The Middlesex Beat is a monthly magazine covering arts and culture in Eastern Massachusetts outside of Boston. I have been writing for them regularly since 2001. To read an article, please click on a title at right.
On beyond Hallmark, artists create quirky valentines using materials from paper to concrete and steel. Buyers get original art a bargain price, and the profits fund grants for participating artists.
For twenty years, Jerry Beck has been combining abandoned spaces, social activism and plenty of heart to free art from the confines of gallery, museum and art school and make the world a better place.