ART 617 is a monthly television show of artists presenting or creating their work. Its based in the South End of Boston and is steadily expanding its reach from Falmouth to Marblehead. The goal of this show is to bring creative content to the media market by going to the source of creativity, those that endeavor to create art. It is about the struggle to create, who is doing it, where it happens, where its supported, and ultimately what art brings to us. ART 617 is an independent look at creativity.

Art 617 has received a 2006 Telly Award for Episode 4, Builders, Pitbulls and Nudes. Thank you to all of those that have worked on and have supported it. Episode 6 -  8 Track Mission is now on Google Video!

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DVDs also available at Mikes Movies in the South End, Boston.

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Episode 8 - Hello, Hi, Adios           February 2007

This episode brings you to the Rhys Gallery, the newest gallery in the Boston's South End (SoWa Art District - 401 Harrison Ave.), where we talk with owner Colin Rhys and director Lydia Ruby about their new adventures with a hot new gallery space.

Then it's off to the Howard Yezerski Gallery at 14 Newbury Street, Boston for a bit of art talk and the "Buffet Allusion" a performance and installation by CoachTV artists Raishad Glover and Emily Eastridage.

Finally, it's farewell to the Gallery at Green Street and director James Hull, where we explore the Enduring Velocipede human powered installation piece with artist Deb Todd Wheeler.

This episode also features some great music from Midnight Seven, Drugs Delaney, Ben Blanchard, Pete John. Be sure to stay for the closinig credits which features a bit of the fusion band COPAL playing at the Middle East Downstairs..

Episode 7 - Show of Ten              September 2006

”Show of Ten” takes you to, First Friday at 450 Harrison which gives us... the Kingston Gallery and Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda ...artist and Mission of Burma guitarist Roger Miller... MPH Gallery and Aparna Agrawal and Yoon Soo Lee... Carlotta Carzaniga's "Garden of Madness" at Genovese/Sullivan Gallery... Photographers Thomas J Gustainis and Kate Freedberg with Ursulina at Gallery Kayafas...

Then... Alpha Gallery for ART617's first venture to Newbury Street where we talk with gallery director Joanna Fink and new talent and Joan Mitchell Award winner Shalini Bhat about her paintings.

Finally its off to the Leather Disctrict's Les Zygomates for performance and conversation with jazz composer Kevin Harris of the Kevin Harris Project.

New Music was composed for the show by Kai McMurtry with songs from Carmen Marsico and Roger Miller.

Episode 6 - 8 Track Mission                May 2006

Takes you to the MASS3D exhibit at Boston Sculptors Gallery where we talk with Liz Nofziger and Julie Levesque while standing on and walking through their installations “Covert” and “What Remains.” They are two of the artists in the group showing of recent Massachusetts Cultural Council grant winners.

Then we share wine, art and stories with south end artist Tristan Govignon in his studio.

The Somerville Theater and the Boston Independent Film Festival world premiere of “This Is Not A Photograph: The Mission of Burma Story” is the setting for meeting executive producer Eran Lobel and co-director Jeff Iwanicki.

And of course there’s some Mission of Burma music in there somewhere. Thanks, Roger.

New Music was composed for the show by Kai McMurtry; hear it with Liz and Julie.

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Episode 5 - Tomi, Zoe. Cleopatra           March 2006

The new ART617 “Tomi, Zoe, and Cleopatra” episode 5, "uncommon television"features the recent Tomi Ungerer exhibit at the Copley Square Boston Public Library where we’re joined by Stephanie Molinard of the Rose Art Museum who curated this rare and exclusive retrospective of his career.

The exhibit, organized and sponsored in part by the Boston/Strasbourg Sister Cities Program, begins with his arrival in New York City in 1956 from his hometown of Strasbourg, France and includes his political and social commentary in posters, drawings and books, all with the stinging Ungerer wit.

The exquisite new music of Boston composer Ahmed al-Gendy buoys the Ungerer segment with arrangements written exclusively for ART617.

Next we visit the Dance Complex in Cambridge for the dress rehearsal of “Piel contra piel” or “Skin on Skin,” a passionate night of contemporary dance with  Zoe Dance Company and choreographers Callie Chapman Korn, Ivan Korn and Emily Beattie.

Finally, Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans work out the kinks in “Cleopatra: The Musical” before opening night at Machine. It’s an inside look at the production and how even the end of show cast bows to the audience are rehearsed. Landry talks with us about what it takes to produce theater in Boston, as only Ryan can.

The fine arts, music, dance, film, and performance are all to be found on ART617.

Episode 4 - Builders, Pitbulls and Nudes   February 2006

This episode features a conversation with local art district developer Mario Nicosia, photographer Marc Joseph's "American Pitbull" at Bernard Toale Gallery, and a visit to East Boston for the Atlantic Works Gallery "Nude Show."

Featured music includes Carmen Marsico, Piebald, Michael Stevens, Thaddeus Hogarth, and Davey Zero.

This episode won a 2006 Telly Award! The trailer to the right!

Trailer: Episode 4, Builders, Pitbulls and Nudes.

Episode 3 - Art, Windows and Hurricanes  January 2006

The current Boston Sculptors Gallery show with Julia Shepley and Marilu Swett. The windows displays created by TEAM creative at michele marcaldo contemporary jewelry. Also, at Michele Marcaldo the return of Harry Folsom and the small works show. The Boston Center for the Arts and the 19th Drawing Show at the Mills Gallery.

Featured music includes Michael Stevens, Thaddeus Hogarth, Kai McMurtry, Ben Blanchard, and Chris Beard.

Episode 2 - South End Abstractions     November 2005

Takes us further into the South End exploring sculptural and painted abstractions: we meet Boston artists and curators, get a glimps of a NYC synistat, visit painters in their gallery/studios and say farewell to Clifford Smith Gallery. Featured are: Mario Kon and Paul Lam at Locco Ritoro Gallery, John Franklin and David Sullivan at Genovese Sullivan Gallery, David X. Levine and Jessica Lee at OSP Gallery, Mark Schoening in his studio, Charles Tersolo in his studio, Fernando DeOlivera in his studio, and Jim Smith at the last Clifford Smith show (or is it?). Featured music includes: Carmen Marsico, Michael Stevens, Thaddeus Hogarth, Ahmed al-Gendy and some other surprises. Featured in Sunday’s Boston Globe!

Episode 1 - South End Art Walk               October 2005

First Friday has become a major Art Scene in the Boston.  and conversations with artists from the October 2005 SoWa First Friday gallery opening receptions with Brian Josselyn on Laconia Lofts rooftop giving an artist’s perspective of South End history and the “journey” of the artist. Photographs of Bob Dylan exhibited at Allston Skirt Gallery with photographer Douglas Gilbert and co-director Randi Hopkins, “Rocks and Ruins” by photographer Kevin Brubriski at Gallery Kayafas, paintings from Soprafina Gallery, and a visit with Camilo Alvarez of the Samson Projects Gallery.