We are excited to announce our newest artist: Adam LoRusso!  Adam is both a talented tattoo artist and a fine art painter.  You can view his work at www.lastlightart.com and at @adamlorusso.

We are sorry to announce that Wayne Stevens will be leaving us this August.  Wayne has been a guitar teacher at Jerome Street Studios since day one and has taught my son Chaz for the last eleven years and (most importantly) is a good friend.  We wish him luck in his new arrangement and are envious of the students who will now have the opportunity to work with Wayne.

Cheers Wayne!

-Stephanie Todhunter

I’m so excited to announce the arrival of our newest artist at Jerome Street Studios!

Lindsey Caputo

Lindsey Caputo is an interdisciplinary artist who is preoccupied by all matters paranormal. After graduating from MassArt, Lindsey divides her time between learning how to read tarot cards, hunting for ghosts, and teaching. She is currently completing her MFA at Maryland Institute of Art while living and working in Medford, MA.

Please check out her website– her work is FASCINATING!

About the class

In this intensive workshop you will learn the how-to behind the fascinating cyanotype printing process. I will demonstrate how to prepare your paper and make and process prints. I will also share tips for getting the best results, share some cyanotype history and will bring my portfolio to share. Price includes all materials to make a few of prints in the workshop and you will go home with additional coated paper to expose, a hake brush, a sheet of 11″x14″ plexiglass with backing, clips and a supplier list so you can continue to make prints after the workshop. I will provide objects and flowers/leaves to print with but you are also welcome to bring your own flowers, leaves and other objects.

Details

• Date and time: Saturday June 22, 10-1 with a rain/cloudy date of Saturday June 29, 10-1. 

• Where: Jerome Street Studios, 128 Jerome Street in West Medford. There is plenty of parking.

• To reserve a place in the class you must sign up by letting me know that you want to be in the workshop and by making a payment of $150. email for payment details: muriesusan@gmail.com

• Space will be very limited so sign up soon if you want to take the workshop. Sign up ends June 15.

• This workshop is not suitable for young children as we will be working with photo chemicals. Contact me if you have a teen who would like to take it.

Cancellations:

If you need to cancel up to one week before the workshop, your fee will be fully refunded. After that, if I can fill your spot, only then can I refund your fee as at that point I will be purchasing materials.

If we have 2 Saturdays of rain/cloudy weather your class fee will be fully refunded.

You need not bring anything except maybe a drink and snack to sustain you! If you know of someone who would like to take this class, please pass this information along to them.

Tanya the Homestyle Gourmet

Happy spring everyone!
Below is my spring class schedule. Take a look at it and let me know if you are interested in any of the classes and feel free to share it with friends. In addition to the scheduled classes, I’m also available to do small private group cooking classes by appointment.
If you want to know more about my classes you can also come to see my cooking demo during the West Medford Open Studios weekend. I’ll be doing a demo at Jerome Street Studios (128 Jerome Street) on Sunday, April 28 at 12:30. Take a look at http://wmos.org website for more information.
As many of you know, last fall I began making grazing boards for events. Grazing boards are an esthetically arranged assortment of snack items that are served on wooden board. They can have any variety of snack foods including cheese, fresh and dried fruit, vegetables, nuts, crackers, charcuterie, dips, spreads and more.  They can also be customized to fit any dietary needs. In addition to being SO yummy, they are really beautiful and make a lovely table centerpiece. I’m very excited about creating these boards and had many holiday orders this past winter. They would be a perfect addition to spring and summer parties as well!  You can find more information and prices on my website  tanyathehomestylegourmet.com. Please reach out to me with any questions about them.

Thanks,

Tanya Howard
ps- check out my social media accounts for cooking tips, class pictures and more
https://www.instagram.com/tanyahgourmet/
https://www.facebook.com/Tanya-the-Homestyle-Gourmet-334135433272607/?ref=bookmarks

Please come see this show!  I’m super excited about the artists, the reception and the workshops.  It’s going to be some crazy over the top colorful candy action!

-Stephanie Todhunter

DARKER JOYS

March 1 – 28, 2019
Kathryn Schultz Gallery
25 Lowell Street, Cambridge MA
Featuring artwork by Katie Lane, Keith MacLelland, Stephanie Todhunter, and Amantha Tsaros

In Darker Joys four CAA artists invite you into their creative playground to revel in your base human instincts: a tangible expression of excess, a fearless exploration of medium and subject and an eagerness to surprise the viewer in ways both bold and subtle.

We encourage you to gorge on those sweets and embrace the guilt and pleasure: lazy weekends, late night bacchanalia, tv binge watching, fast food, rollercoaster riding. Nothing is too frivolous, wicked or absurd.

Come up into our clubhouse! Push the red button! Grab the last cookie! All the fun with none of the consequences.

Come on, join us. EVERYONE is doing it.

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Snack cakes

RECEPTION

 Thursday, March  7

7-9pm

Kathryn Schultz Gallery
25 Lowell Street, Cambridge MA

Join us at the opening reception for DARKER JOYS: fine art, candy, sugary snacks and bad-for-you drinks!  It’s going to be SO MUCH FUN.

Workshop

Thursday, March 21

7-8:30pm

Kathryn Schultz Gallery
25 Lowell Street, Cambridge MA

 Spend the afternoon decorating a large triple layer “cake” with acrylic paint and glitter using traditional cake decorating tools.  Katie Lane will demonstrate her mad mixed media skills (she uses cake decorating equipment in her daily practice, along with glitter and fluorescent paints).  Guests will participate in the decorating process and will be encouraged to release their inhibitions and let their inner children out. The resulting community created artwork will remain on display for the remainder of the show.  We will also have real cupcakes, colorful treats and big bowls of candy for visitors to indulge upon. This event will be a fun and hedonistic escape from our daily stressful lives.

Stephanie Todhunter

Stephanie Todhunter started working on the latchkey kids in 2014.  The backbone of the series is an ongoing succession of plaster encased vintage dolls, each re-colored and re-named.  The plaster encased girls (reminiscent of Han Solo encased in carbonite) begin as vintage Dawn dolls from the 1970s. These dolls were only made for a brief amount of time and generally only remembered by the GenX generation.  Dawn dolls are smaller than Barbies and, although they have exaggerated waspish waists and perky breasts, are “tweenish” in age. They were small, generic, easy to carry and easy to lose.

Once the dolls have been plastered and inked, they develop distinct and often unsettling features and personalities. Stephanie takes a photographic portrait of each girl to capture and highlight these quirks.  These portraits are used in larger pieces to tell stories about the lost girls. Common themes are isolation, stranger danger, missing children, parental neglect, and lord-of-the-flies-like adventure in small town suburbia.  And it is interesting to contrast these themes with those found in contemporary parenting: constant stimulation of the internet, helicopter parenting, snowflake children, online bullying- all of which are creating a new form of isolation among kids.

Keith MacLelland

Constructing his work from discarded ephemera: cereal boxes, flooring remnants, and leftover gift wrap, MacLelland’s Boston and Cape Cod based mixed media studio practice is eco-conscious. His palette is dominated by saturated colors that echo the brightly painted buoys that bob atop the ebb and flow of ocean waves,

Amantha Tsaros 

Amantha Tsaros’ paintings are a reaction to the current culture of extreme bullying and persistent vitriol. Tsaros aims to trample darkness with love, joy, and optimism. Each painting is a celebration, a mixture of colors and shapes that express happiness or resilience. Her palette is reminiscent of a favorite childhood candy store stocked with candy buttons, sweet and sour hearts, candied almonds and licorice. The bold colors of jelly beans and the bright lollipop-greens and oranges express a lighthearted, hopeful challenge to the dark blacks and grays.

I am very excited to announce that “lizzie (rosetta stone) was chosen to be a part of the Cambridge Art Association’s 2019 Members Prize Show!  February 7- March 23 at the University Place Gallery in Cambridge MA. -Stephanie Todhunter

RECEPTION:  THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7

6-8 PM

University Place Gallery

124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge MA

Lizzie (rosetta stone)

-Stephanie Todhunter

15×20

Original photo printed on diamond jet photograde luster paper dibond mounted to 1/2” acrylic block, spraypaint, handcut stencil, shrink plastic

Also, I’m very excited to be participating in the 2019 Southern New England Artist Community’s 2019 Artist Invitational! Please join me at the closing reception Saturday, March 9  from 5pm-7pm at the Enso Art Gallery in Brockton MA. I would like to thank Filipe Miguel for the invite 🙂 – Stephanie Todhunter

UNDER CAREFUL SCRUTINY
Closing Reception:  Saturday March 9
5pm-7pm
Enso Art Gallery
50 Centre Street, Brockton MA