Matt Connarton Unleashed: Mosaic Art Collective

Get Commander, don't get Supremelina mag So coming. We have my old friend

Derek Smith is here. Hello Derek, I'm nice to see you and and

you brought Nick and Chloe here with you. Welcome, nice to be here,

Thanks for having us. And I gotta turn those mics. I'm getting

used to getting used to the new mics here, the new setup. Turn

you guys up a little bit there. So now, obviously I've known Derek

for like twenty years, but uh, who are who are the two of

you? Who are Nick and Chloe? Well, my name is Cloe Schottmeyer,

and Nick and I are both representatives and board members of a really cool

space that's kind of coming up and coming here in Manchester. Yes, y,

yes, it's called the Mosaic Arts Collective, located at sixty six Hanover

Street, right next to the Palace Theater and a couple other really important Hanover

Street entities. We are more than just a gallery. We do have gallery

space where lots of local artists are exhibiting over the last year and it's been

really fulfilling to see these local artists come from all over New Hampshire and beyond

New Hampshire to come show their work of all levels in the space. But

one of the cool things about Mosaic is that it's not just a gallery.

It is also a studio space and a workshop space and a classroom and a

collective for all of the arts community of Manchester to kind of share and come

together. And yeah, and that's artists that are just starting out, that's

established artists. We do art calls so like anyone can enter and join a

show and show what they have. Okay, sorry, okay, I forgot

I muted my mic for a second. Yeah, I'm still getting used to

the new the new set up here. Yeah, Jenny and I have been

there, so we've been there twice now. We were there for the show,

uh there for a concert. Yeah, who was who was? I

forget who was playing that night? Derek will remember. It was back in

December. Yeah, yeah, and that was the first one. Had Evan

Benoit Happy just to see you and the DJ Visa from Portland, Maine.

Yeah yeah, yeah, he was great. Well, both both of them

were really good. And then we were there a number of weeks ago for

the U during the daytime as a presentation of talk on AI in Art many

different forms, which was really interesting. Yeah. I really learned a lot

about AI that I did not know before, So it was a great talk.

Yeah, and I know they have more things like that coming up.

And tonight we're gonna go see Abner the Second Yes and Regal Yes. Regals.

Yeah, forgive me, I forgot to put the s on. Yeah,

I was checking out the checking them out last night. I was really

enjoying their music. So I'm looking forward to seeing them live tonight. And

the space is so uniquely cool in that the Misaic are collective. When you

walk in, it's just it's art. You walk into this this really amazing

space that has different different people's work, different types of talents, different types

of textures and styles, and then you have this warm room in the middle

where the music is and everybody can gather and and then there's a lot of

artist spaces there. They're beautiful. It's just a really uniquely cool place,

that little little diving in the rough of the city that even once you know

it's there, yeah, you're right right, Yeah, it is sort of

set up. We are located on the second floor, so we are a

little kind of set back and a little hidden there. Yeah, but it

is a diamond when you when you first walk in, and the space has

served a numerous amount of purposes for many artists and creative in Manchester over the

last year plus. I love that you guys have been into shows and seeing

some of our music that's happened so far. That's really exciting. Yeah,

yeah, yeah, no, we fell in love really quickly. Yeah,

absolutely, no, very cool place. Now. So so the two of

you, Nick and Chloy, so you're both on the board. Corrects correct?

Now? How did so? How did this get started? How did

the art collective get started? So it started back in August. They did

a show called Full Circle and it was kind of, like I said,

an art call so local artists could participate. My friend Cassie has sent me

a link and I entered and I met Liz when I dropped off, and

it was just extremely warm and welcome. You just walk in and you just

kind of feel like comfortable, and it's just kind of been like that all

year. And it's Snowball and now we're a nonprofit with the board which we

joined, and it's it's just a nice spot for people to show this art

that are local and right now there's a show called this is Us plus some,

So the board members brought in a guest each to show some art that

are like local leaders in the in the area. Yeah, really all of

New England, but mostly local to the after Okay, I assume you know

we we always talk Jenny and I talked about talk about this on the show

quite a bit, you know, because we have a lot of musicians on.

We're always talking about how it's amazing how much local talent there is and

and you would you know, you almost and I assume it's not obviously it's

not unique to to this area any anywhere. Really, you know, there's

you're gonna find a lot of music, local musicians in your area who are

doing really great stuff. And I don't think people who aren't paying attention realize

just how much talent there is going on around them that they're not aware of

unless they're actually taking the time to investigate and go out to see shows or

go just go online and find what local musicians are doing. I assume it's

the same with art, right, that there's just all this talent all around

us that unless you're really kind of tuned in and paying attention, you don't

even you don't even know that it's there unless you at least put in the

effort to, you know, to check out a place like Mosaic and explore.

Yeah. Absolutely, Mosaic was the first place that I ever showed.

I had no idea. I've lived in New Hampshire for ten years now,

so yeah, it's like I had no idea that everyone was around here doing

this much. It's a community I just was oblivious to. Yeah, so

it's really cool just to see and meet all these people over the year,

and it felt like years really wouldn't been one year, so it's like this

place is just kind of blown up in Manchester. Yeah, that's really cool

that that was your first I talked to Liz, and at some point,

when I get daring enough, i'll submit something. But I like hearing that

you did it for the first time and then here you are, So that's

awesome, encouraging, it's encouraging. What goes into that is showing? Is

that the right term? Show? Exhibitioning? Showing? Yeah? Like what

goes into that? So it is, uh, it's a team effort.

So this this current show that we have up was a little bit of a

different structure. It was an invitation structure, so that was a little bit

different. We reached out to artists and invited them to come into the space

and show. Typically, we run a open call every month, and for

an open call, anybody is welcome to enter, and we love that everybody

does. Yeah, and we like when you say everybody, like how many

people doesn't end up being Oh, it depends. So some of the things

that might dictate who enters a show are We try to assign a theme to

each month that might be relevant to something that's happening in the month, or

relevant to our own timeline as a gallery. So I think different themes attract

different kinds of artists and attract different kinds of work. So, for example,

in October, this most recent October, we did the Never More show,

and I think Halloween is a very popular thing for artists. I can

imagine. Yeah, yeah, we had just an influx of just amazing work,

all inspired by spooky October things. Yes, and that was on the

flip end, you know. Then the board has to get together and review

all these submissions and make selections. And once we have that list of work

that's selected to make it into the show, then we have to hang it

on the wall. Yeah. Yeah, so that has always been fun.

And I think I can speak for more than just myself when I say the

hanging parties that we do at Mosaic have been a really huge team building experience

for the step or those of us that are involved with that process. We

have really had every month just this wonderful point to come together, touch touch

base, kind of collaborate on on this on this show. That's gonna mean

something to everyone, not just us, and it's it provides all of us

such a such a great feeling of fulfillment and happiness, and we all walk

away from those days, those evenings feeling really uplifted, and you know,

I think recognizing what this was all about in the first place, Liz moved.

Liz is the owner and founder of Mosaic, and she moved back into

this area to hooks the area after living in Vermont for quite a while.

And I think her time in Vermont, she found that there was a really

thriving, collaborative, local arts community and when she moved back to this space,

was sort of surprised to see a different environment in this space. And

I think she saw identified and then executed the need to produce a space where

the local artists here in Manchester could come and really live up to what some

of the other like small local art communities in the in the US are doing

all around us. And it's sort of collected and organized that effort into one

space. And seeing that come to fruition over the last year has been I

think to knixt point, it's felt like a decade, not just a year.

You know, we've gained a decades worth of friends and met a decades

worth of people all in the last year, and network and inspiration and collaboration,

all of that and last year it's mind blowing to think how much has

happened, no doubt. It's interesting how people can interact with the artists more

here too, where it is a local collective of artists, you have the

opportunity to speak to the artists or get closer to them than you would in

a large gallery situation where you might see their name but you wouldn't even know

what they look like. Yeah, here the artists can be more more in

touch or they're more reachable. I'm curious too about the submission, because you're

talking about like the board, you've got to review all the submissions And is

that a difficult process because I would imagine because obviously art, any kind of

art, is subjective, and so I would imagine there's some disagreement right about,

you know, like someone might like something and someone else will say,

no, we can't know, yeah exactly. I mean you have three of

us try to do it at a time so that you know, there's a

tiebreaker vote type of thing. Okay, that's smart, so you know,

like if it was one person, it's going to be pretty biased. But

if you have three people doing it, then it's like two people could agree

and one guy's like maybe iffy about it, or like two people could kind

of be iffy about it, and then you have the third person say,

actually, yeah, that's like why not bring that in and that type of

thing. Like, so it is a collaborative effort, like with everything.

So like judging a show, hanging a show, like Chloe said, we

all show up and kind of take a wall and hang the show, and

then we also have the openings like where you can meet the artists because most

of them show up. So it's like you can just go to an opening

and see something on the wall and the person standing right there to talk to.

So yeah, very cool. Yeah, there's lots of checks and balances

and how we make those selections. And I think one of the core elements

that we keep in mind when we're making them is the mission of Mosaic,

which is to help build and nurture and influence the growth of one's practice in

a safe place. So when we're making these selections, we're keeping in mind

that this is not just about what is the internationally technically good like museum artwork.

This is about real art. This is about community art, This is

about self expression, and this is about being supported in that. Yeah,

yeah, excellent. And now, Derek, how did you get involved?

Obviously you you know you've been You've been booking the music and you you and

I have known each other for a long time in the in the music industry.

We used to do Jenny's heard this of course, but you know,

back in the day, we used to book a lot of shows and you

introduced me to well, you know, we were sort of half kidding at

the UH at the that Jenny and I went to that. You know,

Acacia Strain. They owe all their success to us because we booked them on

a show. I'm honestly surprised they're still the band, they are still around.

Well, you know, they had a great start because we booked them.

I don't we paved the way, That's right, They all all it

all to us. But yeah, so how did you get involved in the

collective? Once I moved back earlier last year and in the spring, I

reached out to Liz. I was just looking for some sort of outlet because

I had initially won to start a gallery collective of my own in the city

here when I lived here, you know, ten plus years ago, and

that never materialized. So I started. I started my online gallery artists only,

and you know, I've just hosted a bunch of artists throughout the country

and international, but I still wanted a physical space because the idea was always

to include a monthly showcase of performers. And I reached out to her to

see if she was open to the idea, and she was, so I

met with her, went over some logistics and and we you know, that

was in the fall that I met her initially, and we had the first

show, as you mentioned, in December. So yeah, it's just gonna

we're gonna try to keep doing them, are you still doing your online gallery

periodically, not as regularly as it had been, but yeah, it used

to be a more full web page. Now it's it's solely structured to Instagram,

so that artists only. A oh okay, okay, what goes into

that an online gallery? I mean, do people contact you and say I'd

like to feature? How does that work? I don't get contacted so much

as I network with the artists. I'll reach out to someone i'd like to

feature. Also, it's it's nonprofit, so I'll just also sometimes repost various

artists work and give them the credit. Yeah. Yeah, what was your

Instagram page? It's artists only and then the abbreviation AO at the end.

And now for the music, are you booking all the music at the at

Mosaic? Is that that's all you at the moment? Yeah? Yeah,

I mean I know it's relatively new still, but right. Yeah. So

this is the the second one tonight. I already have the one set up

up for next month, will be on the seventeenth. It's going to be

more of an electronic night with two solo electronic artists, another one from Portland,

Maine, Gibbs Freelance and I try to have a local support as an

opener for draw and that's going to be Danny Kemp's Anny Camps. Yeah,

he does kind of like he plays guitar and bass, but he also misses

around with sense. How do you how do you figure out who would be

a good fit? I mean, is there do you do the musicians that

you're booking, do they have to kind of fit a do you have a

certain criteria in mind in terms of who would you know because it's not obviously

at a place like Mosaic, it's you know, you want to have artists,

musicians who are gonna fit the vibe. I mean, do you is

that a big part of the process in terms of figuring out who to who

to book there? Somewhat? Yeah, I mean I'll I'll try to have

it, you know, be some sort of complimentary in a sense, but

I'm all for diversity as well, so maybe in shows to come it'll be

more of a an abstract bill. Yeah, yeah, I mean that,

you know, when we were there that night, I mean that that seemed

perfect, you know, that seems like just the perfect fit for for that,

you know, and it's such a it's such an amazing space. You're

sitting in the middle of all this beautiful art and the space is so it's

yeah, God, I'm looking for a word that's not coming to me.

Huh, intimate, intimate. That is exactly what I was looking for.

You're and the sound is just really great with the musicians. I'm telling you,

it's totally worth going there to listen to the music. It's just such

a great space to be in. It's more personable. You know, the

artist is right there, not H'm teen feet away from you or what have

you. Yeah, yeah, no, I really am. I've already written

it down February seventeenth, got that February seventeenth, after tonight will be the

next music night, so I'll have that DOWNE love to actually keep in touch

and bring musicians that you have, bring them to our listeners. If we

haven't beat you to the punch we already had yeah yeah, yeah, I

mean if they're available or before the show on some Saturday and we start to

see a lot of wonderful musicians. If you ever need anybody, please don't

hesitate. I love recommendations that come in and go out. So thanks for

that. Absolutely, absolutely, I really am excited about tonight's show too.

Regals is a new to me, never heard of them before the and I'm

really interesting sound. I really enjoyed we were listening last night because I was

just playing. I always play something I have tonight, so I always have

something in the room going on. Really great sound, really great. They

started as a three piece and I first saw them perform over at two Shared

Okay, and they've expanded to a fuller band. Ryan Egan, who leads

the band, has been in former Manchester bands before Happy Just to See You

were that band. It was Bad Fellows and he played drums with them,

and it was also in a band called Pleasure Gap Okay. But he's been

a Manchester staple for you know, ten plus years. And this city has

a lot of arts, a lot of amazing artists. I didn't realize how

much until last year when we've really started concentrating hard on bringing in more musicians

and more artists. This city is with incredible talent. It's just amazing to

me what we have in this city. You think New Hampshire kind of a

small state. We can fit your whole state inside of New York as far

as people go. But we really are very blessed with a lot of amazing

talent and different genres, all kinds of genres. If you ever want to

try out a new genre, a small venue like this is absolutely perfect to

go listen to something you haven't seen before, like Abner two or the second

Abner the Second. I never know which way to go either or I think,

really he's amazing. He uses a viola and does this looping technique and

the music he creates, and I love his voice. The songs he creates

are absolutely awesome. It was funny because Matt's been playing him for a very

long time before we ever had him on as a guest, and we finally

got him on as a guest, and I got the joy of sitting there

going We've been playing you for years. Him being on this show was actually

how I realized that Matt had started a radio show. Oh no, kidds.

I was still in Austin, Texas at the time, and I saw

Zach Abner post about it. Oh cool, yeah, cool, the small

world comes around. That's good to hear. So now, so what does

the future hold for Mosaic? I mean, is is there kind of a

long term plan as far as continuing to expand what you're doing, or we

have some really exciting stuff that you know is maybe potentially hanging in our future,

but some of the more kind of immediate moments that we'd really love to

see the community show up and support, and is of course our music night

tonight, and so doors will open at seven pm. Okay, it is

a twenty one plus show, but we will be having refreshments by donation and

live music, and we expect the show will run through about ten pm.

Okay, this evening cool, So feel free to stop by between seven and

ten and come check us out and see what the game he has to offer.

Jenny and I will be there. Absolutely. Are you an artist?

Do you want to be on? Absolutely? Now. In the course of

the collective, you guys operate mostly on donation, right, correct, So

we are a nonprofit, so we really do rely on support from our community

by donation and also by showing up and being in the shows. Right.

Submitting it feels like really cheap, isn't it like ten dollars? I think

ten to fifteen dollars. Yeah, it's very accessible. That's our aim and

our goal is to keep it that way. You can take a chance without

losing your grocery bill, which I think that's it makes it all the more

accessible to everybody, Right, you don't have to be somebody with a whole

lot of money to try and buy your way in through a gallery. You

your donation is helping to fund this beautiful space for local artists, which people

know. Matt and I are huge on supporting all local artists and he can't

go wrong when you support your community anyway. Yeah, we actually have a

sticker to support local art which is three dollars which helps artists with submission fees.

And we also have gift cards done by Jackie Hanson which you can kind

of buy over time if you want to save up for yourself or give it

to someone else to buy a piece at the gallery, or you can use

it towards your submission fees for open calls. So the next open call that

we have is all heart statuses for February show. So it can neither be

you know, about your relationship or love for whoever, or it could be

about how love sucks and you can just do something for that. So any

heart status okay, So it doesn't even necessarily have to be love, you

know, it could be any emotion that you feel you need to express.

Oh very good, very good. Oh I like that. Yeah. So

the submission, the submission date is for that. All submissions are due due

by January twenty six at eleven fifty nine pm. So mark that on your

calendars. Okay. So well, if people go to submit, they take

a picture of their work, send it to you with the fee, and

then everybody goes and looks at all the different pieces. And now to people

come in with huge paintings teeny tiny paintings, are there size restrictions like or

do you like just send a picture and go, hey, this is what

it is. So typically we don't do We don't impose many restrictions because we

want to see what you have. You know, we do have space limitations

obviously that it's not a huge room, but we accept three D artwork,

two D artwork, digital art work, any kind, and the dimensions are

completely ope, I mean only the only limitation we have is can we get

it in the room, right, So it really is open ended and we

encourage everyone to kind of not be constricted in what they're bringing to the table.

Yeah that's awesome. Yeah, Oh I'm glad. I asked that question.

Yeah, that's a great question. We have a couple So Nick mentioned

that we have a gift card done by a local artist, Jackie Hansen,

who we've done some incredible workshops with, and she actually has a workshop coming

up in the next couple of weeks here and it's actually January twenty fifth.

Okay, it's going to be an eraser workshop. So the gift card that

we have is kind of done in a similar style where she has carved into

material to create a stamp and then you know, repeat that artwork, you

know, over and over again as many times as she wants. Interesting.

So that's how our gift cards are made, and so this eraser workshop will

be very similar to that in carving into an eraser material, which is very

easy to get accessible. Anybody can find an eraser and then create a stamp

out of it. Yeah, so that will be a really exciting workshop coming

up, and those who are interested in signing up for that, I encourage

checking out our website and getting a slot ahead of time. Now, what

is the cost on that particular workshop. Off the top of my head,

I'm actually not one hundred percent sure, but I you know, I'm not

even going to give you an estimated figure because I can't remember off the top

of my head, but it is posted on our website. Okay, okay,

oh, I've set it right here. Actually, the Erase of Print

Marketing workshop that is going to be held on January twenty fifth, arrive at

five forty five please, and their address again is sixty six Handover Streets to

a suite two oh one, So thirty five dollars registration fee, which covers

all the supplies that you need to make your own to be able to take

that home. Yeah, very cool. So that will be your very exciting

way to not only support the gallery but also have something that you get to

take home with you to day. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's great

that you're doing something that's not a painting right right, like different? No

that I mean, obviously I paint, but everywhere's always a paint for I

want to do something fun, right, something different, something that you can

play with. Yeah, I like that. I like that? And maybe

what else from absolutely ooh, I like the support local artist sticker there,

that's really I love stickers. In case you didn't notice, my laptop is

completely covered, well, you must need one. I must need one.

A very fun fact is the artist who created that sticker is actually sitting right

next to me in this room. You. Hey, no, seriously,

I really like this. Yeah, Liz ree Stone asked if we wanted to

do a sticker, and I just kind of came up with something and we

went back and forth about it, and we actually used that same design for

the we were did that Christmas bread recently and we had a banner on the

side that had the same thing. So that's pretty cool too. Excellent,

excellent. Hey. By the way, this is a little bit not off

topic, but not specifically about the gallery, but I'm just curious do any

of you have any thoughts on because Jenny and I attended that that event that

was at the gallery about AI and art. Do any of you just have

any kind of general thoughts about that or it's kind of a big, big

subject, but it's a broad question, but I'm just curious if if any

of you have any thoughts on the matter. Generally, I'm not for AI,

but I can understand its use kind of like I don't know if you're

editing something or something like that, but if you're going from like zero to

an image, I don't necessarily love that use of it. By that,

you mean like if you give it a prompt and create this and create this,

Because I don't know. I I hand draw and I use digital.

I think digital is like the closest they'll get to it. But no,

I understand its uses though, so generally I'm not for it, but I

can see how people can use it to enhance whatever they're doing right right or

edit their writing. So say you're like writing. See we were talking about

that before you guys came into the show because I have a book started and

I was coming in hiring. Should I use AI to edit the book or

not? And now I've come to the conclusion that I'm not going to.

Yeah, But for I was toying with the idea. I mean I talked

it. He did, he talk about of it. He totally talked me

out of it. But I have a unique style of writing anyway. I

don't know that you could fit that into me. I have a little bit

of a different perspective on AI. Oh cool. So I'm classically trained as

a photographer, and I think one of the things when AI started coming onto

the scene that I am a just immediate it Lea started thinking, was,

man, this this must must be how painters felt when photography hit the scene,

you know, you know, and like just to see the medium gos

from you know, you have to at least with photography, you had to

actually go to the place and bring the equipment and put that amount of effort.

And now you can just go type in, make me a picture of

Santorini with a wedding happening, and there it is. You know, you

don't have to be there, so I think, and and similarly to a

painter who used to have to put or still does put hours of time into

accurately translating what they're seeing, and then photography hit the scene and you just

press a button and go about your marry day. Right, yeah, I

can only draw like equations to how that must feel there. Yeah, it

never occurred to me. Yeah, but that's yeah, it's an interesting insight.

It seems like it might be some kind of natural agression in you know,

art and technology that we're experiencing. But it's also I am skeptical too,

you know. There there, I think AI can be misused and and

I it is also a tool that is dictated by humans still, so it's

depending upon other people's work to draw itself into work, right, It's pulling

from everything else that other people have already done, right, which in a

lot of way doing that right. Right. So, so the only difference

is that it's an artificial intelligence that's drawing inspiration from the world around it rather

than an organic intelligence, so which I think see is the reason to be

skeletical. But it is interesting. Yeah, what do you think, Derek.

I think that I'm I'm anti AI in the respect of, you know,

it potentially taking jobs from people, but I believe that there may be

some sort of merit to it in like the medical field. Yeah, it's

they're they're working out ways to allow even like paralyzed people to walk again.

Watch some of those videos. There's like sensory mechanisms that they have been implanted

in people that they're able to control remotely and you know, give those sort

of you know, sensory function that the body is supposed to and uh,

you know, it's it's it's still at the beginning stages and the people are

are still slow to to get going. But it's yeah, there's it's it's

sort of you know, progression in that Field. Yeah, well, it's

funny you mentioned that too, because when we had when we had Conrad War

from the band I don't know if you know the band Be's Deluxe, really

good Boston band, and we were talking about that with him, you remember

this, and he was talking about how, for example, if you're a

medical professional and you're you're trying to find a treatment plan for someone with an

illness, and you can you know, say to AI, you know,

give me, give me three treatment plans for this person and describe the person

and and uh, you know, it can save a lot of time and

potentially be very useful in a situation like that. So Hanson in in medicine

is just exponentially going. I agree with you. In a lot of different

industries, AI does and will continue to have a great place. But in

art, yeah, that's where you And it's all art, whether it's right,

whether it's music, whether it's print, whether it's writing. It adds

a lot of guesswork to authentic or not. So I'll just share briefly my

my one experience trying to create visual art using uh Dolly three. I don't

know if any of you have used that at all, but I had to.

We did a segment on the show talking about the Daryl Hall versus John

Oates lawsuit a couple of months ago, and so I I took that segment

and I put it on YouTube, and I needed a thumbnail, and uh,

so I tried, uh using Dolly three to create what I wanted was

to see because I'd seen I'd seen people come up with some pretty good stuff

using this, So I wanted an image of Darryl Hall and John Oates in

a boxing ring. And what I learned pretty quickly is it's very resistant.

Two and and we talked about this too at the event that we went to

at most A. Yeah, this came up at the event. I wish

I could remember that who Who's Who's the gentleman's name? By the way,

do you know offhand Carl Carl? I cannot. I have a mental block

with his name. He was very impressive. I liked his presentation. So

we were talking about about this, and I remember telling him I couldn't get

it to do that exactly, and he said, it seems to be the

program seems to be very resistant to the idea, just broadly, of putting

celebrities in violent situations. So it wouldn't let me do that. So the

best I was able to get out of it when I tried to make that,

and I did, I did get it to do. Something that I

used for a thumbnail on the YouTube video was Daryl holland John Oates at a

plain chess but with angry expressions on their faces. It doesn't quite look like

Darryl holland John Oates, but it looks close enough. But they both look

angry and it's a funny fixture. But that's the only thing I've I've used

it for so far, but that was kind of fun. Well, listen,

we will, uh will begin before we run out of time. I

want to make sure, well, actually, is there anything that we didn't

mention, because I know you had a bunch of things you wanted to mention.

I don't want to leave anything out. I think we got through most

of them. The only one that I and it occurs to me since we're

talking about Carl's talk, we will be having another artist talk at the end

of January. Here on January twenty sixth Okay local photographer Gary Sampson, who's

actually he's the photographer I invited to the This is Us plus some show.

He's been my longtime mentor and professor as a photographer, and he has a

really extensive history with Manchester and supporting historical and cultural preservation in Manchester alongside being

also a very prolific artist in his own respect. Oh cool, and he'll

be doing an artist talk on the twenty sixth January twenty six starting at five

forty five pm, So I know many many of the listeners out there may

actually know of Gary and might be interested to see him talk and hear about

his work, So please feel free to register online for that talk as well.

We'd love to see the community show up. Excellent, excellent. Where

should people go online to keep up with everything that is going on at Mosaic

Art Collective. I think we are most active on Instagram Mosaic Art Collective very

simple on Instagram. We are also on Facebook and if you go to Mosaic

Arcollective dot com, our gallery website is also updated regularly along with all of

our social media pages. Okay, and you can actually see like all the

archive shows from the past year or two, so if you're curious what we've

been doing, you can go down and see all the art that was in

each show. Okay, okay, excellent, excellent, And what will all

three of you be there tonight? Absolutely? Absolutely, very good. Well,

look forward to that. We look forward to seeing you there. Jenny

and I will be there and we encourage people to participate. Yes and yeah,

speaking of archives, as you are aware, I had told you I

had a radio show of my own, and I have so since being there,

I quote unquote revived the show as a home recording back in October.

So I have a handful of episodes up, most currently one from the beginning

of the month, and I'm gonna have it go for maybe a few more

installments and until I reached episode fifty, So those can be listened to on

a It's a music variety show and it's on mixcloud dot com Forward Slash Eclectic

Arrangements. I like the name. Yeah, thanks, and we only left

out for the show tonight that the admission is the slight scale five to ten

dollars. Okay. I bought our tickets online. Yeah, and that was

an option as well on event pright. Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent.

Well, I'm glad, I'm glad you're all going to be there tonight.

That is wonderful. Of course, Abner the Second and UH regals will

be playing Who's Who's going on? What's the order is? It's Abner first

and then Resh and Abner will be joined by a drummer tonight. He will

just be oh, okay, okay, very interesting, very good, very

good. Wakes it up? Yeah, would Oh that's right, our friend

EZG hasn't called. I know you well. Thank you all three of you

for coming in. Nick and Chloe, wonderful to meet you, and Derek

of course, always nice to see you, my friend. Thanks Matt,

absolutely look forward to uh, look forward to seeing you tonight. And yeah,

definitely I would encourage people to come down Mosaic Art Collective tonight and in

fact, we're going to close out the segment with another song from Abner the Second

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