Resident Artists

A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery
126 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060

Phone: 413.586.5553
Fax: 413.387.6027

Gallery Hours:
Tues. – Thurs. 12-5
Fri. – Sat. 12-8
Sun. 12-5
Closed on Mondays

Resident Artists

Andrea Olsen is Professor of Dance and the John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, in Middlebury, VT. She’s the author of Body and Earth, An Experiential Guide, and Bodystories, A Guide to Experiential Anatomy in collaboration with Caryn McHose. Andrea performs and teaches internationally and is on the faculty of the teacher-training program for Yoga Center Amherst. She is working on her third book and considers A.P.E. a creative home.

Anne Woodhull is an accomplished poet and the director of The After School at A.P.E. and Bramble Hill Farm. She is a Jungian Play and Art Therapist, working in the field for 35 years. She works with children on a range of issues. “When adults enter therapy, it is most often about taking things apart. In my work with children it is about what can be built. Children can rarely articulate or talk about what it is that is difficult for them. Creative expression is not only a guide to finding out what is going on in the inner life of a child, but is an opportunity to build on their resources and thus strengthen them.”

Gordon Thorne is the Founding Director of A.P.E. and the Open Field Foundation, created in 1996.
"I was born in 1941 and ended a totally undistinguished academic career in 1966 with an MFA from Yale School of Art & Architecture. Since then I have been studying the various ways that things, myself included, evolve. These studies fall into several 'categories': Liz/the box, The Burning Woman, The Burning Suit/man, The Burning Boat, The Burning House, The Portfolios, The Library. These often overlap, and have resulted in my 'making' a fair amount of stuff in the last 45 years, some of it art. All of it tends to have a story either embedded in it or hiding nearby. Stories help me understand the trajectory of my life."

Kathy Couch is the Technical Director at A.P.E. and an artist, lighting and installation designer and curator. She has designed over 350 productions at Amherst College and throughout the region. She enjoys ongoing collaborations with Chimeara Physical Theater, Wendy Woodson and Present Co., Kinodance, and Yanira Castro + Co. Kathy has been working in the Pioneer Valley for over 13 years and has been a longtime board member of A.P.E., where she has been investigating the importance of maintaining active work space for artists within the downtown area and trying to re-imagine how to sustain such space.

Lisa Thompson is the Associate Director of A.P.E. She was previously a member of Dance Gallery, a resident dance company at A.P.E. from 1977 to 1990. After leaving the Pioneer Valley for 18 years, she returned in 1996 to help direct A.P.E.'s programs.
She manages all of A.P.E.'s fiscal projects and has been instrumental is the formation of the Northampton Community Arts Trust whose mission is to create and preserve affordable spaces for artists into the future.
She is also a certified yoga instructor at Smith College.

Michael Tillyer is a visual artist and Director of the Anchor House of Artists, a subsidized studio and gallery. It's mission is create and expand creative careers available to artists living with persistent mental illnesses, fight the social stigma that they face, and contribute to the cultural enrichment of Western Massachusetts and beyond. The Anchor House has exhibited work by over 175 artists in the past 12 years. Michael has a long association with A.P.E. and currently provides curatorial and design support.

Roy Faudree is the co-director and co-founder of No Theater (referred to by NPR critics as "the best-kept secret in experimental theater") with Sheena See, and has been associated with A.P.E. since its founding in 1976, after years without a physical home (a situation which gave the group its name). No Theater is the "resident theater" of A.P.E. and has been closely affiliated with the gallery. Roy is also an actor with the Wooster Group in New York City. He has been producing the Young @ Heart Chorus since its first show in 1983.

Sheryl Stoodley is the Artistic Director & Co-founder of Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble. She has performed, taught and directed with regional and academic theatres throughout New England for the past 30 years. Several of her productions have toured nationally and internationally. She received her MA in Theatre from Smith College. Sheryl teaches ensemble acting and the Serious Play! physical theatre-making process, “total physical expressiveness on stage,” at Holyoke Community College, and with the Serious Play! Associate Artists locally, nationally and internationally.