artscope magazine: May/June 2009 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor ARTSWorcester's BIENNIAL 2009 GRIDWORK: Further explorations into the urban landscape featuring new work by Robert Maloney and Sean Thomas BEN ARONSON - LIGHT AND GEOMETRY: The Urban Signature RADKA DONNELL: THE WORK OF TOUCH DOROTHY SIMPSON KRAUSE: LOSING GROUND NATURAL WORLD: A BRICKBOTTOM ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION MEMBERS' EXHIBITION JOE FIG: IN THE PAINTER'S STUDIO POINT OF VIEW: OUTDOOR SCULPTURE GALLERY-BY-THE-FALLS THE SIXTH SENSE: CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY FROM KOREA Featured Artist: Dominique Boutaud FéLIX DE LA CONCHA: PRIVATE PORTRAITS/PUBLIC CONVERSATIONS 2009 PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART BIENNIAL SCULPTURES IN LOVE WITH ARCHITECTURE JESSICA GONACHA at YES Gallery and Studio THE BRIGHT & SHINING LIGHT OF IRREVERENCE: RICHARD SAJA AND THE HISTORICALLY INACCURATE SCHOOL WHERE HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY MEET BRATTLEBORO-WEST ARTS PREMIER GROUP EXHIBITION SCOTT PRIOR (ongoing) and LARRY PRESTON / GREG GILLESPIE and LEONEL GóNGORA ANDIAMO! Art on the Hill Destination: Federal Hill, Providence’s Little Italy THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF ENCAUSTIC PAINTING AXIOM CENTER FOR NEW AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA CAPSULE PREVIEWS

BRATTLEBORO-WEST ARTS PREMIER GROUP EXHIBITION Paula Melton C.X. Silver Gallery 814 Western Avenue West Brattleboro, Vermont;/br> June 5 through 30 This premier group exhibition of Brattleboro-West Arts, which will feature work by 14 or more artists — including painters, glass blowers, textile artists, sculptors, potters and woodworkers — will open the night before Brattleboro’s popular Strolling of the Heifers parade. The festive atmosphere, combined with a pleasing diversity of work and consistently high quality, will make the five-minute drive from downtown well worth it. The show is a preview of the upcoming Sept. 19-20 tour of artists’ studios throughout West Brattleboro and Marlboro. “One of the exciting things about this community,” said violin maker Doug Cox, “is that it’s small enough to bring together artists of many different types. Visual artists, culinary artists, musicians....” The single goal is “to strive for excellence and beauty,” he said, no matter the medium. “One can find some common threads, however. The exhibit will include pieces by at least four woodworkers, all of whom use local wood. Cox himself actually moved to Vermont in part because he wanted to be closer to the maple trees he turns into violins. One can find some common threads, however. The exhibit will include pieces by at least four woodworkers, all of whom use local wood. Cox himself actually moved to Vermont in part because he wanted to be closer to the maple trees he turns into violins. Read the entire article in our magazine pages...