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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — After months of work, a new mural in Florence depicting the village’s storied and diverse history is nearing completion.The mural, which measures 5 feet by 20 feet and is being painted on the side of the Florence Paint & Decorating...

By MERCY LINGLE

HADLEY — Senna Kahn, a rising third grader at the Hartsbrook School in Hadley, claims that when she draws she doesn’t “usually make things, I just let my hands guide me.”She reported this while coloring in a mandala that she had created under the...

By EMILY THURLOW

EASTHAMPTON — As the invisible wounds of war continue to take a toll on veterans, one city native is fighting a mission off the battlefield through art therapy.For the past seven years, Steve Jones has been providing veterans, active duty members and...

By STEVE PFARRER

Local team shines at Boston/New England Emmy AwardsNORTHAMPTON – Staff and students at Northampton High School, a key support person with the Young@Heart Chorus, and Northampton Open Media (NOM) have combined forces to win a top award for a feature...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — From the ashes of the fire that engulfed their Kennedy Road home in Leeds last December, Starr and Sherid Adams have managed to get their life back together — as well as the survival and newfound appreciation of Sherid’s diverse...

By STEVE PFARRER

June Millington is a familiar name in the Valley music scene, a veteran guitarist and educator who since the early 2000s has overseen numerous programs at The Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA), the Goshen center dedicated to supporting women and...

By STEVE PFARRER

Even with area colleges and the University of Massachusetts largely closing up shop for the summer, there’s plenty of art on view in the Valley this month. Here’s a look at what some selected galleries have this month.D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts,...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — With summer almost upon us, the city is opening stages and streets for a wide range of free music at a number of downtown locations.Starting this week, free concerts will be held in the Masonic Street parking lot annex near the Iconica...

By STEVE PFARRER

The Paradise City Arts Festival, like so many other arts organizations, hit a road bump in 2020 and the spring of 2021, when the pandemic forced the longtime Northampton arts fest online for three straight sessions.And when the Northampton festival...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Almost as quickly as it was closed for live music events, the Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity on Friday reopened to performances.Executive Director Cassandra Holden said she received the welcome news Friday morning in an email from...

By STEVE PFARRER

The Paradise City Arts Festival, like so many other arts organizations, hit a road bump in 2020 and the spring of 2021, when the pandemic forced the longtime Northampton arts fest online for three straight sessions.And when the Northampton festival...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — The city’s fire chief, Jon Davine, has ordered the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity to cease all its indoor music events until an automatic sprinkler system is installed in the center’s sanctuary, where concerts are held.The order comes a...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — Staff and board members from the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity are meeting this morning with city officials to try to get answers for what Bombyx says is a bewildering turn of events: a sudden shutdown of live indoor music ordered by a...

By STEVE PFARRER

Until recently, it hasn’t seemed like much of a spring: a lot of damp or rainy days, overcast skies, and cold nights.But the weather has warmed up this past week, just in time to be a fitting backdrop to an art exhibit designed to celebrate the...

New exhibit from longstanding artistNORTHAMPTON — William Baczek Fine Arts is paying tribute to one of its most senior artists, Larry Preston, with a six-week solo exhibit of new still life oil paintings.Preston, a Worcester native who as a teenager...

By MARY BYRNE

Valley potters will be joined by guests from across the country this weekend for the 19th annual Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail.“Nineteen years ago, it started with five of us,” recalled Greenfield resident Lucy Fagella, one of the founders. “We...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — For the second year in a row, the Northampton Arts Council has joined forces with a local education company to produce the Power of Truths Arts & Education Festival, a two-day event designed to use the arts as a means to promote social...

By STEVE PFARRER

The climate news seems relentlessly bleak: rising seas and melting glaciers; growing drought and firestorms; increasingly violent storms that destroy everything in their path and unleash terrible flooding.Oh, and let’s not forget more longstanding...

By STEVE PFARRER

NORTHAMPTON — Looking back to an incident that sparked controversy in fall 2021, the city’s Arts Council board has issued a formal apology for abruptly canceling its Biennial art exhibit days before it was set to open.At the time, some local...

By STEVE PFARRER

David Ruggles and Frederick Douglass, two of the most notable Black men to come to Northampton in the first part of the 19th century, left behind a strong legacy as committed abolitionists, writers, and speakers. Ruggles also lived in Florence in the...