April 8, 2022 Events

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/). ​

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. 

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

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.