SMASHING WORLDS HITS SOBOBO!

Tonight is the night! Visit SoBoBo and meet the creators behind Smashing Worlds! Their reception begins at 7:00 pm! See then!!!!

"Smashing Worlds believes that everyone has the capability of a great artist. Art is a stimulation, a visual and emotional mental game, with many feelings and influences. What one sees as finished, practice, or not even art at all, another ...sees an opening for creation. By drawing, sketching, writing, taping, pasting and painting, and then trading those artistic statements to other group members, Smashing Worlds creates a beautiful organized noise.

The members of Smashing Worlds have been creating colorful, eclectic mixed media art pieces for over a year. However, each member had a variety of artistic experiences before they came together. From formal art training and long hours sketching, painting, and sculpting, to simply filling in coloring books and creating murals on windows and walls. Five individual experiences, styles, and personalities came together to form the organized chaos of Smashing Worlds.

The group is currently working on sharing their collaborative art and music with the community and encouraging others to embrace their own artistic side. With many open collaborative projects and works in the making, Smashing Worlds continues to create art for all eyes and ears of all ages to enjoy.

There are no ideas left unthought-of, no technique unused, and no sound beat left unrecorded. Smashing Worlds will continue to arouse the visual and emotional mentality of all who come in contact. We also hope to continue to collaborate with artists of all natures."

--Smashing Worlds

Come On A Walk To Remember...

Put on your WINGS, your WHEELS or hang on to the RUDDERS of your boats or planes and join in the Walnut Beach Art Stroll!

Firehouse Gallery's opening reception for the new exhibit "Wings, Wheels and Rudders" will begin at 6:00 pm on Thursday, April 12th. See the amazing modes of travel! Choose one and travel down the Avenue and enjoy pizza at Alfa's Pizza, or a snack and drink from The New Town Deli.

Make a STOP at SoBoBo Gallery where you will go on an amazing walk through Milford, Providence, Nova Scotia, The Valley, Paris, Madrid, and New York.

Richard Stephen, John Iorio, Arlene Capozzi will take you through Milford; Patricia Brundage will take you on a misty trip to Nova Scotia; Michael Voytek will bring you to Providence; Beth Pite will take you to Paris, Madrid and New York! Rosemary McClain will take you to Ohio, and The Valley. Karen Macker brings you on an excursion through the woods. Charles Bell brings you through a lens of a cardboard camera and pinhole photography.

Marshall Cetlin will bring you from shores to the heavens as does D'Antonia. William Ahern takes you on a modern contempory trip as does Joan Shapiro and Matt Roe.

Smashing Worlds takes us on a different ride...it can be through the city or even a small town....you decide where you are as you view their art on brick walls!

Elizabeth Wright brings you to Block Island and a space to sit back and enjoy the fruits of the vine. Lakshmi brings hot coffee. Paul St. Onge brings peaches picked fresh from the tree. Andrea Roth-Moore brings watermelon and wine. Karen Macker brings pears. Hedi Minow-Pike and Betty Geller bring kiwi and raspberries....all delightfully teasing your palette! Rick Senft and Richard Stephen bring you to the table to rest.



After resting at the table enjoying food and drink head down to Alfa's Jolly Jug to pick-up the drink you desire. Continue down to Broadway and turn right to Wild Expressions and Collected Stories. Pick up one of Tyyne's beautiful designs to dress your table! Pick up a book to read. When you are done visiting head across the street to Taste & See what will satisfy your cravings!


It truly is a walk to remember!

The Walk To Remember...Walnut Beach Art Stroll - Thursday, April 12th

Firehouse Gallery's new exhibit "Wings, Wheels and Rudders" is an outstanding display of an array of modes of travel. Starts at 6:00 pm....Enjoy as each piece takes you on a ride to the next! Enjoy the time with the artists who created these works! Awards given! and don't forget to choose you favorite of the evening!

What would you like to travel on? Put your wings on? Attach wheels to your feet? or If you prefer boating attach to the sails, hang on to the rudder, or do all the work and bring your oars! Enjoy the evening as you fly, roll, or float down the Avenue, Naugatuck Avenue.

Get pizza a Alfa's Restaurant, get a snack at The New Town Deli....

"My Koso" - pastel painting - by Beth Pite

STOP at SoBoBo, 42 Naugatuck Avenue, meet April's Artist, Beth Pite....a pastel artist she will bring to you the vibrant energy of many places she has been, wrapping around you the beauty of each spot along the way! You will meet others as well...new artists Joan Shapiro, Paul St. Onge, Barbara Wilson, and jeweler Spencer Gordon; not to mention some of our own, Rick Senft, Arlene Capozzi, William Ahern, Patricia Brundage, Rosemary McClain, Sheila Pite, Jan McLean and more....

This month you will see first time art by the members of the Milford Senior Citizen Center. Enjoy speaking with them as they tell you their experience and how they are now loving every minute of creating! They were taught by Michael Voytek - you will even see his work too.

To truly make the evening pop, we have a group of young artists known as SMASHING WORLDS - five young artists with different art backgrounds - Megan Pisco, Chris Dumas, Jeff Slobodien, Amanda Erardy, and Tim Zercie - collaborating, creating awesome art!

"Please Believe" - by Smashing Worlds

While at SoBoBo make sure to stop by and see Laurie from Jolly Jug as she will be on hand offering a taste of different wines....try one and see if it will satisfy your palette... As you stroll down around the corner STOP at Jolly Jug proper to pick up the one you like!

Alfa's Jolly Jug - 38 Naugatuck Avenue


Wild Expressions - 16 Broadway

When you make it around the corner, STOP and smell the flowers at 16 Broadway, WILD EXPRESSIONS and see what Tyyne has designed for the upcoming special days we all celebrate, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Birthdays. Have a special event and you want Tyyne's designs to grace your space? While you are there you might talk and find out more!...Her floral artistry is GORGEOUS and the scents will make your senses alive! You might even hear Tim Payson play his melodious tunes!

COLLECTED STORIES just might have that book you couldn't find in print anymore...since everything seems to have gone so electronic on us these days!

Taste & See - 17 Broadway

Be sure to STOP across the street at 17 Broadway to TASTE & SEE how the gourmet cupcakes and confections will satisfy your cravings!

For this evening will truly be a walk to remember!