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Cristina Hajosy, Canton artist, chosen for Community Supported Art Project

Cristina Hajosy, Canton artist, chosen for Community Supported Art Project at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education

 

Cristina Hajosy, Canton-based book artist and photographer, is one of the nine artists chosen for the award-winning Community Supported Art program, the fourth year of a partnership between the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, the Cambridge Arts Council, the Somerville Arts Council, Cambridge Local First and Somerville Local First, with support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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CSArt is modeled on the "community supported agriculture" programs that have flourished across the country for the past 20 years.  Like community supported agriculture, CSArt links producers - in this case, artists who are interested in developing a limited edition of an original work of art - with consumers who buy shares and receive a delivery of affordable art this fall.

Rather than vegetables or other edibles, CSArt shareholders invest in artists selected by a jury made up of representatives from the Cambridge and Somerville Arts Councils. This years “crop” of art includes Hajosy’s artists’ books, hand-painted plates by Eileen DeRosas (Arlington), small, hand-thrown bottles by Maeve Mueller (Cambridge),  inventive, colored maps by Emily Garfield (Somerville), an origami sphere by Sok Song (South Dartmouth), a letterpress poem by Robert Smyth (Somerville), hand-colored drawings by Laura Jones (Somerville), photographs transferred to recycled wood by Jude Griffin (Salem), and watercolors by Shannon Astolfi (Framingham).

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Each CSArt share costs $300 and can be purchased at www.ccae.org/csart. Only 50 shares will be sold to keep the line of work special. Shareholders receive nine original works of art -- at a fantastic value – from emerging and mid-career artists, support the local art economy, develop relationships with local artists, and explore a variety of disciplines. 

This fall’s harvest will be CSArt’s fourth offering. Over the past three seasons, CSArt has worked with 27 artists and sold 1,350 original works of art, earning a Creative Economy Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts.

Join us at the Harvest Party, Sept. 30, 6-7:30 pm, Eastern Bank, Brattle St., Harvard Square. All are welcome! Shareholders pick up their artwork, and enjoy a little food and drink with the artists.

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