Apr 26 Friday
The Mount Holyoke College Department of Dance presents the annual Student Dance Concert, “EPIPHANY.” This student-led concert is an expression of a semester of embodied inquiry in the Intermediate Composition course and marks the beginning of many students’ choreographic journeys.
The running thread through these pieces in “Epiphany” is connection. Connection to the self and identity, to others across space and time, to present reality and the future, and connection and communication through movement styles and body language. The choreographers have been exploring these pathways all semester, and they welcome you to join them in finding out where they lead.
Performance Dates and Times:Friday, April 26, 7:30 pmSaturday, April 27, 7:30 pm
Tickets: $5 General Admission | FREE Student Tickets
For more information or to reserve tickets, please visit mhc.ludus.com or contact us at hglick@mtholyoke.edu
Apr 27 Saturday
Going us for ongoing adult classes and season youth & teen classes at SCDT!
Check out our current offerings here:
Adult Classes: https://www.scdtnoho.com/adult-class-schedule.html
Youth Classes: https://www.scdtnoho.com/youth-class-schedule1.html
Our updated Spring season schedule will be out soon!
The Amherst Public Art Commission presents an exhibition of paintings by local artist Christine Mirabel at the Amherst Town Hall Gallery. The show opens on March 4, 2024, and runs through April 30, 2024. Meet the artist at a reception in the Gallery on Friday, March 8th, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm.
Blues, purples, and splashes of red. Christine Mirabel’s paintings are inspired by nature as she depicts beauty and tranquility. Water is a favorite element, recurring in figurative and abstract forms. Cityscapes appear, too, suggesting excitement and contrasting experiences.
Explore the captivating worlds of mystery and wonder in this exhibition featuring highlights from the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Permanent Collection, which now holds almost 25,000 illustrations by prominent artists working across genres and time periods. On display are cover art for award-winning novels and mysteries, children’s book illustrations inspired by classic tales, fantastical anthropomorphic drawings, and heart-stopping editorial images.
Exhibit Link: https://www.nrm.org/2023/12/mysteryandwonder/
March 9 Members Receptionhttps://www.nrm.org/2023/12/mysteryandwonder/RSVP https://tickets.nrm.org/
New Monotypes by Arch MacInnesWe All Matter – We Are All Matter by Amy Dawn KotelPastel Landscapes by Donna M. Roy
Reception: April 6, 3-5 PM
This program is for all ages and is free with museum admission.
If you would like to attend the talk as well, you will be prompted to reserve your space in the checkout below your Museum Admission.
Join the Norman Rockwell Museum education team for a drop-in artmaking workshop inspired by the mystery book cover illustrations of Teresa Fasolino. Participants will be introduced to Fasolino’s multi-faceted artistic process and will have the opportunity to make a mystery still life painting of their own.
In “Recycled Art/Art Recycled” the members of the Canton Artists’ Guild imaginatively explore diverse aspects of the meaning of recycling. Some have made art from recycled materials or created art that reflects the idea of recycling. Other artists have taken a previous piece of work and transformed it into something entirely new. Come see these intriguing takes on recycling in prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, collages and fiber art. In upstairs galleries are two solo shows. “Mind & Nature” features drawings and paintings in which Harriet Caldwell explores the functioning of the human and animal mind. The incredibly intelligent ravens are a particular focus. Caldwell has a BFA from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, where she taught for 18 years. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in many states. She has received multiple awards for her work, including a 2012 Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, a 1996 Painting Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, a grant from the Puffin Foundation and a Millay Resident Fellowship. Caldwell’s work has been included in “Tu non uccidere” [Thou Shall Not Kill] published in Bologna, Italy (2008) and in Poetica Magazine, Holocaust Edition (2014). “Pandora’s Box” series, the second solo show, features abstract and whimsical sculpture of Stephen Klema. Klema describes these as an exploration of “the processes of accretion and loss—one desire to contain against the other desire to expand; the polarization of forces echoing the constant push and pull from order to chaos and back again.” His sculpture is fabricated using abutting, overlapping and interlocking stained and painted elements intricately assembled to yield a coherent and evocative work. Klema received his MFA from the Hartford Art School, and his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art. He is a highly accomplished artist who has had indoor and outdoor sculpture in juried exhibits across the nation, with permanent installations in New York, Ohio, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Within our region Klema’s indoor sculptures have been shown at the Becket Arts Center, Five Points Gallery, Silvermine Galleries, the Mattatuck Museum, Farmington Valley Arts Center, Limner Gallery, Kehler Liddell Gallery, and Real Art Ways. An opening reception is on Saturday, April 20 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The public is warmly invited to attend this free reception.
Join artist Teresa Fasolino and Norman Rockwell Museum Chief Curator Stephanie Haboush Plunkett for a lively discussion exploring Fasolino’s richly painted illustrations for mystery book covers and detailing the fine art of creating memorable images that entice viewers to read the book without giving too much away. Fasolino’s work is featured in the current exhibition Mystery and Wonder: Highlights from the Illustration Collection.
$10 with museum admission. Members are free. Reserve your seat online. Seating is limited.
If you plan to visit the galleries, please plan to arrive at least 1 hour prior to the start of the talk. Please note: museum admission is separate from the talk.
Renaissance Jukebox presents music inspired by the works of Wm. Shakespeare(and beyond): In Spring...As oft 'twixt May and April is to see,When winds breathe sweet, unruly though they be. from A Lover's Complaint, pub. 1609
This program includes quotes, songs, ballads, and instrumental works associated with Shakespeare in his own era, and modern songs that connect with our personal and sometimes unruly responses to Shakespeare’s texts. Works of Campion, Danyel, Dowland, Holborne, and other 17th-century composers, in juxtaposition with modern songs evoking related stories, moods, and/or imagery, by Jason Isbell, Cat Stevens, the Everly Brothers, Phoebe Bridgers, Hozier and others.
Renaissance Jukebox is comprised of longtime early music performers Donnie Cotter (voice), Meg Pash (lute, voice, viol) and Chris Stetson (lute, mandolin), newly joined by McKay Perry (violin) and Liam Birkerts (bass viol). As individual and intergenerational artists they have explored the song literature of the 16th and 17th centuries with modern singer-songwriter styles from folk to rock, country, and jazz, and have come to value and enjoy presenting thematic and expressive connections among multiple genres across the centuries.