Leverett Crafts & Arts
A community center for making & sharing art in Leverett Massachusetts.
2026 in the Galleries
Monthly Exhibits April through November
Typical Open Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm
(additional hours at artist's discretion)
MARCH - One Week Show in the Barnes Gallery
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
APRIL in the Barnes and Hall Galleries
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
MAY in the Barnes Gallery
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
MAY in the Hall Gallery
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
JUNE in the Barnes and Hall Galleries
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
JULY & AUGUST in the Galleries
LCA ARTISTS GROUP SHOW
Sally Dillon, Joy Friedman, Jewell Greco, David Henion, Lori Lynn Hoffer, Jerzy Kokurewicz, Raven Laise, Louise Minks, Elsje Sturtevant, Dale Schwarz, Steve Stroud, Ken Washburn
Join us to see what some of the artists have been working on in their studios. And a few board members as well! This show will include pottery, painting, collage, fiber arts, eco-printing and more.
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Reception: Sunday, July 12, 3-5PM
2025 in the Galleries
Monthly Exhibits April through November
Typical Open Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm
(additional hours at artist's discretion)
APRIL in the Barnes and Hall Galleries
Joan Green, Bobby Brown and Whitney
Robbins
PLAY MAKING: MAKING SENSE OF THE WORLD THROUGH ART AND PLAY
Leverett Crafts and Arts welcomes three local artists for this inventive and dynamic exhibition. Whitney Robbins, Bobby Brown and Joan Green share a playful, spontaneous, and improvisatory aesthetic. Each of these artists use things discarded, saved, gathered and gifted in the art they create, and play is an important part of their process. The work includes drawings, paintings, collage, wood sculpture and multi-media masks.
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Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2-5pm
Open Hours: Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm
MARCH in the Barnes and Hall Galleries
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 8, 1-4PM
Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, March 8, 9, 15 & 16, 1-4pm
JUNE in the Hall Gallery
Jerzy Kokurewicz
ALLOW THE MYSTERY
Creation is a mysterious amalgam of disparate physical elements, talent, perseverance, and dumb luck.
Nothing to be proud of... but it is a lot of fun.
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Reception: Saturday, June 7, 1-3pm
Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm
MAY in the Barnes and Hall Galleries
the perennials
GROUP SHOW OF WOMEN PAINTERS
This group of women came together as paintings students of Penné Kroll at Greenfield Community College. They present a diverse and colorful range of styles and subject matter and continue to support each other in art and life!
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Reception: Sunday, May 4, 3-5PM
Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm
JUNE in the Barnes Gallery
T.I.A. Architects
FUNDRAISING EXHIBIT
Support Ecological Architecture!​
T.I.A. Architects/Nacul Center for Ecological Architecture will present models and plans for two future projects: a meeting house at the Leverett Peace Pagoda and Tullio Inglese's visionary eco-city Andromeda. Join us to support these endeavors and to learn more about T.I.A.'s commitment to sustainability.
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Reception: Saturday, June 7, 1-3pm
Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm
JULY in the Galleries
transcendent ink
JAYCE NEAL • EMET ARON • JASPER ALEXANDER • PASCALE JARVIS
United in medium and varied in perspective, each artist’s work calibrates the spirit & the body in alignment with the ecological world. The slow process of printmaking enables them to push back against values of ease and convenience, navigate alienation, and assert their position as firmly rooted inside & belonging to the ecosystem rather than merely observing it. The goldenrod, ferns and frogs make such sweet company.
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Reception: Sunday, July 20, 11am-5pm
Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm
AUGUST in the Galleries
FRAGMENTS OF SHELTER
Hannah Hartl and Benjamin Sears
Hannah Hartl and Benjamin Sears present a mixed media show titled Fragments of Shelter. In this exhibit, these artists and colleagues explore their interest in architecture, decay and narrative possibilities. The work includes drawings, sculptures, photographs and prints.
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Reception: Friday, August 8, 5-8pm
Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm
SEPTEMBER in the Galleries
PAINTINGS AND WORKS IN CLAY
Susan Valentine and Sue Kassirer
Susan Valentine is a contemporary realist who paints in oils and has been working largely on The Sustenance Series, depicting the foods that sustain us. Sue Kassirer is working in collaboration with fire and earth to make clay sculptures that speaks about the environment. These two Leverett artists bring us beautiful work that also raises meaningful topics.
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Reception: Sunday, September 7, 3-6pm
Open Hours: Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, 1-6pm
OCTOBER in the Galleries
PLEIN AIR VOICES – PAINTINGS
Group Show: Sally Dillon • Maggie Hodges • Lori Lynn Hoffer • Ruth Rinard • Donna Roy • Ruth Sanderson
Six local artists will share their own interpretations of nature from the viewpoint of painting outside. Plein air paintings can both capture a moment in time and also offer a very personal vision of how a certain scene looks and feels to the artist.
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Reception: Sunday, October 19, 3-5pm
Open Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1-5pm
NOVEMBER in the Galleries
OH BEAUTIFUL GLASS -Group Show
Barnes Gallery
SUSAN MULHOLLAND - Paintings
Hall Gallery​
Our annual Glass Show hosted by Sally Prasch always brings in a wonderful array of work - from functional to fantastical to totally whimsical. Local artist Susan Mulholland will be sharing watercolor batik paintings on Ginwashi and Kinwashi Japanese rice papers, hand-dyed botanical designs on silk and several new oil paintings.
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Reception: Sunday, November 23, 12-6pm
Open Hours: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays & Mondays 10am-5:30pm
DECEMBER in the Galleries
ANNUAL HOLIDAY STORE & SHOW
+ OPEN STUDIOS
First two December Saturdays
Join us for a great gift shopping opportunity - Mudpie Pottery will fill the Barnes Gallery with works in clay, Joy Friedman will have her clay studio open, LCA member artists will share their work and have studios open for visitors and some other local craftspeople will join in with jewelry, fabric arts, baskets and eco-printing. This is always a joyous seasonal event and we hope to see you this holiday season!
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Open Hours:
Saturdays December 6 and 13, 10am-4pm