Louise Minks & Friends

PAINTINGS 

Every March Louise hosts this show for her local painting and critique students. The students have an opportunity to show recent work to the community. And Louise also showcases some of her own work. Louise is a Leverett gem who for years has painted in New England and also in the Southwest. We enjoy her lively spirit and colorful work.

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Reception: Saturday, March 7, 1-4PM

Open Hours: March 7, 8, 14, 1-4PM

Art for the Earth Celebration

Sue Kassirer has organized a very special exhibit 

featuring 40+ talented local artists of all ages—painters, illustrators, poets, musicians, and dancers—honoring the Earth. There will be a celebration and reception on April 11th which will include food, music, poetry reading, dance, speakers, art activities. See the itinerary.

Additionally on Earth Day April 22 there will be a film screening at the LCA of Plastics People

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Reception: Saturday, April 11, 1-4pm and 6-8pm

Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm

Marty Klein

TIME TRAVELER

From 1975-1981, Marty Klein was the resident blacksmith at LCA, where he practiced his craft, taught classes and gave demonstrations to the public. His shop/business was called Vulcan's Forge (before Star Trek). He created a variety of items including reproduction door hardware, fireplace tools and more. Following his departure from LCA, Marty moved his shop to his home on Bull Hill Road in Sunderland, where he worked until 1989.

In 2006, Marty began creating digital photographic images, inspired by nature, in the medium of scanograph. In addition to his art career, Marty is a naturalist, a wild mushroom expert and a land conservation activist. His prints have the appearance of both photography and illustration. Subjects include flowers, mushrooms, vegetables and cannabis. He has had dozens of exhibits of his work, both solo and group, throughout the region and is recognized as a pioneer in his medium. His work can be seen at martykleinarts.com.

In this exhibit, Marty will display some of his ironwork as well as his more recent prints.From the forge to the scanner!

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Reception: Sunday, May 17, 3-5PM

Susan Boss and Mark Brown

PIECED TOGETHER

We chose to refer to this body of work as Pieced Together because Mark and I have always been able to piece together a life in the arts. We have decades of making art, teaching art, and selling art. We have studied art in secondary school as well as majoring in art in college. However, much of what we eventually chose to do and teach was self-taught. It has allowed us to write our own rules and follow our own inclinations.

Much of the work in the exhibit has been made of pieces and made in pieces. The materials are both old and new. It is the intent of the artists that elevates these humble materials into a new whole.

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Reception: Sunday, May 17, 3-5PM

Mary Schreiber

MERRY MELANGE

This lively exhibition features a range of creations in diverse media, including ceramic, pastel, polymer clay, and found or upcycled materials. Several marionettes will be on display, depicting figures such as Gandhi, Pete Seeger, and Harriet Tubman. Mary’s whimsical illustrations of birds and dogs, along with more formal animal portraits, will also be included in this playful collection.

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Reception: Sunday, June 7, 3-5PM

LCA ARTISTS GROUP SHOW

with Jewell Greco, Jerzy Kokurewicz, Sally Dillon, Lori Lynn Hoffer, Louise Minks, Ken Washburn, Raven Laise, Dale Schwarz, Elsje Sturtevant, Joy Friedman and board members David Henion and Steve Stroud

Enjoy this diverse show which includes paintings,
eco-printing, collage, drawings, pastels, pottery and sculpture. The residents artists and board of the crafts center are delighted to share their work with you.

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Reception: Sunday, July 12th, 3-pm

SUSAN VALENTINE ANNUAL SHOW

Oil Paintings

with David Pozar, Woodworking

and The Perennials, Oil Paintings

This year I will show new works in the Barnes Gallery as well as participate in an adjoining show with my friends, The Perennials, in the Hall gallery.

On pedestals throughout will be David Pozar’s woodworking pieces. Dave has been building beautiful frames for my paintings for the past few years.

The Perennials are: Penné Krol, Mari Rovang, Joanne Belair, Kimi Donohoe, Marti Olmstead, Debbie Voland, Suzanne Hannay, Frankie Dack, Lori Lynn Hoffer and  Susan Valentine

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Gallery Hours: 1 - 6pm Fridays through Sundays

Reception: Sunday, September 6th, 3-6pm

(September 4th through the 30th) ​​

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Susan's website

Color Stories • Group Show

Sara Casilio

Lori Lynn Hoffer

Sarah Stroud

Three artists working across diverse media come together to explore color in its many forms. Their distinct approaches—from abstract compositions to landscapes and varied mixed-media works—intersect and harmonize throughout the galleries, inviting connections between color, texture, shape, and perception. The work will include painting, collage, textile and pigment prints.

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Reception: Sunday, October 4, 3-5PM