May 13, 2022 Events

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. 

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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CHAP
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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