Gallery X Series Episode 6: Don Wilkinson
In Episode Six, our Gallery X Documentation Project podcast host Sean FitzGerald speaks with Don Wilkinson, painter/art writer. Don is an important part of Gallery X and contributes his memories to the Gallery X Documentation Project! He’s one of the earliest Gallery X members and an integral part of the gallery’s formation and growth into a New Bedford and overall South Coast creative community institution.
Don’s art articles have appeared in Artscope Magazine, Art New England, The Standard-Times, The Providence Journal, Ceramics Ireland Magazine, and currently, as the Chasing the Muse arts columnist for The New Bedford Light, is a free, nonprofit, nonpartisan digital news outlet for the South Coast.
PHOTO CREDIT: Don Wilkinson
About Gallery X
The gallery was founded in 1990 and is a contemporary, cooperative art gallery of visual, performing, and literary artist members and volunteers. Gallery X has served as an incubator for emerging artists and is a venue for established artists. It is a platform for local artists, performers, and creatives of all ages, skill levels, and backgrounds to showcase their talents as an integral part of the South Coast‘s community.
This eight-episode podcast series supports and documents the overall project and provides historical and background information about the gallery and the progress made to date. The Gallery X Documentation Project will reach out to listeners and anyone seeking information about historical or contemporary artists from the South Coast’s creative community.
The Artists Index offers listeners up-close and personal conversations with the artists, supporters, and cultural impresarios of South Coast’s creative community. Listen to the artists talk about their work, backgrounds, passions, dreams, and accomplishments. Also featured are those who work in or manage the creative community’s economy, promotion, and cultural agenda.
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This Series is Supported in Part by:
Wicked Cool Places/ARPA GRANT
We thank them for their grant support in assisting us in preserving the history and legacy of Gallery X and the South Coast.
Wicked Cool Places
The Gallery X Documentation Project is supported in part by the ARTnet/Wicked Cool Places grant funded by the City of New Bedford through the American Rescue Plan Awards and its Arts, Culture & Tourism Fund and is facilitated by New Bedford Creative at the NBEDC.
Gallery X
The Gallery X Documentation Project is the first phase of a larger agenda to scan the entire collection of Gallery X documents, including news clippings, posters, flyers, photographs, and more. The scanned documents will be archived and later mined for information specific to South Coast artists