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The BAA is a non-profit dedicated to preserving accessible arts and art spaces in Somerville and greater Boston.
Gallery open Friday-Sunday 12-5

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Join us this weekend for the closing reception and artist talk of Interplay and Echoes | Sunday, October 18, 3 – 5 PM 
These three artists use layers of translucency and structure to make works that imply another spatial dimension. With color, gestural mark-making, reflected light and shadow, they bring observational references into abstraction. The elements that make up the images overlap, intersect, coalesce, and disperse, leading to new readings and interpretations. The works have in common an interplay between foreground and background, resulting in echoes and conversations between what is sharply defined and what is barely seen or slightly obscured. All three artists are founding members of the Brickbottom Artist Building.

Concurrent in the Side Gallery: Experiments in Print, Julia Shepley & Marsha Goldberg by @brickbottomartists

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Up next in the gallery: BAA Member & Open Studios Directory Exhibition

📆 On View: October 30 – November 22
📆 Art drop off dates: Tuesday October 20, 9 – 11 AM and Wednesday October 21, 6 – 8 PM

BAA appreciation community event: Thursday November 12, 6:30 – 8:30 PM — A time for us to celebrate the member show, say ‘thank you’ to our regular volunteers, and chat/answer questions about Open Studios

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Requirements: All BAA members are welcome to submit 1 piece, even if you are not open or showing during Open Studios. Artwork must be ready to hang/install. No artwork bigger than 48”x36” unless pre-approved by our gallery coordinators. Have any specific questions? Contact gallery@brickbottom.org

All artists submitting a piece are required to sign up for a gallery sitting shift unless otherwise discussed with our gallery coordinators. taken in Brickbottom Artists Association, Inc by @brickbottomartists

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The artists of Brickbottom Arts District are opening their doors and you’re invited!

📆 Nov 21 & 22, 12-5 PM

📍 Brickbottom Artists Building & Gallery
📍 The Loov
📍 Joy Street Studios
📍 Triangle Gallery & Cafe

Wander through the studios. Connect with the art. Meet the artists. Whether you’re looking to grow your collection, discover emerging talent, or simply enjoy a weekend filled with creativity, there’ll be art in every corner. Good vibes, good people, and plenty to discover!

Learn more at brickbottomartsdistrict.com

Artists: Registration varies per building. Look out for registration info for your building!

Thanks to @olpcreative for the video 👏 taken in Brickbottom Artists Association, Inc by @brickbottomartists

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Join us for our events this month! taken in Brickbottom Artists Association, Inc by @brickbottomartists

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🎨 What does an artist’s world actually look like? We stepped inside Robert Goss’s studio at Brickbottom to see his work and hear his take on what artist communities need to survive in the years ahead 🖌️🏙️

#somerville #boston #bostonart #localartists #brickbottom #artlovers taken in Brickbottom Artists Association, Inc by @brickbottomartists

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Open Studios 2026 registration is officially open!

📅 Open Studios is on Nov 21 & 22nd, 12-5 PM

👉 Late Registration Fee
To ensure we have enough time to prepare promotional materials and organize logistics, registration will increase $25 each tier for anyone who signs up after October 8. We strongly encourage artists to register early to avoid this fee and ensure full inclusion in marketing and printed materials.

👉 Registration Closes on Oct 31st
After this time, if you choose to participate as a resident, you cannot be included in any marketing materials, directories, or signage. No affiliates will be accepted after Oct 31st. taken in Brickbottom Artists Association, Inc by @brickbottomartists

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Up next in the gallery: Interplay and Echoes | @marshagoldbergart @julia.shepley @swettmarilu

📅 On View: September 11 – October 18
 📅 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 26, 2 – 5 PM
 📅 Closing Reception & Artist Talk: Sunday, October 18, 3 – 5 PM 
These three artists use layers of translucency and structure to make works that imply another spatial dimension. With color, gestural mark-making, reflected light and shadow, they bring observational references into abstraction. The elements that make up the images overlap, intersect, coalesce, and disperse, leading to new readings and interpretations. The works have in common an interplay between foreground and background, resulting in echoes and conversations between what is sharply defined and what is barely seen or slightly obscured. All three artists are founding members of the Brickbottom Artist Building.

Concurrent in the Side Gallery: Experiments in Print, Julia Shepley & Marsha Goldberg

Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12 – 5 PM by @brickbottomartists

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“Annual favorites,” our August 13 Artscope email blast! features “8 Visions 2026” on view through August 28 @theattleboroartsmuseum #AttleboroMA; “Public Xhibition 37” on display through August 29 @galleryx_nb #NewBedford; and the @brickbottomartists Association Member Show: “SPARK!” on exhibit through August 23 at Brickbottom Gallery #SomervilleMA.

Our latest bi-weekly blast! is sponsored by South Coast Artists, Bromfield Gallery, Portland Fine Craft Show, Finding Bright Film Festival, Armenian Museum of America, Umbrella Arts Center, Whistler House Museum of Art, Art Complex Museum, SOWA Artists Guild, Chalk Gallery and Artscope Online.

Read the August 13 #ArtscopeMagazine email blast! compiled by Sawyer Smook-Pollitt here: https://conta.cc/4zd0isa

SEEN HERE:

Installation view of works by Pier Gustafson, Ted Prato, Daniela DesLauriers, Cyanalayst, and Mason Eve, at Brickbottom Artists Association Member Show: SPARK, at Brickbottom Gallery.

@agustaagustsson, “Forest Story,” gelatin print installation, at Attleboro Arts Museum.

Ron Costa (@paintedrussianwater), “Dusk: Plower’s View,” at Gallery XNew Bedford.

South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour is Aug. 15-16.

Umbrella Arts Center visiting artists workshops begin this weekend.

Portland Fine Craft Show is Aug. 22 at Lincoln Park, Portland, Maine. by @brickbottomartists

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Join us at Brickbottom this month for a play reading, Dear Reader, and our current gallery show SPARK!

Spark! Is on view now through August 23rd.
Art pick up dates: Sunday August 23, 5-7 PM and Monday August 24, 9-11 AM. by @brickbottomartists

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✨Dear Readers ~ Save the Date✨

Our next reading will be on Saturday, August 22nd! We now have an extended time of 7pm to 8:30pm to allow for more people to read, which we have found that we need as we have grown! 🌱

We want to give as many people the chance to read as possible! Sign up when you arrive.

We will be meeting at our home in the Brickbottom Artists Association gallery at 1 Fitchburg Street, C111 Somerville, MA 02143 🤍

As usual we will have complimentary refreshments! 🥂

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This month we step into the pool of memory. We think of memory as a cave, an attic, a shore. Memory is a space, a place of recollection, the result and process of remembering. Memories are the objects of this process: kept, buried, lost, treasured. This is where our mind meets the page. Memory can be a catalog of our experiences. Linear or not. It is inherently associative: all places, sounds, faces, names, scents, flavors. All associated with specific ages, times, places, and people in our lives. The strangest and simplest things can stimulate our memory, and transport us to another time and place. The scope of this theme is vast, but we recommend starting small. It is as simple as picking up a treasured object or photograph of meaning. Where, when, how, who do you think of? What did that time in your life taste like, smell like, feel like? Follow your nose, and see where you go! 🌀 taken in Brickbottom Artists Association, Inc by @brickbottomartists

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“Faces, Places & Spaces,” on view through August 23 @somervillemuseum, is not a traditional visual art exhibition with paintings, photographs, or sculptures. Instead, it’s a visual representation of the #ARTSTAYSHERE Coalition movement: preventing artist displacement and creating more inventory of affordable workspaces across Massachusetts.

“The exhibition, reviewing our art space advocacy efforts in Massachusetts since 2020, invites viewers to learn about artist displacement, its causes (development, change of owner and extreme rent hikes) and its impact on artists, musicians, residents, and communities,” writes founding volunteer Ami Bennitt (@bennittami) in our latest issue. “Through a handful of different components, Faces, Places, & Spaces outlines @art_stays_here’s advocacy projects, introduces visitors to 66 artists and musicians in their studios, and invites the community to take part in art space advocacy on site in real time.”

This Tuesday, July 14 at 6 p.m., @brickbottomartists Studios artist @randalthurston will present “A Narrative History of Somerville’s Brickbottom Neighborhood” at the museum, which is located at 1 Westwood Road, #SomervilleMA.

Read Bennitt’s complete #ARTSTAYSHERE #artsadvocacy feature in the July/August 2026 issue of @artscopemagazine, available free of charge at partnering museums, galleries and art centers throughout New England and via mail order or digital purchase for online access at artscopemagazine.com/subscribe/ by @brickbottomartists

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