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Everyone is invited to attend the artist open studios at Howard Street Studios (HSS) where local Dover resident, mom, and artist Shany Porras will be displaying her latest works from her ‘Music Translations’ series. Along with Shany Porras, seven other artists at Howard Street Studios will open up their studios and showcase the variety of art being created at HSS. The artists’ styles range from realistic paintings of landscapes, animals, and still-life, to the abstract and theoretical. Artists showing include: Kathleen Bryce, Kristin Conant, Cathy Gruetzke-Blais, Judy Schneider, Christine Soeltz, Jose Spencer, Felicia Tuttle, and Shany Porras. This event is sure to draw a crowd as in past years.

Shany is an abstract painter that likens her works to Modern Masters such as Gerhardt Richter and Joan Mitchell. Her works are centered around music translations which allow her to, “translate one abstract language, music, into another abstract language, painting.” For the...