Each month, The Lumber Yard hosts the Arts Night Plus 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 Arts Night Plus!
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28 Amity Street
Four great first-run films will be showing on Thursday, January 5. Please see www.amherstcinema.org for specific show times, which will be updated on Tuesday, December 27.
JACKIE
"The film peers behind that veil to find a woman who’s more complex than history can make her seem." -Manohla Dargis. A New York Times Critics' Pick!
LION
"Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Twenty-five years later, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home. "
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS
"In form and content, then, this is a movie that expands your sense of what is possible." -A.O. Scott. A New York Times Critics' Pick!
MOONLIGHT
"MOONLIGHT is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and a poem written in light, music and vivid human faces." -A.O. Scott. A New York Times Critics' Pick!
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4 Boltwood Ave
20 Matches, 40 Lives Changed
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County
Celebrating 40 Years of Mentoring
Photographs by Danielle Intile Tait
Winsome Smiles Photography
January 3, 2017 - February 24, 2017
Reception: Thursday, January 3, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Celebrating 40 years of matches with mentors, this exhibit is being presented to give you a glimpse into the world of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County. Big Brothers Big Sisters hosts events throughout the year for all matches, but most of the time Bigs and Littles get together to do ordinary things they enjoy: baking, crafting, going for a walk, and playing together. The goal is to have fun, spend quality time, and give a young person the opportunity to thrive.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County, a program of CHD, made their first match in 1975. Since then, over 2,000 kids have been matched with mentors. Thank you for joining us in celebrating 40 years of friendship in Hampshire County.
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43 Amity Street
http://joneslibrary.org/burnett
View Points
Paintings by Rose von Schlegell
Landscapes in Oil and Encaustic Abstractions
On View January 4-30, 2017
Opening Reception: January 5, 5-8 p.m. during First Thursday Art Walk
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28 Amity St
www.gallerya3.com
January 5-28, 2017
Opening Reception / Amherst Arts Night Plus
Thursday, January 5, 5-8:00 pm
Art Forum: Thursday, January 19, 7:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 1-7:00 pm
The January exhibit at Gallery A3 is a two-person show featuring the gallery’s newest members, Valerie Gilman and Elaina Kennedy. Valerie Gilman is a sculptor who works in a variety of media including clay, bronze and steel. Elaina Kennedy’s abstract paintings and monoprints are complex compositions layering colors, lines and shapes. The exhibit opens on Thursday, January 5 in conjunction with Amherst Arts Night Plus. An Art Forum is held on Thursday, January 19 at 7:00 pm, and is an opportunity to talk about the current exhibit with the artists.
VALERIE GILMAN
Valerie Gilman is a sculptor who works in a variety of media including clay, bonze and steel. She believes in the transformative and healing power of art and the creative process both for the individual and the culture. She says that because we are all a part of the culture, we are all engaged on a deep level with the growth and challenges of it, and if we can let go of thinking that we already know the answers, and let ourselves engage with our creative unconscious, we can be more honest and open to the realities of what is, and the changes that need to happen.
Her creative process is one of discovery as she enters the work with a very intentional sense of openness and not knowing, and a playful quality of asking “What if?” She is guided by what is compelling visually to her. She talks about looking for that which is at once familiar and unknown, that which is at the edge of her own discomfort, because she feels that this is how she can reveal the places of learning and growth and take in the lessons of the psyche on a profound level. In revealing those images with love and tenderness, attending to the detail, she is moving from the subconscious to the conscious with deep acceptance, which is a profound step in healing.
ELAINA KENNEDY
My chaotic paintings/monoprints are just that. Life is complicated, packed with things that we can and cannot control. It’s the uncontrollable (or un-knowable) experiences and situations that I find most intriguing that I aim to explore in my layered abstract works with a combination of colors, lines and shapes. Recently, I have been intrigued by the spaces that are usually overlooked, pushing my paintings further towards three-dimensional mixed-media collages.
Physicality is also an important component within my work. Gestures reflect the physicality of my everyday surroundings and directly influence each piece. Every gesture that is created allows past and present experiences to show through or be hidden underneath other moments. Each day I am interacting within or on my landscape as well as interacting with people. Making, combining, shifting, layering, pouring are all processes that reflect how I think and interact with my surroundings.
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Box of Visions (Caja de Visiones), gelatin silver print, 1938 (printed 1977)
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Harold F. Johnson Library
893 West Street, Amherst, 01002
Free parking available in library lot and other visitor bays after 5pm
In each hand I keep each of my eyes
Through January 15, 2017
Exhibition tour with curator Jocelyn Edens, 6pm
In each hand I keep each of my eyes stages a series of encounters between 15 photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo from Hampshire’s permanent collection, and contemporary artists working with moving images. With an emphasis on material—texture, touch, friction, weight, density, light—Álvarez Bravo, Buster Graybill, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Dawit L. Petros, Nandita Raman, and Ani Rivera reconfigure discourses on rural space, indigeneity, and heritage.
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ECLECTIC PERCEPTIONS
Fine Art Photography by Bob Solosko
JCA Hall Gallery
November 2016 - January 2017
Bob Solosko’s images represent a diverse and eclectic range of subjects, including interesting patterns, old buildings and structures, plants and flowers, small creatures, scenic views, trains, sunsets, and intimate photos of people.
When people look at the world around them, they usually do not notice everything in their visual field. But a camera isn’t discriminating; it equally captures everything in a scene. When as a young teenager Bob learned darkroom techniques, he realized that he could create photographic images more selective than what the camera captures, images that express his perception of the world. Thus, in his photographic work, he tries to express the world as he sees it, feels it and experiences it.
Bob’s images have been exhibited in galleries, hospitals and a bank in Western Massachusetts and are in a number of private collections. He is an Adobe Lightroom Certified Expert and teaches Lightroom, camera handling, and photography.
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319 Main Street
hopeandfeathersframing.com
6th Annual Small Works Show
11/28/2016 - 1/14/2017
OPENING RECEPTION & HOLIDAY PIE PARTY:
Thursday, 12/1/2016, 5pm - 8pm, during Amherst Arts Night Plus
RECEPTION & RAFFLE:
Thursday, 1/5/2017, 5pm - 8pm, during Amherst Arts Night Plus
Featuring dozens of works by local artists--from photographs to paintings, illustrations to sculptures, the show features works in all mediums. All works cash-and-carry!
Please join us on on Thursday, during Amherst Arts Night Plus, January 5th, 5-8pm, for a free raffle for a chance to win one of the remaining small works, winner's choice!
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41 Quadrangle Dr
From Russia with Love: Selections from the Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, Collection of Russian Art
Thomas Porter Whitney (1917–2007), a 1937 graduate of Amherst College, went to Moscow as a member of the US diplomatic corps during the Second World War. He married a Russian woman and soon became a connoisseur of the riches of Russian art and culture behind the public facade of the Soviet regime. When the couple relocated to the United States, in 1953, they were not allowed to export many cultural goods. Whitney began to collect rare books, manuscripts, and artworks in a systematic way only in the 1960s.
By the end of the 1980s Whitney had amassed over six hundred paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures by some 170 artists, most from the first half of the twentieth century. The collection he ultimately assembled represents the creative life of Russian cultural elites who, under the Soviet regime, were forced either to emigrate or to go underground to avoid persecution. Many of the artworks were purchased from émigrés who sold their possessions in times of financial need. The most significant works, however—including those on view in this exhibition—came from trusted galleries and auction houses.
Through the purchases he made, Whitney not only captured major trends in Russian art, but paid tribute to the multifaceted artistic currents—including sacred art, book illustration, geometrical abstraction, stage design, and the manifold treatments of representational motifs—that shaped twentieth-century Russian art. This exhibition presents highlights from Whitney’s collection, most of which he gave, toward the end of the century and near the end of his life, to his alma mater.
Organized by Bettina Jungen, Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, Curator of Russian Art. Presented with generous support from the Julia A. Whitney Fund for Russian Art and Faye DeWitt.
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