Third grade students worked with graphic artists Lissie Fein and Peter King to produce their own stop-gap animation short films. Fein & King (sweetandfizzy.com) are graphic designers with 30+ combined years of digital multimedia experience. They have created interactive exhibits and animations for various age groups, which can be found in museums throughout the country. Using Maple School�s computer cart of Macintosh laptops, students worked with different mediums to make many short films. The films will be shown at Popcorn Noir.

Mary Montague lives on a picturesque Westhampton farm and paints in charcoal, oils and pastel. Mary�s subjects include local landscapes, the New England coast, animals, and renderings of the southwest. She is a self-taught artist but has taken classes locally and at Holyoke Community College, with Albert Handel and Liz Haywood-Sullivan from Arizona and Richard McKinley from Oregon. She exhibits at local shows and has been juried into such National shows as the Laumeister Fine Art Competition at Bennington Art Center in Vermont and the Academic Artists Association annual exhibits at AIC in Springfield.

Twelve talented Moms exhibit work alongside their talented kids. Each piece will be accompanied by a short, inspirational statement. Mediums include painting, collage, photography, sculpture, textile/fashion, video and music.

Pictured: 'Shiprock and Anchordog' (cd cover art) by Barbara Johnson exhibiting with son, Evan Curran, with his musical soundtrack of the same name.

Students from Easthampton's Maple School, in kindergarten and first grade worked with sculptor Matt Evald Johnson (www.evaldart.com) to make creations from recyclables. Matt Johnson is a professional sculptor and adjunct professor of art at Westfield State University. Johnson uses reclaimed materials in his work and reports that �the materials are generally reclaimed from the urban/industrial environment and in many ways record some of the history of their previous lives.� Student sculptures will be on display at Nash Gallery.

This event is in support of Metacomet Stage, which is working towards the creation of a performance space on the second floor of the historic Town Hall.

5pm - 6pm: Greg Alexander

Traveling singer-songwriter Greg Alexander performs 'Future Folk', a combination of bluesy folk & contemporary lyrics. Vintage music supports modern stories from a very lively performer. Born in Springfield, MA, Greg found his way to writing music during a year abroad as an exchange student in Paris. Upon returning home Greg continued writing by borrowing his own mother�s Guild F-20. In 2003 Greg was the opening act on the main stage of the Newport Folk Festival as the winner of a nationwide talent search. A graduate of New York City's National Shakespeare Conservatory, he has toured as both an actor & musician with the National Shakespeare Company and Chrysalis Theatre Company of Northampton, MA, among others.

6pm - 7pm: Devlin Miles

Devlin Miles, an accomplished songwriter, has toured throughout the Northeast region and Canada. Her 2010 Steamy Summer tour included performances at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, BoCoCa Festival, Six Flags Amusement Parks, 4th of July Fireworks show, and concluding with Sunderland Fall Festival. She was recently selected as the Subway Fresh Artist in the Northeast and has continually placed in the Top 40 on Ourstage.com. She received an honorary mention by the Billboard World Song Contest for �This Guy�. She is currently collaborating on new material with a variety of artists and looks forward to a new release late 2012.

Suggested donation: $5.00

Art by Crystal Childs is now featuring Art Classes at the Wandering Peacock on Tuesday nights and this month's Art Walk will give you a glimpse of what the student have created thus far in the course. We will be having another Art Show when the course ends in 3 weeks. Right now these talented young people will share a little bit of what Crystal has taught so far!!

Second grade students worked with fabric artist Audrey Hyvonen to make a collective project-each class made a quilt. Each student stitched their own quilt block. Hyvonen, Fiber Artist: Stitches, stamps, fuses, decorates and shares (hinkypinkie.typepad.com). Students learned about cool vs warm colors and high and low contrast colors. The two class quilts will be on display at White Square Books.

Local lace maker, artist, illustrator and teacher Brigita Fuhrmann will exhibit pen-and-ink drawings that reflect her love for bobbin lacemaking, which she mastered in her native Czechoslovakia.

Fuhrmann is the author of 'Bobbin Lace: A Contemporary Approach' (1976) among other books. She received a BFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, an MAE from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in painting from UMass Dartmouth.

This exhibit includes paintings, photographs, as well as repeating designs of pen and ink and markers on paper that will be used as graphics for an upcoming book with the working title Beyond Sustainability: It�s Just Not That Hard to Create a Way That Works. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Center for Biological Diversity.

JANIE McCRAE MORRISON is a Portrait and Caricature Artist, specializing in charcoal and pastel individual and family portraits. She works at town and country fairs, parties, weddings, and other special events throughout the Pioneer Valley. Jane is also a painter and mural artist; her work influenced by her travels to foreign countries, and the many years she lived on the Greek Island of Mykonos. Her murals, seascapes, and portraits of the local people hang in the harbor cafes and pensions.

Fourth grade students worked with multi media artist David Poppie. Poppie (davidpoppie.com) earned his MFA in art from the University of Wisconsin: Madison in 1996. He has taught art at Pace University in New York. Poppie�s work involves �reclaiming disposable objects in mass to create two and three dimensional works. Pieces can involve tea bags, matchbook strikes, plastic cutlery, etc.� Students designed pieces using bottle caps and album covers. All works will be on display in the main hallway at the Easthampton Old Town Hall.

Students from Easthampton's Maple School in kindergarten and first grade worked with humorous illustrator Chris Murphy (www.cmurph.com). After studying at Curry College, Emerson College and the Silvermine School of Art, Murphy began working as a freelance illustrator and has been for over 20 years. Murphy taught students to use basic shapes (triangle, rectangle etc.) when drawing their pets. Student illustrations about a pet will be on display at The ECA+ Gallery.

BORN TO A MAZE
is
the newest showing of paintings by
Luke J. Cavagnac
You will get out of it if you get into it.
And there will be cheese and crackers and wine and stuff!

(This show runs until my next event in August 2012)
The Invisible Fountain is where Cavagnac paints and displays his 'Art'.
Hundreds and hundreds of different paintings on display everyday.

ART FOR ALL & ALL FOR ART

Erika Knerr will be opening her studio at Eastworks #232 for an exhibition of Sun Portraits and an ongoing 25 year project in process, that began January 15, 1991. Operation Desert Storm began after a UN Security Council resolution set a Jan. 15, 1991 deadline for Iraq to withdraw unconditionally from Kuwait. When they did not withdraw the most devastating air assault in history (what was termed 'Shock and Awe') against military targets in Iraq and Kuwait started (Jan. 16). The project to date includes 22 paintings, one for every year since 1991. Come see them them in progress and enjoy the magic hour twilight in celebration of the Sun.

I will be exhibiting oil paintings as part of the Paragon Arts Gallery 'Trains, Planes, and Automobiles' exhibit.

Fletcher Smith will be showing in the Group Exhibition 'Trains, Planes, and Automobiles' curated By: Joe Sziranko at the Paragon Arts and Industry Building.

Trains, Planes and Automobiles

Curated By: Joe Sziranko
Susan Arata Barocas, Pat Coon, Louise Friedl, Catherine Gibbs, Amanda Hill,
Michael Lee, Manhan Bicycle, Manhattan Restorations, Joe Pesce, Fletcher Smith, Joe Sziranko

Live Acoustic Guitar
Shane Loiselle Downstairs Instrument Repairs

Refreshments

Food provided by the Big Y

Susan Barocas will be showing in the Group Exhibition 'Trains, Planes, and Automobiles' curated By: Joe Sziranko at the Paragon Arts and Industry Building. 'Waiting for a Train' was painted, plein air waiting for the train behind the Pride Station, waiting for a train that never came! It is 18 X 24, oil on canvas.