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MIDDLETOWN, RI Times are Tough Gallery is opening at the DeBlois Gallery Feb 6, from 1 to 7 p.m..
“Times are Tough Gallery,” a tiny fine art and craft venue, is the brainchild of owner/curator Pia Hogue. As a working artist, I love the camaraderie of shows,” she said. Hogue saw that the markets where she and her fellow artists would sell their work, closed due to Covid, she decided to help by opening a gallery. “These are my friends, these are great people, they are hurting,” she added.
The DeBlois Gallery offered “Times are Tough Gallery” their space in Middletown at the DeBlois Gallery for the month of February to give them the opportunity to spread out and feature even more local art.
By Christopher Hislop
What a year. Right? Due to obvious circumstances cough COVID cough and being largely kept in a state of quarantine, the records (in a tangible sense) did not flood in this year. I can count the total on two hands and have a decent percentage of those 10 fingers left after the counting is done.
That said, the digital format still saw some ample action. Being a dinosaur, this was part of the pain I endured as my collective 2020 experience. I am, as many know, not a digital dude as it pertains to music. I like to hold it. I like to figure out where I’m going to keep in the walls of my music hoarding palace. To the delight of my wife, the walls didn’t close in too much tighter this year, as the majority of the music I fielded lives in the cloud(s).