Past Exhibitions & Events 2022
OPENS THURSDAY!!!
FLAT FILE
FINAL
POP-UP
This is your last chance
to grab some art from one of our
50 FLAT FILE ARTISTS.
Gallery will be open normal hours
DECEMBER 15th-18th
for this special pop-up
Dec 15th: 12-5pm
Dec 16th: 12-8pm
Dec 17th: 12-5pm
Dec 18th: 12-5pm
Click here to find out more about our Flat File Program
A.P.E. in partnership with Alexandra Ripp present
A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Three): An Assembly
by 600 Highwaymen
A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Three): An Assembly
by 600 Highwaymen
Illistration by Cass Sachs-Michaels
2 SHOWS ONLY! LIMITED TICKETS!
Saturday, December 17th • 6pm (SOLD OUT!) and 8pm (1 ticket left!)
at the A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street
Only 16 tickets per performance
Tickets: $15-50 sliding scale; $5 students
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Masks are required to attend the performance.
Saturday, December 17th • 6pm (SOLD OUT!) and 8pm (1 ticket left!)
at the A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street
Only 16 tickets per performance
Tickets: $15-50 sliding scale; $5 students
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Masks are required to attend the performance.
After six sold out shows, we are thrilled be able to bring back this this unique theater experience from one of the world’s most acclaimed theater companies. Obie Award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly. The final experience of their triptych of encounters between strangers is an intimate reckoning—of how small we are in the face of awesome natural forces, and of our mutual dependence. AN ASSEMBLY tasks an audience of 16 strangers to reconstruct an evocative story of perseverance and ruin. This unique theatrical event tests the ways we arrange ourselves after so much time apart. This experience is enacted by you and the other audience members. The instructions for the performance are written on a stack of 4"x5” notecards, and audience members read what is written on them. The cards are written in English, and in a 15-point typeface in black and blue ink on a white background.
“Simple but sublime…the show alerts us to the awesome strangeness, and the utter ordinariness, too, of being alive in the here and now.” – The New York Times
TICKETS HERE
Please note: This show depends on your participation, so only purchase tickets if you know you will attend. For ages 13 years and older. Limit 2 tickets/order; limit 4 students/performance.
A Thousand Ways: An Assembly is the final experience of the Obie Award-winning 600 Highwaymen’s triptych of encounters between strangers. Each installment of the series plumbs the essence of performance, bringing people together in the creation of a moving live experience. The work explores the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity, and how the most intimate assembly can become profoundly radical.
600 Highwaymen (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone), “standard bearers of contemporary theater-making” (Le Monde), who have “quietly been shaking up American theatre since 2009” (The Guardian), have been making live art that, through a variety of radical approaches, illuminates the inherent poignancy of people coming together. Their productions exist at the intersection of theater, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounter. Their work has been seen at Centre Pompidou (Paris), The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Walker Art Center, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Dublin Theatre Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre (Greece), Bristol Old Vic (UK), Salzburg Festival and Theaterspektakel (Switzerland). They are recipients of an Obie Award, Switzerland’s ZKB Patronize Prize, and their work has been nominated for two Bessie Awards, a Drama League Award, and Austria’s Nestroy Prize. In 2016, Abigail and Michael were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts and are currently Associate Artists of IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space.
A Thousand Ways
by 600 HIGHWAYMEN
Written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher
Line Producer: Sami Pyne
This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, The Public Theater, and Festival Theaterformen. Part Three: An Assembly was developed through a residency partnership with the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.
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Doug Anderson’s book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, from Alice James Books, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award in 1995, and Blues for Unemployed Secret Police, from Curbstone Books, a grant from the Academy of American Poets. His play, Short Timers, was produced at Theater for the New City in New York City in 1981. His memoir, Keep Your Head Down, Vietnam, the Sixties and a Journey of Self-Discovery, was published by W.W. Norton in 2009. His book of poems is Horse Medicine, from Barrow Street, was published in 2015. His new book, Undress, She Said, was published by Four Way Books in September of 2022. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Southern Review, Field, and other publications. He has written critical articles for the New York Times Book Review, The London Times Literary Supplement, and the Boston Globe. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Poets & Writers, and other funding agencies. He has taught at Emerson and Smith Colleges, the University of Massachusetts, and the MFA programs at Pacific University of Oregon and Bennington College. He is an affiliate of the Joiner Center for the Study of War and its Social Consequences at UMASS Boston.
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Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently in Jet Fuel Review, The Massachusetts Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere, and her collaborative visual and written work has been published in multiple venues online and in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her books include a chapbook, Dressing the Wounds (dancing girl press, 2019), and her debut full-length collection, Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021). Rebecca teaches writing at Westfield State University and Amherst College and works with poets in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. She is the editor/director of Perugia Press. Find her online at rebeccahartolander.com or @rholanderpoet.
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photo by Carol Lollis
CELEBRATING LISA THOMPSON
Open House and Reception
Saturday, December 10th 5:30-7pm
A.P.E. Gallery at 126 Main St.
After 26 years of stewarding A.P.E.'s vision and programming, Lisa Thompson is stepping down from her position as Associate Director. Often working tirelessly behind the scenes, Lisa has supported the work of hundreds of artists and helped sustain the vibrancy of the Valley's art scene. We hope you will join us on December 10th to celebrate Lisa and all of her work.
Please come offer your thanks, memories, and kudos to Lisa!
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Open House and Reception
Saturday, December 10th 5:30-7pm
A.P.E. Gallery at 126 Main St.
After 26 years of stewarding A.P.E.'s vision and programming, Lisa Thompson is stepping down from her position as Associate Director. Often working tirelessly behind the scenes, Lisa has supported the work of hundreds of artists and helped sustain the vibrancy of the Valley's art scene. We hope you will join us on December 10th to celebrate Lisa and all of her work.
Please come offer your thanks, memories, and kudos to Lisa!
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
MISSING DEPARTMENT
visual works by Ligia Bouton + poetry by Matt Donovan
November 10 - December 10, 2022
Artists Reception: Friday, November 11: 5-8 pm (Arts Night Out)
Student Poetry Reading: Friday, December 9: 7:30-9pm (SEE BELOW)
MISSING DEPARTMENT, a collaborative exhibition by artist Ligia Bouton and writer Matt Donovan, uses visual art and poetry to respond to missing person ads that were placed in pulp fiction magazines from the early 20th-century. This diptych series responds to a selection of widely varied ads that, in raw and intimate language, seek forgiveness, solace, answers, and connections from vanished spouses, lovers, friends, siblings, and children. The show features drawings, paintings, sculptures, and collages created from the magazine’s original paper, as well as letterpress poems made from erasures of pulp fiction stories. Through elaborate interventions with the magazine’s material and language, this expansive exhibition interrogates desire, empathy, and loss.
In addition to the displayed artwork and poems, this exhibition will culminate in a reading at A.P.E. by student poets from Mount Holyoke and Smith College on Friday, December 9th, 7-9pm
Ligia Bouton’s artwork has been shown in numerous galleries and museums, including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Guildhall Art Gallery in London, and SITE Santa Fe. Bouton is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Mount Holyoke College. Matt Donovan is the author, most recently, of the collection of poems The Dug-Up Gun Museum (BOA, 2022). He serves as the Director of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.
David Aipperspach, Sundial (3), 36" x 40", oil on canvas, 2022.
SHADOW WORK
Curated by AJ Rombach
October 14 - November 6, 2022
Artists Reception: Friday, October 14: 5-8 pm (Arts Night Out)
Participating Artists:
David Aipperspach - www.davidaipperspach.com
Natessa Amin - www.natessa.com
River Kim - www.riverminjukim.com
Lena Schmid - www.schmidlena.com
Stephen Proski - www.stephenproski.com
SHADOW WORK examines painting's potential to trace the cognitive and unconscious thought of maker and viewer. What does a symbol communicate? How do paintings act as bridges between subjective and collective experience? How do art objects encapsulate ontological mystery? Natessa Amin and Lena Schmid’s abstracted work relies on systems of invented symbolism that become catalogs of dreams, events, energies and desires. River Kim bridges Amin and Schmid’s abstraction into an embodied expression of fur and latex, large enough to dress a monster. David Aipperspach illustrates the dilemma of embodiment, perception and subjectivity. Stephen Proski's oversized braille monument, and collection of playful yet darkly titled symbols, profoundly punctuates this dilemma in a gesture purposefully alienating. SHADOW WORK inherits its title from the psychoanalytical work of Carl Jung. Jung insisted that, "It is the essence of the symbol to contain both the rational and the irrational," (Jung, Liber Novus, 57,) SHADOW WORK aims to create an environment in which the unconscious be permitted to (consciously) surface.
AJ Rombach is an artist, educator and curator based in Massachusetts. AJ has an MFA from Boston University (2022) and a BFA from Boston University (2010.) AJ is a 2022 Walter Feldman Fellow. AJ is a founding member and former co-director of FJORD, an artist-run space in Philadelphia and has been included in solo and group exhibitions at SPACEUS, Boston; University City Arts League, Philadelphia; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Satellite Art Fair, Miami; CSA Gallery, Philadelphia; and Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia. AJ has helped curate exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, Miami + Boston and has painted murals in Costa Rica, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Minneapolis. AJ taught as a lead teacher at Acorn Gallery School of Art in Marblehead, MA. AJ now lives in Leeds, MA.
This exhibition is part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator Program and is supported in part by a grant from the Art Angels, through the Community Foundation of Western Mass.
Curated by AJ Rombach
October 14 - November 6, 2022
Artists Reception: Friday, October 14: 5-8 pm (Arts Night Out)
Participating Artists:
David Aipperspach - www.davidaipperspach.com
Natessa Amin - www.natessa.com
River Kim - www.riverminjukim.com
Lena Schmid - www.schmidlena.com
Stephen Proski - www.stephenproski.com
SHADOW WORK examines painting's potential to trace the cognitive and unconscious thought of maker and viewer. What does a symbol communicate? How do paintings act as bridges between subjective and collective experience? How do art objects encapsulate ontological mystery? Natessa Amin and Lena Schmid’s abstracted work relies on systems of invented symbolism that become catalogs of dreams, events, energies and desires. River Kim bridges Amin and Schmid’s abstraction into an embodied expression of fur and latex, large enough to dress a monster. David Aipperspach illustrates the dilemma of embodiment, perception and subjectivity. Stephen Proski's oversized braille monument, and collection of playful yet darkly titled symbols, profoundly punctuates this dilemma in a gesture purposefully alienating. SHADOW WORK inherits its title from the psychoanalytical work of Carl Jung. Jung insisted that, "It is the essence of the symbol to contain both the rational and the irrational," (Jung, Liber Novus, 57,) SHADOW WORK aims to create an environment in which the unconscious be permitted to (consciously) surface.
AJ Rombach is an artist, educator and curator based in Massachusetts. AJ has an MFA from Boston University (2022) and a BFA from Boston University (2010.) AJ is a 2022 Walter Feldman Fellow. AJ is a founding member and former co-director of FJORD, an artist-run space in Philadelphia and has been included in solo and group exhibitions at SPACEUS, Boston; University City Arts League, Philadelphia; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia; Satellite Art Fair, Miami; CSA Gallery, Philadelphia; and Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia. AJ has helped curate exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, Miami + Boston and has painted murals in Costa Rica, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Minneapolis. AJ taught as a lead teacher at Acorn Gallery School of Art in Marblehead, MA. AJ now lives in Leeds, MA.
This exhibition is part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator Program and is supported in part by a grant from the Art Angels, through the Community Foundation of Western Mass.
Another World is Possible
September 8 - October 8, 2022
Artists' Reception on Friday, September 9th 5-8pm ANO
Another World is Possible, a juried group exhibition of prints and print-related artwork by members and former artists-in-residence of Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA.
Artists, indeed all of us, can and often do attempt to predict or imagine possible outcomes for the crises-filled world in which we now live. This exhibition calls on printmakers to reflect on future scenarios, both near and far, and envision expansion or a sort of end game. Do we imagine dystopias or utopias? Do we believe that tomorrows may be worse than yesterdays or do we visualize the possibilities of a cleaner and clearer, more balanced world?
Juried by Juana Valdes, multi-media artist and Associate Professor (printmaking), UMass Amherst, and Shichio Minato, printmaker, curator, Professor of Art, Fukui University, Fukui, Japan and organizer of first Green Printmaking Symposium in Asia (2019).
This large group of international and local artists utilize a vast array of printmaking techniques in imagining their response to the challenge of Another World is Possible. Exhibiting artists are:
Suzanne Artemieff, Anne Beresford, Linda Bills, Martha Braun, Meredith Broberg, Liz Chalfin, Sarah Creighton, Nancy Diessner, Victoria Elbroch, Marnix Everaert, Betsy Feick, Lydia Giangregorio, Mary Hart, Sarah Hulsey, Elisa Lanzi, Doris W. Madsen, Tekla McInerney, Therese Dwyer Moriarty, Rhea Nowak, Malgorzata Oakes, Susan Osgood, Lynn Peterfreund, Erika Radich, B.Z. Reily, Julie Rivera, Susan Rood, Jennifer Scheuer, Joyce Silverstone, Matthew Simons, Robynn Smith, Judith Wolf, Angela Zammarelli
Brief Statements by the Curators:
Shichio Minato:
“Through the screening of the entries, I felt the power of art to solve problems that transcend common sense. While "another world is possible" is an extremely open-ended theme that can be taken in a variety of ways, it also poses the difficulty of having to reexamine one's own stance as an artist. …From natural disasters such as major earthquakes and fires to wars, terrorism, financial crises, and even very personal but life-shattering losses and traumatic events, there are a wide variety of catastrophes occurring in modern society. It is difficult to find the right answers to these questions, but we artists have reaffirmed that it is possible to give many people the courage to face these difficult issues through our printmaking.
Juana Valdes:
“Another World is Possible," as the title for the exhibition, suggests there is still time to create, imagine or restore our world. In their varied printmaking processes, the artworks I selected for the show take on the challenge of imagining a better future, restoring an unbalanced past, and reexamining our current state of being. In their many forms, they offer us a vision forward, a place to reflect on the human condition, and hope to amend our relationship with the planet we inhabit.
Zea Mays Printmaking is a studio, workshop, gallery, educational facility and research center dedicated to the safest and most sustainable printmaking practices available.
For more information contact: Liz Chalfin, Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA — info@ZeaMaysPrintmaking.com; 413.584.1783
September 8 - October 8, 2022
Artists' Reception on Friday, September 9th 5-8pm ANO
Another World is Possible, a juried group exhibition of prints and print-related artwork by members and former artists-in-residence of Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA.
Artists, indeed all of us, can and often do attempt to predict or imagine possible outcomes for the crises-filled world in which we now live. This exhibition calls on printmakers to reflect on future scenarios, both near and far, and envision expansion or a sort of end game. Do we imagine dystopias or utopias? Do we believe that tomorrows may be worse than yesterdays or do we visualize the possibilities of a cleaner and clearer, more balanced world?
Juried by Juana Valdes, multi-media artist and Associate Professor (printmaking), UMass Amherst, and Shichio Minato, printmaker, curator, Professor of Art, Fukui University, Fukui, Japan and organizer of first Green Printmaking Symposium in Asia (2019).
This large group of international and local artists utilize a vast array of printmaking techniques in imagining their response to the challenge of Another World is Possible. Exhibiting artists are:
Suzanne Artemieff, Anne Beresford, Linda Bills, Martha Braun, Meredith Broberg, Liz Chalfin, Sarah Creighton, Nancy Diessner, Victoria Elbroch, Marnix Everaert, Betsy Feick, Lydia Giangregorio, Mary Hart, Sarah Hulsey, Elisa Lanzi, Doris W. Madsen, Tekla McInerney, Therese Dwyer Moriarty, Rhea Nowak, Malgorzata Oakes, Susan Osgood, Lynn Peterfreund, Erika Radich, B.Z. Reily, Julie Rivera, Susan Rood, Jennifer Scheuer, Joyce Silverstone, Matthew Simons, Robynn Smith, Judith Wolf, Angela Zammarelli
Brief Statements by the Curators:
Shichio Minato:
“Through the screening of the entries, I felt the power of art to solve problems that transcend common sense. While "another world is possible" is an extremely open-ended theme that can be taken in a variety of ways, it also poses the difficulty of having to reexamine one's own stance as an artist. …From natural disasters such as major earthquakes and fires to wars, terrorism, financial crises, and even very personal but life-shattering losses and traumatic events, there are a wide variety of catastrophes occurring in modern society. It is difficult to find the right answers to these questions, but we artists have reaffirmed that it is possible to give many people the courage to face these difficult issues through our printmaking.
Juana Valdes:
“Another World is Possible," as the title for the exhibition, suggests there is still time to create, imagine or restore our world. In their varied printmaking processes, the artworks I selected for the show take on the challenge of imagining a better future, restoring an unbalanced past, and reexamining our current state of being. In their many forms, they offer us a vision forward, a place to reflect on the human condition, and hope to amend our relationship with the planet we inhabit.
Zea Mays Printmaking is a studio, workshop, gallery, educational facility and research center dedicated to the safest and most sustainable printmaking practices available.
For more information contact: Liz Chalfin, Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA — info@ZeaMaysPrintmaking.com; 413.584.1783
A.P.E. Flat File Sale Pop-UP
in collaboration with
Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022
Saturday, October 1, 2022
33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA
Northampton Print & Book Fair: 12:00–5:00pm
A.P.E. Flat File Sale: 10:00am–3:00pm
Free and open to the public
These two distinct events happening on the same day at 33 Hawley celebrate the potential of flat media in all forms and bring together A.P.E.’s flat file program with NPBF!
A.P.E.’s Flat File Pop-Up Sale
As a previous host for the Northampton Print & Book Fair at A.P.E.’s 126 Main Street gallery, Flat File curators Jil Crary-Ross and Aidan Wright are excited to be collaborating with the NPBF on October 1, 2022 at 33 Hawley Street. A.P.E. will host a pop-up Flat File show and sale in A.P.E.’s Workroom Theater, celebrating flat media alongside the NPBF in the Center for the Art’s Flex space. Both events occur at 33 Hawley St and will be free to the public. A.P.E. has encouraged all its flat file artists to attend if possible as it will be a great opportunity to meet fellow flat-file artists, print and book fair artists and to sell work!
A.P.E.'s inaugural Flat File Program celebrates the potential of flat media: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, textiles, ceramic and collage. This collection of small works, selected from an open call, represents a variety of approaches to flat media either as finished works or momentary components of a creative process. A.P.E.’s Flat File Program features the work of 50 local, regional, and national artists, many of them new to A.P.E, with the goal to highlight and provide exposure to emerging artists and experimental work that is less likely to be shown in a traditional exhibition setting.
Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022
After a two year hiatus, the Northampton Print & Book Fair makes its return to downtown Northampton this Fall. On October 1st, over 20 artists will gather at 33 Hawley for a one-day celebration of contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples. This event will feature a diverse community of artists, publishers, and collectives from across western Massachusetts and throughout New England. Artwork will be on display and for sale and will include artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, poetry, comics, screenprints, risograph prints, photographs, photobooks, mini sculptures, ceramics, wearable art, and much more. The NPBF represents a unique opportunity for the public to directly engage with and support local and regional artists. The event is free to attend and open to the public with 100% of the sales going directly to the artists.
Established in 2015, the Northampton Print & Book Fair is a one-day event held annually in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. It was created to promote contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. The NPBF is run by volunteers and is produced by Fugitive Arts – a collaborative, transient curatorial project dedicated to promoting experimental art and emerging artists in western Massachusetts, with a goal to create innovative, accessible, and engaging arts programming through exhibitions, publications, and public events. Fugitive Arts was founded by Esther S White and Trevor Powers.
This year’s NPBF is sponsored in part by the Northampton Arts Council and CatLABS, with additional support from Collective Copies, Daily Operation, and generous community members.
in collaboration with
Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022
Saturday, October 1, 2022
33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA
Northampton Print & Book Fair: 12:00–5:00pm
A.P.E. Flat File Sale: 10:00am–3:00pm
Free and open to the public
These two distinct events happening on the same day at 33 Hawley celebrate the potential of flat media in all forms and bring together A.P.E.’s flat file program with NPBF!
A.P.E.’s Flat File Pop-Up Sale
As a previous host for the Northampton Print & Book Fair at A.P.E.’s 126 Main Street gallery, Flat File curators Jil Crary-Ross and Aidan Wright are excited to be collaborating with the NPBF on October 1, 2022 at 33 Hawley Street. A.P.E. will host a pop-up Flat File show and sale in A.P.E.’s Workroom Theater, celebrating flat media alongside the NPBF in the Center for the Art’s Flex space. Both events occur at 33 Hawley St and will be free to the public. A.P.E. has encouraged all its flat file artists to attend if possible as it will be a great opportunity to meet fellow flat-file artists, print and book fair artists and to sell work!
A.P.E.'s inaugural Flat File Program celebrates the potential of flat media: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, textiles, ceramic and collage. This collection of small works, selected from an open call, represents a variety of approaches to flat media either as finished works or momentary components of a creative process. A.P.E.’s Flat File Program features the work of 50 local, regional, and national artists, many of them new to A.P.E, with the goal to highlight and provide exposure to emerging artists and experimental work that is less likely to be shown in a traditional exhibition setting.
Northampton Print & Book Fair 2022
After a two year hiatus, the Northampton Print & Book Fair makes its return to downtown Northampton this Fall. On October 1st, over 20 artists will gather at 33 Hawley for a one-day celebration of contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples. This event will feature a diverse community of artists, publishers, and collectives from across western Massachusetts and throughout New England. Artwork will be on display and for sale and will include artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, poetry, comics, screenprints, risograph prints, photographs, photobooks, mini sculptures, ceramics, wearable art, and much more. The NPBF represents a unique opportunity for the public to directly engage with and support local and regional artists. The event is free to attend and open to the public with 100% of the sales going directly to the artists.
Established in 2015, the Northampton Print & Book Fair is a one-day event held annually in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts. It was created to promote contemporary artist publications, prints, and multiples, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. The NPBF is run by volunteers and is produced by Fugitive Arts – a collaborative, transient curatorial project dedicated to promoting experimental art and emerging artists in western Massachusetts, with a goal to create innovative, accessible, and engaging arts programming through exhibitions, publications, and public events. Fugitive Arts was founded by Esther S White and Trevor Powers.
This year’s NPBF is sponsored in part by the Northampton Arts Council and CatLABS, with additional support from Collective Copies, Daily Operation, and generous community members.
"Worked: Artist Labor Relations"
Curated by Grace Clark
August 10 - September 3, 2022
Artists' Reception: Friday, August 12: 5-8 pm
A.P.E. GALLERY is pleased to announce "Worked: Artist Labor Relations", an exhibition of 7 innovative artists working in painting, printmaking, video, performance, sculpture, installation, social practice, and combined media. Artists highlighted include Ash Strazzinski, Eeshita Kapadiya, Ella Weber, Roz Crews, Sarah LaPonte, Thunder Miller, and kelli rae adams. Worked is
curated by A.P.E.’s inaugural guest curator, artist Grace Clark.
No tickets are necessary for this free exhibition. All are welcome.
Artists often have a unique relationship with work, as they, themselves, have the privilege of determining the labor that consequently makes up
their practice. However, many artists’ practices can be heavily influenced by the financial need to work additional full-time jobs. How do artists lean into
balancing this obligation and desire? By making their day job the inspiration for their art, using their practice as a platform for discussion, or simply saying, “I can’t”? Worked explores how artists respond to their relationship with labor––through critical discourse, radical rest, and intentional play––to consider the many shapes that labor can take.
Labor structures have a deep history of exploitation, censorship, and disproportionately allocating creative resources, especially within marginalized communities. Worked aims to share the thoughts, actions, and feelings of a variety of arts workers, especially in communities highly susceptible to this including people of color, femmes, poor, disabled, queer and trans folx.
Grace Clark is an artist, educator, and arts worker. She has been employed in numerous art world and non-art world settings including galleries, museums, schools, artist studios, non- profits, freelance photography, retail, the food industry, and more––all while maintaining her own creative practice. After becoming injured from overwork on a museum job, a condition that left her unable to use her arm to make art for herself or hold down a full-time job for an entire year, Clark experienced a transformative identity shift in conjunction with an extreme change in her relationship with work, her trust in the structures that distribute labor, and her own ability to care for herself. As her body still feels lingering tensions from the past, Clark is continuing to learn
about her personal relationship with labor through the help of others, especially the artistscourageously and thoughtfully sharing their experiences in this exhibition.
This exhibition is part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator Program and is supported in part by a grant from the Art Angels, through the Community Foundation of Western Mass.
Curated by Grace Clark
August 10 - September 3, 2022
Artists' Reception: Friday, August 12: 5-8 pm
A.P.E. GALLERY is pleased to announce "Worked: Artist Labor Relations", an exhibition of 7 innovative artists working in painting, printmaking, video, performance, sculpture, installation, social practice, and combined media. Artists highlighted include Ash Strazzinski, Eeshita Kapadiya, Ella Weber, Roz Crews, Sarah LaPonte, Thunder Miller, and kelli rae adams. Worked is
curated by A.P.E.’s inaugural guest curator, artist Grace Clark.
No tickets are necessary for this free exhibition. All are welcome.
Artists often have a unique relationship with work, as they, themselves, have the privilege of determining the labor that consequently makes up
their practice. However, many artists’ practices can be heavily influenced by the financial need to work additional full-time jobs. How do artists lean into
balancing this obligation and desire? By making their day job the inspiration for their art, using their practice as a platform for discussion, or simply saying, “I can’t”? Worked explores how artists respond to their relationship with labor––through critical discourse, radical rest, and intentional play––to consider the many shapes that labor can take.
Labor structures have a deep history of exploitation, censorship, and disproportionately allocating creative resources, especially within marginalized communities. Worked aims to share the thoughts, actions, and feelings of a variety of arts workers, especially in communities highly susceptible to this including people of color, femmes, poor, disabled, queer and trans folx.
Grace Clark is an artist, educator, and arts worker. She has been employed in numerous art world and non-art world settings including galleries, museums, schools, artist studios, non- profits, freelance photography, retail, the food industry, and more––all while maintaining her own creative practice. After becoming injured from overwork on a museum job, a condition that left her unable to use her arm to make art for herself or hold down a full-time job for an entire year, Clark experienced a transformative identity shift in conjunction with an extreme change in her relationship with work, her trust in the structures that distribute labor, and her own ability to care for herself. As her body still feels lingering tensions from the past, Clark is continuing to learn
about her personal relationship with labor through the help of others, especially the artistscourageously and thoughtfully sharing their experiences in this exhibition.
This exhibition is part of A.P.E.'s Guest Curator Program and is supported in part by a grant from the Art Angels, through the Community Foundation of Western Mass.
No Theater
let go Performances
July 28 - August 6
a short adult comedy about love, death and piles of paper....
LET GO with Roy Faudree and Jane Karakula
@ A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA
Performances
July 28 - August 6 at 8:00 PM
No Theater now rarely performs locally. During the 70s and 80s they regularly presented new
original works such as The Elephant Man, DFS (de fiance suction), Last Resort, and Dupe.
Recent local productions:
A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh (2020);
google gogol, inspired by Nikolai Gogol (2019);
and Richard Maxwell's Cave Man (2016-2018).
No Theater's work has been performed throughout Europe, in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo,
Singapore and Australia.
let go Performances
July 28 - August 6
a short adult comedy about love, death and piles of paper....
LET GO with Roy Faudree and Jane Karakula
@ A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main Street, Northampton, MA
Performances
July 28 - August 6 at 8:00 PM
No Theater now rarely performs locally. During the 70s and 80s they regularly presented new
original works such as The Elephant Man, DFS (de fiance suction), Last Resort, and Dupe.
Recent local productions:
A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh (2020);
google gogol, inspired by Nikolai Gogol (2019);
and Richard Maxwell's Cave Man (2016-2018).
No Theater's work has been performed throughout Europe, in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo,
Singapore and Australia.
Phyllis Kornfeld’s CELLBLOCK VISIONS
Watch Nick Verdi's video of Cellblock Visions with Phyllis Kornfeld HERE
Dates: May 7 - May 29, 2022
Saturday, May 14: Reception: 3-5 pm and Artist Talk: 4 pm
The artwork being exhibited at A.P.E. was created between 1983 and the present by incarcerated men and women across the country in those prisons and jails that offer classes led by artist/teachers and with limited access to art supplies. Phyllis Kornfeld has been working directly with these artists for over 39 years—in all levels of security from county jail to maximum security to death row.
“These artists did their work with care and passion. Though inexperienced, they seemed to know what to do and how to do it, without instruction. They trusted something, an unseen guide. The art is beautiful in its sincerity even where the truth is painful to see. Art has always had the power to transform lives.”
Artist Bio:
Phyllis Kornfeld is the author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, Princeton University Press and is the founder of several public projects whereby prison artists donate their artwork to benefit people in need. The Envelope Project: Incarcerated Men and Women Making Art for a Cause sold hundreds of original pieces of envelope art at the Outsider Art Fair in NYC. to benefit a children’s literacy non-profit.
Other publications include “Truth, Goodness, and Beautiful Art: Set Free in the Penitentiary,” for Art Education Beyond the Classroom, Palgrave MacMillan.
Journal contributions include Encyclopedia of Southern Folk Art, Raw Vision: International Journal of Intuitive and Visionary Art, Mountain Record, Art and Antiques Magazine.
Phyllis Kornfeld lives in western Massachusetts and due to the Covid pandemic, is currently waiting to return to teaching at the Berkshire County House of Corrections.
Image above by: Ronnie White
Watch Nick Verdi's video of Cellblock Visions with Phyllis Kornfeld HERE
Dates: May 7 - May 29, 2022
Saturday, May 14: Reception: 3-5 pm and Artist Talk: 4 pm
The artwork being exhibited at A.P.E. was created between 1983 and the present by incarcerated men and women across the country in those prisons and jails that offer classes led by artist/teachers and with limited access to art supplies. Phyllis Kornfeld has been working directly with these artists for over 39 years—in all levels of security from county jail to maximum security to death row.
“These artists did their work with care and passion. Though inexperienced, they seemed to know what to do and how to do it, without instruction. They trusted something, an unseen guide. The art is beautiful in its sincerity even where the truth is painful to see. Art has always had the power to transform lives.”
Artist Bio:
Phyllis Kornfeld is the author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, Princeton University Press and is the founder of several public projects whereby prison artists donate their artwork to benefit people in need. The Envelope Project: Incarcerated Men and Women Making Art for a Cause sold hundreds of original pieces of envelope art at the Outsider Art Fair in NYC. to benefit a children’s literacy non-profit.
Other publications include “Truth, Goodness, and Beautiful Art: Set Free in the Penitentiary,” for Art Education Beyond the Classroom, Palgrave MacMillan.
Journal contributions include Encyclopedia of Southern Folk Art, Raw Vision: International Journal of Intuitive and Visionary Art, Mountain Record, Art and Antiques Magazine.
Phyllis Kornfeld lives in western Massachusetts and due to the Covid pandemic, is currently waiting to return to teaching at the Berkshire County House of Corrections.
Image above by: Ronnie White
MHC Art Major Senior Exhibition at A.P.E. Gallery
Title:
this is my letter to the world
Friday, April 29 - Monday, May 2, 2022
Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7pm
Contact:
Lisa Iglesias, Associate Professor, Art Studio, Mount Holyoke College, liglesia@mtholyoke.edu, 607-280-5319
10 Artists:
Sarah Chait
Emily Donahue
Ella Giordano
Paula Mascuch
AJ Methner
Hiba Nawaid
Embry Valentino O’Leary
Kinsey Ratzman
Zofia Topor
Fran Winterbottom
A.P.E. Gallery is pleased to announce this is my letter to the world, a group show of 10 solo exhibitions by Mount Holyoke College seniors in Northampton, on view from April 29 to May 2, 2022. The participating artists Sarah Chait, Emily Donahue, Ella Giordano, Paula Mascuch, AJ Methner, Hiba Nawaid, Embry Valentino O’Leary, Kinsey Ratzman, Zofia Topor, and Fran Winterbottom work across video, painting, book arts, sculpture, textiles, exhibiting genre blurring projects that resist strict categorization.
For the past 4 years, the artists participating in this is my letter to the world have been immersed in a liberal arts, interdisciplinary academic environment and have experienced a spectrum of pre-pandemic interactions, remote education, and a transition to in-person realities. In titling the show this is my letter to the world, the artists nod to the eponymous poem by Emily Dickinson, who attended Mount Holyoke Seminary (the College’s original name) from 1847 to 1848. In their senior exhibition, as Dickinson’s poem puts forward, the emerging artists’ works on view offer up communications to their community, reflecting upon isolation, identity, history, and their reflections of the world around them.
this is my letter to the world features the creative research and artistic production of a group of studio majors from the Class of 2022 as well as mentorship by multiple individuals. The Studio Art Department is grateful for contributions by current and past faculty including Ligia Bouton, Lisa Iglesias, Gina Siepel, Amanda Maciuba, and Jacob Rhoads, as well as student TAs and members of 2022 thesis committees including MHC Professors Sarah Stefana Smith, Sabra Thorner, and Susanne Mrozik.
Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender diverse and the oldest of the Seven Sister colleges.
Image credit: Image Courtesy of Sarah Chait and Zofia Tpopr
Title:
this is my letter to the world
Friday, April 29 - Monday, May 2, 2022
Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7pm
Contact:
Lisa Iglesias, Associate Professor, Art Studio, Mount Holyoke College, liglesia@mtholyoke.edu, 607-280-5319
10 Artists:
Sarah Chait
Emily Donahue
Ella Giordano
Paula Mascuch
AJ Methner
Hiba Nawaid
Embry Valentino O’Leary
Kinsey Ratzman
Zofia Topor
Fran Winterbottom
A.P.E. Gallery is pleased to announce this is my letter to the world, a group show of 10 solo exhibitions by Mount Holyoke College seniors in Northampton, on view from April 29 to May 2, 2022. The participating artists Sarah Chait, Emily Donahue, Ella Giordano, Paula Mascuch, AJ Methner, Hiba Nawaid, Embry Valentino O’Leary, Kinsey Ratzman, Zofia Topor, and Fran Winterbottom work across video, painting, book arts, sculpture, textiles, exhibiting genre blurring projects that resist strict categorization.
For the past 4 years, the artists participating in this is my letter to the world have been immersed in a liberal arts, interdisciplinary academic environment and have experienced a spectrum of pre-pandemic interactions, remote education, and a transition to in-person realities. In titling the show this is my letter to the world, the artists nod to the eponymous poem by Emily Dickinson, who attended Mount Holyoke Seminary (the College’s original name) from 1847 to 1848. In their senior exhibition, as Dickinson’s poem puts forward, the emerging artists’ works on view offer up communications to their community, reflecting upon isolation, identity, history, and their reflections of the world around them.
this is my letter to the world features the creative research and artistic production of a group of studio majors from the Class of 2022 as well as mentorship by multiple individuals. The Studio Art Department is grateful for contributions by current and past faculty including Ligia Bouton, Lisa Iglesias, Gina Siepel, Amanda Maciuba, and Jacob Rhoads, as well as student TAs and members of 2022 thesis committees including MHC Professors Sarah Stefana Smith, Sabra Thorner, and Susanne Mrozik.
Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender diverse and the oldest of the Seven Sister colleges.
Image credit: Image Courtesy of Sarah Chait and Zofia Tpopr
"Wanna Come Over?"
April 5 - 24, 2022
Artists' Reception: Friday, April 8: 5-8 pm
“Wanna come over?” is a group installation piece at A.P.E. gallery led by art students at Smith College. Working in collaboration, the senior class students (both Art History and Studio Art majors) seek to recreate the space of a Smith dorm room. Using the classic school-chosen furniture as well as trinkets, textiles, wall art, doodles, and more, this room represents the inner spaces of student life as they contrast the elusive exteriors of a private institution.
This exhibit is part of A.P.E.'s new Guest Curator Program and is curated by Aidan Wright and Ariella Heise '22.
Participating artists include Phoebe Collins, Paige Oliveira, Fay Adan, Talia Heyman, Ariella Heise, Shreya Dwibedy, Ashai Gonzalez, Nicole Huang, Sandra Pomelo-Fowler, and Eve Liberman.
April 5 - 24, 2022
Artists' Reception: Friday, April 8: 5-8 pm
“Wanna come over?” is a group installation piece at A.P.E. gallery led by art students at Smith College. Working in collaboration, the senior class students (both Art History and Studio Art majors) seek to recreate the space of a Smith dorm room. Using the classic school-chosen furniture as well as trinkets, textiles, wall art, doodles, and more, this room represents the inner spaces of student life as they contrast the elusive exteriors of a private institution.
This exhibit is part of A.P.E.'s new Guest Curator Program and is curated by Aidan Wright and Ariella Heise '22.
Participating artists include Phoebe Collins, Paige Oliveira, Fay Adan, Talia Heyman, Ariella Heise, Shreya Dwibedy, Ashai Gonzalez, Nicole Huang, Sandra Pomelo-Fowler, and Eve Liberman.
Crossing Cultures: Family, Memory and Displacement
March 9 - April 1, 2022
Curated by Claudia Ruiz Gustafson
Participating artists: Astrid Reischwitz, Claudia Ruiz Gustafson, Nilou Moochhala, Vivian Poey, Shabnam Jannesari, Nicolas Hyacinthe
About the Exhibition:
Crossing Cultures is an art exhibition about family, memory, displacement and identity from the point of view of six visual artists with roots in five regions: Asia (India and Iran), South America (Peru), North America (Mexico), The Caribbean (Cuba and Haiti) and Europe (Germany). Through the use of vintage family photographs, and the use of different mediums: photography, painting, mixed media and video, these artists uncover their family stories and create complex, multidimensional narratives to reflect upon what they have left behind while shifting countries and at the same time honoring and remembering family traditions and vanishing ways of life.
We are a nation of people who have come from around the globe and have experienced loss and transformation as we make our way in a new place. A place where diverse backgrounds, political beliefs, faiths, identities, and ideas come together to create something new. This exhibition embodies and celebrates this ongoing transformation in what it means to find home at a time where migration across the world is at an all-time high.
In the Blink of Our Lifetimes - The Ecology of Dusk
An Exhibition of Photographs by Pamela Petro
February 5 - March 4, 2022
Shooting the dusk series I learned that dusk is not a unilateral event but a process, like a slow, rolling wave. Each day there are three stages of twilight. Civil twilight, which begins at sunset; nautical twilight, when stars brighten; and astronomical twilight, just before darkness. The final moments of each phase are called “dusk.” The marine tones of these images, taken at nautical dusk, suggest that the sky blues land as readily as it does the sea.
An Exhibition of Photographs by Pamela Petro
February 5 - March 4, 2022
Shooting the dusk series I learned that dusk is not a unilateral event but a process, like a slow, rolling wave. Each day there are three stages of twilight. Civil twilight, which begins at sunset; nautical twilight, when stars brighten; and astronomical twilight, just before darkness. The final moments of each phase are called “dusk.” The marine tones of these images, taken at nautical dusk, suggest that the sky blues land as readily as it does the sea.
All of No Theater's January performances
of LET GO have been canceled due to
the current Omicron variant surge.
Brown Paper Tickets will reimburse those
who have purchased tickets. Please email
notheater@yahoo.com for more information.
A.P.E., Ltd. will announce new dates for the
production later this year.