Chalkboard Studio in Barnstable Village, Cape Cod, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with an open house on April 27. The three core founders, Jackie Reeves, James “Jamie” Wolf and Richard Neal met at Cotuit Center for the Arts (which Wolf originated) — and started painting together there, for the hell of it. Reeves, who was looking for studio space, said, “I was used to working with other people around. I grew up in a big family where we all shared space.” Wolf “never worked with others until the three of us started talking, having a beer together. I found I could still throw paint with them around.” He was leaving Cotuit and wanted a studio. Neal had been making do in his basement. When fellow painters Karen Ojala and Edie Vonnegut showed Reeves the historical 1854 Old Schoolhouse owned by the Unitarian Church of Barnstable, she convinced Neal and Wolf to join her … [Read more...] about THINGS ARE HAPPENING HERE: CHALKBOARD STUDIOS CELEBRATES ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY