Community Calendar

Ever wondered how an image appears without a camera, a screen, or a filter? This November, Northampton artist Nikki Gardner is bringing one of photography's oldest and most magical processes into the community — and you get to make something with your own hands.
Cyanotype printing uses iron-based chemistry and UV light to create striking blue-and-white prints on fabric and paper. It was invented in 1842. It still feels like alchemy.
Join Nikki for two hands-on workshops at Northampton Center for the Arts. On November 1, you'll print an original design on a canvas tote bag. On November 15, you'll create a cyanotype print on watercolor paper and fold it into a handmade zine. Both sessions include a live chemistry demo, all materials, and a finished piece of art to take home. No experience needed. Ages 8 and up welcome.
Sunday, November 1 — Cyanotype Tote Bag
Sunday, November 15 — Cyanotype Print & Zine
10am–12pm both dates. $45 per workshop or $75 for both.
Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley St.
Register: hello@nikkigardnerstudio.com

Sewing is a life skill, an art form, a craft, a meditation, and a way of self-expression and creativity. And whether you are brand new to sewing or you've been at it for years, at Grove House Sewing Studio you have the opportunity to make and learn within a supportive, joyful, cozy, and colorful space where you get all the support you need and want. Classes are small, the studio has tons of natural light and large cutting tables, and the teaching is tailored to each person's needs and learning styles.

Come take a class that best suites your current sewing level and ambitions. Late Fall classes begin in early November so register now!

6 week workshop
Tuesdays, 5–7pm starting Oct 13th
$175, $157.50 Member’s Price (all materials included)
Instructor: Michelle Hawran

Put your art skills to use with an array of challenging projects, giving you a chance to grow and practice as an artist. Recommended you have either taken our beginners and intermediate programs, or have prior art experience.

10/13: Acrylic Glazing
10/20: Acrylic Glazing
10/27: Charcoal Portraits
11/3: Charcoal Portraits
11/10: Stamp Making
11/17: Stamp Making

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Michelle Hawran is an artist born and raised in Windsor, CT. Since graduating with a BFA from the University of Connecticut in 2016, Michelle splits her time between creating colorful paintings of her own family’s past, crafting meaningful commissions for her clients of their own memories, and teaching all mediums of art at the Windsor Art Center and serving as their Programs & Marketing Coordinator.

The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum presents A Reading Frederick Douglass Together Book Club, with sessions facilitated by Dr. Ousmane K. Power-Greene on October 10th and Dr. Nick Bromell on November 7th at 12:15pm. Book club materials will be available for pick up at the event and online, and sessions will be held at the Hadley Public Library at 50 Middle St, Hadley, MA 01035. Register at the ticketing link for the free book club, and find out more about this and other programming at www.pphmuseum.org/events.

Sunday, November 8th, 11-2pm
$50, $45 Member’s Price (plus a $35 bring a friend rate!)
For ages 13+ (all participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult)

Spend a fun fall day crafting with your best friend! Local artist Ayana Williams will lead students through creating pom pom “flowers” of all sizes and colors to put together a unique fall bouquet! Each bouquet will come with your choice of thrifted vase. To encourage crafting alongside a friend or family member, WAC Studios is now offering a “bring a friend rate” with each regular or members’ ticket purchased. Creating art beside a friend is always better than by yourself!

Sewing is a life skill, an art form, a craft, a meditation, and a way of self-expression and creativity. And whether you are brand new to sewing or you've been at it for years, at Grove House Sewing Studio you have the opportunity to make and learn within a supportive, joyful, cozy, and colorful space where you get all the support you need and want. Classes are small, the studio has tons of natural light and large cutting tables, and the teaching is tailored to each person's needs and learning styles.

Come take a class that best suites your current sewing level and ambitions. Late Fall classes begin in early November so register now!

6 week workshop
Tuesdays, 5–7pm starting Oct 13th
$175, $157.50 Member’s Price (all materials included)
Instructor: Michelle Hawran

Put your art skills to use with an array of challenging projects, giving you a chance to grow and practice as an artist. Recommended you have either taken our beginners and intermediate programs, or have prior art experience.

10/13: Acrylic Glazing
10/20: Acrylic Glazing
10/27: Charcoal Portraits
11/3: Charcoal Portraits
11/10: Stamp Making
11/17: Stamp Making

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Michelle Hawran is an artist born and raised in Windsor, CT. Since graduating with a BFA from the University of Connecticut in 2016, Michelle splits her time between creating colorful paintings of her own family’s past, crafting meaningful commissions for her clients of their own memories, and teaching all mediums of art at the Windsor Art Center and serving as their Programs & Marketing Coordinator.

Ever wondered how an image appears without a camera, a screen, or a filter? This November, Northampton artist Nikki Gardner is bringing one of photography's oldest and most magical processes into the community — and you get to make something with your own hands.
Cyanotype printing uses iron-based chemistry and UV light to create striking blue-and-white prints on fabric and paper. It was invented in 1842. It still feels like alchemy.
Join Nikki for two hands-on workshops at Northampton Center for the Arts. On November 1, you'll print an original design on a canvas tote bag. On November 15, you'll create a cyanotype print on watercolor paper and fold it into a handmade zine. Both sessions include a live chemistry demo, all materials, and a finished piece of art to take home. No experience needed. Ages 8 and up welcome.
Sunday, November 1 — Cyanotype Tote Bag
Sunday, November 15 — Cyanotype Print & Zine
10am–12pm both dates. $45 per workshop or $75 for both.
Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley St.
Register: hello@nikkigardnerstudio.com

Sewing is a life skill, an art form, a craft, a meditation, and a way of self-expression and creativity. And whether you are brand new to sewing or you've been at it for years, at Grove House Sewing Studio you have the opportunity to make and learn within a supportive, joyful, cozy, and colorful space where you get all the support you need and want. Classes are small, the studio has tons of natural light and large cutting tables, and the teaching is tailored to each person's needs and learning styles.

Come take a class that best suites your current sewing level and ambitions. Late Fall classes begin in early November so register now!

6 week workshop
Tuesdays, 5–7pm starting Oct 13th
$175, $157.50 Member’s Price (all materials included)
Instructor: Michelle Hawran

Put your art skills to use with an array of challenging projects, giving you a chance to grow and practice as an artist. Recommended you have either taken our beginners and intermediate programs, or have prior art experience.

10/13: Acrylic Glazing
10/20: Acrylic Glazing
10/27: Charcoal Portraits
11/3: Charcoal Portraits
11/10: Stamp Making
11/17: Stamp Making

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Michelle Hawran is an artist born and raised in Windsor, CT. Since graduating with a BFA from the University of Connecticut in 2016, Michelle splits her time between creating colorful paintings of her own family’s past, crafting meaningful commissions for her clients of their own memories, and teaching all mediums of art at the Windsor Art Center and serving as their Programs & Marketing Coordinator.