One of my favorite destinations in Little Falls, NY is the Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts (MVCA). I knew the Selective Eye, the MVCA gift shop, would be a good stop on my Shop Small Spree the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Side Note: Shop Small Spree is my name for my day last Saturday. I don’t know if the official name was Shop Small Saturday or Small Business Saturday or even Shop Local Saturday. I suppose I would look these things up if I was a responsible journalist, but oh well, here we come to the ugly truth about me.
And I just remembered, I can’t write about this before Christmas! What if I bought a present there for somebody who reads my blog? I’m not saying I did. Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. In fact, already I’ve said too much.
Nevertheless, I need a blog post today and I’ve already typed in this many words. I can mention one thing we saw at MVCA. We went into the gallery, where they were setting up their next exhibit, a Student Art Show,which is to open on Saturday, Dec. 5 and runs to Dec. 24. The show was open to any students who had taken a class at MVCA in the past year. Just imagine! If I would have taken a class, I could have submitted a work! Definitely something to think about for the future.
There will be an opening reception for the show Saturday, Dec. 5 from 2 to 4 p.m. I have attended openings there before and enjoyed them. I’ve talked to other art lovers, and sometimes the artist speaks about his or her work. However, to really appreciate the works I prefer to go when the gallery is less crowded. I hope to do that sometime before the 24th. For another reason, I can shop some more at the Selective Eye.
While looking at MVCA’s Facebook page to confirm the dates of the exhibit, I noticed an event called “Bedazzled” will take place Saturday, Dec 19 from noon to 4 p.m. It is a sale of gently used jewelry, purses, scarves and other items. Sounds good to me!
Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts and the Selective Eye are located at 401 Canal Place, Little Falls, NY, phone number 315-823-0808. For more information you can visit their website at www.mohawkvalleyarts.org. You can also Like them on Facebook.
Further note: I did just a little kind of, sort of research… OK, I typed stuff into the search bar in Facebook and learned that many communities held events Saturday with any number of titles utilizing some of all of the words Shop, Small, Local, Business, and Saturday. Whatever you call it, it’s a good thing to do. You can have a lot of fun, and you can buy some good stuff.
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