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Every month should be Poetry Month
come celebrate with us with these three fine voices
Susan Rich January Gill O'Neil Kirun Kapur
Tuesday Evening, April 16, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
come celebrate with us with these three fine voices
Susan Rich January Gill O'Neil Kirun Kapur
Tuesday Evening, April 16, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Susan Rich is the author of six books of poetry, including the just-released Blue Atlas from Red Hen Press, and two anthologies, including Demystifying the Manuscript: Creating a Book of Poems (2022) with Kelli Russell Agodon. Her work appears in the Harvard Review, O Magazine, and The Slow Down. She is a recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, Artists Trust, and the Fulbright Foundation.
January Gill O'Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (February 2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012-2018, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Sierra magazine, among others. Her poem, “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial,” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.
Kirun Kapur's newest book, Women in the Waiting Room, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Black Lawrence Press(2020). Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil calls it “a must-read for these times and beyond.” Her first collection, Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist, was awarded the 2013 Antivenom Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Mass Book Prize, the Julie Suk Award and several other prizes. Described as a “stellar debut by a major new voice” (Andre Dubus III), it was published in 2015 by Elixir Press. Kirun serves as the editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal, one of nation’s oldest poetry publications and teaches at Amherst College where she is the director of the Creative Writing Program.
This poetry project and all this art is brought to you
by NEVAmuseum through the financial support of many donors who definitely feel a place like this should exist. You can be one of them, too!
January Gill O'Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (February 2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012-2018, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Sierra magazine, among others. Her poem, “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial,” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.
Kirun Kapur's newest book, Women in the Waiting Room, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is out now from Black Lawrence Press(2020). Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil calls it “a must-read for these times and beyond.” Her first collection, Visiting Indira Gandhi's Palmist, was awarded the 2013 Antivenom Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Mass Book Prize, the Julie Suk Award and several other prizes. Described as a “stellar debut by a major new voice” (Andre Dubus III), it was published in 2015 by Elixir Press. Kirun serves as the editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal, one of nation’s oldest poetry publications and teaches at Amherst College where she is the director of the Creative Writing Program.
This poetry project and all this art is brought to you
by NEVAmuseum through the financial support of many donors who definitely feel a place like this should exist. You can be one of them, too!
Parallels
paintings by MARS
with music by MAL DEVISA "What drives my art practice is meditation and movement. When I'm creating, silence washes over my mind. Chaos of the outside world turns to color & texture and movement. I like to call myself a movement experimentalist; as I work larger, I get to move more, which allows my pieces to become dynamic." Parallels is a representation of the mental, emotional & physical landscapes for the first show at this venue. The profound and powerful vocalist and bassist Mal Divisa performs at the reception.
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A Cultured Room
Neal Parks
Bruce Ackerson Anna Bayles Arthur Scott Prior Mark Brown Eliza Moser Amy Johnquest Mark Brown Brook Schnabel Caitlin Hurd Phil Lawrence Larry Slezak Eliza Moser David Kearns Vitek Kruta Jake Meginski Dean Nimmer Ben Westbrock |
Featuring a roomful of expert art from regional artists each with singular and original vision collected over a whole lot of years. A real free-for-all of design, color and style, cultivated to conserve a slice of Valley culture.
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...with street scenes of his home in Amherst and arboreal paintings that are on fire with color. Trained earlier in his life at the Boston Museum School, his path has taken him many places that he has recorded in deep, soulful images. His ballpoint pen drawings capture humanity indelibly from the outside looking in. His path is a rightoues one. His faith is the ruler of his vision and his hand steadies his troubled heart.
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SCULPTURE JAM
Sculpture are the objects in the gallery that get in the way of the paintings. This usually true. Collecting them all in a little space without paintings is an experiment in spatial relations. We bring together a bunch of works from several artists in a barely but still accessible room to see how the art objects speak to one another. Sculptors Judith Abraham, Joe Chirchirillo, Anya Klepacki, Jonathan Waters, Ben Westbrock, John Landino, Larry Slezak and Shawn Farley are represented with others.
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ALEXIS THOMAS
Private Acts of Observation This is Alexa Thomas's first exhibit at this venue. Her visions are glanced at and immediate. In her work, she explains, "When designing fashion studies and designs, I look for color and texture to inspire."
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CORALIE DONAHUE
Outdoors and Open Air A self-taught painter, Coralie Donahue generously applies thick layers of bright color to render vibrant scenes free of self-consciousness and fresh with expression. Her works are very happy.
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The Passway Gallery West
Selections from the collection
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A grouping of artworks in a variety of media including selections from Andrea, Kyle Mitchell, Inung Hwang, Jules Jones, John Landino, Molly Rupp, Michael Tillyer. Works on canvas in oil and acrylic, collage, and sculpture are available. Andrea is a primarily reticent painter, Kyle Mitchell was a very talented graphic painter passed away at age 2027, Inung Hwang is a young Korean art therapy student, Jules Jones is a collage artist from Greenfiled, MA. John Landino, passing in 2022, was known for his Dadaism, Molloy Rupp has a style honed in Europe, Michael Tillyer is the founder and co-director of the NEVAmuseum with his wife Susan Foley.
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Danny Gayder (1948-2006)
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“you got to feel sorry for yourself to paint, it all comes from the pain, the CBS - Cosmic Bull Shit - most artists have it. I get all mixed up sometimes. I think my feelings and feel my thoughts. I don’t paint with feeling, though. I paint feelings.” A sought after “outsider artist,” Danny’s work has been shown internationally at major galleries in Holland and New Zealand, and in the US in Baltimore, New Orleans, Florida and VSA in Washington, DC.
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The Passway Gallery East
Ben Hotchkiss
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Ben Hotchkiss paints highly authentic and original abstract works with oil paint on panels. Hotchkiss is self-taught. From his reclusive living space, he works in solitude at night with very fine brushes, some with a single hair, often from a reclined position with his panel propped up on his knees. Hotchkiss was exhibited several years at the Outsider Fair in New York City and at prominent NYC galleries that represent outsider artists.
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Ongoing display of collected works
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Since 1997, the Anchor House of Artists has subsidized, supported, and represented artists living with life-interrupting neurodiverse conditions. Over the decades some of the founding artists continue on and some have deceased. Acquired works are conserved in an extensive collection. These are researched and displayed in rotational exhibits.
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POV Out of Body ←link
From the virtual exhibit February 2021, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts
From the virtual exhibit February 2021, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts
the life of the artist matters
- Exhibits feature an extensive array of objects and artifacts from the hands of self-taught artists.
- Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Free admission. $10 donations towards furthering our vision are appreciated
The world is better with a place
that can do these things with your help:
that can do these things with your help:
- Subsidize artists living with neurodiverse conditions
- Conserve and research regional self-taught and visionary art
- Give New England artists the chance to self-stage exhibitions
- Celebrate new music and performance on a noncommercial platform
- Provide art education to income-sensitive citizens
CURATOR OPPORTUNITY
New England Visionary Artists Museum is offers two-month slots for curator projects. Preferred projects offer a talk and exhibit presenting self-trained New England artists living or deceased who work outside the academic tradition. Applicants will include documented credentials: Vitas, articles and images, and references. Apply online or on-site. CLICK IMAGE |
Because art is incidental to the life of the creative hand who crafted it,
let the artists speak.
let the artists speak.