Past Exhibitions & Events 2022
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.