I’ll miss the Art-o-mat. Big thanks Diane, Kenny, Kristy, Louise, Matt, and everyone else that helped out and was involved. Sad to see it go, but I understand…

If you were not closely involved with the organization, you should really know the disbanding was not an act of acrimony- the family donating the property was super generous and truly supportive of the AOM efforts. As a volunteer at the scene, I just wanted to speak up on everyone’s behalf and let the area know it was simply time. Running such a big impact community scene takes a hell of a lot of effort, and face it- you know Kenny and Diane will hardly take much time off before they get way involved with a whole new deal!

LIC rules. Our neighbourhood is one of the best on earth. And rock on Nancy- thanks for the blogspace scene—-
looking forward to what’s next

I will miss Art-O-Mat too.

And no, it had nothing to do with property owners- thanks to the property owner, it was allowed to exist.

Thanks, Diane and Kenny, for your hard work.

And another about the last exhibition:
http://tinyurl.com/lwqcpx

The property owners have been enthusiastic supporters of Art-O-Mat as they are of several other community groups. Closing had to do more with the many hours and days needed to keep the place running and organize volunteers. The effort was purely for the community because the folks who ran it simply wanted to see something like this exist. Art-O-Mat was all volunteer.

Hopefully its brief 3-1/2 year existence might inspire others to do the same or better.