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12/1/2022

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Arts Night Out: Friday, November 11, 2022

11/4/2022

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Arts Night Out (ANO) is Friday, November 11, 2022 from 5-8pm throughout downtown Northampton, MA. Plan an artsy evening out by browsing event details below! ​

25 Years of Art Over Matter
RECEPTION
Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant Street

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Twenty-five years is a long time. Anchor House of Artists was founded in 1997 by Michael Tillyer to subsidize the studio lives & represent the work of a group of artists living with neurodiverse hampered competition in the art establishment. In 2010, a call to emerging and established professionals--visual artists, musicians, and poets--to self-stage shows with parity as a result. Years of growth, here we are, the art center we've become. Let's celebrate. Watch for the mid-December dance invite.

Ligia Bouton and Matt Donovan: MISSING DEPARTMENT OPENING RECEPTION
A.P.E. Gallery Ltd, 126 Main Street

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MISSING DEPARTMENT, a collaborative exhibition by artist Ligia Bouton and writer Matt Donovan, uses visual art and poetry to respond to missing person ads that were placed in pulp fiction magazines from the early 20th-century. This diptych series responds to a selection of widely varied ads that, in raw and intimate language, seek forgiveness, solace, answers, and connections from vanished spouses, lovers, friends, siblings, and children. The show features drawings, paintings, sculptures, and collages created from the magazine’s original paper, as well as letterpress poems made from erasures of pulp fiction stories. Through elaborate interventions with the magazine’s material and language, this expansive exhibition interrogates desire, empathy, and loss.

Beth Riemer & Joe Shepard: Meet the Potters
ASSEMBLE, Thornes Marketplace (Lower Level), 150 Main Street

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Contemporary one of a kind pieces from two Northampton based potters, Beth Riemer and Joe Shepard. ​

Lisa Bertournay & Max Rudolph: Art Show & Coloring Cafe
Bishop's Lounge, 41 Strong Ave, 3rd Floor

Live Performance Of Music on 3rd floor with Art Exhibit following walks up to the 4th floor to the Coloring Cafe hosted by Max Rudolph. Cocktails, N/A drinks & hot tea and coffee served.

Milkweed Magik, Fox & Poppy Designs, Astral Cherry Art, Molly's Pottery, & Wild Fancy Designs: ART MART
The Bloomery Art Gallery & Meeting Place, 17 New South Street, Units 203-204, Suite D

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The intimate indoor market will feature five local makers of unique goods. Runs until 9pm on Arts Night Out. 

String Students of Northampton Community Music Center: Suzuki Honors Recital 
CLICK Workspace, 9 1/2 Market Street

Jack LaForte: WATER TAPESTRIES
OPENING RECEPTION
Coldwell Banker Community Realtors, 112 Main Street

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My landscape photography is informed by two elements: openness to place and engagement in the intuitive process. With this approach, my sense of “seeing” is heightened and the photographic image emerges. I shot the series Water Tapestries while walking along the canals outside of Venice, attuning to the visual landscape before me.

Nayana LaFond: Portraits in Red: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 
Christopher Curtis: Luminous Places: Photographs
OPEN UNTIL 6PM ON ARTS NIGHT OUT
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Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library, 20 West Street

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Nayana LaFond is a painter and multi disciplinary artist based in Western Massachusetts. Her work tackles deeply personal subjects related to trauma and life experience. Her series, “Portraits in RED, Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Painting project”, is a labor of love to raise awareness.

Christopher Curtis presents large format photographs of wild places around the world. With these images, he hopes to convey the sense and experience of place in each landscape, along with the extraordinary beauty and fragility of our planet.

Jo Smith: New Collage
​OPENING RECEPTION
Jo Smith Studio Gallery, 9 Market Street

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Jo has been working on new colleges this month. This work is about the state of Texas and its censorious movement. "Texas banned more books from school libraries this past year than any other state in the nation, targeting titles centering on race, racism, abortion and LGBTQ representation and issues, according to a new analysis by PEN America, a nonprofit organization advocating for free speech." Jo moved from Texas in June of 2020.

Khalif Neville: Solo Piano
Le BonNton, Thornes Marketplace (Second Level), 150 Main Street

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Khalif Nevilles’s Keyscapes Forged from the bayou fires of the first family of funk, Khalif Neville has been making music his entire life. With his dad Charles Neville of The Neville Brothers guiding his way for the early part of his career, Khalif has a deep reverence for the heritage and history that he comes from. But in finding his own musical and artistic voice, Khalif learned that his ear leans much more, modern.

​In this exciting new project Khalif Neville brings to bear all of the sonic textures that define his work as a film composer and contemporary music producer, and performs them live in a never before heard synthesis of modern sounds, and age old virtuosity. The music is mostly improvisational, but as Khalif loves to point out, all songs are made up, so he thinks of the soundscapes and themes explored when performing 'Keyscapes' to be impressions of stories that could be, but ones that only exist in the moment, for you and him.

MICAfest Art Exhibit
Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street

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Northampton Open Media and the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley are thrilled to host the extended MICAfest art exhibit! Please join us on Friday, November 11 from 5-8pm for a reception with refreshments and live music, as part of Arts Night Out. This exhibit features the work of more than 20 visual artists who are also moms! Founded in 2022, Mothers Institute for Collaboration and Arts (MICA) aims to support artistic mothers by building community and creating events intended to showcase their visual and performing arts.

The Art and Soul of Cindy Lutz Kornet
​​OPENING RECEPTION
Phoenix Rising, 5 Old South Street

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Cindy Lutz Kornet is an innovative artist who lives in Massachusetts. She skillfully applies a variety of mediums that include acrylic paints, encaustic wax, inks, collage, printing and calligraphy. She explains, "My objective is to create art that is hopeful, uplifting, inspires courage and even Joy. It is my deep desire to help bridge the gap from human condition on earth to a spiritual place in the higher realms." Cindy teaches the creative process "as a healing vehicle and roadmap for healthy expression." ​

Annual Children's Illustration Celebration!
​​OPENING RECEPTION on SUNDAY, November 13 
R. Michelson Galleries, 132 Main Street

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Join R. Michelson Galleries for the highly-anticipated return of our Annual Children's Illustration Celebration! The Opening Reception will be on Sunday, November 13th from 4-6 pm. Come meet your favorite Illustrators and Authors, at our biggest party of the year! The Eric Carle Museum will be here selling books and, as always, this event is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome, masks will be required.
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Arts Night Out: Friday, October 14, 2022

10/5/2022

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Arts Night Out (ANO) is Friday, October 14, 2022 from 5-8pm throughout downtown Northampton, MA. Plan an artsy evening by browsing event details below! 

Rachel Jenkins, Charles Miller, Jonathan Stark, Christopher McKeever (1956-2017) 
Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant Street 

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Rachel Jenkins Oil Portrait
Rachel Jenkin's "ANY BODY: poems, portraits, and poses" presents, challenging expressionistic portraiture interspersed among her poetry mounted on the wall. Also mounted is a video she made as a self-portrait, exploring her relationship with great art looping on a screen in the gallery.

​In adjoining Gallery One, Two, and Three, Jonathan Stark displays a grouping of his newest and largest continuous live compositions, which are sleek and oddly captivating, and Charles Miller has the eleventh installment of art from his seventy-year career. Finally, the Djata Bumpus gallery supports a memorial exhibition of Christopher McKeever (1956-2017).

Exhibition On View: October 7-29, 2022
Opening Reception: 6-8:30pm 

David Aipperspach, Natessa Amin, River Kim, Lena Schmid, Stephen Proski, Curated by AJ Rombach: SHADOW WORK
A.P.E. Gallery Ltd, 126 Main Street

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SHADOW WORK examines painting's potential to trace the cognitive and unconscious thought of maker and viewer. What does a symbol communicate? How do paintings act as bridges between subjective and collective experience? How do art objects encapsulate ontological mystery? Natessa Amin and Lena Schmid’s work relies on systems of invented symbolism that become catalogs of dreams, events, and desires. River Kim bridges Amin and Schmid’s abstraction into an embodied expression of fur and latex, large enough to dress a monster. David Aipperspach illustrates the dilemma of embodiment, perception and subjectivity. Stephen Proski's oversized braille monument, and collection of playful yet darkly titled symbols, punctuates this dilemma in a gesture purposefully alienating. SHADOW WORK aims to create an environment in which the unconscious be permitted to (consciously) surface.

Exhibition On View: October 14- November 6, 2022
Opening Reception: October 14, 2022, 5-8pm 

Kathy Couch, Katherine Sanderson and Joey Trazo Schmitz: Felt Absence of a Presence: an installation gathering space celebrating Peter B. Schmitz
A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater at 33 Hawley Street

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This installation is a part of Moving Through, a weekend of events honoring dance/theatre artist Peter B. Schmitz, celebrating his creativity and impact on the artistic community. Felt Absence of a Presence will be a meditative space to reflect, read, dance, sit, tell stories and be present with the space–alone or with others–in memory of Peter B. Schmitz.

Event Time(s): Friday, October 14, 12-7pm & Saturday, October 15, 2-4pm

Free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations required. 

Allie Martineau: Blooming From Secret Gardens
The Bloomery Art Gallery & Meeting Place, 17 New South Street (Main Street Entrance)

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Experience the world of local artist and illustrator, Allie Martineau, in their first solo show exploring queerness, flora, and fauna through multi-media; comics, watercolor paintings, digital work, and more. Opening Reception features live music by Elvis Giordano (@juicebox.bandit).

Exhibition On View: October 14 - November 18, 2022
Opening Reception: October 14, 2022, 5-8pm

​Donabelle Casis: Tintillation: An Exploration in Color
CLICK Workspace, 9 1/2 Market Street 

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Donnabelle Casis is a Filipina-American artist working in Western Massachusetts. She is fascinated by visual perception and how meaning is derived from what we see. Casis looks for hidden geometries that may connect discrete perspectives to form a greater whole. Her current works explore the relationship of personal identity to visual systems of signification in both ancient and modern cultures. Donnabelle draws from various sources, including Filipino tribal tattoos and textiles, facial recognition software, cosmology, and the philosophy of metaphysics. Filipino tribal imagery is tied to storytelling, marks of accomplishment, and societal roles. Facial recognition software maps physical characteristics which determine one’s visual identity. Her interest in the tangible universe and what transcends experience helps her understand her place in the world and beyond.

Exhibition On View: October 14, 2022 - January 6, 2022. 
Opening Reception: October 14, 2022, 6-8pm 

Kristin Borntrager: Back home in New England
Coldwell Banker Community Realtors, 518 Main Street

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A mixture of watercolor, pastel, acrylic and even mixed media art pieces from local artist Kristin Borntrager. These pieces mainly show her love for all things New England – architecture, 4 seasons, and water. We hope you enjoy.

Artist Reception: October 14, 2022, 5-8pm

Jo Smith & Reclaimed Crafts: The Valley Reclaimed
Jo Smith Studio Gallery, 9 Market Street

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This month Jo Smith Gallery will host Reclaimed Crafts. Come see this amazing functional art made from salvaged materials. Jen and Jo have been friends for decades and their work plays off one another as Reclaimed Crafts brings new life the objects found within the barns Jo paints. This show is fun and brilliantly explores the history and experience of our beautiful Pioneer Valley.

Opening Reception: October 14, 2022, 5:30-8:30pm 

Art with Heart
Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street

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The Garden: A Center for Grieving Children and Teens, a program of Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice, proudly presents Art with Heart. In this unique program, local artists work with grieving kids ages 5-18 from across Western Mass to create artwork. The Garden believes in reinforcing the connection between the head, heart, and hand to help people express their feelings around grief. The artwork made in this program serves as a “container” for one’s feelings that arise.

Exhibition On View: October 6-25, 2022
Opening Reception: Refreshments and live music by Mowie Freeman on Friday 10/14 from 5-8pm!

Carolyn Hicks
Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street

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Artist Statement: I'm inspired by the changing nature of the landscape—the play of light and shadow at different times of the day, fleeting moments that echo my own mood, shapes and colors in juxtaposition to each other, compositional challenges. Sometimes I have no idea why something inspired me but it is most often in the domain of landscape and by working on the image I discover why I was drawn to it. I'm also moved by objects or scenes that have passed their prime yet radiate a beauty impervious to the ravages of decay and aging. A dried leaf, a spalted tree in decline, a grown-in, seemingly untravelled path through fields or woods, an abandoned building, all contain and imply the mystery of the cycle of life.

Opening Reception: October 14, 2022, 5-7pm 

Neil Waldman: Where I Live II: New Work by Neil Waldman
R. Michelson Galleries, 132 Main Street

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Join R. Michelson Galleries for an exhibition of new work by Neil Waldman on Friday, October 14th, from 6-8pm.

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Arts Night Out: Friday, September 9, 2022

9/2/2022

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The next Arts Night Out (ANO) is Friday, September 9, 2022 from 5-8pm celebrated in tandem with the 12th Annual Northampton Chalk Art Festival. Plan an artsy evening in downtown Northampton - browse event details below! 

Jo Smith: Gallery Grand Opening
Jo Smith Gallery, 9 Market Street

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Jo has been painting in the valley since she moved here in 1994. Her work is all about color and the environment. She recently moved her studio from Eastworks to this new space to both paint and show her work. She hopes to exhibit the work of other artists in the future. ​

Lex Parent-Gonzalez: Holding Hands With Jupiter
Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street

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The Northampton Center for the Arts is thrilled to host Holding Hands with Jupiter, an immersive, sensory, interactive, multimedia exhibit envisioned and crafted by Lex Parent-Gonzalez. Holding Hands with Jupiter engages with themes such as Dissociative Identity Disorder, self-discovery, rethinking trauma and the neurodivergent brain, healing, and community. The exhibit includes multimedia works, photography, videography, fine art with various mediums, music, dance, theatre and interactive theatre arts.

​Join us for an opening reception on Friday 9/9 from 5-8pm to experience this incredible exhibit, plus three live performances by Lex with various other artists, and an interactive theater experience with MURRY EYEBALL! The reception is free and open to the public, with refreshments and live music!

Baskin and Politics: An Exhibition on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth
R. Michelson Galleries, 132 Main Street

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"LB AET S 70" by Leonard Baskin, 30x23" Watercolor
August 15, 2022 marked the one hundredth anniversary of Leonard Baskin’s birth; a century rife with political strife and violent conflict. Much of Baskin’s work was overtly political. He constantly gravitated towards the marginalized; always illuminating the plight of the persecuted and exposing the tyrant, though aware of how easily the oppressed could become the oppressor. Please join R. Michelson Galleries on Friday, September 9th from 6-8 pm for the Reception of Leonard Baskin: Baskin and Politics.

MAGGIE NOWINSKI | Sensus with Live Jazz Piano by Rob Fontana
CLICK Workspace, 9 1/2 Market Street

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Maggie Nowinski (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and teaching artist based in Western Massachusetts. Her current body of work is rooted in drawing and printmaking, though her artworks usually take the format of installation and combine traditional and unusual media, audio, and performative processes. Her work investigates somatic response to cultural pace, internal and external undercurrents and emotions through imagined specimen drawings that appear as abject biological-botanical resilient entities.

Closing reception from 6-8pm features live music. 

Paradise East Open Mic Night
Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street

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Join us from 6-8 pm for a lovely summer evening highlighting local talent--bring yours, plus a picnic and chair. Performances by children encouraged. 5-10 minutes/performer. ​

Dani Antes and Sugar Smallhouse: Recent Work
ASSEMBLE, Thornes Marketplace - Lower Level

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All new collection of watercolors from artist Dani Antes and felted friends from Sugar Smallhouse.

Zea Mays Printmaking Biennial: Another World is Possible
​A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street

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Title: Mariupol #6 2022 Artist: Robynn Smith Medium: Monotype
Another World is Possible, a juried group exhibition of prints and print-related artwork by members and former artists-in-residence of Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA.

Olwen Dowling, Eliza Moser, James Brown, et al: Full House of Artists
Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant Street

In Gallery One and Two, Olwen Dowling, a well-known name in the region, presents a group of botanically themed monotypes, drypoints, & intaglio etchings. Gallery Three features Eliza Moser with new oil paintings; her father, Jazz musician Steve Moser performs during the Arts Night Out reception. In addition, at the close of the ANO night, Dean Nimmer will talk about working with his alter ego, Unique Fredrique. Installment 10 of Charlie Miller's year-long retrospective celebrating his 90th year features large portrait paintings of famous artists and one of Moser, a former bandmate. An estate sale for John Landino continues to raise money for his widow's needs. September 20 at 7:30 in our Experimental Performance Arena features the AE Quartet, new fusion Jazz, $10 cover.

Reception from 5:30-8:30pm during Arts Night Out. 

Kristin Borntrager: Back Home in New England
Coldwell Banker Community Realtors, 112 Main Street

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A mixture of watercolor, pastel, acrylic and even mixed media art pieces from local artist Kristin Borntrager. These pieces mainly show her love for all things New England – architecture, 4 seasons, and water. We hope you enjoy.
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Jazzy Arts Night Out: August 12, 2022

8/8/2022

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Arts Night Out is Friday, August 12, 2022 from 5-8pm. This month, we are collaborating with the Northampton Jazz Festival to bring you: Jazzy Arts Night Out! See live jazz at Pinch, Rebekah Brooks, Resinate, and The Roost. 

Plan an art- and jazz-filled evening in downtown Northampton by browsing event details below. 


Contact artsnightoutnorthampton@gmail.com with any questions.

Worked: Artist Labor Relations
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Curated by Grace Clark

A.P.E. Gallery | 126 Main Street

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An exhibition of 7 innovative artists working in painting, printmaking, video, performance, sculpture, installation, social practice, and combined media. ​

Works by Adrienne Albro-Fisher and Chloe McLean
A.P.E. @ 33 Hawley | 33 Hawley Street

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Painting by Adrienne Albro-Fisher
This show advances A.P.E.’s mission to support contemporary artists, particularly local students and developing artists.

Dani Schmidt: Illustrator, Painter, Printmaker
The Bloomery | 17 New South Street, Unit 205 - Suite D

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Dani Schmidt is a queer illustrator, printmaker and mixed media artist based out of Subterranean Studios in Holyoke, MA. They live with their partner Bran, two rescue dogs Mona and Atticus, 3 guinea pigs and baby Dara! During their free time you can find them playing video games, digging in the garden, or going for long walks to forage for ink making supplies.

In their artwork, they have a heavy focus on organic life and nature as a consistent theme that is explored. They mainly work with ink and watercolors but they are always trying to incorporate mixed media into their process. Digital and physical collaging has been an important part of their process in the past 2 years, as well as telling a narrative with their visual work. They devote much time to their personal projects such as illustrations for books, fine art paintings, and printmaking projects. They graduated from the Institute of Art and Design at New England Collage in Manchester, NH in 2021. Their goal is to use their art as a function of storytelling; as one of the most time honored and important traditions of humanity.

Dani’s exhibition at The Bloomery will feature an expansive array of their visual works.

Paradise East Open Mic Night &
​Making It On Main Street Exhibit

Historic Northampton | 46 Bridge Street

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Share your talent: music, poetry, comedy, dance, name yours! Bring a blanket, a picnic, and your friends. Making it on Main Street exhibit: open & free.

Performance time is 5 minutes.
5-6 pm: Children up to age 12 
6-8 pm: All others

Jeff Wrench, Ryan Murray, Yoni Glogower:
​Paintings and Textile Art
Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library | 20 West Street

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Painting by Ryan Murray
Paintings and textile art. Read artist statements below. 

YONI GLOGOWER. I use textiles to consider new ways of interpreting my personal world. Family members, wildflowers, video game imagery, Hebrew, and found natural objects all make their way into my compositions using hand-dyed fabric, strategic piecing, applique and embroidery.

RYAN MURRAY. Through the unflinching medium of spray paint stenciling, I unearth and examine unsettling but important conversations about the stigma of mental illness, with the goal of normalizing the discussion and treatment of mental health in black communities.

JEFF WRENCH. In my paintings I try to balance realistic likeness vs. letting the paint be the center of attention with bold brush marks and colors and other surprises that the messiness of paint brings. Many of my paintings are on found surfaces like wallpaper or paint chips which I think, like faces themselves, are examples of beauty in the ordinary.


Jennifer Ablard
Northampton Senior Center | 67 Conz Street

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Photography exhibition.

Artist Statement. 
I’ve been seeing the world through a camera my entire adult life. While I’ve focused on different subjects at different phases of my life, my work always reflects my love of the outdoors, nature, the abstract and even humor found in everyday life. I am also drawn to how the same location changes over time. I intend for my work to evoke questions of ‘where?’, ‘how?’ and ‘what?’.

Jason Martin and Andre Bowser:
Outsider Arts Night Out
Phoenix Gallery at Phoenix Rising | 5 Old South Street

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Painting by Andre Bowser
This month we feature local artist, Andre Bowser along with curator and fellow artist, Jason Martin. 

Jazz & Jewelry Jamboree with Rachel Gunnard
Pinch | 179 Main Street

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Join us for our first Arts Nights Out in quite some time! We'll be celebrating with Jazz, Jewelry by local artist Rachel Gunnard, and of course wine and cheese.

We're very excited to be hosting Rachel for Arts Night Out this month! Rachel was a registered architect in NYC and the effect of her architectural training can really be seen in her work. It's very structural and clean, beautiful work for everyday wear. She brings a subtle, natural grace to her jewelry while also making each piece unique and eye-catching.

Come grab a snack, sip a drink, listen to some jazz, and take a look at Rachel's work with us! We'll see you there!

Spill The Tea Collective:
​Healing by Sound & Song, a curated collection
Spill The Tea Sis Apothecary | 183 Main Street

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A collection of paintings, signs and vintage artifacts all around the theme of healing through sound & song.
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Catch Sidewalk Jazz during Sidewalk Sales!

7/28/2022

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Join us for this year's Sidewalk Sales in Northampton, where many downtown businesses will be participating in this annual event! Sales and specials galore at over 35 shops, boutiques, restaurants, and non-profits! Check out the list below for all the participating locations, and stop by inside and outside along Main Street, Center Street, and Pleasant Street.

Don't miss "Sidewalk Jazz" on July 29! 2 ensembles are performing from 4-6 PM brought to you as a collaboration of Arts Night Out and the Northampton Jazz Festival in anticipation of JAZZY ARTS NIGHT OUT on Friday, August 12 from 5-8pm at locations downtown. 

Crimson Canary
Latin duo, guitar and voice. They will perform outside on the grass at the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce. 

Ellen Cogen on vocals & Bob Ferrier on guitar
They will perform in front of First Churches Northampton. 
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Arts Night Out Events: July 8, 2022

7/5/2022

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The next Arts Night Out is Friday, July 8, 2022 from 5-8pm. Plan an art-filled evening in downtown Northampton by browsing event details below! 

Contact artsnightoutnorthampton@gmail.com with any questions.
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Paradise East: Open Mic Night & Making It On Main Exhibit
​Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street

Share your talent: music, poetry, comedy, dance, name yours! Bring a blanket, a picnic, and your friends. Making it on Main Street exhibit: open & free.

Performance time is 5 minutes.
5-6 pm: Children up to age 12 
6-8 pm: All others

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Painting by Rodney Madison

Jason Martin and Rodney Madison: Outsider Art Exhibition 
Phoenix Gallery at Phoenix Rising, 5 Old South Street

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Outsider Art Exhibition featuring Local Artists Jason Martin and Rodney Madison.

Chicago-born in 1959, Madison began painting at 50. Self taught, his outsider art is featured in local galleries and businesses across western Massachusetts. His use of color in his abstract oil and acrylic paintings on canvases, doors, trays, tables or you name it, harkens Basquiat and Picasso.

Springfield-born, Martin is a self- taught artist, published poet and local musician. In his signature manic style, using acrylic and oil Martin's pallet explodes onto the canvas in figurative abstract expression.

Reception with complimentary beverages served from 5-8pm during Arts Night Out on July 8th. 


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​Katherine McClelland and Springfield Photographic Society: Complicated History + The Towns of Berkshire County
Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library, 20 West Street

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Complicated History is a multimedia project that uses art to reckon with personal, local, and national narratives about slavery, war and privilege. The Hinckley family has a long history of prominent Northampton residents and while researching her paternal family, Katherine McClelland found that there was more to the story than she knew. This collection of portraits, documents, and images explores the history of five of her direct ancestors and examines our complicated relationships to systems of oppression.
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The Towns of Berkshire County is a photographic exhibit featuring one picture from each of the 32 towns in Berkshire County. The images have been provided by 27 members of the Springfield Photographic Society, capturing the uniqueness of the communities, and illustrating their history, culture, public spaces, and natural beauty. Each photographer chose one perspective that they felt was important to understanding their town.

No reception. On display during Arts Night Out on July 8th until 6pm and until July 29th. Talk by Katherine McClelland on July 13th at 7pm. 

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Olivia Brandwein and Sarah Miller-Bartley: Warp 
​A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street

"Warp" is a community-engaged sculptural process in which the artists will create an installation in A.P.E.'s gallery space from July 4-10. The public is invited to work with physical properties of raw canvas by cutting, twisting, tying and unraveling. The pieces will be painted and paired with mass-produced second-hand objects. The final exhibit will blur the lines between "fine art" materials and mass-produced objects/trinkets.

For Art's Night Out, Brandwein and Miller-Bartley will be hosting open hours from 5-7pm in A.P.E.'s Main Street gallery for the public to view their works in progress.
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Works by Anna Bayles Arthur and Victor Signore
A.P.E. @ Hawley, Mezzanine Level Gallery, 33 Hawley Street

In Search of Edge: New Small Works by Anna Bayles Arthur As the planet burns and floods and human beings extinguish each others’ lives in brutal and rapid succession, it is increasingly difficult to comprehend any utility in sitting in one’s studio with a box of paints and a jar of sharp pencils. And yet. We persist. There is no sense to be made of it, of any of it...only here is a profoundly human act that in its most basic sense, approximates prayer. 

​On the threshold of a silence bursting: New work by Victor Signore The new work in this show marks a return for me. A return home. Home to the creative process. Home to myself. To provide that missing outlet for the mounting thoughts, images, feelings, anxieties and amorphous, intangible senses that while, remain elusive as vapor, are too strong to ignore. 

Artist Reception during Arts Night Out on July 8th. 

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Renaissance Gyal: Live Performance by Lauren Horn, with Chantal Edward, Jasmine McPherson, and Loren Mildridge
A.P.E. @ Hawley, The Workroom, 33 Hawley Street

Renaissance Gyal is a choreographic work, set on a cast of four Black women, that explores the ways in which Black women have set a precedence for culture in America, while simultaneously being erased. In Renaissance Gyal the term Black is used heterogeneously. The Black women of Renaissance Gyal encompass the experiences of those of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latina, Afro-American and African heritage who have come to live in America and it is their stories that are told throughout the piece. Renaissance Gyal is a reflection of how American Blackness is a melting pot of many different cultures that unite under the term of Blackness. Drawing upon our shared collective histories, we will explore the following questions in Renaissance Gyal: How is culture created? How is culture passed down generationally? How is culture brought over on a boat or a plane? What parts of our generational culture persist and what parts are lost? 

$10 - $35 Sliding Scale. Tickets available at the door for performances on Friday, July 8th & Saturday, July 9th at 7pm.  

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Deborah Rubin: Endless Possibilities
R. Michelson Galleries, 132 Main Street

R. Michelson Galleries is pleased to present Deborah Rubin: Endless Possibilities. Join us for the Opening Reception on July 15th, from 6-8 pm. The exhibition, which will run for the month of July, celebrates Deb’s photorealistic watercolors of both florals and architecture. Highlighted in the summer edition of Watercolor Artist Magazine, Deb’s meticulous renderings captivate the viewer with their spectacular color and brilliant use of light and texture.

Opening Reception from 6-8pm during Arts Night Out on July 8th. On view until the end of July.

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David Rohn: Looking After 66 Years
Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant Street

David Rohn (Chicago, b.1934) has had a painting career spanning 66 years. Born in Chicago & raised in Michigan, he took his career from New York City to Putney, VT where he taught at Windham College, returning to NYC after the college closed in 1976. He describes his method as defined by his joy of "looking at things," at how things are "compressed into tight engagement by the framing edge." David Rohn was this writer's painting instructor in the early nineteen seventies. This retrospective fills three showrooms with oil paintings and watercolors.

Public Reception from 5:30 - 8:30 pm during Arts Night Out on July 8th.
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Arts Night Out Events: June 10, 2022

6/2/2022

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The next Arts Night Out (ANO) happens Friday, June 10, 2022 from 5-8pm. Plan your night out in downtown Northampton by browsing event details below. 

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Contact artsnightoutnorthampton@gmail.com with your questions. 

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Sunny Allis: Kinetic Book Art

Sunny Allis: Kinetic Book Art
A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street 

Interactive kinetic book art residency by local artist, Sunny Allis. 

Opening reception from 5-8pm during Arts Night Out on June 10th. Residency continues June 6-12, 2022. 

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Paradise East: Open Mic Night & Making It On Main Exhibit
Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street

Bring a picnic, relax on the grounds, and enjoy an open mic night with music, poetry, readings, comedy, movement performed by you, your friends and neighbors on the main patio. Making it on Main Street exhibit: open & free.

Performance time is 5 minutes.
5-6 pm: Children up to age 12 
6-8 pm: All others

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Jenny Hansell

Jenny Hansell 
Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street

Using oil, Acrylics, gouache and watercolor, Jenny Hansell is inspired by light, air, color and form to paint portraits, figures and landscapes. She finds inspiration in studying the work of other artists past and present. She paints for the joy she finds in the process. 

Opening reception from 5-7pm during Arts Night Out on June 10th. ​

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Hani Rosenbaum

Art and Music Magic with Hani Rosenbaum
Le BonNton (Thornes Marketplace - 2nd Level), 150 Main Street

Hani Rosenbaum (of Sodada, Old Flame) performs original, vocal-driven, blues-soaked, indie folk-rock songs. Their visual artwork draws upon mystical and musical influences, and explores the intersection of color and music theory. Hani’s artwork spans across a variety of mediums, from their signature colorful and textured abstract paintings, to illustration, and most recently a foray into copper plate etching and printmaking.

Opening reception and musical performances during Arts Night Out on June 10th.

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Maggie Nowinski
CLICK Workspace, 9 1/2 Market Street

Maggie Nowinski (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and teaching artist based in Western Massachusetts. Her current body of work is rooted in drawing and printmaking, though her artworks usually take the format of installation and combine traditional and unusual media, audio, and performative processes. Her work investigates somatic response to cultural pace, internal and external undercurrents and emotions through imagined specimen drawings that appear as abject biological-botanical resilient entities. Nowinski’s practice is embodied by an awareness of the conceptual and political inevitability of art making and an adoration for repetition, daily mark-making and walks in the woods. She often collaborates with other visual artists, sound artists and poets.

Opening reception from 6-8pm during Arts Night Out on June 10th. Show remains on view until September 3, 2022. 

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In Other Wor(l)ds, Bitter Sweet Feast, & more
Artists: B.Z. Reply, Micha Archer, Max Strong, Charles Miller, Kevin Bouricius, and more
Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant Street 

All five showrooms full of art, Exploded Vision’s Bitter Sweet Feast, Miller’s Village Green, Bouricius’ Face of God + Denis Luzuriaga’s one minute film festival on Arts Night Out. 

Opening reception from 6-8pm during Arts Night Out on June 10th.

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Bonnie Sennott
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Stephanie Vignone

Bonnie Sennott and Stephanie Vignone
Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library, 20 West Street

Stephanie Vignone: Landscape Paintings in Pastel and Oil Bonnie Sennott : Abstract Embroideries and Watercolors

Exhibitions on view from 5-6pm during Arts Night Out on June 10th. Opening reception is June 4th from 2-4pm.
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May 13, 2022 Events

5/1/2022

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The next Arts Night Out (ANO) happens Friday, May 13, 2022 from 5-8pm. Browse the listings below to plan your night in downtown Northampton! Contact artsnightoutnorthampton@gmail.com with questions. 
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Photogram by Bill Arnold from "Drawing with Light" at the Anchor House of Artists New England Visionary Artists Museum

Five Exhibitions Under One Roof
Individual show information is provided below.
Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant Street 

Robert Markey: Peace Song Art
Gallery One

Aptly titled for our times, Markey fills Gallery One with images that seek to inspire peace an almost hopeless task but one that is admirable all the same. Unassuming artworks weave through the space & are heightened with music the artist has prerecorded. Markey's signature claim is "The choice is, and always has been, between compassion and greed." Markey is known for his community projects and this exhibit is the same. Two other artists have been curated in by him in adjacent galleries.



Chief Beth Bazio: Like Lace: New Work

Gallery Two

Bezio currently resides in the beautiful hill towns of Western Massachusetts She went to a local college & continued training as a forensic artist at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. She has spent over thirty years in Law Enforcement and has served as the Chief of Police for many years. Her love of art has been there since she was a child. In this exhibit, she shows new, very carefully illustrated canvases that reveal images embedded in lace-like designs.

Emerald Glenn: A Peaceful Place

Gallery Three

Glenn was born in Northampton but has been a resident of Springfield for most of her life. Emerald has surrounded herself with the arts in multiple forms. She is an African American woman of many artistic talents from hairstylist to singer to self-taught artist to professional ballroom dance instructor. Vivid color combinations come naturally to her & are a signature quality of all her artworks: “The main purpose of my art is to transcend people to a natural, beautiful & peaceful place.”

Charles Miller: The Kurds: Installment 6 of a Revolving Exhibit
Ground Floor, The New England Visionary Artists Museum

The Kurds' plight in Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a tragic mistake of history. Losing their independent state at the close of WWI they have been made to endure the persecution of racial & ethnic hatred. It came to Miller's attention in the 90s during the repressive regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Then the brutal treatment during those years forced them to flee as they had for years since their nationhood was dissolved. Miller captured this in paintings that incorporate sand and oil paint.

Bill Arnold: Drawing With Light

Ground Floor, The New England Visionary Artists Museum

​Bill Arnold, whose work is included in the MOMA, Met, & Getty Museum collections, is showing fourteen, one-of-a-kind, 20” x 24,” sun-exposed, gold-toned photograms. Photograms predate camera technology. An object like a leaf is placed on a light-sensitive emulsion & exposed to sunlight. When the light hits the emulsion, it turns black. Where objects block light, the emulsion stays white. A must-see, the exhibit is extended until May 31.

Opening reception from 5-8pm during Arts Night Out on May 13th. Exhibitions remain on view in May. 

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Artwork from "Cellblock Visions" at A.P.E. Gallery

Cellblock Visions
A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street

The artwork being exhibited at A.P.E. was created between 1983 and the present by incarcerated men and women across the country.

Exhibition on view May 7 - 29, 2022. No opening reception. 

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Michael Sjostedt
​ASSEMBLE, Thornes Marketplace - Lower Level

Chap continues Michael Sjostedt's curiosity around portrayals of masculinity in the media—and how he absorbs and plays back those messages in his art and life. This series is Michael's first cheeky, trashy, pop-centric take on the topic.  ​

Opening reception from 5-8pm during Arts Night Out on May 13th. 

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Mixed media collage from "Ripples In Time" at CB Community Realtors

Ripples In Time
Chelvanaya Gabriel & Ebbie Russell
Coldwell Banker Community Realtors, 112 Main Street

Ripples in Time: Transtemporal Transmissions via Chelvanaya Gabriel and Ebbie Russell. Paintings and mixed media collage. 

Reception from 5-8pm during ANO on Friday, May 13th. 

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Artwork by NHS Student on view at Hosmer Gallery

Northampton High School Student Art Exhibition and Senior Shows
Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library, 20 West Street 

The Northampton High School (NHS) Art Department presents 12 senior shows plus a showcase of student work, grades 9-12, from the following classes: Concepts in Art, Drawing and Painting, Ceramics 1, Ceramics 2, Honors Art, and Graphic Design, Printmaking and Book Arts. For the 12 senior shows, seniors will curate a small selection of their own work and mount it with an artist statement in one area of the gallery. These seniors are in the Honors Art program. Work will be all media: ceramics, sculptural, mixed media, drawing, painting, collage.

Opening reception featuring the NHS Jazz Project from 4-6pm during ANO on Friday, May 13th. 

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Artwork from The HEALERS Project at the Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley

The HEALERS Project
Carlos REC McBride, Erick Alvarez
Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley

Join us for the closing reception of the HEALERS Project, part of a larger body of work by Carlos REC McBride that has evolved over the past five years. Using photography, audio, and video, McBride has been documenting the challenges men of color face in the streets, in school, the workplace, and in the prison system. The HEALERS Project considers the mechanisms that evolve out of survival, that allow for men of color to navigate tangible experiences of microaggressions, racial battle fatigue, depression, and mental illness. This photo exhibit also introduces works from emerging artist Erick Alvarez, and is a snapshot of those personal narratives, cultural and social analysis and educational discourse, that offer a glimpse of what it means to HEAL.

Closing reception from 5-8pm during ANO on Friday, May 13th. 


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Artwork by Kyra Anderson at the Northampton Senior Center

Kyra Anderson
Northampton Senior Center, 67 Conz Street

Kyra Anderson is a self-taught artist who uses acrylic, collage, and digital media.

ARTIST STATEMENT: There are two quotes I return to time and again: Brené Brown's, "Unexpressed creativity is not benign" and Van Gogh's, "If you hear a voice within you saying you are not a painter, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

We're here to pay attention to the wisdom and creativity of our inner lives. As a coach, I remind others. As an artist, I remind myself.

Opening reception from 5-7pm during ANO on Friday, May 13th. 

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Generations
Group Show
​R. Michelson Galleries, 132 Main Street

Whether it be by Nature, Nurture, or a combination of both, sometimes things run in the family. What is it like to grow up with a parent who is an artist?  What is it like to have a child who is an artist? 

While R. Michelson Galleries represents some artist partners, after 43 years we find ourselves also representing some of the children, whose work is sometimes similar to that of the prior generation, and sometimes much different. Join us to explore these artist families and see how far (or near) the apple falls from the tree.

Opening reception from 6-8pm during ANO on Friday, May 13th. 

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April 8, 2022 Events

4/4/2022

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Works by Eve Laplant (right) and Nan Fleming (left)

Louis Laplant and Nan Fleming: Collage - Departures and Adaptions 
​📍Anchor House of Artists, the New England Visionary Artists Museum

About the Exhibit:
Two artists whose new collages resonate in approach to image-making contrast radically in expression and meaning. In Laplant's emerging series, the works are based on free association, using vintage periodical and book images to create discrete worlds by merging image, color, and placement. She explains that this is a reversal from earlier works where text leads to image. In these, Laplant lets spare image lead to textual meaning. For Fleming, she explains that she employs color and pattern to achieve textures on paper. She is known for whimsical, humorous assemblage sculpture but here the intent is emotional expression. She tells that this work is much moodier and more thoughtful than her 3D work, reflecting both her sadness and hope for the world as it is.

Opening Reception from 6-8pm on Friday, April 8th. Exhibit on view until April 30th.

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Smith College Student Artists: "Wanna Come Over?"
📍A.P.E. Gallery

About the Exhibit: 
Group installation piece at A.P.E. gallery led by art students at Smith College. Working in collaboration, the senior class students (both Art History and Studio Art majors) seek to recreate the space of a Smith dorm room. 

Opening Reception from 5-8pm on Friday, April 8th. Exhibit on view until April 24th. 


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Northampton High School Improv Troupe: FUNKTIONLUST - Take 8! 
📍CLICK Workspace

About the Show:
The NHS Improv troupe, Funktionlust, will perform their unpredictable show combining family-friendly hilarity and spontaneous story-making. Funktionlust is now in its 17th year at NHS. The Funks have been entertaining audiences at Northampton’s First Night, Smith College, Lathrop Community, Historic Northampton, Northampton's "Sunday Afternoon Live," & monthly at the NHS Black Box theater! They are spontaneous, creative and funny.

Live Show starts at 6pm on Friday, April 8th. 


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Mixed media collage by Chelvanaya Gabriel & Ebbie Russell

Chelvanaya Gabriel & Ebbie Russell: Ripples in Time
📍Coldwell Banker Community Realtors

About the Exhibit:
Ripples in Time: Transtemporal Transmissions via Chelvanaya Gabriel and Ebbie Russell Paintings and mixed media collage. 

Opening Reception from 5-8pm on Friday, April 8th. 


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Works by Jen Dieringer (upper left), Alison Johnson (lower left), and Mark Chester (right)

Rubber Stamp Portraits by Alison Johnson; "Thread" by Jen Dieringer; The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape, Photographs of New Americans by Mark Chester 
📍Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library 

About the Artists:
Alison Johnson has worked in all types of medium including oils, acrylics and pastels. “After breaking my wrist, I found traditional forms of art difficult. These rubber stamp portraits were born out of necessity.”

Jen Dieringer is a Northampton-based maker who repurposes vintage, salvaged and reclaimed materials into functional art. This is her first foray into art entirely for art’s sake, but true to form, she uses salvaged materials in imaginative and unexpected ways. “Thread” pays homage to the utilitarian patchwork quilt.

​Mark Chester’s photographs showcase Massachusetts’s newest citizens, who hail from 190 countries and territories around the globe. Viewers can share and celebrate the richness of the Bay State’s cultural heritage. The project supports the mission of Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (https://www.miracoalition.org/).
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Show on view during Forbes Library open hours. Open on Arts Night Out until 6pm. 

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Photography by Carlos REC McBride

Carlos REC McBride: The HEALERS Project
📍Northampton Center for the Arts

The HEALERS Project is part of a larger body of work by Carlos REC McBride that has evolved over the past five years. Using photography, audio, and video, McBride has been documenting the challenges men of color face in the streets, in school, the workplace, and in the prison system. The HEALERS Project considers the mechanisms that evolve out of survival, that allow for men of color to navigate tangible experiences of microaggressions, racial battle fatigue, depression, and mental illness. This photo exhibit also introduces works from emerging artists Eric Alvarez and Johny “MOYO” Torres - Cruz, and is a snapshot of those personal narratives, cultural and social analysis and educational discourse, that offer a glimpse of what it means to HEAL.

Please join us on Friday, April 8 from 5-8pm for an opening reception with refreshments, live music, and a chance to meet the artists!

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Photograph by Robert Young

Robert Young: Photography
📍Northampton Senior Center

About the Artist:
I am a photographer. I make traditional film transparencies, as well as High-resolution digital images. I am primarily self-taught but I have attended local workshops and have gained knowledge and experience from photographers/friends that I have been fortunate to know over the years. My love of nature and the outdoors allows me to see and explore different landscapes and life’s beautiful moments that I try to capture in my photography. The opportunity to travel has allowed me to explore other corners of the world, where I try to bring home the flavor of those venues in my photographs. 

Opening Reception from 5-7pm on April 8th. Exhibit on view during the month of April. 

The Resilient Project: Portrait Reveal and Sidewalk Reception
📍Faces (window display)

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About the Event:
Come and be the first to see the portraits of resilience! There will be a free Sidewalk Reception to celebrate the reveal of the portraits of The Resilient Project, a project celebrating 17 female business owners in Florence, MA. 

Sidewalk reception outside of Faces with Live DJ set from 5-8pm on April 8th. 
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