May 03 Friday
Reception: Friday May 10, 5-7 PM
We invite you to a special exhibit featuring a variety of pieces created by JFK Middle School 6th through 8th grade art students. Over 400 expressive works in ceramic, sculpture, printmaking, painting, and design will be showcased!
Both Katherine and Cindy find excitement and inspiration in the natural world for their abstract work in different media – Cindy in photography and Katherine in her oil paintings on canvas. Cindy probes the minute details of colorful plants over the seasons to create her botanical abstractions, while Katherine’s work evokes elementary particles forever intertwined, no matter how far apart they are, even if separated by millions of miles."
Artist Reception, Saturday April 27, 3-5pmGallery open Thursday - Sunday
Mixed media artist Annaleah Moon Gregoire of Greenfield, Massachusetts makes sculptures that investigate and explore the boundaries between physicality, emotion, and technology.Gregoire references historical and contemporary medical and scientific documents to portray both the physical and emotional complexity that makes us human. Unpleasantly Beautiful illuminates the uncomfortable and honest pain of healing by deconstructing anatomy layer by layer, using etched glass to communicate these complex layers.In the artists own words: “By peeling back layers of flesh and bone, I am able to freely investigate the dualities of the interior and exterior as well as the grotesque and beautiful. I find beauty in looking at the remnants of transformation – what is present yet invisible, what rots over time, and what invokes a visceral reaction.”Gregoire earned a BFA in sculpture from the California College of Arts in 2021 and is currently involved with teaching art in both private and public settings. She also works as a freelance artist and runs a small apparel business featuring her illustrations.There will be an opening reception Saturday, May 4 from 2-4 pm. All are welcome.
Shelburne Falls, MA glass artist Jeremy Sinkus brings to the gallery a collection of glassworks showcasing the possibilities of the medium. Using a variety of techniques, flame working, metal fuming and deposition, cold working, welding, laminating and casting, the glass is manipulated into artworks reminiscent of geological forms in nature.Sinkus, long fascinated with the infinite geometric permutations of minerals, considers glassmaking the human expression of the geological process. Experimenting with hot glass, flame working, and later with cast glass, enables Sinkus to make more authentic mineral designs, allowing him to sculpt the glass more precisely. In his own words:“Cast glass has taught me patience and channels a version of a 100,000,000 year geological process. This body of work provided for my participation in an art form that would otherwise only be a geological event. My geological designs have reconnected me to the gem and mineral world.”The artist works in a Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts glassblowing studio, entirely powered by a waterfall on the adjacent Deerfield River. He has shown extensively in the US and abroad, and has been featured in many publications.There will be an opening reception Saturday, May 4 from 2-4pm, all are welcome.
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.
Easthampton’s Oxbow Gallery hosts Joan Dix Blair’s new prints in the front gallery while Shawn Farley exhibits her abstract constructions in the back gallery. The artists will host a reception on Saturday, May 4th from 5pm to 7pm. That Saturday will also launch the new day change for Easthampton’s Arts Walk, now the first Saturday of each month. Movement is a theme of Joan Dix Blair’s “New Prints” exhibition where inspiration comes from ancient carved stone tablets or ceiling-hung mobiles. Working with foundry molds combined with found material, Shawn Farley creates colorful, anthropomorphic constructions, each with its own personality.
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION – YOU’RE INVITED ART SHOW. BOOK SHOW. LIVE MUSIC. and MORE!
ADMISSION IS FREE. CREATIVITY & TALENT ARE PRICELESS.
Articulture Westfield, our annual expansive community art and cultural experience featuring local and regional artists, authors and musicians all indoors under one roof at the same time, returns to the Amelia Park Arena, 21 South Broad Street Westfield, MA on May 3 and May 4, 2024. Seventy-five new, emerging, experienced and professional artists and authors will showcase their creativity and talent in their individual 10’ x 10’display spaces on the floor of the arena!
Beer, wine, seltzers and soft drinks, served by White Lion Brewing Company, will be available for purchase.
Free small bites and hors d'oeuvres, prepared by the students of the Westfield Technical Academy Culinary Arts program, will be served by students of the National Honor Society.
Live music by the Wolf Pitt Jazz Duo, featuring Dr. Edward Orgill, composer, award-winning saxophonist and coordinator of Jazz Studies at Westfield State University.
Like a great cup of inky-black coffee, these shorts all pack a kick. Genre-hopping from Thriller to Sci-Fi to Horror to Comedy, each of these moody masterpieces will leave you wanting more. This screening will be followed by a talkback with attending filmmakers, and includes these films (not necessarily screening in this order):
Clone, directed by Ryan M. KennedyClosing Time, directed by Russell GoldmanThe Fast Track Program, directed by Nick Wilkinson *Smile, directed by Mike Sills **You're On Your Own, Kid, directed by Michael Matsui
* Writer/director Nick Wilkinson, producer Lisa Black, and leads Satomi Hofmann and Wally Marzano-Lesnevich plan to attend the talkback and represent The Fast Track Program** Director of Photography Marco Tulio is planning to attend the talkback and represent Smile
Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist/vocalist, interdisciplinary artist and surrealist. His primary body of work, The Healing Project, is an extension of the political commitments that Samora has held throughout his life and work: abolitionist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, internationalist, pro-Black power, intersectional, revolutionary. Pinderhughes has been known in the music world for a while now as somebody who goes past just making songs about issues and is actively involved in the struggle—it’s an everyday, lifelong commitment for him, not just a moment.
The culmination of Deerfield's Women in Music week is happening this Friday May 3rd with the Academy's Women in Music Concert. It will feature the Deerfield Orchestra, the Deerfield Academy Chamber Music program, the Deerfield Chorus, Concert Band and Vocal Ensembles performing music by Hildegard Von Bingen, Alicia Keys, Florence Price, Nadie Boulanger, Joni Mitchell, Clara Schumann, Arianne Abela, Sarah Bareilles, and Pinar Toprak, among others, plus two world premieres by Deerfield Academy students. A group of Deerfield Academy students will also be previewing a new string method book they will be publishing, which is an alternative to the Suzuki string method book featuring melodies by Women Composers.