Pittsfield, MA. In an unusual
move Art Of The Game is offering much of its
2006 summer merchandise for sale through the
Holiday Season. Designed by John Broderick, the
now highly recognizable 1791 logo can be viewed
on t-shirts, travel mugs, sweatshirts, with or
without hoods, and baseball caps and these items
are anticipated to be the perfect gift for
family and friends, especially at the reduced
prices the art organization has authorized for
this limited time period.
Broderick is also the artist whose
building-sized wall hanging, THE PITCHER, can be
seen on North Street, just above West Street. It
is one of more than twenty fine art creations
that will remain on display throughout
Pittsfield until October, 2007, the second year
of the Art Of The Game project.
The sale items are available, exclusively,
at the Pittsfield Visitors Center, operated by
the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, in the lobby of
the Colonial Theater. The shop is open most
days. Check for hours.
During the sale the 1791 t-shirts will sell
for $7 for adults and $5 for children’s sizes.
The create your own t-shirt, complete with
indelible markers, will sell for $5 for adult
sizes and $3 for kids. The travel mugs have been
reduced to $2.50; the 1791 patch to $.50; the
souvenir pin to $3.00. The 1791 baseball caps
will be $15.00 and the sweatshirts will go for
$12 and $15.
Even the souvenir booklets with photos of
all one hundred baseball glove chairs and other
baseball art will be available at a special,
limited-time offer price of $2.50, but only at
this location.
“As we prepare for the second year of this
art project,” said co-chair Mary Rentz, “we want
to give the public a chance to go home with
these souvenir items. The windows on art, mostly
baseball art, will continue through the winter
and the sculptures, hangings and benches will
also continue, but now that the baseball glove
chairs have been sold, we are formulating new
plans for 2007. There will be new souvenirs of
the second year, and we really need to make room
for those things now.”
The glove auction last month at Hancock
Shaker Village brought in nearly $30,000,
seventy percent of which is being distributed to
the schools and youth organizations that created
the works. Many of the window pieces have sold
and some of the larger, artist created works are
also under option for purchase.
For more information consult the Art Of The
Game website at
www.artgamepittsfield.org or call
413-443-6501.
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