Arts Night Out Events: July 8, 2022

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.

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

Jason Martin and a work in progress

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

New Ashford Schoolhouse - Towns of Berkshire County

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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