It’s a Flea Market World: New Works by Kelly Moore

Thursday, February 11 – Tuesday, March 9
Augusta Savage Gallery

Fully-engaged and totally original, Kelly Moore lives in Santa Fe, where he can be found painting on canvas and paper, as well as on other more unlikely surfaces such as used tubes of paint, discarded paint brushes, wooden boxes, and electrical wiring. His dolls, hung along the sides of his flea market vendor’s booth, pop up between paintings of faces, crows, hillsides, and a range of references, marks and gestures that emerge from deep places inside him. His works have a poetic quality, giving back to us what we bring to them. About himself, he says: these are my words eye was born a black crow on the 13th day of a scorpio moon in the foothills of the arkansas ozark mountains to my scottish irish parents dismay… they took me in nonetheless, fed me, clothed me, sent me to schools and tried to domesticate me… eye attempted to live a normal life… finding employment, trying to marry and even voting regularly but failed mostly and when eye reached full crow adulthood realized eye could no longer deny my coyote nature and immediately began turning over tables and rattling the cages folks immediately said eye was crazy and lots complained eye should stop what eye was doin (those is the folks that let you know you is doing something rite) eye knew this was an important breakthrough and immediately started looking for matches and kerosine and have been settin fires ever since thank you for reading my words

Stand With Haiti

Thursday, February 11
UMass Fine Arts Center Concert Hall 7:00 pm
General Admission $20; $10 for students and youth 17 and under

Tickets available for purchase online now
The UMass Marching Band (tent.) The Young at Heart Chorus, Tehillah (St. Johns Congregational Gospel Choir, Joe Velez Quintet, UMass Jazz Ensemble I, FlavaEvolution Jazz Quartet
And Special Guests

All proceeds to benefit Partners in Health. PIH has been working on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years. PIH works to bring modern medical care to poor communities in nine countries around the world.

Sponsored by the UMass Fine Arts Center, UMass Office of Student Development, The UMass Amherst Springfield Initiative, the UMass Dept. of Music and Dance, UMass Haitian Student Association. WFCR/WNNZ, WGBY, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, the Valley Advocate, and the Northampton Arts Council.

Sailing the Barbarous Coast

Opening Reception: Sailing the Barbarous Coast
Central Gallery
Thursday, February 11, 4-6pm

Thursday, February 11 – Thursday, March 11

In the two person exhibition, Sailing the Barbarous Coast, Anthony Smith Jr.’s gestural sequential painting is paired with Colin Matthes’ flat, brusque, obsessive drawing- based work to form an exhibition that reflects a sense of uncertainty in the midst of economic calamity, social unrest, and global disruption.
Both artists create work influenced by war and consumption, sex, race, and well as the current global fiscal crisis. This work naturally draws connections between militarism, consumerism and economic hardship. With an eye to humor, irony, and mischief, the artists combine representations of global events with imagery sparked by personal experiences in their own roller-coaster like lives.

About the Artists

Anthony Smith
Anthony Smith’s paintings combine abstract expression with epic narratives that explore human will, slavery, and love.
Anthony’s paintings have recently been exhibited as part of “Icograms” at the Newton Art Center (Newton, Massachusetts) and at the Holland Area Arts Council (Holland, Michigan). He was a contributing artist to the critically noted “Harlem World” exhibit at the Studio Museum of Harlem in 2004. From 2000 to 2003, his work was displayed in studios and galleries in Michigan, New York and Texas.
Anthony moved to New York City where he currently resides in the Inwood section of Manhattan.

Colin Matthes
Colin Matthes, an artist based in Milwaukee, WI, works across a range of media including drawing, sculpture, installation, public art, print, and self-publishes the zine Ideas in Pictures. His artwork has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Denmark, Spain, and Austria. In 2009 Matthes completed a solo-exhibition at the University of Texas-Pan American, created an installation at the Armory Gallery (Milwaukee, WI), and made a wall drawing for a group exhibition at the Haggerty Museum (Milwaukee, WI). 2010 exhibitions include two-person shows with Anthony Smith at The New Art Center, Newton, MA and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

He works on collective art projects including Justseeds, Street Art Workers, and Cut and Paint zine (www.cutandpaint.org). For more information: Ideas in Pictures

Free and open to the public

A Collective Dialogue with a Collection Raphy Griswold, Teddy O’Connor, Ali Osborn

Wednesday, February 10 – Sunday, May 16
University Gallery

This exhibition is the third annual exhibition at the University Gallery in which artists are invited to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the University Gallery’s works-on-paper collection, which includes over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs.

This year’s exhibition features the work of an artists’ “collective”—Northampton artists Raphy Griswold, Ali Osborn, and Teddy O’Connor—who will position their work alongside works they select from the UMass permanent art collection and place them in direct dialogue with one another. Griswold, O’Connor, and Osborn are relatively new to the local art community, having had their first group exhibitions in 2007 and 2008 at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton. For these three artists, banning together does not entail artistic collaboration, but rather, helps address a broad range of practical concerns, including access to materials, living and work space, exhibition opportunities and funding.

Greening The Valley: Sustainable Architecture in the Pioneer Valley

Wednesday, February 10 – Sunday, May 16
University Gallery

This exhibition is designed to deepen the public’s understanding and use of “green” design and to demonstrate how the key elements of sustainability can be accessible to all. In its relatively short history, sustainable architecture has been the purview of highly trained individuals and organizations devoted to energy efficiency or technological innovation often shortchanging the design aspects of sustainable architecture. This has begun to change in the past couple of years with many architects now thoroughly engaged in sustainable design when it comes to the building of new homes and places of work and public congress.

As the concept of sustainable architecture requires broad systemic thinking, issues around economic, social, and environmental sustainability inevitably play a critical role. The exhibition addresses these issues with commentaries, dialogue and thought provoking questions. In addition to visual inspiration the exhibition explores the accessibility and availability of green materials from local vendors, architects, contractors and builders.

The exhibition will showcase a variety of architectural models, videos, and plans of existing buildings throughout the valley that marry sustainable contemporary design with sustainable contemporary technology.

Highlights will include a display of locally available green material; panel discussions; “The Green Lounge” – a meeting area within the gallery for informanl public conversations; “Family Days” – in collaboration with the Hitchcock Center for the Environment; continuing education credits provided by the Western Massachusetts chapter of the American Institute of Architects; guided tours of select buildings; and a day-long symposium featuring prominent professionals and artists in the field.

Exhibition guest curated by architectural historian Margaret Vickery.

Imani Winds with Stefon Harris

The Grammy-nominated Imani Winds have taken a unique path, carving out a distinct presence in the classical music world with their dynamic playing, culturally poignant programming, and genre-blurring collaborations. This concert will feature their unique collaboration with jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris whose passionate artistry, energetic stage presence, and astonishing virtuosity have propelled him into the forefront of the current jazz scene.

In addition to the performance of Harris’ work A Sonic Painting in Wood, Metal and Wind, the concert will feature Imani Winds and Harris playing together and separately. According to Harris, “We will blur the lines between improvisation and composition, and in turn, between classical and jazz, by introducing improvisation to the woodwind quintet.”

“If it’s possible for a classically trained wind quintet to rock the house, Imani Winds blows the roof off.”
—All Things Considered, National Public Radio

Funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies.

Wednesday, February 3
Bowker Auditorium 7:30 PM
$25, $15, Five College/GCC/STCC students and Youth 17 and under: $15

Mark Morris Dance Group

Mark Morris’s company of exuberant dancers lives up to its reputation of wit, grace, and a refined musicality that is further reinforced by Morris’s use of live musicians in every performance. It is not just dance at the highest level, but simultaneously, concert-going at the highest level—a perfect blend of sound and movement, all happening in the moment. Sublime.

Tuesday, February 2
Concert Hall 7:30 PM
$40, $30, $15, Five College/GCC/STCC and Youth 17 and under: $15

Strega Nona

Adapted from the work by Tomie dePaola

Monday, February 8
Concert Hall
$6 students, $8 adults

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Based on the children’s book by Tomie dePaola, Strega Nona is the musical tale of a friendly magical witch who strives to cure the ills of her tiny Italian town. The baker has bunions (“As big as an onion”), his daughter wishes for witchery, and the local single ladies are always unlucky in love. When a local lug named Big Anthony fools with the magic pasta pot, and can’t figure out how to turn it off, pasta threatens to engulf the whole town – unless Strega Nona can save the day. With a fantastic cast and brilliant lyrics, this musical will transport your students to a magical place. Encourage your students to stretch their imagination by exploring the book, Strega Nona prior to your FAC visit.
Curriculum Connections: Theater, Music, Magical Illusions, Literature, Storytelling Role-playing, Concepts of Imagination and Problem Solving