Arts Night Out: Friday, November 11, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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
​Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library, 20 West Street

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

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

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

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

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

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.