Art services

Art in America, June-July, 2005

FRAMES

Ark Frame Shop

Professional Custom Frames door to door. Pick up and delivery for Galleries, artists or for anyone. High quality, archival, custom made museum frames. 212-731-2196 * arkframes@optonline.net

Metropolitan Picture Framing

800-626-3139 * www.metroframe.com

Contemporary custom-made exhibition frames at wholesale prices. Available in Maple, Cherry, Walnut, & Ash. Unfinished or 16 custom finishes. Floater frames for canvases on stretcher bars in standard and non-standard depths. Complete custom packages available including: custom cut mats, plexi, backing boards.

Free color catalog: Metropolitan Picture Framing.

INSURANCE

Protect Your Passion!

Art Insurance for Museums, Galleries, Exhibitions & Collectors Thomson & Pratt Insurance Associates, Inc. 877-334-6327 Toll Free www.fineartguy.com * Fineartguy@aol.com

LIVE/WORK SPACES

The ROPEWORKS Live/Work Spaces

12 NEW affordable live/work condos for visual artists and artisans in restored mill building in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The ROPEWORKS offers large open spaces, 20 ft. at peak, with skylights extending the full length of each unit. New energy efficient construction. Spacious floor plan with build-out options, a gallery, loading dock and wide hallways. Great southcoast location near downtown, beaches, city park, easy highway access, with a private yard. Close to Boston, Providence, and New York. http://www.123sawtooth.com

PRESSES

Conrad Machine Company

1525-1 South Warner Street, Whitehall, MI 49461

231-893-7455 * Fax: 231-893-0889

Etching presses, litho, combination, monoprint, blockprint, portable table top, floor models, motor or hand driven, new or used from 12' to 52'. Free catalog upon request. Used, remanufacturing, trade-ins, request listing. Manufacturing presses for over 35 years. See our ad page 203

RESIDENCIES WORKSHOPS

Art New England Summer Workshops in Bennington, VT offers one-week classes in painting, drawing, printmaking, artists' books, ceramics, photo, and digital media. An intimate community housed at Bennington College, Art New England Workshops provide ideal setting (superb food!) to immerse yourself in your work or to try a new medium. Faculty are established artists and experienced teachers. Graduate credit available. Owned and run by Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. To view schedule and register on-line please go to: http://MassArtPlus.org/ane For more information or to request a catalog please contact: Nancy McCarthy. 617-879-7175 or nmccarthy@massart.edu.

See our ad page 207

Great River Arts Institute

Workshops and master classes in the visual arts--painting, printmaking, photography, book arts. Located in the New England village of Bellows Falls, Vermont on the Connecticut River. Faculty

include: Doug Trump, David Brewster, Eric Aho, Catherine Farish, Sarah Amos, Lisbeth Firmin, Stuart Shils, Paul Taylor and more. Courses run from two to five days. Local accommodations available. For information: www.greatriverarts.org or call 802-463-3330.

SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE--2005 season "Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity." Work with world renown artists. Studio workshops, lectures and exhibitions focus on the myriad aspects of clothing, as metaphor, surrogate, commentary on social attitudes, and how clothes reveal or conceal identity. Spend a week working with Beverley Semmes, James Luna, Ann Hamilton, Charles LeDray, Senga Nengudi, Fred Wilson, Martha Wilson and other artists. Recharge you creative batteries. Take a serious art vacation in spectacular Santa Fe!