Metamorphosis: Mutable Origins

Artist: Adeyemi Adebayo
Start Date: March 23, 2025
End Date: May 17, 2025
Reception Date: March 23, 3-5pm
Location: AIRSpace Gallery
Hours: Tue-Fri 12-5pm, Sat 12-4pm
Address: 534 Main Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: airspacegallery.net

An experimental documentary photography project that explores the experiences of the African diaspora in North America while questioning the mythology of the West as a promised land of potential wealth and endless possibilities. It combines material items brought from their places of origin with newly made portraits and collected oral histories.

Contact: Yaning Xing
info@airspacegallery.net
413-835-5072

Paintings

Artist: Elayna Sturm
Start Date: March 4, 2025
End Date: April 30, 2025
Location: Amherst Town Hall
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Address: 4 Boltwood Avenue
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherstma.gov/art

Paintings by Elayna Sturm. Elayna's mediums range from murals, visual art, creative writing, and fiber arts to education and coaching. A self-described hopefully curious person, Elayna blends the divine and the mundane to expose overarching patterns in a visual storytelling of interconnectedness.

Contact: Thomas A Warger
tomwarger@gmail.com
413-530-7513

Growth, Hope, and Glitter

Artist: Rachael Brooke Goren
Start Date: March 5, 2025
End Date: April 25, 2025
Location: Jewish Community of Amherst Art Gallery
Hours: Tue-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 10am-1pm, extended hours until 6pm Wed & Fri
Address: 742 Main Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: eclecticjudaica.com

I put together this exhibit during Tu B’shvat, the Jewish holiday that celebrates trees, with ice and snow covering the earth, and yet knowing that despite the freezing temperatures, a concerning political landscape, and the darkness that seems to envelope us in this wintry moment--growth is still occurring under it all. Perhaps it is my relentless optimism and hope, but I continue to believe in our abilities to grow, improve, dig deeper, shine brighter, sparkle more, and connect to love, joy, and truth.

Contact: kerenrhodes@jcamherst.org
413-256-0160

March Exhibits at Gallery A3

Artists: Sue Katz, Gloria Kegeles
Start Date: March 6, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: Gallery A3
Hours: Thur-Sun 2-7pm
Address: 28 Amity Street 1D
City/Town: Amherst
Website: gallerya3.com

Photographs and painted wood and metal assemblages by Sue Katz explore patterns, while photographs by Gloria Kegeles find abstract form in motorcycles and brake rotors. The artists will present an Art Forum online: Thursday, March 20, at 7:30pm. Preregister on website.

Green and Blue

Artists: Gallery A3 artists
Start Date: February 6, 2025
End Date: March 27, 2025
Location: GoBerry 'n Cream
Address: 28 Amity Street #1E
City/Town: Amherst
Website: goberryncream.com

Gallery A3 artists exhibit "Green and Blue" artworks during February and March. Gallery chairperson Evelyn Pye is one of the featured artists, with a striking landscape titled, Winter 11. Come in for a fresh, locally sourced frozen yogurt, and some cool artwork by the artists from the coop gallery next door.

Needle Felting New England

Artist: Chris Pellerin
Start Date: March 3, 2025
End Date: April 30, 2025
Location: Greenfield Savings Bank
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm, Sat 9am-12pm
Address: 6 University Drive
City/Town: Amherst
Website: greenfieldsavings.com/branches/amherst---university-drive

Fiber artist Christine Pellerin (Dunroamin Farm Design) will exhibit new work inspired by the New England landscape. Chris works with barbed needles and wisps of wool fiber to "paint" classic New England scenery, some depicting Maine lighthouses, fall foliage, and views of Highland Lake in Stoddard, NH.

Contact: Christine Pellerin
cspellerin603@gmail.com
413-387-5387

Is anything the matter?

Artist: Laylah Ali
Start Date: February 14, 2025
End Date: May 9, 2025
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art
Address: 151 Presidents Drive / UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: artlink.click/e24f53

Includes more than one hundred drawings by Laylah Ali dating from 1993 to 2020. Though the drawings range in format -- including ink, colored pencil, soluble crayon, colored marker, and mixed media works -- each piece explores Ali's ongoing interest in the amalgam of race, power, gendering, human frailty, and murky politics. Artist talk: April 9, 6pm, Old Chapel.

High Five / Take Five

Start Date: February 14, 2025
End Date: May 9, 2025
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art
Address: 151 Presidents Drive / UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: artlink.click/a9e5e7

This dynamic interactive exhibition invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and engage with five remarkable art works from the museum's permanent collection. Included in the show is Gymnasium Chases, a series of photographs by Christian Boltanski acquired by UMass students through our annual Collecting 101 course, along with compelling works by Sanford Biggers, Shirazeh Houshiary, Richard Yarde, and Allora & Calzadilla.

Winter Art Exhibit at The Mill District Local Art Gallery

Artists: 30+ local artists
Start Date: January 1, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: The Mill District Local Art Gallery
Hours: 7 days / 10am-6pm
Address: 91 Cowls Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: generalstorelocalgallery.com/gallery

Celebrate the current collection of art available for immediate purchase by over 30 local artists.

Contact: Shannon Borrell
Gallery@cowls.com
413-835-0966

Re/Presenting: Art Beyond the Color Line

Start Date: November 12, 2024
End Date: July 6, 2025
Location: Mead Art Museum
Hours: Tue-Sun 9am-5pm, Thur 9am-10pm
Address: Amherst College
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions/2024/representing-art-beyond-the-color-line

A year-long project to reinterpret Mead collections, posing critical questions about making and consuming art in a multiracial democracy. The exhibition brings together a wide range of work from the 18th century to the present, by artists from Brazil, France, Haiti, India, Japan, North America, and Tibet, as well as art made throughout the year by students at Wildwood Elementary School and visitors to the exhibition. It explores art that creates, affirms, and challenges ideas of beauty, value, power, and presence.

Water, Farm and Land: Plein Air Paintings

Artist: Deborah Sacon
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: Clapp Memorial Library
Hours: Mon 9:30am-6pm, Tue-Thur 9:30am-7pm, Friday 9:30am-6pm, Sat 9:30am-2pm
Address: 19 South Main Street
City/Town: Belchertown
Website: deborahpaints.com

Deborah Sacon's plein air paintings reveal energy as well as changing light and shadows that captivate viewers' imaginations. Featured work in this exhibit include abstract and realistic depictions of Belchertown (Jepson House, Cold Spring Orchard, Lampson Brook Farm and Lake Wallace), as well as Florence, Mt. Skinner, and Montague.

Contact: Deborah Sacon
debsacon@gmail.com

For a Pair of Wings

Artist: Hannah Hurricane
Start Date: March 17, 2025
End Date: April 18, 2025
Reception Date: March 27, 12:15-1:15pm
Location: Borgia Gallery, Elms College
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Address: 291 Springfield Street, Mary Dooley College Center, 2nd Floor
City/Town: Chicopee
Website: elms.edu/academics/humanities/borgia-gallery

This exhibition is a retrospective of 10 years of work by Hannah Hurricane, exploring themes of women, birds, angels, and nature. Many of the colorful pieces use symbols to evoke emotions and tell stories. Celestial bodies seem to speak for a search of connection in ethereal and otherworldly spaces. Hannah Hurricane has degrees in Wildlife Ecology and Fine Arts.

Contact: Hannah Hurricane
hannahham@gmail.com
512-964-0329

Relections

Artist: Lucinda Arnold
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: April 30, 2025
Reception Date: April 4, 6-9pm
Location: Easthampton Media
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 102
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptonmedia.org

My paintings reflect a yearning to connect to the soul and follow an imaginative path amongst color, flow, and texture. They become a reflection of our current state of mind as shapes and meanings change over time. I tend to approach my acrylic work with randomness and then I rework it until I feel we've come to an understanding; each a conversation or even a friendship over several years. My work contains remnants of play, exploration, reflection, and desire. -Lucinda Arnold

Contact: Jeff Mastroianni
director@easthamptonmedia.org
413-203-1360

Valley Impressionism

Artist: Susan Arata Barocas
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: March 30, 2025
Reception Date: March 22, 1:30-4pm
Location: Lathrop Retirement Community
Hours: 7 days / 9am-5pm
Address: 100 Bassett Brook Drive
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barocas.faso.com

Lathrop Retirement Community presents a beautiful collection! Susan Barocas' impressionist oil paintings. These are painted with a palette knife and bring a lot of texture and vibrancy to the Pioneer Valley landscapes. The addition of the two large floral pieces painted in north light adds a lovely contrast.

Contact: Susan Barocas
barocas@comcast.net
413-210-6188

Seawalls: Then and Now

Artist: Georgia Pugh
Start Date: March 6, 2025
End Date: March 30, 2025
Location: The Oxbow Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 2-7pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

The "Seawall Series" depict the results of high seas, storms and devastating coastal incursions brought about by climate change. The work presents sea walls, broken remnants of iron, concrete, rock and rebar built to keep water from land. Using imagery of these powerful, yet precarious forms, the artist provokes a sense of the perpetual interaction between human will and the forces of nature.

Contact: theoxbowgallery@gmail.com
413-203-1196

Paintings

Artist: Nicole Linda Gadon
Start Date: March 6, 2025
End Date: March 30, 2025
Location: The Oxbow Gallery, back gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 2-7pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Nicole Linda Gadon has considered herself an artist since the age of seven and has worked full time on her art since retiring from teaching art in 2013. Her current work is symbolic and narrative, using egg tempera and gold leaf in the manner of the 14th century Sienese painters.

Contact: theoxbowgallery@gmail.com
413-203-1196

My Dream of Danae and the Golden Rain

Artist: Ruth Kjaer
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: The Elusie Gallery @ Big Red Frame
Hours: see website
Address: 43 Main Street / Old Town Hall
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/gallery

I come from a tradition originating in the groundbreaking work of the abstract expressionist artists of the 1940s and 50s. They realized that the application of spontaneous improvisation in the process of creating abstract art could connect us with feelings and emotions that are much harder to access through more controlled approaches to artistic creation. I felt that utilizing that more abstract approach was what I needed for addressing themes related to women in the 21st century.

Contact: Jean-Pierre Pasche
yourfriends@bigredframe.com
413-529-9265

The Show I Can't Talk About

Artist: Kahli Hernandez
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: March 27, 2025
Location: ECA Gallery
Address: 43 Main Street / Old Town Hall
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.com

This exhibition will be an eyes only show. NO CAMERAS. NO PHONES. This will only be shown once and will never be shown ever again. The ephemeral aspect to the show is all of the art will be burned at the end. This will release the art back into the ethos and will light the fire of inspiration to all.

Rituals and Talismans

Artist: Lynn Sisler
Start Date: February 4, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: Grubbs Gallery at Williston Northampton School
Address: 40 Park Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: williston.com/visual-and-performing-arts/grubbs-gallery

A talisman acts as a magical object intended to protect or heal an individual for whom it is made. It derives its powers from a connection with (super)natural forces and is created in a ritualized manner at a favorable time. The works in Lynn Sisler's show directly reflect the self-made rituals in her studio practice as a counter to an increasingly hostile world. A ritual--doing something again and again--becomes a pattern, a spell, an intention. These are her talismans.

Contact: Lynn Sisler
lynnsislerart@gmail.com
404-680-9690

DAYDREAMING

Artist: Chloe Torri
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: March 30, 2025
Location: Sip 413
Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm, Sat & Sun 8am-4pm
Address: 90 Maple Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: sip413.com/gallery

A vibrant art show by Chloe Torri, showcasing colorful oil paintings that explore femininity, queerness, friendship, memory, resilience, magic, and hope. Through bold colors and fluid brushwork, Torri captures the beauty of connection and self-expression, creating a space of joy and possibility. It's a celebration of love, whimsy, and the magic in everyday moments. Chloe is showcasing oil paintings, mini art prints, and vinyl stickers housed in a vintage vending machine!

Contact: Chloe Torri
chloetorriart@gmail.com

Community Clean-out Sale at ArtSpace

Date: Saturday, March 29, 9:30am-12:30pm
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org

A $5 donation = a shopping bag full of creative goodies! We have paint, colored pencils, paper, fabric, yarn, art history books, art instruction book, SHEET MUSIC! All sorts of treasures that we can’t use in our current programming, but we would love you to have. All funds raised go towards our new community clay studio.

Contact: info@artspacegreenfield.org
413-772-6811

51st Annual Franklin County Teen Art Show

Artists: young teen artists across Franklin County
Start Date: March 14, 2025
End Date: April 25, 2025
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Hours: Tue & Sat 9am-1pm, Thur & Fri 4:30-8pm / check website for any exceptions
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org

Showcasing work from young teen artists attending, Stoneleigh Burnham School, Academy at Charlemont, Northfield Mount Hermon, Pioneer Valley Regional School, Franklin County Technical School, The Bement School, among others!

Contact: info@artspacegreenfield.org
413-772-6811

New England Dreamscapes

Artist: Sarah Adam
Start Date: March 6, 2025
End Date: April 25, 2025
Reception Date: April 25, 5-8pm
Location: The LAVA Center
Hours: Tue 11am-2pm, Thur & Fri 5-8pm, Sat 11am-2pm
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/exhibits/sarah-adam

New paintings on slate by Sarah Adam. "The bones of my painting surfaces are gathered from across the landscape, and they become my bones. Digging into the hillsides by slate roofed farmhouses, picking through the ruins of crumbling chapels, gifts of shards cleaned out of old mill buildings --all from ancient spaces, all seeking repurpose. As I allowed my palette to bloom, I embraced the unique shapes in each shard, excited to discover the hidden landscape in each piece." Closing reception: Apr 25, 5-8pm.

Contact: Sarah Adam
madsahara@gmail.com
978-906-1306

Rebecca Doughty

Artist: Rebecca Doughty
Start Date: March 15, 2025
End Date: April 13, 2025
Location: PULP, front room
Hours: Fri-Sun 11am-4pm, or by appt
Address: 80 Race Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: pulpholyoke.com

Rebecca Doughty (b.1955) draws and paints her comic and tragic characters, as they navigate a world of human predicaments. She writes: "They're my companions, confidants, clowns, heroes. I see them as stand-ins, for me and for all of us, bearing the weight of our anxious world."

Contact: pulpholyoke@gmail.com
413-362-6368

In the Weeds

Artists: Jeffrey Katz, Julia Schwartz, Alex Griffin
Start Date: March 15, 2025
End Date: April 13, 2025
Location: PULP
Hours: Fri-Sun 11am-4pm, or by appt
Address: 80 Race Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: pulpholyoke.com

Paintings by Julia Schwartz (California) and Alex Griffin (Philadeplhia), with a series of Monoprints by Boston artist Jeffrey Katz.

Contact: pulpholyoke@gmail.com
413-362-6368

Love, in all forms

Artists: group show
Start Date: March 13, 2025
End Date: April 15, 2025
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Hours: Mon 10am-2pm, Tue 4:30-6:30pm
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: wistariahurst.org

Wistariahurst Museum is celebrating the Third Annual Women's History Month juried art showcase with an array of artwork of varying mediums that analyzes how love impacts our lives. The exhibition features the work of artists who identify as women and non-binary.

Contact: Emily Munsell
munselle@holyoke.org
413-322-5660

Mehrnoush Bouzarjmehr

Artist: Mehrnoush Bouzarjmehr
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: March 31, 2025
Location: Artery
Hours: Thur-Sat 11am-5pm
Address: 289 High Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: holyokeart.com

In 2017 Mehrnoush Bouzarjmehr immigrated to the United States and began painting her dreams once again on wood and canvas. Since 2000, she has been deeply involved in painting, exploring various techniques such as chalk pastel, oil paint, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, fabric paint, and markers. She has also studied traditional Persian styles like Tazhib (Illumination), Gol-o-Morgh (Bird and Flower), and ancient Persian tile patterns.

Contact: Rachel Rushing
rachel@holyokeart.com
413-420-8303

Antipathy

Artist: Logan Ryland Dandridge
Start Date: March 27, 2025
End Date: May 8, 2025
Reception Date: March 27, 6-7pm
Location: Oresman Gallery, Smith College
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Address: Hillyer Hall, 22 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: sites.smith.edu/art-oresman-gallery/portfolio/logan-dandridge

Logan Ryland Dandridge, a time-based artist from VA, examines the poetics of sacred music, mythology, and the surreal. His works features a reimagining of Appalachian forests and bodies of water as sites of ancestral communion and merged interviews of Nina Simone, Etta James, and Toni Morrison into a single stream of consciousness. What emerges is a collision between logic and being, wonder and utility, speculation and revolution.

Contact: artdept@smith.edu

OverTime

Artist: Laura Radwell
Start Date: March 6, 2025
End Date: April 26, 2025
Location: Mass General Cancer Center, Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Hours: open during hospital hours
Address: Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: lauraradwell.com

19 Paintings by Laura Radwell, from then and now. Abstracts and abstracted landscapes, oil on canvas.

Contact: Laura Radwell
radwell@icloud.com
413-320-8134

New Artifacts from the Cave of Stories

Artist: Noah Pierce
Start Date: March 8, 2025
End Date: March 28, 2025
Location: NEVAmuseum
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

For many years I made comics, zines, designs and paintings in my own little world before it occurred to me to make a picture book. I found the process of trying to do a new thing the right way to be extremely challenging but greatly satisfying, so I saved a lot of stuff. I think that by including my notes, storyboards, trials and errors alongside the finished pages, you can peek behind the curtain to see an important truth: the artist is a human, just like you.

Contact: Noah pierce
decoder.ring.books@gmail.com

El Telar De Un Sueño

Artist: Pamela Acosta
Start Date: March 5, 2025
End Date: March 28, 2025
Location: Barn Door Gallery at the Northampton Center for the Arts
Hours: Wed-Sat 12-7pm
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/barn-door-gallery

"El Telar De Un Sueño" or "Looming "” is a comprehensive exhibition featuring works created over the past decade. It includes a variety of mediums, such as drawing, painting, and analog collage. A key highlight of the exhibit is one of Acosta's most recent pieces, "Fuegos Fatuos," her first tapestry.

Contact: Joie Gonzalez
gallery@nohoarts.org
413-584-7327

John Lewis

Artist: Rachel Jenkins
Start Date: March 8, 2025
End Date: March 28, 2025
Location: NEVAmuseum
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

On this occasion, one painting from our collection of over 200 regional artists is shown: a detail from Rachel Jenkins's portrait of John Lewis, which is on display in our collected works display.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Registry of Grief and Delight

Start Date: March 7, 2025
End Date: March 31, 2025
Location: A.P.E. Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 12-8pm
Address: 126 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org

This installation will offer space for gathering, reflection, grieving, and connecting; for joy and delight; for community, introspection, and celebration. Visitors will be offered ways to ‘register' their griefs and/or delights in this time and, if they desire, leave them in the gallery so that others might find company in them. Guided by the questions--What does now need? What do beings need in this time of now?--we invite our community into this installation of care and contemplation.

Contact: Mollye Maxner
mollyemaxner@apearts.org

Moments of realization and the complexities of Being

Artist: Meghan Fallon
Start Date: March 14, 2025
End Date: June 6, 2025
Location: CLICK Workspace
Address: 9 1/2 Market Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: clickworkspace.org/events/2025/03/20/mfallon

Meghan Fallon's work tends to be abstract, impressionistic and expressionistic. Inspiration comes from music, nature, literature and internal/external observation. she works with a variety of mediums including acrylic paint, oil pastels, pencil, and charcoal. Meghan is an artist based in Western MA. She has shown her work in galleries and venues across the Pacific Northwest where she resided prior to returning to her hometown.

Paintings

Artist: Ruth LaGue
Start Date: March 4, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri-Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

This collection of paintings celebrates the serene beauty of rural landscapes, with a particular focus on farmhouses and barns. These structures stand as timeless symbols of heritage and hard work, their weathered facades etched with the stories of generations. Set against vast, open fields and rolling hills, they evoke a sense of quiet solitude and resilience.

Contact: 413-587-1013

My Appalachia

Artist: Caroline Jennings
Start Date: March 4, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri-Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

This exhibit comprises work that grew out of Caroline Jennings' upbringing and early adulthood in small town Appalachia. The work explores the way in which hope grows out of hardship and isolation, and tries to express how a relatively isolated culture creates both bonds and separation. Jennings passed away November 2024.

Contact: 413-587-1013

Wood Works

Artist: David Russell
Start Date: March 4, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri-Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

I have been a painter and hand papermaker for over 30 years. Upon moving to Amherst five years ago (just in time for the pandemic lock-down), I found myself painting watercolors daily. Two years later, I felt I had exhausted myself two-dimensionally and didn't know where to turn. Then, I heard my mother whisper in my ear, "David, it's time to work in three dimensions now. Sculpt!"

Contact: 413-587-1013

Vivian Bresnitz

Artist: Vivian Bresnitz
Start Date: March 3, 2025
End Date: April 30, 2025
Location: Northampton Senior Center Bistro Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
Address: 67 Conz Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: northamptonma.gov/2221/Artist-of-the-Month

Vivian Bresnitz is a professional photographer and Massage & Neuromuscular Therapist who used the time and space of the 2020 pandemic to photograph the beauty, emotion and endless candid moments around her. Included in the show are photos from her trip to El Camino, Spain.

Contact: Nancy Yesu
Nyesu@northamptonma.gov
413 587-1313

Updraft

Artist: Susanna White
Start Date: March 14, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: Jo Smith Studio Gallery
Hours: Sat & Sun 12-4 pm, Thurs & Fri 3-8pm, and by appt
Address: 9 Market Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: susannawhite.com

Susanna White's mural "The World Below" is back in the Valley again along with a few cloud friends that will be on view. Live Demo: Saturday 3/22, 12:30-3:30pm: Susanna will be working on several paintings showing how she will be starting a new one as well as adding new layers to half finished paintings. Please join her for the whole day or just drop in. Closing party: Saturday 3/29. Please visit her website or follow her on facebook/instagram @susannawhiteart

Contact: Susanna White
Art@susannawhite.com
413-977-1538

Me and Other Bunnies and Other Stuff - 9th Annual Benefit Exhibit

Artist: Mo Willems
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: March 31, 2025
Location: R Michelson Galleries
Hours: Mon-Thu 10am-6pm, Fri 12-8pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm
Address: 132 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: RMichelson.com

Features original Mo Willems artwork from his latest book: "Me and Other Bunnies", and recent miscellaneous illustration. All of Mo's proceeds from this exhibit will be donated to "DonorsChoose: 2025 L.A. Wildfire Recovery" - assisting educators as they request the disaster recovery materials and classroom supplies their schools need.

Contact: events@RMichelson.com
413-586-3964

Hydroponically Speaking

Artist: Katie Jurkiewicz
Start Date: March 7, 2025
End Date: March 29, 2025
Location: Split Level Gallery
Hours: Wed-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 12-7pm
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org

Jurkiewicz creates monumental works that explore the fluidity and complexity of nature. Using acrylic paint on canvas, her abstract yet evocative compositions offer a visual journey into lush, dreamlike environments that engage with the themes of growth and transformation. Her paintings are designed to create a sense of total immersion, bringing viewers closer to nature's raw, unfiltered beauty.

Contact: Mollye Maxner
mollyemaxner@apearts.org

Contemporary Art Exhibit

Artist: Robert Bent
Start Date: February 10, 2025
End Date: March 24, 2025
Location: Woodstar Cafe
Hours: Mon-Sun 7am-6pm
Address: 60 Masonic Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: robertmacebent.com

A collection of recent abstract and expressive works on canvas.

Contact: Robert Mace Bent
rob.painter2@gmail.com
413-522-0133

New Artifacts from the Cave of Stories

Artist: Noah Pierce as Carin O'Heep
Start Date: March 8, 2025
End Date: March 28, 2025
Location: NEVAmuseum, Gallery 1 and 2
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

"New Artifacts from the Cave of Stories" shows the artwork process behind the book "Little Hopkins and the Big Scribble," the product of the author/illustrator Noah Pierce under his adopted creative personality, Carin O'Heep, a twin spirit. Consider this as Carin's book, where the twin brothers Noah and younger sister Holly inspired Hopkins & Bonnie's characters, respectively. Life lost touches the tale's heart, which explores the use of art to cope with loss & trauma. Artist Talk: March 22, 4-5pm.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Tillyer and Foley Collected Works

Start Date: March 8, 2025
End Date: March 28, 2025
Location: NEVAmuseum, Museum Wing
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

28 years of collecting art, much to see. Bruce Ackerson's Knock His Block Off is featured here with this listing. Many other artists and approaches are included in this collection by this couple who hold that art is incidental to the life of the artist who created it.

Contact: 413-588-4337

James Brown and Others

Artists: group show
Start Date: March 8, 2025
End Date: March 28, 2025
Location: Bumpus Gallery at NEVAmuseum
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

This group show presents graphic work by several artists focusing on the drawings of self-taught artist James Brown.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Small Works Show at Hope & Feathers

Artists: group show
Start Date: February 14, 2025
End Date: March 31, 2025
Location: Hope & Feathers Framing
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm
Address: 238 Bridge Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: hopeandfeathersframing.com

Small Works is back! Discover a stunning collection of original 6x6" and 5x7" artworks by your favorite local artists, all available for purchase. With our cash-and-carry format, you can take your new art home the same day.

Contact: katie@hopeandfeathersframing.com
413-835-0197

Lit from Within

Artist: Nava Grunfeld
Start Date: February 3, 2025
End Date: April 18, 2025
Location: Alumnae House Gallery at Smith College
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm
Address: 33 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton

A retrospective of paintings by Nava Grunfeld '81, representational paintings in watercolor on paper and acrylic on canvas. Grunfeld is nationally known for her color saturated watercolor paintings of still life objects, fruit, flowers, and figure paintings. "I find inspiration for my art everywhere I travel and I try to bring some of that sensuality to my paintings."

Contact: Jonelle Dennis
jdennis@smith.edu
413-585-2066

2025 Landscape Exhibition

Artists: group show
Start Date: February 12, 2025
End Date: April 5, 2025
Location: William Baczek Fine Arts
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Address: 36 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: wbfinearts.com

William Baczek Fine Arts is proud to announce the 2025 Landscape Exhibition. Thirteen artists from across the United States will be exhibiting their interpretations of the landscape in a variety of mediums, from oil painting, egg tempera, pastel, acrylic painting, and photography.

Contact: William Baczek
info@wbfinearts.com
413-587-9880

Temporarily Ours at Smith College Museum of Art

Start Date: January 24, 2025
End Date: June 1, 2025
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Hours: Tues-Sun 11am-4pm, second Fridays 11am-8pm
Address: 20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
City/Town: Northampton
Website: scma.smith.edu/art/exhibitions/temporarily-ours-contemporary-photography-and-film

Features photo and video works by eight contemporary artists working in Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, and the United States. Through photography and film, these artists create enduring images of the innovative ways communities have maintained a sense of belonging in the face of adversity.

Contact: artmuseum@smith.edu
413-585-2760

Colleen Ahern

Artist: Colleen Ahern
Start Date: February 3, 2025
End Date: March 31, 2025
Location: Northampton Senior Center, Hall Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
Address: 67 Conz Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: northamptonma.gov/2221/Artist-of-the-Month

Colleen Ahern finds inspiration and a sense of peace in natural light and the endless beauty of nature. She paints with oils- blending, layering and adding detail to the canvas.

Contact: Nancy Yesu
Nyesu@northamptonma.gov
413-587-1313

Figuration and Abstraction: Asian Art at SCMA

Artists: group show
Start Date: July 28, 2023
End Date: Summer 2025
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Hours: Tues-Sun 11am-4pm, second Fridays 11am-8pm
Address: 20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
City/Town: Northampton
Website: scma.smith.edu/art/exhibitions/figuration-and-abstraction-asian-art-scma

In art, "figuration" refers to the depiction of shapes found in reality--such as animals, plants, and human bodies– whereas "abstraction" simplifies subjects into form, color, and line. In modern western art, these two concepts are often understood as contrasting, but throughout history and in places such as Asia, these categories were not separate. For the works on view in this exhibition, realistic representation may not have always been the goal.

Contact: artmuseum@smith.edu
413-585-2760

Here, Now

Artist: Younes Rahmoun
Start Date: August 30, 2024
End Date: July 13, 2025
Location: Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA)
Address: 22 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
City/Town: Northampton
Website: scma.smith.edu/yr

The first North American exhibition devoted to the art of Younes Rahmoun, one of Morocco's leading contemporary artists. Over the last 25 years, Rahmoun has found inspiration in a profound connection to his here and now. He transforms simple shapes, materials and gestures from his daily life into sculptures and installations. For Rahmoun, creating art provides a way to be present with himself and with the world around him.

2025 Annual Photography Exhibit

Artists: Deerfield Valley Art Association
Start Date: February 24, 2025
End Date: March 30, 2025
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery & Gift Shop
Hours: Fri & Sat 12-5pm, Sun 12-4pm
Address: 105 Main Street
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

5TH annual Deerfield Valley Art Association exhibit featuring nineteen New England photographers, showing sixty pieces, both color and black & white. Awards will be presented. Juror is Paul Franz, Photo Editor, Greenfield Recorder Newspaper.

Contact: Marge Anderson
margedvaa@gmail.com

Student Art Exhibit

Artists: group show
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: April 27, 2025
Location: Salmon Falls Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 1 Ashfield Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: SalmonFallsGallery.com

Students of the 5th and 6th Grades from the Mohawk Trail Regional School District schools of Buckland Shelburne Elementary, Hawlemont Regional Elementary, Colrain Central School and Sanderson Academy are participating in a Student Art Exhibit. Featuring a wide range of works from paintings and charcoal drawings to 3D sculptures. Select artworks will have prints available for purchase, with all proceeds being divided equally among the schools for an art related field trip or supplies for their classroom.

Contact: Summer Litchfield
salmonfalls@megaplanet.com
413-625-9833

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Artist: Edith Lavinia Bingham
Start Date: February 26, 2025
End Date: March 31, 2025
Location: Shelburne Arts Co-op
Hours: Mon & Wed-Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 26 Bridge Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: www.shelburneartscoop.com

When Edith Bingham's father saw a portrait of Lavinia Bingham, by the British portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, he vowed that Lavinia would be his daughter's middle name. And perhaps that was a precursor of the path his daughter would eventually take, become an artist who works in many media, but is most enamored of painting. Still life painting in oils gives Edith a chance to work with color and composition, and to discover how light and shadows can convey texture. The items that she chooses, and the ways in which she arranges them to convey a story, may communicate different things to the viewer.

Contact: Flo Rosenstock
sac01370@gmail.com
413-625-9324

Cultural Fusion: A Neon Installation Show

Artist: Bill Myers
Start Date: March 23, 2025
End Date: August 10, 2025
Reception Date: March 23, 3-6ppm
Location: Art For The Soul Gallery
Hours: Tues-Fri 11am-4pm
Address: 1500 Main Street, Floor 2
City/Town: Springfield
Website: artforthesoulgallery.com/about

An immersive neon installation exploring social issues, isolation, and human connection through light and humor. Artist Bill Myers, whose first installation was at Zone Art Center in 1995, blends history, satire, and light. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno and The Twilight Zone, the show merges critique and spectacle. Neon environments invite viewers to navigate spaces that confront inequality and shared experiences, redefining social commentary through light, history, and humor.

Contact: Christina White
connect@artforthesoulgallery.com
413-301-6314

QAA Group Art Exhibit

Artists: Quabbin Art Association
Start Date: March 6, 2025
End Date: April 29, 2025
Location: Baystate Medical Center, Daly Building
Address: 2 Medical Center Drive
City/Town: Springfield
Website: quabbinartassociation.com

The Quabbin Art Association of Belchertown has a new group exhibit at Baystate Medical Center's Daly Building. The exhibit features a variety of artworks, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, dry media and photography, by local member artists throughout the Pioneer Valley. Many pieces are for sale and can be viewed during regular hospital hours. For more information, visit the website.

Contact: info@quabbinartassociation.com

The World Famous Artoonist's Art Heist

Artist: Kahli Hernandez
Start Date: February 8, 2025
End Date: April 4, 2025
Location: Amy H Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at STCC
Hours: Mon & Wed 12:30-4:30pm, Tue & Thur 1-5pm, Fri 12:15-3:15pm
Address: 1 Armory Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: stcc.io/carberry

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College celebrates Black History Month with Springfield artist Kahli Hernandez's The World Famous Artoonist's Art Heist. This dynamic, interactive art exhibition is an escape room and an art exhibition with an imaginative street-style expression. Viewers will encounter puzzles to solve while attempting to avoid vigilant "security" and escape with some original Artoonist artwork if completed correctly.

Contact: Sondra Peron
speron@stcc.edu
413-695-3196

Where We Are, Together

Artist: Cameron Schmitz
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: May 26, 2025
Reception Date: March 29, 3-5pm
Location: Great Falls Discovery Center
Hours: Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sun 10am-5pm
Address: 2 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners Falls
Website: greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org

The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association with Montague Public Libraries celebrate their 8th National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. Focused on Ross Gay's book of poetry, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, exhibits & events explore the theme of "Where We Live." Greenfield artist Cameron Schmitz uses color and mark-making as her language of expression. "Dashes of paint and gestural strokes tell a story-- orchestrated by movement, intuition, and the shifting of time." Reception: March 29, 3-5pm; artist talk 4:15pm.

Contact: Janel Nockleby
janel.nockleby@mass.gov
413-863-3221

Infrared Obsessions

Artist: Bruce Arnold
Start Date: March 1, 2025
End Date: March 30, 2025
Location: ArtWorks Gallery
Hours: Sat & Sun 1-4pm
Address: 69 Main Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

An exhibition of infrared photography by Bruce Arnold of North Brookfield. This exhibition showcases the creative applications of infrared photography, featuring landscapes and architectural scenes.

Contact: Marie Lauderdale
info@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

Meeting Point

Artist: Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling
Start Date: February 27, 2025
End Date: April 6, 2025
Location: Majestic Theater Cafe
Hours: Mon-Fri 10m-5pm, Sat 12-1pm
Address: 131 Elm Street
City/Town: West Springfield
Website: olwendowling.com

Contact: 413-277-6072

Paintings

Artist: Kim Carlino
Start Date: March 10, 2025
End Date: May 3, 2025
Location: Westfield Athenaeum Art Gallery
Hours: Mon-Thur 9am-8pm, Fri & Sat 9am-5pm
Address: 6 Elm Street
City/Town: Westfield

Carlino's work utilizes eco-geometric abstraction in order to explore themes of place, poetics and experience. She uses abstraction to synthesize daily experiences into visual renderings of relationships of color and form. She comments that "I look for ways to evoke the world around me in purely sensorial ways with no direct translation of these forms..." Her work is bold, dynamic, colorful, and yet inspires deep contemplation.

Rooted Resilience Launch Celebration

Date: March 19, 6pm
Location: BOMBYX Center for Arts & Equity
Address: 130 Pine Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: bombyx.live/events/rooted-resilience-launch-celebration

Join us as we celebrate the official launch of the Rooted Resilience Project! This event brings together 2SLGBTQIA+ artists, creatives, and culture-makers from Western Massachusetts for a night of live performances, conversation, and connection. 6pm: Makers Market and Resource Fair. 7pm: show featuring musical performances, author readings, community ritual, and more.

Contact: Luc Abbott
hello@bloomlocal.live
413-200-8141

A Touch of Whimsy at Fiddleheads Gallery

Sponsoring Group Name: Deerfield Valley Art Association
Deadline: May 9, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

Call for Artwork. A Touch of Whimsy: art that makes you smile. Naïve / Fanciful / Humorous / Curious / Folk. May 23 - July 13. Reception TBA. Fiddleheads Gallery, 105 Main Street, Northfield. Contact Marge by May 9th.

Contact: Marge Anderson
margedvaa@gmail.com

A.P.E. Accepting Proposals for the 2025 ARC Program (Activate/Research/Create)

Sponsoring Group Name: A.P.E. Gallery
Deadline: March 23, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org/arc-2025.html

Open to all artists, curators, and creative thinkers, ARC is a summer program of 1-week projects that focus on artistic practice/exploration and public engagement. We are interested in artists using the gallery in new and innovative ways, exploring various roles a gallery can play within a community. ARC 2025 will take place in June. A.P.E. will provide free space, intern and staff support, administrative and technical support, and small grants (if funding allows). Full details on website.

Contact: Kathy Couch
kathycouch@apearts.org

A.P.E. Accepting Proposals for OPEN CALL Spring 2025 Round

Sponsoring Group Name: A.P.E. Gallery
Deadline: March 30, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org/submissions.html

A.P.E. welcomes all artists and curators to submit proposals to share/show work in the Gallery at 126 Main street and at the Split Level Gallery at 33 Hawley through our Open Call process. Full details on website.

Contact: Mollye Maxner
mollyemaxner@apearts.org

Gloria McLellan Art Scholarship

Sponsoring Group Name: Agawam Community Artists and Artisans
Deadline: April 15, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Wilbraham
Website: agawamarts.com/our-artists-and-artisans/acaa-scholarship

The scholarship is open to seniors graduating from Agawam, Southwick, West Springfield, Westfield, or Springfield high schools. The scholarships are presented in memory of Gloria McLellan, who was a founding member of Agawam Community Artists and Artisans. Creating visual art well into her nineties, Gloria considered herself a lifelong student and teacher, and believed that artists and artisans should be encouraged and supported by their communities. Full details and application on website.

Holyoke Paper Festival

Sponsoring Group Name: Holyoke Art and Taber Art Gallery
Deadline: April 14, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: $30
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: holyokepaperfestival.com/enter

Holyoke Paper Festival is a celebration of art and culture recognizing the historic significance of Holyoke as The Paper City. HPF will hold a one-day exhibition in Downtown Holyoke this summer. Artists making work in/on/about/of paper are encouraged to submit 1-3 works that highlight the significance and possibilities of paper. Diverse media is encouraged. Submissions are also open for paper-related workshops, talks, and discussions.

Contact: Rachel Rushing
holyokepaperfest@gmail.com

4th Annual Celebrating the Figure

Sponsoring Group Name: ArtWorks Gallery
Deadline: March 27, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: $25 one piece / $35 up to three pieces
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org/exhibitions/celebrating-the-figure-4-call-for-art

Welcome to ArtWorks Gallery's 4th Annual Celebrating the Figure exhibition! This show will focus on the realistic interpretation of the human figure. The juror will be Eliza Moser.

Contact: Mary Remington
remington@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

Mini Pop-Up Markets at CitySpace

Sponsoring Group Name: CitySpace
Deadline: rolling
Submission/Entry Fees: sliding scale $10-$30 if accepted
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: cityspaceeasthampton.org/popup

CitySpace is hosting a series of mini makers markets each first Saturday during the CitySpace Bluegrass and Art Walk Easthampton. Only a few spots available per event! Apply for May & June!

Vending For You Program / 2025 Art Market Season

Sponsoring Group Name: Mill River Marginalized Artists Collective (MRMAC)
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: sliding scale $30-$50 with an option for payment over time
City/Town: Western MA
Website: mill-river-marginalized-artist-collective.square.site/vending-for-you

For numerous reasons marginalized artists may not be able to attend Art Markets. By working together we can make this easier for all of us! MRMAC applies to Art Markets on the Vending For You Program's behalf. We coordinate drop offs of artwork at our office, provide digital marketing, transport artwork and materials to the Art Markets, work with volunteers to run the MRMAC booths, and send artists their sales! Full details and application on website.

Contact: mrmacollective@gmail.com
413-427-9653

Out of Many at WORK_SPACE

Sponsoring Group Name: WORK_SPACE
Deadline: May 19, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees:
City/Town: Manchester, CT
Website: bit.ly/OutOfManySub

An art exhibit celebrating Caribbean culture. All mediums are welcome--photography, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and performance art--that reflect the Caribbean's rich spirit, history, and identity. Preference is given to artists of Caribbean descent, but all creatives (16+) in New England & NY whose work focuses on Caribbean culture may submit up to three pieces. Exhibit Dates: June 6 - August 3.

$1,000 Evolution Grant from Art Fluent

Sponsoring Group Name: Art Fluent
Deadline: June 6, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: $35
City/Town: Boston
Website: artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=14844

Art Fluent's grant cycle is now open to individual artists through an international open call. The Evolution Grant will provide unrestricted funding to an individual artist with recognized artistic excellence in fine art media and a demonstrated commitment to their art. $1,000 to one visual artist each grant cycle. Unrestricted funds applied toward any expense to enhance the artist's ability to create work.

Contact: Amy Matteson Neill
hello@art-fluent.com
508-419-1015

Artist in Residence at Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

Sponsoring Group Name: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Deadline: July 31, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Amherst
Website: renaissanceoftheearth.com/residencies

Aided by the Center's collection of over 1,000 rare books and manuscripts, artists will be invited to explore the ways in which their process intersects with Renaissance (1490-1750) thought and craft to produce work. This season, we are interested in proposals that engage with the elements of Earth or Air--through medium, thematic, or process--and their wide-ranging evocations of ground, life, connection, atmosphere, space, breath, spirit, and motion.

Contact: Liz Fox
efox@umass.edu

MAC 31st Annual Spring Art Exhibition & Sale

Sponsoring Group Name: Monson Arts Council
Deadline: April 6, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: 1 piece $28 / 2 pieces $38 / 3 pieces $48
City/Town: Monson
Website: monsonartscouncil.org/spring-exhibition-and-sale-2025

The Monson Arts Council is seeking artists for its 31st Annual Juried Spring Art Exhibition and Sale. Exhibition hours will be from noon until 5 pm each Saturday and Sunday during the show. The exhibition is open to the public at no charge. All interested artists can go to our website for entry details - The deadline for entry is April 6th at 6pm.

Contact: Sue James
fjames9059@charter.net

8th Biennial Art In the Orchard

Sponsoring Group Name: Art In the Orchard (AIO)
Deadline: April 1, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: artintheorchard.org/apply

Art In the Orchard (AIO) is seeking sculptures and installations for its 8th biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition at Park Hill Orchard in Easthampton. Background information can be found on the website. This biennial will feature 34 works and is expected to draw at least 30,000 visitors between August 16th and November 30th. Selected artists will receive a $750 honorarium. In addition, one or more short term residencies are available for site specific work. Full details on website.

Contact: support@artintheorchard.org
413-303-1603

Secrets... at the Elusie Gallery

Sponsoring Group Name: The Elusie Gallery
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/events/secrets-a-group-exhibit

Secrets… we all have them, we keep them, we share them. They fascinate us, they haunt us, they distress us, they bond us to each other, or they divide us. They can be wonderful, tragic, humorous, devastating, or sources of renewed energy. We invite you to submit artwork to this interactive exhibit, inspired by the term "secrets", inspired by YOUR secrets or by what the word "secrets" represents for you. Full details on website.

Contact: jean-pierre@bigredframe.com
413-695-8564

Articulture Westfield 2025

Sponsoring Group Name: ArtWorks Westfield
Deadline: April 12, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Westfield
Website: forms.gle/j9MD68Z2xZTcKnXC6

Call for new, emerging, experienced and professional artists! Articulture Westfield, our 8th annual community experience featuring local and regional artists and authors, on the arena floor at Amelia Park Arena. Cash Prizes! Accepted media: Fine art painting, drawing, mixed media, collage, photography, sculpture, printmaking, scratch board and framed or matted digital art. Also accepted are Artisan quality glass, wood, clay; Artisan quality jewelry, fiber art pieces, metalwork and ceramics.

Contact: Bill Westerlind
info@artworkswestfield.com
413-335-6976

2025 Mentoring Program for Early Career Artists

Sponsoring Group Name: Valley Arts Mentors (VAM)
Deadline: rolling
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: artsmentors.org/mentorship

VAM is currently accepting registrations for mentors and mentees! We match 10 - 15 mentor/mentee pairs a year on a rolling basis. Commitment: Mentors and mentees connect online or in person once every two weeks for a six month period. Full details and registration form on website.

Contact: admin@artsmentors.org
508-439-2069

Sewing Basics with Sheldon Smith

Date & Time: March 26, 4-6pm
Fee: $0-$20 sliding scale
Location: Make-it Springfield
Address: 286 Bridge Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: makeitspringfield.org/events/sewing-basics

This is a skill sharing opportunity for people with all levels of machine sewing. Beginners can try out our machines and more advanced sewers can drop in to start or work on projects in process. Sign up for multiple sessions to receive guidance, support, and creative community. We welcome all!

Contact: info@makeitspringfield.org
413-455-0663

Drawing for Beginners with Sergio Martinez

Date & Time: April 1, 4-6pm
Fee: $0-$40 sliding scale
Location: Make-it Springfield
Address: 286 Bridge Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: makeitspringfield.org/events/drawing-for-beginners

You don’t need to know how to draw a straight line to learn something in this workshop. We will start from a "can do" attitude and show you how to "see" more and have fun learning! We will work from a still life arrangement and discuss the methods of building form and dimension, line and shade relationships, light and shadow, and negative and positive shape relationships. We’ll review different drawing materials and you will have lots of hands on practice.

Contact: info@makeitspringfield.org
413-455-0663

Spring Equinox Arts & Meditation Mini-Retreat with Dori Dittmer

Date & Time: March 21 & 22, 6-8pm each day
Fee: free
Location: Online via Dori Dittmer
City/Town: Springfield
Website: oasisinthestorm.com/new-events-1/spring-equinox-arts-amp-meditation-mini-retreat

On March 21 & 22 we will gather online to celebrate this special time and see what is emerging for us emotionally and spiritually. We will explore how we are growing and changing in relationship to Nature's changes. Dori will lead you through deep breathing and muscle relaxation to awaken your mind and body for a seasonally relevant guided meditation. Followed by a creative response inspired by that experience, such as a drawing, collage, poetry, dance, or music. Call or email to register.

Contact: oasisinthestorm@gmail.com
917-346-0969

Watercolor Painting & Techniques with Deborah Padden

Date & Time: Thursdays, March 20 - April 10, 6-8:30pm
Fee: $120 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

This 4-week Course will help you develop your skills in the watercolor painting process. This class is designed for both beginner and advanced artists. All materials included.

Contact: Mary Remington
info@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

African Coiling & Hand-Building with Juliet Bacchas

Date & Time: Fridays, April 4 - May 30, 10am-1pm
Fee: $350 / 10% member discount
Location: ClayWorks Ceramics Studio
Address: 71 Main Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

In this hands-on course, you'll learn to create unique and sculptural pieces using the coil method, inspired by African pottery traditions, while also mastering the versatility of slab and pinch construction. Ages: 16 to adult. All materials included.

Contact: Mary Remington
info@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

Dragon Sculpting with Rick Hamelin

Date & Time: Saturday, April 5, 10-11:30am
Fee: $40 / 10% member discount
Location: ClayWorks Ceramics Studio
Address: 71 Main Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Master Potter Rick of Pied Potter Hamelin will teach you how to make a pinch pot and then alter it into a stunning dragon using coils, pads, and slabs. Ages: 5+/teens. All materials included.

Contact: Mary Remington
info@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

Handmade Papermakers' Show and Tell Group

Date & Time: Wednesday, March 26, 6:30pm (last Wednesdays of the month)
Fee: none
Location: Forbes Library, Watson Room
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton

If you make artisanal hand made paper for artistic use, bring something you are working on for comments, discussion, admiration, compassionate critique. This is a chance to meet with others who pursue this craft, to hear what others are working on, to report triumphs or express frustrations, share techniques and ideas. No commitment is required, attendance is on a drop in basis. First meeting on March 26. Sponsored by Whiteleaf Paper of Florence.

Contact: Donna Lilborn
whiteleafpaper@comcast.net
413-320-0049

Tween & Teen Oil Painting at Art Always

Date & Time: Mondays, March 31 - May 19, 4-5:30pm
Fee: $170 for 7 classes
Location: Art Always
Address: 188 Pine Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: hisawyer.com/art-always/schedules/activity-set/1318929

Explore the fundamentals of painting while unlocking the expressive power of color! Using water-soluble oil paints and color theory, students will create fun, funky, & vibrant paintings with confidence and creativity. Beyond technical skills, this class emphasizes the joy of experimentation and growth, encouraging participants to embrace imperfections and celebrate progress.

Contact: Lindsay
lindsay@art-always.com

Figure Drawing at Looky Here

Date & Time: March 27, 6-8pm, every other Thursday
Fee: $15 per session
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/figure-drawing-thursday-3-13-600-800

BYO materials! Easel and drawing horses provided. Figure Drawing at Looky Here is an uninstructed drawing session with a nude model. $15 per session, running 6-8pm on every other Thursday evening.

Contact: lookyheregreenfield@gmail.com

Classical Painting Techniques Workshops with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Tuesdays, April 1 - May 6, 10am-1pm
Fee: $485
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barbarajohnson.com

Students are guided through a series of painting exercises designed to build their perception of tonal values, color temperature, and aerial perspective, the essential ingredients of strong realistic painting since the Renaissance. Information on color mixing, organizing the palette, the care, maintenance, and function of the various brushes and materials used. Class size limited to ensure quality individualized instruction. All levels welcome.

Contact: Barbara Johnson
BarbaraJohnson202@gmail.com
413-259-7727

Introduction to the Art of Drawing with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Wednesdays, April 30 - May 6, 6-8:30pm
Fee: $395
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barbarajohnson.com

Explore the basic language and principles of drawing-the foundation of art explorations. Experience a series of exercises and materials designed to build the perceptual skills used in the "art of seeing". Gain confidence with graphite and charcoal pencils and become familiar with the different surfaces available in paper, and their effects. Explore Old Master drawings with each exercise to build perceptual skills. All levels are welcome.

Contact: Barbara Johnson
BarbaraJohnson202@gmail.com
413-259-7727

Finding Your Creative Voice Through Printmaking and Artists' Books: 4-Day Retreat at Zea Mays Printmaking

Date & Time: June 10-13
Fee: $2000
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/finding-your-creative-voice-through-printmaking-and-artists-books-4-day-retreat

Join Zea Mays Printmaking to explore art making as a way to connect with nature, observe mindfully, play in the studio and discover your artist within. No prior art making experience necessary – just an openness to exploration! You will engage in supportive drawing and printmaking experiences culminating in the creation of a unique artist's book that capsulizes your individual artistic journey. Full details on website.

Contact: Kaye Carroll
kaye@zeamaysprintmaking.com
413-584-1783

Amanda Barrow's Monotype & Gel Plate Printing Workshops

Date & Time: Monotype: Saturday, March 22 / Gel Plate: Sunday, March 23
Fee: $145 for Monotype class / $110 for Gel Plate class / $245 for both
Location: Amanda Barrow Printmaking Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, #244
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: artlink.click/cb8f02

RELEASE YOUR INNER INK! Take the classes separately or experience a Printmaking Power Combo! Monotype & Gel Plate prints = one-of-a-kind prints! Paint on a sheet of plastic, place paper over it, & run it through my printing press, or on top of the Gel Plate. Play w/ AKUA soy-based inks, brushes, & different papers to create original prints. All materials included, share ink; take home 7 prints with each class! No Experience Necessary! I've been teaching for 35 yrs & love it! Next workshops: April 26/27

Contact: bridge.arts.1@gmail.com

Drypoint with Recycled Materials at Zea Mays Printmaking

Date & Time: Sunday, March 23, 10am-5pm
Fee: $175 + $15 materials fee
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/tetra-pak-drypoint-2

Let's reuse common household trash materials for printmaking! In this one-day workshop we will turn laminated food and beverage cartons into versatile printing plates. You will learn how to transform packaging into printing plates, how to make images on them and how to print them to get exciting results. Cartons will be provided but if you have your own saved we encourage you to bring them along!

Contact: Kaye Carroll
kaye@zeamaysprintmaking.com
413-584-1783

Think Slow - Paint Fast Watercolor Workshop with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Saturdays, 10am-5pm, April 12 & 19
Fee: $350
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: BarbaraJohnson.com

Explore the delightful medium of watercolor: Introduction to basic principles, exercises in controlling effects for rendering form, and the use of spontaneous methods, materials, and processes to interact with the live medium.

Contact: Barbara Johnson
barbarajohnson202@gmail.com
413-259-7727

Drop-in-and-Draw with Kemah Wilson

Date & Time: Thursdays, 11:30am-1pm
Fee: free
Location: The LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: facebook.com/share/14hqaqv48Z

Cultivating Connections and Community through Creative Expression. Join host Kemah Wilson in this relaxed and fun family friendly activity. There is no cost. Donations Welcome.

Contact: Kemah
noiles21@yahoo.com

Cut Loose: Found Word Poetry College with Michael Sjostedt

Date & Time: Saturday, April 5, 10am-12pm
Fee: $45
Location: Big Red Frame
Address: 43 Main Street / Old Town Hall
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: michaelsjostedt.com/shop/April-5-Cut-Loose-Found-Word-Poetry-College-@-Big-Red-Frame-p726781909

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Cut Loose Collage Workshop: Found Word Poetry! Explore the beauty of language by gathering words and phrases from vintage magazines and printed materials, then arranging them into unique poetic collages—abstract, lyrical, or narrative. Want to add visuals? Mix your found word poetry with imagery for layered, expressive pieces.

Contact: Michael Sjostedt
msjost@gmail.com
413-230-1812

Luminous (Glass on Glass) Mosaics with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: Thursdays, 5-8:30pm, May 8 - June 12
Fee: $435 / including materials and dinner
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net

This method of making mosaics celebrates the way light shines through glass, casting colorful reflections around the room. The outcome is similar to stained glass, yet it's a much more forgiving process. Your pieces will have a hand cut look. You'll use a clear silicone glue to adhere to your glass substrate. On the final night, we'll use grout to fill in the joints, as in other styles of mosaic. You'll create 2-3 small mosaics to hang in the window during this series. Let the light shine!

Contact: Christine Kenneally
kenneally.christine@gmail.com
413-244-2384

Mosaics in the Indirect Method with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: Fridays, 9:30am-12:30pm, March 28 - April 18
Fee: $225 / including materials
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net

Explore the magic of mosaics! This series is open to beginner and intermediate level, with individualized instruction. As you create your mosaic from bits of glass, tile, crockery and found objects, you will build skills of observation and interpretation, of patterns, shapes, movement and energy that all work together to give life and personality to your work. Mosaics will be 8" x 10" and your mosaic will be equipped with hardware to hang it on the wall, or you may bring your own frame.

Contact: Christine Kenneally
kenneally.christine@gmail.com
413-244-2384

Mosaic Garden Stepping Stones - one day classes with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: 10am-4pm, April 5, May 17, June 8
Fee: $125
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net

Create a personalized and permanent addition to your garden in this fun one day class! Instruction given on: composing a strong design, cutting techniques using hand tools, assembling pieces to bring your design to life in glass. Then, we'll cast our mosaics in concrete in a circular mold, ensuring that your stepping stone holds together and has a flat surface.This class has been popular over the years, well over 500 stepping stones have been made by my students. New this year: Lunch provided.

Contact: Christine Kenneally
kenneally.christine@gmail.com
413-244-2384

Felt Sushi: An Original Wet Felting Technique with Paige Quinn-Vasic

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 6-8pm. April 22-May 6
Fee: $90-180 sliding scale +$30 material cost
Location: Eli's Room at Northampton Center for the Arts
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/art-classes/category/felt-sushi

Come wet felt like you've never wet felt before! Paige Quinn-Vasic's unique wet felting technique uses fluffy wool, soap and water, and a traditional sushi mat to create a dense felt roll. It is then sliced like a sushi roll to reveal the one-of-a-kind designs that are created from the fibers of different colors shrinking together. In this class, you will learn the basics of wet felting, create and slice your own felt "sushi roll," and finally transform them with simple jeweler's techniques.

Contact: Paige Quinn-Vasic
Paigesquinn@gmail.com
847-922-2191

Wistariahurst Kids Art Classes with Joycelin Raho

Date & Time: first Sundays, 2-4pm, February to June
Fee: sliding scale per class $10-20
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: eventbrite.com/e/wistariahurst-kids-art-classes-tickets-1104491767609

Art Classes for Kids ages 7-12, explore different artistic techniques and learn about art history as Joycelin Raho unlocks your child's creativity!

Contact: Rachel Powell
powellr@holyoke.org
413-322-5660

Stained Glass Mosaic Class at Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio

Date & Time: March 22, 1-5:30pm
Fee: $100
Location: Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, suite 229
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com

In this class you will have the opportunity to design a beautiful stained glass mosaic art piece. The class will cover how to prepare a mosaic pattern, how to cut glass into various geometric shapes, how to arrange glass within a pattern, and how to grout the final product. All levels are welcome. All glass and supplies are included in the tuition as is the use of all tools.

Contact: Heather McLean
Info@DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com
413-559-1010

Beginning Stained Glass Workshop at Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio

Date & Time: March 23, 1-5:30pm
Fee: $125
Location: Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, suite 229
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com

Create a beautiful sun catcher or 2-4 ornaments to grace your home or give as gifts. In this class we will cover all of the skills and techniques to build a unique piece(s) of stained glass art using the copper foil technique. This is a perfect class for students with no experience as well as intermediate students with some experience who may want a refresher course. All levels welcome. All glass and supplies included in the tuition as is use of all tools.

Contact: Heather McLean
Info@DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com
413-559-1010

Zine Club with Translate Gender at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: third Saturdays, 11am-1pm
Fee: $5-$20 suggested donation
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Ste #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: resilientcommunityarts.org/program-registration/p/zine-club-with-translate-gender

Join Translate Gender and Resilient Community Arts for a zine-making workshop every third Saturday of the month at the Resilient Community Arts studio. In addition to learning how to make our own zines, we will learn about a specific movement in queer history and you can then create zines about your own protest / mutual aid need or historical topic!

Contact: info@resilientcommunityarts.org
413-342-0396

Drop-In Public Studio at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: first Saturdays, 4:30-7pm
Fee: suggested donation $10-$15/hr per person
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Ste #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: resilientcommunityarts.org/program-registration/p/drop-in-studio

The time is yours! Drop In Public Studio is supervised by RCA studio assistants and instructors. There is no set theme or project for drop-in studio hours, but our staff will always be there to share new techniques, equipment, and ideas with you! Come to hang out in community, use any of RCA's supplies, and create independently! Drop-In Studio takes place on the first Saturday of every month during Easthampton's Art Walk.

Contact: info@resilientcommunityarts.org
413-342-0396

Queer And Trans Art Group at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: Wednesdays, 7-8:30pm (2nd & 4th Wednesdays)
Fee: donations appreciated but not required
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Ste #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: resilientcommunityarts.org/program-registration/p/qtag

Open to anyone who identifies as queer, trans, or gender-expansive. This is a bi-weekly program happens every other Wednesday at 7pm with our fabulous facilitator Mi! Come hang out, make art in community, or just connect with other queer and trans folks in a safer space.

Contact: info@resilientcommunityarts.org
413-342-0396

Studio Buddy System

Date(s) Available: reguslar sessions scheduled
City/Town: online via zoom
Website: forms.gle/1YPoXb1nSTYKwAmYA

Feeling isolated or procrastinating in your studio? Connect with fellow artists from your own space. I'm kicking off a Studio Buddy System to foster a supportive community where we can share ideas, get feedback, and nurture creative relationships. Online "body-doubling" provides the support and accountability you need to thrive as an artist. Free (w/ optional donation). Session format: Introductions - Set intentions - 50 min. work - Check-in - 50 min. work - Wrap up, celebration of progress.

Contact: Sal Wright
studio.buddy.system@gmail.com

Studio Share at Brushworks / Arts+Industry Building

Date(s) Available: May 1
Location: Brushworks / Arts+Industry Building
Address: 221 Pine Street
City/Town: Florence

Beautiful, bright, clean 1st floor studio share in a well maintained artist building in Florence. Fully accessible 20X20' well lit studio. $400/mo. Looking for compatible studio mate, artist or writer.

Contact: Jane Herzenberg
herzdesign@aol.com

Help Artspace build a community clay studio in Greenfield

Goal: $100,000
End Date: April 30, 2025
Location: Greenfield
Website: zeffy.com/en-US/fundraising/187ffaa5-b3b6-4232-a243-906b128766c8

In 2023, Artspace Greenfield received support from the Mass Cultural Council/Mass Development and several private funders to explore the creation of a community clay studio in Greenfield. This fall Artspace is raising $100,000 to build a community ceramics studio at our Mill Street location. Artspace has received a very generous pledge from a private funder to match all individual donations to the clay studio up to $30,000!

Contact: info@artspacegreenfield.org
413-772-6811