This Friday, February 13, 5:00–8:00 pm, there's a reception for Nature Printed, Stitched, and Pieced at the Northampton Center for the Arts Barn Door Gallery, located at 33 Hawley Street in Northampton. The show presents recent work by Amanda Maciuba, Sharon McCartney, and Bonnie Sennott, three western Massachusetts fiber artists. From 7:00 to 7:30 pm, gallery associate Joie Gonzalez will lead an informal talk with the artists.
In addition to the reception and artist talk, there will be lots happening throughout the building: live music, additional art exhibits in the center's Mezzanine and Split Level Galleries, a meetup of the Noho Art Club, and more. Elsewhere in Northampton, the Smith College Art Museum will be open until 8:00 pm that evening, A.P.E. Gallery on Main Street has a collaborative light installation, and the small works show at Hope & Feathers will be open 5:00–8:30 pm. All February Arts Night Out Events
The weather for Friday is looking absolutely perfect (well, for February): sunny and clear and no precipitation. If you can't make the reception, I hope you can see the exhibit another time. Gallery hours are Wednesday–Saturday, noon–7:00 pm. The show continues through Thursday, February 26.
Bonnie Sennott, Urge and Urge and Urge, 2025, pearl cotton on linen, 10 inches x 10 inches
Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.
Out of the dimness opposite equals advance . . . . Always substance and increase,
Always a knit of identity . . . . always distinction . . . . always a breed of life.
—from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
Installation in progress
