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September 1, 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 Area Chamber of Commerce

28 Amity Street

Artist: Gregory Chilenski

"Portrait and Landscape Drawings" September 1-30th  reception  Amherst Art Walk, Thursday, September 1st, 5-7:00 pm  Gregory Chilenski, a landscape and portrait painter of 20 years,  has been looking at people as a therapist for over 30 years, so it is timely for him to now to concentrate on portraiture, showing peoples' inner selves through looking and listening at the same time.  He states: â€œColor gets me free of words.  Standing at the easel, in front of a sitter or a landscape, with oil crayons sometimes as big as a flashlight, I make light happen through how colors ignite each other."

Amherst Town Hall Gallery

4 Boltwood Ave

Photography by Ted Trobaugh
September 1, 2016 - October 28, 2016
Opening reception: Thursday, September 1, 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Statement: Ted Trobaugh received his Masters in Music Composition at UMass, Amherst and his Doctorate at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.  He was drawn to composition because of the opportunity it presented to explore abstract concepts of motive, form, color, and motion.  He was later drawn to photography for parallel reasons—as a medium for exploring abstract elements of the visual realm.  His website is Dolcemusic.com

Amherst Historical Society

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: Florence Rosenstock and Nancy Young will present techniques for felting.

Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library

43 Amity Street
http://joneslibrary.org/burnett

 
Anastasia Keck will be exhibiting 2-D mixed media pieces that combine digital photography, printmaking, and painting.  She starts with objects and moments from her past and transforms their original form through layers of projectors, Photoshop, and paint.  She is interested in how any one object or moment in time has an infinite amount of possible meanings and significance and can be woven into a story or a visual field to create a variety of meanings and truths that expand and transform their original story.  

Anastasia Keck is a Northampton-based artist who enjoys conducting artistic experiments in a variety of media and a graduate of Hampshire College.

Oscar Edelman will be exhibiting sculpture.

Gallery hours:   
Mon. 1 PM – 5 PM;   Tues. 9 AM – 9 PM;   Wed. 9 AM – 5 PM; Thurs. 9 AM – 9 PM;   Fri.  9 AM - 4:30 PM; 
Sat.  9 AM – 5 PM;  Sun. closed  

Emily Dickinson Museum

280 Main Street
www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org

 
The Emily Dickinson Museum's September Art Walk Poetry Open Mic, Reading, and Art Exhibit features poets DM Gordon and Paul Richmond and artist Ann Knickerbocker.

Knickerbocker's exhibit features prints that were inspired by sketching in Emily Dickinson's bedroom in fall 2015.

Each month for Art Walk, the Museum celebrates some of the area's best poets and artists. The art exhibit is on display throughout the Homestead - where Emily Dickinson wrote nearly all of her 1,789 poems - from 5 to 8 pm. The open mic begins at 6 pm in the Homestead parlor, and our featured readers follow after that. Find out more at emilydickinsonmuseum.org/events.

Gallery A3

www.gallerya3.com
Amherst Cinema Complex
28 Amity St
The Weight Of Things
A mixed media exploration by
Rebecca Muller
September 1 - October 1, 2016

Opening Reception and Amherst Art Walk
Thursday, September 1, 5-8:00 pm

Artists in Conversation
Thursday, September 15, 2016, 7:30 pm

The Weight of Things, a mixed-media exploration by Rebecca Muller, opens with a reception on Thursday, September 1, 2016 from 5-8:00 p.m. and continues through October 1. Artists in Conversation, an informal discussion with the exhibiting artist, takes place on Thursday, September 15 at 7:30 pm.

Rebecca Muller combines materials such as eroded metal, rod, wood, mesh and thread to explore the impact of force upon matter. Force, real or implied, leaves a residue: heavy, burdensome, loaded or biased, potent and powerful. In this exhibit, small and large constructions tread lightly in the space.

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.

GOBERRY

28 Amity St

Contemporary artwork by local artists.

Hall Gallery at the Jewish Community of Amherst

742 Main Street
j-c-a.org/

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.

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

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

RETURN: Illustrations by Aaron Becker

September 1 - October 1, 2016

RETURN to the world of JOURNEY, with an exhibit celebrating the artwork behind the award winning wordless picture book trilogy by local author and illustrator, Aaron Becker. Lauded a “masterwork” by the New York Times and selected as one of the newspaper’s best illustrated books of 2013, JOURNEY went on to win a prestigious Caldecott Honor. The series continued with QUEST in 2014, and this August concludes with RETURN. The show will include original artwork, sketches, and giclée prints from the series.

Please join us on Thursday, September 1st, during Amherst Art Walk, 5-8pm, for a preview of the show. An artist’s reception will follow on Saturday, September 10th, 4:30-7:30pm. Aaron will be available to sign copies of JOURNEY, QUEST, and RETURN at both receptions.
About Aaron Becker: Aaron Becker was born in Baltimore and moved to California to attend Pomona College where he scored his first illustration job designing t-shirts for his water polo team. After attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he worked in the Bay Area as a concept designer for film companies such as ImageMovers, Disney, and Lucasfilm.  â€œJOURNEY", his debut picture book, was the recipient of a 2014 Caldecott Honor. Aaron spent the 2014-15 school year with his family living abroad in Granada, Spain where he finished work on his picture book trilogy’s final chapter, “RETURN”, publishing this August. Upon his own return to the states, his family added two cats and five chickens to their Pelham home.

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.

Mead Art Museum

41 Quadrangle Drive

Behind the Scenes
with artist Amanda Valdez

Thursday, Sept. 8

The Mead recently welcomed artist Amanda Valdez to the Rotherwas Room to install Amanda Valdez, Ladies' Night, opening Thursday, Sept. 8.

Valdez creates abstract forms using paint, embroidery, fabric, and canvas, drawing on influences as diverse as Bauhaus weaving, pre-modern American quilt design, feminist art, Islamic art, and Color Field painting.

Originally from Seattle, Valdez received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA from Hunter College in New York, and is the recipient of many grants, fellowships, and artist residencies. She lives and works in Brooklyn.

All are invited to join Amanda at the opening of Mead Reimagined on Thursday, Sept. 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and for a lunchtime conversation on Friday, Sept. 23, at 12 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

See more installation photos on Facebook.
 

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

Steere & Turner Pipe Organ, Opus 220, created in 1886 in Springfield, Massachusetts

Come see and learn about our magnificent window as it glows 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. On the half hour, Jay Stryker will also present a short concert of Victorian and other favorites on our historic 1886 Steere & Turner pipe organ. Take a "behind the organ" tour and watch the inner workings of the instrument as it is played!

"For organ music thou wilt ever, as of old, hear the Morning Stars sing together." - Thomas Carlyle

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