January 30, 2008 – 12:25 pm
In response to our previous post (see below) about the numerous local historical museums, a reader posted a comment about the Pioneer Valley History Network. He wrote:
The Pioneer Valley History Network is a new organization that helps link these historical museums and sites. They have a listserv … and soon will have a website. It can be a [...]
January 27, 2008 – 12:16 pm
There are many small historical museums in the valley that go unnoticed. They often have very small operating budgets, and their curation and management is frequently a labor of love by dedicated volunteers. These places are hidden gems; small treasure troves of artifacts and documents of local history.
We’ve just read a nice post about one these small museums [...]
January 25, 2008 – 12:21 pm
MassMOCA has a YouTube page where they post videos of events and exhibitions. This such a fabulous idea for a museum.
They’ve really embraced online technology: a nicely-designed website, a blog, live webcams, podcasts, and now a YouTube page. We wonder what’s next: MySpace, or Facebook?
If you haven’t been to MassMOCA, we highly recommend a visit. [...]
January 25, 2008 – 10:21 am
From Dean Nimmer:
I’m having a fantastic MOVING SALE of my artwork during the week of January 21 to 26. The RECEPTION for this sale will be on SATURDAY, JANUARY 26th from 2pm to 6pm at the Open Square studio building in Holyoke. This sale will feature my 1000 DRAWINGS series, the quirky drawings and sculptures [...]
January 22, 2008 – 1:03 pm
There’s quite a lively discussion going on about the proposed mural on the Masslive Easthampton Forum (see threads 4319 - 4324). Surprisingly, many posters aren’t happy about it. Some excerpts:
The particular graphic design seems more suited to be shown on a smaller scale–perhaps on the cover of a brochure for Easthampton. These large jumbled letters will be mostly meaningless [...]
January 19, 2008 – 5:07 pm
Easthampton City Arts has announced Tom Pappalardo the winner of the call for submissions for their mural project on Cottage Street in the city’s downtown. Painting will start this Spring.
There’s already one mural on Cottage Street, on the side of Off The Map Tattoo - an awesome fantasy sea-monster scene, and another on Union Street, on the [...]
January 10, 2008 – 1:12 pm
Two evenings chock full o’ art:
Friday night, 5-8pm: Northampton’s Art’s Night Out. Download & print the map.
Saturday night, 5-8pm: Easthampton’s Art Walk. View & print the map.
January 9, 2008 – 8:31 pm
The Warhol Foundation announced a few months back a massive gift of more than 28,000 Warhol photographs to be distributed among college and university museums across the country. Local beneficiaries are the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the University Gallery at UMASS, and the Smith College Art Museum. The gifts are scheduled to arrive sometime [...]
January 3, 2008 – 11:33 am
We’ve been reading some excellent blog postings, “Why Artists Need To Be Online,” by UK artist and curator Kirsty Hall. She’s written a series of articles on the importance of putting your work online. These articles are a must-read for any artist.
In a previous post on this blog, we wrote:
Note to artists: put your work online, [...]
January 2, 2008 – 1:13 pm
There’s a new local blog, Art from Intuition, from artist Dean Nimmer showcasing his upcoming book, Art from Intuition: Overcoming Your Fears and Obstacles to Making Art.
Dean Nimmer is a prolific, interesting, and much-acclaimed artist. He taught at MassArt in Boston for over 20 years, and recently moved to Holyoke (he has a studio at Open [...]
