![]() ![]() I was doing some glass work and interactive art in New Hampshire part-time. “She introduced me to the South Coast: the arts, the cultural variety, the natural beauty, the history. “I met Amanda Walker, a lifetime resident of the area,” he explains. He was living in New Hampshire at the time and would drive down for the events.Ī chance encounter at a Yoga event in Boston brought Jack to Hatch Street. Robert "Jack" Babb of the Hatch Street Studios Artist Association says he got the ball rolling for the Second Saturday Open Studios based on his experience attending regular open studio events at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell. two blocks off Acushnet Avenue, with a view of the river with the same name, in the historic Nashawena Mill District of New Bedford. It’s all part of a new lease on life for the venerable building, home to upwards of 50 artists and artisans on three floors and across two buildings - 88 Hatch St. The first Second Saturday happened on May 12, and the next is scheduled for June 9.Īll of them are free and open to the public and will feature special events in addition to the opportunity to tour the artists’ studios, chat them up, and see and buy their work. ![]() You can enter this world frequently now, thanks to a new, ongoing series of Second Saturday Open Studios events inaugurated by the Hatch Street Studios Artist Association. It’s a world within a city informed by experience and brought to life through pure imagination. In their spaces and others throughout Hatch Street Studios, you see not only the work of its many artists and artisans, but glimpse the infinite within and without New Bedford as discerned by talent, tenacity and industry. New Bedford residents are most likely aware of sculptor Erik Durant’s work due to his Fishermen’s Monument on the waterfront and statue of Cape Verdean leader Tom Lopes at Washington Square.īut his studio at Hatch Street is a fantastical land all its own, where Erik’s sculpting runs riot through history and mythology. After construction here in Hatch Street Studios, the woodwork will be disassembled for the trip down the highway and reassembled on site. He’s storing a quantity of red cedar for future use.īut right now, he’s busy creating intricate and beautiful adornments for the historic Christmas House on Route 6A in Sandwich. The smell of cedar wafts through the second floor outside Woodworker John Giacobbi’s studio. The intense experience so changed her that when she returned to her studio at Hatch Street Studios in New Bedford’s North End, her painting took an entirely new - and stunning - abstract direction. I would want to use colors in order to make my work a lot more colorful the next time I create a similar work as this.Alissar Najd Langworthy was at the helm of the 88-ton, 75-foot research vessel, Phoenecia for what turned out to be a four-month voyage to - and stay in - Cuba this past year. I think that its background story makes my sandwich more interesting, and even realistic for it to exist. I feel pretty good about how the sandwich turned out. The sandwich helps the entomologist to know which plant/flower the insects like the most, which they can use for her studies, and it also does a big favor for the butterflies. so that the butterflies do not have a problem finding food in nature during the cold season, when many of their favorite plants do not grow. The entomologist studies how the butterflies eat the plants in the sandwich by giving one to them every year in the winter. The entomologist gave this sandwich to a group of butterflies because she wanted to study which flower or a plant they liked the best. ![]() The sandwich is a gift from an entomologist.a scientist who studied several kinds of insects and everything about them. The sandwich is like a buffet for the butterflies, because there are many options of food for them to choose from. All plants between the breads have different tastes, so the butterflies can taste different varieties of meals. Because it is so big, more than one butterfly can eat the sandwich at the same time. The plants in the sandwich are for the butterflies.whenever they are hungry, they can come eat it. My sandwich has many different kinds of flowers and leaves in it. ![]()
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