Art Squad, an ever-changing cadre of artists that have housed themselves on the fifth floor of the Western Building for the last couple of years, will be having its last First Thursday extravaganza this week. They’re closing down due to the usual kinds of pressures that are bound to crop up whenever you get a bunch of creative types together: flaring tempers, flaky studiomates, lack of funds, and so on.

Showing on Thursday will definitely be Russel Hay’s sailors, Caroline Colon’s shopping carts, Sarah Wright’s light fetish photos, and Janet Miller’s lovely mixed media encaustics. There has been some talk of either a jug band or a guy playing the saw, and I’ll be there as usual, playing doorgirl/bouncer.

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