Drawings by PBH & PBH Artists Phoebe Bulkeley Harris and C3 Collective Member Perry Baron Huntoon don’t just have the same initials, their pronounced and delicate line drawings both explore literal and figurative landscapes laced with humor and austerity. “All Such Nothing” will consist of a large quantity of small drawings and postcards available for […]

Come see work by some local favorites including C3’s own Perry Baron Huntoon @ Flywheel on Saturday in conjunction with the Pioneer Valley Zine Fest! It’s gonna be rad!  RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/299497243460590/. See info about the entire Pioneer Valley Zine Fest here: http://www.facebook.com/events/210900662334136/

C3 is thrilled to announce our new monthly series, 4walls, sparked by the movable walls we recently built in the Dynamite Space in collaboration with Thornes and the Northampton Youth Commission. The event will take place every second Friday in the Dynamite Space in Thornes Marketplace, Northampton, MA. THIS MONTH, 4walls will showcase this blog’s […]

Make sure to stop by the Dynamite Space during Arts Night Out, next Friday, February 10th, for FUN-A-DAY !  Co-sponsored by C3.  

C3 is Northampton’s hub for collaborative, socially-minded creativity and emerging artist empowerment since 2007.  We invite you to join us in celebrating our first year of successful, dynamic evolution from the original Commonwealth Center for Change into an artist-run volunteer collective now known simply as C3, by supporting our mission to ignite the heart of […]

Tanner Slick is a puppeteer, painter, sculptor, photographer, and organizer.  His work, in whatever medium, succeeds in being engaging, visually exciting, and, usually, entertaining- it’s dark yet playful, witty, fun, smart, and self-reflective.  Tanner’s mischievous and playful nature shines authentically through all of his work, which jumps effortlessly between media.  I was blown away by […]

Attention all Springfield and Western Mass Artists! The UMass Arts Extension Service is proud to offer a 2-day Artist in Business Training on December 8th and 9th at the Springfield Museums, thanks to a Springfield Cultural Council grant.  This intensive training will focus on business planning and marketing. It is essential that local artists have […]

C3 has been working in the Montview neighborhood of Northampton this summer as part of our L/A/N/D and SEE/SAW community mapping and storytelling projects. We are walking around, talking to neighbors, drawing, and generally getting to know this diverse Ward 3 neighborhood.  So, it seems geographically fitting for C3 to interview an artist showing at […]

On July 6, C3 & L/A/N/D made our biggest accomplishment yet: we raised the reciprocal roof of the Gaz-arbor, the gazebo-arbor hybrid that will serve as a community gathering space used, among other things,  for potlucks, artist residencies, and as an outdoor classroom. In addition to the “raising”, C3 set up participatory stations for the […]

  I first met Northampton-raised painter, sculptor, printmaker and general handyman Chris Millette last spring, when we teamed up to create a cave-paint-glitter-themed dance party in the Dynamite Space.  About a week after that (or maybe it was before, I don’t remember) we enacted a Performance Painting in APE for Jamie Kent’s CD release party, […]