Artist's Row opened with a smashing success with well over 170 visitors and $250 in sales! Please give a warm thank you to our retail team when you see them. Dan Browne, Jack Walsh, Henry Zbysznski, Monique Luijben worked long hours to make this happen. We'd also like to send our support and thanks to Arlene Browne for pitching in when she could have been resting. And a big thank you to Wendy Snow-Lang who curated and hung our opening monthly exhibition, "Fresh & Fruity."

Henry is still looking for some more volunteers to gallery sit and help sell all of our wonderful materials. Please show your support for your retail gallery by signing up online or send Henry an email.

The Salem Arts Festival is this week. We've got nearly 20 SAA members either opening their studios or joining a downtown business for Saturday, June 5th. And there will be more than a half-dozen members doing some "en plein air" work on Sunday, June 6th. Make sure to come down to Old Town Hall and pick up your booklet to map out your days. The opening reception is 5:00 on Friday, June 4th. There's also lots of great music around town over the weekend. The hub of activities will be Old Town Hall, Salem Commons, and Pickering Wharf. There will be a "Mayor's Reception" on Sunday June 6th at 2 pm where she will announce the winners of the Salem Cultural Council grants for 2010 at the SAA Gallery on Artist's Row.

Let's Rock
Ellen

Ellen Hardy
President
Salem Arts Association
P.O. Box 226
Salem MA 01970

Salem Arts Association members get $3 off their ticket price to any STC Mainstage Production. From June 2-12, see HAIR at the Marblehead Little Theatre. To reserve your ticket, e-mail gary@salemtheatre.com with the date of the performance and how many tickets you need. For a complete schedule and more information, visit www.salemtheatre.com.

Keep images and ideas coming to make our next issue a great one. They'll be collector's items one day as the "history of record" of some of the SAA's most notable activities. Remember if you shoot pictures of an event, a workshop or an opening please send JPGs with name, title, medium, size to James Goncalves at james@gardenhead.net. Got an idea for an article? Send it in to EGH.ARTS@gmail.com. We will likely be able to run business card size ads in this or the very next issue.

Salem Arts Association will put together folks who'd like to show together or alone. Let us know if you'd like a slot at their community friendly gallery. Openings are possible with advance notice.

As part of our contract with the city for Artists's Row space we need to host a community event in the Old Town Hall. Mark your calendar for August 5-9. We're going to collaborate with everyone on Artist's Row to utilize both the upstairs and the downstairs. We'll open it up from the Farmer's Market on Thursday night until Sunday evening. If you'd like to help us stage something during that time let us know. Working title is "Artist's Row Fun Fest."

To keep us connected and working throughout the year two events have been added to our October to April calendar. The Danvers Art Association would like to do a companion show with us and Montserrat College of Art would like to host a lecture/social/workshop for us (think about a topic that would work with Danvers and check out the Montserrat schedule of events and help us pick a great show to attend and have a social event).

The Salem Arts Association's website features your news as well as reminders, calls, and other great art related events going on around Salem. Recent news items have included information about SAA member HM Craig as well as info about The Salem Cultural Councils Reception with the Mayor on artist row this weekend and opportunities for artists. Members can send their news items to news@salemartsassociation.org or simply add news@salemartsassociation.org to your regular emailing list.

Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@salemartsassociation.org. Someone will assign you to help with a specific short term need, an event, or a committee. You can help us plan socials and shows, you can contribute to the Gallery and you can help membership welcome new members, plus lots of other projects small and large! And don't forget the retail committee is working hard to staff the SAA Retail Gallery on Artist Row.

Become a fan of the Salem Arts Associations Facebook Page or follow the SAA on Twitter! Help spread the word about all the great things the Salem Arts Association is up!