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We’re excited to share that Chloé Cunha is our Blue Ribbon Recipient of the Month. The Blue Ribbon recognizes a staff member, volunteer or intern who has demonstrated great dedication and outstanding performance at Arts at the Armory.

Chloé is a key and valued member of our core administrative team. In pre-COVID times, she was the “face” of Arts at the Armory for so many–communicating with event hosts with great patience, care and expertise. Now she has successfully pivoted in her role to focus on ROOTED marketing, and is doing an excellent job with it. We are so fortunate to have Chloé’s articulate, personable, and funny voice behind our ROOTED promotion.

Chloé Cunha is a comedian, poet, and occasional actor, but only when she gets to be a queer vampire and/or assassin such as in the retro indie horror film Blood of the Tribades (2016), or The Penumbra Podcast. A Cambridge native, she does stand-up all throughout the greater Boston area, and was the Comic-in-Residence at The Comedy Studio in November 2019. Catch her on Twitter @ChloeCunha or take a listen to the comedy debate podcast Pick a Side Stupid!, for which she contributes frequently! 

1. What do you do at Arts at the Armory?
Bit of a tricky question… I used to mostly help organize and book events, though understandably, have not been doing much of that lately! My focus in recent months has been on increasing our social media presence and doing some marketing / promotion for our revamped ROOTED Cafe.

2. How long have you worked at Arts at the Armory?
Three years this coming Dec; or, if you properly count how the passage of time has felt in the last 6 months, a couple thousand millenia.

3. What’s your favorite thing about working here?
There’s a lot to like! We’re a small but great little team and I couldn’t ask for better co-workers or bosses, especially now during such a stressful time– and I really enjoy the flexibility of my hours.

4. What is something you would like our community to know about you?
Though it’s all virtual right now, I do stand-up comedy as well. It’s been weird adjusting to online shows but I hope comedy lovers will check out some of the Zoom shows happening at The Comedy Studio for example, and help support the local scene.

We are seeking a volunteer Gallery Coordinator to assist in coordinating with artists, and in mounting and promoting exhibitions in our Cafe space. Although we aren’t able to host exhibition opening events at this time, we are looking to continue to host and promote galley shows in our Cafe space. Our current show of Pauline Lim’s work will be wrapping soon, and we’re looking for someone who is knowledgeable about visual arts to assist us in planning our next show, and all shows to come.

The Gallery Coordinator will assist us in doing outreach within the artist community to build a schedule of gallery shows for our space. This individual will coordinate with artists on hanging and displaying their work in our space, build a calendar of exhibitions for the year, and assist in promoting these shows. The Gallery Coordinator will work with the Executive Director and Operations Manager to ensure that shows fit the goals of The Center for the Arts at the Armory, and maintain high standards while being community-oriented and representative of our diverse artist community.

We are looking to work with your schedule to make the position fit, and the hours are not set. You may be heavily involved while handling the transition between shows, and then have very little or no hours of work while the show is up and running. You will have the opportunity to bring your tastes and knowledge to the table in helping build the schedule, and will be given the opportunity to be creative in the displaying of work.

To apply, email us at operations@artsatthearmory.org with your qualifications and a bit about yourself. Click here for more information about exhibitions at the Cafe.

ROOTED Armory Cafe & Farmstand features organic, local produce from Red Fire Farm, a farm located in Granby, MA that also participates in our Somerville Winter Farmers Market. This week we received acorn squash, brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes as new items, complementing other Red Fire produce we’ve been ordering on a weekly basis including red slicing tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, parsley and mixed potatoes, as well as seasonal favorites like butternut and spaghetti squash that we also have in stock right now. Don’t miss out on this local, healthy and beautiful early fall harvest!