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Exeter | Art Up Front Street
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Rose talks about the vibrant art community in Exeter, and how she started her studio & gallery.
Rose talks about the vibrant art community in Exeter, and how she started her studio & gallery, "Art Up Front Street", to be a center for other artists in the area.
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Exeter | Art Up Front Street
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So definitely different paths, different choices.
But always in art.
At a young age, I knew that I liked to make things.
I didn't know what being an artist was.
Then as I went to high school, that progressed and I, did some drawing and some, painting some different processes there.
Finally decided to go to college for art.
And the path that I chose at that time was graphic design.
We were looking for a place that we could raise the children.
My husband had gotten a job with a group that was in Boston at the time, and we were first off, started looking in the area of Boston to live.
But definitely for us at that time that nothing was affordable.
So we kept backing up, backing up, backing up, and we ended up going about halfway between Boston and Portland, which is where his family is from.
And that's how we ended up in Exeter as the children got older.
The way that we came to, to do what we are doing at the moment, which is operating Art Up Front Street, is I did some art classes for individuals, and also children.
And then I also started creating my own art after the first decade of art classes.
And then after I was creating my own art for about ten years, this building became available.
And the building was once owned by the Exeter Teen Center.
They were in the process of making some decisions about their property and about what they wanted to end up with, so they decided to sell the property that they had.
That is definitely become my studio.
And it has also become the studio for five other or for four other artists right now.
In the beginning, when we first got the building, it took a little bit of work and, renovation, and building out a bit.
The community is very supportive, just in general.
Even the people that are not artists very supportive.
Everybody knows everybody.
And then as far as, us having our own smaller community within this Exeter community, we all know each other.
So the artists that are here are good friends.
We have been to each other's houses at different times.
We put on events together.
So we basically do know, we know each other very well.
I think that is viewed well.
I think that people enjoy coming to our spot, because they know they can see something that's beautiful.
They know they can have a conversation with the artists that are there.
And I think that they can at some level, relate to things, when they come in, I've seen people come in and they'll tell me things like this reminds me of my mother's back meadow or field or either this image reminds me of, you know, something on the seacoast that they've seen.
So there's a lot of connection that way.
So we do, different kinds of events.
Everything is not a visually related event.
We've also had poetry readings.
We've had music events.
We do definitely more of the visual art events.
And in those events, we usually show the work of the artist that has studio space there.
So when an artist with us decides that they want to have their own exhibit, then we clean out the gallery of everybody else's work, and then they do their work and make their presentation, and we have an opening and a show for them.
We feel like we are part of community, and we've heard other people tell us that they love that we have the space there, because they feel like it pulls something into that section of town.
So it's a it's a good feeling to know that we're providing that.
So we regularly do, our open studios twice a year.
And the event that's coming up is our Open Studios in November, November 1st and two.
But we're combining that also with the a town wide extra fall art tour.
So the fall Art tour, is an event that has grown over the last few years, and currently we will have 15 locations and 15 stops, that are involved in the process.
And they are galleries, fine art, fine craft, art associations, plus some individual artist studios that are not always open to the public.
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