Dracut Arts' Annual Children's Art Competition

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: September 30, 2025
Location: Agawam Public Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 9am-9pm, Fri & Sat 9am-5pm
Address: 750 Cooper Street
City/Town: Agawam

On the main gallery walls, pieces from past winners of Dracut Arts' Annual Children’s Art Competition, open to all children 6-18 years old.

Contact: Erica LeFebvre
elefebvre@agawamlibrary.org
413-789-1550

Kathy Glista

Artist: Kathy Glista
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: September 30, 2025
Location: Agawam Public Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 9am-9pm, Fri & Sat 9am-5pm
Address: 750 Cooper Street
City/Town: Agawam

Glista is a local fused glass artist who enjoys sharing her glass and how it is made with a wider audience. She learned many of her techniques at Snow Farm in Williamsburg where she now sells her items during their yearly sale in November. She is a member of the Agawam Community Artists and Artisans. You can see some more of her items at glass-creations-by-kathy.com

Contact: Erica LeFebvre
elefebvre@agawamlibrary.org
413-789-1550

Gallery A3 @ Go Berry 'n Cream

Start Date: September 10, 2025
End Date: November 18, 2025
Location: Go Berry 'n Cream
Hours: Mon-Wed 4-9pm, Thur-Sat 1-10pm, Sun 1-9pm
Address: 28 Amity Street Suite 1E
City/Town: Amherst
Website: goberryncream.com

Gallery A3 artists explore "Autumn Colors" in a new exhibit inspired by the colors of Autumn. Image: Botanical Monotype Print #8 by Matthew Simons.

Contact: gallerya3@gmail.com
413-256-4250

Perspectives

Artists: Rochelle Shicoff, Diane Steingart
Start Date: October 2, 2025
End Date: November 1, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, October 3, 5-7pm
Location: Gallery A3
Hours: Thur–Sun 2-7pm
Address: 28 Amity Street 1D
City/Town: Amherst
Website: galleryA3.com

In PERSPECTIVES, Rochelle Shicoff and Diane Steingart invite viewers into their diverse visual worlds. Rochelle's series Day and Dark: Unthinkable Choices/Gaza, expresses her responses to the current conflict in Gaza while Diane's process-driven paintings in You Can't Push the River explore an inner world of emotions, memories, and dreams. Art Forum Online on October 16 at 7:30pm. Image Left: Rochelle Shicoff, So It Occurs; Right: Diane Steingart, It Can Get Rocky

Contact: Rochelle Shicoff
trees55pondfish77@gmail.com

Artists in Residence Roundtable

Date: Thursday, September 25, 4-5:30pm
Location: New Africa House Black Box Theater
Address: 180 Infirmary Way, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: purchase.arts.umass.edu/ChooseSeats/16601

In our 50th anniversary, the Fine Arts Center is hosting four artist residencies across all three of our visual arts spaces, as well as our performing arts program. On September 25, the artists will come together for a roundtable discussion during which they will present on their projects and engage with the community in preparation for their exhibitions or performance. Visual artists — Sally Prasch (Hampden Gallery), Angel Abreu (Augusta Savage Gallery), and Camille Turner (University Museum of Contemporary Art).

arm & arm

Artist: Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Start Date: September 15, 2025
End Date: October 17, 2025
Location: Eli Marsh Gallery, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm
Address: 17 Fayerweather Drive
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/art/a-calendar/node/931555

arm & arm is a space, a stage, a classroom, a porch, a vessel, for holding, for creating safety, and dialogue within. An invitation to work within it, around it, because of it. Becoming and echoing, forms, structures, patterns, and ways that Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, non-binary, two spirit, people of color form kinship, radical community, spaces of survival and dialogues rooted in resistance.

Contact: Heather Ruggeri
finearts@amherst.edu
413-542-2365

Artist/Fabricator

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: December 5, 2025
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA)
Address: Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, 151 Presidents Drive, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/umca-artist-fabricator-2526

Featuring eleven artists who integrate textiles into their studio practice, ArtistFabricator is an exploration of handcraft and tactility, as well as a rejection of industrialized production.

Artistic Journey: Zea Mays Printmaking at 25 Years

Artists: Zea Mays Printmaking
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: December 5, 2025
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA)
Address: Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, 151 Presidents Drive, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/umca-zea-mays-2526

Artistic Journey presents acclaimed and emerging printmakers associated with the Florence, Massachusetts-based Zea Mays Printmaking. The exhibition celebrates the studio's twenty-five-year legacy of workshops, education, research, and artist residencies committed to safer printmaking and artistic growth. The exhibiting artists make sense of the world through unique creative expression, utilizing innovative and experimental printing methods.

Reflecting on the Past/Dreaming the Future: Hampden Gallery Triennial

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: December 5, 2025
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA)
Address: Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, 151 Presidents Drive, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/hampden-triennial-exhibition-2526

This year marks the debut of the Hampden Gallery Triennial, a new juried exhibition showcasing contemporary works of art submitted by artists living within fifty miles of UMass. The show, Reflecting on the Past/Dreaming the Future contains fifty-four works spanning mediums including acrylic, watercolor, print, sculpture, video, multimedia, and more. Juried by Nick Capasso.

Spaces That Hold

Artist: Swapnaa Tamhane
Start Date: August 28, 2025
End Date: January 4, 2026
Reception Date: September 26, 5-8pm
Location: Mead Art Museum
Hours: Tues-Sun 9am-5pm, Thurs 9am-10pm
Address: 41 Quadrangle Drive
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/museums/mead/exhibitions

Working across textile, installation, drawing, & printmaking, Canadian artist Swapnaa Tamhane builds immersive environments of sublime beauty rooted in traditional South Asian materials and techniques. With a network of collaborators, she creates work that celebrates the ongoing relevance and achievement of craft, while also inviting critical engagement with the entangled histories of labor, class, and colonialism in the Indian subcontinent and beyond. This is her first solo US exhibition.

Contact: Charlotte Murtishaw
cmurtishaw@amherst.edu

Road Dreams Redux

Artist: Deborah Rubin
Start Date: September 10, 2025
End Date: November 28, 2025
Location: JCA Hall Gallery
Hours: Tue-Thur 10am-4pm, Fri 10am-6pm
Address: 742 Main Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: jcamherst.org

An exhibition of 28 small oil paintings of views seen while on the road traveling.

Contact: Janet Winston
janetawinston@gmail.com
413-687-5758

Counterspells & Concatenations

Artists: Marianne Connolly, Rebecca Muller
Start Date: September 4, 2025
End Date: September 27, 2025
Location: Gallery A3
Hours: Thur–Sun 2-7pm
Address: 28 Amity Street 1D
City/Town: Amherst
Website: galleryA3.com

In Counterspell, Marianne Connolly works with intimately-scaled photography and hand-cut, hand-pasted collage, exploring familiar themes of nests, light, and winged beings while experimenting with new materials and methods. In Concatenation, Rebecca Muller exhibits several series of large-format photopolymer etchings and small groupings of mixed media assemblages composed of disparate matter and debris.

Contact: Marianne Connolly
connolly.marianne@gmail.com
413-256-4250

Reflections

Artists: Rochelle Shicoff, Nancy Birmingham
Start Date: September 5, 2025
End Date: November 24, 2025
Location: Greenfield Savings Bank
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm
Address: 6 University Drive
City/Town: Amherst

Reflections is a point of view. Calm and guiet places. To daydream. Nancy and Rochelle invite you into settings of fantasy and peace. Image: Winter by Rochelle Shicoff

Contact: Rochelle Shicoff
trees55pondfish77@gmail.com

A Something Overtakes the Mind

Artists: Ligia Bouton, Matt Donovan
Start Date: August 1, 2025
End Date: December 21, 2025
Location: Emily Dickinson Museum
Address: 280 Main Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/opening-reception-a-something-overtakes-the-mind

A multimedia visual art and poetry installation created by Ligia Bouton and Matt Donovan. Through explorations of domestic objects, biographical details, found poetry, and community testimonials, the exhibition seeks to find new ways of engaging with the poet's life and legacy.

Contact: Patrick Fecher
pfecher@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
413-542-5087

Summer Art Exhibit

Artists: over 30 local artists
Start Date: July 1, 2025
End Date: September 28, 2025
Location: The Mill District Local Art Gallery
Hours: Sun-Thur 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-8pm
Address: 91 Cowls Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: generalstorelocalgallery.com

Come enjoy The Mill District Local Art Gallery's Summer Art Collection. We make local shopping for your gifts, interior furnishings, and decorations fun and easy to do! Peruse our diverse selection of quality art available from over 30 Massachusetts based artists. Jewelry, ceramics, woodwork, furniture, paintings, prints, clothing, cards, and more!

Contact: Shannon Borrell
Gallery@cowls.com
413-835-0966

Painting His Parents' Lives

Artist: Albert Chasan
Start Date: April 27, 2025
End Date: October 1, 2025
Location: Yiddish Book Center
Hours: Sun-Fri 10am-4pm
Address: 1021 West Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: yiddishbookcenter.org/visit/now-view/albert-chasan-paints-his-parents-lives

Growing up in 1930s New York City, Albert Chasan would listen to his parents talk in Yiddish about their harsh childhoods in the Russian Empire. Once he retired from the marketing firm he founded, Albert decided to commemorate his parents' lives through a series of expressionistic acrylics.

Contact: Eva Gellman
updates@yiddishbookcenter.org
413-256-4900

Clearstories

Artists: Stephen Petegorsky, Naila Moreira
Start Date: September 8, 2025
End Date: October 10, 2025
Location: Borgia Gallery, Elms College
Address: 291 Springfield Street
City/Town: Chicopee

Clearstories is a collaboration between Petegorsky and Moreira; she has written poems in response to his photographs, which are based on images of cleared and stained animal specimens.

Contact: Amber Scoon
scoona@elms.edu

Muraka

Artist: Kadri Pärnamets
Start Date: September 20, 2025
End Date: November 15, 2025
Location: Ferrin Contemporary
Hours: by appt
Address: 54 Main Street
City/Town: Cummington
Website: ferrincontemporary.com

A new exhibition by one of Project Art's resident artists. The exhibition features porcelain sculptures reflecting on the universal element of water and natural forms.

Contact: Leslie Ferrin
info@ferrincontemporary.com

Unveiled

Artists: group show
Start Date: August 26, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Reception Date: October 4, 4-7pm
Location: 50 Arrow Gallery
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 136
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: facebook.com/fiftyarrowgallery

This living archive gathers the work of the artists at the heart of 50 Arrow Gallery. This collection is the backbone of who we are--Chicano, Indigenous, Black, disabled, immigrant, queer--voices refusing erasure, claiming space through image, word, and form. Artists: Kerrita Mayfield, David Andrews, Kay Mattena, Jason Curry, Taisha Ortiz, Profesor Alvilda Sophia Anaya-Alegría. Reception Oct 4th: the evening includes an Artist Talk moderated by Yago Colás (Hashi Pottery).

Contact: jasonm@50arrowgallery.com

Russell Steven Powell

Artist: Russell Steven Powell
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: November 3, 2025
Location: E-Media
Hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 102
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptonmedia.org

Though both of my parents were artists, I became a serious painter relatively late in life, at age 50. Since then, painting has become my overriding passion, a nearly daily practice for the past 20 years. I have had solo exhibitions in Holyoke and Northampton, residencies on Cape Cod and Rhode Island, and had my work in juried exhibitions like Paradise City Arts Festival.

Contact: Lucinda Arnold
admin@easthamptonmedia.org
413-203-1360

The Arches of Hampshire County

Artists: Fiberistas of Western MA
Start Date: August 12, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Location: Park Hill Orchard
Hours: every day / all daylight hours
Address: 82 Park Hill Road
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: fiberistas.com

Set in the stunning landscape of Park Hill Orchard, each member of the Fiberistas has embellished a metal garden arch with fiber materials and techniques designed to delight the eye and withstand changing weather conditions. Group members are Sally Dillon, Barbara Kline, Martha May, Martha Robinson, Flo Rosenstock, Margaret Stancer, Eileen Travis and Nancy Young.

Contact: Flo Rosenstock
florobx52@gmail.com
413-256-1840

Works on Paper

Artist: Joan Dix Blair
Start Date: September 4, 2025
End Date: September 28, 2025
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Back Gallery
Hours: Thurs & Sat & Sun 12-5pm, Friday 2-7pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Joan Dix Blair's upcoming show 'Works on Paper' will be exhibiting works in the medium of printmaking. Her works are minimalist, inspired by her surrounding environment in Massachusetts.

Contact: Joan Dix Blair
blairprints@gmail.com

What sparkles beneath my feet?

Artists: Cathy Durso
Start Date: September 6, 2025
End Date: September 24, 2025
Location: ECA Gallery
Address: Old Town Hall / 43 Main Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.com

Cathy is presenting an exhibition of paintings from her current, ongoing body of work, a series of oil paintings depicting magnified views of the ground. This body of work, painted in rich, bold colors with aesthetically-pleasing compositions, is intended to evoke feelings of wonder and curiosity about the natural world, and a sense of interconnection between all things.

Conversations With Water

Artist: Amanda Barrow
Start Date: September 6, 2025
End Date: September 27, 2025
Location: Elusie Gallery & Big Red Frame
Hours: Tue-Thur 10:30am-5:30pm, Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-12pm
Address: 43 Main Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/events/amanda-barrow-conversation-with-water

Amanda Barrow is exhibiting monotype prints & paintings in a show entitled "Conversations With Water'. "Conversations With Water" comes from Amanda's deep-rooted observation of watching, listening to, & interacting with water & ice in rivers, oceans, etc., and kayaking in the Atlantic Ocean & Connecticut River. On Sept 25, 6pm, she will give an artist's talk, & will introduce two musicians who will Play to the Art. Let's celebrate 40 years of Amanda's artmaking!

Contact: Amanda Barrow
bridge.arts.1@gmail.com

BIG INK @ Zea Mays Printmaking

Date: September 27 & 28, 1-4pm
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com

Come see an epic relief printmaking workshop in progress, brought to the studio by our friends at BIG INK! BIG INK Founder Lyell Castonguay will be leading a woodblock printmaking extravaganza. We invite the public to come to Zea Mays Printmaking, anytime between 1-4pm, to see prints being pulled with "The Big Tuna," BIG INK's custom-built giant printing press. Drop by on either day, or both, to see a one-of-a-kind printmaking process in action!

Material Inspirations

Artist: Erin Havens
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Reception Date: October 9, 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Sip 413
Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm, Sat & Sun 8am-4pm
Address: 90 Maple Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: sip413.com/gallery

Erin Havens is a collage artist based in South Hadley. She draws inspiration from source materials, vintage advertisements, typography, and the natural world. Her work integrates vintage books, magazines, and other ephemera, gel plate prints, painted papers and mark making to create stories and abstract landscapes. Material Inspirations highlights the versatility of paper-based and mixed media collage while exploring concepts of light, fun, and the individual.

Contact: Autumn Guntor
galleryandretail@sip413.com

Soft Lands

Artist: Megan Weiner
Start Date: September 1, 2025
End Date: September 30, 2025
Location: Sip 413
Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm, Sat & Sun 8am-4pm
Address: 90 Maple Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: sip413.com/gallery

A collection of paintings inspired by the handiwork of quilt-making, the evidence of the artist's care, and how it lives on through generations. While this collection is based in memories, it evokes a dream-like departure from reality that is softer, brighter, and kinder.

Contact: Autumn Guntor
galleryandretail@sip413.com

Greenfield Arts Walk

Date: Friday, September 26, 5-8pm
Location: various locations
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: facebook.com/share/1JvhfDDTom

On every last Friday of the month from April to November downtown Greenfield comes alive in a celebration of the local arts scene! The Greenfield Arts Walk is a town-wide event featuring a cohort of local arts organizations including Madhouse Multi-Arts, Looky Here, and Greenfield Gallery to name a few. The Arts Walk's mission is to grow the local creative community and economy by attracting interest from beyond the region while strengthening the connections within.

Japanese Pop Art and Moment in Light

Artist: Kimiko Donohoe
Start Date: September 3, 2025
End Date: October 3, 2025
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Hours: see website
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/japanesepopart

"This exhibit is to show viewers my interest in expressing the beauty of nature; a moment of light through my landscape paintings and Japanese Pop art. In Japanese Pop art, I would like to introduce viewers to experience the dramatic colors of Ukiyo-e, and Japanese culture with a sense of humor. Ukiyo-e has shaped my view of thinking about abstract paintings into my own unique designs and palette." - Kimiko Donohoe

Contact: info@artspacegreenfield.org
413-772-6811

Silent Art Auction Exhibit featuring Andy Rothschild

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 6, 2025
End Date: December 20, 2025
Location: The LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/exhibits/silent-art-auction

The LAVA Center is thrilled and honored to announce the launch of LAVA's Fall Appeal with a silent auction of art donated by area artists. The auction exhibit is produced in collaboration with Art Deviation Gallery. Over two dozen works by assemblage artist Andy Rothschild will anchor the exhibit, accompanied by donations from many other artists whose work has been exhibited at LAVA over the past several years.

Contact: art@thelavacenter.org

Selected Paintings

Artist: Anna Bayles Arthur
Start Date: September 4, 2025
End Date: October 2025
Reception Date: Friday, September 26, 5-8pm
Location: The LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/exhibits/anna-bayles-arthur-selected-paintings

In this new body of work, Anna Bayles Arthur continues to employ a playful, intuitive process to develop her unique vocabulary of forms. Careful layers of transparent pigments provide a ground from which these forms seem to emerge and disintegrate. And it is through this spatial ambiguity that she hints at a fluidity of another kind of boundary, that which exists between dream and reality, conscious and subconscious.

Contact: art@thelavacenter.org

Belt Course

Artists: Amy Borezo, John Armstrong
Start Date: August 4, 2025
End Date: September 28, 2025
Location: Looky Here
Hours: Mon-Fri 12-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-3pm
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com

Paintings and prints.

Contact: Sarah Wisby
sarahfran@mac.com
415-321-9691

Faces on the Fenceline at Wistariahurst Museum

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 23, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: wistariahurst.org

This outdoor, walking exhibit in the front of the museum features portraits of Black people in New England who have and are currently making history. Visitors can scan the QR code provided at the exhibit to learn more about the people in the portraits and delve deeper into the impactful stories of these remarkable figures.

Contact: Emily Munsell
munselle@holyoke.org

Untitled

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 13, 2025
End Date: October 15, 2025
Location: PULP
Hours: Fri-Sun 11-4pm
Address: 80 Race Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: pulpholyoke.com

An untitled show with work by 5 artists from across the globe, and around the corner. Tatiana Trunova and Maria Michurina were both born and raised in Russia. Sean Sawicki is local all the way. Born of the land and valley. Brantner DeAtley lives in Haydenville, MA with donkeys and dogs and bears and frogs, and Henry Murphy is in PA.

Contact: pulpholyoke@gmail.com

Under a Water Sign

Artist: Jill Kovalchik
Start Date: September 4, 2025
End Date: September 27, 2025
Location: The Artery
Hours: Thur-Sat 11am-5pm
Address: 289 High Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: facebook.com/events/758974693442914

Join us for an exhibition of work by featured artist Jill Kovalchik--a skilled visual artist, designer, and scenic painter with a background in theatre, film, and trade shows. Her bold, expressive pieces span portraiture, landscapes, plein air works, and large-scale murals.

Contact: Rachel Rushing
rachel@holyokeart.com

Milestone: 25 Years of the Taber Art Gallery

Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: October 23, 2025
Location: Taber Art Gallery at HCC
Address: 303 Homestead Avenue
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: hcc.edu/taber

A celebration of the Taber Art Gallery's 25th Anniversary, and features work from the HCC Visual Art faculty and staff, past and present.

Contact: Rachel Rushing
rrushing@hcc.edu

Blooms

Artist: Lora McNeece Barrett
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: September 25, 2025
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Hours: Mon 10am-2pm, Tue 4:30-6:30pm
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: wistariahurst.org

Wistariahurst Museum's great hall will be filled with florals as we welcome in "Blooms", an art exhibit by painter Lora McNeece Barrett. This exhibit will feature 99 vibrant paintings of flowers of varying sizes. An avid gardener, Lora Barrett maintains her gardens as a reference and muse for her highly colored paintings, pushing the vibrancy of the flowers to the limit. Artist Talk: Tuesday, September 9th, 5:30-6:30pm; Lora will discuss the making of "Blooms".

Contact: Emily Munsell
munselle@holyoke.org
413-322-5660

Creating COA Artists

Artists: artists from Holyoke Senior Center & Council on Aging
Start Date: August 21, 2025
End Date: September 23, 2025
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Hours: Mon 10am-2pm, Tue 4:30-6:30pm
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: wistariahurst.org

This exhibition features artists involved in Holyoke's Senior Center and Council on Aging. Participating artists have anywhere from months to decades of experience, and this exhibition celebrates artists at all stages. This diverse selection of artwork shows both a range of experience and mediums, coming together to form a truly unique exhibit.

Contact: Emily Munsell
munselle@holyoke.org
413-322-5660

Storefront Gallery Project

Artist: ten local artists
Start Date: July 30, 2025
End Date: February 28, 2026
Location: near 289 High Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: holyokeart.com/storefrontart

The work of 10 local artists will be on display on storefront windows along High Street near the ARTery art marketplace at 289 High Street.

Contact: Kathy McKean
Kathy@holyokeart.com
413-420-8303

Paintings and Sculptures

Artists: Susan Valentine, Sue Kassirer
Start Date: September 5, 2025
End Date: September 28, 2025
Location: Leverett Crafts & Arts
Hours: Fri-Sun 3-6pm
Address: 13 Montague Road
City/Town: Leverett
Website: suekassirerclay.com

Join us for Susan Valentine's annual exhibit. Susan is delighted to include clay sculpture, Sue Kassirer to complement her works on the walls. This will be an exceptional show of two of Leverett's finest artists showing new works as well as beautiful, less recent works.

Contact: Susan Valentine
susanpvalentine@gmail.com
413-695-7617

PLAYMAKERS at CDH

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Location: Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Address: 30 Locust Street, North Entrance
City/Town: Northampton
Website: greenbrownart.com

In the corridor to the left inside the North Entrance to the hospital, now hangs some of the work these three Franklin county artists showed last April in their PLAYMAKERS exhibit (Leverett Crafts and Arts) along with much that is being shown for the first time. They include oils on canvas, and mixed media works. Whitney Robbins shows some of her Brown series. Joan Green shows her Sleeping/NotSleeping and her Headspace series. Bobby Brown shows new trees and other mixed media on paper.

Contact: Joan R Green
joangreen@gmail.com
617-955-4947

TAKING CARE: Parenthood in a Political Climate

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 3, 2025
End Date: October 30, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, October 10
Location: Barn Door Gallery at Northampton Center for the Arts
Hours: Wed-Fri 12-7pm
Address:33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/barn-door-gallery

The exhibition will forego the vernacular imagery of parenthood. It features an all-gender, inclusive group of artists who are parents, caregivers, or adult children caring for their own parents, partners, or loved ones during illness. As binary gender roles in American families evolve, these changes impact culture and are increasingly politicized. This exhibition highlights diverse artists who focus on modern perspectives of parenthood and caregiving. Curated by Dara Herman Zierlein.

Contact: gallery@nohoarts.org
413-584-7327

Springfield 2 Northampton

Date: October 3, 7:30-10pm
Location: A.P.E. Gallery
Address: 126 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org/main-st-events-2025

The night will feature four music producers showcasing their craft, demonstrating the range of Springfield's hip-hop scene--from the esoteric and whimsical, to the hard-hitting and brutal. Alongside them, four Springfield visual artists will give concise presentations of their work, giving context to the music through sharp, moving exercises in storytelling and world-building.

Contact: Kathy Couch
kathycouch@apearts.org

Wild & Scenic Film Festival

Date: September 26, 7-9:30pm
Location: Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
Address: 5 Chapin Drive
City/Town: Northampton
Website: kestreltrust.org/calendar/wild-scenic-film-festival-on-tour-in-northampton

This inspiring festival brings together films that celebrate the beauty of nature, spotlight environmental activism, and share powerful stories that call us to action. The original Wild & Scenic Film Festival was produced in California by the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL). And, now the Wild & Scenic Film Festival ON TOUR is coming to Northampton! Sponsored by Kestrel Land Trust and the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability (CEEDS) at Smith College.

Neon Moss

Artist: Marianna Dixon Williams
Start Date: September 8, 2025
End Date: October 16, 2025
Location: Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Hall, Smith College
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Address: 22 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: sites.smith.edu/art-oresman-gallery/portfolio/marianna-dixon-williams

This exhibition features a video installation that examines the convergence of personal and environmental transformation through the dual lens of queer identity and the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Sculptures made from reclaimed storm debris create a meditation on disruption, exploring how climate change has rendered the global intimate and immediate, and what it means to call a place home in an era when environmental crisis has become inescapably personal.

Contact: Nicole Longhi
artdept@smith.edu
413-585-3103

Beyond the Horizon

Artist: Cameron Schmitz
Start Date: September 8, 2025
End Date: November 1, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, October 10, 5-7:30pm
Location: Hope & Feathers Framing
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm
Address: 238 Bridge Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: hopeandfeathersframing.com

I'm compelled by the exploratory process of working intuitively. Beginning each piece with a series of unscripted, spontaneous marks and no preconceived notion for what a painting may eventually become, I allow a painting's motif to slowly emerge in its own time. Color and mark-making is my language of expression. Dashes of paint, gestural strokes, and repetitive marks are orchestrated by my body's movements and my investigative search for an illusory space to traverse and explore.

Contact: Katie Bete
Katie@hopeandfeathersframing.com
413-835-0197

Return of the Tiny Gallery Project

Start Date: September 20, 2025
End Date: December 31, 2025
Location: Northampton Rail Trail
Address: starts on the trail behind Stop & Shop at the end of State Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: fntrails.org

2025 artists: Samantha Wilde, Zoe Pappenheimer, Michelle Mallory, Zea Mays Printmaking, JFK Grade 8 Students. The Tiny Gallery Project is a series of 5 small-scale, interactive popup art galleries located along the bike path between Northampton and Florence. Each gallery will host one artist, exhibition or collaboration.

Contact: info@fntrails.org

Watercolors

Artist: Barbara Ween
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: December 12, 2025
Location: Click Workspace
Address: 9 1/2 Market Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: barbaraween.com

Watercolors by Barbara Ween will be on display at Click Workspace as part of Northampton's Arts Night Out series on Fridays: Oct 10, Nov 14, and Dec 12, from 6-8pm, or by appointment.

Contact: Jim Sadler
jsadlerdesign@gmail.com
413-768-7964

Midnights

Artist: Greg Saulmon
Start Date: September 3, 2025
End Date: September 29, 2025
Location: Forbes Library Hosmer Gallery
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

Shot over several years in the hours of 12 to 2 am, "Midnights" explores the moments that reveal themselves when many of us are asleep. What can the camera see that the human eye cannot? What can you witness when you're willing to stay up late? Blending a number of photographic disciplines and techniques, the collection invites you on a journey from city streets to woodlands and grasslands as it contemplates the human and natural worlds and lingers on subjects as small as a spider or as large as a galaxy.

Contact: 413-587-1013

Crush on the Community

Artist: Loran Diehl Saito
Start Date: September 3, 2025
End Date: September 29, 2025
Location: Forbes Library Hosmer Gallery
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I started Crush on the Community – Western MA as an expression of my love for–and the separation I felt from–our wonderful community. I adopted a secret identity (Crush Northampton) and invited people to share their own private crushes. I made ink and watercolor images of the crushes and posted them online.

Contact: 413-587-1013

Quality Photos

Artist: Ryan Stratton
Start Date: September 3, 2025
End Date: September 29, 2025
Location: Forbes Library Hosmer Gallery
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

An exhibition of the self-portrait test photostrips produced from the analog photobooth Stratton maintains in downtown Northampton. This vintage machine requires regular maintenance and ensuring that quality photos are produced is an ongoing task. This exhibition displays several hundred photostrips from a four year period, encompassing global photographic paper supply shortages, technical issues and adaptations, and the often mundane problem of sitting down for a test and deciding how to pose.

Contact: 413-587-1013

A City in Flux: Reflecting on Venice

Start Date: September 19, 2025
End Date: March 22, 2026
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Address: 20 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: bit.ly/4oTi7aL

This installation celebrates the enduring but ever-changing allure of Venice in art. Curated by undergraduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, it draws from the Five Colleges' vast collections of historic and contemporary drawings, photographs, prints, and paintings. Image: Dwight William Tryon, American (1849–1925), Venice, 1879, oil on linen mounted on panel, Bequest of Dwight W. Tryon.

Contact: scmagen@smith.edu

My Mind in Bloom

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 12, 2025
End Date: October 5, 2025
Location: A.P.E. Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 12-8pm
Address: 126 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org

My Mind In Bloom invites viewers to consider how identity is shaped, not as something fixed, but as something always unfolding. Through the work of four Iranian artists Nina Nabizadeh, Cima Khademi, Yasamin Zamanieh, and Leila Rahnamaabadi, the exhibition explores what we carry with us: objects, memories, and emotions that take root and grow, even in unfamiliar soil. It is a human need to make sense of where we come from and where we are going.

Contact: Mollye Maxner
mollyemaxner@apearts.org

Ride it Out

Artist: Rachel Jenkins
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Location: Northampton Bicycle Shop
Address: 319 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: racheljenkins.art

I began to put paint to canvas and draw on paper eight years ago. Prior to that I worked as a clinical psychologist for 40 years. I have been a mother for 100 years and a poet for most of my life. My previous "canvases" were sartorial. Now I am prompted by a glimpse, an image, an impulse and then I begin with pencil on paper, chalk and then my brush into paint. Now the art hangs on walls. People and their stories have always compelled me but now it is faces that tell the story.

Rooftops & Roses

Artist: Jane Timken '64
Start Date: September 9, 2025
End Date: January 21, 2026
Reception Date: November 6, 5-7pm
Location: Smith College Alumnae House Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm
Address: 33 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: janetimken.com

Utilizing available materials, whether they be roses from the garden or views of rooftops from her window, the artist creates collages with old watercolors for the roses, and employs pan pastels on charcoal sketches of the rooftops. As Jasper Johns is famously quoted: "It's simple. You take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something."

Contact: Jonelle Dennis
jdennis@smith.edu
413-585-2066

Steven Daiber

Artist: Steven Daiber
Start Date: September 10, 2025
End Date: September 28, 2025
Location: NEVAmuseum, Gallery 2
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

Daiber's artistic practice centers on paper, ink, & the book as a medium. He responds to global events and environmental themes, drawing inspiration from the forest and guided by a sense of wonder rooted in childhood, yet mindful of life's transience--such as amphibians crossing the road toward their wetland habitats. In gallery 1, Daiber and Jacqueline Hayden exhibit a project from a collaboration with Cuban artists.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Jacqueline Hayden

Artist: Jacqueline Hayden
Start Date: September 10, 2025
End Date: September 28, 2025
Location: NEVAmuseum, Gallery 3
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

Jacqueline Hayden's photography is shaped by her early experience as a care worker. Her lens seeks out the beauty in aging and approaches the question of what comes after with genuine curiosity. In gallery 1, Daiber and Jacqueline Hayden exhibit a project from a collaboration with Cuban artists.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Deborah Sklar's brief walk

Artist: Deborah Sklar
Start Date: September 10, 2025
End Date: September 28, 2025
Location: NEVAmuseum, Museum Wing
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

Deborah Sklar's (1964-2014) bold, unselfconscious approach to painting brings her love for color, dancing, and human concourse, as well as her despair for human pain and failure, into equal balance in her oeuvre, entrusted to the NEVAmuseum archives. Her self-taught career was cut short when she suddenly passed at age 50.

Contact: 413-588-4337

RECORDS: Memory as Protest

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 3, 2025
End Date: September 28, 2025
Location: Split Level Gallery
Hours: Wed-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 12-7pm
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org

A powerful collection of work exploring memory as a form of protest. Artists include: Simone Alter-Muri, Matthew Best, Jacob Clayton, Binda Colebrook, Clarajames Daly, Eva Fahey, Ken Gagne, Eliza Gelinas, Ula Grabski, Haley Jenner, Boram Kim, Hallie Krause, Amina Meckel-Sam, Michael Medeiros, Zoe Mikic, Tana Oshima, Anna Parisi, Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui, Mugi Salaverry-Takei, Sam Staas, Garrett Sanders, Chloe Torri.

Contact: Sophie Gill
sophiegill@apearts.org

Jeff Gola and Charlie Hunter at William Baczek Fine Arts

Artists: Jeff Gola, Charlie Hunter
Start Date: September 3, 2025
End Date: October 18, 2025
Location: William Baczek Fine Arts
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Address: 36 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: wbfinearts.com

Jeff Gola will be exhibiting a new body of work in egg tempera paintings and Charlie Hunter will be showing oil and acrylic paintings.

Contact: William Baczek
info@wbfinearts.com
413-587-9880

Paul Bloomfield

Artist: Paul Bloomfield
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, October 10, 5-7pm
Location: Northampton Senior Center Bistro Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
Address: 67 Conz Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: northamptonma.gov/2221/Artist-of-the-Month

Paul Bloomfield was drawn to focus on the heart as an object after a life altering event last year. In recovery, as a visual artist he was fortunate to have some methods to express how he felt. For these works he used Ink, paint, wood, cyanotype, encaustic wax, paint, and various collage materials.

Portraits of an Independent Africa

Artist: Michel Kameni
Start Date: August 29, 2025
End Date: January 4, 2026
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Address: 20 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: bit.ly/45cs1we

This exhibition features portraits by the Cameroonian studio photographer Michel Kameni (c.1935–2020) made at Studio KM in Yaoundé. The 55 prints featured were made during the 1960s and 1970s in the years following Cameroon's independence. From its founding in 1963, Studio KM attracted a cross-section of society. As a photographer, Kameni was particularly good at depicting the aspirations of the people who entered his studio.

Rocks & Cliffs: a Retrospective

Artist: Sherry Poirrier
Start Date: July 1, 2025
End Date: September 30, 2025
Location: Atwood Gallery, Atwood Health Center of Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm
Address: 22 Atwood Drive, 2nd floor waiting room
City/Town: Northampton

My inspiration for these works was the stunning panorama of New Mexico's high desert. There, I was drawn to the splendid scale and emphatic qualities of the rock formations I encountered. This exhibit brings together a retrospective of pastels and watercolors created en plein air over many years in northern New Mexico. I wanted to reveal their geological narrative, through their structure, their colors and their unique individuality.

Contact: Sherry Poirrier
sherrypoirrier1@gmail.com
413-770-2036

Figuration and Abstraction: Asian Art at SCMA

Artists: group show
Start Date: July 28, 2023
End Date: October 5, 2025
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Hours: Tues-Sun 11am-4pm, second Fridays 11am-8pm
Address: 20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
City/Town: Northampton
Website: scma.smith.edu/art/exhibitions/figuration-and-abstraction-asian-art-scma

In art, "figuration" refers to the depiction of shapes found in reality--such as animals, plants, and human bodies– whereas "abstraction" simplifies subjects into form, color, and line. In modern western art, these two concepts are often understood as contrasting, but throughout history and in places such as Asia, these categories were not separate. For the works on view in this exhibition, realistic representation may not have always been the goal.

Contact: artmuseum@smith.edu
413-585-2760

Harvest Colors

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 3, 2025
End Date: September 29, 2025
Location: Shelburne Arts Co-op
Hours: Mon & Wed-Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 1 Ashfield Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls

The vibrant colors of fall, harvest season, and the changes in weather and light, are colorfully depicted in paintings, prints, photographs, mixed media pieces, sculpture, and decorative and wearable fiber art.

Contact: Flo Rosenstock
sac01370@gmail.com
413-625-9324

Old and New

Artists: Robert Steinem, Matthew Steinem
Start Date: September 4, 2025
End Date: November 2, 2025
Location: Salmon Falls Gallery
Hours: every day 11am-5pm
Address: 1 Ashfield Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: SalmonFallsGallery.com

The exhibit showcases a father and son's shared love of painting. Robert Steinem's unique shirt paintings - a process that includes priming and stretching a shirt over birch plywood before sketching and painting the design - are featured alongside son Matthew Steinem's paintings, representative of his own personal creative journey influenced by his father.

Contact: Summer Litchfield
salmonfalls@megaplanet.com
413-625-9833

QAA Group Art Exhibit

Artists: Quabbin Art Association
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: September 30, 2025
Location: South Hadley Senior Center
Address: 45 Dayton Street
City/Town: South Hadley
Website: quabbinartassociation.com

The Belchertown-based Quabbin Art Association (QAA) group exhibit features a variety of artworks, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, dry media and photography by local member artists throughout the CT River Valley of Western Massachusetts. Now in its 10th year, QAA provides education, support, and opportunity for local artists, and promotes community interest and appreciation in the visual arts.

Contact: Lisa Goldberg
Lisagoldbergart@yahoo.com
413-237-5660

Intimate Landscapes Exhibit

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 14, 2025
End Date: October 11, 2025
Location: First Congregational Church of Southampton
Hours: by appt only
Address: 212 College Highway
City/Town: Southampton
Website: floydgallery.com

The Robert Floyd Gallery has moved across the road to the Hall Gallery of the First Congregational Church of Southampton. We hold monthly exhibits with a warm reception. This exhibit is superb. See the intimate expressions of Mother Nature, up close and personal. Artists include: Dave Madeloni, Ed Hodgson, Laura George, MJ Tash, Steve Gingold, and Vern Wells. Image: Floating © MJ Tash

Contact: Robert Floyd
floyd@floydgallery.com
413-529-2635

The Power of She

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 28, 2025
End Date: January 25, 2026
Reception Date: September 28, 4-7pm
Location: Art For The Soul Gallery
Hours: Tue-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 12-4pm
Address: 1500 Main Street, STE 208
City/Town: Springfield
Website: artforthesoulgallery.com

A powerful exhibition that celebrates women and femme-identifying artists across Massachusetts who are reclaiming space through their art. Featuring work by Rosa Ibarra, Nora Valdez, Eva Lin Fahey, Aura Wu, Lily Nimmer, Louise Laplante, Malaika Ross, Donnabelle Casis, and Angela Ales, this show highlights themes of identity, empowerment, resilience, and transformation.

Contact: Sierra Myers
info@artforthesoulgallery.com
413-301-6314

We're Riding the Same Wave

Artist: Sunny Allis
Start Date: September 3, 2025
End Date: October 2, 2025
Location: Amy H Carberry Fine Arts Gallery, STCC
Hours: Mon-Wed 1-5pm, Thur 9:30am-1:30pm
Address: 1 Armory Street, B28
City/Town: Springfield
Website: stcc.io/carberry

We're Riding the Same Wave is a vibrant, participatory exhibition by artist Sunny Allis that invites visitors to rediscover the joy and resilience found in play. Through interactive environments and playful sculptural forms, visitors explore how transformation and queerness intersect to challenge fixed perspectives. Allis's work has been exhibited in major venues, including Museum of Fine Arts/Boston and Brooklyn Academy of Music, and internationally acclaimed animation festivals.

Contact: Sondra Peron
speron@stcc.edu
413-695-3196

Woodland Soundscape: An Interactive Art Exhibit

Artist: Ms. Green Jeanne
Start Date: September 2, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Location: Sunderland Public Library
Hours: Mon 10am-8pm, Tue & Wed 1-8pm, Thur 10am-5pm (sensory friendly hours), Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 10am-5pm
Address: 20 School Street
City/Town: Sunderland
Website: sunderlandpubliclibrary.org

The Woodland Soundscape series of canvas prints invites viewers to deepen their encounters with wildlife in New England forests. Luminous illustrations feature species with charismatic sounds, including: coyotes calling to each other, chipmunks responding to predators; barn owls calling, woodcock courtship sounds, hermit thrushes singing, and red tailed hawks calling. Explanatory info, including QR codes that link viewers to sound clips and animal ID apps will accompany the exhibit.

Contact: director@sunderlandpubliclibrary.org
413-665-2642

The Towns of Franklin County

Artists: The Springfield Photographic Society
Start Date: August 1, 2025
End Date: September 30, 2025
Location: Great Falls Discovery Center
Hours: Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
Address: 2 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners Falls
Website: greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org

Find out what makes our Franklin County communities so special through the eyes of avid photographers! See photographs of each community in Franklin County by members of the Springfield Photographic Society. Founded in 1937, the club is made up of enthusiasts from photographic novices to professionals who have in common a love of their craft. Among their recent field trips were stops in Franklin County. To learn more visit: www.springfield-ps.com

Contact: Janel Nockleby
janel.nockleby@mass.gov
413-863-3221

Theme in Yellow

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 20, 2025
End Date: October 26, 2025
Location: ArtWorks Gallery
Hours: Sat & Sun 1-4pm
Address: 69 Main Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Works of art riffing on yellow accompanied by poetry inspired by the selected works. Opening reception: September 20, 3-5pm - poetry reading at 4pm.

Contact: Marie Lauderdale
info@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

Jeanne Henry Hoose

Artist: Jeanne Henry Hoose
Start Date: August 4, 2025
End Date: September 29, 2025
Location: Westhampton Public Library
Hours: Mon 2-8pm, Tue & Wed 9am-12pm & 1-5pm, Thur 2-8pm, Sat 10am-1pm
Address: 1 North Road
City/Town: Westhampton
Website: instagram.com/jhhoose

Jeanne takes photos of the life and spaces around her and edits them to create the images she paints. At first using watercolor and gouache, she now paints almost exclusively in oils on primed watercolor paper.

Contact: Jeanne Henry Hoose
jeannehoose@gmail.com

Northampton Print & Book Fair 2025

Date: Saturday, September 27, 11am-5pm
Location: Workroom at 33 Hawley
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: northamptonprintandbookfair.net

Over 30 artists and publishers from across New England will fill the Workroom space at 33 Hawley for the Northampton Print & Book Fair! Artists will be showing and selling a wide range of prints, artists’ books and multiples: zines, comics, books of poetry, risograph prints, mini sculptures and ceramics, wearable art, stickers, and more.

Contact: Trevor Powers
northamptonprintandbookfair@gmail.com

27th Annual North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival

Date: September 27 & 28, 10am-5pm both days
Location: Forster Farm
Address: 60 Chestnut Hill Road
City/Town: Orange
Website: garlicandarts.org

The “Festival that Stinks” is a fabulous family friendly destination held amid the fall foliage on a historic farm. Wander among over 100 exhibitors with amazing art, farm-fresh products and food, healing arts, and community organizations. Three stages delight with music, performance, and spoken word. Travel the globe with glorious garlic cuisine and chef demos. Enjoy the free kids’ art-making tent and garlic games for all ages.

Market Street Market - A Curiosities Fair

Date: Saturday, October 4, 12-6pm
Location: Market Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: marketstmarketnoho.com

This day long event is not your typical bazaar. It's a curated fair of curiosities and oddities where treasures of the unusual collide with handmade wonders. Roam among the tents bursting with vintage rarities, taxidermy, arcane jewelry, bone art, tarot readings, gothic garments, and curiosity cabinets filled with things you can't unsee--and won't want to.

Contact: marketstmarketnorthampton@gmail.com
413-341-3055

ARToberFEST 2025

Date: Saturday, September 27, 10am-4pm
Location: Downtown Westfield (MA) Cultural District
Address: three city blocks along Elm Street between Court Street & Arnold Street
City/Town: Westfield
Website: ArtWorksWestfield.com

ARToberFEST is a free outdoor urban art festival featuring visual art, local literature, local music, street performers and art galleries in downtown Westfield. Fine art created by over 80 local and regional artists and artisans will be on display and available for purchase on the city sidewalk along Elm Street and at the Elm Street Plaza. Mediums include painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, collage, photography, printmaking, digital art, wood, glass, metal, fiber, clay, ceramics and more.

Contact: Bill Westerlind
info@artworkswestfield.com
413-335-6976

Community Art Show at the LAVA Center

Sponsoring Group Name: The LAVA Center
Deadline: October 11
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org

Theme: Heart & Soul. On display November and December. Note: No free-standing sculpture (contact for more info). Register online or email your submission with your name, title, and a JPEG/PNG of your piece!

Contact: art@thelavacenter.org

Seeking new members at Shelburne Arts Co-op

Sponsoring Group Name: Shelburne Arts Co-op
Deadline: ongoing
Submission/Entry Fees: $5
City/Town: Shelburne Falls

The Shelburne Arts Co-op is seeking applications from potters and jewelers interested in becoming members of this vibrant gallery. Located on the main shopping street in Shelburne Falls, the Co-op has been in business for 26 years and has a strong local following as well as a lively tourist trade.

Contact: Flo Rosenstock
sac01370@gmail.com
413 625-9324

The Great Holyoke Brick Race

Sponsoring Group Name: Holyoke Local Cultural Council & Holyoke Art, Inc
Deadline: September 28, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: forms.gle/HZ9mJNYmtRehNkBr7

The Great Holyoke Brick Race is back on Saturday, October 11, 1–3pm, on Race Street in downtown Holyoke. Part art project, part engineering challenge, and part pure community fun, the Brick Race invites families, artists, school groups, and teams of all kinds to design wild, wheeled contraptions that all share one common element: a standard building brick at their core. Space is limited to 50 entries, accepted first-come, first-served--so don't wait!

Pelham Cultural Council seeks funding proposals

Sponsoring Group Name: Pelham Cultural Council
Deadline: October 16, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Pelham
Website: massculturalcouncil.org

The Pelham Cultural Council encourages organizations, schools, and individuals to apply for grants that support cultural activities in the community. These grants can support a variety of artistic projects and activities in Pelham or the Amherst-Pelham public schools--Including exhibits, festivals, field trips, short-term artist residencies, performances, workshops, and lectures. More info and application on website.

Contact: John Page
pelhamculture@gmail.com
413-658-4460

Lowbrow Craft Fair 2025

Sponsoring Group Name: Lowbrow Craft Fair
Deadline: October 1, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: facebook.com/lowbrowcraftfair

Applications for this year's Lowbrow Craft Fair (12-5pm on 12/13 at First Churches) are now open. The deadline to apply is 10/1. No late applications will be accepted. Lowbrow is a carefully curated fair. We are looking for handmade, quirky, punky, and unique things that people can buy directly from the person(s) who made, designed, or wrote them. We expect the artists and makers accepted to Lowbrow to be present during the duration of the event. More info & application link on our Facebook page.

Contact: lowbrowfair@gmail.com

Artists al FRENTA: South Holyoke

Sponsoring Group Name: Nueva Esperanza
Deadline: ongoing
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: artlink.click/e5y

Show your art in our window! This rotating display features local artists and their work, connecting the community with creativity. It's a chance to share your story and brighten up the neighborhood. Get involved and be part of something visible and vibrant!

Wagers & Whispers: Place Your Bet On Community Art Contest

Sponsoring Group Name: Springfield Department of Health & Human Services & The GARI Project
Deadline: September 28, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Springfield
Website: gariproject.org/wagers-and-whispers

Get creative to raise awareness about how gambling affects youth and young adults in Springfield. Share your thoughts, stories, and perspectives about gambling using your choice of creative art/expression! All submissions are valued and contribute to helping our community--together! Every story matters, even if you've never gambled. No art experience required - all levels welcome! Visit website to learn more about the contest.

Contact: Theresa Glenn
gariproject413@gmail.com

Virtual Exhibits on the Jones Library website

Sponsoring Group Name: Burnett Gallery Committee
Deadline: October 31, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Amherst
Website: joneslibrary.org/galleryapplication

The Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library invites artists to apply to exhibit in VIRTUAL monthly shows beginning January 2026 and ending December 2026. Exhibits will include 12 images, artists' statements, and contact information. Interested local artists may apply as individuals or groups via the website. Images of artwork created in two or three-dimensional mediums, sculpture, and craft are welcome.

Contact: Elisa Campbell
burnettgallerycommittee@gmail.com

Apply to Exhibit at ECA Gallery

Sponsoring Group Name: Easthampton City Arts
Deadline: October 8, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.com/resources/call-for-artists

The ECA Gallery is centrally located in a well-trafficked area in the heart of downtown. Approximately 150 square feet, the gallery is an intimate space that can accommodate a variety of mediums from 2- and 3-D work to video and installations. Exhibits include an artist's reception that coincides with ECA's monthly Art Walk event, which takes place on the First Saturday of each month. Full details and application form on website.

CitySpace Pop-Up Markets

Sponsoring Group Name: CitySpace
Deadline: rolling
Submission/Entry Fees: no fee to apply
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: cityspaceeasthampton.org/popup

CitySpace is hosting a series of mini Pop-Up Markets on the first Saturday of the month, 4-7pm, during CitySpace Bluegrass and Art Walk Easthampton. Open to all makers of all kinds located in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties. If accepted, the vending fee is sliding scale $10-$30.

GIVE ME FIVE

Sponsoring Group Name: Art Fluent
Deadline: October 31, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: $35
City/Town: Boston
Website: artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=15742

Art Fluent invites artists worldwide to submit a series of artwork to our online exhibit, GIVE ME FIVE. AF is turning 5, and we want your five! Five pieces. One vision. We're curating a lineup of mini collections, and yours could be one of them. Five pieces that reflect an intentional, cohesive series that showcases your unique style. Think of it as a mini solo show within a group celebration. Show us GIVE ME FIVE from your perspective.

Contact: Amy Matteson Neill
hello@art-fluent.com
508-419-1015

NCFA Curatorial Committee

Sponsoring Group Name: Northampton Center for the Arts
Deadline: rolling
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/barn-door-gallery#committee

NCFA's yearly call for art for the Barn Door Gallery is now open, and the 2025 curatorial committee will meet this summer to choose the exhibits for the September '25 - August '26 gallery season. Are you an artist, arts lover, patron, curator, or supporter who wants to participate in this process? Please apply! Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and kept on file until you have a chance to serve. See website to learn more!

Vending For You Program / 2025 Art Market Season

Sponsoring Group Name: Mill River Marginalized Artists Collective (MRMAC)
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Submission/Entry Fees: sliding scale $30-$50 with an option for payment over time
City/Town: Western MA
Website: mill-river-marginalized-artist-collective.square.site/vending-for-you

For numerous reasons marginalized artists may not be able to attend Art Markets. By working together we can make this easier for all of us! MRMAC applies to Art Markets on the Vending For You Program's behalf. We coordinate drop offs of artwork at our office, provide digital marketing, transport artwork and materials to the Art Markets, work with volunteers to run the MRMAC booths, and send artists their sales! Full details and application on website.

Contact: mrmacollective@gmail.com
413-427-9653

2025 Mentoring Program for Early Career Artists

Sponsoring Group Name: Valley Arts Mentors (VAM)
Deadline: rolling
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: artsmentors.org/mentorship

VAM is currently accepting registrations for mentors and mentees! We match 10 - 15 mentor/mentee pairs a year on a rolling basis. Commitment: Mentors and mentees connect online or in person once every two weeks for a six month period. Full details and registration form on website.

Contact: admin@artsmentors.org
508-439-2069

Drawing For Everyone with Hannah Harvester

Date & Time: Thursdays, 10am-12pm, October 9 - December 4
Fee: $175
Location: Greenfield Community College
Address: 46 Delabarre Avenue
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: engage.gcc.mass.edu

Drawing is a wonderful way to connect with the world and bring calm and focus to the mind. Whether you've been drawing for years or are a complete beginner, this eight-session class will help you improve how you see in order to draw more accurately. We'll work mainly in pencil and will incorporate many lessons from Betty Edwards' classic Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

Contact: Hannah Harvester
Hannahharvesterfineart@gmail.com
919-951-4200

Gel Plate Printmaking at Zea Mays Printmaking

Date & Time: Saturday, October 18, 10am-5pm
Fee: $175 + $40 materials fee
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/gel-plate-printmaking

All levels of participants are invited to explore the open-ended world of Gel Plate printing! This workshop is ideal for anyone who enjoys hands-on, process-based art, coupled with personal creative exploration and guidance. We'll spend a relaxed day printing and playing on 8"x10" Gel Plates that are flexible and receptive to all types of textures. We'll be spontaneous and improvisational, controlling, changing, and accepting our images as each of us creates our family of prints together.

Contact: Kaye Carroll
kaye@zeamaysprintmaking.com
413-584-1783

Introduction to Etching Evening Workshop at Zea Mays Printmaking

Date & Time: Wednesdays, 6-9pm, October 29 - November 19
Fee: $170 + $35 materials fee
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/introduction-to-etching-evening-workshop

Dive into the world of printmaking with two of the most foundational and versatile processes in etching: hardground and aquatint. This workshop takes place on Wednesday evenings over the course of 4 weeks, and will introduce participants to the uniquely crisp printed line you get from a hardground etching and the vast variation in tones that can be added onto a single plate with aquatint. Come start your etching journey in a one-of-a-kind studio that values safety and sustainability.

Contact: Kaye Carroll
kaye@zeamaysprintmaking.com
413-584-1783

Beginning Stained Glass Workshop at Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio

Date & Time: September 27, 1-5:30pm
Fee: $125
Location: Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, suite 229
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com

Create a beautiful sun catcher or 2-4 ornaments to grace your home or give as gifts. In this class we will cover all of the skills and techniques to build a unique piece(s) of stained glass art using the copper foil technique. This is a perfect class for students with no experience as well as intermediate students with some experience who may want a refresher course. All levels welcome. All glass and supplies included in the tuition as is use of all tools. More class dates: Oct 4 & 5, Nov 15 & 16.

Contact: Heather McLean
Info@DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com
413-559-1010

Sewing Classes at Grove House Sewing Studio

Date & Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays / beginning week of October 27th
Fee: $240 for 6-week series
Location: Grove House Sewing Studio
Address: 221 Pine Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: grovehousesewingstudio.com

Come sew at Grove House Sewing Studio! Garment, accessories, home decor. Classes are small, community is supportive, and the sewing process is so fun! If you haven't ever sewn or not in many years, or you are looking to level-up your sewing, classes at Grove House are right for you. Late Fall classes begin the week of October 27th.

Contact: Rachael Wein
GroveHouseSewingStudio@gmail.com
510-301-8434

Decorate a Dabble Tote Bag

Date & Time: Saturday, October 11, 2-4pm
Fee: $25
Location: Private Home - address provided upon registration
City/Town: Shutesbury
Website: dabbleartmarket.com

Decorate your own Dabble tote bag (100% cotton canvas hand printed with the Dabble logo) using flowers and botanically dyed embroidery floss!

Contact: dabbleartmarket@gmail.com

ARTeens at The Art Garden

Date & Time: Tuesdays or Thursdays, 3-6pm, October 28 - December 18
Fee: pay what you can
Location: The Art Garden
Address: 14 Depot Street, Suite 2
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: theartgarden.org

ARTeens is a weekly after school program at The Art Garden in Shelburne Falls. ARTeens fall sessions run for seven weeks (10/28 - 12/18), meeting Tues or Thurs. ARTeens is open to teens ages 12-19. More info & applications available at theartgarden.org/for-teens and due Oct 17th or until the program is full. ARTeens is a pay-what-you-can program, you decide how much you can pay. Everyone is asked to contribute something because everything helps make the program possible.

Contact: Jane Beatrice Wegscheider
csartgarden@gmail.com
413-625-2782

Palette Knife Painting with Debbie Padden

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 24, 6-8:30pm
Fee: $40 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Come join us and learn a fun new way to paint! Palette knife painting is a unique and fun approach to creating texture and expressive strokes. All materials included. All ages.

Contact: Mary Remington
remington@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

Sip 'n Paint: Fall Trail at Workshop13

Date & Time: Thursday, September 25, 6:30-8:30pm
Fee: $40 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Whether you're a seasoned artist or haven't touched a paintbrush since elementary school, this step-by-step guided painting class is designed for everyone. This is a BYOB event, so feel free to bring your favorite wine, beer, or non-alcoholic drink. All materials included. Ages 21+ (BYOB)

Contact: Mary Remington
remington@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

Painting with Acrylics with Debbie Padden

Date & Time: Thursdays, 5-7pm, September 30 - October 21
Fee: $120 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Over the course of four weeks, this class will guide you through the fundamentals of landscape composition, color theory, and brush techniques, all while encouraging your unique artistic expression. All materials included.

Contact: Mary Remington
remington@workshop13.org
413-277-6072

Swap n' Stitch Costume Upcycling at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: Thursdays, 6-8pm, October 2-23
Fee: suggested donation $10 per person
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Ste #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: hisawyer.com/resilient-community-arts/schedules/activity-set/1606275

Bring an old costume (or trade for a new-to-you one) and use our stash of craft supplies and textile scraps to reinvent, reimagine, and refresh your Halloween look. Whether you're adding a spooky twist, sewing something sparkly, or creating a costume from scratch, this is a fun, all-ages drop-in space to get creative, swap ideas, and save both money and materials.

Contact: info@resilientcommunityarts.org
413-342-0396

Learn to Paint: awaken your creativity at Awaken Art

Date & Time: October 19 - December 7, 4:30-7pm (no class 11/30)
Fee: $280 includes paint & most supplies
Location: Awaken Art
Address: Indian Orchard Mills, 134 Front Street, Studio 341
City/Town: Indian Orchard
Website: jenniferoconnell.net

Develop the skills to find your own voice through color and paint using water mixable oils and have fun in the process! You'll come away with a strengthened ability to navigate color in your own work, regardless of medium. Plus, you'll be encouraged to tune into your perceptions, and connect with the present moment through painting. You'll share in a supportive classroom community set in an airy, light, and spacious mill studio. Elevator access. Building gallery space available for exhibitions.

Contact: Jennifer O'Connell
awaken.art.now@gmail.com

Costume Clinic at Make Fix Hack

Date & Time: Mondays, 6-8pm, October 6 & 20
Fee: free/donation
Location: Make Fix Hack
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 044
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: makefixhack.org

At Mending Mondays we help you finish your projects! Halloween is just around the corner and we're here to help you get your costume ready! Get advice, tips, and help with techniques. Work on your costumes in a supportive environment and have fun with hanging out with other crafty people.

Contact: Alexis
info@makefixhack.org

The Improvisational Portrait Painting with Wynne Dromey

Date & Time: Saturdays, 9am-1pm, October 11-25
Fee: $295 + $15 lab fee
Location: Location to be announced
Website: humanscaleartspace.org

"The Improvisational Portrait" turns the highly disciplined and fine tuned "realist aesthetic" on its head. If you like the idea of working faster and more freely to create a finished piece that might take a matter of hours or days rather than months, this workshop is for you. Taught by Wynne Dromey whose work has been featured in more than a dozen regional exhibitions since 2020 including the recent Emerging Artists Exhibition, at Harold Stevens Gallery.

Contact: Rick Colson
rickcolson@humanscaleartspace.org
413-206-1855

Classical Painting Techniques Workshops with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 10am-1pm, September 23 - October 28
Fee: $485
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Studio #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barbarajohnson.com

Students are guided through a series of painting exercises designed to build their perception of tonal values, color temperature, and aerial perspective, the essential ingredients of strong realistic painting since the Renaissance. Information on color mixing, organizing the palette, the care, maintenance, and function of the various brushes and materials used. Class size limited to ensure quality individualized instruction. All levels welcome.

Contact: Barbara Johnson
BarbaraJohnson202@gmail.com
413-259-7727

Introduction to the Art of Drawing with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Wednesdays, 6-8:30pm, October 1 - November 5
Fee: $395
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Studio #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barbarajohnson.com

Explore the basic language and principles of drawing- the foundation of art explorations. Experience a series of exercises and materials designed to build the perceptual skills used in the "Art of seeing". Gain confidence with graphite and charcoal pencils and become familiar with different paper surfaces available.

Contact: Barbara Johnson
BarbaraJohnson202@gmail.com
413-259-7727

The Anatomy of Landscape Drawing with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Sundays, 10am-5pm, September 28 & October 5
Fee: $395
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Studio #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: barbarajohnson.com

Learn the Building Blocks of Landscape Drawing: Plants, trees, clouds, land formations and their structure. Using a variety of drawing materials, you will explore texture and aerial perspective, how to effectively use the placement of the horizon in your drawings, and study many compositional devices that artists have used to convey depth and their feelings for their chosen subject. Local outdoor sites to be arranged. BYOL.

Contact: Barbara Johnson
BarbaraJohnson202@gmail.com
413-259-7727

Figure Drawing at Looky Here

Date & Time: Thursday, 6-8pm, September 25
Fee: $15
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com

BYO materials! Easel and drawing horses provided. Figure Drawing at Looky Here is an uninstructed drawing session with a nude model. $15 per session, running 6-8pm on over other Thursday evening. *Participates in Card to Culture

Contact: Sarah Wisby
sarahfran@mac.com
415-321-9691

Whimsical Felted Goldfish Workshop at Fiddleheads Gallery

Date & Time: Saturday, October 25, 12:30-4pm
Fee: $45 DVAA members / $50 nonmembers / + $5 for materials
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: 105 Main Street
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

Learn basic wet felting techniques. All materials and supplies needed to make a single fish will be provided (choice of colors will be available), and you may take home the reusable wet felting mat and roller for use at home for an extra charge of $15 (cash or check). Please bring a large bowl or basin, plastic, dishwashing gloves, and 1 to 2 old bath towels. Minimum of 4 people for class to run. 10 yrs old and up, under 16 requires an adult to assist. Beginner friendly.

Contact: Chris Pellerin
cspellerin603@gmail.com

Learn to Hand Embroider at Amber Lane Cafe and Pub

Date & Time: September 28, 2-5pm
Fee: $40
Location: Amber Lane Cafe and Pub
Address: 1 Amber Lane
City/Town: Northampton

Whether you want to decorate existing clothes or make beautiful wall art, this class will teach you multiple embroidery stitches and provide a sampler for you to take home. No experience required, no supplies needed! Hoop, fabric, design, thread, and needles will be provided for each student.

Contact: Kathleen B
sewwithkathleen@gmail.com

How to Fit Paper Sewing Patterns at Easthampton Library Annex

Date & Time: October 4, 11am-2pm
Fee: free
Location: Easthampton Library Annex
Address: 52 Main Street
City/Town: Easthampton

Learn how to read pattern sizing, measure yourself properly, and discover some basic pattern adjustment techniques. Bring 2 paper patterns, we'll use at least 1 per person in class. Or just come and learn!

Contact: Kathleen B
sewwithkathleen@gmail.com

Improvisational Quilt Cards with Ed Johnetta Miller

Date & Time: Saturday, October 18, 12-3pm
Fee: $50 DVAA members / $60 nonmembers
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: 105 Main Street
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

This is a beginner-friendly workshop! Join us for a fun and inspiring workshop with nationally acclaimed fiber artist, Ed Johnetta Miller! Materials are included. One of the most generous artists and instructors you'll ever meet, Ed Johnetta has dedicated her time and resources to teaching and organizing community projects. She offers classes and workshops for all ages. Please check out her website for her exhibitions, collections, and published articles and books: edjohnetta.com

Contact: Julie Root Sawyer
jrootsawyer@gmail.com
413-221-1695

Collage Club at Looky Here

Date & Time: Saturday, September 27, 1-3pm
Fee: $10
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com

The Collage Club is where you can play, experiment, and learn the fundamentals of creating a collage! No experience is necessary to participate and open to all ages! All collage materials will be provided or you can bring your own. We will meet from 1-3 pm. Tickets for this event are $10 each class. Let's cut things up, glue them down, and create something beautiful! For Card to Culture Tickets, please email LookyHereGreenfield@gmail.com

Contact: Sarah Wisby
sarahfran@mac.com
415-321-9691

Intermediate Watercolor with Melissa Pandina

Date & Time: October 21 - December 16, 6:15-9:15pm
Fee: $189 + materials
Location: Holyoke Community College
Address: 303 Homestead Aveue
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: hcc.coursestorm.com/course/intermediate-watercolor-painting-arts-052-51-crn-363213?page=2

Continue your watercolor journey. In this class we will be expanding our technique repertoire. We will also be exploring more complex subject matter like fire, water and reflections. This is a great class to get you out of your comfort zone and bring your skills to the next level while having fun. All skill levels welcome. Instructor Melissa Pandina. Materials $25-$100 not included in tuition fee. Students will receive the list of material after registering to the class.

Contact: Melissa Pandina
deshria@gmail.com
413-552-8068

Introduction to Water Soluable Oils with Melissa Pandina

Date & Time: November 3 - December 22, 6:15-9:15pm
Fee: $189
Location: Holyoke Community College
Address: 303 Homestead Aveue
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: hcc.coursestorm.com/course/introduction-to-water-soluble-oils-arts-076-51-crn-36707?page=2

Explore Water soluble oil painting with no fear. Best part? We will be walking through a step by step process to create successful paintings each time. Starting with underpaintings and ending in glazing. In the first class you will experiment with brush vs palette knife paintings. We will explore different techniques to get to your desired style. Best of all, we will be using water soluble products, so no toxic solvents.

Contact: Melissa Pandina
deshria@gmail.com
413-552-8068

Decorative Paper Covered Journals at Antler Editions

Date & Time: Saturday, September 27, 10am-2pm
Fee: $150
Location: Antler Editions
Address: 1 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: antlereditions.com/workshops/decorative-paper-covered-journals

In this beginner class we will explore three different journal cover techniques using thin decorative paper. We've all been to the art supply store and oogled at all the decorative handmade and Japanese papers... maybe even collecting a piece or two every time you go. (It can't be just me!) These structures use minimal adhesives making it easy to work with these papers without worrying about warping or glue bleed through. Students will leave class with three 4×6 paper journals.

Contact: Lisa Hersey
lisa@antlereditions.com
413-204-2431

One Signature Hard Covers at Antler Editions

Date & Time: Tuesday, October 7, 10am-2pm
Fee: $150
Location: Antler Editions
Address: 1 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: antlereditions.com/workshops/one-signature-hard-covers

In this beginner class we will explore two hardcover structures using single signatures. Students will choose their book cloth, end sheets and thread from a variety of choices in studio. These structures are great for elevating your simple pamphlet stitch and adding some more rigidity to your small sketchbooks. This class is great for home crafters (gift season is upon us!), poets looking to self publish their work, and printmakers looking for another way to display their work.

Contact: Lisa Hersey
lisa@antlereditions.com
413-204-2431

Four Needle Coptic Stitch at Antler Editions

Date & Time: Saturday, October 18, 10am-2pm
Fee: $150
Location: Antler Editions
Address: 1 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: antlereditions.com/workshops/four-needle-coptic-stitch

In this beginner to intermediate bookbinding workshop we will create lay flat journals with flexible Japanese paper covers that are sewn with a four needle coptic stitch. That's right! Four sewing needles at once! This may be intimidating to beginners, but is a simple structure once you get going. Basic bookbinding or sewing skills, and strong hand stills are a must for this class.

Contact: Lisa Hersey
lisa@antlereditions.com
413-204-2431

Collage Club at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: first Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30pm
Fee: sliding scale
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Ste #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: hisawyer.com/resilient-community-arts/schedules/activity-set/1464789

RCA is know for our endless supply of Nat Geo magazines, wacky prints and collected odds and ends. We figured it was time we give our collage fanatics a special program just for you! Pre-Registration is not required but appreciated! All ages are invited to join, but we ask that kids under 12 are supervised by an adult. Ages 12-17 can attend solo with written or phone call permission from a guardian. We supply all materials, but feel free to bring your own project if you'd like!

Contact: info@resilientcommunityarts.org
413-342-0396

ASAP - After School Art Program at Artspace

Date & Time: Thursdays, 2:15-5:15pm, September 4 - June 18
Fee: $95 for 4-week block
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/asap-teens

Register for 4 week blocks! *$95/block when you use code BACK2SCHOOL! Effective until October 1st* Drop by after school, doors are open 2:15-5:15pm, and work on your creative art practice among peers with the mentorship of a professional artist & educator, Chloe Torri. We will have a new, optional project each week for you to join in on if you like OR you can bring your own projects, sketchbook, or inspiration. ALL art materials are provided!

Contact: info@artspacegreenfield.org
413-772-6811

Visible Mending with Heidi Weeks of Plum

Date & Time: Friday, September 26, 5-7:30pm
Fee: $15
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/september-26-visible-mending

Learn the art of visible mending--a creative and sustainable way to repair your favorite garments. This is slow stitching as meditation and self-expression, all while keeping clothing out of the landfill. No sewing experience necessary--just bring something in need of mending and a willingness to stitch outside the lines.

Contact: info@artspacegreenfield.org
413-772-6811

Beginning Pottery on the Wheel with Lucien Koonce

Date & Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:30-8pm, September 30 - November 6
Fee: $335
Location: Lucien Koonce Ceramics Studio
Address: 12 Kingsley Avenue
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: lucienkoonce.com

For those interested in learning how to make pottery on the wheel for the first time, or those that have very limited experience. Classes are for six weeks at my studio in Haydenville. See website to learn more and to register.

Contact: Lucien Koonce
lmkoonce@mindspring.com
413-320-6381

Linocut Portrait with Chine Colle Printmaking Workshop at Fiddleheads Gallery

Date & Time: Friday, October 10 & 17, 9-11:30am
Fee: $70 DVAA members / $80 nonmembers / + $50 for materials
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: 105 Main Street
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

A beginner-friendly workshop! Bring reference images for your initial drawing. 10/10: Create your linocut portrait by preparing & testing your EZ-Cut block. 10/17: Create your Chine Collé details by creating several gelli prints on tissue paper and applying them to original print. There is an additional $50 fee for the materials due on the day of the workshop.

Contact: Julie Root Sawyer
jrootsawyer@gmail.com
413-221-1695

Sliding Scale Workshops at Make-It Springfield

Location: Make-It Springfield
Address: 286 Bridge Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: makeitspringfield.org/events

Make-It Springfield offers sliding scale workshops designed to make creativity accessible for all. Rooted in inclusion and collaboration, these hands-on sessions welcome participants of all backgrounds and skill levels to explore art, culture, and technology in a supportive, community-driven environment.

Contact: info@makeitspringfield.org
413-455-0663

Fall Classes Registration now open at Northampton Center for the Arts

Fee: varies
Location: Northampton Center for the Arts
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/schedule-of-classes-workshops-and-other-programs

The sun is blazing but fall will be here before you know it! Check out the new class listings and stay tuned for more to come!

Contact: ncfa@nohoarts.org

Sip & Sketch Weekly Adult Drawing Class at The Artery

Date & Time: Thursdays, 5-6:30pm
Fee: $25
Location: The Artery
Address: 289 High Street
City/Town: Holyoke

Join this weekly drawing class for adults! No experience is necessary, so all skill levels are welcome. We'll go over good tools and materials to use, different ways to draw from life, and try fun exercises to help us relax and have fun.$25 per class. All materials are included in the registration price. Price is prorated weekly according to how many session remain. This class is for 21+ and is BYO favorite wine or other beverage.

Contact: Rachel Rushing
rachel@holyokeart.com

Intermediate Stained Glass Workshop at Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio

Date & Time: September 24, 5-8pm
Fee: $75
Location: Dragonfly Stained Glass Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, suite 229
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com

We will cover the skills and techniques to build a unique piece of stained glass using the copper foil technique. Students may choose any size and style of pattern, bring their own pattern or draw an original. Use of tools included in tuition. Glass, foil and solder will be available for purchase. Class designed for students who have completed our beginning/sun catcher class or who have equivalent experience. More class dates: Oct 22 & Nov 19.

Contact: Heather McLean
Info@DragonflyStainedGlassStudio.com
413-559-1010

Lost Wax Bronze Casting Demonstrations at River Studios

Date & Time: Saturday, 1-4pm, October 11
Fee: $25
Location: River Studios
Address: 36 East River Road
City/Town: Middlefield
Website: andrewdevries.com/events

Andrew DeVries will demonstrate the ancient process of lost wax bronze casting, offering attendees a rare opportunity to witness this centuries-old technique firsthand. After the demo, guests can take a guided Sculpture Trail tour through River Studios' wildflower meadow and shaded groves, where more than 40 up to life size bronze sculptures are installed. The tour concludes in the DeVries Fine Art International gallery, with wine and refreshments and an unveiling of his latest creation.

Contact: Andrew DeVries
andrew@andrewdevries.com
413-238-7755

Designing Murals with Photoshop & Procreate with Eric Okdeh

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 6-8:30pm, December 2-30, 2025
Fee: $500
Location: online via Common Wealth Murals
City/Town: Springfield
Website: commonwealthmurals.org/muraltrainingcourses

This online course includes interactive instruction, hands-on exercises, and guided feedback. You will learn: How to accurately measure a wall of any size and create a digital template, no lift required; Digital mural design; Organizing design layers for maximum efficiency; Simplifying your artwork for community painting; Tools for generating a color key and paint list; Gridding your design and preparing projection files for polytab installationFull details on website.

Contact: Talysha
info@commonwealthmurals.org
413-206-1517

The Muralist's Toolkit: Mural Project Planning from Vision to Execution

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 6-9pm, January 13 - February 25, 2026
Fee: $700
Location: online via Common Wealth Murals
City/Town: Springfield
Website: commonwealthmurals.org/muraltrainingcourses

This expert-led online course provides a comprehensive "how-to" guide to community muralism, covering everything from the practical skills needed to execute large-scale public art projects to techniques for gathering community input on mural themes and designs. Through real-life examples and actionable strategies, participants will learn how to craft compelling artist statements, develop strong project pitches, and deliver effective design presentations. Full details on website.

Contact: Talysha
info@commonwealthmurals.org
413-206-1517

Drop-in-and-Draw with Kemah Wilson

Date & Time: Thursdays, 11:30am-1pm
Fee: free
Location: The LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: facebook.com/share/14hqaqv48Z

Cultivating Connections and Community through Creative Expression. Join host Kemah Wilson in this relaxed and fun family friendly activity. There is no cost. Donations Welcome.

Contact: Kemah
noiles21@yahoo.com

Drop-In Public Studio at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: first Saturdays, 4:30-7pm
Fee: suggested donation $10-$15/hr per person
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Ste #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: resilientcommunityarts.org/program-registration/p/drop-in-studio

The time is yours! Drop In Public Studio is supervised by RCA studio assistants and instructors. There is no set theme or project for drop-in studio hours, but our staff will always be there to share new techniques, equipment, and ideas with you! Come to hang out in community, use any of RCA's supplies, and create independently! Drop-In Studio takes place on the first Saturday of every month during Easthampton's Art Walk.

Contact: info@resilientcommunityarts.org
413-342-0396

Monthly Memberships at Pivot Pottery

Date(s) Available: September 2025
Location: Pivot Pottery
Address: 221 Pine Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: pivotpottery.com

Monthly membership opportunities available at Pivot Pottery for those looking to work independently in a spacious, sunny, clean, community clay studio. See website for membership options which can include private mentorship with owner, Tiffany Hilton. The studio is well equipped with wheels, slab-roller, hand tools, glazes, resource library, and HEPA air filter. Maximum 28 members.

Contact: Tiffany Hilton
high_fired@hotmail.com
413-824-6506

Open the Doors to HYPHAE Makers Market & Skills Studio

Goal: $65,000
End Date: December 31, 2025
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bit.ly/hyphaecrowdfunding

HYPHAE: Makers Market & Skills Studio is the first 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC-centered creative retail and workshop space in Western Massachusetts. Offering a mix of unique handmade items, artist-led skills courses, and creative business support for local makers, their goal is to be a "third space" for authentic, intersectional community-building and connection. Their work is driven by their core values: authenticity, collaboration, community care, and creative entrepreneurship.

Contact: M Rudder
hyphaemakersmarket@proton.me
413-387-2684

Abracadabra Film Lab

Goal: $15,000
End Date: October 27, 2025
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: kickstarter.com/projects/abracadabrafilmlab/abracadabra-film-lab

Abracadabra is going to be a brick and mortar Film Lab / Camera Store that also offers many other ways to experience photography. Over the past 10 years we've seen a huge shift where everything has moved online and we've lost so many physical spaces dedicated to art. At Abracadabra you can buy camera gear, have your film developed, hang out, chat, look at art, support photographers through buying their art prints, meet other photographers or learn about other cool photography experiences in the Valley.