Applications are available from April 2 through May 10, 2013 for exhibits between January-December 2014. Submissions are due by May 10. The Hosmer Art Gallery is designed to provide opportunities for local artists to show their work to the public. Exhibits include a wide range of media and content reflecting the diversity of the Pioneer Valley community. The Hosmer Gallery has versatile display panels, cases and pedestals to accommodate a variety of two- and three-dimensional art formats.…See More

RECEPTION: Arts Night Out, Friday May 10, 4-7 PMThe Northampton High School Fine & Performing Arts and the Technology Education Departments are proud to exhibit student artwork at Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library from May 2-30, 2013.Artwork will range from Foundations classes as well as artwork from Ceramics, Sculpture, Drawing & Painting 1 and 2, and Concentration Series works from Honors Art.  Photography students will exhibit their photographs of the recent “Rally for Creativity” in…See More

Reception: Saturday, March 2, 2-4 PMBobbie Salthouse: AssemblagesBobbie Salthouse, painter, designer, and resident of South Hadley, studied Art History at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania. She has studied painting, drawing, graphic design and advertising at the School of Visual Arts in New York.In creating her assemblages, Bobbie starts with simple things, often found outdoors, which she combines with monoprints, paintings, and small constructions made from paper and wire.…See More

Sienna Wildfield lives in the West Chesterfield, MA with her family, chickens, and gardens. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Hilltown Families, a non-profit online grassroots communication network whose mission is to connect, collaborate, and create community building events, community based educational opportunities, and service learning experiences."Hilltown Families: A Traveling Photography Exhibit of…See More

Sienna Wildfield lives in the West Chesterfield, MA with her family, chickens, and gardens. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Hilltown Families, a non-profit online grassroots communication network whose mission is to connect, collaborate, and create community building events, community based educational opportunities, and service learning experiences."Hilltown Families: A Traveling Photography Exhibit of…See More

Artists' Reception: Saturday January 12, 2-4 PMSusan Paju lives in Athol, Massachusetts and takes the natural beauty of the North Quabbin region as the subject of her paintings. She holds a BFA in painting from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a Masters in Library Science. For years, she put art-making largely aside as she pursued a career in public libraries. In the last several years she began to paint again in earnest. She has had several works included in recent regional…See More

Reception Saturday, November 3, 2-4 PMLineage: Three Generations of Women Artists is an exhibition of painting, drawing, printmaking and photography by three generations of women artists - daughter, mother and grandmother. Rina Goldfield (b. 1987) received her early art training in the Northampton public schools, and went on to study art at the Cooper Union in NYC.Sandra Matthews (b. 1951) has worked in photographic collage for more than three decades, and teaches at Hampshire College. Magdalen…See More

Reception: Friday October 12, 5-8 PMWhen the Young@Heart Chorus was started 30 years ago at the Walter Salvo elderly housing project in Northampton, nobody could have predicted all the places they would go and people they would meet. From collaborating with local performance groups, to performing for audiences around the world, Young@Heart has lived a rich and exciting story. This October, a collection of memorabilia including photographs, posters, video and costumes that marks the evolution of…See More

Reception: Friday October 12, 5-8 PMWhen the Young@Heart Chorus was started 30 years ago at the Walter Salvo elderly housing project in Northampton, nobody could have predicted all the places they would go and people they would meet. From collaborating with local performance groups, to performing for audiences around the world, Young@Heart has lived a rich and exciting story. This October, a collection of memorabilia including photographs, posters, video and costumes that marks the evolution of…See More

Opening reception Saturday, September 8, 2-4 PMTrina Sternstein studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy, and the University of Iowa. She paints primarily in rural Massachusetts, and her paintings have been exhibited in galleries, libraries and auctions in the Massachusetts and New York area."My paintings derive from my observation of the world around me, and perhaps my inner world as well. It is in observation that one quickly recognizes…See More

Opening reception Saturday, September 8, 2-4 PMLiz Chalfin's figurative etchings examine the places where people gather: museums, fairs, carnivals, etc. The moody environments and dark figures infuse a sense of nostalgia into the mundane moments of daily work and play. The etchings are made from copper plates hand worked with small tools and chemicals, which are then hand printed on an etching press in limited editions.Chalfin is founder and director of Zea Mays Printmaking, a studio dedicated…See More

Using Photography to Access the Unconscious: a gallery talk by Peter Schlessinger PETER SCHLESSINGER presents a gallery talk, "Using Photography to Access the Unconscious" which will expand on his approach to creating the images in his June show of new photographic work, INERTIAL NAVIGATION.  The title refers to the attitude with which these images were made -- one in which his way of working invites often-unconscious internal states to select metaphors for themselves from the display of the…See More