3rd Thursday Art Stroll - August 15th

3rd Thursday is approaching fast! Come join an evening walk from Firehouse Gallery down Naugatuck and around the corner onto Broadway.

Before you begin the evening walk enjoy the cuisines of the area restaurants, Lazy Lobster, pizza at Alfa's, Costa Azzurra, Aldario's.  A perfect time to go over your gift list as the Seasons of Giving have begun. Walnut Beach Merchants has those unique and yet sublime gifts for your friends, co-workers, family members ranging from original works of art, jewelry, gift certificates, art and music lessons and more!

And then begin a journey that will bring to you a world of art, music, dance and more food and drink.
Firehouse Gallery, 81 Naugatuck Avenue,

81 Naugatuck Avenue

while not having an opening reception they still might be open for a bit so check it out; head down to

42 Naugatuck Avenue

Sobobo to meet and greet friends and August's Artist - Stephen DiRienzo. Continue to Seaside Wines and Spirits to pick up that bottle of your favorite wine;

2 Broadway

head to Beach Gallery where you will find your way! Beach Gallery featuring old maps of Myrtle-Walnut Beaches showing what we were like before, Scoot & Paddle with utilitarian art.

28 Naugatuck Avenue

16 Broadway

Head down to Wild Expressions and see Liza Sivek from B. Enchanted Crafts who will be demonstrating her amazing art of paper crafting and of course wine and hors d'oerves will be served as well.

19 Broadway

Head across the street to Walnut Beach Creamery and Taste & See Confections and see what you can get to satisfy those sweet cravings.

17 Broadway

To end this evening a Salsa Party will be taking place at the park on the corner of Naugatuck and East Broadway....a wonderful way to end a perfect evening! Join Brian Smith, DJ, as he spins the vinyls for us!

All of this begins at 6:30 pm with the Salsa Party beginning at 8:00 pm. It will be a pleasure to see you!

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!

April's Artist, Beth Pite Takes Us On A Walk To Remember...

"Tulips" - pastel painting - by Beth Pite

"My art is about color, energy and capturing the essence of something rather than an exact likeness. My paintings often suggest a vignette, a human story in intriguing settings like paths through trees, festivals, cityscapes, or boats in the setting sun. Using loose, gestural strokes of vibrant color, I want to show how it felt to be there, instead of just copying what my camera records.

Pastel painting is done with buttery, soft pastel sticks of pure pigment, rather than a brush. The immediacy of applying pastels directly to the surface of the painting helps convey the intensity of my experiences. Multiple layers of color take advantage of the pastel medium's ability to refract light, building rich dark and light areas without using dull black, white or brown. Instead, I play contrasting colors against each other to create vibrant energy.

Inspired by New England scenery or my travels in Europe and Latin America, I use my photographs to soak up a sense of the place. This helps me remember what was exciting about it when I later paint it in vivid, expressionistic color using energetic strokes. By favoring color, form and movement over exact representations of my subjects, I aim for an enhanced reality that lets viewers enjoy a more emotional response."

-- Beth Pite

"Walk In The Park - Madrid" - pastel painting - by Beth Pite

Beth's ability to enhance reality by creating vibrant energy using colors of the spectrum gives the viewer a jolt of electricity. The current connects creating a realm where you become absorbed into a particular time and space. This energy can be felt throughout your inner being down to your fingertips, your nerve endings begin to tingle, becoming alive.

"Parisian Street" - pastel painting - by Beth Pite

Do you realize at times when you look at a tree, or look at others walking, or looking at a building it all becomes brighter in color, the vibrance of each shade and tint seems to permeate through the solidness of the subjects? You can even see waves emit from each subject, similar to the waves of heat you see rising off of a road on a hot summer day, this is energy. You can even feel it as you pass, your body absorbing it. Beth captures that. She captures it, the energy, in each pastel she uses as she paints. She has that uncanny ability to harness the energy to bring each painting to life hoping that each person who views her work will be able to feel it.

The best way to explain it is to envision Beth capturing electricity through a kite, kite string and a key in a jar....Now, put pastels in her hand, a canvas in front of her and watch the electricity, the energy connect between her and her palette, her canvas. Beth is that conduit between what some cannot see and helps all to see the energy "matter" in the world around us.

Each pastel painting depicts her ability. Her subject "matter" is electricity...her subject "matter" is the energy...her subject "matter" is more than scientific matter...her subject "matter" becomes emotional...her subject "matter" becomes the spiritual side of the science of "matter."

To be able to feel that current of electricity, to see the waves of energy emit from each painting, to enjoy the color and beauty of each subject "matter" you must visit SoBoBo. Beth Pite, April's Artist, will be exhibiting her pastel paintings from April 1st to April 30th. Beth's Opening Reception is Thursday, April 12th from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

"Walk In The Park, Paris" - pastel painting - by Beth Pite

Yes, it coincides with Walnut Beach Art Stroll that begins at 6:00 pm at Firehouse Gallery. Firehouse Gallery is exhibiting "Wings, Wheels and Rudders" truly an enhanced reality that will take us on a walk to remember!

August's Surprise!

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise! We can't have a month go by without an art stroll! Thursday, August 11th will be one of surprise and wonderment - an added genre of art -- poetry!



Visit Firehouse Gallery and see the exhibit "From the Sea." Enjoy as you "swim" from piece to piece, becoming part of it. Meander down, maybe stop off at Alfa's and have pizza...

Next stop -- SoBoBo, where August's Artist, Joanne Watkins is showing a "third" world through a "third" eye. You step into each photo feeling the energy of life that was taking place at that one moment in time.

"Passage" - photograph by Joanne Watkins

Poets D'Antonia and Sara Eliza Johnson will be exhibiting their writings. Both are amazing, their writings leave you breathless! Take a peek below...

D’Antonia is adjunct professor teaching at Quinnipiac, Yale, and Southern Connecticut State University. She is an accomplished poet and photographer, who after a ten year hiatus has come home to hone her passions. Her work has been published in Verdad Magazine, El Ojito, American Poetry Anthology, Beanfeast Magazine, and includes a self published poetry compilation, entitled, “No One To Blame But Yourself. “ Several of her poems have also appeared on-line.
D’Antonia is working on a book of poems and is the CEO of two internet businesses, currently scheduled to go live in January 2012—stay tuned…; excerpt:

Sara Eliza Johnson whose poetry has appeared in a variety of places online and in print, including the New England Review, Shenandoah, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Best New Poets 2009. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, a Winter Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, a work-study scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and an AWP Intro Journals Project Award. She holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the University of Oregon.

Read on to see what she says...

While there, you will see works by Carlyne and Patti both new jewelers; new artists Wes Swanson, Susan Frey, Mary Anne Maier, Alice Fredericks, Ben Casiano, William Ahern; and new works from our family members - Betty Geller, Lisa Saerno, Betsey Wright, Rick Senft, Michael Brotschul, Matt Roe, Paige Miglio, Cindy Rifkin, Frieda Howling and many more.

Alfa's Jolly Jug will be having a wine tasting - you should stop in for it just might be your favorite and don't forget to pick up what you need for your upcoming celebration!

Lazy Lobster should be open, you truly must try the pulled pork sandwich, even the ribs - oh and the shrimp...

and make sure to stop in Painted You the newest member of our community...

See the works of Melissa quite AMAZING!




Meet Photographer Pam Landry as Wild Expressions is exhibiting her work. You must see her fine art. Pam, born on the shoreline in New Rochelle, New York and now living on the shoreline in Milford, Connecticut, one of Pam’s favorite photo subjects has always been anything beach related. Pam has had photo exhibits at 116 Crown in New Haven and Café Atlantique, and contributes a daily “Morning Meditation” photo to Milford Patch.com. Her work is a must see! and enjoy the floral array that Tyyne Catapano so eloquently designs and exhibits and...


















pick up that book of verse that Collected Stories has! Music abounds for Tim Payson and friend will be playing! Food and drink flowing wow, couldn't ask for anything more...ENJOY!





Make Walnut Beach Creamery your last stop for the evening and see what flavor will be there for the tasting. Don't forget to pick up your favorite flavor to take home!

Come join us, beat the heat and have a wonderful evening!

A Message From The Sea....

As you put the conch to your ear you can hear the ocean...however, there is a message from the sea, just listen very, very closely for it is telling you something about tonight's event....

"You must get out and come to the shore this evening, come to Walnut Beach and see the works of local artists and artisans at Firehouse Gallery, 81 Naugatuck Avenue. Enjoy "seaing" how differently each artist has perceived our home. From reality to euphoria, from actual to mystical using modernism, contemporary, abstract, collage, realism, and impressionism! Each piece has you delving in and you find yourself visiting us at the bottom of the sea!

Go with the flow as you float down to SoBoBo Art Gallery, 42 Naugatuck Avenue and sea paintings by Paige Miglio, Benjamin Casiano, Rick Senft, Cindy Rifkin, William Ahern, Matt Roe and must not forget artist for the month, Janet Ruskin; mixed media pieces by Jan McLean, Susan Frey, Betsey Wright, Wes Swanson; photography by Karen Allen, D'Antonia, Angie Scott, Hedi Minnow-Pike; sculptures by William Brill, Michael Brotschul and Rosemary McClain; and artisan (jeweler) for the month, Kate Davoli, plus Susan Frey, Lara Sendich, Sylvia, Sam and Keelin Brett.

So much to sea! To give yourself a change of venue, stop at Alfa's for pizza or the Alfa's Jolly Jug for a taste of the vino, Lazy Lobster for the lobster roll you have been craving and top it off with ice cream from Walnut Beach Creamery!

Then you must continue the flow to Painted You, 12 Broadway - a fresh new gallery exhibiting face and body art and of course, Wild Expressions at Collected Stories, 16 Broadway who might have Tim Payson playing sweet melodious music! Pick up a bouquet of flowers from Wild Expressions designed exclusively with you in mind by owner/designer Tyyne Catapano...

Come to the shore, come to Walnut Beach and enjoy an evening from the sea!"

This message was brought to you by "Conch" by Paige Miglio and "Precious" by Jan McLean

Sylvia Jeyapandian Exhibits at SoBoBo

“I have a dream to start a social group for the welfare of women and poor people when I go to India in our native place. I thought beads would be good because jewelry will live as long as woman will live.

We recently moved to America as a Family. I, a Computer Science Engineering graduate, thought to learn something from America. Going through the Google search I came across the word bead jewelry. I was able to find someone local who teaches this - that is when I decided to learn.

My passion is to create new designs based on Indian jewelry with a Western touch. Culture, nature, color of the beads and the mind to create new designs are the things that put a piece together. I like to work with seed beads, Swarovski crystal beads and wire jewelry as well.

I have been beading now about a year and half. I bead everyday, continuously learning and try different designs. I am happy while I'm beading because it relieves much stress, I feel relaxed and satisfied beading, and I can concentrate to finish a new project.

I do have a dream to start a social group for the welfare of women and poor people when I go to India in our native place. I thought beads would be good because jewelry will live as long as woman will live. And now, perhaps, it will come to fruition.”

-- Sylvia Jeyapandian, 2011

East meets West. The designs of Sylvia's work has both ends of the earth intermingling creating a style of its own. Her designs dance a rhythmic flow enhancing the flavors of many cultures.



Sylvia touches the soul of culture instead of the soul of an individual. By doing so she does keep the soul of woman alive, because as we know the matriarchs of each culture are the ones who keep the life cycle going. So perhaps her dream to help the women and poor in her own native land will come true, for she put it so eloquently, "...jewelry will live as long as woman will live."




Sylvia as June's Artisan will be exhibiting her creations at SoBoBo from June 1st to June 30th. Join us on Thursday, June 23rd from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm as Sylvia celebrates the "soul of culture." You will also find her works at SoBoBo beyond June as she has become a favorite of many.

SoBoBo Art Gallery, 42 Naugatuck Avenue, is open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from Noon to 6 pm. Mondays through Wednesdays are by appointment only. Please call 203.906.8945 to do so.

WALK DOWN THE AVENUE...Thursday, April 14th -

"Dreaming Blue" - photograph - by D. Antonia

SoBoBo has had the very fortunate opportunity to bring to its space another perspective on the "Play On Light" -- through a lens...

"My photographs reveal the dusk and dawn of my soul, giving me moments in which to embrace and nurture the beauty within myself."

-- D. Antonia - 2011

April's Artist, Charles Bell has an uncanny way to use light in his paintings that creates a mysticism enveloping you as you gaze at his work...this sense draws you into his work that you can get lost within...

Where he is connected through universal flow and allows the brush to "do this and that" D. Antonia " ..reveals the dusk and dawn of her soul..." a perspective of one who is brave enough to tell all such a poignant part of themselves (for each of us knows that we wouldn't be so open to discuss our inner selves.)

Both artists creating two very different forms of works - paintings vs. photos - yet have actually created one form, "play on light." Each artist's creations captures your eye, bringing you into a world of an innersanctum...

Your soul is what is connecting to the work...what many don't know is that you can see the soul of an individual by looking into their right eye, the conduit to your spirit, your soul, your past lives...So who are we to say otherwise, because afterall their creations "capture your eye" to lead you into a space once thought impossible to be...the innersanctum is that of your own, your inner-self, your inner-being is drawn to the "play on 'LIGHT'."

You must come visit us on Thursday, April 14th to see for yourself and feel the tugging of your soul being drawn in... April's Artist, Charles Bell's exhibit reception is Thursday, April 14th and starts at 7:00 pm...

Visit Firehouse Gallery at 6:00 pm to see why everyone has the "BLUES"...then meander down to SoBoBo to see, to feel, and to taste the creations of a Master Brewer...make sure to continue to Alpha's Jolly Jug three doors down to taste the fruits of the vine and then around the corner to Wild Expressions where "WOMEN ARE WORKS OF ART"...interesting, very interesting....

"Blues", Beer, & A Bailiwick... On Thursday, April 14th

"Helen's Day" - oils - by Charles Bell

You must attend to find out more!

Starts at 6:00 pm on Thursday, April 14th at Firehouse Gallery...see what the "Blues" are all about...when you start the evening's bailiwick...stop at SoBoBo and enjoy the artistry of a Brew Master!...and meet April's Artist, Charles Bell...enjoy the journey as you continue the evening's bailiwick by enjoying the fruits of the vine - a wine tasting at Alpha's Jolly Jug....see the "Women As Works Of Art" at Wild Expressions - a demonstration that will leave you in awe!...and while you are there check out the books of Collected Stories!

Just have a wonderful evening!!!

Mysticism or Universial Flow...

"I have always been interested in art. Going wayyyy back to kindergarten to my 1st classroom art course through elementary school and then in high school having the opportunity to drop "Study Hall" I was "drawn" to join art classes Painting and Ceramics. It was then that it fully captured me.

Watching countless hours of Bill Alexander with his "almighty brush" had a big influence on me, both of them. Lots of trial and error with some paintings coming out 2 inches thick with paint, but I kept at it until it was perfected.

Some of my work that was done in high school and in the early 1980's had been put into storage along with some of my property. Unfortunately, didn't keep up on the storage bill...and to make a long story short, most of my work was sold at a garage sale by the landlord. But you know, there is no reason to be sad, I wasn't, I was in awe....WOW someone bought some of what I did...cool.'

I try to find time to paint but usually end up painting in those awkward hours of the day or night. It's as if the timing of when I paint is important for when I want this to happen, it seems "this and that" take over...so I have no choice but to go with it. Because of this happening, every painting I try is an experiment for me in light, color, texture as well as the surface I paint on."

--Charles Bell, 2011--

Charlie's own experience best explains his work. Without realizing it he, by capturing that one moment in time, "...those awkward hours of the day or night...," harnesses the universal flow of energies that direct his hand and paint strokes. The same energies are filling his mind with what colors to use, how the light should play in each painting, how much paint to apply to get the textures and how when in the end you see faces, figures, that seem to pop out at you. By him saying "this and that take over...so I have no choice but to go with it..." is what the Taoist teachings tell us and Benjamin Hoff writes in the "Tao of Pooh" and the "Te of Piglet." So, scientifically, it becomes an experiment to him, but is it really? Yes, you can watch him work, but is it he who is painting? That is why one doesn't know if it is truly mysticism or universal flow that he is connected with that allows him to create the exquisite work.

"Past Days" by Charles Bell

When seeing his spacial work entitled "Past Days," one can actually see the "universal flow", the spaciousness of where all our energies can connect with if one so chooses to even if one believes in it or not. When looking at it you can see and feel the "myst" softly touching your face, you can feel your feet softly touching the earth, almost as if there is no gravity. It is like he is putting the unknown space odyssey we one day will take into visualization and we might ask "is this what it is like when we die? Or "is this where we came from?"

But as our feet return to Terra-Firma, Mother Earth, we see Spring budding as we decent through the "mysts" planting our feet firmly on the ground as if we are landing in Charlie's "April's Birth". The physical side, the matter of fact side, something we can touch, feel, see that we are real.

"April's Birth" - oils - by Charles Bell

"Helen's Day" - oils - by Charles Bell

We might think we need reality as seen in "Helen's Day" or find the need to seek the archeology of the people who have been here before us as seen in "Native Gallery" because afterall, we are tangible beings...for now that is...

"Native Gallery" - oils - by Chalres Bell

Charles Bell will be exhibiting his mystical creations at SoBoBo Gallery from April 1st to April 30th. One truly must come and see the connection between here and there created through "this and that" by Charles Bell. He truly brings the ethereal mysticism to reality.

SoBoBo Gallery is opened Thursdays and Fridays from 11:00 to 4:00 pm and Saturdays and Sundays Noon to 5:00 pm.

April's Artist Reception will be held on Thursday, April 14th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm - the same evening as we "Walk the Talk of the Town" and celebrate Firehouse Gallery's new exhibit "Blues."

JOIN US!!!

Walk the Talk of the Town:Walnut Beach Art Stroll

"Shabby Sheep" - oils - by Marcia Wiltsie

Join us as Spring is being ushered in by the March Winds and Winter ends...thank heaven! Walk the Talk of the Town : Walnut Beach Art Stroll on Thursday, March 10th!

The evening begins at 6:00 pm at Firehouse Gallery, 81 Naugatuck Avenue. When the reception winds down, meander down Naugatuck Avenue to SoBoBo at 42 Naugatuck Avenue where the exhibit reception for Marcia Delane-Wiltsie, March's Artist, will be taking place, starting at 7:00 pm. She will be there for you to meet as well as Lara Sendich, ...featured artisan...Learn more about them and their talents...

As soon as you are done, you must stop at Alpha's Jolly Jug for their wine tasting. Enjoy the aroma of the wine has it hits your tastebuds...perhaps purchase a bottle for home....

Afterwards...head down Naugatuck to the stop sign and take a right onto Broadway...Make sure you listen, you may hear music playing...and without realizing it you will end up sitting in Wild Expressions and Collected Stories!

You see, magical things happen when the March Winds blow!!!

Enjoy the evening, enjoy meeting your friends, and enjoy the fact that Winter is ending and Spring is beginning!

Mother Nature Designs A Floor Plan...

Have you ever noticed how beautifully quiet it is outside when it snows? The sound of silence...

The weather has definitely reared its ugly head as they say, but is it really ugly? Mother Nature designs a wonderful floor plan...a tree to the right with bushes along the edge. Flowers running parallel to the bushes about 12" apart. The flowers, bulbs, are in hibernation awaiting their "Debutant Ball" introducing Spring. Some bushes are still green with red berries, it's as if they are aware they are the "pantry" for the animals that need sustenance during the winter. Floor plans of the "interiors" of Mother Earth.

The snow falls, ever so quietly and softly, blanketing the earth almost protecting it and yet giving sustenance to the flowers that lay buried beneath the earth.

If looking at Mother Earth through a frame - the interior of a room would seem to appear that was so eloquently and gracefully designed by Mother Nature.

Ushering in the New Year with Mother Nature designing in a frenzy, we tend to become housebound and a little cabin feverish....we begin to look for something extra to do, even if it means we must go outside, and bear the sub-zero weather to break the fever...

...Join us with Firehouse Gallery on Thursday, February 3rd at 6 pm, as they celebrate opening for the New Year of 2011 with a new exhibit entitled "Interiors" and the first Art Stroll of 2011!

"Interiors" will be juried by Rosemary Celon-Gordon, an artist and Milford resident, is a graduate of the Paier School of Art where she studied interior design and architecture. Her work has won various awards and is in private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

The theme "Interiors" will take you to places where you never thought you would be...READ ON!

Opening Reception for "Interiors" starts at Firehouse Gallery, 81 Naugatuck Avenue at 6pm on Thursday, February 3rd and ends at 8 pm. Continue your evening by strolling down seven doors on Naugatuck to SoBoBo Art Gallery where February's Artist, Marian Doherty is exhibiting. See her work and listen to her explanation of time and space (interiors of sort.)

When you arrive at SoBoBo you will find a surprise guest - award winning chef, Scott Wiseman, owner of THE LAZY LOBSTER. He will be serving hot soup that will warm your insides...the warmth will travel from your nose to your finger tips to your toes.

Enjoy the space, enjoy the time you are spending with the visitors....once you feel it is time to leave make sure you go three doors down to ALPHA'S JOLLY JUG where a wine tasting will be happening. Enjoy the scent as you swirl the wine, enjoy the flavor as you sip, titillating your taste buds, warming you.

AND YES!!, you must head down Naugatuck

and around the corner to 16 Broadway where

you will find a new business -

WILD EXPRESSIONS

- who is sharing the space

with COLLECTED STORIES.

PLEASE, DO VISIT WILD EXPRESSIONS, and EXTEND THEM A WARM WELCOME to Walnut Beach and being a part of our Art Strolls. An unexpected surprise - Milford's own Tim Payson will be in attendance playing keyboard music!

At the same time take your time and browse through the COLLECTED STORIES!

WOW!! SO MUCH HAPPENING AT ONCE!!

How wonderful it will be to get out of the house and meet up with your friends and acquaintances!

Join Us for the Last Art Stroll of 2009 on Thursday, November 19th

"Frosted Firs"

by Marti Reed

Come join us as we celebrate "Indian Summer" and "Winter" during our last Art Stroll for 2009!

Firehouse Gallery, 81 Naugatuck Avenue, Walnut Beach - Milford, CT, will be hosting a reception for it's year-end exhibit with the celebration of the "Winter" season on Thursday, November 19th from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The exhibit will be judged by Derek Leka, a university professor at Southern and University of Bridgeport as well as teaching at Silvermine Guild Arts Center.

As you view each piece of art, become a part of it. Feel the strokes of the paint brush or pencil as if the artist was right there creating. Enjoy the beauty of the color, the light and dark, the composition. Then, and only then, would it be a good time to choose your favorite piece! You become part of the judging process yourself by choosing for the People's Choice Award.

Meander across "the Avenue" to Urban Antique Radio and Vintage Hi-Fi and check out Mike Urban's collection of past communications. Ask him questions about repairs, restoration and the like and he will be more than happy to answer them!

You must stop by the Walnut Beach Cafe and see what Wil has cook'in! Be sure to try the new Eggnog Latte or Cappuccino. Or better yet - try the seasonal Mulled Cider beverage. Mmmm!Delicious!

Stroll around the corner to Lazy Lobster and they may have lobster bisque available! Or perhaps start shopping for the Holidays at A Fine Affair, Collected Stories and SoBoBo Art Gallery! What a great relief to have some of your gifts crossed off your lists.

"Body Armor" (homage to Navajo Tribe) - by Michael Brotschul

At SoBoBo Art Gallery absorb the vibrancy of "Indian Summer!" Soak up the colors and breathe in the scent of Fall. Works of more than 50 artists on display are available for purchase. We all know about harvesting for the upcoming winter season takes place each year around this time as well as the preparation for the Holiday Season, so, with that in mind --- don't forget to place your order for one of your desserts for the Holidays! Because even though Walnut Beach Creamery is closed for the season orders are being taken for ice cream and ice cream pies. Your order can be easily placed at SoBoBo! You must make sure to ask to try the flavors of Pumpkin, Peppermint, Ginger and more because samples are available to taste at SoBoBo! If you already have a favorite and it is not listed with the flavors that are available, don't be shy because you can order that one too! Just a reminder, SoBoBo is opened until 9:30 pm so make sure to stop by and perhaps we will enjoy a lively conversation!

SoBoBo will be holding an Open House from Thursday the 19th until Sunday the 22nd during Gallery hours. Come and join us! You can even purchase that special gift for someone you know.

See you on the 19th!

Walk the Talk of the Town - May 21st Art Stroll - From Firehouse Gallery to Walnut Beach Cafe and Around the Corner to SoBoBo

Walk the talk of the town!

Join in the upcoming Art Stroll on Thursday, May 21st from Firehouse Gallery at 81 Naugatuck Avenue down to Walnut Beach Cafe & Gallery at 37 Naugatuck Avenue and around the corner to SoBoBo Art Gallery at 17 Broadway. Greet old friends, meet new acquaintances as you listen to the art of "Figuratively Speaking." Firehouse Gallery will be hosting a juried exhibit entitled "Figuratively Speaking," from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Walnut Beach Cafe & Gallery, as always, is the place where the food and drink flows. SoBoBo Art Gallery has 23 artists and artisans showing their unique and yet sublime art from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. (image above is by Caitlin TurnerWoods, entitled "Lack of Oxygen II" - graphite on dur-a-lar)

When all is done, stop in Walnut Beach Creamery at 19 Broadway (right next door to SoBoBo) and enjoy an evening dessert -- ice cream made right on the premises. Flavors of all kinds -- the ice cream melts in your mouth titilating your tastebuds!

See you there!