Vote for Art! for the University Museum of Contemporary Art's permanent collection

Date: November 19, 5:30-6:30pm
Location: Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, online or in-person
Address: UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/event/vote-art-2526

UMass students from the museum's Collecting 101 course will present artworks for the University Museum of Contemporary Art's permanent collection. This hybrid event invites the public to join in person or online to hear presentations about their proposed artworks and vote for your favorite. The winning piece will be purchased by the museum as part of its ongoing initiative to include more art by women artists and artists of color. Register on website.

Hats: A Celebration of History and Culture Through the Art of Millinery in Amherst

Start Date: September 25, 2025
End Date: January 4, 2026
Location: multiple locations downtown
City/Town: Amherst
Website: ancestral-bridges.org/events

A special townwide exhibit showcasing historic and modern hat designs representing the fashion, style, traditions, and unseen labor that fueled the hat making industry in the Connecticut River Valley and beyond. View the hats on display at participating businesses and local institutions throughout Amherst. See website for details.

Contact: Anika Lopes
founder@ancestral-bridges.org

Reserved Passages: Watercolors by Richard Yarde and Susan Montgomery

Artists: Susan Montgomery, Richard Yarde
Start Date: November 15, 2025
End Date: February 26, 2026
Reception Date: November 14, 5-7pm
Location: Augusta Savage Gallery
Hours: Mon & Tue 1-7pm, Wed-Fri 1-5pm
Address: 103 New Africa House, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/arts-stories/visual-arts-fall-2025

Reserved Passages honors Richard Yarde's extraordinary legacy in watercolor and considers the continuing conversation between his work and that of his former graduate student, Susan Montgomery. The title refers to the reserved, untouched spaces in watercolor--areas intentionally left unpainted, protected, or held in tension. The exhibition reflects on a shared devotion to the medium and the ongoing dialogue of learning, memory, and artistic exchange between teacher and student.

Contact: Elana Casey
elanacasey@umass.edu

John Krifka and Larry Rankin

Artists: John Krifka, Larry Rankin
Start Date: November 6, 2025
End Date: November 29, 2025
Location: Gallery A3
Hours: Thur-Sun 2-7pm
Address: 28 Amity Street 1D
City/Town: Amherst
Website: galleryA3.com

November's exhibits invite viewers to interpret memories and delight in outdoor details. In Happenstance--here or otherwise, John Krifka's recent oil paintings on canvas take inspiration from personal memories. In the color photographs of Trailside--vision and variety, Larry Rankin celebrates visual fragments of nature discovered on walks through woodlands and dunes. Art Forum Online: November 20, 7:30pm, pre-register on website. Top image: John Krifka; Bottom: Larry Rankin

Contact: gallerya3@gmail.com
413-256-4250

Fall Art Exhibit at The Local Art Gallery

Artists: 30+ local artists
Start Date: October 20, 2025
End Date: December 30, 2025
Location: The Mill District Local Art Gallery
Hours: 10am-6pm everyday
Address: 91 Cowls Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: generalstorelocalgallery.com

Please join us in celebrating the current collection of art on exhibit and available for purchase by over 30 local artists! Artists joining the Local Art Gallery for the Fall Quarter: Barbara Authier, Victoria Munroe, Julie Sawyer, Donna Roy, Chris Bordenca, Karen Iglehart.

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

The Political Uses of Madness

Artist: Tammy Nguyen
Start Date: October 17, 2025
End Date: May 8, 2026
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA)
Address: Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, 151 Presidents Drive, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/political-uses-of-madness-2526

The exhibition is part of the museum's ongoing Dialogue with a Collection exhibition series, an annual program in which a contemporary artist is invited to engage with the museum's permanent collection. For this exhibition, Nguyen has created a new series of circular paintings in response to documents from the Ellsberg Papers housed in UMass Libraries collections in addition to specimens from the UMass Herbarium. Feb 19, 5:30-7pm, Artist talk.

Gallery A3 @ Go Berry 'n Cream

Start Date: September 10, 2025
End Date: November 18, 2025
Location: Go Berry 'n Cream
Hours: Mon-Wed 4-9pm, Thur-Sat 1-10pm, Sun 1-9pm
Address: 28 Amity Street Suite 1E
City/Town: Amherst
Website: goberryncream.com

Gallery A3 artists explore "Autumn Colors" in a new exhibit inspired by the colors of Autumn. Image: Botanical Monotype Print #8 by Matthew Simons.

Contact: gallerya3@gmail.com
413-256-4250

Artist/Fabricator

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: December 5, 2025
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA)
Address: Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, 151 Presidents Drive, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/umca-artist-fabricator-2526

Featuring eleven artists who integrate textiles into their studio practice, ArtistFabricator is an exploration of handcraft and tactility, as well as a rejection of industrialized production.

Artistic Journey: Zea Mays Printmaking at 25 Years

Artists: Zea Mays Printmaking
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: December 5, 2025
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA)
Address: Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, 151 Presidents Drive, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/umca-zea-mays-2526

Artistic Journey presents acclaimed and emerging printmakers associated with the Florence, Massachusetts-based Zea Mays Printmaking. The exhibition celebrates the studio's twenty-five-year legacy of workshops, education, research, and artist residencies committed to safer printmaking and artistic growth. The exhibiting artists make sense of the world through unique creative expression, utilizing innovative and experimental printing methods.

Reflecting on the Past/Dreaming the Future: Hampden Gallery Triennial

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: December 5, 2025
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA)
Address: Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, 151 Presidents Drive, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/hampden-triennial-exhibition-2526

This year marks the debut of the Hampden Gallery Triennial, a new juried exhibition showcasing contemporary works of art submitted by artists living within fifty miles of UMass. The show, Reflecting on the Past/Dreaming the Future contains fifty-four works spanning mediums including acrylic, watercolor, print, sculpture, video, multimedia, and more. Juried by Nick Capasso.

Spaces That Hold

Artist: Swapnaa Tamhane
Start Date: August 28, 2025
End Date: January 4, 2026
Location: Mead Art Museum
Hours: Tues-Sun 9am-5pm, Thurs 9am-10pm
Address: 41 Quadrangle Drive
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions

Working across textile, installation, drawing, & printmaking, Canadian artist Swapnaa Tamhane builds immersive environments of sublime beauty rooted in traditional South Asian materials and techniques. With a network of collaborators, she creates work that celebrates the ongoing relevance and achievement of craft, while also inviting critical engagement with the entangled histories of labor, class, and colonialism in the Indian subcontinent and beyond. Sitar Brothers perform Oct 30th, 7-9pm.

Contact: Charlotte Murtishaw
cmurtishaw@amherst.edu

Road Dreams Redux

Artist: Deborah Rubin
Start Date: September 10, 2025
End Date: November 28, 2025
Location: JCA Hall Gallery
Hours: Tue-Thur 10am-4pm, Fri 10am-6pm
Address: 742 Main Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: jcamherst.org

An exhibition of 28 small oil paintings of views seen while on the road traveling.

Contact: Janet Winston
janetawinston@gmail.com
413-687-5758

Reflections

Artists: Rochelle Shicoff, Nancy Birmingham
Start Date: September 5, 2025
End Date: November 24, 2025
Location: Greenfield Savings Bank
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm
Address: 6 University Drive
City/Town: Amherst

Reflections is a point of view. Calm and guiet places. To daydream. Nancy and Rochelle invite you into settings of fantasy and peace. Image: Winter by Rochelle Shicoff

Contact: Rochelle Shicoff
trees55pondfish77@gmail.com

A Something Overtakes the Mind

Artists: Ligia Bouton, Matt Donovan
Start Date: August 1, 2025
End Date: December 21, 2025
Location: Emily Dickinson Museum
Address: 280 Main Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/opening-reception-a-something-overtakes-the-mind

A multimedia visual art and poetry installation created by Ligia Bouton and Matt Donovan. Through explorations of domestic objects, biographical details, found poetry, and community testimonials, the exhibition seeks to find new ways of engaging with the poet's life and legacy.

Contact: Patrick Fecher
pfecher@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
413-542-5087

Visionary Windows: Selections from New England Visionary Artists Museum

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 20, 2025
End Date: November 21, 2025
Location: Borgia Gallery, Elms College
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 291 Springfield Street, Mary Dooley College Center, 2nd Floor
City/Town: Chicopee
Website: elms.edu/academics/humanities/borgia-gallery

A magical gathering of artists from the NEVAmuseum collection including: Judith Abraham, Bruce Ackerson, Larry Alice (1952-2022), Anna Arthur, Kevin Bouricius (1951-2019, James Brown, Genevieve Burnett (1945-2015), George Frazetti, Caitlin Hurd, Kyle Mitchell (1980-2007), Charles Miller (1931-2024), Eliza Moser, Scott Prior, Gregory Rogers, Molly Rupp, Deborah Sklar (1964-2014), Larry Slezak, Zoran Starcevic, Gregory Stone (1947-2016), Gordon Thorne (1941-2018), Wendy Whitney (1960-1997)

Contact: 413-588-4337

Muraka

Artist: Kadri Pärnamets
Start Date: September 20, 2025
End Date: November 15, 2025
Location: Ferrin Contemporary
Hours: by appt
Address: 54 Main Street
City/Town: Cummington
Website: ferrincontemporary.com

A new exhibition by one of Project Art's resident artists. The exhibition features porcelain sculptures reflecting on the universal element of water and natural forms.

Contact: Leslie Ferrin
info@ferrincontemporary.com

Chameleon

Artists: Alicia Renedette, Scott Reilly
Start Date: November 9, 2025
End Date: December 19, 2025
Location: von Auersperg Art Gallery at Deerfield Academy
Hours: check website
Address: 7 Boyden Lane
City/Town: Deerfield
Website: deerfield.edu/academics/von-auersperg-gallery

Sculptures by Alicia Renadette and paintings by Scott Reilly.

Contact: Scott Reilly
srad358@gmail.com
413-505-9290

Creative Connections

Artists: Travis Weitzman, Diane Travis
Start Date: October 30, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Back Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 2-7pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Featuring new work by Travis Weitzman and Diane Travis. The show is a mother / son collaboration of sculpture, photography and collage.

Contact: Diane Travis
esthertrav@gmail.com

Shaped by Service

Artists: group show
Start Date: November 1, 2025
End Date: January 1, 2026
Location: Warrior's Art Room
Hours: Mon 5-8pm, Tue 12-4pm, Wed 5-8pm, Thur-Sat 12-4pm
Address: 122 Pleasant Street, Suite 105
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: warriorsartroom.org/event/shaped-by-service-a-homefront-strong-storytelling-event

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.

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

Reclaimed & Reimagined

Artist: Kathy Klemp
Start Date: November 1, 2025
End Date: November 22, 2025
Location: The Elusie Gallery
Hours: see website
Address: 43 Main Street / Old Town Hall
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/gallery

Kathy Kemp loves scavenging for "experienced" objects, recognizing their shape and form, rather than their function. She aims to uncover the inherent beauty in the weathered and the imperfect, offering a fresh perspective on what is often overlooked. Her artistic journey revolves around the transformative power of reclamation and reinterpretation, crafting visual tales that resonate with both nostalgia and innovation.

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

The Long Twilight

Artist: Caren Hyde
Start Date: October 30, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Oxbow Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 2-7pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: carenhyde.com

In her upcoming show at Easthampton's Oxbow Gallery in November, Florence-based artist Caren Hyde will exhibit more than 20 paintings and drawings inspired by Iceland's wild, rugged, and dramatic landscapes that captivated her during recent travels to the country. "The Long Twilight," the title Hyde has given her first major exhibition at the gallery, seeks to explore the mysterious quality of the light and mood that prevails during Iceland's summer nights.

Contact: Caren Hyde
carenhydeart@gmail.com
413-570-5721

The Art Band Presents: The Living Room

Artists: The Art Band
Start Date: October 18, 2025
End Date: November 15, 2025
Location: Eastworks, Suite 145
Address: 116 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: eastworksopenstudios.com

Featuring multi-media works by Amelia Moore, hani rosenbaum thompson, Maddie McDougall, Marciela Garcia, Mary Noyes Craig, Ryan Murray, and Sharona Color. Each artist brings a distinct perspective -- from healing through color, to navigating mental health, exploring spirituality and memory, urban landscapes, humor, and transition. Despite their differences, the work speaks to a shared impulse: to open up, to be present, to return to the simple act of being together. See website for additional dates and activities.

Contact: sharon@colorcollaborative.org

Making Meaning / Marking Time

Artists: Cati Bestard, Michael Medeiros
Start Date: October 4, 2025
End Date: November 12, 2025
Location: ECA Gallery
Address: 43 Main Street / Old Town Hall
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.com

Bestard's photographs, which take advantage of the medium's visual capture of a moment in time, show us something more partial and fractured. Medeiros' ceramic works and installation are inward-facing, reflecting on the passing of the artist's father--a watershed moment in life--and how the impacts of his father's time in the Vietnam war inflected their relationship and its legacy. Events featuring performance, a time-based art form, will continue to expand on and offer additional layers to the works of the exhibition.

Hurricane Katrina 20 year Remembrance

Artist: Don Wilhelm
Start Date: October 3, 2025
End Date: November 25, 2025
Location: Wilhelm Gallery
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 204
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: dfwilhelm.art

Paintings & Etchings by Don Wilhelm for the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Contact: Don Wilhelm
butch.wilhelm@gmail.com
413-510-7200

The Arches of Hampshire County

Artists: Fiberistas of Western MA
Start Date: August 12, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Park Hill Orchard
Hours: every day / all daylight hours
Address: 82 Park Hill Road
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: fiberistas.com

Set in the stunning landscape of Park Hill Orchard, each member of the Fiberistas has embellished a metal garden arch with fiber materials and techniques designed to delight the eye and withstand changing weather conditions. Group members are Sally Dillon, Barbara Kline, Martha May, Martha Robinson, Flo Rosenstock, Margaret Stancer, Eileen Travis and Nancy Young.

Contact: Flo Rosenstock
florobx52@gmail.com
413-256-1840

By Choice & By Chance

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

Ian Paul Roger Nelson creates artworks on paper using rubber stamps and ink, each impression individually applied by hand. Ian's work combines concepts of pattern (choice) with randomly generated elements (chance), often employing shuffled playing cards or rolled dice to inform color and shape selection. Ian's show will be on view at Sip413 through the month of November.

Contact: Autumn Guntor
galleryandretail@sip413.com

Artspace Open House

Date: Sunday, November 16, 1-5pm
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/open-house-tour

Join us for our annual Open House: Take a tour of the new clay studio, See our new art classroom on the second floor, Learn about Artspace’s clay program offerings, Get to know the Artspace building with a fun scavenger hunt, Take in the current exhibit in our gallery, Gray Matters by Karen Axtell, Meet Artspace staff & clay faculty. Admission is free, but please R.S.V.P via the website to let us know what time you plan to arrive.

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

LAVA's 6th annual Community Art Show

Artists: group show
Start Date: November 8, 2025
End Date: December 20, 2025
Location: The LAVA Center
Hours: Thur 11am-2pm & 5-8pm, Fri 5-8pm, Sat 11am-2pm
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/exhibits/community-art-show

36 artists have submitted their work this year. Each year the number of submissions has increased, involving more local artists. We are wowed by the quality of the submissions. The artists are a collection of first-time submitters and seasoned gallery artists. The show is being juried by a small group of past artists led by Lindy Whiton of LAVA.

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

Gray Matters

Artist: Karen J. Axtell
Start Date: October 17, 2025
End Date: November 21, 2025
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Hours: see website
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/gray-matters

A new suite of mixed-media monotypes on handmade papers and mounted on canvas. The imagery is meant to confound one's senses not unlike the way we feel when we see, hear, and otherwise digest all of the happenings we encounter. The abstract mark-making is a combination of aqueous inks and paints and is intended to evoke curiosity, confusion, and perhaps even some clarity as we contend with the world around us.

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

Tuna Coquette

Artist: Charlotte Treiber
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Looky Here
Hours: 12-5pm daily
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com

A Solo Show of work by Charlotte Treiber

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

Silent Art Auction Exhibit featuring Andy Rothschild

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 6, 2025
End Date: December 20, 2025
Location: The LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/exhibits/silent-art-auction

The LAVA Center is thrilled and honored to announce the launch of LAVA's Fall Appeal with a silent auction of art donated by area artists. The auction exhibit is produced in collaboration with Art Deviation Gallery. Over two dozen works by assemblage artist Andy Rothschild will anchor the exhibit, accompanied by donations from many other artists whose work has been exhibited at LAVA over the past several years.

Contact: art@thelavacenter.org

Memes, Screams, and Dreams

Artists: group show
Start Date: November 3, 2025
End Date: December 4, 2025
Reception Date: December 6, 12-3pm
Location: Paper City Clothing Company
Hours: Mon & Thur 12-4pm
Address: 144 High Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: papercityclothingcompany.com/post/memes-screams-and-dreams-inaugural-art-exhibit-at-new-high-street-home

New community and art space in downtown Holyoke kicking off with this fantastic group show curated by Billy and Sierra Myers. An exciting closing reception coming up Saturday, December 6, with music refreshments and print activities that celebrate the participating artists' work. Artists include: Christina White, Tim Champoux, Pete Dellert, Billy Myers, Charlie Gould, Richard Bulda, Julian Halpern, Don Wilhelm, Larry Daniels, David Fadden,Lee Moonan, Gabriela Sepulveda.

Contact: Carlos Peña
info@papercityclothingcompany.com

HyperColor

Artists: group show
Start Date: November 3, 2025
End Date: December 18, 2025
Reception Date: November 13, 5-7pm
Location: Taber Art Gallery
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-5pm
Address: Holyoke Community College, 303 Homestead Avenue
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: hcc.edu/about/taber-art-gallery

A look at five artists using brilliant color to explore spirituality, memory, intuition, time, and rebellious joy. Join artists Sunny Allis, Kim Carlino, Donnabelle Casis, Andrae Green, and Sharon Leshner on November 13, 5-7pm, for an opening reception and panel discussion, beginning at 6pm.

Luvfish & Slothman: Birds & Desserts

Artists: Dora Dylanne Reyes, Don Carter
Start Date: November 6, 2025
End Date: November 29, 2025
Location: The Artery
Hours: Thur-Sat 11am-5pm
Address: 289 High Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: holyokeart.com/event-details/luvfish-slothman-birds-desserts

Dora Dylanne Reyes is a baker turned watercolorist/graphic artist and the creator of Luvfish Greeting Cards & Art. Don Carter (aka Edgar Allan Slothman) is a graphic artist specializing in bird illustration. Together as Luvfish & Slothman the two artists created the series, Birds & Desserts.

Contact: artery@holyokeart.com
413-420-8303

Andrea Dezsö & Adam Gurvitch

Artists: Andrea Dezsö, Adam Gurvitch
Start Date: October 25, 2025
End Date: November 23, 2025
Location: PULP
Hours: Fri-Sun 11-4pm
Address: 80 Race Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: pulpholyoke.com

Andrea Dezsö is a visual artist who works across a range of media including drawing, painting, printmaking, artist's books, embroidery, cut paper, and public art. Dezsö exhibits in museums and galleries around the world and teaches widely. Dezsö is Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Adam Gurvitch came to art after a brain injury in 2015. He has created an extraordinary body of ceramic work and small paintings. This will be the 1st time Adam has shown his work. Andrea and Adam live together in Amherst.

Contact: pulpholyoke@gmail.com

Identity in Ink: The Art of Tattooing

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 6, 2025
End Date: November 11, 2025
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Hours: Mon 10am-2pm, Tue 4:30-6:30pm
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: wistariahurst.org

Tattoo artists or apprentices from all backgrounds submitted work that is shaped by heritage, lived experiences, and personal history. Artists featured in this exhibit are Caitlyn Abdow, Jennifer Broy-Peters, Kenzie Lee, Kevin Stiles, Kire Franklin, Mo Jiwun, Soul L, and more!

Contact: Rachel Buenaventura
buenaventurar@holyoke.org
413-322-5660

Visions of the Valley

Artists: Resilient Community Arts
Start Date: September 28, 2025
End Date: November 28, 2025
Location: Holyoke Heritage State Park Exhibition Hall
Hours: 7 days / 12-4pm
Address: 221 Appleton Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: mass.gov/doc/holyoke-hsp-septemberoctober-programs-1/download

Inspired by the scenery captured during our Plein Air painting sessions in the park, "Visions of the Valley" will be on display for the next two months in Holyoke Heritage State Park's Exhibition Hall. The show will feature pieces by artists of all ages and abilities.

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

Storefront Gallery Project

Artist: ten local artists
Start Date: July 30, 2025
End Date: February 28, 2026
Location: near 289 High Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: holyokeart.com/storefrontart

The work of 10 local artists will be on display on storefront windows along High Street near the ARTery art marketplace at 289 High Street.

Contact: Kathy McKean
Kathy@holyokeart.com
413-420-8303

Oh Beautiful Glass

Artists: glass artists from the northeast and beyond
Start Date: November 1, 2025
End Date: November 24, 2025
Reception Date: November 23, 12-6pm
Location: The Barnes Gallery at the Leverett Crafts and Arts
Hours: Fri-Mon 10am-5:30pm
Address: 13 Montague Road
City/Town: Leverett
Website: leverettcraftsandarts.org

This is an exciting group exhibit of glass artist from the Northeast and beyond. Come see and learn about glass.

Contact: Sally Prasch
praschsally@yahoo.com
413-250-3405

Flora, Fauna & Fantasy: A Leverett Homecoming

Artists: Julie Kumble, Elena Watson
Start Date: November 1, 2025
End Date: December 31, 2025
Location: Leverett Library
Hours: Tues 3-8pm, Wed 10am-3pm, Thur 1-6pm, Sat 10am-3pm
Address: 75 Montague Road
City/Town: Leverett
Website: juliekumble.com

Both artists interpret the natural world and figurative imagery in their different styles of impressionism and realism. Inspired by the magic of places like Rattlesnake Gutter Road, Brushy Mountain, the Peace Pagoda and other Leverett gems, the artists return to the town they called home for nearly two decades.

Contact: Julie Kumble
juliekumble@gmail.com
413-531-6105

Montague Center Art Show & Sale

Date: November 15, 12-5pm
Location: Montague Historic Home
Address: 71 Main Street
City/Town: Montague

Over 12 artists in a beautiful historic home in Montague Center. Fine arts, textiles, jewelry, pottery, collage, clothing, accessories, home goods and poetry.

Contact: Heather Hall
hjhallfelt@gmail.com
413-687-4541

Mark Brown at NEVAmuseum

Artist: Mark Brown
Start Date: November 8, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, November 14, 5-8pm
Location: NEVAmuseum, Gallery 1 & 2
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

An inner vision drives my thirty-year body of work, echoing the spirit of Outsider Art. I use non-traditional, weathered materials, many of which are found outdoors. Unencumbered by the market, these pieces have lived on my property, my fences, and in my studio, fundamentally completed by the sun, wind, and rain. Nature is the curator here.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Angels on the Street

Artist: Tasha Robbins
Start Date: October 8, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, November 14, 5-8pm
Location: NEVAmuseum, Passway Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

Studying at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa) in the 1970s, Robbins was inspired to begin a painting project: Alphabet Malachim, based on her discovery of Cornelius Agrippa's Angelic Scripts. This collection is featured in her new book, An Angel Alphabet (Bodily Press, 2025). She shows these aside with her Angels on the Street paintings.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Endangerment

Artist: Andre Bowser
Start Date: November 12, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, November 14, 5-8pm
Location: NEVAmuseum, Bumpus Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

Andre Bowser explores the solemn theme of endangered species from around the world. Through his playful, expressive vernacular, Bowser extends and transforms the subject of extinct or near-extinct animals worldwide, as well as humanity's role in their extinction.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Arts Night Out Northampton

Date: Friday, November 14, 5-8pm
Location: various locations downtown
City/Town: Northampton

Arts Night Out is Northampton's monthly downtown celebration of creativity & community, every second Friday 5-8pm. Stroll through vibrant galleries, explore pop-up performances, catch live music, & discover local artists, makers, and businesses bringing the streets to life. From fine art openings to jazz in restaurants and unexpected street performers, every month offers something fresh and inspiring. Arts Night Out is the perfect way to kick off your weekend in downtown Northampton.

Contact: Andrea Monson
andrea@nohodna.org
413-207-7480

November Arts Night Out at 33 Hawley

Date: Friday, November 14, 5-8pm
Location: Northampton Arts Trust Building
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/events/category/nov-arts-night-out-at-33-hawley-2025

Please join NCFA, APE, and NOM at 33 Hawley for an opening reception with refreshments and live music during Arts Night Out on Friday 11/14, 5-8pm! NCFA presents Tributary by Cassidy Clark--a unique exploration of human intervention and nature's flowing disorder. Join us in the Split Level Gallery for Noho Art Club: A Third Space Project, curated by Paige Quinn-Vasic and featuring creativity and connection among artists at every stage of their journey!

Contact: ncfa@nohoarts.org

November 14 Second Friday at SCMA

Date: Friday, November 14, 4-8pm
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Address: Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: bit.ly/4hhqRnm

Bring your curiosity (and your crew) to Second Friday at SCMA. Build your own mini-gallery in hands-on art making, pose for a group photo in Steph Craig's Kameni-inspired photobooth, and explore galleries filled with color, stories, and imagination. Free admission, fun for everyone.

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

Premiering Potters Series at PINCH

Artist: Samantha VanSchoick
Start Date: November 14, 2025
End Date: November 16, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, November 14, 5-8pm
Location: PINCH
Hours: Mon-Wed 10am-6pm, Thur-Sat 10am-8pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 179 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: pinchgoods.com

Our Premiering Potters series continues this November with the work of Samantha VanSchoick (strange form ceramics). Samantha describes her pots as "a little romantic, a little strange." She brings a background as a painter, poet, blacksmith, and all-around artistic explorer, infusing her pottery with curiosity and appreciation for the medium. Her work will be on display and available for purchase November 14th-16th. She will be in the shop on Arts Night Out, November 14th, 5-8pm, for an opening reception.

Contact: Kellie Rainville
hello@pinchgoods.com
413-586-4509

Rollin' On the River: 25 Years of Zea Mays Printmaking

Artists: group show
Start Date: November 3, 2025
End Date: November 26, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, November 14, 5-7pm
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 exhibition showcases prints and artists' books made by the members of Zea Mays Printmaking, an important art-making institution in the Pioneer Valley celebrating their twentieth-fifth anniversary this year.

Contact: Suzanne Artemieff
sartemieff@gmail.com

Mary Witt

Artist: Mary Witt
Start Date: November 3, 2025
End Date: December 23, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, December 12, 5-7pm
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

Mary Witt's acrylic on canvas are inspired by noticing unusual juxtapositions of shape and color around her. She starts listening to music in her studio (an early 1900s ice house) and begins the painting, using an intuitive process to see where that leads her. Reception: Friday, December 12, 5-7pm, in conjunction with Arts Night Out.

Tributary

Artist: Cassidy Clark
Start Date: November 5, 2025
End Date: November 22, 2025
Location: Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA)
Hours: Wed-Sat 12-7pm
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/barn-door-gallery

Tributary is my exploration of stillness, turbulence, and the tension that photography creates between the two. The spark for this project was Jeff Wall's essay "Photography and Liquid Intelligence," which explores how liquids used to create images are reflected in photography's ability to capture complex, organic forms, such as liquid itself. In my work, this concept extends outward from the visual to the physical, represented not just in images but in the unique forms their prints take.

Contact: Cassidy Clark
cass@cassidy-clark.com
413-645-4844

Artists from Gallery A3 Gallery Exhibit at Cooley Dickinson Hospital

Artists: group show
Start Date: November 5, 2025
End Date: December 27, 2025
Reception Date: December 11, 7:30pm
Location: North Gallery, Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Hours: daily / 10am-5pm
Address: Locust Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: galleryA3.com

Online Art Forum on Art and Healing: December 11, 7:30pm on Zoom. Rhea Banker of the Art and Healing program at Cooley Dickinson Hospital will join the exhibiting artists. She will speak about the important role of art in a hospital setting, and about Gallery A3's two exhibits at North Gallery this year. Pre-register for this program, which is free and open to the public, via the gallery website. Artists exhibiting: Paula Hite, Diane Steingart, Rochelle Shicoff, Janet W. Winston, Evelyn Pye.

Contact: John J Krifka
jkrifka@comcast.net
413-348-9293

Belonging/TRUST

Artist: Yeohyun Ahn
Start Date: October 22, 2025
End Date: December 4, 2025
Location: Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Hall
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Address: Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College, 22 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: sites.smith.edu/art-oresman-gallery/portfolio/yeohyun-ahn

This project presents an experiential, multisensory art form that combines sound with human interaction, virtual floral elements with computer vision, and a mixed-reality experience centered around belonging and trust. Yeohyun Ahn is a distinguished graphic artist, designer, educator, curator, and researcher who lives with a disability. She integrates creative coding, accessibility, belonging, and healing into her work.

Contact: artdept@smith.edu
413-585-3103

Root/Signal

Artist: Caitlin Hurd
Start Date: November 8, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Reception Date: November 14, 5-8pm
Location: NEVA Museum
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: caitlinhurd.com

In an era marked by ecological unraveling and social polarization, Root Signal explores the intelligence of plants and the possibility that they might be models for a different kind of human communication through painting--one rooted in slowness, attunement, reciprocity, and nonverbal knowing. Just as roots transmit signals underground, linking trees and fostering networks of care, the works in this exhibition propose new ways of listening and connecting across human and more-than-human worlds.

Contact: Caitlin Hurd
caitlinhurd@gmail.com
617-767-3303

The Road Not Taken

Artist: Chie Yoshii
Start Date: October 22, 2025
End Date: November 22, 2025
Location: William Baczek Fine Arts
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Address: 36 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: wbfinearts.com

A solo exhibition of new works by Japanese American painter Chie Yoshii. The Road Not Taken presents Yoshii's latest explorations in allegory, psychological portraiture, and the interplay of mythic symbolism and interior narrative.

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

36th Annual Children's Illustration Celebration

Artists: group show
Start Date: November 2, 2025
End Date: January 1, 2026
Location: R. Michelson Galleries
Hours: Tue-Thur & Sat 10am-6pm, Fri 12-8pm
Address: 132 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: rmichelson.com/illustration

Time to celebrate! Join us for the 36th Annual Children's Illustration Celebration!

Contact: Meghan Zaremba
meghan@rmichelson.com
413-586-3964

Crafting Worlds: Japanese Decorative Arts from the 18th through 21st Centuries

Start Date: October 17, 2025
End Date: August 23, 2026
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Address: 120 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
City/Town: Northampton
Website: bit.ly/47tuumU

This installation explores how artisans in Japan utilized materials and handcrafted techniques to forge social relationships and engage with the world around them. It features lacquerware, ceramics, bamboo baskets, and metalwork from the eighteenth- through twenty-first centuries, when Japan shifted from a feudal society to a modern nation. For centuries, artisans worked collaboratively in workshops and passed down their knowledge from generation to generation.

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

Steve Wilda

Artist: Steve Wilda
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: November 25, 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

Steve Wilda painted a series of still life objects in deterioration, using graphite, watercolor, acrylic and oil. His giclee prints will be on display at the NSC. Reception: Friday, October 10, 5-7pm, in conjunction with Arts Night Out.

Return of the Tiny Gallery Project

Start Date: September 20, 2025
End Date: December 31, 2025
Location: Northampton Rail Trail
Address: starts on the trail behind Stop & Shop at the end of State Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: fntrails.org

2025 artists: Samantha Wilde, Zoe Pappenheimer, Michelle Mallory, Zea Mays Printmaking, JFK Grade 8 Students. The Tiny Gallery Project is a series of 5 small-scale, interactive popup art galleries located along the bike path between Northampton and Florence. Each gallery will host one artist, exhibition or collaboration.

Contact: info@fntrails.org

Watercolors

Artist: Barbara Ween
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: December 12, 2025
Location: Click Workspace
Address: 9 1/2 Market Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: barbaraween.com

Watercolors by Barbara Ween will be on display at Click Workspace as part of Northampton's Arts Night Out series on Fridays: Nov 14, and Dec 12, from 6-8pm, or by appointment.

Contact: Jim Sadler
jsadlerdesign@gmail.com
413-768-7964

A City in Flux: Reflecting on Venice

Start Date: September 19, 2025
End Date: March 22, 2026
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Address: 20 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: bit.ly/4oTi7aL

This installation celebrates the enduring but ever-changing allure of Venice in art. Curated by undergraduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, it draws from the Five Colleges' vast collections of historic and contemporary drawings, photographs, prints, and paintings. Image: Dwight William Tryon, American (1849–1925), Venice, 1879, oil on linen mounted on panel, Bequest of Dwight W. Tryon.

Contact: scmagen@smith.edu

Rooftops & Roses

Artist: Jane Timken '64
Start Date: September 9, 2025
End Date: January 21, 2026
Location: Smith College Alumnae House Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm
Address: 33 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: janetimken.com

Utilizing available materials, whether they be roses from the garden or views of rooftops from her window, the artist creates collages with old watercolors for the roses, and employs pan pastels on charcoal sketches of the rooftops. As Jasper Johns is famously quoted: "It's simple. You take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something."

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

Portraits of an Independent Africa

Artist: Michel Kameni
Start Date: August 29, 2025
End Date: January 4, 2026
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Address: 20 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: bit.ly/45cs1we

This exhibition features portraits by the Cameroonian studio photographer Michel Kameni (c.1935–2020) made at Studio KM in Yaoundé. The 55 prints featured were made during the 1960s and 1970s in the years following Cameroon's independence. From its founding in 1963, Studio KM attracted a cross-section of society. As a photographer, Kameni was particularly good at depicting the aspirations of the people who entered his studio.

QAA Annual Plein Air Exhibition

Artist: Quabbin Art Association
Start Date: November 3, 2025
End Date: December 30, 2025
Reception Date: November 12, 5-8pm
Location: Palmer Public Library
Address: 1455 N Main Street
City/Town: Palmer

Quabbin Art Association will hold its annual plein air art show at the Palmer Public Library from November 3rd through December 30th. A reception is planned for Wednesday, November 12th from 5 to 8 PM and is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Contact: Info@quabbinartassociation.com

Optical Confusion

Artist: Robert Osborne
Start Date: November 5, 2025
End Date: December 31, 2025
Location: Salmon Falls Gallery
Hours: every day 11am-5pm
Address: 1 Ashfield Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: SalmonFallsGallery.com

A solo exhibition by painter and sculptor Robert G. Osborne, “Optical Confusion” highlights Osborne's recent aluminum and glass sculptures that trace his decades-long exploration of light, perception, and structure.

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

Glass: Color, Light and Motion

Artist: Sam Myers
Start Date: November 5, 2025
End Date: December 31, 2025
Location: Salmon Falls Gallery
Hours: every day 11am-5pm
Address: 1 Ashfield Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: SalmonFallsGallery.com

Sam Myers, a mixed media artist originally from England and now based in Western MA, specializing in mosaics, stained glass, and glass painting, explores the interplay of color, light, and form in her exhibit at Salmon Falls Gallery.

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

Whimsical Dreams

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 29, 2025
End Date: November 24, 2025
Location: Shelburne Arts Co-op
Hours: Mon & Wed-Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 26 Bridge Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls

Who doesn't dream of a touch of whimsy these days? We all take pleasure in something that brings a grin, a chuckle, a knowing nod, an outright laugh. The creations of the Co-op's artists are designed to produce those delighted responses. The show includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, collage and mixed media pieces, decorative and wearable fiber art.

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

Flying Colors

Artist: Mark Majeski
Start Date: September 29, 2025
End Date: November 16, 2025
Location: Mocha Mayas Coffee Shop
Hours: 9am-5pm / 7 Days
Address: 47 Bridge Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: neighborhoodbirds.com

Hand drawn, original, detailed 11x14 inch colored pencil drawings of birds and plants local to Western Massachusetts.

Contact: Mark Majeski
majeskiphoto@verizon.net
413-834-4691

Art for Food Silent Auction

Date: Saturday, November 22, 1-4pm
Location: First Congregational Church of Southampton
Address: 212 College Highway
City/Town: Southampton
Website: floydgallery.com

People need food now, more than ever. I’ve donated over $12,000 worth of fine art photography prints for a Silent Auction. All proceeds go directly to the Southampton Community Cupboard. More than 45 framed and loose prints will be available. High-value artwork will be offered with starting bids of only $25 and $50. Artists include: Madeline Catania, Pierre Charrier, Vincent Dusovic, Robert Floyd, Newell Green, Rose Kallal, Julius Lester, Arthur Mange, Mark Picard, Marc St. Onge, Barry Wentzell, Diane Savioli-Chase, Stan Scarpati.

Contact: Robert Floyd
floyd@floydgallery.com
413-529-2635

Trinity Community Gallery Exhibit

Artist: Scantic Valley Artists and Artisans
Start Date: November 1, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Trinity Community Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-2pm, Sun 10am-3pm
Address: 361 Sumner Avenue
City/Town: Springfield
Website: trinityspringfield.org

The Scantic River Artists and Artisans exhibit will include painting and sculptures.

Contact: Vera Baker
vsbmusic@comcast.net
413-218-7391

ReThreading the Surface: Mark-Making Ecologies

Artist: Jorge Costa
Start Date: October 20, 2025
End Date: November 13, 2025
Location: Amy H Carberry Fine Arts Gallery, STCC
Hours: Mon & Wed 10am-5pm, Tue 1-5pm, Thur 9:30am-1:30pm
Address: 1 Armory Street, B28
City/Town: Springfield
Website: stcc.io/carberry

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College presents "ReThreading the Surface: Mark-Making Ecologies," featuring STCC faculty and artist Jorge Costa. Hundreds of paper-clay sheets Costa created and drew on are formed into circles and squares, installed in intricate detail and sequence throughout the gallery in various patterns. "Holobiont Assemblage," a series of experimental drawings, references interconnected life forms as part of a larger ecological unit.

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

The Power of She

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 28, 2025
End Date: January 25, 2026
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

A powerful exhibition that celebrates women and femme-identifying artists across Massachusetts who are reclaiming space through their art. Featuring work by Rosa Ibarra, Nora Valdez, Eva Lin Fahey, Aura Wu, Lily Nimmer, Louise Laplante, Malaika Ross, Donnabelle Casis, and Angela Ales, this show highlights themes of identity, empowerment, resilience, and transformation.

Contact: Sierra Myers
info@artforthesoulgallery.com
413-301-6314

LOCAL LOCAL

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 23, 2025
End Date: January 4, 2026
Reception Date: January 2, 5-8pm
Location: Waterway Arts
Hours: Thur & Fri 12-4pm, Sat & Sun 10am-4pm (First Fridays 5-8pm)
Address: 102 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners/Great Falls
Website: waterway-arts.com

A group show featuring small works by 21 local artists. Artists were asked to create work using material from Franklin County. The show celebrates the resources of our amazing community: our artists, our small businesses, our natural environment. This is a cash (or card or check) and carry show -- when you purchase a piece you can take it home right away -- we will immediately hang another piece by that artist. Closing reception: January 2, 5-8pm.

Contact: waterwayarts24@gmail.com

Migrations

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 18, 2025
End Date: November 22, 2025
Location: Great Falls Discovery Center
Hours: Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
Address: 2 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners Falls
Website: greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org

Migrations paintings, curated by GuateMaya Art and Culture Connection, celebrate the human and natural diversity of the upper Connecticut River Valley and the Americas. Colorful works depict scenes integral to village life, Mayan culture, and the history of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. For all ages.

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

Wilbraham Art League

Artists: Wilbraham Art League
Start Date: November 6, 2025
End Date: November 27, 2025
Location: Wilbraham Library
Hours: Mon-Wed 9am-8pm, Thur & Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-2pm
Address: 95 Crane Park Drive
City/Town: Wilbraham
Website: wilbrahamartleague.org

The Wilbraham Art League will be showcasing original artwork in the Brooks Room of the Wilbraham Library. On display will be paintings in a range of styles and sizes. The League has members from various towns in the area, who work in watercolor, acrylic, oil, pastel, graphite, photography, and other media. They have held shows in numerous local venues with many of their members winning awards for their work.

Contact: Roger Kellman
namllek@aol.com
413-233-7478

Forbes Library Arts & Craft Supply Swap

Date: November 22, 1-4pm
Location: Forbes Library
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.libcal.com/event/15404421

We're excited to host another of our recurring Arts and Crafts Supply Swaps -- for sharing the joy of creativity! No registration required; all ages welcome. No need to bring something to take something.

Friends of Children Artisan Market

Date: Sunday, November 16, 10:30am-4:30pm
Location: Garden House at Look Park
Address: 300 N. Main Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: friendsofchildreninc.org/event/friends-of-childrens-artisan-market

Thirty local artisan vendors, food vendors, silent auction to benefit children affected by the Child Welfare System. Please join us to start your holiday shopping by shopping local.

Contact: Valerie Smart
valerie@friendsofchildreninc.org
413-586-0011

Fall Yet Another Queer Pop-Up Markets

Date: November 16 & 23, 10am-2pm
Location: Eastworks
Address: 116 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: hyphae.community

Shop Yet Another Queer Pop-Up Market in November in support of raising funds to open the doors for HYPHAE: Makers Market and Skills Studio! Co-hosted by 50 Arrow Gallery on the first floor of Eastworks, both of these markets overlap the Easthampton Winter Farmers Market, so attendees are in for a real treat. K-95 masks or better required in the HYPHAE Market Space - we'll have a limited quality on hand. Masks are optional in 50 Arrow Gallery.

Contact: M & Jey
hyphaemakersmarket@proton.me
413-282-8816

Holiday Open Studio

Date: November 15 & 16 and 22 & 23, 11am-5pm
Location: Marlene Rye Studio
Address: 1889 Northampton Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: marlenerye.com

Two chances in November to step into the studio -- original paintings, prints, mugs, calendars, and new apparel inspired by nature's beauty. Come browse, connect, and find something meaningful for yourself or a loved one. Special guest artist, Elizabeth Slade, joins Marlene Nov 22-23.

Contact: Marlene Rye
mrye@Marlenerye.com
413-297-0991

Winter Exquisite: Zine Fair & Puppet Pageant

Sponsoring Group Name: The Forbes Library Zine Club
Deadline: November 30, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: linktr.ee/forbeszineclub

ATTENTION! Open call for zine-makers, and artists of any ilk with an interest, however fleeting, in the fantastic world of the puppet! Zine Club presents its 2nd annual Winter Exquisite: Zine Fair & Puppet Pageant. Included in the festivities are a day-long zine fair, a month-long exhibit of puppets, and a closing reception puppet pageant. The Zine Fair will take place on Saturday, February 7, 11am-4pm. The Puppet Pageant will take place on Saturday, February 28.

Contact: zineclub@forbeslibrary.org

Iris Residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA

Sponsoring Group Name: Studios at MASS moCA
Deadline: November 15, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: North Adams
Website: massmoca.org/studios/applying-financial-aid

This opportunity is for artists in Western or Central Massachusetts (Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden, Worcester) who are foreign-born, or identify as first or second generation American. We welcome applications from artists in all career stages and disciplines. For this specific opportunity, we will be accepting 2 artists. Artists will have a choice to select a two-week or four-week fellowship. Selected Iris Artists will be granted a residency free of charge, a stipend and support.

Contact: Carolina E. Porras Monroy
cporras@massmoca.org
407-694-2114

Holiday Small Works Show at Westhampton Public Library

Sponsoring Group Name:Westhampton Public Library
Deadline: November 20, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Westhampton
Website: westhamptonma.gov/holiday-small-works-show-call-for-artists

Spread some creative cheer and submit your work for this special community exhibition! All ages welcome. Artwork must be no more than 14 inches in any direction and must be ready to hang with a wire picture hanger in back. 20% of all sales will be donated to the Friends of Westhampton Public Library. Drop-off Mon 11/17: 2-8pm, Tue 11/18: 1-5pm, Wed 11/19: 1-5pm, Thu 11/20: 2-8pm. Opening Reception: 12/11, 5:30-7:30pm. Contact westhampton@cwmars.org

Contact: Meaghan Schwelm
westhampton@cwmars.org
413-527-5386

Making Light at Artspace Community Arts Center

Sponsoring Group Name: Artspace Community Arts Center
Deadline: November 23, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/making-light

Open Call for Art - Community Art Exhibition. Exhibition Dates: January 9, 2026 - February 20, 2026. Making Light will explore illumination in all forms: emotional, literal, or metaphorical. Artspace Community Arts Center invites artists to interpret the theme from all angles. All disciplines are welcome. Emerging artists encouraged to apply! Learn how to apply on our website. This is a free call for art; there is no submission fee.

Contact: info@artspacegreenfield.org

Art is a Gift at Big Red Frame

Sponsoring Group Name: Big Red Frame
Deadline: November 21, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: $20 table fee
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/gallery

Art is a Gift opens on Small Business Saturday and run through the Holidays. Table fee is only $20, the gallery commission is 1/3 of the retail prices you set. It is a convenient way to sell your ware as all you have to do is set up your table and we do the rest! To participate, visit the Elusie Gallery page of Big Red Frame's website, click on "Fill out this Application Form". IMPORTANT: in the type of exhibition field, click on Art is a Gift.

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

Application for 2026 gallery shows at Lathrop Community

Sponsoring Group Name: Lathrop Community
Deadline: June 30, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: $none
City/Town: Easthampton

Lathrop Community Gallery welcomes applications for its 2026 calendar year shows. We have no entry fees, and no commissions are taken. We can exhibit only 2-D work. Our gallery has 54 linear feet of space with a height limit of 44 inches. Work must be ready to hang. The shows are up for 1 month and we provide help with hanging.

Contact: Jane Antonsen
jmantonsen@yahoo.com

Downtown Westfield WinterWalk

Sponsoring Group Name: ArtWorks Westfield
Deadline: November 30, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Westfield

Call for new, emerging, experienced and pro artists! Downtown Westfield WinterWalk, a hybrid traditional urban art walk & European Winter Market concept in three large city blocks, features art, literature, music, shopping, strolling and dining, in-store demos and exhibitions. A mix of indoor and outdoor display spaces. Accepted media includes painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, collage, photography, printmaking, digital art, wood, glass, metal, fine fiber, clay, and ceramics.
Website: forms.gle/2mc1zEtAZ7wPMKpe9

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

Seeking new members at Shelburne Arts Co-op

Sponsoring Group Name: Shelburne Arts Co-op
Deadline: ongoing
Submission/Entry Fees: $5
City/Town: Shelburne Falls

The Shelburne Arts Co-op is seeking applications from potters and jewelers interested in becoming members of this vibrant gallery. Located on the main shopping street in Shelburne Falls, the Co-op has been in business for 26 years and has a strong local following as well as a lively tourist trade. Working member and non-working member opportunities available. Please email for jurying instructions.

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

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.

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

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

Spring 2026 Arts Management Classes

Date & Time: all classes are asynchronous / 100% on your own schedule
Fee: credit: $2160 + $85 registration fee / noncredit: $925 + $85 registration fee
Location: online via Arts Extension Service, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: umass.edu/arts-extension-service/academics/online-classes

In times of change, creativity leads the way. UMass Arts Extension Service's Spring 2026 online courses equip you with tools to adapt and make an impact. Explore topics such as Arts Fundraising and Arts Marketing, designed to strengthen your ability to build sustainable organizations and advance your career in the arts. AES courses are flexible, affordable, and led by arts professionals who understand the creative landscape. Your next step in arts leadership begins here.

Contact: aes@acad.umass.edu

Hand-dipped Beeswax Candle Making with Ang Roell

Date & Time: Sunday, November 16, 3-5pm
Fee: $44
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/hand-dipped-beeswax-candle-making-with-ang-roell-300-500pm

Local Beekeeper Ang Roell teaches the age-old art of candle-dipping. Makes great gifts!

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

Open Sew Fridays - Gift & Community Making at Grove House Sewing Studio

Date & Time: November 14 & December 5
Fee: $20/hour with full use of studio and expert support
Location: Grove House Sewing Studio
Address: 221 Pine Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: grovehousesewingstudio.com/events

Grove House Sewing Studio welcomes anyone competent with a sewing machine to join and Open Sew session to start, work on, or finish holiday gifts (or passion projects) with expert sewing support and advice and full use of the studio supplies, cutting tables, and sewing machines. Open Sew is on November 14th, and December 5th. Registration is required.

Contact: Rachael Wein
GroveHouseSewingStudio@gmail.com

Paint + Poetry Open Mic for Amherst Survival Center

Date & Time: Sunday, November 16, 1-3pm
Fee: free / donations welcome
Location: The Mill District Local Art Gallery
Address: 91 Cowls Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: generalstorelocalgallery.com

Paint & Poetry is a gathering of reflection, creativity, and connection. Come as you are to share your words, listen deeply, and paint as inspiration unfolds. Please bring poetry or other written material that you would like to read or present. RSVP due to limited seats. Light refreshments provided. Free. Ages 16+. In the spirit of helping our neighbors, please consider a donation directly to the Amherst Survival Center: https://amherstsurvival.org/donate/

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

Multilingual Family Clay Ornament Workshop with Laisa Bellomo-Johnson

Date & Time: December 13, 10am-12pm
Fee: $20 per adult & child duo / $5 for each additional artist in your family
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/december-13-multilingual-family-clay-ornament-workshop

Discover and play with clay as a family, creating lifelong memories and cherished ceramic ornaments. Families will learn the basics of creating hanging ornaments, which Artspace will glaze and fire in our kiln. All ornaments will be ready for pick up no later than December 21st.

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

Poison Ivy Kintsugi Demonstration with Marielena Ferrer-Harrington

Date & Time: November 17, 5pm
Fee: free
Location: UMass Amherst Studio Arts Building Atrium
Address: 110 Thatcher Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: umass.edu/humanities-arts/about/history/studio-arts-building

Artist Marielena Ferrer-Harrington will present a demonstration of her art practice of poison ivy lacquer-based kintsugi on Monday, November 17, at 5pm, in the UMass Amherst Studio Arts Building Atrium. As part of her MFA thesis work, Ferrer-Harrington successfully explored the possibility of making that lacquer from poison ivy, which is in the same plant family as the tree from which sap for making the traditional lacquer is harvested. This event is free and open to the public.

Contact: Michael Medeiros
mcmedeiros@umass.edu
508-951-8538

Palette Knife Painting with Deborah Padden

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 19, 6-8:30pm
Fee: $40 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Learn to paint a landscape with your palette knife and acrylic paints. It is a unique and fun approach to creating texture and expressive strokes. All materials included. All ages!

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

Linocut Stamp Carving with Althea Keaton

Date & Time: Saturday, November 19, 5:30-7:30pm
Fee: $30
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/november-19-linocut-stamp-carving

Linocut is a fast and fun way to learn the fundamentals of relief printmaking. In this one-day workshop, you'll learn the basics of this artform, design and carve your own linocut stamp, and hand-make prints you can share with your friends and family. For ages 10yo+

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

Figure Drawing at Looky Here

Date & Time: Thursday, November 20, 6-8pm
Fee: $15
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/figure-drawing-10-23-600-800-15

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 over other Thursday evening. *Participates in Card to Culture

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

Public Interest Zine Making at Looky Here

Date & Time: Thursday, November 13, 6-8pm
Fee: pay what you can / $15 suggested donation
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com/event/public-interest-zine-making-with-holly-munoz-and-randy-lesage-pay-what-you-can

“Public Interest” is a concern for the well-being of all people, rather than individuals, specific groups, or companies. The world is messed up and scary. Information and education can help. Learn how to make zines. Get your message across to people. Help them understand why we all do better when we all do better. Suggested donation of $15 for the two-hour workshop. No one turned away. Proceeds support Looky Here. All supplies included.

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

Personal Altar Piece with Wade Boswell

Date & Time: December 5-14
Fee: $160
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/december-5-7th-14th-personal-altar-piece

One ceramics workshop, spread out over 4 days! 1. Friday Dec. 5th 6-8pm-sculpt. 2. Saturday Dec. 6th 3:30-5:30pm-sculpt. 3. Sunday Dec. 7th 1-4pm-sculpt. 4. Sunday, Dec. 14th, 1-3p-glaze. At this time of year where darkness is more a part of our lives and seasonal holidays remind us of the light of life and love, create a sculpture that helps you settle into your own sense of the sacred. Instructed by Wade Boswell. Some clay experience is helpful,adventurous beginners are welcome! For artists 16yo+

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

Sip 'N Paint Cornucopia at Workshop13

Date & Time: Thursday, November 13, 6-8:30pm
Fee: $40 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Whether you're a seasoned artist or haven't touched a paintbrush since elementary school, this step-by-step guided painting class is designed for everyone. BYOB. All materials included. Ages 21+

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

Intro to Life Drawing with Sarah Durham

Date & Time: Friday, November 14, 1-5pm
Fee: $50 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Through exercises that help us see differently, experiment, and play, we'll explore ways to express ourselves and make unexpected and original drawings. All materials included. Ages: 18+

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

BIPOC Critique Group at Augusta Savage Gallery

Date & Time: November 11, 5-7pm
Fee: none
Location: Augusta Savage Gallery
Address: New Africa House, 180 Infirmary Way, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/events/bipoc-critique-group-2526

A supportive, intellectually rigorous space for BIPOC visual artists to share their work and engage in meaningful dialogue. With the insights of ally scholars and community members, we foster cultural, intellectual, and contextual conversations that honor the depth and complexity of BIPOC experiences. The group meets twice monthly through the end of the academic year. See website for upcoming dates.

Contact: Elana Casey
elanacasey@umass.edu

Amanda Barrow's Monotype & Gel Plate Printing Workshops

Date & Time: Monotype: Saturday, December 13 / Gel Plate: Sunday, December 14
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: amandabarrow.net/events/category/workshops

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!

Contact: bridge.arts.1@gmail.com

Alcohol Ink Painting and Drawing at Fiddleheads Gallery

Date & Time: Friday, November 14, 9-11:30am
Fee: $70 DVAA members / $80 nonmembers / + $30 for materials
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: 105 Main Street
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

This is a beginner-friendly workshop! Experiment with various techniques using a range of alcohol inks, tools, alcohol ink markers, and Yupo paper. There is an additional $30 fee for the materials. This is due on the day of the workshop.

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

Handmade Paper Swatch Swap Winter 2025-2026

Date & Time: January 20, 2026, submissions due
Fee: $50
Location: online via White Leaf Paper
City/Town: Florence
Website: foragedpaper.com/handmade-paper-swap-2026

A general interest swatch swap in which papermakers the world over submit samples of some of their favorite papers, along with the recipes they used to make them. They pull up to 7 sheets of each paper and cut them into swatches, sending up to 3 different samples and their recipes. The samples are collated into sets, and White Leaf Paper designs a book for mounting them which includes the recipes. Participants each receive one set of swatches and a .pdf of the book. Registration closes November 20th. Full details on website.

Felted Pillow Friends at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: November 13, 6-8pm
Fee: $45
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, studio #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: hisawyer.com/resilient-community-arts/schedules/activity-set/1619651?source=camps

Come build your own cozy pal to cuddle all winter long! This 2-hour workshop invites artists of any experience level to make a unique and functional piece of fiber art.

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

Sculpting the Human Form in Clay with Stephen Saxenian

Date & Time: November 19-23, 10am-5pm
Fee: $675
Location: New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art
Address: 37 South Main Street
City/Town: New Salem
Website: newsalemmuseum.com/workshop/sculpting-the-human-form-in-clay

Led by renowned local sculptor Stephen Saxenian, this five-day workshop will immerse students in the rich, timeless and captivating endeavor of sculpting the human form in clay, offering methods and resources to foster skill, understanding, and artistic growth. Unique to this workshop at NSMA, your classes are set against the serene backdrop of rural New England in late autumn, with access to the museum's inspiring collection and surroundings throughout the week. Open to all skill levels!

Contact: info@newsalemmuseum.com
413-658-2098

Mixed Media Printmaking at Red Horse Press

Date & Time: ongoing / Thursdays 4-7pm & Fridays 12:30-2:30pm
Fee: $60 per class
Location: Red Horse Press
Address: 7 Mountain Street
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: redhorsepressprintmaking.com

Mixed Media allows you to delve more deeply into the many ways to create a print. Combine etching and block print, create a monoprint, make a woodcut, learn the art of chine colle, master the subtleties of aquatint or mezzotint... the possibilities are endless!

Contact: Shana DeAtley
shanadeatley@icloud.com
413-221-5775

Block Print at Red Horse Press

Date & Time: ongoing / Wednesdays 6-8pm & Fridays 10am-12pm
Fee: $40/class or $150/Monthly 4 Pack
Location: Red Horse Press
Address: 7 Mountain Street
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: redhorsepressprintmaking.com

Suitable for all levels. Join our fun, informative class, where we cover everything from carving technique, to image transfer, to using the press, and so much more. Students who attend multiple classes will learn three main block printing techniques; single block, reduction, and multiple block.Class size limited to 4 to allow for plenty of individual attention. Pay by the class and create your own schedule, or save money with a monthly 4 pack.

Contact: Shana DeAtley
shanadeatley@icloud.com
413-221-5775

Etching at Red Horse Press

Date & Time: ongoing / Saturdays 10am-12pm & 12-2pm
Fee: $40/class or $150/Monthly 4 Pack
Location: Red Horse Press
Address: 7 Mountain Street
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: redhorsepressprintmaking.com

Etching is a process in which the drawn line is incised using a corrosive into which a metal plate has been submerged. After the process is complete, the etched line holds ink, which is then printed on paper. We use ferric chloride, a corrosive salt, to etch into copper plates. This structured class is suitable for all levels, from beginner to advanced. Pay by the class and create your own schedule, or save money with a monthly 4 pack.

Contact: Shana DeAtley
shanadeatley@icloud.com
413-221-5775

Beginning Stained Glass Workshop at Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio

Date & Time: November 15, 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. More class dates: Nov 16.

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

Sliding Scale Workshops at Make-It Springfield

Location: Make-It Springfield
Address: 286 Bridge Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: makeitspringfield.org/events

Make-It Springfield offers sliding scale workshops designed to make creativity accessible for all. Rooted in inclusion and collaboration, these hands-on sessions welcome participants of all backgrounds and skill levels to explore art, culture, and technology in a supportive, community-driven environment.

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

Sip & Sketch Weekly Adult Drawing Class at The Artery

Date & Time: Thursdays, 5-6:30pm
Fee: $25
Location: The Artery
Address: 289 High Street
City/Town: Holyoke

Join this weekly drawing class for adults! No experience is necessary, so all skill levels are welcome. We'll go over good tools and materials to use, different ways to draw from life, and try fun exercises to help us relax and have fun.$25 per class. All materials are included in the registration price. Price is prorated weekly according to how many session remain. This class is for 21+ and is BYO favorite wine or other beverage.

Contact: Rachel Rushing
rachel@holyokeart.com

Intermediate Stained Glass Workshop at Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio

Date & Time: November 19, 5-8pm
Fee: $75
Location: Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, suite 229
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com

We will cover the skills and techniques to build a unique piece of stained glass using the copper foil technique. Students may choose any size and style of pattern, bring their own pattern or draw an original. Use of tools included in tuition. Glass, foil and solder will be available for purchase. Class designed for students who have completed our beginning/sun catcher class or who have equivalent experience.

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

Designing Murals with Photoshop & Procreate with Eric Okdeh

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 6-8:30pm, December 2-30, 2025
Fee: $500
Location: online via Common Wealth Murals
City/Town: Springfield
Website: commonwealthmurals.org/muraltrainingcourses

This online course includes interactive instruction, hands-on exercises, and guided feedback. You will learn: How to accurately measure a wall of any size and create a digital template, no lift required; Digital mural design; Organizing design layers for maximum efficiency; Simplifying your artwork for community painting; Tools for generating a color key and paint list; Gridding your design and preparing projection files for polytab installationFull details on website.

Contact: Talysha
info@commonwealthmurals.org
413-206-1517

The Muralist's Toolkit: Mural Project Planning from Vision to Execution

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 6-9pm, January 13 - February 25, 2026
Fee: $700
Location: online via Common Wealth Murals
City/Town: Springfield
Website: commonwealthmurals.org/muraltrainingcourses

This expert-led online course provides a comprehensive "how-to" guide to community muralism, covering everything from the practical skills needed to execute large-scale public art projects to techniques for gathering community input on mural themes and designs. Through real-life examples and actionable strategies, participants will learn how to craft compelling artist statements, develop strong project pitches, and deliver effective design presentations. Full details on website.

Contact: Talysha
info@commonwealthmurals.org
413-206-1517

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

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

Resilient Futures 2025

Goal: $12,000
End Date: December 2, 2025
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: givebutter.com/c/artequalshope

Federal funds we'd been awarded were revoked in February, so we are fundraising to continue to serve our community with integrity to our mission: stabilizing the future of accessible and inclusive community art making and learning spaces for all ages and abilities in the River Valley.

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

Open the Doors to HYPHAE Makers Market & Skills Studio

Goal: $65,000
End Date: December 31, 2025
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bit.ly/hyphaecrowdfunding

HYPHAE: Makers Market & Skills Studio is the first 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC-centered creative retail and workshop space in Western Massachusetts. Offering a mix of unique handmade items, artist-led skills courses, and creative business support for local makers, their goal is to be a "third space" for authentic, intersectional community-building and connection. Their work is driven by their core values: authenticity, collaboration, community care, and creative entrepreneurship.

Contact: M Rudder
hyphaemakersmarket@proton.me
413-387-2684