SALEM SO SWEET 2009

We've signed up for the Salem So Sweet/Ice Sculpture Festival once again.

This year our Ice Sculpture will be a FIRE HYDRANT! Considering what we went through last year, and am still going through, a fire hydrant or two was a God-send for us, so we'd like to acknowledge that.

Our tagline with the sculpture is "Still Plugging Along at the Art Corner" Get it? "Fire Plug?" Fire Hydrant?

We will have Salem Arts Association members Donna Albino, Kristen Solias and Charles Lang demonstrating their art and techniques on the Saturday of the Festival, February 7. Donna makes objects--bowls and vases and the like--from hand-made paper. Kristen makes beautiful jewelry. Chuck paints in acrylics seascapes and still lifes, as well as "unusual," clever and amusing images.

Wendy
The Art Corner
231 Washington Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-745-9524
Hours: Monday to Saturday 9-5
artcornersalem@verizon.net

REBUILD UPDATE

We've been visited several times by the landlord's architect. Doug has designed a handicap-accessible entry in the back of the store, that we suspect will become the MAIN entrance, once people get used to it. Pull in the rear parking lot; enter the store through the rear door. Easy as pie!

Other changes to the structure may or may not happen, depending on the price tag. WE will pay for what WE want in the new space, and "make do" if the landlord can't afford to pay for what he finds "unnecessary." And I don't blame him. Many of the suggestions are "cosmetic." They'll make the store more visible, but who will that really benefit? US, mainly! Unless it gets so bad out there, that those few investments MAKE or BREAK the business, and then the landlord WON'T HAVE A TENANT!

Hmmm...

Wendy
The Art Corner
231 Washington Street
Salem, MA 01970
978-745-9524
artcornersalem@verizon.net
Store hours: Monday through Saturday, 9-5.