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Shop-O-Rama set for Dec. 3, 10

The Holidays are approaching and whatever you are celebrating the question is the same — where can I get a gift for that special someone that is unique and affordable? Fortunately, The Art Studio, Inc. has the answer. TASI will host its annual Holiday Shop-O-Rama Extravaganza in December, featuring original art at reasonable prices by a

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Surrealists melded reality with dreams to create imaginative juxtapositions of imagery

André Breton declared in his 1924 essay “The Surrealist Manifesto” that he believes in “the future resolution of…dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.” It is post-World War I Europe, Breton has read some Freud and, along with a handful of

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View From The Top

Politics is full of controversy these days, and although everyone has an opinion about it and the direction our country should be following, our nonprofit status does not allow us to express or endorse an opinion about issues supported by one party, candidate or another.  We can, however, speak about policies that affect us in

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View from the Top

In writing my little diatribes each month I  sometimes feel that I am whistling in the dark. Is anyone really reading these things? Should they? My last month’s attempt to further define The Studio, and open eyes to our goals and aspirations pointed to the outsider artist, the loner who may feel that there is

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Savage Confections

Wood’s AMSET exhibition, ‘Curtain Call,’ subverts, repulses, delights On the face of it, the gallery is filled with a syrupy confection of “girly” pastel colors and surrounded by gaudy gold frames — an explosion of stereotypical femininity. But if one draws back the metaphorical curtain, one sees a dark, harsh imagery full of violence, that turns

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