This blog is a record of the renovations to the Raw Art Works building, located in Lynn, MA.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Break on through to the other side

In a world filled with walls of division, RAW thinks we should tear ours down.

Today marks the joining of what was the 37 Central Sq. hallway and the 39 Central Sq. office space. Together, they make up the first floor of the new & improved RAW Space.

But how to tear down the wall...what better way to do that than with brute force...and sledgehammers?



Step 1: you need to mark your targets, preparing a focal point.

($1.2 million was our goal for the capital campaign... $1.3 million is what we actually raised)




Step 2: Double-check you're destroying the right wall, then find a friend to do it with you.

(Kit Jenkins, Executive Director and Mary Flannery, Founder & Artistic Director)




Step 3: Swing away!




Step 4: Pass the sledgehammer to someone else and let them take a whack at the wall!
(Susan Sakash & Alex Rogers Pittman, Associate Directors of Development)





(Marcia Felth, Foundations & Corporations Specialist, and Andy Devlin, Office Manager)




Step 5: Have fun taking silly pictures





Step 6: Let the real professionals get to work