Come to The Art Garden to share your thoughts through art & conversation,
after the Shelburne Falls ArtWalk, September 24, 6pm-8pm.
Write, draw, and collage on a temporary interactive mural.
No prior art experience necessary. Light refreshments will be served.
The Art Garden is located in the Trolley Museum building.
Please access parking via Elm St.
Questions: please call 413-625-2782
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Celebrate local art and the award winning public art projects soon to be HATCHed in the hilltowns! Five artists, selected through a juried process, will be presented to the community and seed money will be awarded. Meet the artists, hear about their projects, and find out how you can be involved at 8pm.
Appetizers and cash bar. $10 at the door.
Where: Buckland Town Hall, 17 State St, Shelburne Falls
When: Saturday, June 25, 7pm – 10pm (artist presentations from 8pm – 9pm)
Questions: Call The Art Garden: 413-625-2782
or the GSFABA: 413-625-2526
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“What the World Needs Now” performance by Phyllis Labanowski and a group of intrepid Art Garden volunteers, 2014. Photo by Elaine Boucher.
May 3, 2016 is The Art Garden’s 5-year 501c3 Anniversary!
WE made it!
WE painted, sculpted, sewed, drew and collaged it!
WE invented, designed, organized, coordinated, collaborated,
and fund-raised it!
WE = you + me + The Art Garden’s hard-working Board of Directors
+ hundreds of people supporting our work with so many GIFTS:
donations of supplies, money and time…
all of us coming together to make The Art Garden truly
a Community-Supported Art-making place!
As a happy coincidence,
May 3, 2016 is also Valley Gives Day here in western Massachusetts.
Our Valley Gives fund-raising this year is dedicated to supporting our
2016-2017 ARTeens program.
Your support will make a difference in the lives of rural creative teens!
Please help make another year of this amazing Teen Art program possible
by donating here on May 3rd:
https://valleygives.razoo.com/us/story/Art-Garden
A very special thank you goes to artist and non-profit attorney Peter Chadwick, who first suggested our becoming a non-profit in 2010. He all but held our hands as he shepherded us through the legal process with kindness, skill and lots of clarifying emails. We are so grateful, Peter!
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One of over 30 Frida Gladheart paintings by Ardath Garfield.
Please join us on Saturday, April 30th from 3pm – 5pm for the opening reception of an exhibition of watercolors by Ashfield artist, Ardath Garfield. Ardath’s whimsical and poignant paintings celebrate the life of her imaginary character, Frida Gladheart. Ardath will talk about her work at 4pm.
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Please join us from noon to midnight at the Cowell Gym in Shelburne Falls!
We’ll have a gym FULL of FUN drawing activities including:
Request-A-Sketch Draw-Machine!
A giant floor mandala!
Costumed Figure Drawing!
Draw-your-own Raffle Tickets!
A community portrait wall!
A Drawing Game Show!
A wall of dreams!
D-raw-N-C-I-N-G!
Fun and unusual adaptive drawing devices made from re-purposed materials!
A life-sized 3D “coloring book”!
Mini workshops by local artists every hour!
And so much more!
On the walls!
On the floor!
On tables!
Even on the tables
you can eat
your lunch or dinner on!
On drawing boards!
On brown paper bags!
On tiny slips of paper!
On sheets of salvaged newsprint!
EVERYWHERE you look, someone will be drawing their heart out!
The Draw-Around
is a
for our
We will have
great food
for you
to purchase,
and eat!
while
watching
and
drawing!
To see some pictures from last year’s Draw-Around, please click here.
And if you are wondering where the Cowell Gym is:
This event is supported in part by the following Local Cultural Councils:
Ashfield,
Buckland,
Charlemont/Hawley,
Colrain,
Conway,
Heath,
Leyden,
Plainfield,
and
Shelburne.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Questions? Please call the Art Garden before Saturday: 413-625-2782
The Fabulous Hilltown Draw-Around
is organized by artist and Art Garden board member, Laura Iveson.
THANK YOU LAURA for all your amazing work!
THANK YOU also to all the volunteers
who are helping to make this event soooooo
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Hedgehogs by Elisabeth Radysh
There are over 60 works of art created by more than 30 artists, including many installations that are scattered around the Trolley Museum’s rail yard for our first Outdoor Winter Celebration.
Robin Huntley, Laura Iveson, Mark Ostroff and Jane Beatrice Wegscheider helped the Trolley Museum respond to graffiti with this flock of ravens
Lit Birch Archway created by Samantha Crawford, Dan Mendoza, Laura Iveson, James Smith and Eli Smith.
Join us both inside The Art Garden AND outside in the rail yard between 4pm – 8pm.
Performances will take place inside between 6pm – 7pm.
Click HERE for a short video about the exhibit, created by Philippe Simon for GCTV. Thank you Philippe!
Thank you to all the artists and volunteers for sharing your work and time!
Thank you Laura Iveson for your vision, collaboration
and dedication to community celebration!
This exhibit is supported in part by the following Local Cultural Councils:
Ashfield,
Buckland,
Charlemont/Hawley,
Colrain,
Conway,
Heath,
Leyden,
Plainfield,
and
Shelburne.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
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During our last Community Exhibit, the 6 year-old grandson of one of our volunteers visited The Art Garden for the first time. He walked thoughtfully around the studio, asking questions as he looked at everything: the different supplies, images, objects, and variety of art works in the exhibit.
photo by Rick Miller
One of the pieces, titled “My Shoeless Soul”, caught his attention, and I asked him if he knew what a soul was.
“It’s what makes you YOU!” he replied, without a moment’s hesitation.
I wrote that down…
so that each day…
when I come into The Art Garden…
I am reminded:
what we do is
“soul-work”!
Art-making
helps
me
be
me.
Creativity
nurtures
our
souls!
And strengthens us for the work of making this world a better place.
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be…This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
—from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
Because winter can be a time for ‘going inward’, I encourage you to carve out time and space in this season for exploring who you are through your creativity.
If it leads you to The Art Garden, we’ll be delighted to see you!
For more about creativity:
http://www.creativitypost.com/create/how_creativity_makes_us_feel_alive
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