Here are some of the gifts we get to see through The Art Garden’s work:
These images are making their way (in a physical form) to many of our supporters through our annual appeal mailing*.
* If you are not on our snail mail list and would like to be,
please email Jane at csartgarden@gmail.com.
If you would like to support The Art Garden’s work, please click on our DONATE button (above right) which is a secure PayPal link.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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Re-purposing, re-cycling and re-using materials that would normally end up being discarded is something The Art Garden is committed to.
Our intergenerational studio is filled with high quality, traditional art supplies AND boxes and boxes of donated ‘discards’: fabric scraps, toilet rolls, bottle caps, buttons, tins and tea boxes, lace and netting, magazine images &&&.
Children regularly transform trash into imaginative creations.
With whimsical results!
If you would like to submit work for our Talkin’ Trash exhibit, please bring it to The Art Garden ready for display on either Thursday, Friday or Saturday, November 1, 2 or 3 between 1pm – 5pm.
Call 413-625-2782 if you have questions.
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The Art Garden is sending a big
to Phyllis Labanowski for all of her hard work and dedication in co-creating our ARTeens program. We wish Phyllis the best as she moves on from ARTeens to pursue new opportunities and challenges. Phyllis’ work, including her grant writing skills, will now help sustain the program, since ARTeens was recently awarded a Mass Cultural Council YouthReach grant!
Stepping in to co-direct the program starting this fall, is Laura Iveson. Laura is a long time Art Garden board member, director of The Hilltown Draw-Around, and set designer with Hilltown Youth Theater where she works with children and teens to create large artworks.
Check out this video about ARTeens created by graduating ARTeen Micah Goldstein last spring. Micah credits ARTeens with helping her realize that being an artist is possible, and ART is what she wants to do with her life. She is now studying Animation in Montreal.
Our 2018-2019 Pay-What-You-Can ARTeens after school program is now accepting APPLICATIONS! In our 7-week Fall 2018 session, there are two ARTeens’ groups that meet on Tuesdays OR Thursdays starting the week of October 23rd and ending the week of December 13th.
Applications are due on October 10, 2018. Downloadable application below.
Questions? Please email csartgarden@gmail.com or call 413-625-2782
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Thank you to the following
Local Cultural Councils:
Ashfield,
Buckland,
Charlemont/Hawley,
Colrain,
Conway,
Heath,
Plainfield,
Rowe
and
Shelburne!
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Every donation, no matter the size, helps us qualify for random prizes
throughout this 24 hour Day of Giving!
Click HERE to go to our Valley Gives page!
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There are over 60 works of art, poetry and prose by 50 artists and writers
in our current community exhibit about the animals we love:
Painting, 
collage,
assemblage,
tapestry,
needle-felted
sculpture,
drawing,
photography,
drypoint
and
monoprint,
poetry,
prose,
and
a
beautiful garland
of dog tags
and bells,
are just some
of the variety
of media
on exhibit.
And lest we forget,
our
youngest
participant,
Theo,
age 6 ¾,
has a watercolor
entitled,
Humans
Are
Animals
Too.
for Zoey, in memoriam
You don’t have to take a dog when you walk at night,
but it helps. Neighbors driving by don’t have to wonder
what tragic event has occurred to you—
whether you’re trying to escape from your past
or your future; your husband, your kids, or just
the unwashed macaroni pot hardening on the counter.
People who don’t know you don’t have to waste time
wondering who you are, though they might
slow a bit, on account of your dog.
The dog is oblivious. That’s part of her charm.
She trots on ahead of you, sniffing for rabbits
you’ll never let her have. She knows
you’d spoil her chances, lose your cool
and shriek, “No!” right at the critical moment.
She loves you anyway. She’s a dog.
You, on the other hand, are inescapably human.
Even if you could bring yourself to charge into
the underbrush baying at the top of your lungs, seeking,
maybe even finding, something vast and elemental,
some scrap of insight trapped and trembling
down a badger hole, there’d still be laundry
to do when you got home.
The moon’s not full tonight but it’s smiling anyway—
a lax, sideways smile—indulging you, indulging your dog.
Cornstalks nudge one another as you pass.
All the decisions you’ve made lately,
all the tears you’ve cried or not cried,
and still this flat plain, this little piece of the world,
looks exactly the same.
The dog could have told you that.
She’s waiting for you now, having left behind
the field’s enticements to come onto the pavement
to find you. She sits, calm, watchful, wondering
how it is you can walk such a straight line
and still be so far back there.
Trish Crapo
The poem above by Trish Crapo is one of many in this exhibit. Poetry will be part of the closing reception (that includes other performances) on:
Perhaps Super Honey Bunny will be here to greet you!
This exhibit
is supported in part
by the following
Local Cultural Councils:
Ashfield,
Buckland,
Colrain,
Charlemont/Hawley,
Conway,
Heath,
Plainfield,
Rowe,
& Shelburne!
And thank you James Smith & Laura Iveson for taking exhibit photos for this post!
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