{"id":8,"date":"2005-10-16T23:31:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T03:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-10-16T23:35:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T03:35:55","slug":"fort-point-open-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Fort Point Open Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove in to Boston (really, Southie) to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveourstudios.org\" target=\"new\">Fort Point Open Studios<\/a> with Carolyn, Bill, and their across-the-street neighbor Mikki. Leslie, who had worked with Carolyn and Arlene on the national art teachers conference hospitality table last spring and had given Carolyn, Arlene, and me a private paste paper workshop later in the spring, unless it was early summer, is in that studio complex now and Carolyn and Arlene wanted to go see her. We bought a few packages of notecards from her, and I found a little glass jar &#8212; the picture is almost life size:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/images\/2005\/10\/kroos_jar.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; from someone on the floor below, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kroosart.com\" target=\"new\">Brett Raab Kroos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what, if anything, I&#8217;ll ever put in that jar. But that&#8217;s the trouble with taking me to a crafts sale or open studios, I might like something.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie had soup, wine, and cheese for us and a half-dozen other studio denizens after the open studio hours were over. It was a most congenial group, with a couple of painters, a couple of lawyers, and a cellist with a broken arm. Not that the broken arm made her congenial, but for someone who can&#8217;t do her normal work she was pretty cheerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove in to Boston (really, Southie) to the Fort Point Open Studios with Carolyn, Bill, and their across-the-street neighbor Mikki. Leslie, who had worked with Carolyn and Arlene on the national art teachers conference hospitality table last spring and had given Carolyn, Arlene, and me a private paste paper workshop later in the spring, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fort Point Open Studios&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}