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!
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28 Amity Street
Artist: Jessica M. Payne
My pastel drawings are inspired by time spent in the Pioneer Valley and on the northeast coast of the U.S. Our local fields, skies and mountains and the swathes of land, sand, sea and sky in our coastal areas look to me like stacked layers of color and texture. I saturate the page to echo a seen landscape or to create currents of abstract and geometric color. This work stems from a primal drive to connect with what I see around me, discover expression, and play in color.
I’ve gotten attached to pastels almost by default. As a young adult I acquired a set of pastels that had belonged to my late father. My mother had kept and framed some of my childhood pastels, and the riot of unabashed color and line I used to cover the pages inspired me to revisit a form of play that I had clearly loved as a child. I like the brilliance and immediacy of pastels and getting my hands messy as I work the color into the page with my fingers.
All works are oil pastel on paper.
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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.
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67 Amity Street
http://amhersthistory.org/
In May 2015 the Amherst Historical Society and Museum invited the nine members of Fiber Artists of Western MA to tour the collection and create pieces that reflected their curiosity about and fascination with what they saw. Join us from 5:00-8:00 pm to meet two of the “Artifacts Inspire†artists: Nancy Young will present stitching techniques and small books and Deborah Slavitt will be working on her current quilting project.
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43 Amity Street
http://joneslibrary.org/burnett
Watercolors and Oils of local landscapes, plus floral and pet portraits by Alan Izatt.
Takes place during the Amherst First Thursday Art Walk, held on second floor of the Jones Library in the Burnett Gallery. Aug 4th, 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
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www.gallerya3.com
Amherst Cinema Complex
28 Amity St
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Six / Photography
Opening Reception and Amherst Art Walk
Thursday, August 4, 5-8:00 pm
Exhibition dates
August 4 – 27, 2016
Six is a group show offering diverse approaches to photography, including abstraction, mixed media, classic prints, and wall installation. The exhibit runs from August 4-27, with an opening on August 4 from 5-8:00 pm. Artists in Conversation, an informal discussion with the artists, is on August 18 at 7:30 pm.
Marianne Connolly
Sue Katz
Gloria Kegeles
Rebecca Muller
Larry Rankin
Rochelle Shicoff
Artists in Conversation
Thursday, August 18, 2016, 7:30 pm
The Artists in Conversation series is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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28 Amity St
Contemporary artwork by local artists.
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Neil Brigham
Block Prints
JCA Hall Gallery
August - October 2016
Illustrator and Printmaker, Neil Brigham, presents a selection of his linocut prints, including pieces commissioned for books and other publications. This body of work represents a varied stylistic approach ranging from narrative to work that is more conceptual. In either case, Neil frequently draws inspiration from nature and finds block printing to be a fitting medium to convey the organic character of the natural world.
After earning a Masters of Art in Illustration from Syracuse University, Neil has divided his art-making time between freelance illustration projects and printmaking. He is faculty and a member of Zea Mays Printmaking Studio in Florence, Massachusetts. Neil's block prints can be found in the collection of the Boston Athenaeum in Boston, Massachusetts. He has also created work for numerous illustration clients, including Little, Brown & Co, Scholastic, and Outdoor Life and Coastal Living magazines. His illustrations have been featured in books, magazines, greeting cards and elsewhere and have been recognized by the Society of Illustrators in New York and the Society of Illustrators in Los Angeles.
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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: August 4, 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.
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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.
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63 N. Pleasant St
The Monkey Bar Bistro 63 will be showcasing a local artist new to the Art walk in the front of the restaurant . Her paintings are centered around an abstraction of deep space which stems from her 2 years of Mechanical Engineering studies.
Liana Gozdowski is 26 years old and has a BFA from UMASS Amherst. She grew up in Belchertown, Massachusetts. The work being showcased will be watercolor medium paintingson archival paper using either a muted palate along with a combination of vibrant colors.
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This summer the Mead is undergoing renovation and reinstallation. Thank you for your patience while we occasionally close one or more of the galleries!
The Mead is open through July 25, with two exciting exhibitions on view. Starting July 26 the museum will be closed for two weeks. We will reopen in mid-August. This fall you can look forward to:
• A renovated and reinstalled main gallery, featuring art from around the world, ancient to contemporary
• New installations throughout the museum
• Contemporary artist projects
• Lectures, lunchtime conversations, and more!
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121 North Pleasant Street
Angel Of The Lilies
Opalescent Plated Stained Glass Window
created c. 1889 by the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Come see our magnificent window glow brilliantly in the western sun. This stained glass treasure was restored in 2014 through a generous grant from the Town of Amherst's Community Preservation Fund Program.
Jay Stryker will also bring the art of music to the evening by playing show tunes, jazz, spirituals, liturgical pieces and old favorites on our grand piano and historic 1886 Steere & Turner pipe organ.
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