The Towns of Franklin County

Artists: Springfield Photographic Society
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: October 30, 2025
Location: Agawam Public Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 9am-9pm, Fri & Sat 9am-5pm
Address: 750 Cooper Stree
City/Town: Agawam
Website: agawamlibrary.org

This exhibit features pictures from each of the 26 towns in Franklin County, capturing the uniqueness of the communities, and illustrating their history, culture, public spaces, and natural beauty. Each photographer chose one perspective that they felt was important to understanding their town.

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

Michael Sylvan Robinson Artist Talk

Date: October 9, 4-5:30pm
Location: Studio Arts Building, Room 240, UMass
Address: 110 Thatcher Road
City/Town: Amherst
Website: arts.umass.edu/visual-arts/events

Queer activist and fiber artist Michael Sylvan Robinson shares insights into their oracles sculpture series in the museum's Artist/Fabricator exhibition. The series incorporates the eye as a symbol of protection and prophecy. Tickets (free) required.

A Hiker's Journey - Way of Living and Seeing

Artist: Sandy Mairs
Start Date: October 5, 2025
End Date: November 7, 2025
Location: AIRSpace Gallery
Hours: Wed-Fri 12-5pm
Address: 534 Main Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: airspacegallery.net

A Hiker's Journey - Way of Living and Seeing showcases 21 landscape photographs that artist Sandy Mairs has captured over the past two decades. The exhibition chronicles the artist's travels from his home in Massachusetts to diverse locations worldwide, emphasizing the narrative of landscapes and the pure beauty of photography. The exhibition offers a perspective on a lifestyle and the spirit of challenging one's physical body through movement.

Contact: Ani Rivera
info@airspacegallery.net
413-835-5072

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
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

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
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

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-mindA 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

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

Memories of Brooklyn in the 1950/60s

Artist: Philip Van Cott
Date: October 12, 12-4pm
Location: Norcross Center
Address: 89 Maple Street
City/Town: East Longmeadow
Website: philipvancottart.com

The city streets of Brooklyn were convenient playgrounds in this ethnic and very diverse working-class neighborhood. In my paintings, I capture images that bring back a time and a place that once was and will never come our way again. Look, remember, and enjoy.

Contact: Ed Fitzgerald
edfitztech@gmail.com
203-803-0714

Making Meaning / Marking Time

Artists: Cati Bestard, Michael Medeiros
Start Date: October 4, 2025
End Date: November 12, 2025
Location: ECA Gallery
Address: 43 Main Street / Old Town Hall
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: easthamptoncityarts.com

Bestard’s photographs, which take advantage of the medium's visual capture of a moment in time, show us something more partial and fractured. Medeiros' ceramic works and installation are inward-facing, reflecting on the passing of the artist's father--a watershed moment in life--and how the impacts of his father's time in the Vietnam war inflected their relationship and its legacy. Events featuring performance, a time-based art form, will continue to expand on and offer additional layers to the works of the exhibition.

Marcia, Marsha, Marcia: The Homecoming

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 4, 2025
End Date: October 25, 2025
Location: The Elusie Gallery
Hours: see website
Address: 43 Main Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: bigredframe.com/gallery

Marcia Reed, Marcia Wise, and Marsha Lieberman all made their artistic marks in the Valley. Their friendship was stronger than the distance that separated them when they left the area: to Boston, Savannah GA, and to Milford DE, and they continued to keep in touch over the years. The Elusie Gallery brings these talented Artists and friends back together for a memorable exhibit and home coming reunion.

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

Views and Mirrors

Artist: Deborra Stewart-Pettengill
Start Date: October 2, 2025
End Date: October 26, 2025
Reception Date: Saturday, October 11, 4-6pm
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Front Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 2-7pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Deborra Stewart-Pettengill is an artist living in southern NH, with studios in MA and NH. The pieces exhibited in her October solo show investigate the botanical form and texture, combined with biomorphic structures. Come to Oxbow Gallery to view Stewart-Pettengill's mesmerizing works. Visit her website to find out more: deborrastewartpettengill.com.

Contact: Deborra Stewart-Pettengill
debspettengill@gmail.com

Views and Mirrors

Artist: B.Z. Reily
Start Date: October 2, 2025
End Date: October 26, 2025
Reception Date: Saturday, October 11, 4-6pm
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Front Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 2-7pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Artist B.Z. Reily will be exhibiting works in the front gallery at Oxbow Gallery. Reily states “My work in this show focuses on eyes, seeing, vision, surveillance and the uneasy reality that we are being watched. I am struggling with vision loss myself, so this is a personal theme for me.

Contact: B.Z. Reily
bzreily@gmail.com

Frescos/Drawings

Artist: Kamini Avril
Start Date: October 2, 2025
End Date: October 26, 2025
Location: Oxbow Gallery - Back Gallery
Hours: Thur-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 2-7pm
Address: 40 Cottage Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: oxbowartgallery.com

Kamini Avril lives and works as an artist in western MA. Avril writes about her creative process “I move between working from nature directly and working from the dictates of imagination.” Find out more at www.kaminiavril.com

Contact: Kamini Avril
artoffering@yahoo.com

Unveiled

Artists: group show
Start Date: August 26, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
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.

Contact: jasonm@50arrowgallery.com

Hurricane Katrina 20 year Remembrance

Artist: Don Wilhelm
Start Date: October 3, 2025
End Date: November 25, 2025
Location: Wilhelm Gallery
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 204
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: dfwilhelm.art

Paintings & Etchings by Don Wilhelm for the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Contact: Don Wilhelm
butch.wilhelm@gmail.com
413-510-7200

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

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

Gray Matters

Artist: Karen J. Axtell
Start Date: October 17, 2025
End Date: November 21, 2025
Reception Date: October 17, 5-7pm
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Hours: see website
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/gray-matters

A new suite of mixed-media monotypes on handmade papers and mounted on canvas. The imagery is meant to confound one’s senses not unlike the way we feel when we see, hear, and otherwise digest all of the happenings we encounter. The abstract mark-making is a combination of aqueous inks and paints and is intended to evoke curiosity, confusion, and perhaps even some clarity as we contend with the world around us.

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

5th Annual LAVA Film Festival

Date: October 9-12
Location: The LAVA Center
Address: 324 Main Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: thelavacenter.org/lava-film-festival

We spotlight emerging local filmmakers who create films that engage with the community and are made with joy. All films were made by current residents of Massachusetts--with more than half of them hailing from Western Mass. See website for schedule and tickets.

Contact: art@thelavacenter.org

Tuna Coquette

Artist: Charlotte Treiber
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: November 30, 2025
Reception Date: October 24, 5-8pm
Location: Looky Here
Hours: 12-5pm daily
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com

A Solo Show of work by Charlotte Treiber

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

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
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

Fall into Art

Artist: Scantic River Artisans
Date: October 11, 10am-4pm & October 12 11am-3pm
Reception Date: October 12, 12-2pm
Location: Hampden Senior Center
Address: 104 Allen Street
City/Town: Hampden
Website: scanticriverartisans.com

"Fall Into Art" is a special show to benefit the Scantic River Artisans Scholarship Fund and Programming. The show will include Oil, Watercolor, Acrylic, Pastel, Mixed Media, Photography, and other unique works including Pottery, Jewelry and Sculpture. All works are original and will be available for purchase. This show includes "Reflective Musings" - A Community Art Project, funded in part by a grant from the Hampden Cultural Council, supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

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

Darkened Hallways Tour at Wistariahurst Museum

Date: Wednesday, October 15, 6:30pm
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: eventbrite.com/e/darkened-hallways-tour-tickets-1680904242839

Immerse yourself in an evening of spine-tingling discovery and feel the lingering energy of past inhabitants and workers that once occupied these haunted halls. As our docent leads you through the home by candlelight, you will uncover stories of the Skinner family, the tragedy that moved their home and business to Holyoke, and other chilling tales from the mansion's history.

Contact: info@wistariahurst.org
413-322-5660

The Great Holyoke Brick Race

Date: Saturday, October 11, 1–3pm
Location: in front of Paper City Studios
Address: Race Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: thegreatholyokebrickrace.com

One of Holyoke's most creative and quirky traditions is back on the starting line! 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. From sleek racers to wacky rolling sculptures, no two creations are alike--except for the brick!

Identity in Ink: The Art of Tattooing

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 6, 2025
End Date: November 11, 2025
Reception Date: October 7, 4:30-6:30pm
Location: Wistariahurst Museum
Hours: Mon 10am-2pm, Tue 4:30-6:30pm
Address: 238 Cabot Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: wistariahurst.org

Tattoo artists or apprentices from all backgrounds submitted work that is shaped by heritage, lived experiences, and personal history. Artists featured in this exhibit are Caitlyn Abdow, Jennifer Broy-Peters, Kenzie Lee, Kevin Stiles, Kire Franklin, Mo Jiwun, Soul L, and more!

Contact: Rachel Buenaventura
buenaventurar@holyoke.org
413-322-5660

Visions of the Valley

Artists: Resilient Community Arts
Start Date: September 28, 2025
End Date: November 28, 2025
Reception Date: October 11, 1-3pm
Location: Holyoke Heritage State Park Exhibition Hall
Hours: 7 days / 12-4pm
Address: 221 Appleton Street
City/Town: Holyoke
Website: mass.gov/doc/holyoke-hsp-septemberoctober-programs-1/download

Inspired by the scenery captured during our Plein Air painting sessions in the park, "Visions of the Valley" will be on display for the next two months in Holyoke Heritage State Park's Exhibition Hall. The show will feature pieces by artists of all ages and abilities, with an artists reception on October 11th, 1-3pm.

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

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

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

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

Plein Air Voices

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 4, 2025
End Date: October 26, 2025
Reception Date: October 19, 3-5pm
Location: The Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts
Hours: Sat & Sun 1-5pm
Address: 13 Montague Road
City/Town: Leverett
Website: leverettcraftsandarts.org

Six local artists are exhibiting a wide variety of styles and media.

Arts Night Out Northampton

Date: Friday, October 10, 5-8pm
Location: various locations downtown
City/Town: Northampton

Arts Night Out is Northampton's monthly downtown celebration of creativity & community, every second Friday 5-8pm. Stroll through vibrant galleries, explore pop-up performances, catch live music, & discover local artists, makers, and businesses bringing the streets to life. From fine art openings to jazz in restaurants and unexpected street performers, every month offers something fresh and inspiring. Arts Night Out is the perfect way to kick off your weekend in downtown Northampton.

Contact: Andrea Monson
andrea@nohodna.org
413-207-7480

How to Bear the Unbearable Body

Artist: Emily Orling
Start Date: October 10, 2025
End Date: November 1, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, October 10, 5-8pm
Location: A.P.E. Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Fri 12-8pm
Address: 126 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: apearts.org/unbearable-body-emily-orling

An exhibition by visual artist Emily Orling, with performances created in collaboration with César Alvarez, and additional performances by Fletcher Boote and Katrina Goldsaito. How to Bear the Unbearable Body presents the raw and spiritually charged work of Emily Orling, created as a devotional act of recovery and intuitive making. See website for events.

Contact: mollyemaxner@apearts.org

Magick, Masks, & Mysteries

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Reception Date: Friday, October 10, 5-8pm
Location: Small Victories
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-6pm, Fri-Sat 10am-8pm, Sun 12-5pm
Address: Thornes Marketplace, 150 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: smallvictories.com/blogs/news/on-view-in-october-magick-masks-mysteries

You're invited to our celebration of the witchy and weird as our shop walls are taken over by paintings, tapestries, handmade masks, and knitted creatures. At the Small Victories studio we're all artists and creators, so take this chance to see a sampling of the cool things we make in our free time. Artists: Vince Finch-Brand, Vincent Frano, Bee Leake, and Brenda Roswess.

Contact: Vince Finch-Brand
hello@smallvictories.com

Bits and Places

Artist: Kristi Colbert
Start Date: October 2, 2025
End Date: October 30, 2025
Reception Date: Thursday, October 9, 5-8pm
Location: The Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

A rotating exhibition of painted paper collage landscapes by Kristi W. Colbert, a Leverett-based mixed media artist inspired by country life in Western MA, as well as travels and wanderlust beyond. Composed of snippets from the recycle bin and bits of junk mail painted with gouache, colored pencil, and neocolor crayon, Kristi’s work explores and evokes a palpable sense of place, as transportive landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes emerge from reclaimed paper fragments.

Contact: 413-587-1013

Juxtapose

Artist: Maureen Manning
Start Date: October 2, 2025
End Date: October 30, 2025
Reception Date: Thursday, October 9, 5-8pm
Location: The Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

This exhibit explores both the beauty and unrest found in nature. The juxtapositions are people with plants, animals, and fungi. Some are humorous, others are serious, and some have been called creepy. Maureen Manning is a mixed media artist living in Amherst. In her artwork, she frequently entwines found photographs with her love of the natural world. Her training as an archaeologist, historian, cartographer, artifact illustrator, and later as a biologist, has tied her love of the past with nature.

Contact: 413-587-1013

Collages

Artist: Ryan Mihaly
Start Date: October 2, 2025
End Date: October 30, 2025
Reception Date: Thursday, October 9, 5-8pm
Location: The Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library
Hours: Mon-Thur 10am-8pm, Fri & Sat 10am-6pm
Address: 20 West Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: forbeslibrary.org/gallery

These collages were created between 2008 and 2020. My materials are simple --paper, glue, and board. All of them are cut and glued by hand. The pieces are usually postcard-sized, sometimes a bit bigger. In 2022, I began experimenting with creating digital scans of the collages and creating large-format archival prints, some of which are seen here.

Contact: 413-587-1013

Steve Wilda

Artist: Steve Wilda
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: November 28, 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

Steve Wilda painted a series of still life objects in deterioration, using graphite, watercolor, acrylic and oil. His giclee prints will be on display at the NSC. Reception: Friday, October 10, 5-7pm, in conjunction with Arts Night Out.

Denise Beaudet

Artist: Denise Beaudet
Start Date: October 8, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Reception Date: October 10, 5-8pm
Location: NEVAmuseum, Gallery 1, 2, 3
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

Last summer, on a perfect June day, when the meadowsweet was in full bloom, Beaudet brought a show of small paintings along the trail of the Graves Wildlife Center in Williamsburg. It was brilliant. She brings the same intimacy to Gallery 1, 2, & 3 in a way that announces the arrival of Autumn. She describes herself as a painter & woodswalker offering tiny vignettes that explore the earth's cycles, mortality, and meaning through the eyes of the Forests, Waterworlds, & the UnderEarth places.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Gregory Rogers

Artist: Gregory Rogers
Start Date: October 8, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Reception Date: October 10, 5-8pm
Location: NEVAmuseum, Museum Wing Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

It shouldn't matter that Gregory Rogers paints dizzyingly vibrant Fauvist paintings despite severe scoliosis or that he holds his brushes between his toes because he was born without arms (amelia, phocomelia). Still, Rogers is open to the discussion, and on October 18, from 3-5 p.m., he will be on hand to demonstrate his technique and address the stigma. The truth is only that the paintings are captivating. He has a simultaneous exhibit at the Paradise City show this month.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Deborah Sklar's Brief Walk

Artist: Deborah Sklar
Start Date: October 8, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Reception Date: October 10, 5-8pm
Location: NEVAmuseum, Bumpus Gallery
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

Deborah Sklar's 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

Angels on the Street

Artist: Tasha Robbins
Start Date: October 8, 2025
End Date: October 31, 2025
Reception Date: October 10, 5-9pm
Location: NEVAmuseum, the Passway
Hours: Wed-Sat 2-6pm
Address: 518 Pleasant Street, Ground Floor
City/Town: Northampton
Website: NEVA-museum.org

Studying at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa) in the 1970s, Robbins was inspired to begin a painting project: Alphabet Malachim, based on her discovery of Cornelius Agrippa's Angelic Scripts. This collection is featured in her new book, An Angel Alphabet (Bodily Press, 2025). She shows these aside with her Angels on the Street paintings. At the close of October 10th's reception, a piano and poetry concert debuts the book, along with new music from Eliot Cardinaux.

Contact: 413-588-4337

Premiering Potter Series

Artist: Elizabeth Song
Start Date: October 10, 2025
End Date: October 12, 2025
Reception Date: October 10, 5-8pm
Location: PINCH
Hours: Fri & Sat 10am-8pm, Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 179 Main Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: pinchgoods.com

Our Premiering Potters series continues this October with the work of Elizabeth Song. Based out of Chesterfield, Elizabeth wood fires her work and is currently an apprentice to Maya Machin. Elizabeth makes functional pottery and finds joy in knowing objects carry on stories beyond the maker as they are used. Her work will be on display and available for purchase October 10-12 at Pinch. Elizabeth will be in the shop on Arts Night Out, October 10th from 5-8pm for an opening reception.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Flying Colors

Artist: Mark Majeski
Start Date: September 29, 2025
End Date: November 16, 2025
Location: Mocha Mayas Coffee Shop
Hours: 9am-5pm / 7 Days
Address: 47 Bridge Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls
Website: neighborhoodbirds.com

Hand drawn, original, detailed 11x14 inch colored pencil drawings of birds and plants local to Western Massachusetts.

Contact: Mark Majeski
majeskiphoto@verizon.net
413-834-4691

Nature's Palette

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: October 27, 2025
Location: Shelburne Arts Co-op
Hours: Mon & Wed-Sun 11am-5pm
Address: 26 Bridge Street
City/Town: Shelburne Falls

The hues of fall and harvest season are glowingly depicted in paintings, prints, photographs, collages, mixed media pieces, decorative and wearable fiber art, and sculpture.

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

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

Pleasant View Art Group

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 3, 2025
End Date: October 29, 2025
Location: Trinity Community Gallery
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-2pm, Sun 10am-3pm
Address: 361 Sumner Avenue
City/Town: Springfield
Website: trinityspringfield.org

Artists from the East Longmeadow Senior Center share their art in a variety of mediums. The artists study with local artist Jeff Kern at the center.

Contact: Vera Baker
gallery-cafe@trinityspringfield.org
413-218-7391

The Power of She

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 28, 2025
End Date: January 25, 2026
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

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

Migrations

Artists: group show
Start Date: October 18, 2025
End Date: November 22, 2025
Reception Date: October 25, 3-5pm
Location: Great Falls Discovery Center
Hours: Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
Address: 2 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners Falls
Website: greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org

Migrations paintings, curated by GuateMaya Art and Culture Connection, celebrate the human and natural diversity of the upper Connecticut River Valley and the Americas. Colorful works depict scenes integral to village life, Mayan culture, and the history of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. For all ages.

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

Day of the Dead Altar

Artists: Heartwing Center and Local Families
Start Date: October 11, 2025
End Date: November 2, 2025
Reception Date: October 25, 3-5pm
Location: Great Falls Discovery Center
Hours: Tue 10am-4pm, Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
Address: 2 Avenue A
City/Town: Turners Falls
Website: greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org

View a Day of the Dead Altar built by local families with support from the Heartwing Center. Learn about the tradition of leaving messages of love to honor and commemorate loved ones. For all ages.

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.

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

Root/Signal

Artists: group show
Start Date: September 30, 2025
End Date: November 7, 2025
Location: Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State University
Address: 577 Western Avenue
City/Town: Westfield
Website: westfield.ma.edu/offices/arno-maris-art-gallery

In an era marked by ecological unraveling and social polarization, Root/Signal brings together artists who look to the living world. Curated by Caitlin Hurd & Melanie Vote, artists include: Andrae Green, Ian Healy, Mark Guglielmo Tana Quincy Arcega, Caitlin Hurd, Laura Peturson, Fabricio Suarez, Barbara Neulinger, and Melanie Vote.

Contact: arnomarisgallery@westfield.ma.edu

FIESTA! A Latin/Hispanic American Heritage Celebration

Artists: Frankie Borrero, Andrea Fabiana Piatti-Bruno
Start Date: September 20, 2025
End Date: November 8, 2025
Location: Westfield On Weekend's "WOW Center"
Hours: Thur & Fri 6-9pm, Sat 12-5pm
Address: 105 Elm Street
City/Town: Westfield
Website: westfieldonweekends.com

The WOW Center is proud to Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month with Fiesta! Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Andrea Fabiana Piatti-Bruno is a self-taught artist, whose bold use of color and design on canvas, furniture, pillows and fashionwear, including gowns. Self-taught artist, Frankie Borrero has followed his passion for drawing since the age of 5. Prior to a traumatic brain injury in 2015, he has become a prolific artist, working in a variety of medium and genres.

Contact: Bob Plasse
westfieldonweekendsinc@gmail.com
413-579-5967

2025 Fall Group Exhibit

Artists: Quabbin Art Association
Start Date: October 1, 2025
End Date: October 28, 2025
Location: Wilbraham Public Library
Address: 95 Crane Park Drive
City/Town: Wilbraham
Website: quabbinartassociation.com

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 Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Now in its tenth year, Quabbin Art Association provides education, support, and opportunity for local artists, and promotes community interest and appreciation in the visual arts. To learn more about QAA members, or to join, visit the website.

Contact: info@quabbinartassociation.com

413 Indie Toy Fest

Date: Saturday, October 11, 12-4pm
Location: Northampton Center for the Arts
Address: 33 Hawley Street
City/Town: Northampton
Website: nohoarts.org/events/category/413-indie-toy-fest

From the creators of Stars & Skulls Crafty Craft Fair comes a brand-new celebration of DIY toy magic! 413 Indie Toy Fest is all about artists who make their own toys -- think small-batch action figures, handmade robots, creepy-cute monsters, weirdos, wonders & everything in between. Featuring indie vendors from across the Northeast -- this is your chance to discover one-of-a-kind collectibles, support underground creators, and maybe even find your new favorite toy artist.

Amherst Artisans' Market

Date: Thursdays, 3-7pm, October 9-30
Location: Amherst Town Hall
Address: 4 Boltwood Avenue
City/Town: Amherst
Website: amherstartisansmarket.com

A weekly artisans market showcasing local artisans, crafters, and food vendors. Join us every Thursday and enjoy items such as handmade jewelry, artwork, tapestries, clothing and pottery. Organized by volunteers and friends of the historic Amherst Farmers' Market, this market provides an opportunity to connect local artisans and craftspeople with the surrounding community. We hope to see you there!

Contact: amherstartisans@gmail.com

Art Supply Swap & Makers Market

Date: Saturday, October 18, 2-5pm
Location: Eastworks
Address: 116 Pleasant Street
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: hyphae.community/event/art-supply-swap-makers-market

Join HYPHAE and 50 Arrow Gallery for an Art Supply Swap & Makers Market! The ticketed Art Supply Swap will be located in 50 Arrow Gallery, and the free admission market will be on the first floor of Eastworks. Tickets are sliding scale donation - no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Bring your gently used art supplies to swap with fellow artists and browse through unique handmade creations from local makers. Don't miss out on this opportunity to support local artists and add some new treasures to your collection.

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. Working member and non-working member opportunities available. Please email for jurying instructions.

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

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

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!

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

Art with Annaleah! at Looky Here

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 3:45-4:45pm October 7 - November 11
Fee: $180
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com

We will explore a variety of mediums such as drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Emphasizing both material experimentation and technical skill-building, this class encourages creative exploration through hands-on demonstrations and guided practice. We will do both short-term projects that last one class, while other projects will span multiple classes. Come ready to get messy, try new things, and expand your artistic toolkit! For kids 5-9.

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

Teen Riso Club at Looky Here

Date & Time: Wednesdays, 3:45-4:45pm, October 8 - November 12
Fee: $75
Location: Looky Here
Address: 28 Chapman Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: lookyheregreenfield.com

Learn to layer colors and make your designs come to life. We will get to know the Risograph printer through color + paper exploration, scan in collage, mini zines, prints, and more. Limited to 6 students. All materials included.

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

Figure Drawing at Looky Here

Date & Time: Thursdays, 6-8pm, October 9 & 23
Fee: $15 per session
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 every other Thursday evening. *Participates in Card to Culture

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

Amanda Barrow's Gel Plate Printing Workshops

Date & Time: Saturday, October 25, 1-4pm
Fee: $110
Location: Amanda Barrow Printmaking Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, #244
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: amandabarrow.net/events/category/workshops

RELEASE YOUR INNER INK! Gel Plate prints = one-of-a-kind prints! Paint on top of the Gel Plate, add textures and leaves, etc., place paper over it, and print! Dance w the plate, and play w/ AKUA soy-based inks, brushes, & different papers to create original prints. All materials included, share ink, make friends; take home 6 prints with each class! No Experience Necessary & Small Classes! Next classes: Dec 13 & 14

Contact: bridge.arts.1@gmail.com

Felted Pillow Friends at Resilient Community Arts

Date & Time: November 13, 6-8pm
Fee: $45
Location: Resilient Community Arts
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, studio #238
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: hisawyer.com/resilient-community-arts/schedules/activity-set/1619651?source=camps

Come build your own cozy pal to cuddle all winter long! This 2-hour workshop invites artists of any experience level to make a unique and functional piece of fiber art.

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

Palette Knife Painting with Deborah Padden

Date & Time: Wednesday, October 15, 6-8:30pm
Fee: $40 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Learn a fun and expressive way of painting - using a palette knife instead of a brush! All materials included.

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

Level 2 On/Off the Wheel with Nayda A. Cuevas

Date & Time: Tuesdays, 6-9pm, October 14 - December 9
Fee: $350 / 10% member discount
Location: ClayWorks
Address: 71 Main Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Designed for intermediate students seeking guidance, you’ll learn essential techniques in throwing, surface design, and glazing to create artistic, functional, and sculptural works. All materials included. Ages: 16-adult.

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

Sculpting the Human Form in Clay with Stephen Saxenian

Date & Time: November 19-23, 10am-5pm
Fee: $675
Location: New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art
Address: 37 South Main Street
City/Town: New Salem
Website: newsalemmuseum.com/workshop/sculpting-the-human-form-in-clay

Led by renowned local sculptor Stephen Saxenian, this five-day workshop will immerse students in the rich, timeless and captivating endeavor of sculpting the human form in clay, offering methods and resources to foster skill, understanding, and artistic growth. Unique to this workshop at NSMA, your classes are set against the serene backdrop of rural New England in late autumn, with access to the museum’s inspiring collection and surroundings throughout the week. Open to all skill levels!

Contact: info@newsalemmuseum.com
413-658-2098

Fun with Colored Pencils: Basic Techniques with Rose Marques

Date & Time: Saturday, October 25, 10am-12pm
Fee: $15
Location: Artspace Community Arts Center
Address: 15 Mill Street
City/Town: Greenfield
Website: artspacegreenfield.org/event-details/october-25-fun-with-colored-pencils-basic-techniques

Colored pencil artists today use this medium to create everything from illustrations to realistic subjects, and you can too! Using simple exercises and short projects, this workshop will lead you through a few basic but critical techniques that can help you express your artistic creativity. You'll leave with new skills and a small project to continue practicing on your own. No experience or materials are required to join the fun! All materials are provided.

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

Bringing Our Stories to Life, One Piece at a Time at Warriors Art Room

Date & Time: Friday, October 17, 6-8pm
Fee: free
Location: Warriors Art Room
Address: 122 Pleasant Street, Suite 105
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: warriorsartroom.org/event/bringing-our-stories-to-life-one-piece-at-a-time

A free art workshop for service members, veterans, and their families. Create meaningful art guided by simple drawing techniques. Share your story and connect with other military families. Showcase your artwork in the upcoming Shaped by Service Art Show.

Mixed Media Printmaking at Red Horse Press

Date & Time: ongoing / Thursdays 4-7pm & Fridays 12:30-2:30pm
Fee: $60 per class
Location: Red Horse Press
Address: 7 Mountain Street
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: redhorsepressprintmaking.com

Mixed Media allows you to delve more deeply into the many ways to create a print. Combine etching and block print, create a monoprint, make a woodcut, learn the art of chine colle, master the subtleties of aquatint or mezzotint... the possibilities are endless!

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

Block Print at Red Horse Press

Date & Time: ongoing / Wednesdays 6-8pm & Fridays 10am-12pm
Fee: $40/class or $150/Monthly 4 Pack
Location: Red Horse Press
Address: 7 Mountain Street
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: redhorsepressprintmaking.com

Suitable for all levels. Join our fun, informative class, where we cover everything from carving technique, to image transfer, to using the press, and so much more. Students who attend multiple classes will learn three main block printing techniques; single block, reduction, and multiple block.Class size limited to 4 to allow for plenty of individual attention. Pay by the class and create your own schedule, or save money with a monthly 4 pack.

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

Etching at Red Horse Press

Date & Time: ongoing / Saturdays 10am-12pm & 12-2pm
Fee: $40/class or $150/Monthly 4 Pack
Location: Red Horse Press
Address: 7 Mountain Street
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: redhorsepressprintmaking.com

Etching is a process in which the drawn line is incised using a corrosive into which a metal plate has been submerged. After the process is complete, the etched line holds ink, which is then printed on paper. We use ferric chloride, a corrosive salt, to etch into copper plates. This structured class is suitable for all levels, from beginner to advanced. Pay by the class and create your own schedule, or save money with a monthly 4 pack.

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

Paint the Rocks Party at Agawam Kindness Rock Garden

Date & Time: Saturday, October 18, 11am-2pm
Fee: free
Location: School Street Park
Address: 511 School Street
City/Town: Agawam

A community art project featuring painted rocks with inspirational messages. The Kindness Rock Garden was created in memory of Frank Baginski by his sister Jen Baginski Pronovost. Rocks with cheerful, loving and inspirational messages are painted by members of all ages from the community. Everyone is invited to attend this free rock painting event to help fill the garden with new inspiring rocks. Rocks, paints and instruction will be available.

Contact: Jen Pronovost
jenpronovost22@yahoo.com

Portrait Sculpting a Portrait Mask with John Collins

Date & Time: Saturday, October 11, 9am-2:30pm
Fee: $100 / 10% member discount
Location: Workshop13
Address: 13 Church Street
City/Town: Ware
Website: workshop13.org

Students will make a portrait sculpture of a human face, learning facial anatomy and proper modeling and interconnecting forms of eyes, nose, and mouth. All materials included.

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

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: November 15, 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: Nov 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

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: and 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. You'll be encouraged to tune into your perceptions and connect with the present moment through painting. A supportive classroom community in an airy, light, and spacious mill studio. Elevator access. Building gallery space available for exhibitions. Registration deadline: Oct 12.

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

Costume Clinic at Make Fix Hack

Date & Time: Mondays, 6-8pm, October 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

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

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

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

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, until 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

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

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: October 22, 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: 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 Red Horse Press

Date(s) Available: ongoing / every month
Location: Red Horse Press
Address: 27 Mountain Street
City/Town: Haydenville
Website: redhorsepressprintmaking.com

Studio Membership for Printmakers at Red Horse Press. Membership is $150 per month and includes: Unlimited classes, space permitting; Flat file drawer, Storage locker. Drop in Open Studio time: Wednesdays 10-6, Thursdays 10-4, Saturdays 2-6, Sundays 10-6.

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

Resilient Futures 2025

Goal: $12,000
End Date: December 2, 2025
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: givebutter.com/c/artequalshope

Federal funds we'd been awarded were revoked in February, so we are fundraising to continue to serve our community with integrity to our mission: stabilizing the future of accessible and inclusive community art making and learning spaces for all ages and abilities in the River Valley. Our fundraiser kicks off 10/30 at the Spooktacular Ball for All! Join us for a night of artmaking and raffles, dancing and drag, a costume contest and more! Because NOTHING is scarier than arts funding cuts...

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

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.