Apr 20 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.
The Mental Health Matters: Student Expression Contest is back for the fourth year. The Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH) and the Massachusetts Health Council (MHC) are asking middle and high school students from across the Commonwealth to send in their written, graphic, fine art, and digital creations by Wednesday, April 24.
This annual event is designed to promote mental wellness and support students to better understand, protect, and maintain their mental health. Winners will be announced during May is Mental Health Month. Bragging rights and cash prizes are on the line!
While they create, we ask students to consider why mental health is so important, how they take care of their mental health, and if they have strategies or tips to share with other students. In the past we’ve received artwork exploring body image, informational videos that guide students in mindfulness thinking, drawings that evoke courage and kindness, and more. What will you create?
More details are available in our submission guidelines, including information about our first, second, and third place prizes. If you have questions about the contest, guidelines, or submitting your work, please email Maddy Brogan (maddybrogan@mamh.org).
This spring, self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet returns to the Golden State for the 29th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The book event will occur at the University of Southern California, LA, on April 20-21, 2024.
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is the largest book fair in the country. It celebrates literature, people, and talent. The free indoor and outdoor community event includes over 300 exhibitors and more than 500 authors. Everyone is welcome to experience storytelling in all its forms and revel in the music, arts, panel discussions, and brilliant conversations. Its family-friendly fun activities include author readings, book giveaways, and educational activities.
ReadersMagnet's participation in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books allows its authors to showcase their books to a wide variety of audiences — this provides a platform for RM and its authors to connect with potential partners, collaborators, and readers.
ReadersMagnet prepares exciting activities for its valued authors and visitors, starting with its compelling book signing sessions, interactive mini confab, and thrilling Scavenger Hunt where lucky winners can win a brand-new Kindle and more. These activities provide valuable insights into industry trends, best practices, and emerging opportunities that can help the company and its authors stay ahead of the competition.
Take a moment to visit ReadersMagnet's exhibit booth number 225 and discover hundreds of new and exciting titles by new and established authors from America and worldwide. If you have any questions or would like further information, please don't hesitate to call us at 1-800-805-0762, email us at events@readersmagnet.com, or visit www.readersmagnet.com.
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
Art on Main Gallery opens for the 2024 season on Thursday, April 11 and will feature ongoing shows, typically with 2 to 3 artists, until the end of the year. This opening event showcases Chelsea Bradway’s photographs of New York and Rachel Kaufman’s oil paintings of Great Barrington’s street scenes.
ANGELS of NEW YORK and SCENES of GREAT BARRINGTONThursday April 11 through Sunday April 21, 2024, 11 to 4:00pm ART on MAIN GALLERY38 Main Street, West Stockbridge
Chelsea Bradway grew up in the Berkshires and is drawn to photographing elegant landscapes and people in unusual situations, while also capturing the reaction of onlookers. Her New York City black and white scenes contrast with the colorful small town views by Rachel Kaufman.
Rachel grew up in New York City and moved to the Berkshires in 2019. She is also a photographer, who then translates her photos into oil paintings depicting street life in Great Barrington. She is interested in capturing the mood and connection of small town life through quiet street scenes at sunset, local downtown shops and lively summer gatherings.
Both artists have similar takes on street life, people, observers, and quirky situations, each rendered in her own personal style.
For more information visit our website at www.berkshireartists.org
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.