Walking for a Cause
Hello and welcome to Wednesday. I’m back! This weekend, I participated in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and trekked 39.3 miles through beautiful Santa Barbara. What a wonderful time it was. I raised money for a worthy cause, met scores of lovely people, made peace with the porta-potty — probably the event’s greatest challenge — and I acquired a single blister. I want to give big thanks to my Concord.Patch.com supporters, who took advantage of cyberspace to cheer me on. The emails and texts were inspiring and they spurred me on all the way to the finish line. It was such a joyous weekend, that I have signed on for the Rocky Mountains walk next year.
The Peaceful Art of Anne Krinsky
On the subject of lovely people, one need not fly all the way to the West Coast to meet them. We’ve got scores of lovely people right here in Concord, including our very own Anne Krinsky, Artist in Residence. Anne will showcase her latest exhibit of acrylics and mixed media, “Shelf Life,” at the Owen Smith Shuman Gallery of the Groton Public Library.
Tomorrow, Sept. 22, Anne will host an artist’s reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m., and she would love for us all to come hear her speak. Naturally, there is no charge. I had the good fortune to talk with Anne about her latest work.
“The inspiration for this project has to do with family history,” she said. Her parents owned a bookstore in tiny Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. As the store expanded, the whole family helped build shelves for the new inventory.
“The standard family joke, when we brought home a new art book to look at, was we should spill red wine or coffee on it so it could stay at home,” said Anne.
This new art exhibition is “very site specific,” as it incorporates photo transfers of books in the Groton Public Library’s collection.
Anne is a lifelong visual artist, whose work has appeared at galleries in the United States and abroad, including Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Boston, Nantucket, Portland, Maine and Edinburgh, Scotland. While living in the United Kingdom, Anne wrote freelance columns on art for the Wall Street Journal. She has won various Juror’s awards, including one from the , she is a recipient of the 2011 Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Grant, Groton Cultural Council, and has been selected for residencies throughout the world.
I am no art aficionado, but I find that Anne’s color selection and images bring on a peaceful, calming feeling — very positive indeed. I hope you get a chance to see her exhibit tomorrow and to talk with Anne more about her career. The Groton Public Library is located at 99 Main St. in Groton. While the shelf life of Anne’s work is timeless, this exhibit is good through Nov.5.
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