Hey JP Open Studio artists! Two important pieces of info for you:
Check your listing in our public directory by going to jpopenstudios.com and clicking on Gallery. You can search for your name there too.
If you are not visible, and you have registered, it means that your description and/or your sample image not been uploaded.
You asked us, the volunteer board of JPOS, how to get more for your art during Open Studios. More people, more attention, more sales and just plain more!
Yup, I am serious! Get up to And, it is easy and can even help you sell more of your work!
Check your listing by July 7th to make sure your name is spelled correctly, we have the correct address for you and the right media listed!
The wonderful people at the JP Gazette keep us up to date on the news and happenings that are close to us, both physically and to our hearts!
Get your 
Most — but not all — of our group sites are at capacity. But that does mean that we still have a couple of spaces available. Don’t forget, you can also contact people you know in the area and see if they are up for hosting you for the weekend. Check in with your fellow artists or even non-artists who might be willing to loan you their front porch!
This just in from Carol Summers: 
The JPOS and JPAC need to thank Charlie Rosenberg for his camera work this weekend. He was out both days, shooting up a storm for us to use on our web site and in our marketing efforts.
Join JP Open Studio artists in helping collect food for the Greater Boston Food Bank. 
The Jamaica Plain Historical Society has begun planning guided tours through our JP neighborhoods during the JPOS Weekend.
We have a few web banner spaces still open on our site and I want to get them filled up- fast!
That’s right! You can still get registered and get into our lovely printed map, but only if you click on the green button before Thursday, June 18th at Midnight.
The Market of the Living Dead is approaching! 
7 pm
Third Tuesday Drawing/Painting/Sculpting…
Congratulations to Rachel Paxton for winning the survey drawing.
Josh Rosen and Stan Strickland have been performing as a duo since Fall 2007, and have been warmly received in standing-room-only concerts. They have a deep rapport, with Stan’s sparkling instrumental colors playing off Josh’s expressive piano. They perform Rosen’s compositions and unique arrangements of favorite standards and cover tunes. Josh and Stan also love to engage in some “freeplay” as they improvise in tandem with ease.
BANNER RETURN DATE
New Art Center in Newton
Sunday, October 12, 4:00 pm 
MIXED MEDIA PAINTINGS
Saturday, October 11, from 2:30 to 4:30 pm, for a “Meet the Photographers” Reception for the show “Three Somerville Photographers” at the Old Schwamb Mill in Arlington, MA. don gurewitz, Meg Birnbaum and Jamil Simon. The exhibit will run from October 11-November 15.
I am Sophie Lacombe, Program Manager of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston. I am writing to let you know that we are now accepting applications for the 2008-2009 Artist’s Professional Toolbox Program, an eight-month intensive course designed to empower emerging and practicing visual artists to succeed in the business aspects of being a professional artist. Eighty artists participated to the Toolbox since its inception in 2005. Judging by their feedback, the program was extremely successful in helping them take charge of their careers, both in defining their goals and then learning the skills they need to implement them. 
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
April 3 - 5, 2009 at Boston’s Omni Parker House
Every once in a while, I get an ad from these guys and I decided to finally check out what they had to offer. Their web site is awash in information about marketing for artists. Here is what their web site mission statement had to say:
Quick reminder, if you’re not completely exhausted on Sunday night, you (or a buddy) can return your banner(s) to the Footlight Club immediately following Open Studios. We’ll be there wrapping up the event until the wee hours, please stop by before 8 pm.
In these last couple of days before the big event take some time to take care of yourself to make sure that your two days of exhibiting and interacting with your public go as smoothly as possible.
2 pm and 3 pm Saturday Sept. 27th. 
I wish I could take credit for this idea, but I have heard it from a couple of people now. 
Erik Gehring, avid photographer of the Arnold
Brace yourself, the Jamaica Plain Open Studios is only 10 days away. What can you do in these next 10 days to get yourself ready? Finishing touches.
James’s Gate Presents
We will be featuring about 20 guest artists, including our artists in residence above the studio during Open Studios on September 27-28. 
Last night, at the Maliotis Center, the Jamaica Plain Arts Council rocked the house!
Friday, September 19, 7:30 pm 
Open invitation for the ribbon cutting ceremony Sept 20th at 11 am at 26 Central Ave Hyde Park
Hey JPOS Artists!
The Femme Show is looking for Visual Artists to show their work at the 2008 performance.
As you frame your work, polish your sculptures, pick and choose what you will display in just 17 days for the JP Open Studios, do you remember what you showed last year? Chances are your fans will.
Griffin Museum
Minji Noh, piano
The sun is slowly setting, the crowds are dwindling. Only a few, last minute art lovers are buzzing around, trying to see everything they have missed.
Artists In The Arboretum, local artists exhibit Arboretum-inspired work. 
Please note a change in the schedule for the pick up of your artwork returning from the exhibition at Logan Airport. The location remains the same - the Maliotis Cultural Center at Hellenic College, near Jamaica Pond.
The countdown is on – 22 days until the JP Open Studios. Do you know which works you will be showing yet? How are you making this decision? One way to go about choosing which of your artworks to display during the Open Studios weekend is to take into account the various types of people who will be attending the event.
CALL FOR POLITICAL ART - last reminder
September 4 - 14, 2008
Join us for an Opening Reception, 
Beginning September 19th, the PRC gallery proudly features the Live Auction Exhibition Preview Exhibition. Here are a few artists that will adorn our walls: Ansel Adams, Roy DeCarava, Danny Lyon, Neeta Madahar, John O’Reilly, and Andrea Robbins and Max Becher. Until the online catalogue is launched in mid September, 
The 15th annual Jamaica Plain Open Studios event is just one month away! 
new bubble wrap off the roll, and cut some cardboard to the right shape, I thought to myself, “There’s got to be a more environmentally friendly way of doing this!” Bubble wrap and cardboard can only be reused so many times, and where does it all go when it gets thrown out anyway, and how far has it traveled to get from a factory to my studio?
PHOTOEMERGE
Artists, art historians, arts administrators, curators and arts educators:
THE NAVE GALLERY
Vermont Studio Center Residencies Available: 
With the JP Open Studios only a few weeks away you have undoubtedly prepared many things to make your experience a success. You have a business card or postcard that you will use as a “take away” for visitors to your booth or studio, you have written a bio and artist statement to have on view during the weekend, you have arranged a mailing that you will be sending out soon to announce your open studios participation, and of course your work is ready to hang. You are really on the ball! Congratulations.
Providencia Vocal Ensemble
Want to have fun at the Jamaica Plain Open Studios even if you are not a participating artist? 
Fall 2008 Art Class Offering
Congratulations to our Juried Show Artists!
This August 18-24th JP Centre/ South Main Streets is organizing its own version of the “Iron Chef” series. A spoof on the tv show, ten restaurants and food establishments - with more signing on each day - have agreed to compete against each other. We’ll be picking 3 locally available ingredients and they’ll be producing a dish for you to vote on!
Up until about 10 years ago I had regular correspondence with friends, family, and business associates through the mail. Remember that? Selecting the perfect paper or card for the occasion, choosing between a pen or pencil to write with, and even picking a stamp with a picture that suited the occasion. All of these details factored in to the ritual and process of communicating in a personal and thoughtful way. And, my handwriting was great.
A FREE Forum Hosted by United South End Artists, Inc.
Roslindale Arts Alliance Happenings
Classical Friday, August 15th, 7:30 pm
So, you got people in your space (studio or group site or whatever). What do you do now? Better yet, what don’t you do???
Announcing Two Exciting Fall Seminars
Picture this: you’re preparing a submission package about your work for a juried show and the jurors request images of your work, a resume, and an artist statement. You already have a great CD of images, your resume of shows, awards, and honors is up to date, and you’ve just polished off your artist statement – but what does everything look like? We all know that it’s important to dress well when going to a job interview, but if you are sending a representation of yourself on paper instead of presenting in person, your written materials should look good too.
Found on the Beach, Matthew McKee’s portfolio of limited edition photographs, inspired by objects found on various beach walks, is now on display at the 
James’s Gate Gallery presents:
This is a notice for all artists who want to participate in Roslindale Open Studios. The deadline for registering for Roslindale Open Studios is August 15. The deadline date is necessary so that we can print the catalog (10,000 copies) that will be widely distributed to market the event. Click here for registration form.
Classical Sunday, August 10, 7:00 pm
If you haven’t sent in your promotional pages yet, this is the LAST CALL for the Portable Salon Promotional Binders -
Register Now for the Last Summer Workshop
If you’re an artist, you’ve been asked that question about a million times. Why is it so important for viewers of your art to know how long it took you to make something? Sometimes it’s because they are genuinely curious, sometimes it’s because they are trying to gauge how you came up with the price of a piece, and sometimes it’s because they are trying to start a conversation with you. That’s right. They don’t just want to look at your work, people actually want to talk with you! So what do you say back to them?
C a l l f o r a r t
Photo Class Starts August 5
Summer First Thursdays Keep On Comin’!
If you are reading this the morning of the show, then get back in your time machine and read it about three weeks ago!
The 31st Annual Coolidge Corners Arts Festival (CCAF) will be held Saturday June 6th, 2009 from 10 - 6, at 345 Harvard Street on the grounds of The Edward Devotion School. 
There are a couple of proven and recommended methods for spreading the word about having a show of your artwork: mailing a postcard, and sending an announcement via email. But those methods are only useful if you have a list of people to hear your announcement. Of course you are planning to use one or both of those methods for announcing when the Jamaica Plain Open Studios is being held and where you will be showing during the weekend, right? There are roughly two months left before the JPOS – a perfect amount of time to build up your mailing list for announcing your event participation.
That’s right! You have two opportunities to proof your entry in our 2008 JPOS Map Booklet before we go to press. But, remember, the deadline for any changes is Saturday, July 26th, at midnight!
This Friday, July 25: Gallery Opening Reception Taryn Wells Drawings at the Brookline Arts Center.
Classical Sunday, July 27, 7:00 pm
Drawing in the Garden/Thursday Evenings this Summer
The Roslindale Arts Alliance announces a “Call to Artists” for the 4th annual Roslindale Open Studios. 
conversations with artist friends lately who feel they have to force themselves into the studio these days and the sticky air just makes them want to go for a swim. July can be a time when it’s hard to get the brain and the hands to make anything more than an ice cream sundae. So how do you keep from loosing the momentum to make your art?
Ula Cafe, located at The Brewery at 284 Amory Street in Jamaica Plain, is searching for artists to exhibit their work in the cafe’s large gallery.
Artist Valori Fussell and
JAMES’S GATE GALLERY PRESENTS:
We have been slightly off line for about 9 days. 
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