Mark Addison Smith, You gotta think about who you’re attracting (from the daily You Look Like The Right Type series), digital print: 9″ x 13″, August 22, 2013
The buzz of bees, the chirping of birds, vibrantly colored flowers, and green tender shoots pushing up from barren ground are dreamed of promises during these cold winter months. Rest assured, spring will come again, and with it:
Pollination!
Brush up on bee lore, botanical illustration, nest building techniques, avian husbandry, honey hunting or ornithological sleights of hand. What might it all mean? Waggle dances? Colony Collapse disorder?
BUT then again-
Maybe it’s all just about LOVE, SWEET LOVE!
CURATED BY:
Annie Silverman
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, April 17; 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
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EXHIBITION DATES:
April 17-May 10, 2015
LOCATION:
Nave Gallery Annex, 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA
GALLERY HOURS:
Wednesday-Friday, 6:00-8:00 pm
Saturday, 2:00-8:00 pm
Sunday, 2:00 pm-6:00 pm
Extended hours during Somerville Open Studios
Friday, May 1: 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Saturday, May 2: 12:00 pm-8:00 pm
Sunday, May 3: 12:00 pm-6:00 pm
SPECIAL EVENTS:
Book Talk and Signing with Rosamond Purcell
Wednesday, April 29, 2015; 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Admission: Free
Honey Tasting
Friday, May 1; 6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Hosted by: Caneen Canning, Honey sommelier from Follow the Honey
Admission: Free
ARTISTS:
Erika Adams, Victoria Arons, Susan Arthur, Jim Baab, Resa Blatman, Neil Brigham, Christine Collins, Lizzy Dargie, Barbara Fletcher, Blair Folts, Matt Forrest, Ania Gilmore, Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne, Cynthia James, Julie Lapping Rivera, Robert J. Long, Maz Mahjoobi, Ralph Mercer, Elise Joy Nyenhuis, Lynn Peterfreund, Rosamond Purcell, Sarah Shallbetter, Mark Addison Smith, Miranda Vitello, Evan Voelbel
ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Annie Silverman is a printmaker, book artist and urban beekeeper. She is the proprietor of ABRAZOS PRESS, a teaching and professional print shop in Somerville, MA. She has been a part-time teacher at Mass College of Art and Design in Boston for over 20 years. Annie has been working with imagery concerning birds and bees since 2007. Her print and wire installation: VANISHING POLLINATORS, about bees and hummingbirds, has been exhibited at Brickbottom Artist Gallery in Somerville, The Boston Public Library, and at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA. Annie is also an avid urban gardener, and was Somerville Artist of the Month in September 2013. Her artist books and prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in Naples, Italy, Utrecht, Holland, and Peterborough, NH.
