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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...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — With so many activities filling up the weekend calendar in Easthampton, organizers have decided to move the monthly Art Walk to Thursday nights.The event, which takes a hiatus every January, returns to the city this Thursday, Feb. 9,...
By STEVE PFARRER
As John Montanari sees it, the classical music field these days is awash with talent, full of artists who “are so smart, flexible and just damned good that they can pull off virtually anything,” as he noted in a recent email.Montanari, the artistic...
By STEVE PFARRER
In late 2020, Valley music fans were disheartened to hear that Gateway City Arts, the multi-arts venue in Holyoke, was shutting it doors because of lost business during the first year of the pandemic.But the outlook brightened in April 2021, when...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — The Cottage Street Cultural District was awarded a $15,000 investment grant through the Massachusetts Cultural Council, one of 50 state-designated cultural districts statewide to receive a total of $750,000 in grants. “A decade ago, our...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — After a little over a year in operation, a city arts nonprofit organization is expanding and relocating to a bigger space.Resilient Community Arts, which has made it its mission to sustain collective efforts for social progress and...
By Chad Cain
HOLYOKE — The ambitious, $61 million effort to reopen the Broadway-style Victory Theatre moved $2 million closer to becoming reality this week after the city made a significant commitment of American Rescue Plan Act money for the project in its...
By STEVE PFARRER
It might seem that every conceivable angle of studying Emily Dickinson has been covered, and in just about every format: biographies, academic studies, poetry analysis, novels, movies, even TV shows.Yet the famed Amherst poet always seems to inspire a...
By STEVE PFARRER
NORTHAMPTON — The Back Porch Festival, Signature Sounds’ late-winter showcase for American roots music, is poised to return in 2023 — in a much bigger format.Incorporating elements of First Night Northampton, the Back Porch Festival will expand to...
By STEVE PFARRER
In the early 1900s, few young American women were allowed to go about unchaperoned. Fewer still would likely have been permitted to attend college on their own, almost 500 miles from home, and at the tender age of 16.But the painter and printmaker...
By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN
SOUTH HADLEY — The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter School is looking for a new director after trustees voted Monday to fire head of school George Simpson. The board’s decision comes a month after Reading police arrested Simpson on...
By AMANDA DRANE
NORTHAMPTON — A perhaps unexpected byproduct of last week’s culinary training program for middle schoolers came when Chef Nelson Lacey realized how unanimously memorable cleaning the kitchen floor was for campers.“Out of everything we do, they like...
By JACK SUNTRUP
SOUTH HADLEY — After months of controversy surrounding its head of school, a South Hadley charter school welcomed a new leader earlier this month.George E. Simpson, 45, started July 3 as head of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Public Charter...
By AMANDA DRANE
NORTHAMPTON — Artists of many kinds graduating from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts charter school took a final bow as a student body on Thursday.From violin trios to knockout vocals, the 60 students graduating from the South Hadley high school...
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