Forbes Library, 20
West Street, Northampton
October 1-30, 2013
Reception at
Hosmer Gallery, Arts Night Out: Friday,
October 11, 5pm to 8pm.
Event is free and
open to the public.
The Northampton
Arts Council presents Be Here Now, a juried exhibition of work interpreted
freely by 2D, 3D, video, and performance artists. The exhibition is of works by artists living
and working in Western Massachusetts and is located at the Hosmer Gallery in
Forbes Library during the month of October 2013.
Be Here Now presents a wide variety of types and styles
of art from photography and paintings to cinematography and sculpture, all of
which revolve around the central theme of being present. The exhibition
showcases the work of 22 different local artists, selected from a group of more
than 60 artists who submitted over 100 works of art for consideration.
Please join the Northampton
Arts Council Board of Directors Chairperson Betsy Stone and meet all the artists
for the Arts Night Out reception on Friday, October 11th from 5:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m at the Hosmer Gallery.
The jurors for the
show are Gordon Thorne a visual
artist and Director of A.P.E. which he founded in 1977 and the Open Field
Foundation, created in 1996. “I was born
in 1941 and ended a totally undistinguished academic career in 1966 with an MFA
from the Yale School of Art & Architecture. Since then I have been studying
the various ways that things, myself included, evolve. Mara
Williams is the Chief Curator of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.
Her curatorial area of expertise is modern and contemporary art. As an independent curator her exhibits have
been seen by audiences at Tufts University Art Gallery, Florence Griswold
Museum, Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, as well as a number of galleries
in New York City. As a partner in Arts
Bridge LLC, Ms. Williams leads exhibition teams for institutions developing
large-scale new museum projects.
Gallery Hours:
Mon/Wed 9am to 9pm, Tue/Thu 1pm to 5 p.m., Fri/Sat 9am to 5pm
The exhibition includes work from:
Torey Akers
Anita Hunt
Karen Iglehart
Fletcher Smith
Sarah Holbrook
Ellen Augarten
Sam Gas Can .
Rachel Folsom
Alicia Hunsicker
Chris Dean
Mark Guglielmo
Eileen Claveloux
Scout Cuomo
John Romanski
Sharon Ligorner
Gina Siepel
Terry R. Marashlian
Suzy Evans
Melissa Kowal
Phyllis Kornfeld
Pamela Cobb
Donnabelle Casis
