[...] It was a perfect day for Lynn Latimer’s opening reception on April 13th, at the Grubbs Gallery on the campus of The Williston Northampton School, and we weren’t going to miss it. The sky was cloudless and the [...]
From Dean Nimmer:
I’m having a fantastic MOVING SALE of my artwork during the week of January 21 to 26. The RECEPTION for this sale will be on SATURDAY, JANUARY 26th from 2pm to 6pm at the Open Square studio building in Holyoke. This sale will feature my 1000 [...]
There’squite a lively discussion going onabout the proposed muralon the Masslive Easthampton Forum(see threads 4319 - 4324). Surprisingly, many posters aren’t happy about it. Some excerpts:
The particular graphic design seems more suited to be shown on a smaller scale–perhaps on the cover of a brochure for Easthampton. These [...]
Easthampton City Arts has announced Tom Pappalardo the winner of the call for submissions fortheir mural project on Cottage Street in the city’s downtown. Painting will start this Spring.
There’s already onemural on Cottage Street, on the side of Off The Map Tattoo - an awesome [...]
Two evenings chock full o’ art:
Friday night, 5-8pm: Northampton’s Art’s Night Out. Download & printthe map.
Saturday night, 5-8pm: Easthampton’s Art Walk. View & print the map.
The Warhol Foundation announced a few months back a massive gift of more than 28,000 Warhol photographs to be distributed among college and university museums across the country. Local beneficiaries are the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the University Gallery at UMASS, and the Smith [...]
We’ve been reading some excellent blog postings, “Why Artists Need To Be Online,”by UK artist and curator Kirsty Hall. She’s written a series of articles on the importance of putting your work online. These articles are a must-read for any artist.
In a previous post on this [...]
There’s a new local blog, Art from Intuition,from artist Dean Nimmer showcasing his upcoming book, Art from Intuition: Overcoming Your Fears and Obstacles to Making Art.
Dean Nimmer is a prolific, interesting, and much-acclaimed artist. He taught at MassArt in Boston for over 20 years, and recently [...]
New year, new resolution to post more often. We plan to post more frequently and to expand our writing to include tid-bits of art news from art blogs and other online arts new sources. This blog is still evolving; the focus will still be on local visual art (i.e. [...]
These reporters soujourned through the bitter New England winter night to see Augusten Burroughs speak at The Williston Northampton School, in Easthampton, MA. Despite being cold,we were quickly warmed by the funny and charming Burroughs, whose flair for the dramatic was obvious right from the start. After taking the [...]
Someart eventswe’re looking forward tothis weekend:
Easthampton Art Walk: Saturday 5pm-8pm
Handsmithing 101, Holiday Arts Market at Eastworks: Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5pm
Art at the Jeff, Art& Craft Sale: Amherst Common, Saturday 10am-3.30pm
Small Works Show, Opening Reception, Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library: Saturday 2-4pm
The Eastmont Art Fund is inviting artists to submit artwork for its 2nd Annual Juried Art Exhibit Fundraiser. Application deadline: 18 January 2008.
Proceeds will benefit the 2008 Family Gathering, a community-building project of the Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC). Specifically, this income will help fund Western MA based [...]
We started the evening off at the old Town Hall building. Easthampton City Arts celebrated the opening of their new office and feature an exhibit of paintings by Marlene Rye. Rye paints large colorful abstract landscapes. The quiet complexity in her work is mesmerizing.
Across the hall at [...]
Easthampton City Arts has recently launched a blog to keep members updated on their activities. The blog also featuresperiodic interviews with members.
The most recent interview is with Trace Meek, an artist and musicianbased at One Cottage Street.
When asked, “Why are you an artist?” Meek replies,
For [...]
We’re in the process of deciding how to categorize/organize our art links (on the right side of this page). We plan to expand them to include local artists (i.e. working within the Valley area) and art blogs.
If you’d like us to add a link, please email us: theartparlor@yahoo.com, [...]
We went to the Smith College Museum of Artlast Friday evening to see this exhibition and and attend the accompanying talk by the artist.
Daniel Kelm is a bookbinder, teacher, chemist, and fascinating story-teller. His talk was an autobiography of the influences throughout his life that have led him [...]
