|
Pro Dada
»
The Arts Newsletter Experiment
»
Archives
»
The Lazy Busy Days of Summer
| Home |
Click to forward |
Art Shows of the Pioneer Valley Delivered to Your Mailbox! |
| |
|
|
| The Busy Lazy Days |
| |
The familiar expression is "the lazy days of summer." But if you look at the 14 towns listed below, you'll see that mid-July offers a wide range of art and music events. Check out the happenings and artist opportunities below: |
Amherst Exhibits/Events
| July Artchurch @ Wünderarts Featuring The Artists Of Zea Mays |
 |
Event: ArtChurch @ wünderarts
Start Date: Sunday July 20th, 2008
End Date: Sunday July 20th, 2008
Location Name: wünderarts
Address: 383 Main Street
City, ST: Amherst, MA
Website: www.wunderarts.com
Fee: free |
wünderarts presents its July ArtChurch featuring artists from Zea Mays Printmaking this Sunday, July 20. It's inspiration without the preacher.
The topic of this month's ArtChurch program will be printmaking processes and the work of the 16 artists featured in the Artists of Zea Mays show at wünderarts.
Coffee and pastry will be served.
Image: Louise Kohrman, Around and Around 3, 2008, hardground etching with watercolor, 13.75" x 13.5" |
Contact: Tony Maroulis
413-256-6600
tony@wunderarts.com |
Top
Block Island Exhibits/Events
| Outdoor Sculpture On Block Island |
 |
Artist: Sub Urban Artists
Event: Block Island "Eye of the Storm" Outdoor Sculpture Show
Start Date: Tuesday July 1st, 2008
End Date: Wednesday October 15th, 2008
Location Name: Spring St.
Address: Spring St. & Southeast Rd.
City, ST: Block Island, RI
Website: www.suburbanartists.com
Fee: Free |
| 2nd Annual Block Island Sculpture Show. Summer - Fall 2008. Free. Open 7 Days |
Contact: Eric Von Arx
732 842-9355
e@xxsculptures.com |
Top
Boston Exhibits/Events
| Iconos By Gaddier Rosario |
 |
Artist: Gaddier Rosario
Event: ICONOS Art exibition
Start Date: Thursday July 17th, 2008
Reception: Thursday July 17th, 2008 @ 6:00 PM
End Date: Wednesday September 3rd, 2008
Location Name: Center of Latin Arts, Boston, MA
Address: 85 West Newton Street, Boston,
City, ST: Boston, MA
Website: www.gaddier.com/
|
Gaddier Rosario’s work is deeply rooted in his Puerto Rican heritage. His paintings and works on paper speak to the human condition through a diverse language of form, color, and texture. Rosario’s works evoke the rich context of his hybrid Latin/Caribbean heritage and simultaneously convey aspects shared cross-culturally. Figurative elements in his works shift between abstraction and representational imagery, constructing characters as varied and colorful as those that inhabit his memories and those of his home here in New England.
Composed of a collection of select paintings, editioned prints, and works on paper, the exhibition explores the artist’s genuine fondness for exploring color and its relationship to the viewer’s emotional response.
Evan Garza,
Curator |
Contact: Gaddier Rosario
413.204.8201
arte@gaddier.com |
Top
Colrain Exhibits/Events
| |
Event: "Art in the Garden"
Start Date: Saturday July 19th, 2008
Reception: Saturday July 19th, 2008 @ 11:30 AM
End Date: Saturday October 4th, 2008
Location Name: The Old Barrel Shop
Address: 2 Heath Rd.
City, ST: Colrain, MA
Website: www.pacificopalumbofineart.com
Fee: $25.00 |
The second in a series of five Garden Parties will take place on July 19th. at The Old Barrl Shop, the home of Artist Pacifico Palumbo and Chef Michael Collins. The series will continue through October. Visitors can come to their home, which was featured on Home and Garden TV. Explore their many Gardens including perennial, annual, pond, bog, river and vegetable. Take in Palumbo's Garden Hand Sculptures and enjoy his newest Paintings, which will be hung on the walls of their home. Then delight in a great Asian Influenced Lunch, including beverage and dessert, prepared by Chef Michael Collins.
The Event begins at 11:30 am. Lunch will be served at 12:30pm.
Remember the date July 19th. Other dates include, Sunday, August 17th. Saturday, September 6th and Saturday, October 4th.
Price is $25.00 per person.
Everyone must have a resevation.
Call 413-6243275 or e mail info@greenemporium.com
The house is located at 2 Heath Rd.Ma.01340
For directions call or e mail. |
Contact: Pacifico Palumbo
413-624-3275
info@greenemporium.com |
Top
Easthampton Exhibits/Events
| Trace Meek At The Easthampton City Arts Gallery |
 |
Artist: Trace Meek
Event: Paintings
Start Date: Saturday July 12th, 2008
End Date: Tuesday August 5th, 2008
Location Name: Easthampton City Arts
Address: 43 Main Street
City, ST: Easthampton, MA
Website: www.easthamptoncityarts.com
|
Trace Meek exhibits paintings and some sculptural pieces at the Easthampton City Arts Gallery this month. An Artist's reception will be on July 12, from 5 - 8 p.m.
"My work is concerned with the human condition: identity, magic, spirituality, desire, loss, ennui, virtue, innocence, humor, etc. I try to address these in ways that are both elemental and sophisticated.
My portraits aim to be more than just likenesses of people; they are expressions of universal and sometimes ineffable emotions. Likewise, my landscapes intend to symbolize feelings, as much as the literal time-spaces that inspire them. Bees might symbolize of ways of “bee-ing.” Flowers just ARE." |
Contact: Easthampton City Arts
(413)527-8278
mail@brianataylor.net |
| Summer Theater For Young Audiences |
 |
Event: SUMMER THEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES - Hansel and Gretel
Start Date: Wednesday July 16th, 2008
Reception: Wednesday July 16th, 2008 @ 5:00 PM
End Date: Saturday July 19th, 2008
Location Name: The Williston Theatre
Address: 19 Payson Ave
City, ST: Easthampton, MA
Website: www.williston.com/home/news_item.asp?id=382&newsArea=home_page_news_item
Fee: $5 |
This summer join us for a play in the air-conditioned Williston Theatre. Students of The Williston Northampton School's Summer Theater program present Hansel and Gretel on July 16-19.
Hansel and Gretel is a musical featuring singing gingerbread people and produced by the same team that brought Sleeping Beauty and Stone Soup to the Williston Theatre Stage. "The show is going to be a lot of fun for the audience, and kids can look forward to the return of Cow-Cow from last year's production," says David Nields, director of the Williston Theatre.
The play was adapted by local playwright Noah Smith (The Princess and the Pea and The Bremen Town Musicians). The music and lyrics for Hansel and Gretel were created by David Nields.
All shows are held in the indoor, air-conditioned Williston Theatre and begin at 10:00 a.m. Tickets are $5.00. For tickets or further information, please call the box office at (413) 529-3434. |
Contact: David Nields
(413) 529-3434
bmaxey@williston.com |
| Come On In For E-town Jazz Friday At Pace |
Artist: Carol Abbe Smith, Doug Hewitt
Event: E-TOWN JAZZ FRIDAY
Start Date: Friday July 18th, 2008
Reception: Friday July 18th, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
End Date: Friday July 18th, 2008
Location Name: Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton
Address: 41 Union Street
City, ST: Easthampton, MA
Website: www.pioneerarts.org
Fee: $5 |
Have a seat, make yourself comfortable and get ready to listen to great jazz while having a wonderful meal with wine or beer. Relax, sit back and enjoy the show. AND/OR: bring your ax -whatever that may be- and come jam with us! Cozy up to a microphone and sing a song if you like. Pick a tune or three and we will back you. A very loose and friendly scene. Hosted by Carol Smith with Doug Hewitt on guitar and a whole band to play with or just enjoy!
A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
7pm, Friday, July 18th
Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton
41 Union St.
Easthampton MA
Price: $5.00 Special: $2 off to Members |
Contact: Doug Hewitt
413-527-3700
DougHewitt@aol.com |
Top
Florence Exhibits/Events
| David Guterson And His New Novel, The Other |
Event: Writers Voice with Francesca Rheannon on Radio
Start Date: Thursday July 17th, 2008
Reception: Thursday July 17th, 2008 @ 8:00 AM
End Date: Thursday July 17th, 2008
Location Name: 93.3FM WXOJ FM Valley Free Radio
City, ST: Florence, MA
Website: www.writersvoice.net
|
| Bestselling author David Guterson (SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS) talks to us about his great new novel, THE OTHER. |
Contact: Michael Pollitt
413 774-5153
pollitt.m@gmail.com |
| Child Portraits & Other Paintings |
 |
Event: Child Portraits & Other Paintings by Elizabeth Stone at the Cup & Top Cafe
Start Date: Friday July 4th, 2008
End Date: Sunday August 10th, 2008
Location Name: Cup & Top Cafe
Address: 1 North Main St.
City, ST: Florence, MA
Website: www.ehstoneart.com
Fee: free |
Stop by the Cup & Top Cafe in Florence to see Elizabeth Stone's portraits of local children & of children's clothing in oils and pastels. Her still life series of prints called "My Autobiography in Tropical Fruit" depicts family relationships.
The Cup & Top is open weekdays from 6 a.m.-6 p.m. and weekends from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. |
Contact: Elizabeth Stone
584-3123
ehstoneart@gmail.com |
Top
Holyoke Exhibits/Events
| |
Event: BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! TOUR THE MANSION WITH A SKINNER DESCENDANT
Start Date: Tuesday July 22nd, 2008
Reception: Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 @ 6:00 PM
End Date: Tuesday July 22nd, 2008
Location Name: Wistariahurst Museum
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City, ST: Holyoke, MA
Website: www.wistariahurst.org
Fee: Admission is $7 |
| Wistariahurst invites you to tour the Mansion with a Skinner Descendant. Allerton Kilborne, descendant of the Skinner family, will be giving a tour of his grandmother’s home, and will bring to life stories and memories of living at Wistariahurst in the 1950s. Wistariahurst acquired its name from the flowering vine surrounding the house and the twenty-six room mansion features parquet floors, vaulted ceilings, elaborate woodwork and two marble lions that have guarded the entrance since the late nineteenth century. The estate was kept in the Skinner family until 1959 when Katharine Skinner Kilborne and her heirs gave Wistariahurst to the City of Holyoke for cultural and educational purposes. Join us for refreshments with Allerton at 6:00 p.m., prior to the tour. |
Contact: Marjorie Latham
413 322 5660
lathamm@ci.holyoke.ma.us |
| Spend A Summer Evening In The Gardens |
Event: Summer Garden Concert: The Holyoke Civic Symphony
Start Date: Wednesday July 23rd, 2008
Reception: Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 @ 6:30 PM
End Date: Wednesday July 23rd, 2008
Location Name: Wistariahurst Museum
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City, ST: Holyoke, MA
Website: www.wistariahurst.org
Fee: Free, donations accepted. |
Wistariahurst and the Holyoke Parks & Recreation Department invite the community to spend a summer evening in the gardens listening to a delightful string and woodwind quartet of the Holyoke Civic Symphony. There will be music in the air as these performers combine their talents for an evening of entertainment in the charming atmosphere of the Wistariahurst gardens. Please bring a blanket or lawn chair. Free, donations accepted.
Rain date scheduled for the following evening, July 24 –6:30 p.m. |
Contact: Marjorie Latham
413 322 5660
lathamm@ci.holyoke.ma.us |
Top
Indian Orchard Exhibits/Events
| Gallery 137 Members Show |
Artist: GALLERY 137 Artist Members
Event: FIRST ANNUAL MEMBERS ONLY JURIED SHOW COMPETITION & EXHIBIT
Start Date: Saturday July 26th, 2008
Reception: Saturday July 26th, 2008 @ 1:00 PM
End Date: Saturday August 30th, 2008
Location Name: Dane Gallery at the Indian Orchard Mills
Address: 34 Front Street
City, ST: Indian Orchard,
Website: www.gallery137.org/current_exhibits.html
|
Jurors: Gloria Russell, Larry Slezak, & Bill Myers.
July 26 - August 30, 2008
Opening Reception on July 26 • 1 - 3 p.m. at the Dane Gallery, I.O. Mills
Awards Reception on August 2 • 3 - 5 p.m. at Gallery 137
The first annual Members Only Juried Show Competition and Exhibit will feature the work of Gallery 137 artist members. Gloria Russell, Larry Slezak, and Bill Myers will serve as jurors for the competition. An opening reception will be held on July 26, 2008 from 1 - 3 p.m. at the Dane Gallery in the Indian Orchard Mills, 34 Front Street in Indian Orchard, MA. All entered work will be on display at the Dane Gallery until honorable mentions and prize winners will be moved to Gallery 137 where our Awards Reception will be held on August 2, 2008 from 3 - 5 p.m.
All are welcome to attend! Please visit www.gallery137.org for more information. Contact us at (413) 543-6994 or info@gallery137.org with any questions. |
Contact: Heidi Coutu
413-543-6994
info@gallery137.org |
Top
Northampton Exhibits/Events
| Paintings By Gaddier Rosario And Carolyn Kibe |
 |
Event: Paintings by Gaddier Rosario and Carolyn Kibe exhibition
Start Date: Sunday July 13th, 2008
End Date: Wednesday July 30th, 2008
Location Name: Homers Gallery at Forbes Library, Northampton,
Address: Forbes Library, 20 West Street
City, ST: Northampton, MA
Website: www.gaddier.com/
|
Gaddier Rosario
My art is autonomous but not autistic; it is polluted through life, rendered sensible to the figures and symbols of the era and the signs of time: the raw matter that is transfigured by art as an offering beyond its immediacy. Always searching to freely capture the sensibility that surrounds’ me and, as its consequence, express my own truth.
Carolyn Kibe
Carolyn Kibe's representational works in oil, pastels and clay relief depict people, landscapes and florals. Subjects range from a grandmother and a coal miner, to Pioneer Valley scenes, waterscapes, and florals from the garden. |
Contact: Gaddier Rosario
413.204.8201
arte@gaddier.com |
| Cemeteries Series, Photographys By Lydia Leclair |
Artist: Lydia Leclair
Event: Cemeteries Series, Photographys by Lydia Leclair
Start Date: Tuesday July 1st, 2008
End Date: Thursday July 31st, 2008
Location Name: Dance Northampton Art Gallery
Address: 492 Pleasant St
City, ST: Northampton, MA
Website: www.dancenorthampton.com
Fee: Free |
| July 11th ... 6:00 Reception ... The Dance Northampton Art Gallery presents ... Lydia Leclair ... Environmentalist, traveler and photographer. As an Undergraduate at the University of Delaware Lydia has visited every continent but one. Along with her nature and wildlife photography, this show will include Lydia's Cemeteries Series. She has captured their the beauty, peacefulness, and stillness using pinhole and Holga cameras. |
Contact: William
413-586-2422
william@dancenorthampton.com |
| Zany Angels Fundraiser Performance & Silent Auction |
 |
Event: Zany Angels Fund Raiser and Silent Auction
Start Date: Tuesday July 8th, 2008
End Date: Tuesday July 8th, 2008
Location Name: Karuna Yoga Center
Address: 25 Main Street
City, ST: Northampton, MA
Website: www.zanyangels.com
Fee: $15 |
Mark Your Calenders!
Zany Angels FUNDRAISER Performance & Silent Auction
An Evening of Monologues from the Heart & other offerings...
7 pm, Saturday, July 19th
Karuna Center (3rd fl, above Fitzwilly's), Northampton, MA
to help send the Zany Angels to the Boulder Fringe Festival this summer!
$15 Donation
Info: (413) 586-7390 (not taking reservations, just show up)
www.zanyangels.com for more info
This evening showcases 11 of the Zany Angel's talented students
who have studied the art of crafting meaningful and upbeat performance pieces in the past year.
ARTISTS include:
Jenny Ladd, Shakti Sadeh, Tom Murray, Adora Laroche, Sarah Pirtle, Holly Hartman, Joyce Braunhut, Peggy Gillespie, Salena Levy, Anne Lorda, Collette Husemoller, & more!
Rythea Lee, Rose Oceania, and Patrick Crowley, known as The Zany Angels, will also show some of their new work.
The MONOLOGUES range from subjects as diverse as what it's like to inherit a million dollars as told by the inner voices of the heiress, to the darkly comedic true tale of a 60 year old woman who visits a local plastic surgeon for a free consultation.
These works include monologues, movement, poetry, and singing. Hilarious, moving, and wild, these performances will bring you to tears and laughter, often at the same moment.
The SILENT AUCTION will offer bidding on original artwork by Rose Oceania, professional massage, pottery, art coaching, yoga classes, and much much more. |
Contact: Rythea Lee
413-586-7390
rythea@crocker.com |
Top
Plainfield Exhibits/Events
| Get On Board With Experiental Ecology |
 |
Event: SEEDS (Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance + Science) Festival JUL 27 - AUG 17
Start Date: Sunday July 27th, 2008
End Date: Sunday August 17th, 2008
Address: 252 Prospect Street
City, ST: Plainfield, MA
Website: www.earthdance.net/seeds
Fee: Varying |
SEEDS (Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance + Science) July 27 – August 27. A three-week interdisciplinary festival hosted by Earthdance (Plainfield, MA); with the connecting theme of ecology, featuring science + dance by the fist full.
Interrelate your body systems + earth systems, or watch others get dirty. Workshops, Interdisciplinary Projects, Public Celebration, Land - Use Projects, Performance, Panel Discussion Film Series and more.
No other festival in the region, nor the country offers such experiential interactivity between artist and audience. International teaching gems, like Suprapto Suryodarmo will teach movement meditation, pefrom Kalaruci, a piece about the earth moon sun, and he will be speaking on the Making Sustainable Spaces for Dance panel. Extend Infinitely into Mystery or feel the love of the Land Mass, in performances by Chris Aiken, Andrew d.L. Harwood and Daniel Lepkoff. Build a ceremonial twig tea-house with Nalla Walla and Mark Lakeman, or get inside Lakeman's head at a lunchtime talk. Permaculture never felt so at home at an arts festival, work with Andrew Faust from the Home Biome project. Dig deep with German butoh performance artists Claudia Wittmann. Festival fun for all ages, at the Public Celebration.
Much, much more dirt-science-tech happenings. Be a part of the festival eco-system with us, for complete Festival schedule please visit the Earthdance website, www.earthdance.net/seeds or call 413 - 634 - 5678. |
Contact: Melle Dragon
413-634-5678
melle@earthdance.net |
Top
Shelburne Falls Exhibits/Events
| Genie Zeiger Reads With Slate Roof Poets Susie Patlove And Janine Roberts |
Event: Poetry Reading
Start Date: Thursday July 24th, 2008
Reception: Thursday July 24th, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
End Date: Thursday July 24th, 2008
Location Name: Arms Library
Address: corner of Bridge & Main streets
City, ST: Shelburne Falls, MA
Website: www.slateroofpress.com
Fee: free |
Join us for an evening of wonderful poetry. Genie Zeiger is the author of three poetry collections (Sudden Dancing, Leaving Egypt, and Radio Waves), as well as two memoirs and a third forthcoming. She has led creative writing workshops in the area for eighteen years. Susie Patlove will read from Quickening, published by Slate Roof in 2007. She is a 2008 Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist whose work has appeared in The Atlanta Review and Monkscript, among other places. Janine is reading from her her first collection of poetry, Canopy, forthcoming from Slate Roof this year. In addition to poetry in A Voyage Out: Penn Women's Literary Magazine, she has published three books on family therapy.
Slate Roof Press is a member-run press publishing Pioneer Valley poets. Designed by the poets themselves, Slate Roof chapbooks feature letterpress covers, special papers, and hand-sewn bindings. Come learn about membership and small press publishing, chapbook design, and promotion.
Refreshments will be served, and the library is wheelchair accessible.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Shelburne Local Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. We thank them for their generosity. |
Contact: Susie Patlove
413-625-9388
macfadyn@umassk12.net |
Top
South Amherst Exhibits/Events
| For Those Of You Who Love Painting, Paint, And The Painting Not Yet Painted |
 |
Artist: lorna Ritz
Event: Studio Painting and Drawing Sale
Start Date: Saturday July 19th, 2008
Reception: Saturday July 19th, 2008 @ 11:00 AM
End Date: Sunday July 20th, 2008
Location Name: lorna Ritz
Address: 1245 South East Street, located between the South Amherst Common and Bay Road
City, ST: South Amherst, MA
Website: www.lornaritz.com
Fee: - |
| From 11am to 7pm, Ritz will host a brief show, "Breath of Summer," to display dozens of canvases in her open and airy New England barn studio and also under a unique tent structure across her large backyard. Her canvases resonate with the full sensations of the colors and shapes from nature that surrounds her wherever she happens to be at the time, whether in the South American climate of Colombia or that of the four seasons in her own backyard in South Amherst. Over the years she has been able to express those visceral feelings into a study and celebration of color, the element which for her defines the emerging form. Ritz has traveled widely as at teacher, lecturer and artist-in-residence. Her work is included in many private collections. She was a member of the painting faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence and received a grant from the US information Agency to teach and exhibit h
er work at the Institute de Belles Artes, Medellin, Colombia. Ritz has received numerous invitations to present lectures at various institutions, among them the American University, Washington DC; and the New York Studio School, New York. Ritz's work has been included in one-person and group exhibitions internationally including the Bowery Gallery, New York; the Hillyer Gallery at Smith College; and the Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris. |
Contact: lorna Ritz
-
lenajenny3@yahoo.com |
Top
Southampton Exhibits/Events
| Photo Exhibit Extended By Popular Demand |
 |
Artist: Don David
Event: "California Dreamin" Photo Exhibit
Start Date: Sunday June 1st, 2008
End Date: Tuesday July 15th, 2008
Location Name: Robert Floyd Photo Gallery and Learning Center
Address: 2 East Street @ College Highway (Rt. 10)
City, ST: Southampton, MA
Website: www.robertfloydphoto.com
Fee: FREE. Resfreshments served. |
Come see what everyone is talking about! Don David does it again with an extraordinary exhibit. The Gallery will continue the exhibit another two weeks plus host another Artist Gallery Talk/ Reception. Images are only $150 each, matted and framed!
This collection of top shelf nature color photographs was created mostly in California. Far from the stereotypical California scenes, these brilliant photos capture and convey strong colors and breathtaking vistas, as well, as close-ups and wildlife images. The photographer, Don David, continues to separate himself from most new England photographers with new work, challenging himself to capture what he sees and feels. "California Dreamin" is a rare must see exhibit. The images are refreshingly different and unique.
Come listen to the Artist Gallery Talk, Sunday, July 13, 3pm by Don David!
The Gallery continues to ship any image(s) you purchase, F-R-E-E, to any town /city in the continental USA! Also, we are A-i-r C-o-n-d-t-i-o-n-e-d!!! |
Contact: Robert Floyd
413-529-2635
floydphoto@charter.net |
Top
West Springfield Exhibits/Events
| Big E |
 |
Event: Cultura 2008 BIG E Sunday Sept 14th 10AM to 10PM
Start Date: Sunday September 14th, 2008
Reception: Sunday September 14th, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
End Date: Sunday September 14th, 2008
Location Name: Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds during the BIG E
Address: 1305 Memorial Avenue
City, ST: West Springfield, MA
Website: www.thebige.com
Fee: 12.00 |
For the second time in it's 90 year history the Big E will proudly present Hispanic Heritage Day "Cultura" 2008. Sunday Sept 14th from 10 AM to 10 PM. This is once again set to be a monumental occasion in the history of the fair. Lets all join together to make this second event even a bigger success than 2007.
It is a six hour high energy Latin music show featuring some of the areas hottest rising stars and seasoned veteran musicians. Several times during the show we take a 5-10 min break to give salsa lessons hosted this year by Bailando con Rafy.
We have salsa, merengue, reggeaton, bachata, tropical, dance expositions by area classes and more. |
Contact: Carole Singh
413 33-0749
clsingh2004@aol.com |
Top
Call for Artists
| Open Call For Visual, Music, Performance Artists |
 |
Sponsoring Group Name: Art Walk Easthampton
Show Name: On-going monthly art walk
Submission Due Date: Wednesday December 31st, 2008
Submission Fees: None
Website: www.ArtWalkEasthampton.org
City, ST: Easthampton, MA
|
Art Walk Easthampton has an open call for visual, music and performance artists who would like to showcase their talents during the monthly Art Walk. Each of the venues that participate in the Walk independently select the artist or performer to feature. Visual shows typically last 3-4 weeks while performance and music are for the evening of the event.
You can submit an "Artist Proposal" online by visiting www.ArtWalkEasthampton.org and following the "Call for Artists" link at the bottom of the page. Once you have subscribed to the newsletter and confirmed your subscription, you can submit your proposal.
The process is a 3-page form with a series of questions: types of venues interested in, available dates, number of pieces proposed or length of performance, etc. Your answers form the proposal which is then made available to each of the venues. The venues make the selections. Your proposal is available to them for up to one year.
There are no fees to submit or participate. All Art Walk-related events are non-paid opportunities. |
Contact: Michael
michael@crawfordhanus.com |
| Short Story Fiction Submissions Accepted |
Sponsoring Group Name: WXOJ LP FM
Show Name: SHORT STORY FICTION SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED
Submission Due Date: Wednesday December 31st, 2008
Submission Fees: none
Website: Lit1033.com
City, ST: Northampton, MA
|
At 1:00 PM every Tuesday, on WXOJ LP, 103.3 (Valley Free Radio), Lit103.3 airs the reading of one or two short stories. If a story is selected for airing it will also be available in print and podcast form on the show's website at http://www.lit1033.com. Each show consists of one or two stories with a total word count of 6,000-9,000 words.
If you would like to submit a story for consideration, email it to lit103.3@comcast.net. DO NOT SEND IT AS AN ATTACHMENT, rather,include it in the body of your email, together with any biographical or other relevant information you'd like read before/after the broadcast.
Because the reading is over the public airwaves FCC guidelines apply. Like Norman Mailer in The Naked and the Dead, the reader can fug around with words to a certain extent, but if the overall sexual content is too explicit it won't work. The explicit original story will be available on the website.
Direct questions and submissions to Alan Vogel at lit103.3@comcast.net
Contact: Alan Vogel
lit103.3@comcast.net |
Contact: Alan Vogel
agvogel@comcast.net |
| Call For Entry For 2008 International Fine Art Photography Show |
 |
Sponsoring Group Name: The Center for Fine Art Photography
Show Name: 2008 International Fine Art Photography Show
Submission Due Date: Tuesday July 15th, 2008
Submission Fees: $35 for three images
Website: www.c4fap.org
City, ST: Fort Collins, CO
|
The Center for Fine Art Photography call for entries for 2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography
Deadline July 15, 2008
$900 in Awards
2008 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography will spotlight images from around the world. All subjects are eligible. The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. Information and online submissions at The Center for Fine Art Photography www.c4fap.org or email questions to cfe@c4fap.org . |
Contact: Bill Guy
970 224 1010
cfe@c4fap.org |
| Call To Artists For 5th Annual "Westfield Arts On The Green" |
 |
Sponsoring Group Name: Tea Pot Gallery LLC
Show Name: "Westfield Arts on the Green"
Submission Due Date: Saturday August 16th, 2008
Submission Fees: free
Website: www.teapot_gallery.com
City, ST: Westfield, MA
|
5th Annual "Westfield Arts on the Green" August 30th, August 31st, September 1st
We are looking for Artists to join our family of Artists on the Green
in Westfield, Labor Day Weekend! A great CommUnity Event.
3 days of Art, Music and Fine Food
For an application:
Stop by the Tea Pot Gallery
22 Elm Street, Westfield
or by Email: GETGER@COMCAST.NET
sponsored in part by United Bank, Easthampton Savings Bank, Westfield Bank
and many local business' |
Contact: Gerald Eugene Tracy
413-562-6966
izingting@comcast.net |
| The Portfolio Project |
Sponsoring Group Name: Easthampton City Arts
Show Name: The Portfolio Project
Submission Due Date: Tuesday September 23rd, 2008
Website: www.easthamptoncityarts.blogspot.com
City, ST: Easthampton, MA
|
Easthampton City Arts is developing an Easthampton Artists Portfolio Reference Library and Resource Center, which will contain portfolio books of ECA members (both artists & arts related businesses!). To get your free binder and materials to create your Portfolio Book please either email at info@easthamptoncityarts.com or give a call at (413)527-8278 (UART).
For more information please see www.EasthamptonCityArts.blogspot.com!
If you know an artist, craftsperson, writer, poet, performance artist, videographer, etc., living or working in Easthampton who is not an ECA member yet, have them visit the ECA website to see the requirements and sign up! Arts Related Businesses are eligible for membership as well!
Deadline: We'd like to have your portfolio back soon, but you have the Summer to complete it.
We are asking that all Portfolios be returned to Easthampton City Arts by the week of September 22, 2008….in time for us to include them in the Artists' Book Appreciation Party on Thursday, October 2, at 6:30 p.m.
Please come and join your fellow artists in checking out these amazing books, and for some great music and food.
Funds for the creation of the reference library have been awarded to Easthampton City Arts by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. |
Contact: Briana Taylor
413-527-8278
info@easthamptoncityarts.com |
| Our Environment Photo Show With $1300 In Awards |
 |
Sponsoring Group Name: The Center for Fine Art Photography
Show Name: Our Environment; the Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Submission Due Date: Monday August 18th, 2008
Submission Fees: $35 for three images
Website: www.c4fap.org
City, ST: Fort Collins, CO
|
The Center for Fine Art Photography call for entries for Our Environment; the Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Deadline August 18, 2008
$1300 in Awards
Our Environment; the Good, Bad and the Ugly, will tell a story of the human foot print left on this earth. This exhibition is for those who consider themselves nature conversationalists and just photographers with a conscience. It’s time to go green. The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. Information and online submissions at The Center for Fine Art Photography www.c4fap.org or email questions to cfe@c4fap.org . |
Contact: Bill Guy
970 224 1010
cfe@c4fap.org |
| Ongoing Video Art Installations At The Paradise City Tavern |
 |
Sponsoring Group Name: Spoleto Family of Restaurants
Show Name: Video Art at the Paradise City Tavern
Submission Due Date: Saturday August 30th, 2008
Submission Fees: none
Website: spoletorestaurants.com
City, ST: Northampton, MA
|
The Paradise City Tavern is seeking video artists and animators who would like to have their work displayed on several large screen TVs inside the new Paradise City Tavern (formerly the Del Raye Bar and Grill) at 1 Bridge Street in Northampton.
The preference is for shorter works that can be looped with other artists however, longer pieces will be considered.
Duration of exhibition will depend on the amount of submissions and number accepted. It is expected that work will change every quarter.
Please provide a link online where your work can be viewed or please email for an address where DVDs can be sent. |
Contact: Michael Kusek
please email
michael@michaelkusek.com |
| Call For Entry For 2008 Fine Art Photography Portfolio Show |
Sponsoring Group Name: The Center for Fine Art Photography
Show Name: 2008 Fine Art Photography Portfolio Show
Submission Due Date: Friday July 25th, 2008
Submission Fees: $85 for 12 images ($65 for members)
Website: www.c4fap.org
City, ST: Fort Collins, CO
|
Fifteen photographer's portfolios to be featured in Artists' Showcase. The Center for Fine Art Photography's new print publication.
Additional awards include:
Cover photo in Artists' ShowCase
Portfolio exhibition in the Center's gallery
Online gallery exhibition of the 15 selected portfolios for two years
Inclusion in the Center's Annual Collection CD that goes to publishers, collectors, designers, and brokers
The Deadline for submissions is July 25, 2008. For more information or a prospective about this and other call for entries please visit the Center's website at www.c4fap.org . |
Contact: Bill Guy
970 224 1010
cfe@c4fap.org |
| Calling All Artists, Performers And All Around Creative Folk! |
 |
Sponsoring Group Name: Commonwealth Center for Change
Show Name: Storefront ART's October ART Happening
Submission Due Date: Wednesday July 22nd, 2009
City, ST: Northampton, MA
|
Storefront ART is on the hunt for artwork of all media to include in the next ART Happening due to the streets of Northampton during October’s Art’s Night Out!
This cabaret style affair will feature a line-up of performances, a video art lounge and space for visual art. Interior and urban spaces will be home for tiny paintings on pebbles to intimate performance actions from spoken word to large-scale installations. How can the streets of Northampton and a gallery space be enlivened by your creative endeavors?
Submit the following no later than August 22nd:
*Project Proposal- This should include a description of the work you intend to show and any additional supporting materials, including installation requirements or duration of the work if it is performance or video
*Slide portfolio or CD; please include 10-12 images of your work or 5-10 minutes of time-based work
*Artist statement
*Resume/CV
*SASE if you would like your materials returned
Selected Artists will be notified by September 5th.
For more information contact Julia at: Julia@commonwealthcenter.org or 413.522.1319 |
Contact: Julia Handschuh
413.522.1319
julia@commonwealthcenter.org |
Top
Classes
| The "Extreme Tones" Print With Mark Zunino |
 |
Class Name: The "Extreme Tones" Print
Class Time: 10:00 AM
Start Date: Monday July 28th, 2008
End Date: Thursday July 31st, 2008
Fee: $450
Organization: Zea Mays Printmaking
Location Name: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 221 Pine St. Studio #320
City, ST: Florence, MA
Website: www.zeamaysprintmaking.com
|
| This workshop is a great way to learn all the basics and nuances of "non-toxic" etching. Through the use of many acrylic resist methods participants will become familiar with a variety of contemporary etching techniques. This workshop will feature the multi-plate method of building a full range of values up to an extreme black using etching processes. Participants will begin with a series of soft ground etches on copper to start developing an image. The image will then be transferred to a second plate and both plates will be treated with aquatint. After reworking each plate with burnishing and scraping the first 'linear' plate will continue to be developed with line and soft ground, while the second 'tonal' plate will receive more aquatint. Both plates will be printed in black and add up to a rich full black and a full range of grays. |
Contact: Liz Chalfin
413.584.1783
liz@zeamaysprintmaking.com |
| Get Creative This Summer In Our Arts And Crafts Camps! |
 |
Class Name: Summer Arts and Crafts Camps
Class Time: 5:00 PM
Start Date: Monday July 7th, 2008
End Date: Friday August 22nd, 2008
Fee: $250.00
Organization: Create Art Studio
Location Name: Create Art Studio
Address: 116 Pleasant Street, #246
City, ST: Easthampton, MA
Website: CreateArtStudio.com
|
The Summer Arts and Crafts Camps at Create are designed to offer a range of projects in drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media and crafts.
With our 3 hour morning sessions, your children will be exploring and creating a variety of materials, techniques and skills. Students love our spacious, air conditioned studio.
Summer Camps begin the week of July 7th and run every week of the summer ending August 22nd.
Camps run Monday through Friday 9am-noon.
For ages 6-13
Maximum of 6 students in each camp (smaller groups allow for more individualized attention and studio productivity)
Cost: $250/week (ask about sibling or multiple week discounts)
Credit Cards now accepted. |
Contact: Kira Morrell
413-455-4707
kira@createartstudio.com |
| Learn Stone Carving From The Ground Up |
 |
Class Name: Old-School Stonecarving
Class Time: 5:00 PM
Start Date: Tuesday July 22nd, 2008
End Date: Tuesday August 26th, 2008
Fee: $300
Organization: New England Stoneworks
Location Name: Williams' Garage Carving Studio
Address: 147 2nd Street
City, ST: Turners Falls, MA
Website: www.ohmysoul.org/master/main/index.html
|
This is a great opportunity to learn stonecarving techniques from the valley's own master carver, Tim de Christopher. Tim was a carver and architect at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, and is now founding a new workshop for training carvers to work on the development of his own masterwork, The Cathedral Project, in Turners Falls.
Classes will be taught in an apprenticeship fashion, on a flexible, ongoing basis. After the initial class, students can continue indefinitely, at a modest price, as members of the fully equipped caving studio.
Each student/apprentice will learn the basic skills of direct carving in Indiana Limestone. This will include training in conceptualizing and visualizing three-dimensional form, an introduction to materials and methods, basic skills in hand and power tools, roughing out, refining, and finishing the work. There will also be opportunity to learn how to safely handle the stone and execute installations, which will include the use of the forklift and specialized lifting equipment.
All tools and materials are provided in the course fee. |
Contact: Tim de Christopher
413/775-3424
tim@ohmysoul.org |
Top
Studio Space
| Book Beautiful Studio For Fall Events |
 |
City, ST: Florence, MA
FOR FALL EVENTS
Wild Life Sanctuary is a gorgeous, spacious studio in Florence available for workshops, rehearsals,events.
Now is the time to book the space for the Fall.
Call 413-586-7390
Looking for work study person too.
Contact Telephone: 413-586-7390
Contact Email: rythea@crocker.com |
Top
|
| About This Newsletter
The Arts Newsletter Experiment is an email newsletter published on Tuesdays with news and commentary about art show openings, calls for artists and opportunities, art class announcements, art items wanted and items available and studio availabilities. The information is submitted by our readers and is focused on the Pioneer Valley. Final inclusion is up to the editors. You can subscribe to this free newsletter here. Announcements are accepted via the online submission form only. The Arts Newsletter Experiment is published by Art Walk Easthampton.
|
(archive
rss
,
atom
)
Weekly newsletter for arts and culture events and life in Western Massachusetts.
Subscribe to The Arts Newsletter Experiment:
Go back to The Arts Newsletter Experiment
|
