| OMISSIONS
AND APOLOGIES
An explanation and
apology for being a day late
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Yesterday I
had a few tests run at the [OMITTED] Medical Center and there were few things
that no one told me, which I find perplexing.
One of my tests was an eye
exam which included putting some drops in my eyes which really burned and caused
blurred vision that lasted for 5 hours, which is why I am doing this newsletter
today and not yesterday. I couldn't make out any written words and my shoes were
blurry. The funny thing is that when I booked this appointment no one told me
that this would happen or that perhaps I ought to arrange for a ride home. So I
apologize if I ran over any of you yesterday. If fate put you on my path home
then I guess you should look at it as a fate thing; you were meant to be run
over yesterday. Perhaps you should play the numbers on my license
plate.
Anyway, at my appointment Lindsay, the distracted (nice word for
distant, which is a nice word for not friendly) assistant who administered the
drops, asked crisply, "Do you want a tissue?" I could feel them running down my
cheeks so I accepted, thinking, since she can see them, why would she even ask?
As I blindly dabbed at my face I noticed the tissue was yellow in spots, which
is how I figured out that they were yellow drops. I wondered why she didn't
offer me a mirror like they do at the dentist, so I wouldn't walk around with
stuff on my face. But since she didn't offer I confidently assumed that I had
successfully removed all the yellow splotches with my single tissue, which is to
say that in reality I went totally paranoid and OCD and could only think about
the imaginary yellow spots on my face. Then they wanted me to choose frames for
my new glasses but I asked if I could come back when I could actually see them
(and not the imaginary spots on my face) and make a better decision.
I then went
on to the Phlebotomist (who was really nice) to have blood taken for other
tests, which included speaking to 3 receptionists, the phlebotomist, and the
checkout/billing person. Every time one of them asked me to sign a paper I told
them I couldn't see so they put a giant X and pointed me to the line so I could
sign. I got in my car and Mr. Magoo-ed my way home. Hours later as I brushed my
teeth for bed I looked in the mirror and realized I could finally see. And what
I saw was nearly perfect yellow raccoon circles around each eye and now I am mad
at everyone I saw yesterday for not telling me, except for the people I ran
over.
Anyway-sorry this is late.
Pictured: When you google, "yellow eye shadow" this is what you
find.
JAMIE YOUNG
@ KAREN SPRAGUE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER Jan. 26th -
Feb. 26th 2007
 You are
cordially invited to an Exhibit from Jamie
Young
Pictured: Path to the Well, 11"x11" oil on
panel, 2006
Passages
Jamie Young
Retrospective
1970-2007
open to public
Jan. 26th - Feb. 26th 2007
Reception
Jan. 26th 5:30 - 7:00 with music by Sean Black, AKA DJ Blackadile
a
benifit for the Homer Street Elementry School
Being shown at
Karen
Sprague Cultural Arts Center
American
International College,
1000 State Street, Springfield,
MA
Click here for directions
Four Sundays
in February 2007 Series
Four
Sundays in February 2007 Series
KidsBestFest/YouthFilm ‘07
Week 1:
We begin the series on Sunday, February 4th, with our annual Silver Chord
Bowl, Collegiate a cappella at its best. All 2,000 seats are filled in John
M. Greene Hall at Smith College year after year. The Very Best of Collegiate A
Cappella. This year with the Boston University Dear Abbeys, McGill University
Effusion, Yale University Whim N’Rhythm, Smith College Noteables, NYU
N’Harmonics, Amherst College Zumbyes and Brown University Bear Necessities.
Emcees: Smith President, Carol T. Christ and Northampton Mayor, Mary Clare
Higgins All seats $10.00 in advance; $12.00 at the door CONTACT NORTHAMPTON ARTS
COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL $20 PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS BY CALLING
413-587-1269
Sponsored by Whalen Insurance Agency
Week 2: On
Sunday, February 11th, we move back to the Academy of Music Theatre where we
will present M·sica JÌbara – Mountain Music Of Puerto Rico. Grammy Award
nominees Ecos de Borinquen, led by JÌbaro master Miquel Santiago DÌaz and
featuring singing sensation Karol Aurora de Jes·s Reyes. Plus, the next wave of
Puerto Rican musical superstars, El Grupo Rumba Caribe, led by cuatrista and
trovador Ricardo Villanueva Serrano.
Sunday, February 11th, 2:00 p.m. at the
Academy of Music Theatre
All seats $10 in advance; $12 at the
door
Sponsored by Smith College, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Angels
and the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Week 3: On
Sunday, February 18th we will present RaÔ– Algerian Music of the Street On
Screen: “Khaled”, American premier of the film featuring the two leading
exponents of RaÔ music, Khaled and Rachid Taha who have given voice to the
Algerian youth rebellion
On Stage: Syncop, North America’s top RaÔ Musicians
from MontrÈal, featuring Algerian born Karim BenzaÔd. Sunday, February 18th,
2:00 p.m. at the Academy of Music Theatre
FREE EVENT/General Admission
(first-come, first-serve seating)
Made possible by the generous support of
the Betty Hamady Sams '57 and James F. Sams Fund of Smith College and in
collaboration with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute of Smith
College.
Week 4: The series concludes on Sunday, February 25th with
our ever-popular The Really Big Show. The Valley’s favorite BannerQueen, Amy
Johnquest, becomes the Ed Man, “goo goo g’joob.”
Sunday, February 25th,
2:00 p.m. at the Academy of Music Theatre
All seats $6 in advance; $8 at the
door
Sponsored by Coldwell Banker Upton Massamont Realtors
For more
information visit www.northamptonartscouncil.org
Series
Sponsors—Northampton Arts Council and the City of Northampton, Daily Hampshire
Gazette, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Lathrop Communities, Smith College,Hampshire
Hospitality Group, WFCR 88.5
Additional support provided by Florence
Savings Bank, National Endowment for the Arts, Bank of America, Community
Foundation of Western Massachusetts, TD BankNorth, Massachusetts Cultural
Council
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Tickets for the Four Sundays in February 2007 Series can be purchased at any of
the following ticket outlets:
Cooper’s Corner
31 Main Street
Florence,
MA 01062
586-1684
Food for Thought
106 North Pleasant
Street
Amherst, MA 01002
253-5432
Guild Art Supply
102 Main
Street
Northampton, MA 01060
586-6343
Northampton Arts
Council
240 Main Street, Memorial Hall, Room 5
Northampton, MA
01060
587-1269
State St. Fruit
51 State Street
Northampton, MA
01060
584-2301
World Eye Books
156 Main Street
Greenfield, MA
01301
772-2186
KIDSBESTFEST2007
The ninth annual
KidsBestFest: The Best of the International Children's Film Festivals, opens on
Monday February 19th and runs through Saturday, February 24th at the Academy of
Music Theatre in Northampton.
All weekday shows are at 2PM (doors open
at 1:30) and all seats are $3 On Saturday February 24, 2007 we will screen
Brave Cat and Other Stories, a collection of short films for young people at
10AM (doors open at 9:30) and all seats are $3.
For something new this
year we have YouthFilm, a festival of films made by local people 18 and
under. The doors open at 12PM and films run all afternoon with commentary
from the filmmakers and actors. All seats are $3 for 18 and over, but free for
people18 and under.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will
kick off KidsBestFest2007 on Saturday February 17, 2007 with a 1PM screening
of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Admission to the Museum will get you
into films as well as into the galleries: for more information take a look at
www.picturebookart.org.
As in the past, Cate Damon of New Century Theatre
will read the subtitles. It is something for the entire family: the films are
funny, smart and sweet. See northamptonartscouncil.org for a complete listing.
The Valley Advocate is the media sponsor. KidsBestFest2007 is sponsored by
Florence Savings Bank. Gravity Switch and Faces support
YouthFilm.
Elton
Braithwaite at the Taber Gallery evening
reception 1/31/07 - 5:30 - 7:30
 COOL
RUNNINGS
wood carvings and sculpture by
Elton Braithwaite
Jan.
22 – Feb.22, 2007
Reception: Wed. Jan. 31, 11am - 1pm - gallery talk begins
at noon
Friends of Elton & the Taber Gallery are invited to
Elton's evening party 1/31/07 - 5:30 - 7:30
*image: Tribal
Mask, apx. 24"h. x 12" w., Maple & wood stain, 2006
The Taber
Art Gallery is open to the public and is conveniently acessed through the HCC
Campus Library in the Donahue Building.
For more information or gallery hours
please call (413) 552-2614
A NEW PLAY
BY THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT February 1,
2 and 3 at 8 PM
ANNOUNCING A NEW PLAY BY THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT
"a
warning for the king", the Performance Project's newest work-in-progress, is a
contemporary myth based on themes from the Company-members' lives.
The title quotes an old proverb, "the silence of the people is a warning
for the king." The story is based upon Company members' belief that when one is
denied their voice, as an individual, or as a people, chaos will ensue. Through
spoken word, rap and monologue the cast confronts the impact of greed, racism,
addiction, and being silenced. The play expresses the urgency of speaking out
and recognizing that our fates are intertwined.
WHERE: Holyoke
Community College, Leslie Phillips Forum Theater. 2nd floor, C
Bldg.
WHEN: Thursday February 1st, Friday February 2nd, Saturday
February 3rd
All performances are at 8:00 pm, donations accepted at the
door
For more information: PerformanceProject.org or call
413-586-4960
The Performance Project creates and performs compelling
works of theater, movement, and spoken word. Through self-reflection and social
analysis, the company speaks the truth about themselves and the forces in
society that affect their lives. The Performance Project was founded in 2000 at
the Hampshire Jail and House of Correction.
Anne Sargent
Walker - Reception Feb 4, 2-4PM "New
Work"
 Anne Sargent
Walker
"New Work"
Jan 17- Feb. 16, 2007
Reception Feb 4,
2-4PM
Wm. Blizard Gallery
Blake Hall, 2nd
floor
Springfield College
NEW WORKS AT
A.P.E. Gallery Opening
Reception: Friday, February 9 5pm-8pm
 A.P.E.
Gallery
February 7 – March 4
Opening Reception: Friday, February 9
5pm-8pm
Third Floor, Thornes Market, 150 Main St., Northampton, MA
www.apearts.org
(413)
586-5553
WILL THAT BE ALL?
New works by Teddy O’Connor, Ali Osborn,
Raphy Griswold
After graduating from Wesleyan University in May
2006, where they majored in studio art, Teddy, Raphy, and Ali moved to
Northampton. Here, the three young artists are trying to come to grips with the
reality of working to support themselves while simultaneously finding time and
energy to make art.
Are these things compatible? How can they make art pay?
Did they find everything they were looking for? Will that be all? is a show of
drawings, prints, and mixed media installation in which all of their musings on
these questions will be revealed and exhibited.
February
7 – March 4, 2007 at A.P.E. Gallery Third Floor, Thornes Marketplace, 150 Main
St., Northampton, MA
For more information, call Lisa Thompson at
A.P.E. Gallery: 413-586-5553 or visit www.apreats.org.
MAJUSCULES:
Charcoal Drawings by Jay Rathaus
Jay Rathaus’s charcoal “Majuscules”
act as a font pre-loaded with social and political commentary. If each letter
may be considered a fractured narrative, then when placed together as words,
they begin to resonate with the emergent truths of our political world.
Opening reception: Friday, February 9th, 5-8pm
The gallery is
open Monday through Saturday, 10-5 and Sunday from 12-5
Pictured: Top, work by Ali Osborn, Bottom, work by Jay
Rathaus
ARTS NIGHT
OUT NORTHAMPTON February 9,
5-8 PM
Coming Up
On February 9
Visit 18 galleries, shops
between 5 and 8 p.m.
Northampton continues its Arts Night Out program Friday, February 9,
from 5 to 8 p.m. (unless the duration is otherwise noted in individual listings
below), offering open galleries at 18 locations, all within a short walk in the
city's downtown area. The event is organized by participating art and craft
organizations and the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce, and is sponsored
by the Northampton Cooperative Bank, 93.9 (The River), and the Valley
Advocate.
Highlighted in January are several
galleries:
~~Alfredo's Gallery, 6 Crafts Avenue, is featuring black and
white photographs of Paris and New York in the 1930s and 1940s by master
photographer Fred Stein. In addition, the gallery is having a major sale of all
photographic art and wall decor in advance of its move to Suffield,
CT.
~~Smith College Museum of Art, Elm Street has a new exhibition,
“Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art” that examines some of the ways in which
contemporary artists are exploring a socially and environmentally conscientious
– in other words, sustainable – way of living and working. As usual on Arts
Night Out, admission to the museum is free; there are activities for children
from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. and, on this Arts Night Out, an opening celebration for
the "Beyond Green" exhibition, complete with a "Junk Music Concert."
~~Across Elm Street, at the Smith College Alumnae Association, where the
prints and paintings of Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling will be on view, there will be
an additional reception from 5 to 8 p.m.
~~A.P.E. Gallery Third Floor,
Thornes Marketplace, 150 Main Street, will have two shows. The first,
“Majuscules,” charcoal drawings by Jay Rathaus. The charcoal majuscules
(uppercase letters in calligraphy) act as a font pre-loaded with social and
political commentary. If each letter may be considered a fractured narrative,
then when placed together as words, they begin to resonate with the emergent
truths of our political world.
~~The second exhibition, “Will that be
all?” features new works by Teddy O’Connor, Ali Osborn and Raphy Griswold, three
recent graduates of Wesleyan University who majored in studio art and now live
in Northampton. Here, the three young artists are trying to come to grips with
the reality of working to support themselves while simultaneously finding time
and energy to make art. Are these things compatible? How can they make art pay?
Did they find everything they were looking for? “Will that be all?” is a show of
drawings, prints, and mixed media in which all of their musings on these
questions will be revealed and exhibited.
~~ Northampton Center for the
Arts, 17 New South Street, third floor, is showing paintings by Robert Markey
that combine the visual and the conceptual. Markey says his work “often speaks
about hope, about humor and about the human condition: what it is and what it
could be—In my paintings, I work with layers of intense color, creating a
deep—almost primeval-feeling—space." (The reception here is from 5 to 7 p.m.)
~~Old Courthouse Gallery, 99 Main Street, has work of Rosemary Wessell
of Cummington— mixed media-plaster cast relief on canvas painted over with oils.
Plaster casts are of people; the remainder of the relief work is abstract,
depicting energies of the subject in the painting.
~~ Naked Art Gallery,
located in the Dance Northampton Studio, 492 Pleasant Street, continues its
exhibition of the works of Sherid Adams, “Mixed Medium.”
~~The Artisan
Gallery, 162 Main Street, continues showing the award-winning, hand-built
ceramics of Hayne Bayless, who describes his work, in part, as “everyday objects
that go beyond everyday use—How my pots work is at least as important to me as
how they look or how they feel."
Participating arts venues are:
Alfredo’s; APE Third Floor Arts; Artisan Gallery; Basha Oriental Rugs;
Claytopia; Don Muller Gallery; Guild Art Supply; R. Michelson Galleries;
Northampton Center for the Arts; Northampton Pottery; Old Court House Gallery;
Oxbow Gallery; Pinch; Scandihoovians. com; Silverscape Designs; Smith College
Museum of Art; The Naked Art Gallery; and William Baczek Fine Arts.
Arts
Night Out takes place, rain or shine, on the second Friday of each month
year-round. Admission is free, and free parking is available at the Smith
College parking garage on West Street (Route 66). A map with description of
participating galleries, studios and shops, are available at Arts Night Out
locations and the Chamber of Commerce, 99 Pleasant Street. There will be
entertainment and refreshments at many venues. Take a walk and see the (arts)
sights in Northampton.
And, we remind you that Easthampton holds its
“Second Saturday” art Walk on February 10 from 5 to 8 p.m. More than a dozen
venues along Cottage and Union streets host visual, music and performance
artists in a casual sampling of the community's creativity. For more information
about the Easthampton event, visit its Web site
Visit the Northampton
Chamber of Commerce Web site for more information about this event. If you wish
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ART WALK
EASTHAMPTON February 10,
5-8 PM
Art
Competitions, Live Music & Tattooing: It's Art Walk
Easthampton
Come on out to Art Walk Easthampton on February 10, 2007
from 5-8 PM for an eclectic sampling of art: Two galleries showcase art
competitions and announce their winners; four venues host live music
performances; five locations host solo shows for local artists; and one invites
you in to watch the tattooing process. All events are free. There's also plenty
of free parking all along the route.
Get a full event description and
map at www.ArtWalkEasthampton.org.
Each participating venue displays a
large, yellow Art Walk banner outside. Inside, you're invited to explore that
month's featured visual, music or performance art. See what the Gazette said
about last month's Walk here:
http://www.artwalkeasthampton.org/press_article_1_18_07.php
Highlights
of the upcoming February 10 Art Walk include:
-- Goodlander Gallery unveils
its Winter Art Competition, with 3-D, mixed media, oil paintings, artistic
photography, colored pencil, pastels, encaustic wax, and other mediums in this
national show. Winners will be announced during the Art Walk. 64 Cottage Street,
Easthampton. Easy parking at Cottage Street lot.
-- Elusie Gallery
debuts "Land Visions," a collection of works inspired by nature. Artist
competition winners will be announced during the Art Walk. This event benefits
the push to Save Echodale Farm. Elusie is located in Old Town Hall, on the
traffic rotary, 43 Main Street, Easthampton. Easy parking outside.
--
Flywheel Arts Collective hosts three, live music events. No cover charge. From
5-6 PM, it's "Next President," a post-punk trio that sounds like Dead Milkmen
meeting The Stooges. From 6-7 PM, it's a complete turn-about with "City Folk and
Their Flying Machines," a trio of ukulele, stand-up bass and brush drums that
promise to bring you happiness. And from 7-8 PM, it's the rock band of Nash Lane
who describes their music as spacey, psychedelic and atmospheric. Flywheel is at
2 Holyoke Street, Easthampton. Parking at Cottage Street lot.
--
Luthiers Co op hosts local blue grass musicians in an improvisational jam
session. Listen to the music and check out the collection of vintage and current
string instruments. 108 Cottage Street, Easthampton. On-street parking and at
Cottage Street lot.
-- Crooked House Designs hosts local foot-stompin'
fiddle and banjo musicians who want to brighten up a gray winter evening. Swing
into Crooked House at 86 Cottage Street, Easthampton. On-street parking and at
Cottage Street lot.
-- PACE (Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton) invites
you in enjoy the live performance of Easthampton singer-songwriter Bruce King
from 5-6:30 PM and to see the photography of Jennifer Holmes from 5-8 PM. PACE
is located at 41 Union Street, Easthampton. There is a on-street parking out
front and a free parking lot directly behind PACE.
-- Artist "Blaze"
exhibits a collection of watercolors that explore the connection between people
and nature, especially through the use of animal totems. View her work at Awen
Tree, 102 Cottage. On-street parking and at Cottage Street lot.
-- Her
acrylic paintings are inspired by images she see in her head "between stages of
wakefulness and sleep." Amy Lavallee displays her recent works at Valley Art
Supplies, 76 Cottage Street, Easthampton. On-street parking and at Cottage
Street lot.
-- Painter Richard Hutchinson presents a collection of
animal themed watercolors at Mt. Tom Homemade Ice Cream, 34 Cottage Street,
Easthampton. On-street parking and at Cottage Street lot.
-- It's a love
story. The acrylic paintings of Amber Garay explore the range of emotions in
finding and losing love. Drop into Pick Your Flick Video to see how this love
story turns out and how she expresses it in female form, at 74 Cottage Street,
Easthampton. On-street parking and at Cottage Street lot.
-- Marcia
Reed's unique railroad studio opens to show a dazzling array of oils and
watercolors. On-site parking at the studio, 1 Railroad Street, across from the
Verizon Building.
-- It's living art and gallery art. Off The Map Tattoo
invites Art Walk guests to come observe live tattooing as it is created, and to
enjoy the 2-d art collection along the walls. Come satisfy your curiosity about
this art form. Off The Map Tattoo can be found on the map at 112 Cottage Street,
Easthampton. On-street parking and at Cottage Street lot.
Learn more
about the February 10 Art Walk at www.ArtWalkEasthampton.org
“Land
Visions” at the Elusie Gallery in Easthampton’s Old Town Hall
Opening
Reception February 10th from 5 to 8pm
 Close to
40 artists respond to the Eastmont Art Fund’s Call to help Save Echodale
Farm!
Jill Lewis and Jean-Pierre Pasche of the Eastmont Art Fund had
approached the Pascommuck Conservation Trust last fall with a innovative
proposition to help raise funds and awareness to their Save Echodale Farm
Campaign, through the creation of a juried exhibition open to any Pioneer Valley
Artists.
Entitled “Land Visions” this exhibition will take place at
the Elusie Gallery in Easthampton’s Old Town Hall from February 3rd through
March 17th with the opening reception and Jury’s selection announcement on
February 10th from 5 to 8pm.
A notable Jury will review all the
submitted entries and select one piece of art, from which a series of Limited
Edition Prints will be published. That Limited Edition Print will be given to
donors for a $150.00 contribution. Most original artwork exhibited will also be
available for sale. Proceeds from the sale of the L/E print and original artwork
will benefit the PCT’s fundraising campaign as well as the artists whose work
will have sold, unlike traditional fundraisers where artists donate their work
and do not get any compensation for their donation.
“Land Visions”
therefore has dual purpose in the minds of Pasche and Lewis, awareness and
fundraising to help save the Echodale Farm, and celebration and promotion of the
creative talent in the Pioneer Valley.
For more information, please call
Jill or Jean-Pierre at 413-529-9265
FEBRUARY
EVENTS AT THE NCA NEW! -->
Painting workshops with Bob Markey in Febraury
FEBRUARY
EVENTS
Paintings by Robert Markey, which combine the visual and
the conceptual, will be showing in the Northampton Center for the Arts gallery
from February 1-28.
Markey says his work “often speaks about hope,
about humor and about the human condition: what it is and what it could be. Much
of my earlier work was visually brutal, showing the suffering that one group of
people cause to another. My later work pushes this brutality beneath the
surface, showing more the beauty and hope that is possible.”
Markey, who
lives in Ashfield, was born in New York in 1947. He earned his B.S. in physics
from M.I.T in 1969 and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts in 1982. Until 1980, his main focus was music, including
performances on classical guitar and sitar. In 1981, he began to work in the
visual arts and also to study Tae Kwon Do. For the past 25 years, those two
disciplines have been at the center of his life.
On February 18 and
25, Markey will offer workshops from 2 to 5 p.m., "Abstract Painting: A Deeper
Understanding of the Painting Process." The workshops will be inaugural events
in the Center’s newly renovated arts space.
The cost is $80 per session
with 30% to benefit the Center. Participants may sign up for one or both
sessions. Says Markey, "the workshop is about understanding and seeing what
makes a painting work...We will look at the process of creating a painting and
what pushes a painting to be more interesting and how to know when a painting is
finished."
This is a hands-on class. Participants will be working in acrylic
on medium- to large-sized panels or canvases and will find the workshop
relevant, whether their work is abstract or representational.
UNTITLED
& UNBRIDLED the new show
of paintings by Luke J. Cavagnac
 "UNTITLED
& UNBRIDLED"
the new show of paintings by
Luke J.
Cavagnac
Please come to the Opening/Party:
SATURDAY February
10th, 2007
6-9 pm
at
THE INVISIBLE FOUNTAIN
116 Pleasant
Street Suite #206
Eastworks Building
Easthampton MA
01027
413.527.9300
invisiblefountain.com
gallery hours: T&T 11-7,
W&F 11-6, M&Sa 11-4
wine & food & lots of stuff to see
complete show dates: 2/10/07 through 5/11/07
The Invisible Fountain is
where Cavagnac paints and displays his "Art". You'll find approximately 1,000
different paintings on display on any given day. Look for a music night in March
& poetry night in April.
ART FOR ALL & ALL FOR ART
Keith
Hollingworth & Guru Karam Khalsa @ Gallery A3 A two-person
show at Gallery A3 with Keith Hollingworth and Guru Karam Khalsa.
 Keith
Hollingworth and Guru Karam Khalsa at Gallery A3
A two-person show at
Gallery A3 with Keith Hollingworth and Guru Karam Khalsa.
Keith
Hollingworth combines colored plexiglass and found objects in a series of
homages to 20th century artists. "My recent works are constructions using
florescent light and color. Light de-materializes form as color enriches our
world. Combined, they illuminate a spirit. I am interested in the spirit. These
works are titled as homages to art world luminaries."
Migratory birds
and the global environment are at the center of Guru Karam Khalsa’s newest
works. These birds – with associations of nature, spirit or magic – are
presented in the context of global warming. Khalsa explores these images with
nontraditional materials, painting with oils, gouache or ink on cement, wood,
stone and found objects
Exhibition dates: February 1 – 24, 2007.
Opening reception: Thursday, February 1 from 5-8.
Conversations with
Artists: Thursday February 22 at 7:30.
Gallery hours: Wednesday -
Sunday, 12-6 pm.
Gallery A3
28 Amity Street
Amherst Cinema
Building
Amherst, MA
413-256-4250
SPECIAL
THANKS TO REALLY SPECIAL PEOPLE SuperFriends
of Jamoka and this newsletter.
 Special
thanks to the following for donations to this newsletter and to help defray the
costs of Jamoka's hospitalization and treatment.
People just blow me away
sometimes.
Pics
from the Jamoka memorial Bonfire thing, by Jon
Whitney.
If I somehow missed anyone please let me know. I get
scatterbrained lately.
<--Image courtesy of Anna
Slezak.
DEBIN
BRUCE
SUSAN BERGERON-WEST
CHARLES STERN
JANET FRAIDSTERN
MAUREEN
DENNING AND CHARLES ENOS
LARRY SLEZAK
TERRY ROONEY
ANNE BURTON
DEAN
NIMMER
BILL MYERS
KATHLEEN TRESTKA
ANITA HUNT
KATHY SERVICE &
TIM DECHRISTOPHER
DAVID SMITH
JEFF MACK
LYNN PETERFREUND
BRADLEY
FOX
KAREN AXELROD
AACO (AMERICAN ARTS COLLECTIVE ORGANIZATION), In memory
of our artists friends who were victims of AIDS and in honor of Aids Awareness
Day, December 1st
KELSEY FLYNN
LYN HORAN
HILARY PRICE & KERRY
LABOUNTY
BRONWEN HODGKINSON
BRIANA TAYLOR
DORIS MADSEN
BETSY DAWN
WILLIAMS
MARY WITT
JOAN AXELROD-CONTRADA
MAUREEN DENNING AND CHARLES
(Donation made to Humane Society in Jamoka's name)
DARYL LAFLEUR
WEDNESDAY
NELENA SOROKIN
LINDA BATCHELOR
Recent
Paintings by Denis Luzuriaga Saturday,
February 10, 6-9 pm
 Recent
Paintings by Denis Luzuriaga -
Saturday, February 10, 6-9 pm
Your
are invited to attend an exhibition of recent paintings by Denis
Luzuriaga.
For more information visit www.denisluzuriaga.com
Studio
252
116 Pleasant St.
Suite 252
Easthampton, MA
01027
917.304.7997
(In the Eastworks building, second floor, directly
above Blue Moon Grocery)
This exhibition is part of "Gallery Night", a
quarterly event at the Eastworks building. Stay tuned to this fabulous
newsletter for more information.
Pictured: "Mystery Guest" 2007 Oil
on canvas 18 x 24"
Make
Valentines at Wistariahurst Museum Feb. 10,
10am till noon
 Make
Valentines at Wistariahurst Museum
On Saturday, February 10, 10am till
noon, come join Marjorie Latham of Marjidoll.com,
for a fun and creative hands-on workshop crafting valentines in the beautiful
surroundings of Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke.
The cost is $3 per
person or $5 per family.
Materials will be provided.
Wistariahurst
Museum is located at 238 Cabot Street in Holyoke, MA.
For more
information, call Melissa at Wistariahurst; 413 322 5660 or go to www.wistariahurst.org
Winter
Light: An Afternoon of Gabriel Faure Sunday,
February 11, 2007
WHAT:
Concert- Winter Light: An Afternoon of Gabriel Faure
WHERE: Wistariahurst Museum
WHEN: Sunday, February 11, 2007
TIME: 3 p.m.
COST: $10
Chamber Music at Wistariahurst Concert Series
Presents Winter Light: An Afternoon of Gabriel Faure
Wistariahurst welcomes music lovers to spend the afternoon
in the intimate setting of Belle Skinner's Music Room on
Sunday, February 11 at 3 p.m. for a concert of Gabriel Faure.
Gabriel Faure's "Requiem" is one of the all-time favorite
pieces of classical music. Less well known is his chamber
music, which is equally rich in harmony, sensual and elegant.
This second concert in the "Chamber Music at Wistariahurst"
series will present leading Pioneer Valley musicians and
guest artists in a program that includes a rarely heard
setting of Faure's song cycle "La Bonne Chanson" with accompaniment
arranged for piano and string quartet, and featuring tenor
Peter W. Shea; noted pianists Nigel Boxe and Estela Olevsky,
in solo pieces and pieces for piano, four-hands; the harpist
Franzisk Huhn in "La chatelaine en sa tour"; and three choral
selections with the Schubertiad Chorus, directed by Jane
Hanson, including the well known "Pavane" and the "Cantique
de Jean Racine." Flutist Maria Scotera, mezzo-soprano Jane
and bass-baritone David Perkins will also participate in
several pieces, with Ed Rosser pianist. The program will
be given in period costume, with narration by Mr. Perkins.
A feast of "fin de siecle" music, of just the sort that
was enjoyed at the time Belle Skinner built her music room
at Wistariahurst, which provides the perfect setting. Tickets
are $10
Wistariahurst Museum is dedicated to preserving Holyoke's
history and inspiring an appreciation of history and culture
through educational programs, exhibits and special events.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Wistariahurst
is the former home of William Skinner, a prominent silk
manufacturer. The Museum is open for guided tours every
Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 12-4pm. For more information
or a schedule of other upcoming events, please visit our
website at www.wistariahurst.org
or call us at 413.322.5660.
FOUR GRAND
LADIES BY DAVID BOWERMAN @ STCC A reception
to “Meet the Ladies” (and the artist) will be held on Wednesday, February 7 from
noon to 2:00 p.m.
 Four
Grand Ladies of Springfield to be featured in Art Exhibit at
STCC
Four grand ladies of Springfield will be honored in a
multi-ethnic art exhibit at Springfield Technical Community College during Black
History Month. “They have all arrived at who they are with a tremendous amount
of dignity,” says artist David Bowerman, who created the portraits. He noted
that all four ladies, who have been important to the life of Springfield and its
children, have had some relation to both teaching and to music.
The
ladies have been interviewed by students from Diane Mackie’s creative writing
class at Springfield Central High School, to create the identifications that
will go with each portrait. The students are Melissa Bryll, a senior, who
interviewed Dorothy Pryor; Alicia Hinton, a senior who talked with Jo Woolridge;
Alexa Wilson, a senior who met with Georgia Sawyier; and junior George Bowerman,
who interviewed Teddy Bernstein.
A reception to “Meet the Ladies” (and
the artist) will be held on Wednesday, February 7 from noon to 2:00 p.m. on the
campus of STCC. The reception, and the exhibit, will be held in the Amy H.
Carberry Fine Arts Gallery in building 28, lower level. The public is invited to
enjoy the exhibit, and the reception, at no charge.
The exhibit will
be held from January 30 through March 3. Gallery hours are Tuesday through
Friday, 12:30 to 4:30, and Saturdays 10:00 to 2:00.
LINDA
BATCHELOR & ELIZABETH MOSS @ HOSMER GALLERY Reception
Feb. 14 6-8 PM
 LINDA
BATCHELOR
"PERMUTATIONS OF LOVE" & “SURRENDER”, PAINTINGS by ELIZABETH
MOSS
February 2nd 27th, 200
7 Opening reception Feb.
14
Wednesday, 6 to 8 p.m.
www.LindaBatchelor-art.com
Elisabeth
Moss has been creating art since childhood. Her acrylic & collage paintings
reflect a dynamic process between color, form, emotion and intuitive directives
from within. Her work has been described as visionary & shamanic. “Painting
is a practice, intimately connected to my own breath & life. Continually a
student ~ I am humbled over and over, by the simplicity of authenticity-which
asks me to just show up, be real, and let go of the result.
“SURRENDER”
PAINTINGS by Elisabeth Moss honoring the practice of letting go to love and
trusting it unfolds from the present moment.
“Artists know that on the
deepest level the work does not originate with the self, rather it is an
offering” ~ Lewis Hyde “The Gift
DWIGHT
SMITH'S MOVIE PICS Dreamland
(2006)
 Dreamland
(2006)
Directed by Jason Matzner, written by Tom Willett Starring Agnes
Bruckner as Audrey, Kelli Garner as Calista, John Corbett as Henry, Justin Long
as Mookie.
This is a tight and exquisite first film by director Jason
Matzner. Mostly it is shot in a Nevada desert trailer park called Dreamland with
pale colours that suggest those in between places we find ourselves where we are
no longer who we were but are not yet who we will be, awaiting the catalyst that
will propel us from our lethargic uncertainty. It’s about 18 year old Audrey
(Agnes Bruckner) who has a habit of sacrificing her needs for those around her,
her father’s grief, her best friend’s illness, but who is forced to realize that
if she doesn’t take care of herself, she will have nothing more to offer. It’s
about how when we assume responsibility for who we are and what we truly need
than others are equally inspired to rise to higher places within themselves.
There is a simplicity and beauty to this film that leaves an indelible mark on
the soul.
NOTE:
I want to invite anyone who sees a film that they think others on this list
might like to hear about to let me know. I welcome recommendations since as I
hope I’ve made clear elsewhere, I don’t see them all and I’m no
expert.
Send me an email at wadwight@videotron.ca. If I can swing it,
I’ll see the film and if I agree (it is my column after all right!?) I’ll write
about it but either way I will share your recommendation. I promise.
BREAK INTO
THE INTERNATIONAL ART WORLD Limited
space left in conference
 Learn how to
break into the international art world. Join leading figures from around the
world to hear about long- and short- term international residency opportunities
for artists (working in every medium) as well as biennales and other global
exhibition possibilities.
Register early to ensure your participation in
this weekend-long event.
Come meet, network with and have your work seen
by the conference’s distinguished curators, critics and panelists. This is an
excellent resource for professional development. Advance conference
registration, which includes admission to all the panels, networking events and
a private one-on-one consultation with one of the conference’s international
guests, curators or critics is $150 All advance registrations must be received
by February 1, 2007.
Click on http://transculturalexchange.org/conference_2007.htm
for schedule of talks, details and to register.
Location:
Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave; Massachusetts College of Art, 621
Huntington Ave., Boston; Satellite Venue (Sunday Panel) MIT, Cambridge.
TransCultural Exchange would like to thank the LEF Foundation; McDougal
Littell, a Division of Houghton Mifflin Company; Fred Johnson; Northeastern
University; and Massachusetts College of Art for their support of the
conference.
www.artspacefinder.com a free
online directory of artist spaces in Massachusetts supported by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council
 Hi
There!
Did you know you can now list your gallery on www.artspacefinder.com,
a free online directory of artist spaces in Massachusetts supported by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council. It a new easy way to let artists know about your
gallery and how they might contact you.
This new service is part of
ArtistLink, an initiative to help artists connect with their communities by
helping them to find places to live, work and exhibit.
We would greatly
appreciate your help in contributing to this growing resource. To add a listing
for your space on www.artspacefinder.com,
simply create a free account and place a post in the "Directory of Artist
Space".
Please be sure to make your listing as detailed as possible as
this will help artists navigate the expectations and requirements of individual
galleries. Posting on the network allows both artists and gallery owners alike
to connect with each other, and makes communication and cooperation easy and
efficient.
If you have any questions about this new service, feel free
to contact us.
Thank you for your help.
Best Regards,
The
ArtistLink Team
617.727.3668
artistlink@artistlink.org
www.artistlink.org
www.artspacefinder.com
Spread
the word! Tell other art organizations, businesses and artists in your area
about www.artspacefinder.com!
Radical
Living Papers Alternative
and underground publications and art (1960 - 1975)
 GBE @
Passerby is pleased to present
Radical Living Papers Alternative and
underground publications and art (1960 - 1975)
February 2 - March
20 2007
GBE @ Passerby 436 West 15th Street NYC 10011
Gallery
hours: Thursday - Saturday 1- 6 pm
The Council for the Fortieth
Anniversary of The Summer of Love with Gavin Brown’s enterprise opens and
invites you to an exhibition of the world’s most radical living papers from a
time when the press took risks and voiced opinions.
Celebrating the
heyday of alternative magazine publishing in Europe and America, Gavin Brown’s
enterprise at Passerby opens an exhibition of more than two hundred original
copies, as well as reproductions of these seminal and obscure publications,
whose influence reverberates through culture, politics, and society.
Covering politics, revolutions, evolutions of the planets, freak-outs,
love-ins, support of green politics, gay liberation, power to the people, the
peace parties, protests, the Panthers, peyote, LSD, pot, fiction, music, poetry,
prose, prayers and more. Publications include: Actuel, Avatar, Berkeley Barb,
Berkeley Tribe, Black Panther Papers, Digger Papers, Door, East Village Other
[EVO], The Fifth Estate, Freep, Grabuge, Hobo-Québec, International Times [it],
Los Angeles Free Press, The Oracle, The Organ, Other Scenes, OZ, Rat, The
Realist, Re Nudo, Rolling Stone, The Seed, Ann Arbor Sun....more.
Please
note: A press conference to the unified, positive forces, actively involved in
the community will be held at 6pm on Friday, February 2, 2007, with active
members of today’s free press.
Curated by Eva Prinz, Dan Donahue, and
Thurston Moore.
About the curators: Dan Donahue is a musician and
designer, whose collections of books, records, clothing, and ephemera of
twentieth-century pop culture have inspired numerous books, exhibits, and
records. Eva Prinz is a writer and book editor based in New York. She has edited
artists’ monographs, exhibition catalogues, surveys, and illustrated books.
Thurston Moore is founding member of the rock group Sonic Youth, as well as a
published poet. His books include Alabama Wildman, Fuck a Hippie, But Be a Punk
, and Total Poon. He also runs EcstaticPeace.com, a music, art, and literature
website.
Media sponsors include: Arthur (Los Angeles) Tokion (New York,
Tokyo) Beer sponsor: Brahma
GBE @ Passerby
gallery@gavinbrown.biz
436 West 15th Street
New York NY 10011
212.627.5258
The Robert
Floyd Photo Gallery is extending
the current photo exhibit.
The Robert
Floyd Photo Gallery is extending the current photo exhibit
"Sky and
Stone: Images of the Southwest" by Ms. Erin Kassis through Sunday, February 18.
Yesterday's Opening Reception drew 36 visitors under adverse weather conditions
and the New England Patriots game!
Erin Kassis is exhibiting (13)
thirteen black and white photographs created with her medium format film camera.
Dramatic scenes of the cliffs, mountains and the ever changing sky. A Smith
College freshman, Erin was the newspaper photo editor at Williston Academy. She
has won prizes for her artwork and has delivered several Gallery Talks. The
artist exposed and printed the images herself tin the traditional wet darkroom
to share her interpretation of our South West lands. She resides in Southampton.
"The images in Sky and Stone attempt to recreate the power that the
Southwest landscape holds. This beauty is the result of the extensive natural
history of the region. Each technical decision...to use a red filter to
highlight the contrast in the clouds or to alter the exposure to portray the
richness of the rock...was made to capture the emotion in these ancient places."
__Erin Kassis
"She does much better work than I did when I was her age."
__Paul Wainwright, another former photography editor for the Willistonian and
winner of Photography's esteemed Lucie Award.
"Gorgeous!"_Diana Mara
Henry, Photojournalist, former photographer for the Harvard Crimson and
collected in the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the National
Archives and the Schlesinger Library.
"Once in a awhile, a strong and
creative talent emerges. For most, it takes a lifetime; Erin has arrived and she
is only 18 years old!__Robert Floyd, Photojournalist, Gallery Owner
Exhibit will run from JAN 2 thru FEB 18, 2007 Gallery Hours: TU, SA and
SU, 1 PM to 6 PM Also by Chance/Appointment
Closing Reception: FEB 11,
2007. 1 - 6 PM Gallery Talk (FEB 11) at 3 PM. Refreshments will be
served.
RESOURCES
FOR ARTISTS
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"A.R.T.S. Anonymous is a 12 step recovery group for artists of all
kinds and at all levels. We meet every Monday from 6:30 to 8pm in Room 230 at
Wright Hall on the Smith College campus. No dues or fees. For more information
call 413.527.5215."
Northampton Playwright's Lab at Forbes Library
Northampton
Playwrights' Lab is a group for playwrights of all levels of experience and
everyone is welcome. Participants can sign up to bring their work-in progress
(short plays, one-acts, and full-length) to be read aloud by other lab members
or actors. Members will offer one another constructive feedback, support, and
criticism in the development of new plays. The group does occasional public
performances.
The NPL meets regularly on the second and fourth Wednesday
of the month. The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 14th at
6:30 in the Watson Room. For further information, please contact Meryl Cohn:
msbehavior@aol.com
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CALLS FOR
ARTISTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
NOTE: I cull this information from many sources and it is really time
consuming to add it and format each line of text. So I apologize if at times
there is expired information here. Some weeks I don't have time to get to this
section. ~Mo Deadline February 1, 2007 The *Artist in Research*
program seeks to support artists involved in the early stages of projects that
require investigation, dialogue, and support from an artistic community. The AIR
Program is particularly interested in working with artists whose work explores
contemporary and experimental genres such as electronics, sound, installation,
performance, film, video, and other time-based media. The AIR Program supports
projects that have already been conceptualized, but need time, money and
critical feedback to complete. This residency is most appropriate for
individuals or groups who wish to explore the potential for collaboration and
creative exchange with peers working in a wide range of media. Regularly
scheduled critiques, open studios, closing events and our web forum provide
residents with opportunities for critical feedback from curators, artists,
scholars and members of the public. Artists in Research are encouraged to focus
their efforts on exploration and the processes of innovative art-making rather
than the completion of a finished product. Please visit the "AIR" section of
www.berwickinstitute.org
to learn more about past AIR artists and the
types of projects we are interested in and are able to support.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deadline February 5, 2007
SEEKING ARTIST'S PROPOSALS FOR SUMMER RESIDENCY As a Blue Sky Project
Artist-In-Residence, you will cross-pollinate with other practicing artists,
collaborate with teens, expand your ideas and add artistic breadth and depth to
the McHenry County community. Artists gather for eight weeks from mid-June to
mid August in McHenry County, located 60 miles from downtown Chicago. Your
recent studio practice and new ideas should provide the foundation for your
activities. Stipend: $6000 Additional $1000 working budget per project, that
does not go to the artist, for supplies, materials to implement project, etc..
Does not include costs associated with preparing project for exhibition, which
are covered by the project. Deadline for application is February 5, 2007.
Contact: Blue Sky Project OR http://www.blueskyart.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deadline September 1, 2007
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM Seeking visual artists, writers, and
composers for 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-wk-long residencies, Jan 1 - Jun 15, 2008. Free
housing and studio space and a $100/wk stipend. For application and complete
guidelines please contact: Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, 801 3rd
Corso, Nebraska City NE 68410 OR 402-874-9600 OR
http://www.KHNCenterfortheArts.org OR info@KHNCenterfortheArts.org
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MARK YOUR CALENDARS: JOIN
TRANSCULTURAL EXCHANGE IN BOSTON FROM APRIL 27 TO APRIL 29, 2007 FOR THE
CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ARTS
http://transculturalexchange.org/conference_2007.htm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deadline Februray 15, 2007.
Bazaar Productions/The Berkshire Fringe is now accepting submissions of dynamic
works of theater, dance and mutli-media performance for its 2007 season. The
third annual festival held in Great Barrington, MA will present 21 days of
original performances, free workshops, and artist discussions by and with
emerging artists from across the United States. The Berkshire Fringe provides a
unique opportunity for emerging and early-career artists from around the country
to present work in a fresh and exciting atmosphere. Founded in 2003 by a
cohort of Berkshire natives and graduates of Simon's Rock College, Bazaar
Productions, Inc (Sara Kathryn Katzoff, Timothy Ryan Olson and Peter Wise) aims
to fill a growing need in the community for exciting new work at affordable
ticket prices. The Berkshire Fringe continues to grow into a bustling community
and has featured more than two dozen new works and events that have blended
genres, represented new styles, and delved into traditions underrepresented in
the mainstream. In 2007 the festival will take place during July and August
and will invite six companies or individuals to participate. Performers from all
backgrounds and disciplines are strongly encouraged to apply. Bazaar Productions
is also dedicated to focusing funds and resources to create an exemplary
experience for all participating artists. The festival is scheduled so that
performers can see each other's work, can participate in each other's workshops
and can share ideas and experiences. These initiatives establish a center for
artistic exchange while providing accessible, affordable and unparalleled
cultural enrichment to the community. Perspective or interested applicants
may visit www.berkshirefringe.org
for more information and to obtain an application. Inquiries can be answered
by e-mailing co-artistic director Sara Katzoff at sara(at)berkshirefringe.org or
calling the offices of Bazaar Productions at (413) 320-4175. The deadline for
applications is Februray 15, 2007. All applications must be received by February
15, 2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DEADLINE FEBRUARY 24, 2007
“Sixth Annual Women in History
Month Juried Photo Exhibit” March 1 – March 30
WHO: All Pioneer
Valley Women (all ages) residents eligible.
WHAT: Juried Photo
Contest
THEME: Environmental Portraiture. “An environmental portrait supplies
enough details with props and choice of background to share with and present to
the viewer something about the lifestyle of the person. In an environmental
portrait, the subject is photographed at home, at the office, or on location,
whichever best portrays the person's story. Far from the posed safe studio
portrait with a seamless background, an environmental portrait positions the
subject amid everyday objects of her life. Tell her story! She can live
anywhere!
WHERE: Robert Floyd Photo Gallery, Southampton, MA (Rt. 10)
WHEN: Submission deadline Saturday, FEB 24, 5:00 pm
WHY: $350 cash prize
for first place. Cash and merchant awards for 2nd and 3rd place.
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images selected for exhibit. Also, the 3 winning entries will remain on exhibit,
another month, through April 29. Exhibit heavily publicized with name of
exhibitors to all media outlets.
Deadline - Ongoing *Three Rivers Community College Reviewing Work for
Exhibitions, CT Three Rivers Community College in Norwich Connecticut is
accepting portfolios to review for 1-to-2 month exhibitions. No fee. For
consideration, sent 10-20 slides, resume, statement, and return postage to:
Sandra Jeknavorian, Instructor of Art, Three Rivers Community College, Thames
Valley Campus, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich CT, 06360 /
SJeknavorian@trcc.commnet.edu
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Ongoing GALLERY A3 SEEKING NEW MEMBERS- SUBMIT ONLINE FOR ART
WALK EASTHAMPTON
Art Walk Easthampton, a monthly, self-guided walking
tour of arts and culture, has added a proposal page to its website where visual,
music and performance artists can outline what they would like to show or
perform if given the opportunity.
All the locations that participate in
Art Walk Easthampton can view the submissions for possible inclusion in an
upcoming event. The talent describes the work, provides images, identifies the
types of venues they would like to be in, the dates they are available and
provides contact information. If there's a match between the submission and the
venue's interest, the venue contacts the talent directly to handle booking
arrangements.
The proposal form is available at www.ArtWalkEasthampton.org
and is open to all local and regional artists.
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ONGOING
An offer from Joe
Blumenthal of Downtown Sounds who generously would like to have artists display
their work there. (Downtown Sounds, 21 Pleasant St., Northampton, next to the
Pleasant St. Theater)
The window is quite large, and has three panels,
each one about 6' X 6', and is about 24" deep. It is exposed to intense sunlight
in the morning; the heat of the sun plus the narrowness of the window make it
inappropriate to display most musical instruments.
However, the sunlight
doesn't hurt most artwork since it's only exposed for a month to six weeks. I
normally pay $150 to the artist who installs the window, and work out a
consignment agreement for the store to take a percentage of the price if the art
is for sale and we manage to sell some of it.
The artwork can be
freestanding, lean against a wall at the back of the window that's about three
feet high, or (if it's not heavy) be hung from the ceiling.
It's great when
the art can have a musical theme, but it's not necessary. Because of its highly
visible commercial location, the work should have a mainstream appeal and not
have themes which could be offensive. Small pieces don't work well since the
window is so large.
If one of your readers is interested in displaying
in this context, please have them contact me via email:
musician@downtownsounds.com, or via phone at 413-
586-0998.
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ONGOING.
New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs + Image Registry The New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) is the largest public funder of arts and
culture in the country. The Percent for Art artist slide registry is an
up-to-date and important component of the Program. The registry is consulted by
the architects, panelists, and City agencies for each project. The Percent for
Art staff prepares a slide presentation from the registry for each panel
meeting. The registry is open to any professional visual artist residing in the
United States. Deadline: On-going Information: www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/
slide_reg.shtml
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Senior SymposiaBob Barba, Associate Dean for Community
Education announces the Senior Symposia at GCC Spring 2007 program which
includes an exceptional program of art historical and environmental topics.
These popular and professional courses are traditionally open to those age 50
and older, however space permitting, all are welcome. Check out the listings
at: http://www.gcc.mass.edu/community_education/senior_symposia.html
PATRICK
DONNELLY POETRY WORKSHOPS
TWO WORKSHOPS, SPRING 2007
WORKSHOP
#1:
POETRY PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
10 meetings: 2/17 - 4/21
SATURDAY
AFTERNOONS, 2 - 4 PM
A.P.E., Third Floor/Thornes Market
150 Main
Street
Northampton, MA
This workshop will focus particularly on
building the oral skills to read poetry aloud in public, BUT will include
activities and exercises designed to foster both the writing and reading of
poetry. This workshop will conclude with a reading by participants on April
21st, to which the public will be invited.
WORKSHOP #2:
POETRY
WRITING WORKSHOP
10 meetings: 2/22, 3/1, 8, 22, 29, 4/5, 12,
19
THURSDAY NIGHTS, 7 - 9 PM
SOUTH DEERFIELD, MA
plus: 2 SATURDAY
AFTERNOONS, Generative Writing Session, 3/17 @ A.P.E in Northampton, 1 - 4
PM
Special Extended Session, 4/28 in South Deerfield 2 - 5: 30
Each
week, the format of the workshop will include:
--a short discussion on a
topic of poetic craft;
--discussion of members' own poems;
--some outside
reading.
Cost of each workshop: $300 ($30 per session)
INSTRUCTOR:
PATRICK DONNELLY, an Associate Editor at Four Way Books, has taught writing at
Smith College, New School University, Clark University, and the Bread Loaf
Writers' Conference. His collection of poems is The Charge (Ausable Press,
2003).
To register, contact: PatrickSDonnelly@aol.com
56 Hillside
Road, South Deerfield, MA 01373-9770
413-665-3325
Zany
Performance Art Weekend at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield,
MA
March 2-4, 2007
Learning to master multi-disciplinary performance
through movement, singing, sounding, and the spoken word.
Facilitated by
Rythea Lee and Rose Oceania
A great gift to give yourself if you've been
wanting to dive into the creative process and get to know other adventurous
people.
We will lead participants through a supportive journey of
autobiographical storytelling, clowning and character development, state
changing, and sourcing spontaneous creations. We offer theatrical and movement
based structures that bust through logical thinking into the realm of weird,
absurd, expansive, beautiful art making.
As a dance theatre company, we
have developed an in-depth approach into heart based, embodied performance. Fun
homework and assignments are an important part of this series.
Go to
www.earthdance.net to register (don't delay)
Call 413-586-7390 ext.1 for
info about any of the above programs.
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