Community Calendar

Next Stage: A Performing Arts Networking Event
April 13, 6-8pm

CitySpace presents Next Stage, bringing together artists, presenters, producers, managers, and creative entrepreneurs for a candid conversation about building sustainable careers in the performing arts. Participants at all stages of their professional journey are welcome to join the exchange.

5:30pm: Arrivals & open networking time

6pm: Q&A with industry professionals

7pm: Field-specific breakout sessions

Featured panelists include:

Ezekiel Baskin, Silverthorne Theater Company & Play Incubation Collective

Olana Flynn, Assets4Artists & LOCULUS

Edo Mor, Secret Planet Live

Dr. Priscilla Maria Page, Valley Jazz Shares & UMass Amherst Theater Faculty

For those in need: a travel stipend is available via application.

Register at cityspaceeasthampton.org

Supported in part by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts and Mass Cultural Council through the Easthampton Cultural Council.

The Remnant and The Echo, Ligia Bouton

Opening Reception on Thursday, April 16, 4:30 - 6:30pm at Pegasus Gallery

Sheldon Krevit has had a long and distinguished career. A painter, Mr. Krevit’s work has been included in curated exhibitions with Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, William Bailey, and Barkley L. Hendricks. For Meeting of the Spirits the artist will be showing a dozen, critically acclaimed paintings, and one framed drawing. Some of the work was painted in the artist’s New Haven studio, before his move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in December of 2004, where he painted most of the others, including Meeting of the Spirits. The artist, currently resides in Hamden, CT.

Evident in Krevit’s work is a love of painting, and an ongoing involvement with the nature of perception, with the organic continuum of the microcosmic and macrocosmic.

Mr. Krevit is a graduate of The Philadelphia College of Art and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His work is represented in public, private, and corporate collections. See more about Krevit’s work at https://www.sheldonkrevit.com

Pegasus Gallery is located within the library on the first floor of Chapman Hall. Hours: Monday - Thursday: 8:30 am - 7 pm, Friday: 8:30 – 4pm.
The Niche is in Founders Hall, across from the Enrollment Services Office. Hours: Monday - Thursday 7:30 am - 5 pm: Fridays 8 am - 4pm.

Featuring work by the following senior Studio Art majors: Ilana Diddams, Rowan Howe, Joan Kobayashi, Isa Norris-Howard, Sarah Seligman, and Eloise Van Meter.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 10, 2026 at 4-6 p.m.

This exhibition will explore movement as an integral throughline in Kwame Brathwaite’s work—one that spans his deep engagement with social and political movements and his keen attention to the body in motion. Brathwaite’s images intimate the powerful and transformative ways that action can convey joy, beauty, strength, and hope, even in charged moments.

Brathwaite (1938-2023) is perhaps most recognized for photographs celebrating Black beauty and excellence in fashion, music, and athletics. His studio portraits and concert photography like his documentation of historic marches, the everyday life of residents in Harlem and The Bronx, and of athletes such as Muhammad Ali convey the power of the body as a symbol of cultural strength, resilience, and pan-African solidarity. Through a selection of original and new prints from archival negatives, the exhibition will offer an opportunity to experience the breadth of his work and its resonance today.

Curated in close partnership with Brathwaite’s son and daughter-in-law, Kwame and Robynn Brathwaite (Amherst College Class of 1996 and 1998, respectively), Revolutionary Movements will expand stories about the artist's work and its international circulation.

Kwame Brathwaite: Revolutionary Movements is made possible by Teiger Foundation.

JooYoung Choi is an astro-futurist artist whose expansive practice blends autobiography and invention. For over a decade, Choi's work has centered on developing narratives within a highly structured imaginary realm known as the Cosmic Womb.

Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer brings together early and recent paintings, a sculptural installation, and video works that chronicle one character's journey of self-discovery. Long known as Nina Blue, the Quantum Soup Surfer first appeared in the Cosmic Womb as a professional imaginary friend, contributing to the journeys of several legendary heroes of the Cosmic Womb.

The exhibition follows Nina Blue's passage from supporting character to protagonist. She emerges as the Quantum Soup Surfer--a celestial superhero and thoughtful navigator who channels the spiritual energy of water to brave uncharted territories and share her story of resilience.

Inspired by the Cosmic Womb's motto--"Have Faith for You have Always Been Loved"--this exhibition foregrounds imagination, curiosity, and art as tools for resilience that have been significant for Nina Blue's transformation into the Quantum Soup Surfer and the hero of this story.

Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer is made possible by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.

William Baczek Fine Arts, in Northampton, Massachusetts is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Robert Sweeney. The exhibition will be on display from Wednesday, March 18 through Saturday, April 25, 2026. The public is invited to an opening reception with the artist on Saturday, March 21 from 4 – 6 pm.

The Friends of the Westfield Athenaeum is seeking donations of gently used adult and children’s books, DVDs, and jigsaw puzzles for their upcoming book sale. Donations will only be accepted by curbside drop-off at the back door of the First United Methodist Church, 16 Court St., Westfield, during the weeks of April 6-11 and April 13-18 as follows: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10-1; Tuesday and Thursday from 4-7, and Saturday from 9-12.
Please note that we cannot accept musty or damaged books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, textbooks, Reader’s Digest books, or outdated manuals, travel books, or self-help books.
The book sale will be held at the Church on Thursday, April 23, 10-7; Friday, April 24, 10-5; and Saturday, April 25, 10-2. On Thursday only, we are offering a $5.00 discount for educators (bring your ID!) and new Friends members joining at the door.
The Friends of the Westfield Athenaeum is an all-volunteer 501(C)3 not-for-profit organization that supports the programs and services of the Westfield Athenaeum.

Call for artwork
Science, technology, engineering, art, math, an exhibit inspired by and incorporating the sciences.
Exhibit runs April 3 - May 17, 2026
With special events, demos, and fun activities during the course of the exhibit.
Contact margedvaa@gmail.com by March 20 with your interest.

Professor Robert Frank of Yale University will deliver the 2026 Freeman Lecture in Linguistics on April 14, titled “What Can Computers Teach Us About Human Language Learning and What Can Humans Teach Us About Computer Language Learning?” Presented by the Department of Linguistics in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Professor Frank's talk will take place from 4-5:30PM in the Integrative Learning Center, S240.

Professor Frank is a renowned expert in both computational linguistics and syntax. As part of Yale University’s Computational Linguistics at Yale (CLAY) Lab, his research focuses on the relationships between natural language grammar and notions of mathematical and computational restrictiveness, especially in the domain of syntax. In addition to his groundbreaking work on the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) framework, Professor Frank has also for many years explored the capacity of neural network models to correctly learn subtle properties of syntax (e.g., anaphora and displacement), as well as whether such models can overcome classical arguments from the ‘poverty of the stimulus’.

The Freeman Lecture, held annually at UMass Amherst, is named in honor of the founding head of the linguistics department, Donald C. Freeman, and his wife Margaret Freeman. The talks are designed for a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of students and faculty across campus.

More information about Professor Frank and his lecture can be found on the Department of Linguistics website.