August 15th, 2011 | by Perry | published in featured, featured artists
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. Â So, it seems geographically fitting for C3 to interview an artist showing at […]
July 29th, 2011 | by Jackie_D | published in featured, featured artists
Burns Maxey is an inter-media artist based in Easthampton who’s work was recently featured in the Hosmer Gallery at Forbes Library. This body of work, the Easthampton Alphabet is an incredible journey through the hilarious, strange, heartfelt, and tragic history of Easthampton’s residents. These works on paper were inspired by sifting through microfiche and finding […]
July 23rd, 2011 | by Perry | published in featured, featured artists
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, […]
July 6th, 2011 | by seth | published in featured, featured artists
I had the pleasure of interviewing fellow C3 Core Member Todd Trebour about a whole lotta somethin’. Todd has been quite busy of late. The premiere of Come and Sleep: An Operatic Fantasy for Voice, Cello, and Silence just took place at the A.P.E. Gallery in May. He’s about to embark on a month-long tour of Come and […]
July 2nd, 2011 | by Jackie_V | published in featured, featured artists, Uncategorized
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Evan Viera, Northampton-based animator, composer, and international man of mystery. I’m pretty excited about Evan’s work. It’s stuff that makes your heart soar and your eyes get wide. Get to know a bit about this character in our interview, and then go and check out his […]
June 18th, 2011 | by Adele | published in featured, featured artists
At C3 we have a passion for supporting local public art, so we are really thrilled to bring news of Riot Prrl, Northampton’s resident knit tagging collaborative, to the blog.  Knit tagging is seriously secretive business, so we promised not to reveal the true identities of the group.  What we can tell you, though, is […]
June 9th, 2011 | by Jackie_D | published in featured, featured artists
Witnessing Ariel Kotker’s exhibition last fall at the Flywheel was like walking into an exploded graphic novel.  The forms are simultaneously familiar and fantastic. My mouth sort of fell open and gasped. Oh my, what feats of craft! The collection of objects making up the incredible installation, His Room As He Left It, is an ever growing alternate world of handmade items […]
May 24th, 2011 | by Javiera | published in featured, featured artists
Having enjoyed many long conversations with Dori Midnight in her cozy kitchen sipping one of her extraordinary tea concoctions, I was eager to hear what she had to say about practicing the art of healing & transformation here in Northampton, MA. A recent transplant from San Francisco, Dori is an ordained interfaith minister and intuitive […]
May 3rd, 2011 | by Vanessa | published in featured, featured artists
Lenelle Moïse’s sound-based poetics infuse her writing, music and collages. The 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Northampton writes stories with her ears, reminding us that rhythm and vibration are the origin of words. She’s also my favorite person to take a walk with! While I tend to focus on the visual details, Lenelle zooms in on […]
April 23rd, 2011 | by Dana | published in featured, featured artists
Rythea’s been planted here in the Northampton area since the late 1990s. When I first met her about 10 years ago, I was a student in the “Improvisation As Performance” class she was teaching at her Wild Life Sanctuary studio in Florence. I saw a flyer for it, took it home, called her and asked […]