What Are You Looking At?

This isn't just any door -- this is the door people used to enter Main Artery Studio and Gallery.

                                 Welcome to the first official post of the Main

                                 Artery Productions blog. The purpose of this blog

                                 is to make us filthy rich function as a means of 

                                 communications and interaction between the few

                                 of us who get together now and then to collaborate

                                 on artistic projects and put together visual arts re-

                                 lated events for live audiences, and our vast legion

                                 of dedicated fans anyone who has an interest in the 

                                 visual arts and feels like communicating and / or 

                                 interacting with us. We will, of course, promote 

                                 any upcoming events we're involved with, but will

                                 also post call to artists, pictures of of our own work

                                 and that of artists we know and work with, links, 

                                 shout-outs, games, gossip, and various other "art

                                 related stuff." We hope you will read our blog often

                                 and enjoy.

                                 Tomorrow I am going to post a "brief" history of the

                                  Main Artery Studio and Gallery of Netcong, NJ,

                                  and an accounting of the artistic activities of the

                                  gallery's founder and a core group of its members.

                                  Be forewarned -- I have a well-earned reputation

                                  for excessive wordiness; reading that post requires

                                  a pretty solid investment of time. I hope you will

                                  find your time well-spent if you dive into the story.

                                  If, however, your mind goes numb at the thought 

                                  of reading blog posts longer than something Homer

                                  would have written, then please enjoy this transcript

                                  of a recent text message sent by Main Artery's founder

                                  Michelle Cirotti, in which she neatly sums up in a few

                                  sentences what I needed an epic-length screed to 

                                  convey. Either one ought to get you up to speed just

                                  fine.

                                               Aric Calfee, December 2014

           "We started off as a gallery in Netcong, I wanted a location where art isn't normally 

             found.... it was a quick yet great run at the gallery, but I learned why art isn't in

             Netcong (Ha Ha).  So from there a small group of us stuck together performing 

             live art shows called "The Sound Of Art."  Those always went over famously, but

             true to every artist-type, life got in the way. Ever since, we've been talking about

             ways to come back & stay back without a huge financial outlay. This Pop-Up 

             Show (see next post) is our renewed attempt at bringing art where it isn't but 

             SHOULD BE. We picked Bar 46 to start up again because it is a cool spot and has

             has proven in the past to be an art and artist friendly venue."  

                                                                                          Michelle Cirotti