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2008 Schedule Artists host an Open House during the citywide ArtsNightOut, usually on the second Friday of the month, 5-8 pm. For a map of participating galleries, click here: https://secure.dotinchosting.com/explorenorthampton/visitor/whatshappening/artwalk.pdf Lawn Exhibit: Through September 2008 Andrew DeVries’ exquisite cast bronze sculptures will dance on the Courthouse lawn for a year. http://www.andrewdevries.com/ . Gallery Exhibits: January: A continuation of December’s exhibit. Six published children’s book illustrators show their original art, in watercolor, gouache, and acrylic. Some paintings and drawings were created for books, others created specifically for gallery sale. The opening will include a book sale and book signing. The artists and links to their work are listed below. ANNA ALTER see work at: http://www.annaalter.com/pf.php?page=new-work.html ALISSA IMRE GEIS see work at: http://alissaimregeis.com/see.htm http://alissaimregeis.com/books.html GRACE LIN see work at: http://www.gracelin.com/store/original_art.php http://www.gracelin.com/store/giclee_prints.php MEGHAN MCCARTHY see work at: http://meghan-mccarthy.com/kids_portfolio.html ANIK MCGRORY see work at: http://www.anikmcgrory.com/AniksArt/index.htm KELLY MURPHY see work at: http://kelmurphy.com/portfolio.htm February 2008 Julia Max 178 Prospect Street Northampton MA 01060 Photographer This chosen body of work consists of framed, 16x20, 2-D prints. These prints were produced from a handmade pinhole camera using color paper negatives. These negatives were then scanned and printed digitallyusing pigments. The images represent my feelings about trees & attempt to show them in a reverent and mysterious light. Julia2themax@yahoo.com March 2008 Priscilla King PO Box 35, 88 Curtis Road 413 238 5557 Worthington MA 01098 Priscilla King lives in the beautiful Berkshires surrounded by nature, which influences her work. Priscilla produces award winning photography and cards as well as large intensely colored watercolors. After studying oil and acrylics, visiting major museums and shows in New York City she decided to have her own studio in lower Manhattan. This lasted several years in the 1970's. Leaving the city for the woods of Worthington, MA Priscilla's work expanded by studying charcoals, then acrylics and mixed mediums at Holyoke C.C. Priscilla has eight years of experience studying watercolor with the artist Karin Cook that expanded her techniques. Priscilla finds painting a useful therapy for controlling her medical condition. Painting helps Priscilla to ignore the pain. She now works from her studio in Worthington daily. April 2008: Patricia L. Jenks, 15 Keefe Ave, Holyoke, MA 01040. 413-532-8513. Old Courthouse Gallery art statement for Patricia Jenks Exhibition, “Elemental Cycles” Artworks for this exhibition consist mainly of new works on paper with some poured acrylic paintings on canvas. All work is abstract with the drawings being done in a variety of mixed drawing media. The title of the exhibition is “Elemental Cycles” and is themed around the concept of cycles of nature that create a meditative rhythm for feeding the soul. Thomas Merton, the great poet and writer of the contemplative life, was the initial inspiration for these new drawings as his poetic images of the sounds and silence of the natural world form an embracing web of sincere “spiritus”. May: 2008 Walter Cudnohufsky PO Box 419 Ashfield MA 01330 walt@wcala.com Originals in hand made frames; 16x20 to 31x40 Representational landscapes. See web page: www.cudnohufsky.com Walter Cudnohufsky has been an enthusiastic resident of New England for over thirty years. He creates works of art faithful to the realist tradition in watercolor and pencil. His art captures the powerful, mutable New England landscape with an emphasis on the expressive quality of trees. His mature experience as a landscape architect has nurtured Walter’s keen sensibility to landscape composition and nuance. This enables him to create evocative and compelling artistic compositions. June: 2008 Carrie Baker 72 Dryads Green Northampton MA 01060 413-585 3627 or 413 341-3346 cbaker@email.smith.edu Ms Baker’s photographs have been juried into exhibits in Kansas and Georgia, and have received recognition and awards for her work. Color photographs, 22x28 (some 16x20) framed July 2008: Helen Hodges 949 Spruce Corner Road Ashfield MA 01330 413-628-3346 woodpecker_hollow@mac.com Helen, raised in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, fell in love with the beauty of all things growing—her grandparents’ spreading fields of corn, wisteria on the front porch, dahlias in the garden, cows in the pasture—the beauty of the scenery. It is this beauty, sense of life and color she wishes to share with others. Helen is noted for her use of color and light in both watercolor and oil. The exhibit will include many local scenes, as well as still life, animal portraits and people. August 2008 Carol Chandler, PO Box 406, Huntington MA 01050. Phone 413-667-8760 Classical Oils, Landscapes, Portraits and Watercolors. September 2008 Richard Law & Edward Pelletier Worthington Artists Drawings, prints and photographic Ciclees October 2008 Catherine Gibbs For bio and work: http://catherinegibbs.blogspot.com/ Westfield MA November 2008 "An exhibit of recent paintings by Huntington artist Alma La France will be on view at the Old Courthouse Gallery, 99 Main Street, Northampton MA November 3-28th in space made available to by the Hampshire Council of Governments. Stone on Stone is a reference to Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Walls.” “The stone wall motif first appeared in my work this past June, while painting at the historic Watson Farm in Rhode Island. Back home in the Hilltowns, I began seeking out local historic stone walls, and found most tumbled down and overgrown.” Painting out of doors for Alma and the Hilltown Plein Air Painters with whom she paints, is viewed as an opportunity to study, enjoy and capture a particular moment and place, on canvas. “It is uniquely special, and much of what we learn in the process- about light, value and form- finds it’s way into all of our work.” www.almalafrance.com December 2008 Roberta Slysz and Mary May Watercolors, oils, pastels and acrylics