We’re starting our New Year with Small Kindnesses

photo by Laura Iveson

What are some of the small kindnesses you experience? That you offer yourself or others? That have been given to you? … a smile or hug on a gray day … a good book … a warm fire … making soup for a neighbor whose partner has been in the hospital … an unexpected call from an old friend … your dog’s kisses … ???

Emma (5 years old) creating a card at our recent “Gifts of Gratitude” workshop.

This exhibit is free and open to all ages and experience. All work should relate to the theme. Because this is a SMALL WORKS exhibit, we will be able to accept more than one piece from each artist.

This includes framing if your piece is framed. It does not have to be!
Writers please print or format your pieces to fit the size limit as well.

 

Drop off work at The Art Garden on:
Saturday, January 26, 1pm – 5pm
Tuesday, January 29, 2pm – 6pm
and Wednesday, January 30, 10am – 1pm & 3pm – 5pm

OR call to arrange a different time or to get mailing instructions: 413-625-2782

 

photo by Cheryl Dukes

More about the HooPla coming soon!

 

Creativity offers us many gifts!

 

Here are some of the gifts we get to see through The Art Garden’s work:

 

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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!

 

 

Participate in a Community Exhibit about Trash

 

 

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.

Thank you Phyllis! Welcome Laura! News from ARTeens!

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The Art Garden is sending a big

THANK YOU

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.

ARTeensFALL2018Application

Questions? Please email csartgarden@gmail.com or call 413-625-2782

 

The Art Garden at Green River Festival: July 14 & 15, 2018

 

 

 

 

Thanks to all our volunteers

who make it happen!

 

 

 

Call for Teen Art!

 

 

 

 

Thank you to the following
Local Cultural Councils:

Ashfield,
Buckland,
Charlemont/Hawley,
Colrain,
Conway,
Heath,
Plainfield,
Rowe
and
Shelburne!

Celebrate Community Creativity on Valley Gives Day!

Our Draw-Around was so fabulous,
parents had to drag their children home!

 

From noon to midnight on April 28th, children, teens and adults filled 5000 square feet of paper
with intricate, whimsical, tender, poetic, hilarious, and exquisite drawings, scribbles, stories, patterns and marks.

 

Thank you Laura Iveson
and the many many volunteers
(including ARTeen Micah Goldstein, pictured here with Laura)
who made it all happen!

 

Bringing people together
to create and play and be community
is a BIG part of The Art Garden’s mission.

 

Please support our work
and creative community events like our Draw-Around
by making a donation
on Valley Gives Day   Today!   May 1st

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!

Super Honey Bunny and other Art Garden friends
are matching donations to help make our intergenerational studio accessible to all!