Archive for August, 2011

Agricultural Science and Social Revoluntion, a community workshop with Sigrid Schmalzer

August 30th, 2011  |  by  |  published in featured, Featured Events

Agricultural Science and Social Revoluntion, a community workshop with Sigrid Schmalzer

L/A/N/D, a new community project space and learning site at Montview Neighborhood Farm, created and built through the collaborative efforts of Montview Farm, C3, and Artists in Context is pleased to sponsor a community workshop by Montview neighborhood resident Sigrid Schmalzer. This workshop will take place on Thursday, September 8 from 5:30-7 PM at the […]


Health & Healing for Community Resilience: two workshops at Montview Neighborhood Farm

August 30th, 2011  |  by  |  published in featured, Featured Events

Health & Healing for Community Resilience: two workshops at Montview Neighborhood Farm

On Sunday, September 18th Montview Neighborhood Farm, in collaboration with C3, will be hosting two workshops on Health & Healing for Community Resilience as part of the L/A/N/D Project.  The workshops are $25-60 each and $40-100 for both, sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Space is limited. Please register at […]


Exploring The Edge With Julia Handschuh

August 27th, 2011  |  by  |  published in featured, featured artists, Uncategorized

Exploring The Edge With Julia Handschuh

If Julia Handchuh was an element, I think she’d be water. First of all, she’s cool as ice. Her presence is deep and refreshing, and her quality of movement and language is calm, quick, and flows freely. She’s always changing forms. Like a spring, Julia feeds her community with fresh and insightful work, enhancing our […]


Chalk Art Festival

August 19th, 2011  |  by  |  published in C3 picks, featured, Uncategorized

Chalk Art Festival

Get paid to draw with chalk! The Center for the Arts is seeking artists to participate in the second annual Northampton Chalk Art Festival scheduled for Friday, September 9, 2011. This year’s festival is scheduled from 8 am until 8 pm and is a part of Northampton’s Arts Night Out. Selected artists will be invited […]


Clusters: An Interview with Deborra Stewart-Pettengill

August 15th, 2011  |  by  |  published in featured, featured artists

Clusters: An Interview with Deborra Stewart-Pettengill

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 […]


Shared Backyard Design Presentation

August 12th, 2011  |  by  |  published in featured, Featured Events

Shared Backyard Design Presentation

Tuesday 8/16 at 7 PM Whoo Space, 11 Market Street, Northampton Three Northampton neighbors decided to take their fences down and combine their yards to create a larger space for shared recreation and food production. The Umass Permaculture Design course, taught by C3 collaborator Lisa DePiano of Montview Neighborhood Farm,  was tasked with coming up […]


C3 Raises the Roof

August 1st, 2011  |  by  |  published in C3 news, featured

C3 Raises the Roof

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 […]