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Dorchester Open Studios 2012:  October 20 and 21 Registration begins soon!

Peabody Square Summer Farmer's Market

It is also that time of year to begin thinking about the Ashmont/Peabody Square Farmers Market! Running from July thorugh mid-October, 3-7 p.m. every Friday, it is a perfect place for artists and crafters to show and sell your work.  This year, DAC will have a weekly presence and artists can sign up to share the tent space.  For more information and to save your dates, please get in touch with us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

And two more calls for artists! 

First in line is the Plein Air Paint and Wet Paint Sale at the Forbes House Museum in Milton on Saturday June 23, 2012. An un-juried event open to all artists in all mediums, followed by an exhibition of the work and a gallery reception and sale.  For artists registration form and guidelines visit the FHM website at www.forbeshousemuseum.org or call Joann Sacco at 617 696-1815.

And finally, the Dorchester Historical Society will be exhibiting Dorchester art--then and now--during its Dorchester Descendant's Day Weekend, June 30 and July 1, 2012.  For more information about including your work, please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it !

  • Food for thought: Breakfast June 24

    DAC Online Blog 16 Jun 2011 | 7:38 am

    Food for thought: Breakfast June 24 The Dorchester Arts Collaborative invites you to join us on Friday, June 24, 2011, 8 a.m. to  9:30 a.m., for a continental breakfast featuring writer Aaron Devine, at Studio D., 11 Pearl Street, Dorchester, Mass. The topic is: "Empathy and The[…]

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  • Time to save money: Register for Open Studios NOW!

    DAC Online Blog 16 May 2011 | 9:53 am

    Time to save money: Register for Open Studios NOW! OK. We get it. We're artists, writers, actors, dreamers. Our favorite thing to do,  besides create wonderful things, is to procrastinate. But here's incentive to stop, right now! The June 15, 2011, early bird registration deadline for the Dorchester Arts[…]

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  • Dac breakfast, May 13

    DAC Online Blog 8 May 2011 | 8:40 pm

    The Dorchester Arts Collaborative invites you to join us on Friday, May 13, 2011, 8 a.m. to  9:30 a.m., for a branding/marketing exercise, at Studio D., 11 Pearl Street, Dorchester, Mass. Come and ask questions about how your creative work[…]

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Welcome to Dorchester Arts Collaborative New Web Site!

We are excited about the scope of the site, thrilled by its new functionality. Look around and see what’s new!

Under the About Us tab, you will find an events calendar (it details the events that are highlighted in the calendar in the right margin of this page); information about this year’s Open Studios; an online OS registration form; information about our monthly breakfasts; and very important information about our new membership structure including online membership registration.

Member Resources

The Resources tab will grow as we add more links to local galleries and businesses, and information under the Studio D tab will guide you through past and current exhibitions as well as provide information on how to submit a proposal for a show.

The Portfolios tab is a full-membership site and provides artist members with an opportunity to upload their work--visual, written, or a combination--in a professional format suitable for viewing by galleries, theaters, journals and colleagues.

Constant Updates

Finally, clicking on the Blog tab will bring you the latest news feeds from DAC including photos and reviews of events and shows around town. And you’ll want to join our mailing list if you’d like to receive information not just from DAC, but from other arts organizations who send information to us for distribution.

You’ll notice the banner at the top of the page counting down the number of days to the Open Studios registration deadline, as well as links to several social media sites.

Let us know what you think of the new site and send along photos, event announcements and questions.

Feedback

Over the next several months, board members will be visiting neighborhood association and civic meetings to connect with you and your neighbors around the arts. Our mission, to facilitate the arts in Dorchester, means that we want to make sure that all Dorchester artists know that we are here as a resource, that all neighborhoods have an opportunity to open venues during Open Studios, and that all genres of work including music, dance, theater, spoken word, flux, and visual arts feel supported by the organization.