting artists and artisans. We’re talking abstract and representational painters, sculptors, mixed media artists, photographers, and many fine artisans who create with clay,fabric, glass, jewelry design, and more! The festival is hosted by the nonprofit Arts Center Killingworth and its gallery, Spectrum Art Gallery which is a quick five minute drive from the green at 61 Main Street, Centerbrook. Learn more at spectrumartgallery.org. If you go to the festival, make sure to look for the tent with the Girl’s Got to Focus banner and say hello!
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OMG. Painting and Cape Cod. I hope I never have to choose between them, both are such soul food for me. Today I’m honored that my guests are two Cape Cod painters whose work I’ve been following for some years, Peter Hocking and Helen Grimm. Each lives in Truro and is represented by the Four Eleven Gallery on Commercial Street in Provincetown, a gallery which, as you’ll hear, has deep roots in the town’s storied history of supporting art and artists. Both Peter and Helen paint landscapes – in Helen’s case, also seascapes and what she calls shellscapes; when you visit the openstudioradio.org blog, you’ll understand. In our conversation, we got deep into the dunes, as it were, about what it’s like to live on the Cape in all seasons, about why they don’t paint people, and about just what it is that inspires them about the Cape. Talk about soul food. You’re going to totally love these two.
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