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        Vol. V  No. III. Page 1.                                                                    July - September  2012

                                       Visit our website at www.berkshirecarousel.com

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    “We welcome donations and we are a tax deductible 501-c-3 non-profit too!!!”

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Message from the President of Berkshire Carousel

                       

(Berkshire Carousel Co-founders Jim and Jackie Shulman)  

Dear Friends of the Berkshire Carousel,

Summer greetings, 

I have had two great trips to the Berkshires this summer from my Ohio home and was able to attend several exciting events. It is incredible how much progress has been made on the carousel in the four years since we opened our first workshop and recruited a handful of volunteers. To date over two hundred volunteers have participated in creating the figures, painting and other parts of the carousel.  People who are not familiar with the project or have not visited the workshop think that Berkshire Carousel is only about an amusement ride and simply a commodity to attract people to a shopping area. 

It is much more and our volunteers have become the strongest advocates and voices about the project. The Berkshire Carousel is an art masterpiece and will prove to be one of the most visited artworks in the Berkshires when completed. It is also about community; a community of people from all walks of life who have worked to give something back to their larger community and have a true sense of legacy.  The carousel has also provided an important educational and skills building opportunity for people of all ages. The same excitement about learning is shared by our junior artists as is by our seniors, and we have had volunteers from 9 to 90 participate. This project could not have succeeded better in meeting Jackie and my expectations of involving the community in creating the carousel. Again we thank you volunteers, supporters, sponsors and friends for helping make the project so successful.

 

Peace and Health,

Jim Shulman

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Meet Our Volunteers

(By Nancy Shulman)

Katy Levesque

Katy was born in Berkshire County Massachusetts. She has lived in both Lenox, Pittsfield, and in Dalton. She graduated from Wahconah Regional High School. She is a Graduate of The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with a BFA  in Illustration & Visual Design. She lived in North Dartmouth, MA for a while and then came back to the Berkshires. She currently lives in Dalton.

Over the years she has shown Illustration and Design work at The Box Car Gallery, The Epiphany Gallery, The Nemasket Gallery, Fairhaven, MA, The UMD Center for Visual & Performing Arts Gallery, North Dartmouth, MA, The UMD CVPA Campus Gallery, North Dartmouth, MA, The UMD University Campus Store, North Dartmouth, MA, The Purchase Street Gallery, New Bedford, MA, The Zeiterion Theatre, New Bedford, MA, The Dartmouth Mall, North Dartmouth, MA, and The Norman Rockwell Museum High school Show, Stockbridge, MA,

Katy has worked as an artist / sign maker for Price Chopper Supermarkets and several other stores. She has been a chalkboard artist, hand lettered sign maker for various independent bakeries, book stores, butchers, delicatessens, produce markets, beer and wine vendors and sub shops.  She has created three dimensional holiday product displays, product display designs, merchandiser layouts, newspaper ads, calendars, coupon flyers, weekly in-store flyers, and other promotional materials. She is an Illustrator, who also does graphic design and creates lots of different types of creative materials for artists, events, people, products, promotion and print materials. She has also created paintings murals for some private home commissions, book stores, and restaurants. 

Katy is inspired by Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham, John William Waterhouse, Dan Jurgens, Jim Lee, as well as several other Illustrators, comic book artists, designers and painters. She loves to doodle in pen and ink and Sharpie in her sketchbook. She also enjoys photography and movies. She is currently working on several creative endeavors including calenders, childrens' books, and magazines.

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For  Berkshire Carousel Katy is working on a series of design projects. Besides photographing different aspects of the creation process of the ponies, Katy has designed a new informational tri-fold brochure, the 2012 Berkshire Carousel Crew t-shirt design "Carve, Paint and Create" (which is on coffee cups too), the Pinky Token,  Coloring contest sheets and a prototype calendar.  She is also illustrating the Berkshire Carousel Coloring book featuring the carousel’s ponies. She has incorporated the logo into print and digital internet advertisements for the project and is helping with designs for the Facebook Fan Page and Twitter Account. 

Bob Hill

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Fun Carousel Related Items

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Howdy Doody Comic Book

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