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Featured Listings:

Amanda Barrow's Monotype & Gel Plate Printing Workshops

Date & Time: Monotype: Saturday, February 22 / Gel Plate: Sunday, February 23
Fee: $145 for Monotype class / $110 for Gel Plate class / $245 for both
Location: Amanda Barrow Printmaking Studio
Address: Eastworks, 116 Pleasant Street, #244
City/Town: Easthampton
Website: artlink.click/d246b3

RELEASE YOUR INNER INK! Take the classes separately or experience a Printmaking Power Combo! Monotype & Gel Plate prints = one-of-a-kind prints! Paint on a sheet of plastic, place paper over it, & run it through my printing press, or on top of the Gel Plate. Play w/ AKUA soy-based inks, brushes, & different papers to create original prints. Materials included, share ink; take home 7 prints with each class! No Experience Necessary! I've been teaching for 35 yrs & love it! Next workshop: March 22/23.

Contact: [email protected]

The World Famous Artoonist's Art Heist

Artist: Kahli Hernandez
Start Date: February 8, 2025
End Date: April 4, 2025
Location: Amy H Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at STCC
Hours: Mon & Wed 12:30-4:30pm, Tue & Thur 1-5pm, Fri 12:15-3:15pm
Address: 1 Armory Street
City/Town: Springfield
Website: stcc.io/carberry

The Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College celebrates Black History Month with Springfield artist Kahli Hernandez's The World Famous Artoonist's Art Heist. This dynamic, interactive art exhibition is an escape room and an art exhibition with an imaginative street-style expression. Viewers will encounter puzzles to solve while attempting to avoid vigilant "security" and escape with some original Artoonist artwork if completed correctly.

Contact: Sondra Peron
[email protected]
413-695-3196

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Artist: Xuân Pham
Start Date: February 13, 2025
End Date: March 16, 2025
Reception Date: February 13, 5-7pm
Location: Hampshire College Art Gallery
Address: 893 West Street
City/Town: Amherst
Website: hampshire.edu/gallery

Xuân Pham experiments with ephemeral materials from the everyday experiences of Vietnamese immigrants--such as rice paper, pandan, and brooms--to reflect on the legacies of displacement, migration, and race within Asian American and immigrant communities in the United States. In this exhibition, Pham views the exhibition space as an extension of her studio--a place not just for viewing but also for collaborative creation, destruction, and renewal.

Contact: Lorenzo Conte
[email protected]
978-609-3379

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