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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Special Event:
Direct Action Comics
Politically Engaged Graphic Novels
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Herter Gallery
Herter Hall - University of Massachusetts Amherst
OPENING RECEPTION, ZINE MAKING WORKSHOP, & CONCERT
Thursday, 2/2/2017, 5pm - 8pm, during Amherst Arts Night Plus
The exhibition “Direct Action Comics: Politically Engaged Comics and Graphic Novels” will present over 50 of the most influential and provocative graphic novels dealing with political and social issues. The exhibition will include printed copies of each book plus original art for representative pages and a variety of associated materials, including preliminary sketches and drafts for outstanding an important works, examples of rare posters and promotional materials, and a selection of important precursors for contemporary graphic novels including underground comics and the work of the political artists collective who produce World War III comics. It is the first exhibition of its kind.
The exhibition will include original art from Rep. John Lewis's March series, about the Civil Rights Movement and the Selma-Montgomery March; Will Eisner's The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of Zion and Fagin the Jew, Oliver Twist as seen by Fagin; Harvey Pekar's Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me; Sabrina Jones's Margaret Sanger, Our Lady of Birth Control; Sarah Gliddens' Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq; and many others.
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28 Amity Street
Amherst Cinema’s newest series, Throwback Thursdays, presents VHS hits of the 80’s, 90’s, and early aughts, now on the big screen! From slumber party favorites to action-packed comedies, Throwback Thursdays offers the small screen classics you’d love to revisit.
Each screening is followed by a 21+ after party at High Horse, where the fun continues for ticket holders with live DJs and complimentary food and drinks.
Regular admission tickets at the Amherst Cinema box office and online: www.amherstcinema.org
GROUNDHOG DAY
Thursday, February 2 at 7pm
After covering Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, PA, TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) wakes up to find that he is reliving Groundhog Day and no one else is aware of the time loop.
Director: Harold Ramis. 1993. 101 minutes. Rated PG. English.
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35 South Pleasant Street
Nancy Haver
www.nancyhaver.com
This exhibit features Valley landscapes in oil pastel and woodcut. During my recent residencies at national parks I discovered that oil pastel, with its portability and vibrant color, is a wonderful medium for landscape sketches. I enjoy using various media to depict a single subject and am intrigued by the way each brings its influence to the subject matter. The stark contrast, definition and energy of woodcuts allows me to explore these aspects of my subjects. In recent years I have focused on our environment for inspiration–to regain my compass–for, as Emerson wrote, “In the woods we return to reason and faith.”
I will donate ten percent of the proceeds of sales of these works to the Kestrel Trust.
A member of the Boston Printmakers and Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, I have exhibited my work at a variety of venues, including the Springfield Art Museum, Westfield State College, Holyoke Community College, R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton Center for the Arts, the DeCordova Museum and Worthington Gallery, UT. I taught drawing, illustration, and relief printmaking at the University of Massachusetts and Holyoke Community College for twelve years and have taught the same subjects privately. I am a co-owner of Collective Copies, with print shops in Amherst and Florence. I try to spend as much time as possible outdoors, and enjoy hiking, bicycling, jogging, ukulele and tap dancing.
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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
Second Reception: Thursday, February 2, 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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"Leaving the Desert," Constance Hamilton, oil on paper
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28 Amity St
www.gallerya3.com
Constance Hamilton
Leaving the Desert
February 2-25, 2017
Opening Reception / Amherst Arts Night Plus
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Constance Hamilton's new paintings explore landscape, vision, and the journeys of refugees. Her one-person show, Leaving the Desert, opens on February 2 with an opening reception from 5-8:00 pm during Amherst Arts Night Plus. The exhibit runs through the end of February. For this month only, Gallery A3's Art Forum will be at Mead Art Museum, Amherst College on Thursday, February 16 at 7:30 pm, and asks the question "What is art today?"
ART FORUM
February's Art Forum with Constance Hamilton will be held at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College at 7:30 pm on Thursday, February 17. The forum will center around the questions "What is art today?" and "How do we look and think about art here and now?" The Art Forum is free and open to the public.
The Art Forum 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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Harold F. Johnson Library
893 West Street, Amherst, 01002
Free parking available in library lot and other visitor bays after 5pm
Made in America: Unfree Labor in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Through March 3, 2017
Despite increasing media and scholarly attention to mass incarceration, many remain unaware of the complex and interrelated economic incentives that underlie this uniquely American phenomenon, a system “Made in America.” Made in America features the work of artists and activists, inside and outside prison, to explore tensions between exploitative prison labor and the creative and intellectual labor of incarcerated individuals. While the former profits state correctional services, private corporations, political interests, and consumers, the latter offers powerful articulations of subjecthood and resistance in the face of a dehumanizing system.
Join us for an opening reception and meet local activists, organizers, carceral studies scholars, and exhibition artists from 5pm, with opening remarks at 6pm.
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MARIUS SZNAJDERMAN HOLDS A ONE-PERSON SHOW AT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF AMHERST FEBUARY 2 - APRIL 30, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 2, 2017
5PM-7:30PM
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday 10AM - 4PM Sunday, 10AM - 1PM
Painter and printmaker Marius Sznajderman will exhibit paintings and collages including Judaicas. This exhibit includes early works rooted in a Latin American tradition: “The Mexican Hacienda,” 1961, and “The Balcony #2,” 1983. Some of the Judaicas are collages and mixed media on panels dating from the 1970's, depicting menorahs and mizrachs. Sznajderman will also show recent works of varied subject matter in acrylics and ink on paper and collages. This exhibit is his third one-person show in Amherst. In 2005-06 his work was shown at the National Yiddish Book Center, and in 2015 he exhibited in The Garden Room at Applewood where he is a resident artist.
Sznajderman has exhibited extensively in the United States and South America. His works are in major public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, The New York Public Library, The Museo Del Barrio, New York City, Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela. A number of his prints are in the collection of The Smith College Museum of Art, and two of his works are in the collection of the Jewish Community of Amherst.
The Venezuelan critic and art historian Juan Calzadilla has written about Marius Sznajderman, "His dramatic imagination found, in the expressionist style of his formative years, fertile ground for a labor that has evolved coherently and renews itself still in a never ending activity of formal analysis, without abandoning involvement in the human subject. This inventiveness which needs to create and recreate its imagery, evolving into thematic and serial projects, is accompanied in Sznajderman by a capacity for experimentation."
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319 Main Street
hopeandfeathersframing.com
Keeping Our Heads Above Water: Paintings by Susan Valentine
Thursday, 2/2/2017, 5pm - 8pm, during Amherst Arts Night Plus
Hope & Feathers Framing and Gallery hosts Keeping Our Heads Above Water, paintings by Leverett artist Susan Valentine, January 18th through February 25th.
Susan's intention is this exhibit be a respite from what is likely the most important issue of our political/social times. She'd like people to feel that they're in good company here in the valley, and that the job ahead of us is paramount but we need to take care of ourselves to be effective.
Susan studied first graphic design, then painting at Greenfield Community College. She has held studio space at Leverett Crafts & Arts in Leverett since 2013 and very much enjoys the support of the community of artists there. Her work has been in numerous group and solo shows in western Massachusetts since 2012. www.susanvalentineart.com
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41 Quadrangle Dr
Opening Reception for Spring Exhibitions
Celebrate the opening of Mead Reimagined: Take 2 on Thursday, February 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
A Night with Artist Rico Gatson
Thursday, February 23, 5 p.m.
Join Rico Gatson at this evening event celebrating Rico Gatson’s Hall Walls mural, a project completed with the collaboration of Five College students.
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