Affiliate Projects and Partnerships
Affiliate projects of A.P.E. are programs or partner organizations with similar goals & visions. A.P.E. frequently works collaboratively with these groups and artists and provides fiscal sponsorship to some of these projects.
The Blue Barn at Bramble Hill Farm
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Bramble Hill Farm
Bramble Hill Farm is a 120 acre former dairy farm in Amherst, MA. The Jacques family enrolled the farm in the Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) Program in 1979, protecting the farm from non-agricultural development. It was the third farm in the state to enroll the program. The old farm buildings have been carefully renovated and preserved to provide living and working spaces for a range of people and projects. The goal of 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. Bramble Hill is Farm is currently 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. A.P.E. artists have created site specific work at Bramble Hill Farm, and Farm personnel have showcased work in the A.P.E. space. Both organizations are by intent linked in their missions and values, despite the surface differences in their enterprises. LEARN MORE |
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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 its first project at 33 Hawley Street in 2013 and will complete its renovation into a multi use arts building at the end of 2023. A.P.E. partners will two other arts organizations, The Northampton Center for the Arts and Northampton Open Media, to inhabit 33 Hawley Street and create programming for the community. A.P.E. programs and stewards the largest space in the building, the Workroom Theater. LEARN MORE |
Photo of 33 Hawley by Stephen Petegorsky
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Genevieve Burnett of The Anchor House
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The Anchor House of Artists
Established in 1997 by artist Michael Tillyer, The Anchor House of Artists was founded in 1997 with the mission to support and expand the creative careers of artists living with neurodiverse conditions, fight the social stigma that they face, and contribute to the cultural enrichment of Western Massachusetts and beyond. Our New England Visionary Artists Museum extends our work to include the conservation of the legacies of artists who lived on the vividly prescient edge of life, educate the public on their lives lived, and research visionary art. LEARN MORE |
Margaret Lloyd, Open Field Press Reading
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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. LEARN MORE |
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No Theater
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. |
Caveman, No Theater at A.P.E.
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Moving Water at 33 Hawley, 2020
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Serious Play! Theater Ensemble
Serious Play is an award winning, professional ensemble based for over 25 years in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts and members of Network of Ensemble Theaters & New England Presenters. Serious Play is a long time artistic associate of A.P.E. “For SERIOUS PLAY, the studio space is the embracing repository of creative potential—it is not that potential realized. It is a place for our ensemble artists to come together to invest energy and time, to lose their way, and to find their way. It is where creativity begins, and we are scared and fascinated all at once. It is the very core in a creative act. ” — SHERYL STOODLEY/ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SERIOUS PLAY LEARN MORE |
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The ArtSalon
The ArtSalon gives artists of many disciplines a platform to present their work and discuss their artistic process with the public through Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) style presentations. This format allows the artists to present for about 6 - 8 minutes each, followed by a Q & A with the audience. This ongoing series of live oral presentations about creativity, process, and finished work reveals the vitality of contemporary visual arts in Western Massachusetts. Come meet and join the artists, creators, critics, and collectors in a friendly, dynamic, social gathering of conversations about the arts in our community! A.P.E. is the ArtSalon's fiscal sponsor. LEARN MORE |
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Arthur Keigney, The Haircut
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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. A.P.E. is the fiscal sponsor for Cell Block Visions LEARN MORE |
Sarah Lynn Patterson, July 3, 2022
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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 |