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July 7, 2016

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Each month, The Lumber Yard hosts the Art Walk After Party for when you're done walking around looking at all the awesome art!  Featuring live music from 8pm until 10pm. Swing by after the Art Walk! 
Planning an event you want listed? Visit amherstartwalk.com for rates and info.

Amherst Town Hall Gallery

4 Boltwood Ave

Oil Paintings by Kate Spencer
July 7, 2016 - August 26, 2016
Opening reception: Thursday, July 7, 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Statement: My work reflects interest in the local and Western landscape. Always free with a brush, I am excited to be exploring shapes and colors as influenced by my latest trips to the prairies and bluffs in New Mexico and Montana. New England paintings will feature prominently as well. The bold colorful oil paintings will grace the Amherst Town Hall for the months of July and August.

Amherst Historical Society

67 Amity Street
http://amhersthistory.org/

 
Join us from 5:00-8:00 pm to meet Margaret Stancer, artist of Degrees of Separation, presenting crazy quilting techniques. We are pleased to introduce Art Walk visitors to several of the nine members of Fiber Artists of Western MA. Artifacts Inspire, the exhibit of textile pieces inspired by museum collection items continues.

Emily Dickinson Museum

280 Main St

Each month at the Emily Dickinson Museum, enjoy a one-night-only art exhibit, a poetry open mic, and featured poets.

Event Schedule
5:00-8:00pm  Art in the Homestead by Beverly Duncan and students from the Hill Institute
5:00-6:00pm  Poetry Open Mic sign-ups  
6:00pm  Poetry Open Mic
Featured readers following open mic: Floyd Cheung, Gail Thomas

Floyd Cheung
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Las Vegas, Floyd Cheung is author of the chapbook Jazz at Manzanar (Finishing Line Press, 2014).  His poems have appeared in qarrtsiluni, Rhino, and other journals.  He teaches in the Department of English and American Studies Program at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Gail Thomas
Gail Thomas has given poetry readings at schools and colleges, book stores, conferences, historical societies, cafes and galleries throughout the Northeast.  She also has been a presenter at writing, social work, and academic conferences on topics such as Arts and Alzheimer's, Writing Across Generations, Poets and Revision, and Building Community through the Arts.

Featured Artists
Beverly Duncan is an award-winning botanical artist, the first to receive Best in Show at the annual exhibition of the Horticultural Society of New York and the American Society of Botanical Artists, of which she is a member.
Her work is in corporate and private collections around the world.

Beverly exhibited and received recognition for a series of paintings of New England Winter Branches at the 2014 Royal Horticultural Exhibit in London. She teaches Botanical Drawing and Paintings classes at the Hill Institute in Northampton, MA, as well as private lessons in Ashfield, MA, where she resides. Beverly has illustrated commissions for numerous books, magazines and calendars. Her work is represented by Susan Frei Nathan, Fine Works on Paper, sfnbotanicalart.com.  

“Since arriving in western Massachusetts many years ago, I have focused on drawing plants. First intrigued by wild edibles, I have enlarged my focus, drawing and painting the very local flora and fauna surrounding me, beginning in my gardens and the woods behind my home. I pay attention to what is sprouting, blooming, ripening, and in dormancy in a specific season; many of my compositions combine plants and insects of a time and place. As I observe, sketch and paint, I am always learning more about the interconnectedness of the natural world.”

Find out more about the Emily Dickinson Museum Art Walk Thursdays at www.EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org/events

Gallery A3

www.gallerya3.com
Amherst Cinema Complex
28 Amity St
 
GALLERY A3 / 3RD ANNUAL JURIED SHOW
Juried by Mara Williams, Chief Curator
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center

Exhibition dates:  July 7 - July 30, 2016

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Opening and Amherst Art Walk:  Thursday, July 7, 5-8:00 pm
Artists Reception:  Saturday, July 16, 4-7:00 pm
Artists in Conversation: Thursday, July 21, 7:30 pm


This summer, Gallery A3 will host its third annual open juried show, running from July 7 to July 30, 2016. Show juror Mara Williams, Chief Curator of the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, will choose from a broad pool of talented artists to create an eclectic and engaging exhibition.  The exhibit opens on Thursday, July 7 at 5:00 pm with an opening reception in conjunction with the Amherst Art Walk.  The gallery will also host a special artists reception on Saturday, July 16 at 4:00 pm, and an artists forum, where the artists and the public can talk about the work.  

Image: Gloria Kegeles, photograph, Flip Flop Hub Cap

GOBERRY

28 Amity St

Contemporary artwork by local artists.

Hampshire College Art Gallery

Harold F. Johnson Library
893 West Street
Free parking available in library lot and other visitor bays after 5pm

 
Design & Build: The Art of the Book
Through September 30, 2016
 
Curator’s Tour: July 7, 6pm
 
Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, booksmith Barry Moser has taught in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts for almost fifty years. From the Williston Northampton School in Easthampton where he set up his first press, to his current role as Professor–in–Residence in Art and Printer to the College at Smith College, Moser’s pedagogy and practice are deeply interleaved. Through a newly-acquired collection of prints, as well as rare early works and loans, the Hampshire College Art Gallery offers the first exhibition to date to examine this important facet of Moser’s career. Throughout the exhibition, which includes work by Moser’s students and Hampshire alumni, the book arts emerge as a collaborative and collegial practice of teaching, learning, and mentorship.

Hope and Feathers Framing

319 Main Street
hopeandfeathersframing.com

This exciting exhibit of works on paper has been curated from the Zea Mays Printmaking Flat File. The work in the Flat File represents examples of prints made using green technologies. It houses over 50 portfolios of prints by member artists, including etchings, monoprints, woodcuts and linoleum prints, photo etchings and lithographs, serigraphs and mixed media prints. This show features work from the Flat File from more than 24 artists.

Artists include: Judith Bowerman, Liz Chalfin, Rachel Chapman, Pamela Crawford, Sarah Creighton, Nancy Diessner, Jennifer Gover, Nancy Haver, Lyn Horan, Marsha Humphrey, Anita S. Hunt, Kate Jenkins, Julie Lapping Rivera, Doris Madsen, Tekla McInerney, Larinda Meade, Frank Ozereko, Lynn Peterfreund, Erika Radich, B.Z. Reilly, Joan Safford Wright, Joyce Silverstone, Jamie Sweeney, Janet Walerstein Winston, Carolyn Webb.

An opening reception will be held on Thursday, July 7th, in conjunction with Amherst Art Walk, from 5pm to 8pm. A second Art Walk reception will follow on Thursday, August 4th, from 5pm - 8pm. Artist demos will be featured at each reception, 5-6:30pm. Lynn Peterfreund will demonstrate trace monotype on July 7th, and Erika Radich will cut wood plates as a demo on August 4th.

Monkey Bar Bistro 63

63 N. Pleasant St

The Monkey Bar Bistro 63 will be showcasing work by local photographer Keith Toffling. 
 
His work is being presented in the Boltwood room in the back of the restaurant will include nature scenes, landscapes along with some new polaroids. Some light fare will be provided for attendees along with drinks available for purchase at the bar. Stop in during your Art walk travels! 

Mead Art Museum

41 Quadrangle Drive

Summer’s here! Enjoy “Sweaty American” a new work by Ely Kim.

Featured in the exhibition “Unimaginable By One Mind Alone: Exquisite Corpses from the William Green Collection of Japanese Prints”

Through July 24

Also On View
Works donated by Amherst Alumni are spotlighted throughout the museum.

Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst

121 North Pleasant Street

Angel Of The Lilies
Opalescent Plated Stained Glass Window
created c. 1889 by the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany

July 7, 5-8pm
View the magnificent window restored in 2014 through a generous grant from the Town of Amherst's Community Preservation Fund Program.

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