Green River House and Quabbin House, programs of Clinical and Support Options, will be hosting our 4^th Annual Art and Music Festival at Energy Park in Greenfield MA. This year’s theme is “FEEL THE ART BEAT”. We are looking for talented artists and crafters to vend their creative works. The event is August 10^th from 10am-3pm with live musical acts all day. There are no vendor fees for this event. The fair is open to all ages and media.  People who receive mental health…

About Carved Content:

Carved Content is a project designed by Carand Burnet and myself to beautify derelict areas using large woodcut as our creative vehicle. A woodcut is an image carved into the plank surface of a piece of wood.  The areas that show…

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I'm really excited to announce Place [Maker] Space: an interdisciplinary residency that I'm helping to curate and produce with Melinda Buckwalter and Lailye Weidman.  Inspired by eco-hacks and maker faires, this 3-day convergence is designed as open forum to share practices and research that address notions of place.



Place [Maker] Space will…

The next 6 month grant cycle is now underway

Last cycle we collectively raised $768 through small monthly donations by 35 Valley Art Share members.  Some incredible proposals were made and I'm looking forward to seeing what ya'll have up your sleeves for this cycle.  

Here's how the deadlines are shaking down this time…

About Pioneer Valley Zine Fest and Ladyfest Easthampton: 

A three day music and arts festival, with hands-on workshops, vendors, and performances at Flywheel arts collective and Food For Thought Books, our mission is to celebrate and support all musicians and artists in…

Spring Open Studios at Cottage Street

June 1 & 2 

Cottage Street Studios holds…

And the grant goes to...

Seven hundred and sixty eight gargantuan dollars, thirty five supportive people, six long months, six better-than-real-life proposals, all leading to one selected proposal.  Ready?  This round's winner is (bum bah da dum da dum!!!):…

I've been in correspondance with some of you about how to recruit more folks to the micro grants.  This phase, once the proposals are submitted and prior to voting (deadline is March 25th), seems like an excellent time to encourage folks to support the collective fund.  Up to this point I've been requiring that folks give for at least a month prior to voting because I think it's important that folks are signing on to…

This second Mutual Aid Micro Grant cycle began in October and will finish up this month after the grant members select one of the following proposals.  You can see all of the proposals in their glorious detail here, or simply scroll down and…

SPIDER IN A TREE is a revelation. Susan Stinson has wrought something wondrous in this book about the spiritual tribulations of a community of New England Calvinists. She brings their world to pulsing, sensuous life, entering as intimately into the mind of Jonathan Edwards, the original fire and brimstone preacher, as she does into the mind of Leah, who worked as his slave. Like Edwards, Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents…

To ask “What is Visionary Tattoo?” we must first ask, “What is Visionary Art?”.  In short “Visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices and inner perception of the soul.”  It is art made in a spiritual space.  Where the art is not the end product, but the tool which is used to open your mind and spirit to what is beneath the surface of any canvas.  Visionary art is a guide to the esoteric, or the hidden.  Both artist and viewer are finding their own individual…

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I need more room for my paintings, and it's time to let go of the yantras. This one is 36"x36". Selling for $200

I talk fiction with novelist and broadcaster Bob Flaherty once a month at 8:09 am on WHMP 1400 AM.  Here's a link to a podcasts of a few of the shows, in which we talk about novelists Henry James, John O'Hara and Sally Bellerose. 

http://www.susanstinson.net/monthly_bookswap_with_bob_flaherty_on_whmp_1400_am_radio__116274.htm

Tune in next Monday, December 3 at 8:09 am…

Calling all Performing Artists! Calling all Citizens who love the Performing Art!

Join performing arts stakeholders for a presentation, public discussion, and brainstorming session.

Saturday, November 3, 2012 from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

at

St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Hall

128 Main St., Easthampton, MA

and here is the Press release from CitySpace, Inc.



FOR IMMEDIATE…

I am looking for a visual artist to do an individual art lesson (30-40 min) with an 8 yr old boy at my studio at around 245 or 300 on Thursdays.  The lessons do not have to be very formal but can focus around material use and specific techniques.  The boy is a very charming child with natural talent.  You will be compensated. A phone call is preferred: 413 320 3408

Check out biginkprints.blogspot.com for lots of woodcut related material and posts.  Sept 14th is our big outdoor workshop in Northampton, don't miss it!

I have just pulled off paintings from the stretchers to make space in my studio; $35. a stretcher: 66 X 74" sturdy pine, w/corners and cross braces, or 10 for $250. (I have about 60)!  email: lenajenny47@comcast.net

The Freedom Trails Gallery is now exhibiting The Big Picture Show, a group exhibition of large scale work by several local photographers. The show will be up through August 23rd. Stop by to view larger than life photographs that you could practically step into!

For more info visit our website amherstvalleyframeworks.com or check out our facebook page "Valley…