From Art Objects to Ecosystems: Reframing Himalayan Buddhist Shrines - Talk by Melissa Kerin

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 5-6pm
Location: Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
Address: 17 Fayerweather Drive
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/art/a-calendar/node/942107

Melissa Kerin is a historian specializing in South Asian visual culture, sacred spaces, and the intersections of art, religion, and cultural heritage. In the Ladakhi village of Tingmosgang is a shrine housing a white stone, four-armed sculpture of Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. Kerin argues that this shrine functions not simply as the house of a miraculous image, but as the center of a dynamic devotional system activated through rituals, fertility rites, and regional pilgrimage.

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

Slow Art Day at Gallery A3

Date: Saturday, April 11, 2-7pm
Location: Gallery A3
Address: 28 Amity Street 1D
City/Town: Amherst
Website: gallerya3.com

Celebrate Slow Art Day at Gallery A3 on Saturday, April 11. Look at one single artwork for a full 5 minutes. Gallery hosts available to chat about your experience and to suggest ways to slow down and see. And then, if you wish, do it again! On Slow Art Day, join others doing the same thing on the same day, in 40+ venues around the world. Families welcome. More information, see www.slowartday.com

Contact: Laura Holland
laurajholland@gmail.com
413-695-0035

Crossing Narratives

Artist: Angel Abreu
Start Date: March 27, 2026
End Date: May 8, 2026
Location: Augusta Savage Gallery
Hours: Mon & Tue 1-7pm, Wed-Fri 1-5pm
Address: UMass Amherst
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/crossing-narratives

A new exhibition by Angel Abreu that reimagines foundational literary works through a contemporary lens. As artist in residence at Augusta Savage Gallery, Abreu embarks on an artistic exploration of “James,” Percival Everett’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” told from the perspective of the formerly enslaved character Jim. Like Everett’s novel, Abreu’s work challenges dominant narratives around race, agency, and representation in American literature and culture.

Contact: Maddie Fabian
mfabian@umass.edu
413-545-9663

FLORA & FAUNA

Artists: Nancy Meagher, Laura Holland
Start Date: April 2, 2026
End Date: May 2, 2026
Reception Date: April 10, 5-7pm
Location: Gallery A3
Hours: Thur-Sun 2-7pm
Address: 28 Amity Street 1D, cinema courtyard
City/Town: Amherst
Website: gallerya3.com

Laura Holland explores plant life growing inside and outside the glass walls of a greenhouse, in sequences of photographs assembled into artist books. In lushly textured oil paintings, Nancy Meagher revisits two favorite themes: flowers in a vase on a pink table and trees in melting snow on a hillside near her house. Working also with poetry and prose, both artists add stories about animals to the mix of FLORA & FAUNA. image left, Nancy Meagher; right, Laura Holland

Contact: Laura Holland
laurajholland@gmail.com
413-256-4250

Hampden Gallery: Blast from the Past

Start Date: March 1, 2026
End Date: April 19, 2026
Location: Hampden Gallery
Hours: Sun-Fri 5-10pm
Address: UMass Amherst
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/hampden-gallery

In celebration of the Fine Arts Center's fiftieth anniversary season, Hampden Gallery: Blast from the Past presents archival photos documenting Hampden Gallery's history since its founding. The photographs are featured as part of the gallery's Open-Air Projection to Invite Conversation after-hours outdoor video program. The exhibition is curated by UMass student Aine Carey.

Déjà vu: The Cycles That Haunt Us

Start Date: February 8, 2026
End Date: May 8, 2026
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art
Hours: Tue-Fri 11am-4:30pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm, first Thursdays 11am-8pm
Address: UMass Amherst
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/deja-vu

Marking two decades of the program, the show traces recurring cycles of thought and social commentary that echo through previous exhibitions. Enduring sociopolitical concerns persist in the themes of the program's earliest exhibitions to its most recent. Co-curated by Suzanne Bagia (MFA, English) and Caelen Trujillo (MA, art history).

Contact: Maddie Fabian
mfabian@umass.edu
413-545-9663

Large Paintings of a Small World, Small Paintings of a Large World

Artist: Christine Copeland
Start Date: February 12, 2026
End Date: May 29, 2026
Location: Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Hours: Mon- Fri 9am-4pm
Address: 845 West Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: bcc-studios.com/paintings.html

In this exhibit, we look at scale. When we look closely at a very small life form - a hummingbird moth, a bee, a tadpole - our experience is focused and immediate. We dive deeply into a world that is, in many ways, foreign to us, and we make it large. On the other hand, how do we imagine an immense space by viewing a small 6" x 9" painting? And yet we do. We translate that small image into a huge space in our imaginations and we remember our response to expansiveness.

Contact: Christine Copeland
christinecopeland16@gmail.com
413-834-1020

9th Annual Black Art Matters Festival

Start Date: March 3, 2026
End Date: May 3, 2026
Location: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Address: 41 Quadrangle Drive
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/museums/mead/events/BAM-Fest

The Black Art Matters Festival affirms and celebrates Black student artists and creators. Zoe Akoto (Class of 2021) started the Black Art Matters Festival in 2018 when she noticed that the creative work of Black students was rarely seen on campus. Over the past seven years, the annual Festival has blossomed further under the care of student artists and organizers. The Festival highlights an expansive range of creative practices including all visual media as well as spoken word, dance, and music.

Contact: Charlotte Murtishaw
cmurtishaw@amherst.edu

Resilient Roots: Pollinators, Weeds, & the Art of Repair

Artists: group show
Start Date: February 28, 2026
End Date: August 28, 2026
Location: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Address: 650 East Pleasant Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: umass.edu/renaissance/events/opening-reception-resilient-roots-pollinators-weeds-and-art-repair

This exhibit explores the connections between the earth's most persistent plants and the creatures that sustain them. Highlighting the vital role of pollinators in nurturing ecosystems, while celebrating the resilience of weeds that have adapted across centuries, Resilient Roots invites visitors to consider how insights from the early modern world--its plant lore, ecological observations, and land management practices--can inspire new ways to repair the fragile environments that sustain us all.Artists: Missy Dunaway, Aliza Fassler, Bo Kim, and Suzette Marie Martin.

Contact: Liz Fox
efox@umass.edu

Revolutionary Movements

Artist: Kwame Brathwaite
Start Date: February 17, 2026
End Date: July 5, 2026
Location: Mead Art Museum
Hours: Tue-Sun 9am-5pm, Thur 9am-10pm
Address: 41 Quadrangle Drive
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/mm/753784

A progenitor of the Black is Beautiful movement, Brathwaite created photos which made the beauty and power of his subjects undeniable. Revolutionary Movements centers Brathwaite's activism and underlines his enduring attention to the liberated body; subjects range from singing, marching, and modeling to dancing, boxing, and children playing. This exhibition is curated in collaboration with the artist's son and daughter-in-law.

Contact: Charlotte Murtishaw
cmurtishaw@amherst.edu

Land of the Free

Artist: Camille Turner
Start Date: February 6, 2026
End Date: May 8, 2026
Location: University Museum of Contemporary Art
Hours: Tue-Fri 11am-4:30pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm, first Thursdays 11am-8pm
Address: UMass Amherst
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/exhibitions/land-of-the-free

A new exhibition by Canadian interdisciplinary artist and scholar Camille Turner, whose work investigates local histories of transatlantic slavery and their enduring legacies. Artist Talk: April 16, 5:30pm

Contact: Maddie Fabian
mfabian@umass.edu
413-545-9663

Gallery A3 @ GoBerry 'n Cream

Artists: Gallery A3 artists
Start Date: January 30, 2026
End Date: March 31, 2026
Location: GoBerry 'n Cream
Address: 28 Amity Street Suite 1E
City/Town: Amherst
Website: goberryncream.com

In Pink and Peach, Gallery A3 artists celebrate warm tones in the cold winter months. Image: Commence, acrylic on canvas by Kim White

Fragile Connections

Artist: Sally Prasch
Start Date: January 29, 2026
End Date: May 8, 2026
Reception Date: April 23, 5pm
Location: Hampden Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri & Sunday 1-5pm, Wed 1-7pm
Address: UMass Amherst
City/Town: Amherst
Website: hampdengallery.org

A series of innovative works, from vivid neon-lit sculptures that underscore the urgency of the climate crisis to delicately engraved glass forms bearing thought-provoking texts about environmental issues. Internationally recognized for her blend of technical skill and intuitive creativity, Prasch is UMass's scientific glassblower. When she's not working in the campus glass laboratory, Prasch produces stunning glass sculptures in her home studio. Reception and artist talk: April 23.

Contact: Maddie Fabian
mfabian@umass.edu
413-545-9663

Mabel Loomis Todd Exhibit to benefit Emily Dickinson Museum

Start Date: January 12, 2026
End Date: April 27, 2026
Location: The Mill District Local Art Gallery
Hours: Tue-Sat, 10am-6pm
Address: 91 Cowls Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: generalstorelocalgallery.com

New images of Mabel Loomis Todd through a rarely seen collection of her paintings created for a book of her father's poetry published over a century ago, entitled "A Sunset Idyl and Other Poems" by E. J. Loomis. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of post card prints of her paintings exhibited at The Mill District Local Art Gallery benefit Emily Dickinson Museum. The Local Art Gallery is donating space and sales commission to support this cause.

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

Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer

Artist: JooYoung Choi
Start Date: January 27, 2026
End Date: July 5, 2026
Location: Mead Art Museum
Hours: Tue-Sun 9am-5pm, Thur 9am-10pm
Address: 41 Quadrangle Drive, Amherst College
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherst.edu/mm/753778

Through her multimodal work, colorful Houston-based artist JooYoung Choi taps into alternate personas and an imaginative realm called the Cosmic Womb that combines social issues and themes of fantasy, autobiography, and healing. In this exhibition, former sidekick Nina Blue (aka the Quantum Soup Surfer) comes to the fore in a compelling new arc of self-discovery, drawing on Choi's own adoption to the US as a child. Features painting, collage, soft sculpture, and music video compilation.

Contact: Charlotte Murtishaw
cmurtishaw@amherst.edu

The Political Uses of Madness

Artist: Tammy Nguyen
Start Date: October 17, 2025
End Date: May 8, 2026
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/political-uses-of-madness-2526

The exhibition is part of the museum's ongoing Dialogue with a Collection exhibition series, an annual program in which a contemporary artist is invited to engage with the museum's permanent collection. For this exhibition, Nguyen has created a new series of circular paintings in response to documents from the Ellsberg Papers housed in UMass Libraries collections in addition to specimens from the UMass Herbarium. Feb 19, 5:30-7pm, Artist talk.

Easthampton Art Walk

Date: Saturday, April 4, 4-7pm
Location: various locations
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.com/events/category/art-walk

First Saturday Art Walks feature exhibitions, live performances, fun + free interactive activities for the whole family.

Poetry in Puddles

Artist: Dave Madeloni
Start Date: April 4, 2026
End Date: April 25, 2026
Reception Date: April 4, 4-7pm
Location: The Elusie Gallery
Address: 43 Main Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/gallery

Thought provoking photographs, accompanied by poems and other written statements they inspired. Dave Madeloni is a poet himself, his pen is a camera. Such a statement has been said before. But the analogy stops here! His inspiration is at ground level, where most of us don’t even look. He captures fragments of life, themselves captured in the reflections of a pond, a puddle. It is when he flips the images around that the magic happens: A new reality – ambiguous, poetic, puzzling...

Contact: Jean-Pierre Pasche
yourfriends@bigredframe.com
413-529-9265

Easthampton Public Library

Start Date: April 4, 2026
End Date: April 29, 2026
Reception Date: April 4, 4-7pm
Location: ECA Galley
Address: 43 Main Street / Old Town Hall
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.com

Libraries and poems act as vessels for words, emotions, ideas, and memories, both offering space and connection. This collection of poems created by community members at the Easthampton Public Library reminds us of the poetry surrounding us all the time, and that poetry is something that we can be building collectively at any moment. These poems invite us to a heightened awareness of the interconnectedness of people and ideas around us.

Particle Theory

Artist: Katherine Weinstein
Start Date: April 2, 2026
End Date: April 26, 2026
Reception Date: April 4, 4-7pm
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Front Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

With this body of work, Weinstein continues to reinterpret her practice, based on her classical figurative training; embracing a freeness to refine rhythms as she discovers them and finding meaning in ambiguity. The human centered principles of her classical training concede to her curiosity about some unifying force of nature which she feels, but doesn't quite understand.

Contact: Katherine Weinstein
kweinstein3@gmail.com

Holding Still

Artist: Karen Evans
Start Date: April 2, 2026
End Date: April 26, 2026
Reception Date: April 4, 4-7pm
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Back Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Evans will be exhibiting a collection of recent oil paintings. The title of her show refers to her practice of quieting her mind to better perceive both the outside world and the world created on the canvas.

Contact: Karen Evans
karenjevans@verizon.net

Wheels for Meals: Benefit for Easthampton Community Center

Artist: Michael Sjostedt
Start Date: April 4, 2026
End Date: April 30, 2026
Reception Date: April 4, 5-8pm
Location: Dry Humor
Address: 79 Union Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: dryhumor-shop.com

Throughout April, Michael Sjostedt and Dry Humor are joining forces to host Wheels for Meals, an art fundraiser to support the Easthampton Community Center. 100% of sales from Michael Sjostedt’s classic car original collages and prints will directly benefit ECC’s food distribution program. Dry Humor will also donate a portion of its sales from the month to support ECC. An opening reception will take place during Art Walk Easthampton on Saturday, April 4, 5-8pm.

Contact: Michael Sjostedt
msjost@gmail.com
413-230-1812

Wildlife Posing

Artist: Marty Espinola
Start Date: January 28, 2026
End Date: March 31, 2026
Location: E•Media
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Ste 102
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptonmedia.org/create/gallery

E•Media Artist in Residence: Marty Espinola, Wildlife Posing, photo exhibit (no AI).

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

A Time, a Place, Our Gaze: Re-framing the Subaltern

Start Date: January 29, 2026
End Date: April 12, 2026
Location: 50 Arrow Gallery
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-2pm
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 136
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: slaverynorth.com/event/kenneth-scott

A collection of rare twentieth-century portraits, snapshots, and vernacular photographs of black people in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. This exhibition celebrates the profound impact of photographic self-representation for black communities by remembering the deep roots of black populations in an overlooked region of the diaspora. Curated by Kenneth Scott.

Reverie

Artist: Julia McGlew
Start Date: April 1, 2026
End Date: April 30, 2026
Reception Date: April 9, 6-8pm
Location: Sip 413
Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm Sat & Sun 8am-4pm
Address: 90 Maple Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: sip413.com/gallery

Julia McGlew is a local painter who works in watercolor, gouache, and oil. Reverie is a collection inspired by the blending of nature with dreams. This series centers commonly overlooked animals such as raccoons, squirrels, and rats, using a gentle pastel palette to evoke spring and rebirth. Come enjoy this dreamy collection at the end of a long winter! Our artists reception is Thursday, April 9th, 6-8pm, where you can bring your own art projects to work on in community.

Contact: Autumn Guntor
galleryandretail@sip413.com

Why I Dream In Color

Artist: Susan M. Kolls
Start Date: March 1, 2026
End Date: March 31, 2026
Location: Sip 413
Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm Sat & Sun 8am-4pm
Address: 90 Maple Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: sip413.com/gallery

Why I Dream In Color by Susan M. Kolls is based on a poem she wrote based on 10 random words.

Contact: Autumn Guntor
galleryandretail@sip413.com

Elaine VanGelder

Artist: Elaine VanGelder
Start Date: April 4, 2026
End Date: April 24, 2026
Reception Date: April 4, 11am-2pm
Location: LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/exhibits/elaine-vangelder

As a painter, I am fascinated and challenged by these patterns in nature, such as the skin of a pineapple in a bowl of fruit, the nautilus shell on a beach or the fractal design of branches in a tree. Challenged to create accurate representation, I discovered Sacred Geometry and my journey began. I started studying the Seed Of Life and continued into fractals, Islamic geocentric patterns and other sequences. Closing reception: April 24, 5-8pm.

Contact: clara@thelavacenter.org
413-376-8118

52nd Annual Franklin County Teen Art Show

Artists: Teens from across Franklin County
Start Date: March 6, 2026
End Date: April 24, 2026
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org

This group exhibit showcases work from teen artists across the valley, including students from Franklin County Technical School, Academy at Charlemont, Northfield Mount Hermon, Pioneer Valley Regional School, Four Rivers, and even teens in our After School Art Program (ASAP) and Teen Clay! Photo shown is from our 2025 Teen Show: Charlotte Caputo, Stoneleigh Burnham School, Grade 11, Title: Dinner Time.

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

TREES!

Artist: Geoff Bluh
Start Date: February 5, 2026
End Date: April 30, 2026
Reception Date: April 30, 5-8pm
Location: LAVA Center
Hours: Mon 11am-2pm, Thur 11am-2pm & 5-8pm, Fri 5-8pm, Sat 11am-2pm
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/humanities/trees

The exhibit celebrates native trees in our City: why they are a treasured resource, and where and how we can grow more of them. The exhibit will feature several projects that show the commitment that the City and its citizens have made to native tree propagation. Closing reception: April 30th.

Eve Christoph's Gallery of Work

Artist: Eve Christoph
Start Date: January 13, 2026
End Date: March 31, 2026
Location: Greenfield Community Television
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
Address: 393 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: gctv.org

Christoph's colorful, larger-than-life paintings celebrate the natural world and the divine feminine.

Contact: Bella Levavi
bellalevavi@gctv.org
413-774-4288

Flora, Fauna & Figures

Artist: Julie Kumble
Start Date: December 3, 2025
End Date: May 1, 2026
Location: Hope & Olive Restaurant
Hours: Fri 11:30am-2pm & 5-8:30pm, Sat 5-8:30pm, Sun 10am-1pm & 5-8pm, Wed 5-8pm, Thur 11:30am-2pm & 5-8pm
Address: 44 Hope Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: juliekumble.com

Impressions of interior spaces, dreamy underwaters, bright florals and light-filled landscapes in a beautiful restaurant.

Contact: Julie Kumble
juliekumble@gmail.com
413-531-6105

Art Exhibit at the Hadley Senior Center

Artist: Jan Kees Saltet
Start Date: March 2, 2026
End Date: April 30, 2026
Location: Hadley Senior Center
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm
Address: 46 Middle Street
City/Town: Hadley
Website: friendsofhadleycoa.org

Exhibit of the works of Jan Kees Saltet. Jan grew up in the Netherlands. He showed a natural talent for line but worked hard to hone and practice his work in colors. He worked as a Waldorf teacher and says he learned much from his students especially about color perspective. Jan often is inspired in his work by nature.

Contact: Rosemarie Rosen
rvrosen@aol.com
413-586-4023

Liberty and Labor

Artist: women and nonbinary artists in Western MA
Start Date: March 10, 2026
End Date: April 7, 2026
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Hours: Mon 10am-2pm, Tue 4:30-6:30pm
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: wistariahurst.org

Wistariahurst Museum is celebrating the Annual Women's History Month juried art showcase. This year, the theme is women's labor and community building efforts. Historically, Women's labor has been undervalued and overlooked. "Liberty and Labor" highlights the hard work and dedication of women throughout history. Featured artists: Jankaleishka Burgos Cruz, Amy Crawley, Campbell Lackey, and Nancy Myrdal Carroll. There are also several other artists who have been awarded honorable mentions.

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

Storefront Gallery Project

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

Works by local artists: Lora Barrett, Peter O Zierlein, Caoin O'Durgy, Kahli Hernandez, Gabriela Sepulveda Ortiz,Destiny Santiago, Robert Markey, Jankaleishka Burgos Cruz, Natasha Colon Ortiz, Christopher Sullivan, Ann Cloutier and Rchard Swiatlowski. The art will be on display near the ARTery art marketplace at 289 High Street until Spring 2026.

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

Art for the Earth

Artists: group show
Start Date: April 4, 2026
End Date: April 26, 2026
Reception Date: April 11, 1-4pm
Location: Leverett Crafts & Arts
Hours: Sat & Sun 1-5pm
Address: 13 Montague Road
City/Town: Leverett

This month-long exhibit features more than 40 artists -- painters, illustrators, poets, musicians and dancers -- offering their work in honor of the Earth. The highlight of the exhibition is the Celebration and Reception on April 11, 1-4pm, which will feature readings, dance, music and more. There will also be a multi-media event "after hours" at 6pm.

Contact: Sue Kassirer
suekassirer@gmail.com
978-239-6746

MAC 32nd Annual Spring Art Exhibition & Sale

Start Date: April 11, 2026
End Date: April 26, 2026
Reception Date: April 11, 12-5pm
Location: Monson's House of Art
Hours: Sat & Sun 12-5pm
Address: 200 Main Street
City/Town: Monson
Website: monsonartscouncil.org/spring-art-show-2026

MAC's 32nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition & Sale will present 136 artworks by 85 artists at both 200 and 170F Main Street. The award presentation will be at 2pm on opening day. Prizes in four primary categories will include: Painting, Photography, Multidimensional Art, Graphic/Mixed Media, and others. This year’s cash prizes total $4,500. Refreshments will be served on the opening day.

Contact: Jessica Lister
jessica@monsonartscouncil.org

Ray Brod: Guest Artist at Sawmill River Arts

Artist: Ray Brod
Start Date: April 1, 2026
End Date: May 31, 2026
Reception Date: April 18, 1-4pm
Location: Sawmill River Arts Collective
Hours: Thur-Mon 11am-5pm
Address: 440 Greenfield Road
City/Town: Montague
Website: sawmillriverarts.com

Please join us in welcoming photographer Ray Brod as a guest artist at Sawmill River Arts for the months of April & March! Ray's landscapes are devotedly crafted love letters to the valley we all call home. Reception will be held on April 18, 1-4pm. Learn more about Ray Brod's work at Raybrodphotography.com

Contact: Jasper Alexander
saltedsnailstudio@gmail.com

Neighborly

Artists: Members of the Sawmill River Arts Collective
Start Date: March 1, 2026
End Date: March 31, 2026
Location: Sawmill River Arts Collective
Hours: Thur-Mon 11am-5pm
Address: 440 Greenfield Road
City/Town: Montague
Website: sawmillriverarts.com

When given an empty wall, artists fill it. When given a need, neighbors take care. Join Sawmill River Arts this March for Neighborly, an impromptu group show. 100% of the proceeds of this show will be donated to LUCE, a Massachusetts-centered grassroots organization for immigrant justice, and RAICES, a nonprofit providing legal services for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families. The pieces in this show are varied in theme but united in purpose: supporting our neighbors.

Contact: Pascale Jarvis
pascalejarvis@gmail.com
413-847-1430

The Remnant and The Echo

Artist: Ligia Bouton
Start Date: March 27, 2026
End Date: May 8, 2026
Reception Date: April 9, 5-7pm
Location: Oresman Gallery, Hillyer (Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College)
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am- 4:30pm
Address: 22 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: sites.smith.edu/art-oresman-gallery/portfolio/ligia-bouton

In 1572, astronomer Tycho and Sophia Brahe documented supernova SN1572 for almost 500 days, until it disappeared. In 2008, astronomers discovered a light echo of SN1572. This exhibit explores the unique time-travel made possible by this star. Through a video installation combined with photos and sculptural objects, Bouton traces the story of the supernova and presents possibilities for how we might hold a multiplicity of moments in time simultaneously. Art talk: April 9th, 5-6pm.

Contact: artdept@smith.edu

Fresh Light

Artist: Gillian Haven
Start Date: April 10, 2026
End Date: May 30, 2026
Reception Date: April 10, 5-7:30pm
Location: Hope & Feathers Framing and Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Thur 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-4pm
Address: 238 Bridge Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: hopeandfeathersframing.com

We live in a shifting world, each of us stitching together our life story from fleeting moments of illumination and grace. Through the practice of painting, I consider this journey. Painting is always a new beginning. Raised in Amherst, I lived in other regions for roughly twenty years but my roots were always here. I was drawn back to the silent companionship of hills, the surprise and elation of water, the clouds that lift, unexpected openings, the sight of livestock in a field.

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

Premiering Potters Series

Artist: Jasper Cowley
Start Date: April 10, 2026
End Date: April 12, 2026
Reception Date: April 10, 5-8pm
Location: PINCH
Hours: Fri & Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 179 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: pinchgoods.com/blogs/events-1/premiering-potters-series-with-jasper-cowley-for-arts-night-out

Kicking off the 3rd installment of our Premiering Potters Series, welcome Jasper Cowley of Wildlands Pottery! Jasper is an Easthampton artist and began exploring clay as an artistic medium over a decade ago. With an emphasis on playful shapes, bold textures, earthy glazes, and a touch of whimsy, Jasper aims to make ceramic vessels that are not only visually beautiful, but delightful to hold and utilize.

Contact: Kellie Rainville
info@pinchgoods.com
413-586-4509

Rebecca Aronson

Artist: Rebecca Aronson
Start Date: April 1, 2026
End Date: May 29, 2026
Reception Date: Friday, April 10, 5pm
Location: Northampton Senior Center Hallway Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
Address: 67 Conz Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: northamptonma.gov/2221/Artist-of-the-Month

Inspired by nature, light and color, Rebecca Aronson has begun using her watercolor, gouache, and pastel paintings as source material for collage by cutting and reassembling them to let the work evolve in new abstract ways.

Contact: aronsonrj@gmail.com

Bits and Pieces

Artists: Fiberistas of Western MA
Start Date: April 2, 2026
End Date: April 29, 2026
Reception Date: April 18, 1-4pm
Location: Forbes Library at Hosmer Gallery
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: fiberistas.com

“Bit and Pieces,” reflects the imaginations and creativity of the Fiberistas nine members. Inspired to mine their stashes for inspiration and often long forgotten materials and treasures, the resulting media will include quilting, sewing, embroidery, felting, crochet, soft sculpture, collage, fabric discharge and printing, cyanotype and photo silk screen, mixed media, and more!

Contact: Flo Rosenstock
florobx52@gmail.com
413-404-3733

You Have To Do Something

Artist: Phil Lawrence
Start Date: April 3, 2026
End Date: April 26, 2026
Reception Date: April 10, 5-8pm
Location: A.P.E. Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 1-8pm
Address: 126 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org

You Have To Do Something invites audiences into the decades-long art practice of Phil Lawrence. From the mid-1970’s until his recent passing in 2025, Phil Lawrence perpetually engaged in playful yet rigorous investigations of material and method, and how they might come to bear on the philosophical and societal questions of the day. Curated by Felice Caivano, Kathy Couch, Mollye Maxner and Lisa Thompson.

Contact: Mollye Maxner
mollyemaxner@apearts.org

West Street Paintings 2006-2026

Artist: Anna Bayles Arthur
Start Date: April 4, 2026
End Date: May 30, 2026
Reception Date: April 10, 5:30-8pm
Location: New England Visionary Artists Museum, 3 Galleries
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-5:30pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: neva-museum.org

West Street Paintings: 2006–2026 surveys two decades of work by Anna Bayles Arthur, created in her Northampton studio. Rooted in daily practice and close observation, her drawings and paintings evolve from blank surfaces into intricate, imagined worlds. Blending organic forms, memory, and invention, the work reflects a sustained, place-based commitment to process and discovery.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Memory of Seasons: Valley Landscapes

Artist: Angela Sciotti Vincent
Start Date: April 1, 2026
End Date: June 30, 2026
Location: Atwood Health Center
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4:30pm
Address: 22 Atwood Drive, second floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: cooleydickinson.org/about-us/contact-us/locations-directions/atwood-health-center

Included in this show are plein air paintings as well as larger studio works created in oil and watercolor. We live here because we love the seasonal landscape of the Pioneer Valley or we come to appreciate its presence over time. As John O'Donohue beautifully wrote, "Landscape is not just there... It watched us arrive." This perspective fascinates me, and it resonates deeply with my own approach to creating art that captures the spirit of a place.

Contact: Angela Sciotti Vincent
avincent@dovehollow.gallery
413-207-4477

Robert Sweeney Solo Exhibition

Artist: Robert Sweeney
Start Date: March 18, 2026
End Date: April 25, 2026
Location: William Baczek Fine Arts
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Address: 36 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: wbfinearts.com

A solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Robert Sweeney.

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

Christopher Gilbert

Artist: Christopher Gilbert
Start Date: March 2, 2026
End Date: April 30, 2026
Reception Date: Friday, April 10, 5-8pm
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

Christopher Gilbert's background using water color, oils, pastels, collage, graphite, charcoal supports his work capturing moments. For this collection he creates fine art with Dry Erase sheets/boards.

Still, Here: As the Water Shifts

Artist: Logan Kirkpatrick
Start Date: March 3, 2026
End Date: April 30, 2026
Location: Cooley Dickinson Hospital, West Gallery
Hours: 9am-6pm daily
Address: 30 Locust Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: logankirkpatrickart.com

This exhibition presents over a dozen paintings by Logan Kirkpatrick, an artist living with multiple chronic and rare illnesses, whose work reflects on resilience, inner strength, and the quiet moments of hope that can emerge during prolonged medical and emotional uncertainty. Her paintings explore aloneness not as isolation, but as a space for rest, reflection, and healing.

Contact: studio@logankirkpatrickart.com

13th Annual Small Works Show

Artists: group show
Start Date: February 13, 2026
End Date: March 31, 2026
Location: Hope & Feathers
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm
Address: 238 Bridge Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: hopeandfeathersframing.com

Affordable 6x6" & 5x7" small art works from many of your favorite artists, all cash and carry!

Contact: katie@hopeandfeathersframing.com
413-835-0197

The Life That the Artist Within Her Saved

Artist: Genevieve Mae Burnett
Start Date: February 13, 2026
End Date: April 25, 2026
Location: NEVAmuseum, Museum Wing
Hours: Wed-Sat 2:30-5pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: neva-musuem.org

Genevieve Mae Burnett (1945–2015) lived the life that the artist within her saved. A self-taught master and descendant of the Jones Library Burnett Gallery's founder, William Burnett of Amherst, she recorded the "unseen" from psychiatric wards to city streets. Through 2,000+ paintings and 10,000 journal pages, she defied disability with raw courage. She has left a legacy of profound resilience that now resides at NEVAmuseum--from haunting asylum interiors to the spirited Mike the Cat series.

Don't mind if I do

Artist: Finnegan Shannon
Start Date: January 30, 2026
End Date: June 28, 2026
Location: SCMA
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm, second Fridays until 8pm
Address: Smith College, Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: scma.smith.edu/dmiid

Find a comfortable seat and see the Smith College Museum of Art a little differently. "Don't mind if I do" is a new exhibition by Finnegan Shannon that invites curiosity, comfort, and participation. Touch is encouraged. And yes, we really don't mind if you do. Please note that in solidarity with the artists and other visitors, masks are required and provided in this exhibition space.

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

Earth Meets Sky, Imagined Landscapes

Artist: Holley Flagg '62
Start Date: February 2, 2026
End Date: August 3, 2026
Location: Smith College Alumnae House Gallery
Hours: 9am-4pm
Address: 33 Elm Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: holleyflaggart.com

Color and light are my passion. I am drawn to watercolor, and acrylics because of their translucency and unpredictability. I may begin with an idea but my painting often sends me to a different place. A wash of watercolor, a splash of acrylic shifts the direction of the piece, leading to something other than I first intended. Ultimately, my work is an exploration, an adventure: We plan, we guide, but often the best moments arrive by chance. Embrace the unexpected!

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

AgathaO

Artist: AgathaO (Pleun Bouricius)
Start Date: February 2, 2026
End Date: March 31, 2026
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

Born and raised in the Netherlands, AgathaO's digital photographs showcase a fascination with the minutiae of nature, often with water's reflections.

Crafting Worlds: Japanese Decorative Arts from the 18th through 21st Centuries

Start Date: October 17, 2025
End Date: August 23, 2026
Location: Smith College Museum of Art
Address: 120 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
City/Town: Northampton
Website: bit.ly/47tuumU

This installation explores how artisans in Japan utilized materials and handcrafted techniques to forge social relationships and engage with the world around them. It features lacquerware, ceramics, bamboo baskets, and metalwork from the eighteenth- through twenty-first centuries, when Japan shifted from a feudal society to a modern nation. For centuries, artisans worked collaboratively in workshops and passed down their knowledge from generation to generation.

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

Abstract Art Squad

Artists: Abstract Art Squad
Start Date: April 2, 2026
End Date: April 30, 2026
Reception Date: April 16, 6-8pm
Location: Palmer Library Community Room
Hours: Mon 10am-5pm, Tue-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-2pm
Address: 1455 N. Main Street
City/Town: Palmer

The Abstract Art Squad is four artists who met at an abstract art class seven years ago and continue to meet weekly to support and inspire one another. Each artist has their own style which ranges from simple geometrics to complex intuitive compositions, and impressionistic renderings. Approximately thirty-two paintings will be on display. For more info visit our web site. Access to the Community Room may be limited if in use. Check with the library at 413-283-3330.

Contact: Roger J Kellman
namllek@aol.com
413-233-7478

Earth and Sky

Artist: Mary Walsh Martel
Start Date: April 1, 2026
End Date: April 27, 2026
Reception Date: April 4, 2-5pm
Location: Shelburne Arts Co-op
Hours: 7 days / 11am-5pm
Address: 26 Bridge Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls

As a child, I spent hours laying in the grass, looking up at the sky with a sense of wonder. In this series I explore the many moods of the sky--dramatic, luminous, stormy, calm. The use of the unpredictable medium of watercolor feels very organic here, much like the changing formations and colors in the sky. Clouds hint at the fragility of our climate. They carry weather, light, and emotion. The skies remind us that beauty is fleeting, that nothing remains the same.

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

Mohawk Trail Regional School District Student Art Exhibit

Artists: group show
Start Date: March 5, 2026
End Date: April 26, 2026
Location: Salmon Falls Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 21 Ashfield Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: SalmonFallsGallery.com

Local students of the 5th and 6th grades from the Mohawk Trail Regional School District schools of Buckland Shelburne Elementary, Hawlemont Regional Elementary, Colrain Central School and Sanderson Academy are participating in a Student Art Exhibit at Salmon Falls Gallery. The show will feature a wide range of works from paintings and charcoal drawings to 3D sculptures. Participating students are sharing their love of art and being creative, as well as showing support for their schools and the arts.

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

Book of Wonder, Cover to Cover

Artist: Donna Castellanos
Start Date: March 28, 2026
End Date: September 6, 2026
Location: Springfield Museums
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 21 Edwards Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: springfieldmuseums.org/exhibitions/book-of-wonder-cover-to-cover-a-hands-on-journey-with-donna-castellanos

Aan immersive exhibition that invites visitors to step inside artist Donna Castellanos's imaginative world, where once-cherished books are transformed into vibrant works of art and interactive experiences celebrating creativity and storytelling. Artist talk: April 2, 12:15pm. A Novel Night of Creative Crafting: May 7, 5-7:30pm

Contact: Merideth Bessette
mbessette@springfieldmuseums.org
413-263-6800

QAA Group Art Exhibit

Artists: Quabbin Art Association
Start Date: March 18, 2026
End Date: May 13, 2026
Location: Baystate Medical Center
Address: 2 Medical Center Drive
City/Town: Springfield
Website: quabbinartassociation.com

The Quabbin Art Association of Belchertown has a new group exhibit at Baystate Medical Center's Daly Building. The exhibit features a variety of watercolor, oil, acrylic, dry media and photography by local artists throughout the Pioneer Valley. Many pieces are for sale and can be viewed during hospital hours. For more information, visit our website.

Contact: Info@quabbinartassociation.com

Where We At: Awake and Alive

Artists: Where We At Black Women Artists Collective
Start Date: February 17, 2026
End Date: April 10, 2026
Location: Amy H Carberry Fine Arts Gallery, STCC
Hours: Mon & Wed & Fri 1-5pm, Tue & Thur 10am-5pm
Address: 1 Armory Street, B28
City/Town: Springfield
Website: stcc.io/carberry

The story of "Where We At" begins in 1971, a time marked by revolution, shifting politics, and a growing assertion of Black cultural identity. Three young women--Kay Brown, Dindga McCannon, and Faith Ringgold--living in Harlem as artists, mothers, sisters, and teachers--formed a collective in response. More than five decades on, the "Where We At--Awake & Alive" celebrates the enduring legacy of this extraordinary collective of Black women artists at STCC's Carberry Gallery through April 10.

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

INhairITANCE

Artists: group show
Start Date: March 1, 2026
End Date: May 17, 2026
Location: AFTS Gallery
Hours: Tue-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 12-4pm
Address: 1500 Main Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: artforthesoulgallery.com

A group exhibition that expands the global conversation around hair--not with a single narrative but instead offering a layered, collaborative exploration of personal adornment as it intersects with belief systems, gender, colonial histories, and cultural resistance. INhairITANCE invites viewers to consider hair not merely as an aesthetic choice, but as a living archive--one shaped by ancestry, survival, ritual, power, and self-definition.

Contact: info@aftsgallery.com

One Foot in Two Places

Artist: Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling
Start Date: January 31, 2026
End Date: October 4, 2026
Location: D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Collins Print Gallery
Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Address: Springfield Museums, 21 Edwards Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: springfieldmuseums.org/exhibitions/one-foot-in-two-places-monotype-prints-and-etchings-by-olwen-oherlihy-dowling

Monotype prints and etchings. Atmospheric and meditative, "One Foot in Two Places" showcases landscapes and details from natural environments, creating parallels between the artist's mother country in Ireland and chosen homeland in the United States. Originally an immigrant from Dublin, Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling pays homage to time spent in Connemara, County Galway and North Chester, MA, evoking the experience of being caught between two worlds and finding refuge in both. Artist Lecture: June 18, 12:15pm

Contact: info@springfieldmuseums.org
413-263-6800

Inner Workings

Artist: Diane Steingart
Start Date: March 3, 2026
End Date: April 30, 2026
Reception Date: April 24, 5-7pm
Location: Sunderland Public Library
Hours: Mon 10am-8pm, Tue & Wed 1-8pm, Thur 10am-5pm, Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 10am-5pm
Address: 20 School Street
City/Town: Sunderland
Website: sunderlandpubliclibrary.org

Diane Steingart is a mixed-media artist and painter, whose work explores the inner world of feelings, memories, and dreams. Her work is both psychological and spiritual, and can be both abstract and semi-representational. Join the artist for a reception of this incredible exhibit on Friday, April 24, in the gallery.

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

All Our Relations

Artists: group show
Start Date: April 2, 2026
End Date: May 30, 2026
Reception Date: April 25, 7-9pm
Location: Great Falls Discovery Center
Hours: Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sun 10am-5:30pm
Address: 2 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners Falls
Website: greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org

To Honor the Wampanoag Supreme Sachem Pometacomet on the 350th Anniversary of the Great Falls Massacre. Work by Deborah Spears Moorehead, Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag, & Robert Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag, focusing on pre-colonization, the 350th Anniversary of Metacomet’s (King Philip’s) War and the Great Falls Massacre of 1676. Learn about Indigenous history and their continued presence here and throughout the Northeast. April 25th: 7-9pm Webinar Talk with the Artists.

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

WINTER

Artists: group show
Start Date: March 7, 2026
End Date: April 4, 2026
Location: ArtWorks Gallery
Hours: Sat & Sun 1-4pm
Address: 69 Main Street
City/Town: , Ware
Website: workshop13.org

A celebration of winter through the eyes of local and regional artists. Juried by Susan Tilton Pecora.

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

Agawam Community Artists and Artisans featured at Majestic Theater

Artists: Agawam Community Artists and Artisans
Start Date: March 1, 2026
End Date: April 5, 2026
Location: Majestic Theater
Address: 131 Elm Street
City/Town: West Springfield
Website: agawamarts.com

The art represents the collective talents of many local artists, including our artists from Connecticut. The display showcases original art in mediums such as watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil and oil. The collection is diverse, the subjects ranging from vivid florals, realistic woodland and beach art. The art is on display in the café. All of the art is for sale by contacting the staff of the Majestic, who will hold your piece until the close of the show, on Sunday, April 5.

Contact: Ceil Rossi
tocarefree2@hotmail.com

Forbidden Arts Market

Date: Saturday, April 4, 4-9pm
Location: Easthampton Skate Club
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, suite 030
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: instagram.com/easthamptonskateclub

A night of sacred creations at Easthampton Skate Club. Vendors include: Wyatt Cunningham, B.B. Glass, Serged Seams, nothingmuch4ever, Herbie Littlecreek, deleteimage, Brad Plavcan, Waterwheel Clay, and more.

Studio Clearence Sale

Date: Saturday, April 4, 1-7pm
Location: Maryanne Benns Studio
Address: 80 Race street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: maryannebenns.com

Huge studio clearance sale - art, supplies and studio furniture. Also featuring the spring-cleaning sale of our favorite jewelry designer MichelleBijou.

Contact: Maryanne Benns
maryanne@maryannebenns.com
413-388-2883

Have a solo show at Sip!

Sponsoring Group Name: Sip413
Deadline: April 15
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Florence
Website: sip413.com/gallery

We're taking applications for solo art shows at Sip413 in Florence for the months of July 2026 - December 2026. Each art show is up for one month and includes a reception night and an optional retail shelf. Artworks are sold at a 70/30 split with the artist keeping 70% of sales. See more details in the application form on our website or email galleryandretail@sip413.com with any questions. We can't wait to see what you've been making!

Contact: Autumn Guntor
galleryandretail@sip413.com

We Contain Multitudes: A Curated Collective of 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC Creatives' Voices

Sponsoring Group Name: M, Creative Entrepreneur & Co-Creator of Rooted Resilience, Yet Another Queer Pop-Up Market and HYPHAE
Deadline: April 23, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: bit.ly/multitudes2026

You are invited to submit creative work(s) for consideration to be included in a curated collective responding to the prompt 'We Contain Multitudes', building a container that uplifts, centers and celebrates the multitudes that we hold within ourselves, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually, and in community from a 2SLGBTQIA+ and/or BIPOC perspective. All mediums are welcome - 2D, 3D, video, the written word, recorded spoken word or music.

Contact: M
wecontainmultitudes@proton.me
413-387-2684

LandEscape

Sponsoring Group Name: ArtWorks Gallery
Deadline: May 28
Submission/Entry Fees: $25 for one piece / $35 for up to three pieces
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org/exhibitions/landescape-call-for-art

This exhibition aims to expand or even reimagine the traditional landscape as a personal sanctuary and urges creators to consider moving beyond mere geographical representation. Juror: Shona Macdonald. Show dates: June 27 to August 2, Saturdays & Sundays, 1-4pm. Opening reception: June 27, 3-5pm.

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

Fun Sized: A Tiny Public Art Festival

Sponsoring Group Name: Bright Matter Studio
Deadline: April 15
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: funsizedartfest.com

Bright Matter Studio is seeking proposals for miniature scaled public art works for FUN SIZED. Fun Sized is a public art festival happening September 26 & 27th, 2026, in downtown Northampton. Please check out the website for more information about types of work considered, scale (12in and under), artist honorariums, and event details.

Contact: Kim Carlino
kimcarlino@gmail.com
413-695-3514

ValleyCreates Capacity Building Grant

Sponsoring Group Name: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Deadline: April 20, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties
Website: communityfoundation.org/nonprofits/valleycreates/capacity-grant-2023

Are you an individual artist new to #ValleyCreates? Do you live or have studio space in Hampden, Hampshire, or Franklin County? This capacity-building and sustainability initiative could be for you. The program pairs a $2,500 grant with coaching, workshops, business/career building, personal financial literacy resources, and artist community-building. After being accepted into the program, grantees complete a brief onboarding call to learn more about the resources available to them.

Contact: Steph Reyes
sreyes@communityfoundation.org
413-732-2858

Affordable Weaving Equipment Rentals

Sponsoring Group Name: Hawksong Weaving
Deadline: May 30, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: $5-$150, depending on equipment chosen
City/Town: Northampton
Website: hawksongweaving.myshopify.com/pages/loom-rentals

Hawksong Weaving Loom Rentals are available for rent in Western Massachusetts for use in home settings. While weaving guilds and workspaces are available, they aren't inherently accessible for everyone. Renting equipment allows you to work in the comfort and safety of your own home, without the prohibitive cost of purchase before you know if particular loom style works for you and your needs. Equipment is rented at a 1/10th of the cost of average retail prices for financial accessibility.

Contact: Took Storm
hawksongweaving@gmail.com

Friends of Children 2nd Annual Artisan Market

Sponsoring Group Name: Friends of Children, Inc
Deadline: May 4, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: $10
City/Town: Florence
Website: friendsofchildreninc.org/event/2nd-annual-artisan-market

Friends of Children, Inc. is holding its' 2nd Annual Juried Artisan Market at the Garden House, Look Park, Sunday, November 15th. With over 600 shoppers attending last year, we are looking for a wide variety of exhibitors to join us! Applications are due Monday, May 4th, with a decision returned by June 30th. There is a $10 application fee. Friends of Children is a nonprofit advocating for children and young adults impacted by the child welfare system.

Contact: Susan Swift
susan@friendsofchildreninc.org
413-219-4856

Soft Focus Zine - Issue 02

Sponsoring Group Name: Soft Focus Zine
Deadline: May 1, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Pioneer Valley
Website: softfocuszine.wixsite.com/softfocus/submit

Soft Focus, a print zine about movies, is seeking submissions for its second issue! We are looking for writing and art that explores movie watching/making through a personal and emotional lens. If you've ever had thoughts or feelings about a movie, we want to hear from you! The theme for Issue 02 is Tearjerkers. For more information and to stay up to date on our goings-on, please follow our instagram @softfocus_zine

Contact: softfocuszine@gmail.com

Artist tables available for nature inspired local artists

Sponsoring Group Name: American Ornithological Society
Deadline: July 19
Submission/Entry Fees: $150 for two days
City/Town: Amherst
Website: meeting.americanornithology.org

The American Ornithologist Society will hold its annual meeting at UMass Amherst August 3rd-7th. We are offering table opportunities for nature inspired local artists to come to the meeting and showcase and sell their art. Table pricing will be $150 for two whole days (3 and 4, or 5 and 6). The meeting usually has at least 700-800 attendees, and sessions begin at 8am-8pm. Any artist can participate, but please we expect artists to sell primarily their handmade or self designed art work.

Contact: Ramona Fletcher
rfletcher@americanornithology.org

Femme Locale: Charmed

Sponsoring Group Name: Femme Locale
Deadline: April 15
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Amherst
Website: femmelocale.com

Charmed marks the third year of Femme Locale --and the third time's a charm. This year we have prizes! This exhibit invites local women artists to explore charm as magic, strategy, power, or survival. In a world designed by and for men. How do we shape outcomes, assert control, or bend reality through skill, wit, allure, or force? Exhibit is May - June at the MD Local Gallery and prize winners exhibition for July+ at 50 Arrow Gallery. Open to a broad definition of women & non-binary people.

Contact: Christine Texiera
femmelocaleart@gmail.com
978-413-8757

Pride Month Art Show at Sip413

Sponsoring Group Name: Sip413
Deadline: March 31
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Florence
Website: sip413.com/gallery

This call for art is for a pride month group show at Sip413 in Florence, MA for a show focused on food and community based on LGBTQIA+ experiences. Themes can include sharing meals with chosen family, food systems and labor, abundance and joy through cooking, or any interpretation that speaks to you! Select works will be displayed in person in June and all works submitted will be part of a virtual exhibit. See more details in the application form on our website!

Contact: Autumn Guntor
galleryandretail@sip413.com

Northampton Youth Cinema Festival (NYCF)

Sponsoring Group Name: Northampton Arts Council & Northampton Open Media
Deadline: April 1 / final call: April 21
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Northampton
Website: filmfreeway.com/NYCF

After a successful student-led relaunch three years ago, the Northampton Youth Cinema Festival (NYCF) continues to serve as a vital platform for filmmakers aged 21 and younger to bring their visions to the big screen. Are you a filmmaker with a story to tell? We are looking for original works across all genres: Narrative, Documentary, Animation, and Experimental. Principal creators must be 21 or younger. Full details on website.

Collaborative Print Residency (Summer 2026) at Print Shop Makerspace

Sponsoring Group Name: Holyoke Art
Deadline: March 31, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: holyokeart.com/collaborative-print-residency

Holyoke Art invites artists to apply for the Collaborative Print Residency at its Print Shop Makerspace, a paid summer opportunity focused on collaboration and contemporary print-based work. Two artists will be paired to develop a shared project using digital, photographic, and production tools. Each artist receives a $300 stipend, and all materials are provided. Open to artists working in visual art, design, photography, writing, and interdisciplinary practices. Applications due March 31, 2026.

Contact: Jeff Bianchine
jeff@printshopholyoke.org
413-420-8303

Haydenville Artisan Fair

Sponsoring Group Name: Haydenville Congregational Church
Deadline: June 10
Submission/Entry Fees: $35 plus one donated item
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: forms.gle/6EK6gbRmoyHpekhp7

Come browse the beautiful wares of our local artisans at the annual Haydenville Artisan Show! Includes a wide array of mediums: woodcraft, fiber arts, jewelry, photography, painting, and much much more! Then come inside the church to get something to eat and check out our Collectibles sale - there's something for everyone! Proceeds to benefit the Haydenville Congregational Church and Trans Relocation Support. June 13, 10am-4pm, and June 14, 11:30-4pm. Rain or Shine.

Contact: Megan Jewett
treasurer@haydenvillechurch.org
617-833-5665

Artist in Residence 2027

Sponsoring Group Name: Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Deadline: May 29
Submission/Entry Fees:
City/Town: Amherst
Website: renaissanceoftheearth.com/residencies

The Kinney Center invites artists to submit proposals for residency. Aided by the Center's rare book collection, artists will explore how their process intersects with Renaissance (1490-1750) thought to produce work that generates new perspectives on the relationship between the early modern world and our own. To apply, please send the following to Dr. Liz Fox by May 29th: 1-2 page letter (describing the project & programming), CV/resume, 2 references, Work samples or portfolio, Contact Name.

Contact: Liz Fox
efox@umass.edu
413-320-8041

Articulture Westfield 2026

Sponsoring Group Name: ArtWorks Westfield
Deadline: April 11, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Westfield
Website: artworkswestfield.com/events/articulture

Call for new, emerging, experienced & professional artists! Articulture Westfield, our annual community art and cultural experience featuring local, regional and New England artists & authors at the Amelia Park Arena. Cash prizes awarded! Accepted media: Painting, drawing, mixed media, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Also accepted is Artisan quality glass, wood, clay and metalwork. We have capacity to host over 75 exhibitors in one of the largest fine art shows in the Pioneer Valley!

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

N.S.F.Washington at Big Red Frame

Sponsoring Group Name: Big Red Frame
Deadline: June 20, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/gallery

Second Call for N.S.F.W., this W stands for Washington. For this exhibit, we will be seeking art that the current administration may consider subversive, or critical of their policies, or reflecting values that do not align with their vision of our society: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion / immigration /gender and sexual identities / freedom of the press, to name just a few of the possible topics. Size limit: 60 United Inches. To apply, visit the Elusie Gallery page of our website.

Contact: Jean-Pierre Pasche
yourfriends@bigredframe.com
413-529-9265

Ashfield Lighted Boat Parade

Sponsoring Group Name: Town of Ashfield
Deadline: March 31, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Ashfield
Website: ashfield.org/publicart

Ashfield is holding a Lighted Boat Parade on September 12, 2026, and you are invited to enter even if you don't own your own boat. Twelve winning designs will receive $1,000 grants to build your floating creations, with more prizes for the best boats at the parade. Key design concepts are Light It Up; Make It Special; and Keep It Safe. Applications are due by March 31. This opportunity is supported by New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).

Contact: Alexis Fedorjaczenko
publicart@ashfield.org
413-628-4441

Programming & Springfield Civic Pop-Up Space Call for Art

Sponsoring Group Name: Springfield Cultural Partnership
Deadline: open
Submission/Entry Fees: none
City/Town: Springfield
Website: form.jotform.com/252964426286063

Artists, nonprofits, small businesses, educators, and community groups are invited to propose programming that brings people together in downtown Springfield. Workshops, performances, conversations, installations, demos, meetups, and civic engagement activities are all welcome. Submit your program idea to help shape this shared space for creativity and connection. We are also seeking Western MA artists to participate in our monthly themed curations. Applications are now open, with Springfield artists given priority. Each month 16 spots are available.

Application for 2026 gallery shows at Lathrop Community

Sponsoring Group Name: Lathrop Community
Deadline: June 30, 2026
Submission/Entry Fees: $none
City/Town: Easthampton

Lathrop Community Gallery welcomes applications for its 2026 calendar year shows. We have no entry fees, and no commissions are taken. We can exhibit only 2-D work. Our gallery has 54 linear feet of space with a height limit of 44 inches. Work must be ready to hang. The shows are up for 1 month and we provide help with hanging.

Contact: Jane Antonsen
jmantonsen@yahoo.com

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.

Drawing Portraits with Hannah Harvester

Date & Time: Thursdays, 12-2pm, April 9 - May 28
Fee: $175
Location: Greenfield Community College
Address: GCC Main Campus
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: engage.gcc.mass.edu/workshops/drawing-portraits-continued

For students who have taken the first section of Drawing Portraits or who have portrait drawing experience, we will continue our exploration of how to depict the human face in pencil. We’ll work on seeing and depicting value and continue working with negative shapes and measuring to find likeness. We will also discuss and practice working from photographs.

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

Color Theory: Oil Paint Mixology with Dana Volungis

Date & Time: Saturdays, April 4-25, 12-2pm
Fee: $125 / 10% discount for members
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Through hands-on demonstrations and personalized instruction, you’ll learn how to mix clean, intentional colors that make your paintings pop. All materials included.

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

Level 1 Wheel Throwing with David Walulak

Date & Time: Thursdays, April 2 - May 28, 6-9pm
Fee: $350 / 10% discount for members
Location: ClayWorks
Address: 71 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Beginner level wheel throwing, also suitable for intermediate throwers who need assistance. Only two seats remain! All materials included.

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

Making Paper Boxes with Marsha Leavitt

Date & Time: Sunday, May 3, 1-3pm
Fee: $15 DVAA members / $20 non-members
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: 105 Main Street
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

Join Marsha Leavitt at Fiddleheads Gallery in Northfield to make two boxes using modular origami instructions. These small paper boxes are great for "wrapping" small gifts, and they can be part of the gift. They are very sturdy and great for storing all sorts of small bits when finished with Mod Podge. They are a great way to recycle old calendars.

Contact: Marsha Leavitt
marsha3072@gmail.com

Botanical Gel Plate Printing: Free Workshop for Military & Veterans Families

Date & Time: April 4, 10am-1pm
Fee: none
Location: Warriors Art Room
Address: 122 Pleasant Street, Suite 105
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: warriorsartroom.org/workshops/free-workshop-for-military-veterans-families-botanical-gel-plate-printing-apr-4

Explore an easy, hands on printmaking process using botanicals, stencils, and layered color. This workshop focuses on creativity experimentation, and working with natural forms. No experience needed, All materials provided, Completely Free. Open to all military, veterans, and their families. Space is very limited.

Contact: Donald Longley
donald@warriorsartroom.org
413-627-8170

Open Studio at Warriors Art Room

Date & Time: ongoing: Mon & Wed 5-8pm, Tue & Thurs-Sat 12-4pm
Fee: none
Location: Warriors Art Room
Address: 122 Pleasant Street, Suite 105
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: warriorsartroom.org

Warriors Art Room Open Studio provides veterans and their families with a welcoming place to create, connect, and explore art in a supportive environment. Participants can work on personal projects, use available materials, and spend time in creative community.

Contact: Donald Longley
donald@warriorsartroom.org
413-627-8170

Sip 'n Paint: Spring Floral with Deborah Padden

Date & Time: Thursday, April 1, 6-8:30pm
Fee: $40 / 10% discount for members
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. All materials included (Bring Your Own Beverage).

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

Meditative Watercolors & Mixed-Media at Fiddleheads Gallery

Date & Time: Sunday, April 19, 1-3pm
Fee: $70 DVAA members / $80 non-members / $30 materials fee
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: 105 Main Street
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

This mixed-media watercolor workshop invites breath awareness and playful mark-making using unexpected tools rather than traditional brushes. With watercolor, ink, liquid charcoal, salt, oil pastel, and other materials, participants build layered abstract pieces, emphasizing curiosity and process over perfection. Observe pigments bloom and interact, respond intuitively, and embrace experimentation, suitable for all levels. Inspired by April's unfolding, it invites patient trust and wonder.

Contact: Sarah Gay
sarahgayoneill@gmail.com
617-645-0440

Stars in Your Eyes: Making Paper Stars with Marsha Leavitt

Date & Time: Friday, April 10, 10am-12pm
Fee: $15 DVAA members / $20 non-members
Location: Fiddleheads Gallery
Address: 105 Main Street
City/Town: Northfield
Website: deerfieldvalleyart.org

Let's make paper stars together! There are several different stars that you can make. We will start with the easiest and make as many as we have time for. Most are a form of modular origami. We will cut, fold, assemble, and sometimes glue to create these beautiful stars that make lovely hanging decorations, as well as enhance your gift wrapping. You will be able to select from a variety of papers. All materials are provided.

Contact: Marsha Leavitt
marsha3072@gmail.com

Mosaics Inspired by Nature with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: Wednesdays, 9:30am-12:30pm, May 6 - June 17
Fee: $444
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net

In this six week class, be inspired by the original artist, mother nature! Compose a landscape from a photo or your imagination. The focus will be on the way you arrange tesserae to depict textures, elements and patterns. Part of the fun is choosing the materials- glass, stone, ceramic tile, patterned china, found objects, etc. Finished works will be roughly 11" x 14". Great for beginners, or those with experience who want to build skills.

Contact: Christine Kenneally
kenneally.christine@gmail.com
413-244-2384

Mosaics for Beginners with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 9:30am-12:30pm, May 5 - June 9
Fee: $444
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net

Come explore the fascinating world of mosaics. Learn the skills of composing and designing your artwork, choosing and cutting different materials, and experience different ways of assembling a mosaic. During this 6 week workshop, you'll make two mosaics, using two different methods. Get a broad experience in this ancient art form, build skills, learn about yourself through identifying your preferences, and meet other great people in a fun, relaxed, welcoming atmosphere. Mosaics will be 6" x 6".

Contact: Christine Kenneally
kenneally.christine@gmail.com
413-244-2384

Mosaic Garden Stepping Stones with Christine Kenneally

Date & Time: Saturday April 11, 10am-4pm
Fee: $168
Location: Rainbow Hill Studio
Address: 801 North Poland Road
City/Town: Conway
Website: christinekenneally.net

Create a personalized, permanent addition to your garden or walkway in this fun one day class! Instruction will be given on composition, color, cutting techniques using hand tools, and how to assemble pieces to create flow. Then, we will cast our mosaics in concrete, so your stepping stone holds together permanently and has a flat surface.This class has been a favorite over the years, well over 800 stepping stones have been made by my students. A hearty and nutritious lunch will be provided.

Contact: Christine Kenneally
kenneally.christine@gmail.com
413-244-2384

Art for the Common Good: A statewide convening on arts, health, and wellbeing

Date & Time: Friday, April 10, 8:30am-4:30pm
Fee: free / registration required
Location: Student Union
Address: UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/health-and-wellbeing/statewide-convening-arts-health-and-wellbeing-2026

This dynamic convening will bring together artists, healthcare practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders from across the commonwealth. Together, we'll explore how the arts are transforming the way we think about healing, strengthening communities, and advancing wellbeing. Through engaging conversations, fresh research, and real-world stories, we'll spark new partnerships and practical pathways that bridge creativity and care.

Paper Lithography with Joyce Silverstone

Date & Time: Sunday, April 12, 10am-5pm
Fee: $175 + $20 materials fee
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/paper-lithography

Paper Lithography is also known as Gum Arabic Transfer, and is one of the most direct lithography methods using either photographic or drawn imagery. This workshop will teach how to make a printing plate from a photo copier and print that plate onto paper, enabling the artist to quickly add photos or drawings to an image. The ephemeral nature of this process adds an element of surprise! Bring in your high contrast copies of photos or drawings to practice the fundamentals of paper lithography.

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

Safekeeping: Enclosures for Books and Prints at Zea Mays Printmaking

Date & Time: April 17-19: Friday, 2-5pm; Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5pm
Fee: $425 + $30 materials fee
Location: Zea Mays Printmaking
Address: 320 Riverside Drive
City/Town: Florence
Website: zeamaysprintmaking.com/event/safekeeping-enclosures-for-books-and-prints

This weekend intensive workshop will cover all aspects of creating customized enclosures for prints, drawing, editions, and artists' books. Participants will be guided through how to measure and cut binder's board, paper, and bookcloth to develop the necessary techniques to adapt these structures for any book or collection of prints. We will discuss choices for archival preservation of art works as well as how these forms can act as an extension of a visual book's overall concept or design.

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

Anatomy and the Art of Figure Drawing Part 1 with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Wednesdays, 6-8:30pm, April 1 - May 6
Fee: $425
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Studio #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: BarbaraJohnson.com

Learn the skeletal and muscular structures influencing the surface forms on the live model at every meeting. Part 1 Focus: the Torso, Arms, and Legs. By analyzing Master Drawings and exploring a variety of techniques and exercises you will build your knowledge of the human form and greatly improve your figure drawing.

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

Introduction to the Art of Drawing Part 2 with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Saturdays, 9:30am-12pm, April 4 - May 9
Fee: $395
Location: Barbara Johnson Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Studio #036
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: BarbaraJohnson.com

This workshop continues the basic form-building skills covered in Part I, with more in-depth deciphering of the mark and the language of drawing. Artists explore new approaches to the concept of drawing through the elements of space, scale, surface, mark making, and composition.-using both new and traditional tools and paper surfaces. Looking at Contemporary drawings together with historic examples.

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

The Anatomy of Landscape Drawing with Barbara Johnson

Date & Time: Sundays, 10am-5pm, April 19 & 26
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 feeling for their chosen subject

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

Painting Skill Builder at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: Sundays, 6-8pm, April 27 - May 18
Fee: $150
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, studio #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: hisawyer.com/resilient-community-arts/schedules/activity-set/1827182

Take in a luscious western mass spring by building new painting skills over four weeks! Each session we will use water-soluble oil paints to focus on a different painting technique, helping you build confidence to take your painting practice outdoors.

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

Sewing Classes: make/mend/alter clothing and more

Date & Time: 6-week workshops begin week of April 16th
Fee: $240 for 6-week series
Location: Grove House Sewing Studio
Address: 221 Pine Street
City/Town: Florence
Website: GroveHouseSewingStudio.com

Grove House Sewing Studio offers small, supportive, and fun, sewing classes that are both cathartic and challenging all at once. Teaching and learning is paced for each student's needs and interests. In beginner classes folks can choose among a variety of project options. In the skills classes folks can take off on an adventure of their choice! Visit the website to learn more about date/time options for late spring and summer. And if you just can't wait, let's do private lessons!

Botanical Block Printing with Pascale Jarvis

Date & Time: June 5-7
Fee: $445 + $50 supply fee
Location: Snow Farm
Address: 5 Clary Road
City/Town: Williamsburg
Website: canvas.snowfarm.org/classes/3125

Discover block printing with a focus on botanical imagery. Intended for any enthusiast eager to explore how attention to detail shifts how we engage with the natural world, we'll practice sketching & carving botanicals on a linoleum block, running test prints, and printing by hand on fabric. We'll tackle concepts like color theory, composition, and utilizing negative and positive space. Bandanas will be provided, though students are welcome to bring in their own textiles. All levels welcome.

Contact: Pascale Jarvis
pascalejarvis@gmail.com
413-847-1430

Intermediate Watercolor Painting Series with Gretchen Holesovsky

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 10:30pm-12:30pm, June 2-23
Fee: $100 / $122 materials
Location: The Mill District Local Art Gallery
Address: 91 Cowls Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: generalstorelocalgallery.com/events

Join Belchertown artist Gretchen Holesovsky for a series of four intermediate watercolor classes. An exploration of styles and expression will enhance your creative muse no matter how you choose to create. This series is jammed packed with information and has homework. Great for individuals who took Gretchen's beginning watercolor series as well as intermediate artists who want to deepen their understanding of painting with watercolor. Ages 14+ Ticket a week before first class.

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

The Big Print at Red Horse Press

Date & Time: April 11 & 12, 10am-4pm, both days
Fee: $350
Location: Red Horse Press
Address: 7 Mountain Street
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: redhorsepressprintmaking.com

Working on 18"x24" linoleum, we will create and print large scale images. Students will learn carving technique, tool sharpening, inking, creating a gradient, and use of the press. All materials included limited to 4 participants.

Contact: Shoshana DeAtley
shanadeatley@icloud.com
413-221-5775

Playing with Poetry & Paint with Dabble

Date & Time: Wednesday, April 29, 5:30-6:30pm
Fee: free
Location: The Intersection
Address: 1500 Main Street
City/Town: Springfield

Join Dabble for a poetry and paint workshop at The Intersection. We will play with words and images as we share poetry prompts for each participant to create their own written piece. Then we will guide you through the process of making a watercolor in response to someone else's work. Each participant will leave with an original poem and an original painting. No experience necessary, just a willingness to explore.

Contact: dabbleartmarket@gmail.com

BIPOC Critique Group at Augusta Savage Gallery

Date & Time: April 7, 5-7pm (meets twice monthly until May 5, 2026)
Fee: none
Location: Augusta Savage Gallery
Address: New Africa House, 180 Infirmary Way, UMass
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/events/bipoc-critique-group-2526

A supportive, intellectually rigorous space for BIPOC visual artists to share their work and engage in meaningful dialogue. With the insights of ally scholars and community members, we foster cultural, intellectual, and contextual conversations that honor the depth and complexity of BIPOC experiences. The group meets twice monthly through the end of the academic year. See website for upcoming dates.

Contact: Elana Casey
elanacasey@umass.edu

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

Revelry at 33: The Next Chapter

Date: Saturday, April 11, 7pm
Location: Northampton Center for the Arts
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/revelry-at-33

Revelry at 33 is the Northampton Center for the Arts' signature annual fundraiser, an unforgettable evening of live music, performance, local art, and community celebration held each spring at our home at 33 Hawley Street. $65 early bird (until April 4th) / $75 at the door

Clay It Forward at Artspace Greenfield

Goal: $10,000
Date: April 12, 11-4pm
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/clay-it-forward

Please join us at Artspace Greenfield on Sunday, April 12th, for a little shake-up of our typical Spring fundraiser! This year, you can meet us AT ARTSPACE for a day of clay activities and fundraising for our financial aid program! Did you know that over 30% of Artspace students receive financial aid? That is a benefit to the community of roughly $10,000 a year. Can you help us support this program and keep art education affordable for our students?

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

Doodle-a-thon for Art is for Everybody Fund

Dates: April 12 & 25
City/Town: Florence, Springfield, Easthampton
Website: givebutter.com/doodle-a-thon-2026

The Art is for Everybody Fund helps youth from low-income homes attend programs at Resilient Community Arts, but we can only offer this scholarship through fundraising at our annual Doodle-a-thon! Free and open to all, bring the whole fam to help us support and celebrate youth artists in need and make a donation today because art IS for everybody! April 12th, South Church UCC in Springfield; April 25th, Eastworks in Easthampton. Full details and donation link on website.

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

Call for Volunteer Team at New England Visionary Artists Museum

End Date: April 30
City/Town: Northampton
Website: neva-museum.org/volunteer.html

A work of the heart for decades, the New England Visionary Artists Museum (NEVAmuseum) offers space for artists to reimagine the role of art. The museum's groundbreaking work has 5 main purposes: subsidizing artists living with neurodivergent conditions, conserving & researching visionary art, giving artists the freedom to self-stage exhibitions, celebrating new music & performance, & providing art education to income-sensitive citizens. Please contact us via our web form at the link.

Help Bring Balance of Becoming to the Ludlow River Walk

Goal: $10,000
End Date: May 5
City/Town: Ludlow
Website: hercworx.com/help-bring-balance-of-becoming-to-the-ludlow-river-walk

Balance of Becoming is a proposed 10–12 foot outdoor sculpture designed specifically for the Ludlow River Walk. Built from reclaimed steel, the piece explores balance, growth, and connection through repeating circular forms. After strong community interest, a private donor has offered to match contributions up to $5,000. This crowdfunding effort aims to create a permanent, accessible work of public art for Ludlow's shared riverfront space.

Contact: Donald R Longley
donald@hercworx.com
325-829-6577

Flo Fest - the return of a The return of a Florence Community Celebration

Goal: $25,000
End Date: June 1
City/Town: Florence
Website: westernmassflofest.wixsite.com/event

Inspired and guided by the legacy of Florence Night Out, Flo Fest is a brand new community-powered celebration in the heart of Florence. Launching September 19, 2026, at the heart of Florence, Flo Fest activates Main Street into a vibrant, walkable festival filled with live music, interactive art, activities for all ages, and the best eats, treats, and small businesses. Please help see Flo Fest come to fruition!

Contact: Chloe Torri
westernmassflofest@gmail.com
630-202-9130