Community Calendar

Name of exhibit: CALL & RESPONSE
Artist: Evelyn Pye
Start Date: July 3, 2025
End Date: August 2, 2025
Reception Date: Thursday, July 3, 5–7:00 pm
Art Forum: July 17, 7:30 pm
Location name: Gallery A3
Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 2–7:00 pm
Address: 28 Amity St. 1D, Amherst, MA
City/Town: Amherst
Website: www.gallerya3.com
Description/info:
In two series of oil paintings on wood panels, Evelyn Pye explores human dimensions of time, space, and scale through a profusion of indoor plant life infused with domestic detail. Small-scale works, from 2013, depict plants that belonged to the artist’s mother. Now, in 2025, Pye tends the plants herself and revisits the paintings with new, scaled-up versions of the originals, approximately doubling the size, plus painting the plants anew at larger scale. In-person Art Forum on July 17.

HADLEY—The Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, with Ancestral Bridges, presents Stories of Slavery and Independence, a remembrance of six enslaved African Americans, Zebulon Prutt, Caesar Phelps and Margaret (Peg) Bowen, and her daughters and granddaughters Roasanna, Phillis, and Phillis. The event is stewarded by Onawumi Jean Moss and Anika Lopes, and features freedom songs with Orice Jenkins, dramatic readings by Frank Roberts College and Olivia Hayes, and a communal reading of Frederick Douglass’s influential address "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?". This commemorative storytelling event and concert is a Reading Frederick Douglass Together Mass Humanities program, and offered on Wednesday, July 30 at 6:00 pm in the Sunken Garden at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, 130 River Drive, Route 47, Hadley MA 01035. Admission for this event is free. Picnickers are welcome on the museum’s grounds starting at 5:00 pm. The museum and its grounds are a smoke-free site. For further information please call (413) 584-4699 or view www.pphmuseum.org.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.

Name of exhibit: CALL & RESPONSE
Artist: Evelyn Pye
Start Date: July 3, 2025
End Date: August 2, 2025
Reception Date: Thursday, July 3, 5–7:00 pm
Art Forum: July 17, 7:30 pm
Location name: Gallery A3
Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 2–7:00 pm
Address: 28 Amity St. 1D, Amherst, MA
City/Town: Amherst
Website: www.gallerya3.com
Description/info:
In two series of oil paintings on wood panels, Evelyn Pye explores human dimensions of time, space, and scale through a profusion of indoor plant life infused with domestic detail. Small-scale works, from 2013, depict plants that belonged to the artist’s mother. Now, in 2025, Pye tends the plants herself and revisits the paintings with new, scaled-up versions of the originals, approximately doubling the size, plus painting the plants anew at larger scale. In-person Art Forum on July 17.

Opening Reception: Cultural Fusion: A Neon Installation Show
Cultural Fusion is an immersive neon installation exploring social issues, isolation, and human connection through light and humor. Artist Bill Myers, whose first installation was at Zone Art Center in 1995, brings his signature fusion of history, satire, and light to this striking exhibition. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno and The Twilight Zone, the show transforms installation art into a bold blend of critique and spectacle. Vivid neon environments invite viewers to navigate thought-provoking spaces, confronting inequality and shared experiences with both intensity and whimsy. This unforgettable showcase redefines social commentary through light, humor, and history. This show will run from March 23, 2025 - August 10, 2025.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.

The Canton Artists’ Guild began in 1960 and has been continuously operating ever since, making it the longest running of any artist guild in Connecticut. The membership, which today draws on artists from 30 surrounding towns, is presenting work in celebration of this 65th Anniversary. Paintings, drawings, graphic arts, sculpture, ceramics, fiber/beadwork, mixed media and photography are displayed in all three of the galleries in the circa 1872 former school house that is now Gallery on the Green.

The reception is Saturday, July 12 from 6:00-8:00 pm and will include refreshments. The show and reception are free, and the public is warmly invited.

Name of exhibit: CALL & RESPONSE
Artist: Evelyn Pye
Start Date: July 3, 2025
End Date: August 2, 2025
Reception Date: Thursday, July 3, 5–7:00 pm
Art Forum: July 17, 7:30 pm
Location name: Gallery A3
Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 2–7:00 pm
Address: 28 Amity St. 1D, Amherst, MA
City/Town: Amherst
Website: www.gallerya3.com
Description/info:
In two series of oil paintings on wood panels, Evelyn Pye explores human dimensions of time, space, and scale through a profusion of indoor plant life infused with domestic detail. Small-scale works, from 2013, depict plants that belonged to the artist’s mother. Now, in 2025, Pye tends the plants herself and revisits the paintings with new, scaled-up versions of the originals, approximately doubling the size, plus painting the plants anew at larger scale. In-person Art Forum on July 17.

Opening Reception: Cultural Fusion: A Neon Installation Show
Cultural Fusion is an immersive neon installation exploring social issues, isolation, and human connection through light and humor. Artist Bill Myers, whose first installation was at Zone Art Center in 1995, brings his signature fusion of history, satire, and light to this striking exhibition. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno and The Twilight Zone, the show transforms installation art into a bold blend of critique and spectacle. Vivid neon environments invite viewers to navigate thought-provoking spaces, confronting inequality and shared experiences with both intensity and whimsy. This unforgettable showcase redefines social commentary through light, humor, and history. This show will run from March 23, 2025 - August 10, 2025.