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PRESSARTS&ENTERTAINMENT Coming Attractions Hartt School events, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, 860-242-4228: • Richard P. Garmany Chamber Music Series featuring Miro Quartet with guest Colin Currie, percussion, ursday, April 4, 7:30 p.m., Millard Auditorium, admission • Graduate Percussion Group Friday, April 5, 7:30 p.m., Millard Auditorium • Hartt Sinfonia and Philharmonia Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Millard Auditorium, admission • Hartt Big Band (concert jazz ensemble) Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m., Millard Auditorium • “e King Stag” April 11-13 at 7:30 p.m. and April 14 at 3 p.m., at the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation eater, Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford • Sophomore Blackbox Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Millard Auditorium “For Better & For Worse” Italian wedding comedy, an audience participation dinner theater show by AspenDream ProductionsTM, written, produced and directed by Janice Luise-Lutkus of Burlington, Friday, April 5, 7-10:30 p.m., at Farmington Gardens, 999 Farmington Ave., Farmington, admission $75 per person which includes dinner and entertainment, tickets available at www.fvva.com, proceeds benefit Farmington Valley Visitors Association (860-676-8878) Multi-instrumentalist and singersongwriter Harvey Reid Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., at Roaring Brook Nature Center, 70 Gracey Road, Canton, $18/$20, 860-693-0263 A VALUED PARTNER Continued on page 26 Across the street from Connecticut Lighting Centers Your Source For Lighting, Fans, Decorative Hardware and Home Accents www.CTlighting.com 6 The Valley Press April 4, 2013 Arts Exclusive Gallery closing after nearly four decades By Sloan Brewster Senior Staff Writer After 38 years, a Simsbury art gallery is closing its doors. Arts Exclusive Gallery on Hopmeadow Street has lost its lease and the building is in the process of being sold, explained Dick Bahre, the gallery’s financial adviser and gallery owner Phillip Janes’ good friend. Janes is not at this time planning to move, but instead will close the gallery at the end of April. “Basically, the economy,” Bahre said as to why the decision was made. “Art, especially fine art, is somewhat of a luxury item and it’s one of the first things that people cut back on when times get tough.” Janes, who is currently in the hospital, sent his farewells via a press release. “Difficult economic times have made it a challenge to sell quality artwork,” he said. “I’ve had a good run with loyal gallery friends and clients. ank you to everyone who has supported me over the years.” Bahre, who is running the gallery in Janes’ absence, told e Valley Press some history. Back in the 1960s, Janes was in the Peace Corps. After that, he worked for CARE, an international relief organization, Bahre said. While working for the organization, he was sent to various countries including India, Vietnam and Nigeria. “While he was stationed there, he would pick up various pieces of folk art, things you and I might not consider art, but Phillip did. He got quite an eclectic collection,” Bahre said. “He had no formal training in art, just a natural talent that he came upon.” When he returned home, he opened a gallery near Abigail’s Grille & Wine Bar, which at the time was e Chart House. In 1986, he moved to a location on Route 44 in Avon. “When the bust came, he actually lost that building and moved up here,” Bahre said. at was in 1990. e space where he moved is nestled in the back of the historical building on the corner of Hopmeadow Street and Drake Hill Road. Before the gallery went there, the space was unfinished and had the appearance of a warehouse, Bahre said. John Eckel of Pinnacle Investment Management Inc. witnessed the transformation Janes brought to the part of the building the gallery occupies. “It was really a decrepit space,” he said. After Janes was finished with it, however, it became a beautiful location where Pinnacle has held parties and educational events. “It was just a wonderful, wonderful space,” Eckel said. “It was great for the community to have the art as well as the gallery. ... It’s just been a really, really important part of the community, as far as I’m concerned.” Bahre concurs. “I love coming here, spending time here. Phillip always has a bottle of wine that he opens up when people come here,” Bahre said. “It’s just a wonderful feeling to walk around and see all the works.” Over the years, Eckel has purchased many pieces of art from the gallery. e gallery displays art from 30 artists from around the country, and Janes has held openings for artists on a monthly basis, Bahre said. He has also held a director’s choice event twice a year, during which artists have come and worked in the gallery. Janes also maintained close friendships with all the artists whose work he displayed. “Phillip describes his relationship with each of the artists like a marriage, with each and every one of them,” Bahre said. Landscape artist Charles Mc- OPEN 7 Days and 2 Nights for your shopping convenience Shop before visiting our beautiful showroom: myRLG.com Hartford • 167 Brainard Road (I-91 • Exit 27) • 860-493-2532 Pictured are works inside the Arts Exclusive Gallery, currently located on Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury, which is closing at the end of the month after 38 years. Photo by Sloan Brewster Caughtry, of Ashford, who works in watercolors, has exhibited pieces at the gallery – in its various locations – for 37 years and is a personal friend of Janes. “Very sad,” he said of the gallery’s upcoming closure. “is is not good, but it’s a sign of our times, isn’t it? I’m afraid our communities and our society are losing a lot of good things.” Over the past 3 1/2 decades, Janes has sold thousands of Mc- Caughtry’s paintings and, currently, 60 more are on exhibit at the gallery. “He has insisted on having a large inventory of my work,” Mc- Caughtry said. “I’ve exhibited in galleries from Virginia north and Colorado east, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Maine and everywhere in between. I can tell you, Arts Exclusive was one of the finest galleries in the country, no question about it.” As the gallery prepares to close, more than 500 paintings and sculptures are being offered at 50 percent off their original price through Tuesday, April 30. e selection includes oil and watercolor paintings, pastels, photographs, collagraphs, and bronze, terra cotta and marble sculptures in a variety of traditional and eclectic styles. Artists whose work will be sold include: Adams, Bentley- Scheck, Brangaccio, Bumbeck, Camp, Compton, Coon, Dwight, Gray, Geier, Heminway, Highsmith, Laliberte, Lewis, Longley, Ludwig, Martin, McCaughtry, Milici, Palmer, Pokrasso, Schnabel, Smith, Wass, Wensberg and Winship. Nearly the entire art collection can be viewed on the Arts Exclusive website at www.arts-exclusive.com For more information, call 860-651-5824.
Simsbury artists to open their studios for tour By Jennifer Senofonte Staff Writer Twelve local artists will open their studio doors and invite the public in to watch and learn about their crafts firsthand. e fourth annual Simsbury Open Studios will take curious onlookers of all ages on a tour through personal art studios April 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A map will guide participants around the town of Simsbury and onto the properties of these painters, potters and others to see their talent in action. “Our studios will be open so you can see us work,” Simsbury Open Studios President Anne Melvin said. “We love to talk to people about what inspired us and why we do what we do.” Melvin encourages parents to bring their children for the tour so the young people can witness how art is made. “ey get it in school, but they can see the professionals do it,” she said. She is a potter and explained that chemistry and physics are at the forefront of her process and she likes to teach studiogoers about that. Children love to see her on the pottery wheel and touch the clay as it forms in the spinning motion, she explained. “It’s an activity where it’s OK for them to get dirty,” she said. e artists will have their work for sale at their studios the weekend of Simsbury Open Studios as well. Many different mediums and styles will be represented through the different artists including watercolor, pastel and oil paintings, pottery and sculpture. Melvin’s niche and inspiration in pottery was learning how to Entertainment: Every Wednesday 7:30: DJ Dynamic, all of your dance and disco favorites featuring $7.00 premium martinis all night! Every Thursday: Karaoke 7:30 with Carroll Willis Live Music Fri and Sat: Friday, April 5: Steppin Out Saturday, April 6: The Soul Sensations make crystals on her pieces. Her biography on simsburyopenstudios.org says, “I found the wonder of crystals that form on my porcelain, like frost on a windowpane.” e event is in its fourth year and it has evolved to what it is today because the group of artists works well together, she said. “is is our way of being able to support other charities,” she said. Community support through this event circles back to other organizations by allowing the artists to participate in local craft fairs such as the annual Simsbury Woman’s Club arts and crafts fair each September, Melvin said. e Simsbury artists also frequent the schools and give demonstrations to art classes. Melvin explained that Simsbury Open Studios gives people a chance to see the artists in their own element adding a personal and intimate experience instead of seeing them out in the community. Simsbury Open Studios is made up of artists who strive to create art and make art more accessible to the public. One member, Vicente Garcia, is the local sculptor responsible for the bike sculpture installment on Hopmeadow Street along the Rail Trail. Open studios weekend is free to the public. Directional signs with yellow and blue brushes will be located throughout the town during the event. For the map and further information go to page 8 of this edition of e Valley Press. For further information about the artists, visit simsburyopenstudios.org. roughout the month of April, Simsbury Open Studios artists will have artwork on display at the Simsbury Public Library to show samples of styles and art 781 Hopmeadow St., Simsbury • 860-651-1297 www.mapletreecafe.com Three Course Dinner for $21 Featuring menu selections from our Chef, Michael LeFebvre, formerly of Max A Mia Restaurant Sunday, Monday & Tuesday 1/2 off all Bottles of Wine HAPPY HOUR! Monday thru Friday $1.00 off all bottled and draft beer $5.00 house wines by the glass $7.00 premium martinis forms through an exhibit. It is free and open to the public to view during library hours. Pictured right: Julia Parker Post works on a watercolor during the 2012 Simsbury Open Studios weekend. The weekend will take place this year April 13 and 14. Simsbury Open Studios artists will have artwork on display at the Simsbury Public Library throughout the month of April. Photo by Jennifer Senofonte PRESSARTS&ENTERTAINMENT FREE DENTAL IMPLANT LECTURE You can have the smile you want. Wednesday, April 17 6 - 7 p.m. Center for Implant and Reconstructive Dentistry, Main Building, UConn Health Center During this free lecture, learn about: Dental implant surgery – from simple to complex – to help you replace missing teeth The benefits of dental implants The program will include a presentation by Dr. David Shafer as well as time for questions and answers. To register, call 800-535-6232. Learn more at dentalimplants.uchc.edu Center for Implant and Reconstructive Dentistry 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington April 4, 2013 The Valley Press 7
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