Affiliate Projects and Programs
Affiliate projects of A.P.E. are programs or organizations with similar goals & visions. A.P.E. frequently works collaboratively with these groups and artists and provides fiscal sponsorship for many of these projects.
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Northampton Community Arts Trust
The Northampton Community Arts Trust, incorporated in 2010, has created an 'urban' arts trust that will provide for the arts the type of support that land trusts currently provide for local farms and affordable housing initiatives, and that broad-based taxation provides for other important cultural enterprises. The Arts Trust purchased a 25,000 square foot former lumberyard at 33 Hawley Street in downtown Northampton in October, 2013. It is currently renovating this building into a multi-use, energy efficient arts facility for the community of Northampton. It will open to partial occupancy this September, 2017. 3 Arts Partners will inhabit the building and create programming for the community. The Northampton Center for the Arts will base their organization at 33 Hawley Street after 4 years without a home base, Northampton Community Television will create a media lab in one of the lower level spaces of the building for ongoing media education and projects, and A.P.E. will begin to develop projects and work towards a plan for the black box theater space that occupies one third of the building's space. For more information, visit: http://www.northamptonartstrust.org/ |
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No Theater
Contemporary production company No Theater was founded in 1974, taking its name from its lack of a physical space in its founding years. In 1977, No Theater became the resident theater production company of A.P.E. No Theater has designed and directed productions at the Academy of Music, the MIT Media Lab, the Bunkamura Cultural Center in Tokyo, Ars Electronica in Austria; and the Ruhr Triennale, Germany. In addition, the company has created new works for the Victoria Theater, Ghent, Belgium; Spiel Art, Munich; and Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia. Directed by Roy Faudree and Sheena See. |
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The Anchor House of Artists
Established in 1997 by artist Michael Tillyer, Anchor House of Artists subsidizes the studio lives of artists living with persistent mental illnesses, and represents and preserves their artworks. Studio and public viewing hours are Wednesday, 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.; Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Located at 518 Pleasant Street about 1/2 mile north of exit 18 from I-91 and just a 5 minute walk from the center of Northampton. For inquiries call (413) 584-4323 or visit http://www.anchorhouseartists.org |
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Serious Play! Theater Ensemble
Since 1992, Serious Play has offered rigorous theatre training programs which challenge and support young adults as they deal with the intense and often-confusing internal and external changes in their lives. The Serious Play Youth Theatre Ensemble was formed in 1994. Directed by actor/director/teacher Sheryl Stoodley, the company of actors aged 16 - 25 develops and performs works on themes that are important to its members. Stoodley exposes the young actors to a variety of avant-garde and traditional theatre techniques, including those of Anne Bogart, Tadashi Suzuki, and Kristin Linklater, in order to help them become highly skilled artists. |
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Cell Block Visions
A.P.E.'s Library has recently been given a remarkable body of work collected by artist and author Phyllis Kornfeld, and described in her book Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, published by Princeton University Press in March 1997. The collection includes drawings, paintings, and objects made within the last 20 years by inmates of jails and penitentiaries in six states. Prison folk arts including soap carvings, cigarette wrapper purses, toothpick clocks, and toilet paper sculpture are featured alongside decorative arts including handkerchief art and decorated envelopes. Works by self-taught artists in the collection have been illustrated in a variety of publications and shown in prominent galleries. More about Cellblock Visions |
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Open Field Press
Open Field Press is supported financially by the Open Field Foundation (OFF) and Available Potential Enterprises Ltd. (A.P.E.). The Open Field Foundation provides accessible, affordable space for people who work with land, and Available Potential Enterprises provides accessible, affordable space for artists. Inspired by these models, Open Field Press makes available the open space of the page for works of the imagination. More about Open Field Press |
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Bramble Hill Farm
Bramble Hill Farm, a former 120 acre dairy farm, is located across the river from A.P.E. in Amherst. It is owned by “The Open Field Foundation”, a nonprofit private operating foundation, created by Gordon Thorne and Anne Woodhull in 1996 to legally hold the assets of the Farm. The old farm buildings have been renovated to provide living and working spaces for a range of people and projects. A new set of farm structures have been built to accommodate small scale pasture based livestock initiatives and a range of organic growing programs.The Foundation has absorbed the major capital costs of this project to date. The goal of The Foundation and the Farm is to test innovative ways to build a sustainable, healthy, and creative farm centered community, accessible to and interactive with the larger community which surrounds it. A.P.E. artists have created site specific work at Bramble Hill Farm, and Farm personnel have showcased work in the APE space. Both organizations are by intent linked in their missions and values, despite the surface differences in their enterprises. |
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The ArtSalon
The ArtSalon is a fast paced evening for people interested in conversations about the arts in the Pioneer Valley and beyond. Join the artists, creators, critics, collectors and those who work behind the scenes for a dynamic evening of engaging presentations by established and emerging artists. ArtSalons are hosted by a diverse range of venues in the Pioneer Valley and will pop up on an irregular basis. Space is dependent on the venue The ArtSalon’s format allows each artist 20 seconds per slide to show 20 views of his or her work, a total of only about six and a half minutes per person. After the presentations, the gathering is open to discussion. For more information, visit: www.theartsalon.com |
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Historic Northampton
A.P.E. collaborates on programming with Historic Northampton on its Living History Series and on events and lectures at 33 Hawley. For programs and events, visit the museum's website: www.historic-northampton.org Historic Northampton Museum & Education Center 46 Bridge Street, Northampton MA 01060 Phone: 413.584.6011 |