Artists Supporting Each Other,

And The Jewelry That Results From Cooperation

BROOKFIELD — A new exhibition entitled “AKA — Object and Image” has opened in the Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery at Brookfield Craft Center. The show will be open daily through September 28.

Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays from noon to 5 pm. Admission is free.

According to Kristin Muller, the center’s education director and curator of the show, “The original members of AKA:92 were a group of four women artists who met at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in the 1980s. They rightly suspected they might have more visibility as a group than as individuals and in 1989 AKA:92 was born.”

The current members of AKA:92 are Susan Kasson Sloan, Marjorie Simon, Biba Schutz and Ginny Whitney, who form a core group of committed jewelers who continue to meet, exhibit together, support one another, and share resources.

The exhibition in Brookfield features the members of AKA:92 plus several other invited artists including photographers and image makers, each of whom is connected in some way with at least one of the core members of AKA:92.

The participating artists are Ron Boszko, Dan Estabrook, Sara Friedlander, Ralph Gabriner, Alison Howard-Levy, Irmari Nacht, Boo Poulin, Biba Schutz, Marjorie L. Simon, Susan Kasson Sloan and Ginny Whitney.

The Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery is within Brookfield Craft Center’s historic Mill Building at 286 Whisconier Road (Route 25), just east of the four corners intersection with Routes 7/202.

For more information call 775-4526 or visit BrookfieldCraftCenter.org.