Freedom Trails Gallery will be open for the Amherst Arts Walk Thursday March 1 from 5-8. If you haven't visited us yet, stop by to see our new creative space and works of art. Our goal is to exhibit art to benefit local nonprofit organizations such as the Stavros Center for Independent Living and Friends of Children. Come support our gallery to help out our community! 

Dove into Etsy finally and opened shop:

     Ugly Cookies 

"gifts for your friends and friends for you"

First batch of listings up including a Tape Worm Buddy. 

As part of the GARAMANIACAL show FOE and Garamania both felt strongly about adding a community engagement component.  So as part of this show we’ll be running an event to raise money for MSPCC.  MSPCC has an office in Holyoke and offers direct services to more than 4,700 children and their families in communities throughout Western Massachusetts each year.  Have fun, get entered in a drawing for awesome toys, be part of GARAMANIACAL and support a great…

I've been working on a circle a day, and I've got 15 so far:

I am having serious issues with the foiling process, which is why 15 looks so different. I wound up using origami paper fused to the circle, instead of fusible web and foil. I'll either figure it out or never use foil…

I've started a project for January (and have plans for the year).

A circle a day, number 3 shown above. The circles have to fit into a Trader Joe's round chocolate tin, and adopt the colors and themes of the month. I laid out thoughts for my themes…

Three excerpts from my novel MARTHA MOODY are up in the Fairy Tale issue of the online literary journal The Lavender Review.

Check out 3 of my recent paintings in Poems for Marisa at the Augusta Savage Gallery in the New Africa House on the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus. It's running now until December 9th. More info on the inspiration of it all here: http://ning.it/sgmUaJ

THE VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS

Artists working at the intersections of art and life,

Artists addressing real-world issues: what we eat, how we live, what we buy,

how we govern, and our care for each other and the environment.

Working in the gaps between definitions and…

Hello,

I have a sweet 16'" x 40" etching press and I am looking to work out a barter with someone with a studio space.  Basically I will place the press in your space where you can have free access to it in exchange for allowing me to use the press occasionally; about once or twice a week.  I want to be clear that I am not donating the press.  I am simply working out a situation where we both have access to a really great piece of equipment.  This is a great opportunity for a…

Sundance-award winning filmmaker Jesse Epstein, with Paul Odgren are making a full-length documentary film about Peter Blanchette and the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra. The themes are Music, Community, Success, and Surviving as an Artist.

THE VAS ARCHIVE PRESENTS

At the Edge of the World is a place where both chaos and calmness exist. The works selected manifest a struggle of dualities existing in one space.

13: At the Edge of the World features work by: Michael…

Looking for something to do tonight? I'll be doing a live painting while DJ Addam Bombb will be spinning a great set of music to shake your rump to. It's all happening at The Green Room, in the upstairs of Karma on Main St. in Northampton. 

There's room to dance and plenty of seating if you like hanging out in some dark corners and being mysterious. Karma has a great selection of organic beers and wine, and a delicious vegan food menu too!

It's tonight! Friday,…

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Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska is coming to town to speak on this project which seeks to establish a new 9/11 commission.  He will be here tomorrow (September 20th) in Greenfield at GCTV from 2-4 and at the…

"It is my feeling that people are drawn to wars culturally as much as, if not more than, politically; therefore, an understanding of how wars exist in human consciousness can only be reached through discourses that include cultural and creative expressions. Art, in all its forms, is the only way to access the most visceral human reactions to war." - Tyler Boudreau, author "Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a…

Featuring Artists: Denise Beaudet, Mary Bernstein, Krista DeNio, Harriet Diamond, Seth Gregory, Rae Maltz,…

This is something worth knowing about.

Living as Form is an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement.  The project brings together twenty-five curators, documents over 100 artists' projects in a…

RISE UP AND SHOUT OUT!

Bodies are brewing in creative formations all across the valley this week!



 

Virtually we've got the online…