Somerville Community Arts Advocacy Gathering: Preserve Central Street Studios!

Name: Somerville Community Arts Advocacy Gathering: Preserve Central Street Studios!
Start: 2025-04-21T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-21T19:15:00-04:00
Location: Warehouse XI

Schedule

Mon Apr 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 07:15 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Warehouse XI | Somerville, MA

Join #ARTSTAYSHERE & the 3-dozen artists, musicians & creatives at Central Street Studio for a community advocacy gathering. Meet the artists, hear about the value of their individual artist workspaces & their collective create community. View their artwork, participate in live painting, advocacy sign-making & support their fundraiser by buying a limited-edition, hand-printed campaign t-shirt or poster.
Central Street Studio Artists

Artem Aleksanyan
Andrea Ballou
Lucas Boegehold
Tommy Burke
Jason Bunny Correia
Patrick Curtin
Colleen de Matta
Cara Giaimo
Jack Gruman
David Hogan
Hava Horowitz
Louise Keogh W**d
Caroline Kipp
Nancy Kramer
Janella Mellee
Logan Puleikis
Donna Rains
Tom Henry Regan
Amanda Saunders
Eve Schauer
Martha Schnee
Kayla Scullin
Jack Seigenthaler
Sidebody Band
Zachary Stern
Rico St. Paul
Zainab Sumu
Sri Thumati
Lena Warnke

Help Central Street Studios artists bridge the funding gap for the Arts & Business Council to keep the studios (w/support from Somerville).
Although Paul & Karen Morse, Nancy Dutton & David Benton have owned, upkept & stewarded the affordable artist workspaces at Central Street Studios for over 40 years, it's time to thank them for their service & let the Arts & Business Council (ABC) take the reigns into the future.
As artists and creative business owners, its always been the owners’ mission for the next owner to keep the creative community intact, as affordable artist workspaces in Somerville. So they’ve been working with Jim Grace & the nonprofit, mission-driven ABC to become an official Creative Campus project -- for ABC to own and operate the studio community as they do at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell.
With significant support from Mayor Katjana Ballantyne & the City of Somerville, grant funds & donors, ABC is poised to purchase the property and honor the owners’ wishes.
With everyone doing their own parts, the three-dozen current artists, musicians & creatives at Central Street Studios have launched their own online fundraiser to help bridge the gap to get the purchase over the finish line. Aiming to raise $100,000, donations of $100-499 will be thanked with a limited-edition hand-screen-printed campaign t-shirt. Donations of $500-900 will be thanked with the donor's name in the Silver Paintbrush Circle on a permanent placard at Central Street Studios. Donations of $1000+ will be thanked with the donor's name in the Gold Paintbrush Circle permanent placard at Central Street Studios. The fundraiser may be found at www.centralstreetstudios.org and at https://artsandbusinesscouncil.org.