Easthampton City Arts

Valley Art Supplies and The Corner Bar
2023-09-14 17:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Valley Art Supplies, 76 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
We will be open during Art Walk selling art supplies as well as serving cocktails, beer, wine and zero proof beverages. Come check out our new space!

Intimate Worlds / Margaret Lloyd
2023-09-14 17:00 - 2023-10-08 17:00 | Elusie Gallery at Big Red Frame, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Elusie Gallery @ Old Town Hall.
September 14 – October 8.

Join us for the Artist Reception!

Resilient Community Art's 2nd Birthday Celebration & Drop-In Public Studio
2023-09-14 17:30 - 20:00 | Resilient Community Arts, Suite 044, 116 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Can you believe it’s been 2 years since RCA was established??!!

Time sure does fly when you’re having fun, makin’ art!

We’re celebrating our 2nd Birthday the best way we know how– sharing our studio with you, making art together, and enjoying some sweet treats!

Stop by anytime during Easthampton City Arts: Art Walk– September 14th!

We’ll have:
-cupcakes to share
-art supplies galore
-info on programs & more!

All ages are welcome, we hope to see you there!

You’ll find us in Studio #238 in Eastworks
Suggested Donation is $5, No One is Turned Away for Lack of Funds

City Poets in Unexpected Places
2023-09-14 18:00 - 18:30 | Big E’s, 11 Union St., Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
6pm, Big E’s Bakery/Deli and Parking Lot: Find poetry in unexpected places and pick up your free chapbook, City Poets, featuring the work of the 5 individuals who have been Easthampton’s Poet Laureates. A reading by Gary Metras, Jason Montgomery, and Carolyn Cushing from 6:00pm to 6:30ish will happen in sun or light rain (under a small tent) but will be canceled if there is a deluge or lightning. Bring a chair or plan to stand. City Poets chapbook available inside Big Es starting September 11th during their regular hours.
The Easthampton Poet Laureate program is an initiative of Easthampton City Arts.

Join us at E•Media for the September Art Walk
2023-09-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Easthampton Media, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 102, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Please join us this Thursday, September 14, for the Easthampton Art Walk. Our resident artist, photographer Diane Savioli-Chase, will be on hand to discuss her photos from her exhibit “Cannolis and Cobblestones”, a collection of photos from her travels in Sicily and Portugal. We also have local singer/songwriter Luke Deroy returning to our studio for a performance of his original music. Doors open at 6:00pm with the music set to begin at 6:30pm. Hope to see you here!

Spooky - an art show by Natasha Marble
2023-10-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Mt. Tom’s Homemade Ice Cream, 34 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Come check out a cool & spooky art exhibit of paintings by our own Natasha Marble. You’ve seen her art on cakes. Now’s your chance to see how creative and talented she is with a paint brush.

MARTHA ARMSTRONG LANDSCAPES
2023-10-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Oxbow Art Gallery, 40 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Martha’s landscapes were painted recently on site, “August Vermont” overlooking the orchard she
planted years ago, while “Mixed Weather Tucson” is the view from her porch
—landscapes she’s long been familiar with, as much seen as remembered.
www.Marthaarmstrong.com
#Marthaarmstrongart

ACROSS / BETWEEN at ECA Gallery
2023-10-12 17:00 - 20:00 | ECA Gallery, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Easthampton City Arts (ECA) is pleased to present the first-ever ECA Invitational. We invite you all to experience this engaging and evocative exhibition during its opening reception at our upcoming Art Walk Easthampton on Thursday October 12th (5-8pm).
The ECA Invitational is an annual opportunity to highlight local artists whose work in some way addresses the spirit of the moment — and is presented together in a visual dialogue, to further emphasize the complexities within and between them.
‘Across / Between’ features Kathy Guo and Paul Specht, who each engage with how we relate and are entwined. Guo’s sculptural and video works track from the tensions of intergroup communication to the aspirational potential for identification and solidarity between anonymous interlocutors. Specht’s photo portraits enmesh the sitter and artist, queering the author-subject dynamic. Collectively, the works in this exhibition embody pathways for forging relationships of mutuality, a necessary and timely antidote to social fractures and violence. Guo and Specht utilize their roles as artists to imagine and propose possible futures. We choose what role we inhabit to realize that future.
We encourage you all to learn more about Guo and Specht’s creative practices here:
@manguoes
@paulspecht
This year’s pairing was selected and curated by ECA Program Director Pasqualina Azzarello, ECA Chair Tracey Eller, and ECA Committee Member Maude Haak-Frendscho — each of whom are also dedicated artists, creative facilitators, and community advocates.

FIBRATIONS - Carol Ingram
2023-10-12 17:00 - 2023-11-04 17:00 | Elusie Gallery at Big Red Frame, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
When I work with fiber to make felt, I feel like I am painting with the wool.
And when I am making a three-dimensional piece, such as a vessel, I am a potter again.
Stitching on the felt for embellishment is meditative, like mending.
This body of work is more about the excitement of the making rather than a single theme. Each piece offered surprises and challenges in the process, which came together like the single fibers that find each other to make a strong fabric.

"Topographies: An Afrofuturescape - mixed media collage + assemblage"
2023-10-12 17:30 - 20:00 | 50 arrow Gallery, 116 Pleasant St., Suite 244, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
“Topographies: An Afrofuturescape – mixed media collage + assemblage” is now up thru Oct 5 at @50arrowgallery in Easthampton, MA. Come thru!
General gallery hours are Tu-Fri 2-5 pm w/ extended hours during Art Walk on Th Oct 12, 5:30-8pm. Message @50arrowgallery if you’d like to schedule an appointment outside these hours!
Gallery is on second floor of Eastworks building accessible via stairs (closest entrance West entrance) and elevator (closest entrance near the former Riff’s Joint).

October Art Walk at E•Media
2023-10-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Easthampton Media, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 102, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Our October ’23 Art Walk will feature an exhibit by Fiber Artist Dawn Allen. Our featured performer will be local singer/songwriter Rosie Porter and the Neon Moons. Light refreshments will be served. Doors open at 6:00pm and the music will begin at 6:30 pm.

Get Crafty & Tattoo a Pumpkin
2023-10-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Valley Art Supplies, 76 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Come make a floral tattoo pumpkin while enjoying a cocktail or zero-proof beverage of your choice. Kits are $20 and include everything needed to make a “porcelain like” mini foam pumpkin.

Click here to register!

Eastworks Open Studios
2023-11-04 10:00 - 2023-11-05 17:00 | Eastworks, 116 Pleasant St. West End Community Room, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Explore 4 floors of art, music, and community! Make a day of it and participate in hands on demos, listen to music, watch live performances and eat tasty treats from local food trucks.
Meet celebrated artists and artisans, learn about their process and shop their studios. Upcycled metal enamelware, vintage photographs, colorful accessories, creative ceramics and one-of-a-kind art pieces are just a few of the items on offer. This is a great opportunity to kick off the holiday shopping season and keep it local.
Over 40 community studios are participating this year—showcasing everything from drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and mixed media to pottery, glass, jewelry and clothing.
Eastworks kicked off the renaissance of the old mills in Easthampton and continues to be a launchpad for creativity and entrepreneurship.
Free Admission
November 4th & 5th, 10am-5pm

Smoky Mountain Landscapes
2024-02-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Easthampton Media, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 102, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Join is for the first Art Walk Easthampton of 2024! Our featured art exhibit is a collection entitled ” Smoky Mountain Landscapes” by photographer Rosemary Polletta. Guitarist Tank Hood will be in the studio for a live recording session performing some of his original music. Doors open at 6:00pm, and music begins at 6:30. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

Right Here Right Now by Renee Pitre
2024-02-08 17:00 - 20:00 | Small Oven Bakery, 36 Union Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Small Oven Bakery presents local artist Renee Pitre’s “Right Here Right Now”

Join us for the opening show of local artist, Renee Pitre’s exhibition “Right Here Right Now” featuring watercolor and drawing.

Tiny Bites and Libations served from 5pm-8pm

36 Union Street Easthampton, MA

An Exploration of the Works of Shiro Kasamatsu
2024-03-14 17:00 - 20:00 | Moonlit Sea Prints, 116 Pleasant Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Moonlit Sea Prints of Easthampton MA presents its May exhibition, “An Exploration of the Works of Shiro Kasamatsu”, featuring a wide selection of the works of Shiro Kasamatsu.
Opening Thursday, March 14th from 5pm to 8pm.
Open Monday – Friday, 10am-2pm by appointment only.
Moonlit Sea Prints
116 Pleasant Street, Suite 226
Eastworks
Easthampton, MA 01027
Shiro Kasamatsu (January 11, 1898 – June 14, 1991), a luminary of 20th-century Japanese art, left an indelible mark on the world of mokuhanga (木版画)/ printmaking, capturing the essence of Japan’s landscapes, cityscapes, and daily life through his intricate woodblock prints.
Shiro Kasamatsu was born in 1898 in Tokyo, a city that would become a prominent subject in his art. Early in his artistic career, he studied under Kaburagi Kiyokata, a renowned Nihonga painter, which instilled in him a deep appreciation for traditional Japanese art. This early influence is evident in his work’s meticulous attention to detail and traditional subject matter. However, Kasamatsu also embraced modern artistic trends, seamlessly combining them with traditional ukiyo-e techniques.
Kasamatsu’s artistic journey found expression in two prominent movements within Japanese printmaking: Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga. In the Shin Hanga, or “New Print,” movement, artists like Kasamatsu worked closely with publishers and traditional woodblock carvers and printers to produce high-quality prints that retained traditional aesthetics while incorporating contemporary themes. Kasamatsu’s Shin Hanga works, characterized by their vivid colors and evocative compositions, garnered widespread acclaim.
Conversely, Kasamatsu also ventured into the Sosaku Hanga, or “Creative Print,” movement, which emphasized the artist’s autonomy in the entire printmaking process, from design to carving and printing. In this sphere, he displayed his versatility and innovation by personally engaging in the technical aspects of printmaking. This duality in his approach, or evolution in his artistic vision, showcased Kasamatsu’s adaptability and versatility as an artist.
Throughout his prolific career, Kasamatsu collaborated with various publishers, including Watanabe Shozaburo, Doi Sadaichi, and Unsodo, among others. These collaborations not only expanded his reach but also allowed him to experiment with different techniques and styles. The synergy between Kasamatsu and these publishers produced some of the most iconic and sought-after woodblock prints in the Shin Hanga tradition.
Shiro Kasamatsu’s artistic legacy extends beyond his own work. His influence on subsequent generations of artists, particularly those exploring woodblock printmaking, cannot be overstated. His ability to harmonize tradition and modernity served as a beacon for artists seeking to redefine Japanese printmaking, making him a prominent figure in the continued evolution of this revered art form.

Journeys in Hope by Doris Madsen
2024-03-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Easthampton Media, 116 Pleasant Street, Suite 102, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Art Walk at E•Media
6:00pm-8:00pm
Free refreshments, intriguing art, and good tunes.
Featured Exhibit- Journeys in Hope
by mixed media artist Doris W. Madsen
Musical Performance by Tobey Sol LaRoche
Live performance begins at 6:30pm
See our website for more information
Artist Gallery

E•Media “Committed to Community”

Oliver James at 50 Arrow Gallery
2024-04-11 17:00 - 20:00 | 50 arrow Gallery, 116 Pleasant St., Suite 244, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Please join us for Oliver James’ exhibition “The Debt You Owe” with an artist reception at Art Walk on Thursday April 11th from 5-8pm.

Cottage Street Open Studios
2024-05-04 10:00 - 17:00 | Cottage Street Studios, 1 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Cottage Street Open Studios’ spring event is taking place this weekend and overlaps Art Walk this month!
Saturday May 4th & Sunday May 5th from 10am-5pm!

‘Dear Chronic Illness’ at ECA Gallery
2024-05-04 16:00 - 19:00 | ECA Gallery, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Artist: Rebecca Zablocki
Title + description: “Dear Chronic Illness” is an exhibition of handmade rugs, found objects, and writing.
Artist Statement:
Within my work, I utilize craft-based techniques, such as rug making and sewing to create objects indicative of domestic spaces, as well as found objects commonly present within medical spaces and chronically ill lives. I use pattern and color to mirror memories of pediatric medical spaces and the monotony of being confined within a bedroom, simultaneously creating a bridge between the perseverance it requires to create a comfortable, healthy environment and body, and the discovery of beauty, joy, and humor in the spaces around us. My process is a personal tool for coping, and my finished work becomes a tool for the viewer. My studio is an extension of my chronically ill life. I create in my home, often while sitting in a place of rest; my bed, couch, floor cushion, or mat. This process must be regenerative, I have no other option. Through my work, I open a window into the world of chronic illness and provide a safe environment that encourages empathy, awareness, and understanding, exploring how we comfort ourselves and one another with beauty and care, and by being a silly goose.
Bio:
Rebecca Zablocki is a chronically ill, interdisciplinary artist based in New England. She creates mixed media, installation-based work about her life as a chronically ill person and caregiver to her disabled partner. She relies on humor and softness to share the messages of her work, currently, predominantly through rug making.

“ Assemblage with Mirrors" at Big Red Frame
2024-05-04 16:00 - 19:00 | Elusie Gallery at Big Red Frame, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Show Title: “Assemblage with Mirrors”
Artist: Keith Hollingworth
Artists Statement:
“For a number of years I have used found objects in my paintings.Recently I have added mirrors. The mirrors provide a glass to look into and a reflection (both literally and figuratively). It also let you see yourself in my work.
Jean Cocteau said that “A mirror should reflect before it casts its image”

DIY: A Giant Paper Flower
2024-06-01 12:00 - 16:00 | Valley Art Supplies, 76 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Get Crafty with us while we make a giant tissue paper flower. Grab an artist themed cocktail such as “The Still Life with Pears” or the “Needs More Magenta”. Mocktails, beer and wine are also available for purchase.

MADE WITH PRIDE: A POP-UP MARKET
2024-06-01 14:00 - 19:00 | CitySpace, 43 Main St, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
MADE WITH PRIDE: A POP-UP MARKET

We’re kicking off Pride month by celebrating queer makers from Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties!
Find it in CitySpace in the Blue Room and throughout Old Town Hall. Artists of all kinds will be sharing and selling their work including crafters, fashion artists, painters, potters, photographers, printmakers, zine makers, etc. The Pop-Up Market will be at CitySpace at 43 Main St. Easthampton and coincides with Art Walk Easthampton. Entry is Free.

Vendors include:

ArtFromRainyDays
Bookends in Florence
brilliant trades
butchknits
Captain Debbie
Desmond Shea
Dragonlight Designs
Heather Geoffrey / Ouroboros Studios
KafkaEzque Alternative Stationery
Michael Sjostedt
Mossy Bee
Natalia Ruiz
Night Critter Prints
Paul Specht
pushcart judaica
Sophia Jakobson
The Shiny Bunny

Nathan Bolton @ ECA Gallery
2024-06-01 16:00 - 19:00 | Easthampton City Arts Gallery, MA, United States
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Do It for the Boys follows the Los Angeles Rebellion – one of the United States’ four original Queer/Inclusive rugby teams. A member of the team for 6 years, I began to document my friends and teammates during this increasingly uncertain time after a dislocated leg caused me to retire permanently from playing.
As they returned to the field for their 20th season amid increasingly violent anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric sweeping across the country, I found the Rebellion as stalwart, passionate and determined as ever. With a 6×7 camera and a tripod (my hands being occupied by crutches) I began to work fervently – hoping to capture even a portion of the energy, community, and of course sexuality, that defines the team and its members.
“It’s intoxicating isn’t it?” My teammate Ben said to me at a bar after a game, “Being out in public.” This was a place where they were their true selves, on and off the pitch.
Not just a team but a chosen family – ready to bleed for one another if that’s what it takes.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Few things in the world, and fewer things still in America, exist without the ensnarement of capital. Club rugby is one of them. Three times a week, the Rebellion gathers to slam into each other and their opponents—with only cold beer, cheap pizza and bruises waiting on the other side. Games are played underneath overpasses and alongside highway exits to Seaworld, at a high school in the High Desert or a neighborhood park in Temecula (there the ground is mercifully soft, sod applied over soil, not dirt on top of concrete landfill). Nothing is expected and nothing is given except competition and hopefully friendship.
At its core this work is a celebration of the Amateur and the Queer – those who apply themselves to their passions and communities without concern for reward. Without them we would not have the things that make life worth living, the people who love and support us regardless of who we are, and the spaces that have been fought and paid for with the lives of those that have come before us. Because when we finally learn to separate ourselves from archaic forms of valuation and identification, that is when we are truly free to be exactly who and what we want – like, for instance, a Gay Rugby Team.
ARTIST BIO
Nathan Bolton is a photographer from Boston, MA. His current work focuses on the act of generating and sharing joy in the face of looming environmental collapse, and examining the experience of growing up, living in and returning to, an origin point of the American National Myth and Empire.

Old Town Hall Tour
2024-06-01 16:00 - 19:00 | CitySpace, 43 Main St, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
Join CitySpace for a tour of the second floor of Old Town Hall. While you are at Old Town Hall check out the gallery exhibitions at the Elusie and ECA galleries and the Made with Pride Pop-Up Market. Plus sign-up for a $50 give certificate giveaway to Calico, a neighboring restaurant serving up delectable yumminess! The tour is free and open to the public.

Field Trip: A Summer Group Show
2024-07-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Elusie Gallery at Big Red Frame, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
A group exhibit about the best feelings / moments / places of your youth. Playfulness
and wonder, being cared for, a stuffed animal, the whole world being in front of you, finding a stick,
seeing a magic trick, a full imagination.
What brought you the deepest feelings of joy?
What things or places filled you with awe, what brought you delight?
Do you remember?
This group exhibit, curated and juried by Lisa Hersey and Arielle Jessop, hopes to create for the visitors to the Elusie Gallery an environment filled with whimsy, nostalgia and wonder.

Cima Khademi at ECA Gallery
2024-07-06 16:00 - 19:00 | ECA Gallery, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
From the artist:
In “A Space in Between,” my aim is to provide an artistic exploration of the unique immigrant experience, one that often finds itself standing at the threshold of two remarkably distinct worlds. Through my work, I seek to delve into the delicate equilibrium of class, gender, and ethnicity within the context of the diasporic realm.
An example of this nuanced balance can be seen in pieces like “Tiles in Menthol.” Here, I aim to portray the intricate challenges and subtleties of growing up in Bessemer, Alabama, particularly the role my family played as a “middleman minority” – a role often filled by immigrants, evident in businesses such as convenience stores and beauty shops. To reconcile with this pivotal transition in my life, I have ingeniously transformed glossy cigarette cartons from my family’s store into ornamental and transitional elements reminiscent of Iranian architecture, such as ceramic tiles.
As an example of a nuanced gender dynamics as an immigrant, my series “Wall as a Veil” reflects the resilience of women in reclaiming public spaces. Witnessing their struggle from afar in the diaspora, I utilize concrete, plaster, and hair as metaphors These three dimensional wall pieces are made to hint at everyday building facades such as brick walls and even traditional decorative elements. In contrast, I am using hair as a metaphor for the female body pushing her way through this rigid material to reclaim the public space and therefore the public sphere.
With this exhibition, my fervent hope is to engage and inspire the diverse community in Easthampton, offering a perspective on transition, transformation, and reclamation that is both unique and thought-provoking.
Bio: Cima Khademi is a visual artist with an MFA in Studio Arts from UMass Amherst and a BFA from University of Alabama in Birmingham. Khademi’s current work focuses on the unique experience of “identity” as an immigrant. The particular state where identity and homeland are called into question and we find ourselves simultaneously standing on the threshold of two worlds. Her experience of identity comes from two countries that are radically different. Her creative practice is an exploration of balance in a diasporic space regarding class, gender, and ethnicity through materials and metaphors.

Carmela Gravante at Sonnet & Sparrow
2024-08-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Sonnet & Sparrow, 84 1/2 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027
The Art of Carmela Gravante at Sonnet & Sparrow from 5pm-7pm.

Book Signing
2024-08-16 - 2024-08-19 | Flywheel Arts, Main St., Easthampton Ms, MA, United States
We are looking for a space to host a weekend book signing event with multiple authors and readers from all around the world.

Matthew Simons: Blam! Pop Explorations in Visual Word Plays
2024-09-07 - 2024-09-28 | Elusie Gallery at Big Red Frame, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA, 01027, United States
The Elusie Gallery

September 7, 2024 – September 28, 2024
Artist Reception: Saturday September 7, 4-7pm

Master of Fine arts in New Media/Graphic Design from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Matthew Simons is now a resident of Easthampton, MA. Visual artist who seeks out visual conversations, often gravitating toward the dynamic, unorthodox, or experimental, Simons gets excited when he can make ordinary extraordinary.
