Upcoming Exhibitions & Events
FALL 2019 PROJECTS AT A.P.E.
Celebrating Print Culture: Northampton Print and Book Fair 2019
Sunday, September 29, 2019 12:00–5:00pm
Free and open to the public
for more info: https://northamptonprintandbookfair.com
On September 29th, over 30 artists will fill the storefront gallery at the A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery with self-published artists’ books, editions, and publications. The participating exhibitors represents a diverse community of voices, media, and techniques in contemporary printmaking and publishing.
Established in 2015, the Northampton Print and Book Fair (NPBF) was created to promote contemporary prints and publications, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. Artists, independent publishers, and art collectives are invited to display and sell their work—including artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, mini-comics, screenprints, risographs, letterpress prints, etchings, photographs, photobooks, digital prints, and ephemera.
The 2018 and 2017 fairs each attracted over 1000 visitors. The annual fair attracts artists from all over New England and beyond to share their work with the greater Northampton arts community. To continue the conversation, the organizers of the fair are producing a series of events about self-publishing and community at Forbes Library, scheduled for October and November 2019.
The NPBF is run by volunteers, sponsored in part by the Northampton Arts Council, and produced by Fugitive Arts. With support from Catlabs of JP, Small Oven Bakery, Collective Copies, and the Mass Cultural Council Festivals program.
Sunday, September 29, 2019 12:00–5:00pm
Free and open to the public
for more info: https://northamptonprintandbookfair.com
On September 29th, over 30 artists will fill the storefront gallery at the A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery with self-published artists’ books, editions, and publications. The participating exhibitors represents a diverse community of voices, media, and techniques in contemporary printmaking and publishing.
Established in 2015, the Northampton Print and Book Fair (NPBF) was created to promote contemporary prints and publications, celebrating local talent while bringing regional artists and publishers to our community. Artists, independent publishers, and art collectives are invited to display and sell their work—including artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, mini-comics, screenprints, risographs, letterpress prints, etchings, photographs, photobooks, digital prints, and ephemera.
The 2018 and 2017 fairs each attracted over 1000 visitors. The annual fair attracts artists from all over New England and beyond to share their work with the greater Northampton arts community. To continue the conversation, the organizers of the fair are producing a series of events about self-publishing and community at Forbes Library, scheduled for October and November 2019.
The NPBF is run by volunteers, sponsored in part by the Northampton Arts Council, and produced by Fugitive Arts. With support from Catlabs of JP, Small Oven Bakery, Collective Copies, and the Mass Cultural Council Festivals program.
SHARED SPACES
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
STEPHEN WICKS
October 3 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday October 11th, 5-8pm
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, October 17th, 7 pm
Artist’s Meet and Greet: Sunday, October 27th, 2 - 5pm
… heading off across America to make these photographs I chose the open road. I deliberately avoided visiting familiar iconic destinations. Instead, I travelled with an eye toward discovering places along the way where the built environment merged with the
natural landscape …
The photographs and video pieces in this SHARED SPACES exhibition are works selected from The NATURE/CULTURE Project - my ten year [ 2008-2018] survey of American spaces and places found along the roadside across all regions of the country.
Although my NATURE/CULTURE Project photographs are of places void of people, I believe a human trace is visible in each picture and, with this in mind, I see my images of these spaces as social landscapes.
It is precisely the absence of people along with a sense of their presence, as seen in the marks, changes and artifacts left in the environment, I find most fascinating.
The exhibition/installation will include 80 photographs presented in eight wall mounted thematic ‘suites” and three video pieces on screens located within the gallery. There will also be a video “artist’s sketchbook” available online which will offer a brief background on the NATURE/CULTURE Project and the works in progress discoveries and editing related to the development and creation of the SHARED SPACES exhibition/installation.
Stephen Wicks website: www.wicksmedia.com
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
STEPHEN WICKS
October 3 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday October 11th, 5-8pm
Artist’s Talk: Thursday, October 17th, 7 pm
Artist’s Meet and Greet: Sunday, October 27th, 2 - 5pm
… heading off across America to make these photographs I chose the open road. I deliberately avoided visiting familiar iconic destinations. Instead, I travelled with an eye toward discovering places along the way where the built environment merged with the
natural landscape …
The photographs and video pieces in this SHARED SPACES exhibition are works selected from The NATURE/CULTURE Project - my ten year [ 2008-2018] survey of American spaces and places found along the roadside across all regions of the country.
Although my NATURE/CULTURE Project photographs are of places void of people, I believe a human trace is visible in each picture and, with this in mind, I see my images of these spaces as social landscapes.
It is precisely the absence of people along with a sense of their presence, as seen in the marks, changes and artifacts left in the environment, I find most fascinating.
The exhibition/installation will include 80 photographs presented in eight wall mounted thematic ‘suites” and three video pieces on screens located within the gallery. There will also be a video “artist’s sketchbook” available online which will offer a brief background on the NATURE/CULTURE Project and the works in progress discoveries and editing related to the development and creation of the SHARED SPACES exhibition/installation.
Stephen Wicks website: www.wicksmedia.com
Carolyn Webb - Wood, Paper, Slate
November 6 - December 7, 2019
Artist Reception: Friday, November 8: 5-7pm
Carolyn Webb, sculptor and printmaker will present a comprehensive and integrated exhibit of works on paper and freestanding wood and slate relief sculptures.
Webb’s abstract work is based in close observation and reverence for natural forms. This exhibit will present an enveloping environment in which her prints, drawings, and sculptures are experienced in a uniquely cohesive fashion as they speak to each other across the gallery.
https://carolynwebb.net/
No Theater
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA
by Martin McDonagh
Performances will be held in December, 2019 and January, 2020
Details forthcoming.
No Theater, the resident theater of A.P.E., takes its time working on its original scripts and productions of the published works of playwrights. No Theater presented three separate local productions of Richard Maxwell's CAVEMAN over a period of three years before its New York run in 2013. Last spring's google gogol was the result of members of the community reading several translations and adaptations of Nikolai Gogol's Ревизор (THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR) for a year.
In the winter of 2019-20 No Theater plans to performs Martin McDonagh's A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a dark comedy by the writer/director of the Academy Award winning film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI.
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA was first presented as a Druid Theatre Company and Royal Court Theatre co-production in Galway, Ireland and then in London in the summer of 1997. "Mr. McDonagh's great strength is that he combines a love of traditional story-telling with the savage ironic humour of the modern generation.... In A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a gravedigger, whose job is to disinter the bones of seven-year-old corpses and smash them to a pulp, is hotly suspected of killing his wife." THE GUARDIAN
Performed by No Theater veterans Roy Faudree, Charles Holt, Jane Karakula and Tom Mahnken, the play takes place in McDonagh’s fictional rural West Ireland small town where people “smile at you ‘til you’re a mile away before they start talking behind your back."
Based in Northampton, No Theater has been presenting their new original experimental works in Western Massachusetts and around the world since 1972, alongside innovative productions of plays by such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Čapek, Kroetz, Gogol, Williams, Albee, Berkman, Maceda, Mullin, McDonald, and Maxwell.
Photo above by Matthew Cavanaugh
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA
by Martin McDonagh
Performances will be held in December, 2019 and January, 2020
Details forthcoming.
No Theater, the resident theater of A.P.E., takes its time working on its original scripts and productions of the published works of playwrights. No Theater presented three separate local productions of Richard Maxwell's CAVEMAN over a period of three years before its New York run in 2013. Last spring's google gogol was the result of members of the community reading several translations and adaptations of Nikolai Gogol's Ревизор (THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR) for a year.
In the winter of 2019-20 No Theater plans to performs Martin McDonagh's A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a dark comedy by the writer/director of the Academy Award winning film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI.
A SKULL IN CONNEMARA was first presented as a Druid Theatre Company and Royal Court Theatre co-production in Galway, Ireland and then in London in the summer of 1997. "Mr. McDonagh's great strength is that he combines a love of traditional story-telling with the savage ironic humour of the modern generation.... In A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, a gravedigger, whose job is to disinter the bones of seven-year-old corpses and smash them to a pulp, is hotly suspected of killing his wife." THE GUARDIAN
Performed by No Theater veterans Roy Faudree, Charles Holt, Jane Karakula and Tom Mahnken, the play takes place in McDonagh’s fictional rural West Ireland small town where people “smile at you ‘til you’re a mile away before they start talking behind your back."
Based in Northampton, No Theater has been presenting their new original experimental works in Western Massachusetts and around the world since 1972, alongside innovative productions of plays by such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Čapek, Kroetz, Gogol, Williams, Albee, Berkman, Maceda, Mullin, McDonald, and Maxwell.
Photo above by Matthew Cavanaugh
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