 Welcome everyone to the studio nights show. I'm Katie Chang and in tonight's episode We're gonna be highlighting some public art exhibits around Arlington by watching three video montages created by a CMI members It's really I'm really looking forward to these three videos coming up in just a few minutes If you want to learn more about Public art in Arlington, I suggest you check out this website arts Arlington org It's the website for the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture and It has everything you need to know about art in Arlington There's also a calendar. So if there's like upcoming events and stuff You definitely check this out to find out what's happening in Arlington But right here on their website They have these four exhibits that are kind of currently going on so The four here we have persistence, which we do a video montage on in one sec Go outdoors which features these like painted doors around town our boy up our boreal attire and the sort of a collection of projects along the Minuteman Pathway so I wanted to get started by watching a short video montage about persistence that are member a CMI member producer Margie de Monte Edited together. So here's kind of like a little sneak peek But let's take it away and watch our video. Awesome Margie Thanks for that great video. It was really great to see the Plarn art in the trees and even some clips of the arborist putting up The sculptures. So thank you so much for doing that. That was our by Michelle Luji the artist in residence for Arlington right now I also wanted to bring up the fact that Michelle is actually doing a new exhibit right now through the Boston Sculptors Gallery and she's requesting some new pieces of plastic for her exhibit she's looking for water water and juice bottle caps small medium large any sort of like plastic lids bread tags those little tags you get in your bread packaging any sort of small packaging that's completely plastic such as little containers that hold disposable Contact lenses those six pack holders for for seltzers and beer Pen and marker tops and any sort of like interesting Plastic pieces that you might find you can bring any of those pieces of plastic to two drop-off points in Arlington One is the greater goods collective in East Arlington The address is 212 a mass av and you'll see it there on your screen The second location is at our AC my studios at East at 85 Park Ave Again address below So please keep on hold on to your plastic pieces and give them to Michelle Luji for her upcoming sculptor project Next on our list I Wanted to bring up my website again next on my list. We're going to the pathways project So the persistence project was a part of this something you can see from the bike path But I want to look at these dots and dashes by Johnny LaPam and this was a project that a gas station on mass av the the owner commissioned this artist to do these dots and dashes but this upcoming video highlights a newer piece that was started because of COVID thanking essential workers So let's take it away Again, that was a great piece edited by our AC my member Rodrigo Sosa with images and video provided by arts Arlington That's a great a great project that you can still view at the gas station on mass av in Arlington Coming up let's go back to our website arts Arlington org again where you can visit and learn a lot about All sorts of art stuff going on in Arlington Next I wanted to go to the transformer boxes in town. These have been Around for many years. It was originally started in 2014 With an old committee that's no longer around called Arlington Public Art and the committee commissioned artists to paint these utility boxes in town and then a few early years later, I believe later when it became Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture the Commission asked local businesses to sponsor some new boxes. So here's another new montage coming up again Coming at you from studio nights here. We've highlighted three video montages about public art in Arlington I hope you enjoyed that again I wanted to remind you guys that the artists and residents in Arlington Michelle Luzy is looking for plastic donations any sort of small pieces of plastic bottle caps Container lids contact cases Send them her way for her current exhibit going out of Boston Sculptor's gallery She'll need those pieces by the end of February. So get them to her soon There are two drop-off boxes in Arlington. One is at the Greater Goods Collective in East Arlington There's the address below at two and two a mass av. That's a new anti-plastic store By the way, if you didn't realize and the second location for plastic donations is at ECMI at 85 Park Ave Again, I'm Katie Chang. It's studio nights. Thanks for joining me today