| OMENS IN THE
HOUSE
and the clouds and
the internet connection
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I don't remember
how or when, but at some point I became really superstitious.
Like, REALLY superstitious: self-serving, life-affirming,
OCD level superstitious. But because I don't like negatives,
my superstitions all either herald good things or oh-so-gently
direct me away from possible bad things. Green traffic lights
mean I am on the right path, red lights mean I need to think
a bit about where I am headed (is this supermarket really
the right supermarket for me? Does this mean there will
be bad news in my post office box? Should I not go get coffee?)
But because my superstitions are all tailor translated and
all of them either point to good things or point me away
from bad things, they have turned into a manageable, yet
perhaps obsessive, way of life. Like, when I see a penny
on the ground: if it is heads up I pick it up and I get
a wish. But if it is tails up then my job is to turn it
over and leave it so the next person will find it heads
up and they will get a wish. The OCD kicks in though, and
I have tried to walk by pennies on busy sidewalks and ignore
them, but then I just have to backtrack and lean down to
right the penny and cause a disruption in the foot traffic
and get jostled and all that. But that's how it is.
So yesterday when the internet went down for several hours
I saw it as an omen telling me to go work on The Coolerator
which is a piece I have to deliver soon to The
William Blizard Gallery at Springfield College for an
upcoming show. And so I am finishing up the newsletter this
morning. I never know what sort of folderol my fingers will
type into this space (meaning I am not responsible for what
they say) so I couldn't help but wonder if the internet
went down yesterday to save me from overexposing my outward-facing
crazy. Maybe my fingers were planning on typing something
really absurd and then they'd giggle behind my back as I
blindly clicked on "SEND". Or maybe they were going to type
something so brilliant that I'd get hired at Sun Microsystems
to be a "Thinker" (yes, they have those, and they want me)
and then I'd never finish The Coolerator for this show,
having been lured into the seductive world of high salary,
low work flow and sushi every day.
Anyway, I see the image above as being a sign that Jamoka,
(my dog, who most of you know died in November) is watching
over me and all of us and that makes me happy so it's all
good. And whatever I was going to say yesterday is perhaps
better left to my inner crazy.
PICTURED: "Jamoka in the canal: facing stage left", photographed
by Nona Hatay, February, 2007. Water, ice, snow, imagicnation.
ABOUT THE
IMAGE: The other day None
Hatay, who has a studio 2 floors above me, brought me
this photo she took of the canal that our studio building
runs along, with bits of snow and ice tossed about by the
current. This is what she saw when she looked out her window
last Thursday. It's like one of those images where once
you see the image within, you can never look at it again
and not see it. I saw it immediately. I look at it as a
sign from Jamoka that he is watching over me, because I
want to look at it that way.
Nona is currently working on delivering some of her James
Brown photos for the Hard Rock Cafe main office in Orlando
to be distributed to different Hard Rock branches. They
already have some of her Jimi Hendrix photos. She is also
working on getting together some of her Jimi Hendrix and
Tina Turner images for delivery to the Hard Rock Hall of
Fame, and is also working on a visual autobiography called,
"Through my eyes; 40 years of Photography and Photo Art",
to be published next year.
JAMIE YOUNG
@ KAREN SPRAGUE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
Jan. 26th
- Feb. 26th 2007
 You are
cordially invited to an Exhibit from Jamie
Young
Pictured: Path to the Well, 11"x11" oil on panel,
2006
Passages
Jamie Young
Retrospective 1970-2007
open to public
Jan. 26th - Feb. 26th 2007
Reception Jan. 26th 5:30 - 7:00 with music by Sean Black,
AKA DJ Blackadile
a benifit for the Homer Street Elementry School
Being shown at
Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center
American
International College,
1000 State Street, Springfield, MA
Click here for directions
Four Sundays
in February 2007 Series
Four Sundays
in February 2007 Series
KidsBestFest/YouthFilm ‘07
Week 1: We begin the series on Sunday, February 4th,
with our annual Silver Chord Bowl, Collegiate a cappella
at its best. All 2,000 seats are filled in John M. Greene
Hall at Smith College year after year. The Very Best of Collegiate
A Cappella. This year with the Boston University Dear Abbeys,
McGill University Effusion, Yale University Whim N’Rhythm,
Smith College Noteables, NYU N’Harmonics, Amherst College
Zumbyes and Brown University Bear Necessities. Emcees: Smith
President, Carol T. Christ and Northampton Mayor, Mary Clare
Higgins All seats $10.00 in advance; $12.00 at the door CONTACT
NORTHAMPTON ARTS COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL $20 PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS
BY CALLING 413-587-1269
Sponsored by Whalen Insurance Agency
Week 2: On Sunday, February 11th, we move back to the Academy
of Music Theatre where we will present M·sica JÌbara –
Mountain Music Of Puerto Rico. Grammy Award nominees Ecos
de Borinquen, led by JÌbaro master Miquel Santiago DÌaz and
featuring singing sensation Karol Aurora de Jes·s Reyes. Plus,
the next wave of Puerto Rican musical superstars, El Grupo
Rumba Caribe, led by cuatrista and trovador Ricardo Villanueva
Serrano.
Sunday, February 11th, 2:00 p.m. at the Academy of Music Theatre
All seats $10 in advance; $12 at the door
Sponsored by Smith College, National Endowment for the Arts,
Arts Angels and the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Week 3: On Sunday, February 18th we will present RaÔ– Algerian
Music of the Street On Screen: “Khaled”, American premier
of the film featuring the two leading exponents of RaÔ music,
Khaled and Rachid Taha who have given voice to the Algerian
youth rebellion
On Stage: Syncop, North America’s top RaÔ Musicians from MontrÈal,
featuring Algerian born Karim BenzaÔd. Sunday, February 18th,
2:00 p.m. at the Academy of Music Theatre
FREE EVENT/General Admission (first-come, first-serve seating)
Made possible by the generous support of the Betty Hamady
Sams '57 and James F. Sams Fund of Smith College and in collaboration
with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute of Smith College.
Week 4: The series concludes on Sunday, February 25th with
our ever-popular The Really Big Show. The Valley’s favorite
BannerQueen, Amy Johnquest, becomes the Ed Man, “goo goo g’joob.”
Sunday, February 25th, 2:00 p.m. at the Academy of Music Theatre
All seats $6 in advance; $8 at the door
Sponsored by Coldwell Banker Upton Massamont Realtors
For more information visit www.northamptonartscouncil.org
Series Sponsors—Northampton Arts Council and the City of Northampton,
Daily Hampshire Gazette, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Lathrop
Communities, Smith College,Hampshire Hospitality Group, WFCR
88.5
Additional support provided by Florence Savings Bank, National
Endowment for the Arts, Bank of America, Community Foundation
of Western Massachusetts, TD BankNorth, Massachusetts Cultural
Council
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Tickets for the Four Sundays in February 2007 Series can be
purchased at any of the following ticket outlets:
Cooper’s Corner
31 Main Street
Florence, MA 01062
586-1684
Food for Thought
106 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
253-5432
Guild Art Supply
102 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060
586-6343
Northampton Arts Council
240 Main Street, Memorial Hall, Room 5
Northampton, MA 01060
587-1269
State St. Fruit
51 State Street
Northampton, MA 01060
584-2301
World Eye Books
156 Main Street
Greenfield, MA 01301
772-2186
KIDSBESTFEST2007
The ninth annual KidsBestFest: The Best of the International
Children's Film Festivals, opens on Monday February 19th and
runs through Saturday, February 24th at the Academy of Music
Theatre in Northampton.
All weekday shows are at 2PM (doors open at 1:30) and all
seats are $3 On Saturday February 24, 2007 we will screen
Brave Cat and Other Stories, a collection of short films
for young people at 10AM (doors open at 9:30) and all seats
are $3.
For something new this year we have YouthFilm, a festival
of films made by local people 18 and under. The doors
open at 12PM and films run all afternoon with commentary from
the filmmakers and actors. All seats are $3 for 18 and over,
but free for people18 and under.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will kick off
KidsBestFest2007 on Saturday February 17, 2007 with a
1PM screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Admission
to the Museum will get you into films as well as into the
galleries: for more information take a look at www.picturebookart.org.
As in the past, Cate Damon of New Century Theatre will read
the subtitles. It is something for the entire family: the
films are funny, smart and sweet. See northamptonartscouncil.org
for a complete listing. The Valley Advocate is the media sponsor.
KidsBestFest2007 is sponsored by Florence Savings Bank. Gravity
Switch and Faces support YouthFilm.
Elton Braithwaite
at the Taber Gallery
evening reception
1/31/07 - 5:30 - 7:30
 COOL RUNNINGS
wood carvings and sculpture by
Elton Braithwaite
Jan. 22 – Feb.22, 2007
Reception: Wed. Jan. 31, 11am - 1pm - gallery talk begins
at noon
Friends of Elton & the Taber Gallery are invited to
Elton's evening party 1/31/07 - 5:30 - 7:30
*image: Tribal Mask, apx. 24"h. x 12" w., Maple &
wood stain, 2006
The Taber Art Gallery is open to the public and is conveniently
acessed through the HCC Campus Library in the Donahue Building.
For more information or gallery hours please call (413) 552-2614
A NEW PLAY
BY THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT
February 1,
2 and 3 at 8 PM
ANNOUNCING A NEW PLAY BY THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT
"a warning for the king", the Performance Project's newest
work-in-progress, is a contemporary myth based on themes from
the Company-members' lives.
The title quotes an old proverb, "the silence of the people
is a warning for the king." The story is based upon Company
members' belief that when one is denied their voice, as an
individual, or as a people, chaos will ensue. Through spoken
word, rap and monologue the cast confronts the impact of greed,
racism, addiction, and being silenced. The play expresses
the urgency of speaking out and recognizing that our fates
are intertwined.
WHERE: Holyoke Community College, Leslie Phillips Forum
Theater. 2nd floor, C Bldg.
WHEN: Thursday February 1st, Friday February 2nd, Saturday
February 3rd
All performances are at 8:00 pm, donations accepted at the
door
For more information: PerformanceProject.org or call 413-586-4960
The Performance Project creates and performs compelling works
of theater, movement, and spoken word. Through self-reflection
and social analysis, the company speaks the truth about themselves
and the forces in society that affect their lives. The Performance
Project was founded in 2000 at the Hampshire Jail and House
of Correction.
Anne Sargent
Walker - Reception Feb 4, 2-4PM
"New Work"
 Anne Sargent
Walker
"New Work"
Jan 17- Feb. 16, 2007
Reception Feb 4, 2-4PM
Wm. Blizard Gallery
Blake Hall, 2nd floor
Springfield College
NEW WORKS
AT A.P.E. Gallery
Opening Reception:
Friday, February 9 5pm-8pm
 A.P.E. Gallery
February 7 – March 4
Opening Reception: Friday, February 9 5pm-8pm
Third Floor, Thornes Market, 150 Main St., Northampton, MA
www.apearts.org
(413) 586-5553
WILL THAT BE ALL?
New works by Teddy O’Connor, Ali Osborn, Raphy Griswold
After graduating from Wesleyan University in May 2006, where
they majored in studio art, Teddy, Raphy, and Ali moved to
Northampton. Here, the three young artists are trying to come
to grips with the reality of working to support themselves
while simultaneously finding time and energy to make art.
Are these things compatible? How can they make art pay? Did
they find everything they were looking for? Will that be all?
is a show of drawings, prints, and mixed media installation
in which all of their musings on these questions will be revealed
and exhibited.
February
7 – March 4, 2007 at A.P.E. Gallery Third Floor, Thornes
Marketplace, 150 Main St., Northampton, MA
For more information, call Lisa Thompson at A.P.E. Gallery:
413-586-5553 or visit www.apreats.org.
MAJUSCULES: Charcoal Drawings by Jay Rathaus
Jay Rathaus’s charcoal “Majuscules” act as a font pre-loaded
with social and political commentary. If each letter may
be considered a fractured narrative, then when placed together
as words, they begin to resonate with the emergent truths
of our political world.
Opening reception: Friday, February 9th, 5-8pm
The gallery is open Monday through Saturday, 10-5 and Sunday
from 12-5
Pictured: Top, work by Ali Osborn, Bottom, work by Jay Rathaus
ARTS NIGHT
OUT NORTHAMPTON
February 9,
5-8 PM
Coming
Up On February 9
Visit 18 galleries, shops
between 5 and 8 p.m.
Northampton continues its Arts Night Out program Friday, February
9, from 5 to 8 p.m. (unless the duration is otherwise noted
in individual listings below), offering open galleries at
18 locations, all within a short walk in the city's downtown
area. The event is organized by participating art and craft
organizations and the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce,
and is sponsored by the Northampton Cooperative Bank, 93.9
(The River), and the Valley Advocate.
Highlighted in January are several galleries:
~~Alfredo's Gallery, 6 Crafts Avenue, is featuring black and
white photographs of Paris and New York in the 1930s and 1940s
by master photographer Fred Stein. In addition, the gallery
is having a major sale of all photographic art and wall decor
in advance of its move to Suffield, CT.
~~Smith College Museum of Art, Elm Street has a new exhibition,
“Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art” that examines some
of the ways in which contemporary artists are exploring a
socially and environmentally conscientious – in other words,
sustainable – way of living and working. As usual on Arts
Night Out, admission to the museum is free; there are activities
for children from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. and, on this Arts Night
Out, an opening celebration for the "Beyond Green" exhibition,
complete with a "Junk Music Concert."
~~Across Elm Street, at the Smith College Alumnae Association,
where the prints and paintings of Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling
will be on view, there will be an additional reception from
5 to 8 p.m.
~~A.P.E. Gallery Third Floor, Thornes Marketplace, 150 Main
Street, will have two shows. The first, “Majuscules,” charcoal
drawings by Jay Rathaus. The charcoal majuscules (uppercase
letters in calligraphy) act as a font pre-loaded with social
and political commentary. If each letter may be considered
a fractured narrative, then when placed together as words,
they begin to resonate with the emergent truths of our political
world.
~~The second exhibition, “Will that be all?” features new
works by Teddy O’Connor, Ali Osborn and Raphy Griswold, three
recent graduates of Wesleyan University who majored in studio
art and now live in Northampton. Here, the three young artists
are trying to come to grips with the reality of working to
support themselves while simultaneously finding time and energy
to make art. Are these things compatible? How can they make
art pay? Did they find everything they were looking for? “Will
that be all?” is a show of drawings, prints, and mixed media
in which all of their musings on these questions will be revealed
and exhibited.
~~ Northampton Center for the Arts, 17 New South Street, third
floor, is showing paintings by Robert Markey that combine
the visual and the conceptual. Markey says his work “often
speaks about hope, about humor and about the human condition:
what it is and what it could be—In my paintings, I work with
layers of intense color, creating a deep—almost primeval-feeling—space."
(The reception here is from 5 to 7 p.m.)
~~Old Courthouse Gallery, 99 Main Street, has work of Rosemary
Wessell of Cummington— mixed media-plaster cast relief on
canvas painted over with oils. Plaster casts are of people;
the remainder of the relief work is abstract, depicting energies
of the subject in the painting.
~~ Naked Art Gallery, located in the Dance Northampton Studio,
492 Pleasant Street, continues its exhibition of the works
of Sherid Adams, “Mixed Medium.”
~~The Artisan Gallery, 162 Main Street, continues showing
the award-winning, hand-built ceramics of Hayne Bayless, who
describes his work, in part, as “everyday objects that go
beyond everyday use—How my pots work is at least as important
to me as how they look or how they feel."
Participating arts venues are: Alfredo’s; APE Third Floor
Arts; Artisan Gallery; Basha Oriental Rugs; Claytopia; Don
Muller Gallery; Guild Art Supply; R. Michelson Galleries;
Northampton Center for the Arts; Northampton Pottery; Old
Court House Gallery; Oxbow Gallery; Pinch; Scandihoovians.
com; Silverscape Designs; Smith College Museum of Art; The
Naked Art Gallery; and William Baczek Fine Arts.
Arts Night Out takes place, rain or shine, on the second Friday
of each month year-round. Admission is free, and free parking
is available at the Smith College parking garage on West Street
(Route 66). A map with description of participating galleries,
studios and shops, are available at Arts Night Out locations
and the Chamber of Commerce, 99 Pleasant Street. There will
be entertainment and refreshments at many venues. Take a walk
and see the (arts) sights in Northampton.
And, we remind you that Easthampton holds its “Second Saturday”
art Walk on February 10 from 5 to 8 p.m. More than a dozen
venues along Cottage and Union streets host visual, music
and performance artists in a casual sampling of the community's
creativity. For more information about the Easthampton event,
visit its Web site
Visit the Northampton Chamber of Commerce Web site for more
information about this event. If you wish to forward this
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ART WALK EASTHAMPTON
February 10,
5-8 PM
Art Competitions,
Live Music & Tattooing: It's Art Walk Easthampton
Come on out to Art Walk Easthampton on February 10, 2007 from
5-8 PM for an eclectic sampling of art: Two galleries showcase
art competitions and announce their winners; four venues host
live music performances; five locations host solo shows for
local artists; and one invites you in to watch the tattooing
process. All events are free. There's also plenty of free
parking all along the route.
Get a full event description and map at www.ArtWalkEasthampton.org.
Each participating venue displays a large, yellow Art Walk
banner outside. Inside, you're invited to explore that month's
featured visual, music or performance art. See what the Gazette
said about last month's Walk here: http://www.artwalkeasthampton.org/press_article_1_18_07.php
Highlights of the upcoming February 10 Art Walk include:
-- Goodlander Gallery unveils its Winter Art Competition,
with 3-D, mixed media, oil paintings, artistic photography,
colored pencil, pastels, encaustic wax, and other mediums
in this national show. Winners will be announced during the
Art Walk. 64 Cottage Street, Easthampton. Easy parking at
Cottage Street lot.
-- Elusie Gallery debuts "Land Visions," a collection of works
inspired by nature. Artist competition winners will be announced
during the Art Walk. This event benefits the push to Save
Echodale Farm. Elusie is located in Old Town Hall, on the
traffic rotary, 43 Main Street, Easthampton. Easy parking
outside.
-- Flywheel Arts Collective hosts three, live music events.
No cover charge. From 5-6 PM, it's "Next President," a post-punk
trio that sounds like Dead Milkmen meeting The Stooges. From
6-7 PM, it's a complete turn-about with "City Folk and Their
Flying Machines," a trio of ukulele, stand-up bass and brush
drums that promise to bring you happiness. And from 7-8 PM,
it's the rock band of Nash Lane who describes their music
as spacey, psychedelic and atmospheric. Flywheel is at 2 Holyoke
Street, Easthampton. Parking at Cottage Street lot.
-- Luthiers Co op hosts local blue grass musicians in an improvisational
jam session. Listen to the music and check out the collection
of vintage and current string instruments. 108 Cottage Street,
Easthampton. On-street parking and at Cottage Street lot.
-- Crooked House Designs hosts local foot-stompin' fiddle
and banjo musicians who want to brighten up a gray winter
evening. Swing into Crooked House at 86 Cottage Street, Easthampton.
On-street parking and at Cottage Street lot.
-- PACE (Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton) invites you in
enjoy the live performance of Easthampton singer-songwriter
Bruce King from 5-6:30 PM and to see the photography of Jennifer
Holmes from 5-8 PM. PACE is located at 41 Union Street, Easthampton.
There is a on-street parking out front and a free parking
lot directly behind PACE.
-- Artist "Blaze" exhibits a collection of watercolors that
explore the connection between people and nature, especially
through the use of animal totems. View her work at Awen Tree,
102 Cottage. On-street parking and at Cottage Street lot.
-- Her acrylic paintings are inspired by images she see in
her head "between stages of wakefulness and sleep." Amy Lavallee
displays her recent works at Valley Art Supplies, 76 Cottage
Street, Easthampton. On-street parking and at Cottage Street
lot.
-- Painter Richard Hutchinson presents a collection of animal
themed watercolors at Mt. Tom Homemade Ice Cream, 34 Cottage
Street, Easthampton. On-street parking and at Cottage Street
lot.
-- It's a love story. The acrylic paintings of Amber Garay
explore the range of emotions in finding and losing love.
Drop into Pick Your Flick Video to see how this love story
turns out and how she expresses it in female form, at 74 Cottage
Street, Easthampton. On-street parking and at Cottage Street
lot.
-- Marcia Reed's unique railroad studio opens to show a dazzling
array of oils and watercolors. On-site parking at the studio,
1 Railroad Street, across from the Verizon Building.
-- It's living art and gallery art. Off The Map Tattoo invites
Art Walk guests to come observe live tattooing as it is created,
and to enjoy the 2-d art collection along the walls. Come
satisfy your curiosity about this art form. Off The Map Tattoo
can be found on the map at 112 Cottage Street, Easthampton.
On-street parking and at Cottage Street lot.
Learn more about the February 10 Art Walk at www.ArtWalkEasthampton.org
“Land Visions”
at the Elusie Gallery in Easthampton’s Old Town Hall
Opening Reception
February 10th from 5 to 8pm
 Close to
40 artists respond to the Eastmont Art Fund’s Call to help
Save Echodale Farm!
Jill Lewis and Jean-Pierre Pasche of the Eastmont Art Fund
had approached the Pascommuck Conservation Trust last fall
with a innovative proposition to help raise funds and awareness
to their Save Echodale Farm Campaign, through the creation
of a juried exhibition open to any Pioneer Valley Artists.
Entitled “Land Visions” this exhibition will take place
at the Elusie Gallery in Easthampton’s Old Town Hall from
February 3rd through March 17th with the opening reception
and Jury’s selection announcement on February 10th from 5
to 8pm.
A notable Jury will review all the submitted entries and select
one piece of art, from which a series of Limited Edition Prints
will be published. That Limited Edition Print will be given
to donors for a $150.00 contribution. Most original artwork
exhibited will also be available for sale. Proceeds from the
sale of the L/E print and original artwork will benefit the
PCT’s fundraising campaign as well as the artists whose work
will have sold, unlike traditional fundraisers where artists
donate their work and do not get any compensation for their
donation.
“Land Visions” therefore has dual purpose in the minds of
Pasche and Lewis, awareness and fundraising to help save the
Echodale Farm, and celebration and promotion of the creative
talent in the Pioneer Valley.
For more information, please call Jill or Jean-Pierre at 413-529-9265
FEBRUARY EVENTS
AT THE NCA
NEW! -->
Painting workshops with Bob Markey in Febraury
 FEBRUARY
ARTS
Jazz Time at the Center for the Arts
February 2, 9 and 16
Three Jazz Masters Perform
Modern masters of the jazz keyboards, Matthew Shipp, Cooper-Moore
and Ran Blake will be the stars of this year's NCFA's “A World
of Piano” series.
The concerts will take place at the Center at 7:30 p.m. Tickets
are $12 for the general public ($30 for the entire series),
$8 for students and seniors, and are available at AJ Hastings
in Amherst and State Street Fruit Store and the Center for
the Arts in Northampton.
~~Friday, February 2: Producer, composer, sideman, and
pianist, Matthew Shipp has become one of the most important
figures on the downtown new music scene in New York City.
Shipp is considered a thoughtful and resourceful pianist in
many musical situations. Since 2000, he has served as curator
of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series. This body of work (32 albums
to date) represents the most advanced, critically acclaimed
marriage of jazz and electronic music. "Matthew Shipp has
proven himself one of the more adept barrier vaulters in modern
jazz," writes David Sprague in Variety.
~~Friday, February 9: Cooper-Moore is a composer, pianist,
designer and builder of musical instruments and music educator.
Cooper-Moore (who uses only one hyphenated name) moved
to New York in 1973, leased a five-floor Canal Street building
and transformed it into a work space for performing and visual
artists. He has performed with a number of bands and dance
companies. Andy Battaglia of Salon.com called him, “one of
New York's most effusive but reclusive musical geniuses. Cooper-Moore
is a one- man New Orleans jazz funeral flailing like the Grambling
State marching band across a vaudeville stage.”
~~Friday, February 16: Ran Blake, who was born in nearby
Springfield, has created a unique niche in music as an artist
and educator. His improvisations are not only informed
by his vast knowledge of jazz, but also by Greek folk songs,
movie soundtracks, American pop music and gospel. His dual
musical legacy includes more than 35 albums on some of the
world’s finest jazz labels, as well as over 30 years as a
groundbreaking educator at Boston’s New England Conservatory.
In Jazz Review, Brian Morton called Blake’s new record, “All
That is Tied,” the “most beautiful and challenging piano record
of the last 25 years.”
“A World of Piano” is funded in part by a grant from the New
England Foundation for Arts and the Creative Connections program
of Meet the Composer, Inc., and with additional support from
the Argosy Foundation, the six New England state arts agencies,
the National Endowment for the Art and the Northampton Arts
Council. All three musicians will make school visits during
their visits to Northampton.
The Northampton Center for the Arts is on the third floor
at 17 New South Street in the Sullivan Building of the Old
School Commons. Its office and galleries are open Tuesday
through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For lots more about ongoing programs, renting the space, etc.,
visit our Web site or call (413)-584-7327.
FEBRUARY
ARTS
Paintings by Robert Markey, which combine the visual
and the conceptual, will be showing in the Northampton Center
for the Arts gallery from February 1-28.
Markey says his work “often speaks about hope, about humor
and about the human condition: what it is and what it could
be. Much of my earlier work was visually brutal, showing
the suffering that one group of people cause to another.
My later work pushes this brutality beneath the surface,
showing more the beauty and hope that is possible.”
Markey, who lives in Ashfield, was born in New York in 1947.
He earned his B.S. in physics from M.I.T in 1969 and his
M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts
in 1982. Until 1980, his main focus was music, including
performances on classical guitar and sitar. In 1981, he
began to work in the visual arts and also to study Tae Kwon
Do. For the past 25 years, those two disciplines have been
at the center of his life.
On February 18 and 25, Markey will offer workshops from
2 to 5 p.m., "Abstract Painting: A Deeper Understanding
of the Painting Process." The workshops will be inaugural
events in the Center’s newly renovated arts space.
The cost is $80 per session with 30% to benefit the Center.
Participants may sign up for one or both sessions. Says
Markey, "the workshop is about understanding and seeing
what makes a painting work...We will look at the process
of creating a painting and what pushes a painting to be
more interesting and how to know when a painting is finished."
This is a hands-on class. Participants will be working in
acrylic on medium- to large-sized panels or canvases and
will find the workshop relevant, whether their work is abstract
or representational.
UNTITLED &
UNBRIDLED
the new show
of paintings by Luke J. Cavagnac
 "UNTITLED
& UNBRIDLED"
the new show of paintings by
Luke J. Cavagnac
Please come to the Opening/Party:
SATURDAY February 10th, 2007
6-9 pm
at
THE INVISIBLE FOUNTAIN
116 Pleasant Street Suite #206
Eastworks Building
Easthampton MA 01027
413.527.9300
invisiblefountain.com
gallery hours: T&T 11-7, W&F 11-6, M&Sa 11-4
wine & food & lots of stuff to see
complete show dates: 2/10/07 through 5/11/07
The Invisible Fountain is where Cavagnac paints and displays
his "Art". You'll find approximately 1,000 different paintings
on display on any given day. Look for a music night in March
& poetry night in April.
ART FOR ALL & ALL FOR ART
Keith Hollingworth
& Guru Karam Khalsa @ Gallery A3
A two-person
show at Gallery A3 with Keith Hollingworth and Guru Karam
Khalsa.
 Keith Hollingworth
and Guru Karam Khalsa at Gallery A3
A two-person show at Gallery A3 with Keith Hollingworth and
Guru Karam Khalsa.
Keith Hollingworth combines colored plexiglass and found objects
in a series of homages to 20th century artists. "My recent
works are constructions using florescent light and color.
Light de-materializes form as color enriches our world. Combined,
they illuminate a spirit. I am interested in the spirit. These
works are titled as homages to art world luminaries."
Migratory birds and the global environment are at the center
of Guru Karam Khalsa’s newest works. These birds – with associations
of nature, spirit or magic – are presented in the context
of global warming. Khalsa explores these images with nontraditional
materials, painting with oils, gouache or ink on cement, wood,
stone and found objects
Exhibition dates: February 1 – 24, 2007.
Opening reception: Thursday, February 1 from 5-8.
Conversations with Artists: Thursday February 22 at 7:30.
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12-6 pm.
Gallery A3
28 Amity Street
Amherst Cinema Building
Amherst, MA
413-256-4250
SPECIAL THANKS
TO REALLY SPECIAL PEOPLE
SuperFriends
of Jamoka and this newsletter.
 Special thanks
to the following for donations to this newsletter and to help
defray the costs of Jamoka's hospitalization and treatment.
People just blow me away sometimes.
Pics
from the Jamoka memorial Bonfire thing, by Jon
Whitney.
If I somehow missed anyone please let me know. I get scatterbrained
lately.
<--Image courtesy of Anna Slezak.
DEBIN BRUCE
SUSAN BERGERON-WEST
CHARLES STERN
JANET FRAIDSTERN
MAUREEN DENNING AND CHARLES ENOS
LARRY SLEZAK
TERRY ROONEY
ANNE BURTON
DEAN NIMMER
BILL MYERS
KATHLEEN TRESTKA
ANITA HUNT
KATHY SERVICE & TIM DECHRISTOPHER
DAVID SMITH
JEFF MACK
LYNN PETERFREUND
BRADLEY FOX
KAREN AXELROD
AACO (AMERICAN ARTS COLLECTIVE ORGANIZATION), In memory
of our artists friends who were victims of AIDS and in honor
of Aids Awareness Day, December 1st
KELSEY FLYNN
LYN HORAN
HILARY PRICE & KERRY LABOUNTY
BRONWEN HODGKINSON
BRIANA TAYLOR
DORIS MADSEN
BETSY DAWN WILLIAMS
MARY WITT
JOAN AXELROD-CONTRADA
MAUREEN DENNING AND CHARLES (Donation made to Humane Society
in Jamoka's name)
DARYL LAFLEUR
WEDNESDAY NELENA SOROKIN
LINDA BATCHELOR
Recent Paintings
by Denis Luzuriaga
Saturday,
February 10, 6-9 pm
 Recent
Paintings by Denis Luzuriaga -
Saturday, February 10, 6-9 pm
Your are invited to attend an exhibition of recent paintings
by Denis Luzuriaga.
For more information visit www.denisluzuriaga.com
Studio 252
116 Pleasant St.
Suite 252
Easthampton, MA 01027
917.304.7997
(In the Eastworks building, second floor, directly above Blue
Moon Grocery)
This exhibition is part of "Gallery Night", a quarterly event
at the Eastworks building. Stay tuned to this fabulous newsletter
for more information.
Pictured: "Mystery Guest" 2007 Oil on canvas 18 x 24"
Make Valentines
at Wistariahurst Museum
Feb. 10, 10am
till noon
 Make Valentines
at Wistariahurst Museum
On Saturday, February 10, 10am till noon, come join Marjorie
Latham of Marjidoll.com,
for a fun and creative hands-on workshop crafting valentines
in the beautiful surroundings of Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke.
The cost is $3 per person or $5 per family.
Materials will be provided.
Wistariahurst Museum is located at 238 Cabot Street in Holyoke,
MA.
For more information, call Melissa at Wistariahurst; 413 322
5660 or go to www.wistariahurst.org
Winter Light:
An Afternoon of Gabriel Faure
Sunday, February
11, 2007
WHAT:
Concert- Winter Light: An Afternoon of Gabriel Faure
WHERE: Wistariahurst Museum
WHEN: Sunday, February 11, 2007
TIME: 3 p.m.
COST: $10
Chamber Music at Wistariahurst Concert Series
Presents Winter Light: An Afternoon of Gabriel Faure
Wistariahurst welcomes music lovers to spend the afternoon
in the intimate setting of Belle Skinner's Music Room on
Sunday, February 11 at 3 p.m. for a concert of Gabriel Faure.
Gabriel Faure's "Requiem" is one of the all-time favorite
pieces of classical music. Less well known is his chamber
music, which is equally rich in harmony, sensual and elegant.
This second concert in the "Chamber Music at Wistariahurst"
series will present leading Pioneer Valley musicians and
guest artists in a program that includes a rarely heard
setting of Faure's song cycle "La Bonne Chanson" with accompaniment
arranged for piano and string quartet, and featuring tenor
Peter W. Shea; noted pianists Nigel Boxe and Estela Olevsky,
in solo pieces and pieces for piano, four-hands; the harpist
Franzisk Huhn in "La chatelaine en sa tour"; and three choral
selections with the Schubertiad Chorus, directed by Jane
Hanson, including the well known "Pavane" and the "Cantique
de Jean Racine." Flutist Maria Scotera, mezzo-soprano Jane
and bass-baritone David Perkins will also participate in
several pieces, with Ed Rosser pianist. The program will
be given in period costume, with narration by Mr. Perkins.
A feast of "fin de siecle" music, of just the sort that
was enjoyed at the time Belle Skinner built her music room
at Wistariahurst, which provides the perfect setting. Tickets
are $10
Wistariahurst Museum is dedicated to preserving Holyoke's
history and inspiring an appreciation of history and culture
through educational programs, exhibits and special events.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Wistariahurst
is the former home of William Skinner, a prominent silk
manufacturer. The Museum is open for guided tours every
Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 12-4pm. For more information
or a schedule of other upcoming events, please visit our
website at www.wistariahurst.org
or call us at 413.322.5660.
FOUR GRAND
LADIES BY DAVID BOWERMAN @ STCC
A reception
to “Meet the Ladies” (and the artist) will be held on Wednesday,
February 7 from noon to 2:00 p.m.
 Four Grand
Ladies of Springfield to be featured in Art Exhibit at STCC
Four grand ladies of Springfield will be honored in a multi-ethnic
art exhibit at Springfield Technical Community College during
Black History Month. “They have all arrived at who they are
with a tremendous amount of dignity,” says artist David Bowerman,
who created the portraits. He noted that all four ladies,
who have been important to the life of Springfield and its
children, have had some relation to both teaching and to music.
The ladies have been interviewed by students from Diane Mackie’s
creative writing class at Springfield Central High School,
to create the identifications that will go with each portrait.
The students are Melissa Bryll, a senior, who interviewed
Dorothy Pryor; Alicia Hinton, a senior who talked with Jo
Woolridge; Alexa Wilson, a senior who met with Georgia Sawyier;
and junior George Bowerman, who interviewed Teddy Bernstein.
A reception to “Meet the Ladies” (and the artist) will
be held on Wednesday, February 7 from noon to 2:00 p.m. on
the campus of STCC. The reception, and the exhibit, will
be held in the Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery in building
28, lower level. The public is invited to enjoy the exhibit,
and the reception, at no charge.
The exhibit will be held from January 30 through March
3. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 12:30 to 4:30,
and Saturdays 10:00 to 2:00.
LINDA BATCHELOR
& ELIZABETH MOSS @ HOSMER GALLERY
Reception
Feb. 14 6-8 PM
 Linda Batchelor
"Permutations of Love" and Elisabeth Moss "Surrender"
2 Shows at the Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library February 2 -
28
Opening receptions February 11 from 2 to 4:30
Linda Batchelor
*"Permutations of Love" is the title I chose because I
wanted to celebrate Valentines Day with art and food. I saw
the word "permutations" in the NYTimes crossword puzzle and
liked it. Now I can have a show about love and not be hemmed
in by my theme! So this is a show of new and almost new monotypes
and collages: some very much about relationships and some
just about my love for my work.
*Elisabeth Moss*
has been creating art since childhood. Her acrylic & collage
paintings reflect a dynamic process between color, form, emotion
and intuitive directives from within. Her work has been described
as visionary & shamanic. “Painting is a practice, intimately
connected to my own breath & life." Continually a student
~ I am humbled over and over, by the simplicity of authenticity-which
asks me to just show up, be real, and let go of the result.
A Honkytonk
Hullabaloo
Sunday, Feb.
18 at the Iron horse
 A Honkytonk
Hullabaloo
Girl Howdy and The Spurs - Together Again
Starting in the spring of 2005, Girl Howdy and The Spurs have
been ricocheting between Boston and Northampton, playing shows
together to share their passion for the roots of American
country music and old-school twang. On Sunday, Feb. 18, they
swing west again with a double-bill at the Iron Horse.
Two-steppers and jitterbug afficionados take heed, as this
show promises an open dance floor. Showtime is 7pm, Sunday,
Feb. 18, at the Iron Horse, 20 Center Street, Northampton,
MA.
Admission $10.adv/$13.door
For more information:
www.members.aol.com/spursmail/
http://www.myspace.com/spursofboston
www.girlhowdyband.com
DWIGHT SMITH'S
MOVIE PICKS
Winter Passing
(2005)
 Winter
Passing (2005)
Written & directed by Adam Rapp
Starring Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Amelia
Warner
What I liked most about this first film by Adam Rapp is the
writing. You can feel that Rapp comes from theatre. It seems
so rare that I see a film where I don’t want to miss a word.
And it’s written in a way that a lot of holes are left empty
leaving plenty of wiggle-room for the viewer’s imagination.
Supporting the words was an excellent cast with Zooey Deschanel
who I hadn’t known carrying the film with the way she incarnates
a young girl imploding with pent up frustrations and ungrieved
torments. Supporting her is Harris, Ferrell and Warner who
together create the most unlikely household that Reese, Deschanels’s
character, returns to and yet it manages to snapshot those
places where the heart and soul end up when they run out of
places to go. It’s a film about suffering quietly and how
it’s not always someone else’s fault and sometimes the ways
that we suffer are utterly bizarre, almost ridiculous but
nonetheless make perfect sense.
Roger Ebert, who on Rotten Tomato was the only reviewer who
didn’t pan the film, said: “This is the kind of movie routinely
dismissed as too slow and quiet by those who don't know it
is more exciting to listen than to hear.” ( http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/
apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060309/REVIEWS/ http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/)
It reminded me how we can know certain people who if they
rave about a film we know right away that we won’t like it.
It’s not that they’re wrong but it is a reminder that no film
can please everyone all the time though Hollywood keeps trying.
I seem to have this knack of really liking films others hate
and not being touched by films that drive others into apoplectic
euphoria. Pan’s Labyrinth was a good example. Seeing how many
critics hated this film only confirms this. Tant mieux!
NOTE:
I want to invite anyone who sees a film that they think
others on this list might like to hear about to let me know.
I welcome recommendations since as I hope I’ve made clear
elsewhere, I don’t see them all and I’m no expert.
Send me an email at wadwight@videotron.ca. If I can swing
it, I’ll see the film and if I agree (it is my column after
all right!?) I’ll write about it but either way I will share
your recommendation. I promise.
BREAK INTO
THE INTERNATIONAL ART WORLD
Limited space
left in conference
 Learn how
to break into the international art world. Join leading figures
from around the world to hear about long- and short- term
international residency opportunities for artists (working
in every medium) as well as biennales and other global exhibition
possibilities.
Register early to ensure your participation in this weekend-long
event.
Come meet, network with and have your work seen by the conference’s
distinguished curators, critics and panelists. This is an
excellent resource for professional development. Advance conference
registration, which includes admission to all the panels,
networking events and a private one-on-one consultation with
one of the conference’s international guests, curators or
critics is $150 All advance registrations must be received
by February 1, 2007.
Click on http://transculturalexchange.org/conference_2007.htm
for schedule of talks, details and to register.
Location: Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave; Massachusetts
College of Art, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston; Satellite Venue
(Sunday Panel) MIT, Cambridge.
TransCultural Exchange would like to thank the LEF Foundation;
McDougal Littell, a Division of Houghton Mifflin Company;
Fred Johnson; Northeastern University; and Massachusetts College
of Art for their support of the conference.
www.artspacefinder.com
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directory of artist spaces in Massachusetts supported by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council
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Did you know you can now list your gallery on www.artspacefinder.com,
a free online directory of artist spaces in Massachusetts
supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. It a new
easy way to let artists know about your gallery and how they
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This new service is part of ArtistLink, an initiative to help
artists connect with their communities by helping them to
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We would greatly appreciate your help in contributing to this
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simply create a free account and place a post in the "Directory
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Please be sure to make your listing as detailed as possible
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artists and gallery owners alike to connect with each other,
and makes communication and cooperation easy and efficient.
If you have any questions about this new service, feel free
to contact us.
Thank you for your help.
Best Regards,
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