SEEING PLACE

Artist: Kathleen Lugosch
Start Date: September 8, 2026
End Date: October 22, 2026
Location: Design Building Gallery
Address: UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: kathleenlugoschstudio.com

Experience of place holds my interest as architect, academic, and artist. The through line: art-architecture-place. This show, divided into five moments, intimates deep kinship and feelings of responsibility, love, and joy with place, this forest, I call home. Impressions, photos, maps, emotion, memory . . . ways of seeing that I explore through this exhibit.

Contact: Kathleen Lugosch
Lugosch@umass.edu

Surveying Gravity: A Mirror for Growing Contradictions

Artist: Justin Randolph Thompson
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: September 25, 2026
Location: Augusta Savage Gallery
Address: UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/2026-2027/justin-randolph-thompson

In his research-driven installation, Justin Randolph Thompson explores the life and legacy of his grandfather, Randolph W. Bromery, former UMass chancellor and a Tuskegee Airman, geophysicist, jazz musician, and educator. An interactive recreation of Bromery’s unfinished basement brings visitors directly into Thompson’s memories of his grandfather.

Contact: Maddie Fabian
mfabian@umass.edu
413-545-9663

Ghosts, Echoes, and Other Wonders

Artist: Anita S. Hunt
Start Date: September 8, 2026
End Date: December 15, 2026
Reception Date: September 17, 5pm
Location: Hampden Gallery
Address: UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/2026-2027/anita-s-hunt

Showcases the work of local printmaker Anita S. Hunt. Bringing together old and new prints, drawings, collages and paper sculptures, the exhibition explores Hunt’s relationship with rural New England.

Contact: Maddie Fabian
mfabian@umass.edu
413-545-9663

De Natura Libris

Artist: Álvaro Alejandro López
Start Date: September 8, 2026
End Date: December 15, 2026
Reception Date: September 17, 5pm
Location: Hampden Gallery
Address: UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/2026-2027/alvaro-alejandro-lopez

Álvaro Alejandro López’s digital photographs explore our relationship with books, highlighting their material presence, textures, and signs of use. His work invites viewers to consider the book as both an object and a living score shaped by personal experiences.

Contact: Maddie Fabian
mfabian@umass.edu
413-545-9663

My beautiful, pitiful age: The 20th century through the Thomas P. Whitney Collection

Start Date: August 25, 2026
End Date: January 3, 2027
Location: Mead Art Museum
Hours: Tue-Sun 9am-5pm, Thur until 10pm
Address: 41 Quadrangle Drive / Amherst College
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions/2026/my-beautiful-pitiful-age

The multipart exhibition at the Mead Art Museum and the Amherst Center for Russian Culture offers the first in-depth exploration of the Thomas P. Whitney Collection of art and rare books. Exhibition materials will be shown in galleries in both locations throughout the 2026-2027 academic year.

Contact: Charlotte Murtishaw
cmurtishaw@amherst.edu
413-542-2551

Common Thread

Artists: Martha Braun, Matthew Simons
Start Date: September 3, 2026
End Date: September 26, 2026
Location: Gallery A3
Hours: Thur-Sun 2-7pm
Address: 28 Amity Street 1D
City/Town: Amherst
Website: gallerya3.com

Martha Braun exhibits prints, paintings, and photographs, with elements of collage, in Contemplating Resilience. Matthew Simons, in The Space Between Us, presents a series of monotypes, some also incorporating collage elements. Both artists employ an abstract visual language to explore concerns that are both conceptual and concrete. Art Forum on Zoom: September 17, 7:30pm, register on website.

Contact: Martha Braun
marbu43@gmail.com

The Biggest Tiny Art Show in North Amherst

Start Date: July 15, 2026
End Date: October 12, 2026
Location: The Mill District General Store & Local Art Gallery
Address: 91 Cowls Road,
City/Town: Amherst
Website: eventbrite.com/e/the-biggest-tiny-art-show-in-north-amherst-free-drop-in-public-art-tickets-1993836103458

YOU are invited to participate in the BIGGEST tiny art show in North Amherst! Swing by The Mill District General Store & Local Art Gallery to participate in our current public art exhibit located in our Front Window Gallery! We provide the 2” x 2” canvas, you provide the creativity! FREE. Donations to Amherst Survival Center encouraged. When? Drop in anytime during store hours to paint your mini OR attend one of our informal Painting parties. See event link for all the details!

Contact: gallery@cowls.com
413-835-0966

Works by Amy Dawn Kotel

Artist: Amy Dawn Kotel
Start Date: August 10, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: Amherst Town Hall
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Address: 4 Boltwood Avenue
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherstma.gov/art

Amy Dawn Kotel is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative path spans dance, puppetry, education, and fitness, all of which inform her vibrant fine art practice. Bursting with color, movement, and imagination, Kotel's work invites viewers into richly layered worlds where countless forms converge to create expansive landscapes, dreamlike narratives, and unexpected connections.

Contact: Tom Warger
publlicart@amherstma.gov
413-530-7513

A Touch of Whimsy: art that makes you smile at Fiddleheads Gallery

Artists: Deerfield Valley Art Association
Start Date: September 5, 2026
End Date: October 25, 2026
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sat 12-5pm, Sun 12-4pm
Address: One Brattleboro Road
City/Town: Bernardston
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

In need of a little joy? A Touch of Whimsy presents whimsical work by New England artists and includes paintings, mixed media, fiber art, photography, wood, glass, and metal. This annual show is a viewer and artist favorite. It’s guaranteed to make you smile! See website for more details.

Contact: Marge Anderson
margedvaa@gmail.com

Flower Show

Artist: Kate Spencer
Start Date: September 3, 2026
End Date: September 27, 2026
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Front Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Spencer writes "My studio is located at the edge of a wild meadow leading to the Sawmill River in Montague Center. I have spent the spring and summer studying and painting the wildflowers out my north window through the seasons. In town are lovely gardens that I have rendered on canvas, so I present flowers both native and introduced as well as garden specialties. I am thrilled to be working with pinks and purples along with my standard orange and green palette. Welcome to my Flower Show!"

Contact: Kate Spencer
katespencerbranch@gmail.com

Captured in Felt

Artist: Eileen Travis
Start Date: September 3, 2026
End Date: September 27, 2026
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Back Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

A series inspired by photographs the artist has taken of a wide variety of scenes she's encountered. Each piece is completed with wool roving that has been either needle felted or wet felted, and some are embellished with embroidery.

Contact: Eileen Travis
emtravis4@gmail.com

A Sanctuary for Earthly Matter(s)

Artists: Christa Donner, Andrew S. Yang
Start Date: September 19, 2026
End Date: October 24, 2026
Reception Date: Saturday, September 19, 5-7pm
Location: Out of Office (OOO)
Hours: Sat 3-5pm, or by appt
Address: 33 Maple Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oooeasthampton.com

Insects buzz, grass grows, the ground shakes restlessly, and the days are too hot. Incremental layers fold and everything reflects. As a communion of subjects on a singular Earth-speck we matter to each other, like it or not. In this former Lutheran meeting house turned lumber barn and now art space, maybe there is sanctuary of sorts, where we can feel strange feelings and think long thoughts together. Extended hours (exact ones TBD) for Easthampton Porchfest on Oct 3rd. Opening: Sept 19th, remarks by the artists at 5:30pm.

My Heart Is Tight For You

Artist: Mahsa Attaran
Start Date: September 5, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: ECA Gallery
Address: 43 Main Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.com

Formed from love and distance, Mahsa Attaran's exhibition offers meditations of family, home, and language shaped by life apart from Iran. The details within Mahsa's work linger: the smell of a mother’s cooking, the touch of a father’s hands, moments that hold both comfort and longing. Persian, with its rhythm and tenderness, runs through the work, carrying meaning that can’t always be translated. These gaps in language echo the experience of living between cultures.

Under the Eaves

Artists: Over the River Collective
Start Date: September 5, 2026
End Date: September 26, 2026
Hours: see website
Address: 43 Main Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/gallery

An exhibition by the Over the River Collective: Elisa Lanzi, B.Z. Reily, Annie Rogers, Margo Temple. "Under the eaves we uncovered the touchstones of lives lived – old diaries, handwritten letters, and vintage photographs. Yet we longed for the missing pieces, the lost archives, the unfinished stories. We, the artists, are women of that last century and we want to make something out of it, something particular to us."

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

Zen Zodiac

Artist: Courtney Bennett
Start Date: August 29, 2026
End Date: September 29, 2026
Reception Date: September 19, 2-3pm
Location: Lathrop Community
Hours: 7 days / 9am-5pm
Address: 100 Bassett Brook Drive
City/Town: Easthampton

My work is a convergence of a lifelong creative passion and professional therapeutic practice. The Zen Zodiac series, explores and combines fluid techniques using repetition and delicate shading to bring symbolic imagery to life. Driven by a belief that art can inspire, ground, and connect, my goal is to create pieces that invite the viewer into mindful reflection and creative possibility. I have witnessed first-hand the profound capacity of art to facilitate healing, insight, and resilience.

Contact: Marcia Jestaedt
marciajestaedt@gmail.com
301-693-0427

Alla Prima

Artist: Trace Meek
Start Date: September 1, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: Mt. Tom’s Homemade Ice Cream
Hours: Sun-Thur 11:30am-9pm, Fri & Sat 11:30am-9:30pm
Address: 34 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: art.tracemeek.com/2026/07/11/alla-prima-paintings-by-trace-meek

Most of the paintings in this show were made by Trace Meek in 2026, and most of them were made in a single session (thus the title, "Alla Prima," which means "at first attempt" in Italian).

Contact: Trace Meek
hello@tracemeek.com

Atmospheres

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: September 28, 2026
Location: Oxbow Art Gallery
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Members' exhibit.

Contact: 413-203-1196

Life 'n Death 'n Stuff: The Humorous World of Ken Brown

Artist: Ken Brown
Start Date: August 23, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: 50 Arrow Gallery
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-6pm
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 244
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: 50arrowgallery.com

Brown's distinctive work brings together humor, observation, and everyday life with a visual language all his own. Proceeds from all artwork sales during the exhibition will benefit Home Sweet Home, helping people with disabilities make accessibility modifications that allow them to live safely in the communities they choose.

Photography Exhibit

Artist: Ellen Koteen
Start Date: August 3, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: E•Media (Easthampton Media)
Address: 116 Pleasant St, Ste 102
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptonmedia.org/create/gallery

I appreciate the opportunity to exhibit my photographs in the E-Media studios and want to acknowledge the important role E-Media has played and is playing in promoting the rich arts and cultural life within the city of Easthampton. The photographs on display include my earliest photos taken with slide film, the orchid and calla lily and my latest photos taken with a mirrorless digital camera, the great horned owls and the peacock. -Ellen Koteen

Contact: Lucinda Arnold
admin@easthamptonmedia.org
413-203-1360

Stories from the Shore

Artist: Emilia Bingham
Start Date: September 1, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: Sip 413
Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm Sat & Sun 8am-4pm
Address: 90 Maple Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: sip413.com

Emilia Bingham (they/them) began dabbling with art in 2023 after graduating from a masters of social work. They found a passion in linoleum block printing, and have been working with this since 2024. More recently they have begun experimenting with combining linocut with collage and hand sewing. When not creating art they are working on growing their therapy practice, focusing on serving the queer and polyamorous community in Massachusetts.

Contact: Emma Basile
galleryandretail@sip413.com
413-230-7843

Greenfield Arts Summit

Date: Friday, September 25, 9:30am-12:30pm
Location: Greenfield Public Library
Address: 412 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/greenfield-art-summit-at-greenfield-public-library-930am-1230pm

Are you a Visual Artist? Musician? Writer? Filmmaker? Dancer? Storyteller? Actor? Potter? Do you live or work in Greenfield? GAAC invites you to a Greenfield Arts Summit! Led by GAAC (a coalition of Greenfield Community Television (GCTV), Artspace, Looky Here, and The LAVA Center), this event is focused on bringing Greenfield artists of all stripes together to meet, mingle, and share ideas and visions together

Contact: Sarah Fran Wisby
sarahfran@mac.com
415-321-9691

Carnival Studies

Artist: Lisa Beskin
Start Date: September 11, 2026
End Date: October 18, 2026
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org

Wander around a carnival and you’ll see it all: beauty, heartbreak, gaudiness, mystery, ugliness the pleasures are simultaneously cheap and dear. An eerie nostalgia is baked into both a Polaroid photograph and into the carnival experience.

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

Escape!

Artist: Christine Mirabal
Start Date: September 5, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: The LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/exhibits/christine-mirabal-escape

The focus of Christine’s art is primarily the natural world. She finds it soothing to depict skies and clouds, forests and creeks, and seas and rocks, as well as animals. In the paintings in this exhibit, the theme is escape.

Contact: clara@thelavacenter.org
413-376-8118

Clouds with the Sea, Lakes, Rivers and Ponds

Artist: Paul Jablon
Start Date: September 1, 2026
End Date: January 1, 2027
Location: Hope & Olive
Hours: Wed 5-9pm, Thur & Fri 11:30am-9pm, Sat 5-9pm, Sun 10am-1pm & 5-9pm
Address: 44 Hope Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: hopeandolive.com/visit1

An exhibition of B&W photographic prints. Air is not visible. The clouds and the water of the sea, lakes, rivers, and ponds are the pallet, the medium, with which the air makes itself known. The water and the clouds each interact differently with the air and demonstrate the air's emotions, motions, whims and intensities. As water and clouds are different media, they represent the same air in their own unique ways. These change in a moment allowing me to capture two-dimensional pieces of time.

Contact: Paul Jablon
pjablon@comcast.net
413-313-3272

Minor Cosmologies

Artist: Eva Lin Fahey
Start Date: August 1, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: Looky Here
Hours: 12-5pm daily
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/minor-cosmologies-gallery-reception-for-eva-lin-fahey-friday-8-28-5pm

Contact: Sarah Fran Wisby
sarahfran@mac.com
415-321-9691

slow, down river

Artist: Alix Kaplan
Start Date: August 11, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: Greenfield Community Television
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
Address: 393 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: gctv.org

Join the Greenfield Community Television community in celebrating our current gallery exhibition, Slow, Down River, a collection of photographs of the Connecticut River by Alix Kaplan.

Contact: Bella Levavi
bellalevavi@gctv.org
413-774-4288

Cassandra Fox

Artist: Cassandra Fox
Start Date: September 1, 2026
End Date: October 31, 2026
Location: Hadley Senior Center
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm
Address: 46 Middle Street
City/Town: Hadley

Cassandra Fox is a visual artist who grew up in Belchertown and now lives in the Boston area where she works as a nurse practitioner with a focus on HIV and gender affirming care. While traversing the health and natural landscape in her daily life, Cassandra's photographic work captures the vibrancy of the natural and human-made scenes showcasing moments of awe and splendor. Come to see and purchase her beautiful works at the Hadley Senior Center.

Retro Active

Start Date: September 8, 2026
End Date: October 22, 2026
Location: Taber Art Gallery, Holyoke Community College
Hours: Mon-Thur 9am-5pm
Address: 303 Homestead Avenue
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: hcc.edu/about/taber-art-gallery

An interactive review of the HCC Permanent Collection. Visitors to Retro Active will learn about the +350 piece collection of art stewarded by Holyoke Community College. Through guided interactions, we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the beautiful, everyday, inspiring, and complicated works kept in our care for the public trust. October 22, 5pm: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. We'll introduce the Art+Feminism framework and go over the basics of editing.

Indigenous Joyfest at Wistariahurst Museum

Date: September 20, 12-3pm
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: wistariahurst.org/event/indigenous-joyfest

Wistariahurst Museum will be celebrating our 2026 Indigenous Joyfest Sunday, September 20th. Join Andre Strongbearheart Gaines Jr., Founder of No Loose Braids, Sito Zapaktli, José Lugo, Tracey-Mae Chambers, and other indigenous presenters as they share indigenous history and culture through music, art, and informative talks. This event is geared towards learning and exploration, perfect for people of all ages.

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

Sand Paper Works

Artist: Brent Refsland
Start Date: August 22, 2026
End Date: September 20, 2026
Location: PULP, front room space
Hours: Fri-Sun 11am-5pm, or by appt
Address: 80 Race Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: pulpholyoke.com

Brent Refsland is an artist living in southern Maine. For more than a decade he has solely incorporated discarded and used sandpaper he's collected from fellow artists, woodworkers, and friends into landscapes, weavings, and abstract works on wood panel and paper. His approach is largely intuitive, melding observation with memory, imagination, and emotion.

Stacy Caldwell & Anna Dennis Dibble

Artists: Stacy Caldwell, Anna Dennis Dibble
Start Date: August 22, 2026
End Date: September 20, 2026
Location: PULP
Hours: Fri-Sun 11am-5pm, or by appt
Address: 80 Race Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: pulpholyoke.com

Anna Dennis Dibble is a visual artist, writer and environmental advocate who has been painting and sculpting for over 50 years. Her creative career spans Hollywood animation, public environmental projects and local/national art exhibitions. Stacy Caldwell's drawings and paintings are a direct response to the natural environment she sees in her daily life. Since 2021, she has committed to a daily drawing practice in moleskine books that also become the launch pad for her paintings.

Annual Solo Exhibit

Artists: Susan Valentine
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: September 27, 2026
Location: Leverett Crafts & Arts
Hours: Fri-Sun 1-6pm
Address: 13 Montague Road
City/Town: Leverett
Website: leverettcraftsandarts.org

Annually, Susan has a solo exhibit at Leverett Crafts & Arts. This year David Pozar will join her with his sometimes intricate, sometimes simple and elegant works in wood. Susan’s focus for this year is floral oil paintings.

Contact: Susan Valentine
s.valentine.art@gmail.com

Oil Paintings

Artists: The Perennials
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: September 27, 2026
Location: Leverett Crafts & Arts
Hours: Fri-Sun 1-6pm
Address: 13 Montague Road
City/Town: Leverett
Website: leverettcraftsandarts.org

This group of oil painters has been working together for almost two decades. Brought together by their love of the arts and painting. They are Penné Krol, Marti Olmstead, Joanne Belair, Frankie Dack, Mari Rovang, Susan Valentine, Kimiko Donohoe, Suzanne Hannay and Lori Lynn Hoffer.

Contact: Susan Valentine
s.valentine.art@gmail.com

Experiences

Artist: David Andrews
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: October 30, 2026
Location: Gallery 3, New England Visionary Artists Museum
Hours: Wed-Sat 2:30-5:30pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: neva-museum.org

South Side Chicago artist David Andrew presents a meditation on perspective, power, and the unequal realities shaping American life. Combines using graphite hornet-nest paper, and words clipped from books by famous Black authors form poetic messages of hope and liberation. South Side is not a credential but a window on a nation. Andrew asks viewers to look beyond a single lens and reckon with how differently people experience shared events. Shown: Our War detail.

Contact: 413-588-4337

A Mortar Fire Rain in the Garden

Artist: Bella Martinez
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: Gallery 3, New England Visionary Artists Museum
Hours: Wed-Sat 2:30-5:30pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: neva-museum.org

Springfield artist Bella Martinez, a painter, poet, and illustrator, finds quiet mystery in the overlooked places of everyday life. Working from observation, she paints and draws as places change, gathering multiple perspectives into intimate, lived-in experiences. For Martinez, nature is both subject and guide--a place where struggle, transformation, beauty, and mystery reveal truths larger than we can fully understand.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Photographs

Artist: Jim Gambaro
Start Date: September 1, 2026
End Date: October 31, 2026
Location: Main Gallery, Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Address: 30 Locust Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: jimgambarophotography.zenfolio.com

An eclectic selection of photographs spanning more than five decades of this award-winning photographer's career, as varied as Icelandic puffins and Yellowstone bison. As close to home as the Quabbin Reservoir, as distant as street scenes ranging from the Galapagos to Gibraltar, and even a volcanic pool in New Zealand. All treated with Jim's usual colorful and often whimsical delight in abstractions of natural images. A portion of sales benefits Cooley Dickinson Hospital.

Contact: Marianne Gambaro
margam323@aol.com
413-262-0548

An Absent Presence

Artist: Chloe Sailor
Start Date: September 8, 2026
End Date: October 22, 2026
Reception Date: September 17, 6-7pm
Location: Oresman Gallery, Hillyer / Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Address: 22 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: sites.smith.edu/art-oresman-gallery

This exhibition reimagines the life of Sailor's 7th great-grandmother, Susanna Beal Milliken--the first recorded "doctoress" of Mount Desert Island, Maine. Susanna's story survives only in fragments, scattered among archival documents and overshadowed by the narratives of men. Sailor gathers these delicate threads, employing Critical Fabulation to mend and illuminate her story through quilting, painting, and cyanotype on reclaimed Maine textiles.

Contact: artdept@smith.edu

Laura Davis

Artist: Laura Davis
Start Date: September 2, 2026
End Date: September 29, 2026
Reception Date: Wednesday, September 23, 5-7:30pm
Location: Hosmer Gallery
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

Laura C. Davis is exhibiting a selection of recent improvisational quilts at the Hosmer Gallery in September. She is a contemporary quilter who works with second-hand garments, repurposed home textiles, and thrifted fabrics. Her work explores the tension between structure and flexibility, order and chaos, and trash and treasure while honoring traditions of improvisational quilting, textile reuse, and domestic labor.

Contact: 413-587-1013

Mosaic-Fusion Paintings

Artist: Lennie Kaumzha
Start Date: September 2, 2026
End Date: September 29, 2026
Reception Date: Wednesday, September 23, 5-7:30pm
Location: Hosmer Gallery
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

"A kaleidoscope of colors...Acrylic on canvas with phantasy images of nature, landscapes, flowers, animals, musicians, jesters...carrying the eye with a sub-current of color 'notes' rifting in different tonal directions..."

Contact: 413-587-1013

Catherine Aiello

Artist: Catherine Aiello
Start Date: September 2, 2026
End Date: September 29, 2026
Reception Date: Wednesday, September 23, 5-7:30pm
Location: Hosmer Gallery
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

Local printmaker Catherine Aiello is sharing prints and drawings from her Swimmer series. Woodcut and silkscreen prints explore the emotional relationship between humans and water through images that are joyful, contemplative, and mysterious.

Contact: 413-587-1013

After Eden

Artist: Sandra Cavanagh
Start Date: September 11, 2026
End Date: October 4, 2026
Location: A.P.E. Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 1-8pm
Address: 126 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org

After Eden sustains a figurative focus in reaction to current and historical narratives, considering mortality and loss of innocence in transgenerational stories, the usefulness of art's centuries old regard of myth, foundational stereotypes and the mundane occurrence of violence.

Contact: Mollye Maxner
mollyemaxner@apearts.org

My Berlin Wall

Artist: Mariana Cicerchia
Start Date: September 11, 2026
End Date: October 4, 2026
Location: A.P.E. Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 1-8pm
Address: 126 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org

My Berlin Wall: A Silent Protest Song, created between 2025 and 2026, reflects on the recurring cycles of history and the forces that shape individual and collective experience. Through newspaper-based compositions, Cicerchia examines power, repression, displacement, and the persistent human desire for freedom.

Contact: Mollye Maxner
mollyemaxner@apearts.org

Terroir - Paintings & Poems

Artists: Mary Katz, Jeffery Katz
Start Date: September 14, 2026
End Date: March 2, 2027
Reception Date: September 25, 5-7pm
Location: Smith College Alumnae House Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri / closed holidays
Address: 33 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: marykatzart.com

Images and words dream their way through each other in a pairing of paintings and poems by Hudson Valley painter Mary Katz and poet Jeffrey Katz. Rooted in the natural world, abstract paintings evoke a personal landscape. The French term terroir, describes wines as complex expressions of their places and here conveys the artists' experience and practice together. Influenced by place, memory, and history, their means intersect--light, line, shadow, tone, syntax--creating a lively common ground.

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

Between Intention and Intuition

Artist: Jack LaForte
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: Galleries 1 & 2 at the New England Visionary Artists Museum
Hours: Wed-Sat 2:30-5:30pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: neva-museum.org

Northampton artist Jack LaForte explores the space between intention and intuition. Working in acrylic, he builds paintings layer by layer, allowing unexpected forms, colors, and figures to emerge. Dark spaces, arches, and horizontal bands create boundaries between what is visible and what remains uncertain. His paintings and found-object sculptures explore confinement and freedom, darkness and vitality, inviting viewers to discover their own meanings.

Contact: 413-588-4337

UNLEASHED

Artist: Jacqueline Strauss
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: September 30, 2026
Location: Bumpus Gallery New England Visionary Artists Museum
Hours: Wed-Sat 2:30-5:30pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: neva-museum.org

In her textile sculptures, Jacqueline Strauss transforms second-hand fabrics with histories of their own into playful, strange, and tender creatures. She describes sewing as a moment when the Muse takes hold, allowing imagination to become tangible. These "embodied doodles" emerge as spirited beings that reflect her inner world, then take on lives of their own as they encounter others. For her, making is both delight and necessity.

Contact: 413-588-4337

SIX SEVVUHNN

Artists: Ethel Poindexter, Lora Talbot
Start Date: September 2, 2026
End Date: September 26, 2026
Location: Split Level Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sat 12-7pm
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org

The exhibition brings together Poindexter's relief sculpture series with Talbot's abstract acrylic paintings. SIX SEVVUHNN serves as a direct reflection of what it means to be working as an artist in today's trying times. Through two distinct mediums, the artists confront the vulnerabilities, anxieties, and defiant joy of living authentically. The gallery space creates a visual dialogue where personal identity and political residence intersect.

Contact: Mollye Maxner
mollyemaxner@apearts.org

Animal Kingdom

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 2, 2026
End Date: October 17, 2026
Location: William Baczek Fine Arts
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Address: 36 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: wbfinearts.com

A multimedia group show featuring emerging and established artists from across the United States and Europe. Animal Kingdom is an exhibition of fourteen artists exploring the complex and often contradictory relationship between humans and the animals with whom we share the world.

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

Everything Old is Garbage

Artist: Bobby LaBitch
Start Date: August 3, 2026
End Date:October 31, 2026
Location: Forbes Library Hosmer Gallery
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: www.forbeslibrary.org/gallery

The Arts and Music reading room will be transformed into an interactive, homey space, full of furniture, decor, everyday items, and books! Everything in the room is second-hand, salvaged, thrifted or recycled–and altered by being covered in cozy stuffed animals. This ongoing, ever-growing project brings new life to discarded items, and keeps everyday "stuff" out of the waste stream a little while longer.

Contact: 413-587-1013

Antiquities

Artist: Isabel Margolin
Start Date: August 5, 2026
End Date: September 29, 2026
Location: Hope & Feathers Framing and Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm
Address: 238 Bridge Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: hopeandfeathersframing.com

New original mosaics by Isabel Margolin. In the spring of 2009, she took her first course in mosaics, one that focused on the indirect method, a technique that she has employed ever since.

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

Vacation Destinations

Artists: Jacqueline Brodeur, John Robinson
Start Date: July 1, 2026
End Date: September 29, 2026
Location: Atwood Health Center
Address: 22 Atwood Drive, second floor
City/Town: Northampton

The artists will exhibit souvenir paintings of their vacations together in watercolor and oils. They also do plein air painting with the Hilltown Plein Air Painters.

The Small Works Show

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 2, 2026
End Date: September 28, 2026
Location: Shelburne Arts Co-op
Hours: 7 days / 11am-5pm
Address: 26 Bridge Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls

This exhibit features works in a range of media--paintings, prints, photographs, wearable and decorative fiber art, book arts, sculpture, mixed media, leather, and jewelry. All convey the many artistic possibilities that can be expressed in a small format.

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

Art Squad 4x10: Four Artists, Ten Years

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 3, 2026
End Date: October 29, 2026
Reception Date: Friday, September 18, 6-7:30pm
Location: South Hadley Public Library, Community Room
Address: 2 Canal Street
City/Town: South Hadley
Website: shadleylib.org

South Hadley artists Liz Austin, Lucia Foley, Abby Jaffe, and Marion Pascone celebrate ten years of making art together their show at the South Hadley Public Library featuring works in oil, watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media. Dubbed the "Art Squad" soon after they began working together in 2016, the four women have continued to meet regularly, finding joy and inspiration in their artwork, as well as camaraderie and lasting friendship. (See Events Calendar to confirm when exhibit room is open)

Contact: Lucia Foley
lightspring.design@yahoo.com
413-322-8046

Portraits for Parkinson's: Time to Show My Art

Date: September 25, 5-9pm & September 26, 10am-8pm
Location: Greek Cultural Center
Address: 22 St. George Road
City/Town: Springfield
Website: streetshootersgr.com/time-to-show-my-art-usa-springfield-mass-international-photography-exhibition-special-edition

Join us for a meaningful two-day experience filled with photography, creativity, connection, and purpose. Proceeds from the event will support the Parkinson’s Foundation, New England Chapter, helping advance: Parkinson’s research, Patient and caregiver support, Community education and local programs.

Contact: Stefany Scliopou
sscliopou@parkinson.org
781-552-3790

Take the Space Portal to Utopia

Artist: Sunny Allis
Start Date: September 26, 2026
End Date: December 31, 2026
Reception Date: September 26, 3-6pm
Location: Art for the Soul Gallery
Hours: Tue-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 12-4pm
Address: 1500 Main Street, STE 208
City/Town: Springfield
Website: artforthesoulgallery.com/event-details/take-the-space-portal-to-utopia

AFTS Gallery is thrilled to announce Take the Space Portal to Utopia by Sunny Allis.Take the Space Portal to Utopia will feature a multimedia installation that uses animation, miniature sets, sculpture and music to tell the story of time traveling to a dance party in outer space. Come embark on an adventure to a cosmic gathering point we all must find, in a celebration of life and of each other.

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

RADIANT: Exhibition of STCC's Fine Arts Faculty

Start Date: September 14, 2026
End Date: October 8, 2026
Reception Date: September 26, 11am-1pm
Location: Amy H Carberry Fine Arts Gallery, STCC
Hours: Mon & Wed 12-4pm, Tue & Thur 1-4pm, Fri 10am-1pm
Address: 1 Armory Street, B28 (Use Pearl St Gate)
City/Town: Springfield
Website: stcc.io/carberry

Celebrating STCC's 60th anniversary, RADIANT highlights the art and photography of eleven Fine Arts faculty members who teach art history, painting, drawing, darkroom photography, 2D and 3D design, and printmaking. Since 1988, STCC has awarded over 165 associate degrees in fine arts. The exhibiting faculty are Paul Bloomfield, Jorge Costa, Jonathan Davila, Caitlin Hurd, Sondra Peron, Frances Riddle, Mike Schultz, Maureen "Mosie" Senn-McNally, Lynn Sisler, Yaning Xing, and Peter Zierlein.

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

Declaration of Innovation: Springfield's Revolutionary Ideas

Start Date: May 16, 2026
End Date: September 27, 2026
Location: Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 21 Edwards Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: springfieldmuseums.org/exhibitions/declaration-of-innovation-springfields-revolutionary-ideas

Timed to coincide with the nation's Semiquincentennial, the exhibition explores how bold thinking has shaped Springfield's identity as the "City of Firsts." Through immersive environments, hands-on activities, and compelling storytelling, visitors will discover how ordinary people sparked extraordinary change across centuries.

Contact: Merideth Bessette
mbessette@springfieldmuseums.org
413-263-6800

One Foot in Two Places

Artist: Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling
Start Date: January 31, 2026
End Date: October 4, 2026
Location: D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Collins Print Gallery
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Address: Springfield Museums, 21 Edwards Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: springfieldmuseums.org/exhibitions/one-foot-in-two-places-monotype-prints-and-etchings-by-olwen-oherlihy-dowling

Monotype prints and etchings. Atmospheric and meditative, "One Foot in Two Places" showcases landscapes and details from natural environments, creating parallels between the artist's mother country in Ireland and chosen homeland in the United States. Originally an immigrant from Dublin, Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling pays homage to time spent in Connemara, County Galway and North Chester, MA, evoking the experience of being caught between two worlds and finding refuge in both.

Contact: info@springfieldmuseums.org
413-263-6800

Embrace the Wrinkles

Artist: Sara Gately
Start Date: July 5, 2026
End Date: October 31, 2026
Location: Sunderland Public Library
Hours: Mon 10am-8pm, Tue & Wed 2-8pm, Thur 2-6pm, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-4pm
Address: 20 School Street
City/Town: Sunderland
Website: sunderlandpubliclibrary.org

Visual Artist and Educator Sara Gately presents a series of collages using affordable, found and imperfect materials. These works, created with Time and Life magazines from as early as the 1930's, highlight the true egalitarian nature of art. Sensory-friendly hours: Thursday 2-6pm.

Contact: Sara Gately
saratgately@yahoo.com

Sleeping Giant

Artist: Jae Southerland
Start Date: September 3, 2026
End Date: September 27, 2026
Location: Waterway Arts
Hours: Thur & Fri 12-4pm, Sat & Sun 10am-4pm
Address: 102 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners Falls
Website: jaesoutherland.com

"Sleeping Giant" channels the profound grief of the artist after losing their mother in 2025 alongside the pain of witnessing injustice, ultimately representing a personal resurrection and hopefulness. Grounded earth tones, heavy chains, and soft tulle covering a paper mache structure represent a resting giant ready to awaken in the exhibition's central installation, along with a series of paintings and sculptural wall pieces using tulle.

Contact: Kiah
waterwayarts24@gmail.com

Stitched Through the Seven Sisters

Artist: Kerry St. Laurent
Start Date: September 4, 2026
End Date: September 29, 2026
Reception Date: September 19, 2-4pm
Location: Great Falls Discovery Center
Hours: Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sun 10am-5:30pm
Address: 2 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners Falls
Website: greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org

A location-specific series about honoring an almost-daily practice of communing with nature as visual artist Kerry St. Laurent stitches herself through her local trail system. Matte hot press photographic prints are layered with matte gouache that nods to mapping and ink and colored pencil stitching that references both woven comfort and the idea that wandering counters life's unraveling and knits us back together.

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

The Unexpected Portrait

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 19, 2026
End Date: October 17, 2026
Reception Date: September 19, 3-5pm
Location: ArtWorks Gallery
Hours: Sat & Sun 1-4pm
Address: 69 Main Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

This exhibition invites artists to deviate from formal posing and realistic representation, focusing instead on emotion, identity, memory, action, or unconventional subject matter through the use of modern techniques, stylized depiction, or abstract interpretations of the subject. Juror: Julie Lapping Rivera

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

QAA Group Exhibit

Artists: Quabbin Art Association
Start Date: September 2, 2026
End Date: September 28, 2026
Location: West Springfield Library
Address: 200 Park Street
City/Town: West Springfield
Website: https://quabbinartassociation.com/

The Belchertown-based Quabbin Art Association (QAA) group exhibit features a variety of artworks, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, dry media and photography by local member artists throughout the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Now in its 11th year, QAA provides education, support, and opportunity for local artists, and promotes community interest and appreciation in the visual arts. To learn more about QAA members, or to join, visit their website.

Contact: Lisa Goldberg
info@quabbinartassociation.com

murmur

Artist: Donnabelle Casis
Start Date: September 8, 2026
End Date: November 21, 2026
Reception Date: September 17, 5:30-8pm
Location: James Rand Museum of Art, Westfield Athenaeum
Hours: Mon-Thur 9am-8pm, Fri-Sat 9am-5pm
Address: 6 Elm Street
City/Town: Westfield
Website: donnabellecasis.com

murmur, a solo exhibition by Donnabelle Casis, explores movement, perception, intuition, and the unseen through paintings, reflective translucent forms, and a large kinetic sculpture inspired by bird murmurations. Opening reception: Sept 17th, 5:30-8pm, followed by a mini sound bath, 7:30-8pm. An artist talk will be held in November.

Contact: Guy McLain
gmclain@westath.org
413-568-7833

Hilltown Plein Air Painters

Artists: group show
Start Date: August 4, 2026
End Date: September 29, 2026
Location: Westhampton Library
Address: 1 North Road
City/Town: Westhampton

The Hilltown Plein Air Painters have been painting together since 2003, exploring the Hilltowns and beyond. The group has had several shows, including their Tenth Anniversary Show at the Hosmer Gallery in Northampton: " Road Trip Route 66 " and the inaugural art show at the Westhampton Library in 2011. The group enjoys painting scenes that have local interest, that make our area unique and celebrates the beauty and history of New England. Members also exhibit individually and have their own studios.

Contact: Jackie Brodeur
Willows2@comcast.net
413-527-1758

Wilbraham Art League

Artists: Wilbraham Art League
Start Date: June 23, 2026
End Date: September 24, 2026
Location: Wilbraham Senior Center
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
Address: 250 Springfield Street
City/Town: Wilbraham
Website: wilbrahamartleague.org

This is a group exhibition. Members from Wilbraham Art League will create artwork using a variety mediums. The artwork on display is in a variety of sizes. Please call ahead to see if the space is currently being used to avoid interrupting current events before you go.

Contact: Trish Pilon
trishpilon@comcast.net
413-386-9323

Fun Sized Tiny Public Art Festival

Date: September 26 & 27, 10am-5pm both days
Location: Downtown
City/Town: Northampton
Website: funsizedartfest.com

Fun Sized invites visitors to explore downtown through 16 miniature, site-specific artworks hidden throughout Northampton. Using a printed map, visitors will search for tiny interventions tucked into overlooked corners and everyday spaces. Featured Artists: Adam O'Day, Chelsea Dupois, Cicely Carew, Dina Gjertsen, Erika Zekos, Eva Pushkova, Felipe Ortiz, Fred & David Zinn, John Higby, M. Rudder, Maggie Nowinski, Mary Cleary, Michael Medeiros, Raishad Glover, Sally Curcio, and Scout Cuomo.

Contact: Kim Carlino
kimcarlino@gmail.com
413-695-3514

Easthampton Fall Makers Market

Date: September 19, 10am-4pm
Location: Abandoned Building Brewery
Address: 142 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: instagram.com/easthamptonfallmakersmarket

Shop local and ring in the Fall season with this annual event! Enjoy beautiful views of Mt. Tom & historic Easthampton mill buildings. Stroll and shop wares from local artisans, makers, and food trucks! All while you sip on a fall inspired beverage from Abandoned Building Brewery. It’s sure to be a beautiful day!

QueerCore Fest 2026

Date: September 18, 6-10pm & September 19, 3-9pm
Location: CitySpace
Address: 43 Main Street / Old Town hHall
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: instagram.com/queercorecollaborative

Two days, thirteen bands, one makers market, community resources, and a whole room of humans gathered to love, rage and celebrate each other’s existence! Masks required. Free admission to makers market. Sliding scale entrance fees for music performances. See website for details.

ARToberFEST 2026

Date: September 26, 10am-4pm
Location: Downtown Westfield Cultural District
Address: three city blocks along Elm Street between Court Street & Arnold Street
City/Town: Westfield
Website: ArtWorksWestfield.com

ARToberFEST is a free outdoor urban art festival featuring visual art, local literature, local music, street performers and pop up art galleries in downtown Westfield. Fine art created by over 85 local and regional artists and artisans will be on display and available for purchase along the Elm Street city sidewalk and at the Elm Street Plaza. Mediums include painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, collage, photography, printmaking, wood, glass, metal, clay, ceramics, literature and more!

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

Flo Fest - 2026

Date: September 19, 4-8pm
Location: Downtown Florence
Address: Main Street between Chestnut and Maple
City/Town: Florence
Website: westernmassflofest.wixsite.com/event

This is a completely free, family-friendly festival designed to celebrate our vibrant local culture. Featuring 100 local artists, organizations, musicians, & performers. From live music and art displays, to hands-on collaborative projects, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Highlights: 3 music & performance stages; Mobile art galleries showcasing local artists; Make-and-take art projects, games, & scavenger hunt; Bring your bucks to support our local restaurants joining us on the street! *this is a community-focused gathering, not a vendor market*

Contact: Chloe Torri
westernmassflofest@gmail.com

Center Fresh Farmers Market

Date: 1st & 3rd Wednesdays, 2-6pm, until November 18
Location: The Hub at Market Square
Address: 31 Springfield Street
City/Town: Chicopee
Website: chicopeema.gov/1071/Center-Fresh-Farmers-Market

Chicopee's Center Fresh Farmers Market is back! Along with farm fresh produce, artisan goods, food trucks, and live music, we showcase 10 artists selling beautifully crafted pieces including oil paintings, wood carvings, ceramic trinkets, jewelry, and more. Check out @centerfreshchicopee on Instagram & Facebook for updates and vendor profiles.

Contact: Anna Brittan
abrittan@chicopeema.gov
413-206-5966

Night Markets at Armour Yard

Date: Fridays, 6:30-10:30pm, until September 25
Location: Armour Yard
Address: 164 Race Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: facebook.com/nuevaofholyoke

Friday nights at the Armor Yard! Vendors, food, music, community! (closed July 3rd & 31st)

Contact: stephanie@nuevaholyoke.org
413-539-8393

Montague Public Libraries Fiber Arts Show

Sponsoring Group Name: Montague Public Libraries
Deadline: November 30, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Montague
Website: montaguepubliclibraries.org

Quilts, sweaters, needle point, and more: The Montague Public Libraries are seeking fiber art from artists living across all five Montague villages for shows in December and January! To submit, You must be a resident of one of the five Montague Villages: Turners Falls, Millers Falls, Montague Center, Montague City, or Lake Pleasant. Email librarian Kate for details at kmartineau@cwmars.org

Contact: Kate Martineau
kmartineau@cwmars.org

Shaped by Service at Warrior's Art Room

Sponsoring Group Name: HomeFront Strong
Deadline: October 19, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: homefrontstrongus.org/events/shaped-by-service

Art is a powerful force for expression and healing, and many of our service members, veterans, and their family members channel their experiences of service into their art. Our Shaped by Service Art Show, hosted by Warrior's Art Room, celebrates the influence military service has on expressive outlets and the healing power these outlets contain. Each piece tells a story, and as a HFS Storytelling Project event, we encourage all of our artists to tell their stories alongside their art.

Contact: Jennifer Baublitz
jbaublitz@homefrontstrongus.org
508-499-9589

Winter Exquisite: Zine Fest at Forbes Library

Sponsoring Group Name: Forbes Library Zine Club
Deadline: October 24, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forms.gle/ZBDeoKBJR3pj1htn6

With anticipation, and the turn to Autumn, Zine Club verily quakes to summon the makings of the 3rd Annual Winter Exquisite! The Forbes Library Zine Club is seeking Zine Makers and Book Artists to table at our Zine Fair hosted by Forbes Library, on Saturday, February 6, 2027, 11 am-4pm. Accepted vendors will get a 1/2 table amount of space (approximately 3-4' wide x 2 1/2'-3 1/2' feet deep).

Contact: zineclub@forbeslibrary.org

Winter Exquisite: Cold Couture at Forbes Library

Sponsoring Group Name: Forbes Library Zine Club
Deadline: October 31, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forms.gle/VbQUHTtpmhWGRHaj7

In Zine Club’s third iteration of Winter Exquisite, the medium of clothing will be explored. We want to see Wearable Winter in all its fine and shimmering festoonery: icicles, avalanches, and blinding sun. Maybe something as singular and crystalline as the most beautiful snowflake you've ever seen... We invite artists who have any level of interest, experience, or expertise to contribute a garment, or complete look, of their own creation. Head to the application for more information!

Contact: zineclub@forbeslibrary.org

Art Exhibits at Sunderland Public Library

Sponsoring Group Name: Sunderland Public Library
Deadline: November 30, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Sunderland
Website: sunderlandpubliclibrary.org/gallery

The Sunderland Public Library offers bi-monthly art exhibits in the library’s Lane Family Reading Room Gallery, and is seeking applications for exhibits in 2027. The gallery offers approximately 37 linear feet of wall space and adjacent open shelves. Artists of all mediums are encouraged to apply. Applications can be submitted via an online form (www.sunderlandpubliclibrary.org/gallery) or forms can be picked up at the library. Questions can be sent to director@sunderlandpubliclibrary.org

Contact: Katherine Umstot
director@sunderlandpubliclibrary.org
413-665-2642

Amherst Arts Night Plus

Sponsoring Group Name: Amherst Center Cultural District & Amherst Business Improvement District
Deadline: October 1, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Amherst
Website: shorturl.at/UCQ12

Arts Night Plus returns this November! Participating artists will have the opportunity to display artwork in downtown businesses and cultural institutions for the evening. All artists in the Amherst region are eligible to submit work, and there is no fee to apply. Interested artists are invited to submit their work for display by completing the linked form above.

Contact: Ben Coakley
culture@amherstdowntown.com

Lowbrow Craft Fair

Sponsoring Group Name: Lowbrow
Deadline: October 1, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: facebook.com/lowbrowcraftfair

Lowbrow Craft Fair is now accepting applications for our 2026 fair, held at First Churches Northampton on Saturday, December 5, from 1am-5pm. We are looking for handmade, quirky, punky, and unique things sold by the humans who made them at a fair with a financial accessibility focus. More details and expectations are on the application. Applications can be obtained by email or at this link: https://forms.gle/fwjmemjChs7jkb66A and close October 1 at 8pm. No late applications will be accepted.

Contact: lowbrowfair@gmail.com

Printed Mass: Call to Artists!

Sponsoring Group Name: Printed Mass
Deadline: November 30, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: printedmass.com/gift-shop

Calling All Local Artists & Makers! We're growing and looking for handcrafted, creative, one-of-a-kind work to feature at Printed Mass. If your creations make people ask, "Where did you get that?" we'd love to hear from you! Rent space in our vibrant artisan shop, connect with our community, and showcase your work. Visit our website to complete our Artist Interest Form--we can't wait to discover your creativity!

Contact: Drew Romeo
printedmass@gmail.com
413-472-6017

The LAVA Center's 7th annual Community Art Show

Sponsoring Group Name: The LAVA Center
Deadline: September 18, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: no fee to apply / $20 fee if accepted
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ciOdIMoe1Or3H-985W5hk08Slm6Wsd6KNGgpwto4NQU/edit

This year's themes are "Home" and "Resilience". There will be a $20 fee if accepted. There is a three-piece submission limit and all art must be hung on our walls (no free-standing sculpture). Opening reception: Saturday, November 7, 11am-2pm. On display November and December. Full details on website.

Contact: info@thelavacenter.org
413-376-8118

Americana: Pictures of Our Community

Sponsoring Group Name: ArtWorks Gallery
Deadline: October 11, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org/exhibitions/americana

We invite residents of Ware and its surrounding communities to submit photos that reflect on characteristics and even archetypes of America and American culture as seen through your own lens. All experience levels are welcome! Show dates and times: October 24 to November 15, Saturdays & Sundays, 1-4pm. Opening reception: October 24, 3-5pm.

Contact: Joyce Eichacker
jeichackerartworks@gmail.com
413-277-6072

Westhampton Library Gallery Two-Month Openings

Sponsoring Group Name: Westhampton Library
Deadline: September 30, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Westhampton
Website: westhamptonma.gov

Artists are invited to apply to exhibit in the Community Room Gallery for a two month show with receptions welcome during library hours. The Art Committee will be scheduling for 2027. The room has 34 linear feet of wall space with an easy to use Walker Hanging system. Applications can be accessed by going to the Town website. Exhibit policy and the application can be found under the library menu.

Contact: Jacqueline Brodeur
willows2@comcast.net
413-527-1758

Programming & Springfield Civic Pop-Up Space Call for Art

Sponsoring Group Name: Springfield Cultural Partnership
Deadline: open
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Springfield
Website: form.jotform.com/252964426286063

Artists, nonprofits, small businesses, educators, and community groups are invited to propose programming that brings people together in downtown Springfield. Workshops, performances, conversations, installations, demos, meetups, and civic engagement activities are all welcome. Submit your program idea to help shape this shared space for creativity and connection. We are also seeking Western MA artists to participate in our monthly themed curations. Applications are now open, with Springfield artists given priority. Each month 16 spots are available.

CitySpace Pop-Up Markets

Sponsoring Group Name: CitySpace
Deadline: rolling
Submission/Entry Fees: no fee to apply
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: cityspaceeasthampton.org/popup

CitySpace is hosting a series of mini Pop-Up Markets on the first Saturday of the month, 4-7pm, during CitySpace Bluegrass and Art Walk Easthampton. Open to all makers of all kinds located in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties. If accepted, the vending fee is sliding scale $10-$30.

Kids Art Class with Annaleah

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 3:45-4:45pm, September 15 - November 3
Fee: $240
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/art-with-annaleah-kids-ages-5-11-9-15-11-3-240

In art with Annaleah we will explore a variety of mediums such as drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Come ready to get messy, try new things, and expand your artistic toolkit! For kids ages 5-11!

Contact: Sarah Fran Wisby
sarahfran@mac.com
415-321-9691

Riso Collage at Looky Here

Date & Time: Thursday, September 17
Fee: $65
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/risograph-workshop-scan-in-collage-9-17-5-8pm-65

Make some collages using the scanning bed on our Risograph printer. Materials included, but feel free to bring your own!

Contact: Sarah Fran Wisby
sarahfran@mac.com
415-321-9691

Travel Sketching and Visual Notetaking with Scott Henderson

Date & Time: September 19, 10:30am-1pm
Fee: $40
Location: The Mill District General Store & Local Art Gallery
Address: 91 Cowls Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: generalstorelocalgallery.com/events

Explore a new way of journaling your travels with Scott Henderson at The Local Art Gallery on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 10:30am – 1pm. This is NOT an art class, NO drawing skill required! Learn how to capture your adventures using sketched notes to your travel journals. This session emphasizes process over perfection and encourages a personal, expressive approach to drawing. You provide travel sketchbook & drawing implements. Scott provides instruction, and refreshments. Ages 16+

Contact: gallery@cowls.com
413-835-0966

Watercolor for Beginners - Patterns with Eswen Hausrath

Date & Time: October 31, 3:30-5pm
Fee: $20
Location: Northampton Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: pacificnortheastcreations.com/classes/p/request-for-watercolor-class-2h

In-person class held at Eli’s Room in the Northampton Center Arts. No prior experience necessary! Relaxing and fun way to spend your afternoon. Bring a friend or come solo! Use this pattern to create art for your home, beautiful cards, bookmarks or gift tags. $20 (own materials) / $30 (rented materials)

Contact: Eswen Hausrath
pacificnortheastcreations@gmail.com

Butterfly Bookbinding & Botanical Printing at Fiddleheads Gallery

Date & Time: Saturday, October 10, 10am-3pm
Fee: $85 DVAA members / $95 nonmembers
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: One Brattleboro Road
City/Town: Bernardston
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

Discover the magic of eco-printing by creating beautiful botanical prints on paper using leaves and natural materials. After lunch, transform your prints into a handcrafted journal using the Japanese butterfly binding technique. Add pockets, beads, and personal touches to create a book that lies flat and beautifully showcases your unique botanical artwork. No experience necessary.

Contact: Donna Beck
230amdesigns@gmail.com

Beginning Stained Glass Class at Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio

Date & Time: October 18, 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 a few 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 are welcome. All glass and supplies are included in the tuition as is the use of all tools. More dates for same class: 10/24, 11/21 & 11/22

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

Continuing Drawing: Focus on Portraits with Hannah Harvester

Date & Time: Mondays, 2:30-4:30pm, September 28 - November 16
Fee: $175 / tuition assistance available
Location: Greenfield Community College
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: engage.gcc.mass.edu/workshops

For people with some drawing experience, this eight-week class will be a deep dive into drawing the human portrait. You’ll learn how to get out of your left brain and into your right brain in order to draw the face you really see in front of you. By seeing accurately, you’ll be able to capture a likeness. We’ll be working with one another as models, photographs and master drawings, and may call in a friend or two to sit for us as well.

Contact: Hannah Harvester
hannahharvesterfineart@gmail.com
919-951-4200

Drawing for Everyone with Hannah Harvester

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 3-5pm, September 29 - November 17
Fee: $175 / tuition assistance available
Location: Greenfield Community College
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: engage.gcc.mass.edu/workshops/drawing-for-everyone

Drawing is a wonderful way to connect with the world and focus the mind. Whether you've been drawing for years or are a complete beginner, this eight-session class will help you improve how you see in order to draw more accurately. We'll work mainly in pencil and will incorporate many lessons from Betty Edwards' classic Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Get ready to enjoy seeing negative spaces, slowing down, and feeling good about using your eraser.

Contact: Hannah Harvester
hannahharvesterfineart@gmail.com
919-951-4200

Continuing Drawing: Focus on Landscapes with Hannah Harvester

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 12:30-2:30pm, September 29 - November 17
Fee: $175 / tuition assistance available
Location: Greenfield Community College
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: engage.gcc.mass.edu/workshops/continuing-drawing-landscapes

For students with some drawing experience, this eight-week class will focus on drawing the landscape. With just a few tools, we can enjoy being in nature and creating a record of our experience. Working mainly in pencil, we will practice seeing and depicting lights and darks, simplifying, mark-making for texture and expression, and simple perspective. We will also study master drawings for inspiration. Suitable for anyone with drawing experience, whether you’ve taken this class before or not.

Contact: Hannah Harvester
hannahharvesterfineart@gmail.com
919-951-4200

Foundational Watercolor Techniques - Evening Class with Deborah Padden

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 23, 6:30-8:30pm
Fee: $40
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

You’ll learn the basics - simple washes, blending, layering, and how to control water and color - then create a small finished piece to take home. Ages 16 to adult. All materials included.

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

A Quick Spin with Liz Hart

Date & Time: Saturday, September 19, 3-5:30pm
Fee: $65
Location: Workshop13 Ceramic Studio
Address: 44 E Main Street, 3rd Floor
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Have you always wanted to try the potters’ wheel? This is your chance! Our instructors will help get you centered then off you go! Ages 16 to adult. All materials included.

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

Autumn Equinox Arts Workshop with Dori Dittmer

Date & Time: September 18, 6-8pm & September 22, 6-8pm
Fee: none
Location: online via Zoom
City/Town: Springfield
Website: oasisinthestorm.com/new-events-1

Pause. Reflect. Welcome the new season. Join us for a guided meditation and creative exploration to connect with the changing season and explore changes we may be ready to make within ourselves. Through meditation, reflection, and art-making, discover new perspectives and possibilities for the season ahead. No experience needed.No cost. Third in a series celebrating the seasonal changes. REGISTER: Call or text Dori: 917.346.0969. More information and Zoom link provided at registration.

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

Long-Pose Portrait Class with Rami Baglio

Date & Time: Mondays, 6-9pm, September 28 - October 26
Fee: $425 / sliding scale available
Location: Northampton Center for the Arts
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: ramibaglio.com/store/p5/Long-Pose_Portrait_Class.html

This classical portrait fundamentals drawing class covers the structure, movement and construction of the head in relation to the upper torso. Students draw from a live model in the same long pose for all five weeks. Instruction includes weekly lectures and one-on-one feedback by artist and instructor Rami Baglio. This course covers light effect and anatomy of facial features. For beginners and advanced artists, adults, and teens!

Contact: Rami Baglio
ramibaglioart@gmail.com
716-479-5431

Pastel Portrait and Color Theory Class with Rami Baglio

Date & Time: Sundays, 2:30-5:30pm, November 15 - December 6
Fee: $350 / sliding scale available
Location: Northampton Center for the Arts
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: ramibaglio.com/store/p6/Pastel_Portrait_and_Color_Theory_Class.html

Introductory class in color mixing, fundamentals of portrait drawing and light effect. Artist, Rami Baglio, guides students through a stage-by-stage drawing process of constructing the head and face in chalk pastel, a medium that splits the difference between drawing and painting. Students work from a live model in one long-pose for all four weeks. The instruction includes weekly lectures, demonstrations and one-on-one guidance. For beginner and intermediate artists, adults, and teens!

Contact: Rami Baglio
ramibaglioart@gmail.com
716-479-5431

Holiday Joy Watercolor Card Making Workshop with Bonnie McLoud

Date & Time: November 15, 12-4:30pm
Fee: $99
Organization: Bonzella Watercolor Studio
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Share the joy of the holiday season with watercolor greeting cards that are made with your own artwork. Each participant will learn basic watercolor techniques and will be able to create up to (25) 5x7 cards. Participants will take home a 12-color Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor paint set. Family, friends and loved ones will cherish these unique holiday cards.

Contact: Mary Remington
remington@workshop13.org
413-544-1322

Tuesday After School Clay: Ages 7-11yo at Artspace

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 3:45-5:15pm, September 15 - October 20
Fee: price varies / financial aid is available
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/fall-1-tuesday-after-school-clay

In this program, kids age 7-11* will practice hand building skills through creative and functional projects. We will also be getting to know our selves as artists through drawing and reflective questions. After-school snack included. Instructed by Nina Nabizadeh. *If your child is a year or two outside of our age range and you think they would fit well with this workshop, please email our office!

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

Harvesting Nature's Colors: Discovering Plant Pigments at Zea Mays Printmaking

Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, October 3 & 4, 10am-5pm
Fee: $350 + $30 materials fee
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/harvesting-natures-colors-discovering-plant-pigments-2

Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of plant-based color during this hands-on, two-day workshop. You’ll explore the art of capturing nature’s colors through the creation of handmade plant pigments and heat press ecoprinting—an easy, mindful way to connect with the landscape and express your creativity. Learn how to ethically forage and prepare plant materials to create your own sustainable inks and paints.

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

Kitchen Table Screenprinting at Zea Mays Printmaking

Date & Time: Saturday & Sunday, October 10 & 11, 10am-5pm
Fee: $350 + $30 materials fee
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/kitchen-table-screenprinting

Explore the many screenprinting techniques that don’t require a darkroom! This two-day workshop will introduce you to a screenprinting process that is accessible, affordable and portable. All techniques covered can easily be done from home, so this workshop can be the first step on a brand-new project or a way to refresh your skills. All experience levels welcome.

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

Think Slow Paint Fast Watercolor with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Sundays, 10am-5pm, November 15 & 22
Fee: $395
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Studio #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barbarajohnson.com

Enjoy the delightful medium of watercolor. With a structured approach to using the light of the paper, this series of exercises and experiments enable the artist to achieve the freshest color expression and the illusions of form and texture.

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

Creature Creations with Wade Boswell

Date & Time: October 9-11 & 17
Fee: $79.50 to $174.90
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/creature-creations-multi-day-workshop-october-9

Let your imagination run wild as you sculpt creatures. There is no right way (and no wrong way) to make a creature. Instead, create them completely from your imagination or based on images from different living animals, combined to make something monstrous! Without the pressure of getting it "right," experiment with building solid, pinching, coiling, slab building and/or using armatures and other forms of support while building. Note: This is an all ages program held across multiple dates.

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

Creative Explorers (Ages 8-10)

Date & Time: Sundays, 1:30-2:45pm, October 25 - December 20
Fee: $300
Location: Art House
Address: 1 Cottage Street, Unit 411
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: arthousema.com

Through hands-on projects, children will explore a variety of mediums while building confidence in their artistic voice, problem-solving skills, and imagination. A few of the projects that students will participate in during the semester: -How to make paints and dyes from organic material, -Exploring the art of weaving, -Making stamps with unexpected materials/printmaking, -Experimenting with making paper. All materials included. Please visit athe website to sign up and learn more!

Contact: 203-598-2593

Block printing + sewing workshop

Date & Time: Wednesdays, October 7-28, 9:30-11:30am
Fee: $210
Location: Art Always & Grove House Sewing Studio
City/Town: Florence
Website: hisawyer.com/art-always/schedules/activity-set/1975816?source=camps

Art Always and Grove House Sewing Studio are joining forces to bring you this special 4-week fabric design and sewing workshop where you'll leave with a one-of-a-kind, sewn tote! Spend the first two weeks (Oct 7 and 14) in the Art Always studio designing, creating, and printing your own block stamps onto pre-cut fabric pieces and then head to the Grove House Sewing Studio for weeks 3 and 4 (Oct 21 and 28) to sew them into a 13"w by 15"h bag with straps!

Contact: Rachael Wein
GroveHouseSewingStudio@gmail.com

Tiny Book Ornament at Antler Editions

Date & Time: Thursday, December 3, 5:30-7:30pm; OR Sunday December 6, 10am-12pm
Fee: $58
Location: Antler Editions
Address: 1 Cottage Street, Studio 417
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: antlereditions.com/workshops/p/ornament-making

In this class we will create tiny books that hang from a loop as ornaments. These tiny books are 2"x3" and contain 84 blank hand bound pages. Students will choose their spine fabric, end band color, and marbled paper. This is a great introduction to bookbinding, all skill levels welcome, must be able to thread and handle a needle. All materials and tools will be provided to students. This is a make and take class.

Contact: Lisa Hersey
lisa@antlereditions.com
413-204-2431

Form Follows Content at Antler Editions

Date & Time: October 14-18, 10am-5pm
Fee: $1000
Location: Antler Editions
Address: 1 Cottage Street, Studio 417
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: antlereditions.com/workshops/p/form-follows-content-five-days

This intensive five-day workshop introduces participants to both traditional and contemporary artist book structures while exploring how book form can support narrative, concept, and material experimentation. Through demonstrations, lectures, hands-on projects, and guided discussions, students will develop technical skills alongside conceptual approaches to bookmaking. Taught by Lisa Hersey and Maureen Cummins. Reach out for the class syllabus.

Contact: Lisa Hersey
lisa@antlereditions.com
413-204-2431

Folded Books (and Other Practical Origami) at Antler Editions

Date & Time: Saturday, October 3, 10am-2pm
Fee: $155
Location: Antler Editions
Address: 1 Cottage Street, Studio 417
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: antlereditions.com/workshops/p/bill-hanscom-folded-books-and-other-practical-origami

Taught by visiting instructor Bill Hanscom! Explore the intersection of origami and bookbinding. Students put the techniques of traditional paper-folding to work creating structures that draw inspiration from many corners of bookbinding.

Contact: Lisa Hersey
lisa@antlereditions.com
413-204-2431

Fall 2026 Clay Classes at Artspace

Date & Time: begins Mid-September - end of October
Fee: price varies / financial aid available
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org

Explore your creativity at Artspace! Registration is OPEN for our Fall 1 semester of clay classes. Tuesday Afterschool Clay: 7 - 11yo, 3:45-5:15pm; Tuesday Adult Handbuilding: 16+yo, 6-8pm; Wednesday After School Clay: 12-16yo, 3:45-5:15pm; Wednesday Adult Beginner Wheelthrowing: 16+yo, 6-8:30pm; Thursday Adult Intermediate Wheelthrowing: 16yo+, 6-8:30pm; Saturday Handbuilding Studio: All ages, 10am-12pm.

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

Creative Flow Sessions with Julie Root Sawyer

Date & Time: September 18 - October 30
Fee: $50 per class / 6 classes for $250 / 3 classes for $130
Location: The Mill District General Store & Local Art Gallery
Address: 91 Cowls Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: generalstorelocalgallery.com/events

Join Julie Root Sawyer to discover the magic of alcohol inks and delaminating inks in this Friday morning series. Create vibrant, expressive landscapes inspired by nature in a setting where exploration and creative risk-taking are encouraged. Play, learn, and reconnect with the joy of creating! Each workshop is a stand-alone experience - attend one or join the entire series! See link for specific class details. Materials included.

Contact: gallery@cowls.com
413-835-0966

Color Theory: Oil Paint Mixology with Dana Volungis

Date & Time: Wednesdays, September 30 - October 14, 6:30-8:30pm
Fee: $125
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Through hands-on demonstrations and personalized instruction, you'll learn how to mix clean, intentional colors that make your paintings pop. All materials included. Ages 16 to adult.

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

Alcohol Ink Flowers Workshop at Fiddleheads Gallery

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 22, 6-7:30pm
Fee: $25 DVAA members / $50 nonmembers
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: One Brattleboro Road
City/Town: Bernardston
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

Discover the beauty of alcohol inks as you create vibrant, expressive floral paintings. Through guided demonstrations and playful experimentation, you'll explore color, movement, and the magic of this fluid medium. No experience is necessary--just curiosity and a willingness to play! You'll leave with a finished artwork, new techniques, and the confidence to continue creating. All materials included.

Contact: Julie Sawyer
jrootsawyer@gmail.com
413-221-1695

Figure Drawing at Looky Here

Date & Time: every other Thursday
Fee: $15
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/figure-drawing-8-27-every-other-thursday-600-800-15-free-for-members

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 every other Thursday evening. Will not meet Thursday, September 10th. *Participates in Card to Culture

Contact: Sarah Fran Wisby
sarahfran@mac.com
415-321-9691

Alcohol Ink Landscapes at Fiddleheads Gallery

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 15, 6-7:30pm
Fee: $25 DVAA members / $50 nonmembers
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: One Brattleboro Road
City/Town: Bernardston
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

Discover the magic of alcohol inks as you create vibrant, expressive landscapes inspired by nature. Through guided demonstrations and playful experimentation, you'll explore color, movement, and the beautiful unpredictability of this exciting medium. No experience is necessary--just curiosity and a willingness to explore. You'll leave with a finished artwork, new techniques, and the confidence to continue creating. All materials included.

Contact: Julie Sawyer
jrootsawyer@gmail.com
413-221-1695

Putting the Real into Realism with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Wednesdays, 6-9pm, September 16 - October 21
Fee: $485
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Studio #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barbarajohnson.com

Students are guided through a series of painting exercises with demonstrations, designed to build their perception of tonal values, color temperature, and aerial perspective, the essential ingredients of strong realistic painting since the Renaissance. Lively on-going discussions of current and historical movements in painting, visual resources, and still life materials. Class size limited to ensure quality individualized instruction. All levels welcome.

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

Pet Portraiture with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Sundays, October 4 & 11, 10am-5pm
Fee: $395
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Studio #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barbarajohnson.com

Preserve that image of your beloved pet in Oil, Watercolor or Drawing. Make a memorable portrait that captures their personality using your photo references,by adding chosen environments or colored backgrounds to your composition. We will look at some fun portraits and historical examples as we come up with ideas for your work. To register email or call, class size limited.

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

The Muralist Toolkit: Live at Common Wealth Murals Studio

Date & Time: Saturday, September 19, 9-5pm
Fee: $100
Location: Common Wealth Murals Studio
Address: 4 Birnie Avenue
City/Town: Springfield
Website: commonwealthmurals.org/muraltrainingcourses

The day has two parts. Part 1 is a guided tour of Common Wealth Murals projects, a behind-the-scenes look at how each mural came together, from community engagement and design through budgeting, contracts, production, and installation. Part 2 is a live polytab demonstration, cutting, priming, projecting, and installing, so you leave with real hands-on experience. Thanks to NEFA, scholarships are available for New England artists, reducing the fee to $40.

Contact: Talysha
info@commonwealthmurals.org

After School Art Program (ASAP) at Artspace

Date & Time: Thursdays 2:30-5:30pm / through the academic school year
Fee: as low as $47.50/month
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/classes-events-workshops

Hang out & make art! Unleash your creativity and get creative support among peers, with additional mentorship from professional artist & educator, Chloe Torri along with teen mentoring artists. For artists 10-13 years old. Drop by after school each Thursday, doors are open 2:30-5:00pm. This program runs through the academic school year. This is a fluid, "open-studio" program with teen TA mentors & an adult instructor. Register for ASAP classes by the month!

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

COLOR with Rosemary Barrett

Date & Time: six weeks starting September 17, 10am-12pm
Fee: $220
Location: R. Barrett studios
Address: 8 Main Street
City/Town: Huntington
Website: rbarrettstudios.com

A hands on experience that is both practical and logical. Colorist don't spring to life with a fully formed capacity to compose color and communicate with it .This study will expand your knowledge and deepen your awareness to the power of color while building confidence to explore.

Contact: Rosemary Barrett
rbarrettstudios@gmail.com
860-671-1023

RE-ART at The LAVA Center

Date & Time: workshops until October 24
Fee: none / donations accepted
Location: The LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/re-art

LAVA's extended season of creating art from reclaimed, repurposed and reused materials officially begins August 15, with opportunities to investigate, experiment and imagine. In the spirit of the famed hands-on, interactive and interdisciplinary Exploratorium museum of science and art in San Francisco, the first of six sessions offered on alternate Saturdays encourages people of all ages and artists from novice to professional to come to play with a variety of found and reclaimed materials. Register on website.

Contact: info@thelavacenter.org

Mosaics for Beginners with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: Thursdays, 6-8:30pm, four weeks begins October 8
Fee: $295
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net/workshops

In this 4 week class, we'll cover all the basics (design, composition, pattern, flow, use of hand tools, choosing materials, adhesives and grouting) as you create a small mosaic, 10″ x 10″ or 8″ x 10″. Open to beginners as well as those with some mosaic experience.

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

Mosaics Inspired by Nature with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: Wednesdays, 9:30am-12:30pm, six weeks begins September 16
Fee: $444
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net/workshops

In this six week class, be inspired by the original artist, mother nature! Compose a landscape from a photo or your imagination. The focus will be on the way you arrange tesserae to depict textures, elements and patterns. Part of the fun is choosing the materials- glass, stone, ceramic tile, patterned china, found objects, etc. Finished works will be roughly 11″ x 14″. Great for beginners, or those with experience who want to build skills.

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

Mosaic Garden Stepping Stones with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: September 19, October 3, or November 14, 10am-4pm (one-day class, offered 3 separate times)
Fee: $168
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net/workshops

Create a personalized and permanent addition to your garden or walkway in this fun one day class! Instruction will be given on composition, color, cutting technique using hand tools, and how to assemble pieces to create flow. Then, we will cast our mosaics in concrete, so your stepping stone holds together permanently and has a flat surface.This class has been a favorite over the years, well over 800 stepping stones have been made by my students. A hearty and nutritious lunch will be provided.

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

Beginner Watercolor 101

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 10am-12:30pm, Sept 15 - Oct 20
Fee: $249
Organization: Bonzella Watercolor Studios
Location: Easthampton Congregational Church
Address: 112 Main Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bonzellacompany.wixsite.com/bonzellaco

Unlock the beautiful, luminous world of Watercolor with this course designed entirely for absolute beginners. If you have never picked up a paintbrush, this class is the perfect place to start. The class will review supplies, paint properties, brush discovery, color theory, paint mixing and painting techniques. The class will complete up to 3 project paintings. All levels are welcome.

Contact: Bonnie McLoud
bonniejmcloud@gmail.com
413-387-9099

Open Studio at Warriors Art Room

Date & Time: ongoing: Mon & Wed 5-8pm, Tue & Thurs-Sat 12-4pm
Fee: none
Location: Warriors Art Room
Address: 122 Pleasant Street, Suite 105
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: warriorsartroom.org

Warriors Art Room Open Studio provides veterans and their families with a welcoming place to create, connect, and explore art in a supportive environment. Participants can work on personal projects, use available materials, and spend time in creative community.

Contact: Donald Longley
donald@warriorsartroom.org
413-627-8170

Easthampton's First Annual Arts and Ale Trail

Date: Saturday, October 17, 2-5pm
Location: various locations on Pleasant Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: resilientcommunityarts.org/aletrail

To benefit Resilient Community Arts and local arts equity programming for kids in Easthampton and neighboring communities. Enjoy an afternoon of exploring, creating, and celebrating all that Easthampton has to offer with interactive art, bites, music, and beverages at each stop! Gather your friends, pick up your map, choose your route, and discover what's happening along the Arts and Ale Trail at the Mills!

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

Have a Heart for Public Art fundraiser brunch for Easthampton City Arts

Date: Sunday, September 20, 11am-1:30pm
Location: Glendale Ridge Vineyard
City/Town: Southampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.ludus.com/show_page.php?show_id=200542041

We invite you all to this year's "Have a Heart for Public Art" fundraiser brunch! All proceeds raised through this event will directly support ECA's growing collection of public art – both through maintaining the murals and sculptures that enhance our city's streets and by making new artworks altogether. Tickets available on website.