Current Show • January 7 to February 27, 2021
(Window Only)
BRIDGE THROUGH MY WINDOW:
In Support of Black Lives Matter
ART FORUM ON ZOOM
Thursday, February 4 at 7:30 pm
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BRIDGE THROUGH MY WINDOW: In Support of Black Lives Matter
Continuing a series of gallery window exhibitions, Gallery A3 presents Bridge Through My Window: In Support of Black Lives Matter, a group show by member artists, opening on Thursday, January 7 and running through February 27, 2021. An Art Forum will be held on Zoom on Thursday, February 4 at 7:30 pm.
The exhibition's title, “Bridge through My Window,” takes inspiration from an Audre Lorde poem of the same name. The show is a collection of works by gallery members that seek through their making and viewing to convey a sense of looking inward as artists in regards to race, privilege and collective change. As white artists we hope to learn as we go – to open up and expand our “tokenism” to genuinely protest racism.
Audre Lorde famously introduced herself to audiences as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." Her work bridged experiences and ideas that others might see as separate: art and politics, race and sexuality, economics and culture. According to The Poetry Foundation, "Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia."
This exhibition in the gallery’s windows represents Gallery A3’s efforts to keep visual art actively present in the community, despite restrictions due to the coronavirus. In addition to the gallery’s front windows, exhibition space expands into the adjacent storefront of the temporarily closed GoBerry Frozen Yogurt in Amherst.
Gallery A3, an artists’ cooperative, is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The gallery also thanks GoBerry Frozen Yogurt for graciously allowing its windows to serve as exhibition space for BRIDGE THROUGH MY WINDOW.
*Quote from (Poetry Foundation. (n.d.). Audre Lorde. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde
BELONGING: Zoom Art Forum
Thursday, February 4 at 7:30 pm
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As part of a two-month exhibit “Bridge Through My Window: In Support of Black Lives Matter,” Gallery A3 presents an art forum addressing the issues of inclusion, diversity and belonging. Registration is required for this zoom event.
Moderator/Coordinator: Sue Katz is one of the founding members of Gallery A3 and the Amherst Art Walk. Katz wanted a place where she and her art work could belong, and where the whole community could share art. Katz is also a graphic designer, and created the gallery logo, which is about belonging and community. She now asks how to bridge through our gallery “window” to artists of every color.
Presenters:
Yvonne Mendez is an educator, arts event producer and media artist living in Amherst, MA. Through her engagement work, digital storytelling and videography, Yvonne advances her ideals of community building, empowering youth and adults and promoting social equity and justice.
Marianne Connolly is an artist and writer living in Amherst, MA. She’s been a member of Gallery A3 since it’s founding in 2002, and coordinates the gallery’s online and social media presence. Marianne has an MFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Mass. College of Art, and has worked in collage, photography and time-based media.
Val Gilman is an artist, coach for artists and creatives and an educator living in Shutesbury MA and has been a member of Gallery A3 since 2016. She is the owner of Taproot Arts and Insight through which she supports artists and creatives to work from a place of integrity and authenticity, tapping into vulnerable places at the edge of their own growth, and to get it out into the world because as members of our cultures, our very personal edge of growth mirrors the edge of growth in our cultures. Bringing compassion to our vulnerability and integrity through our work is healing to our overlapping cultures.
Paul Dennis, MFA, CMA* (he, his, him) is an Associate Professor in the Dance program at UMass Amherst and the Five College Dance (FCD). A former member of the José Limón Dance Company, Paul's current research, “Movement Intervention for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND): Dance for Huntington’s Disease (DfHD) uses movement analysis to develop nontraditional movement intervention programs for people living with HD.
Continuing a series of gallery window exhibitions, Gallery A3 presents Bridge Through My Window: In Support of Black Lives Matter, a group show by member artists, opening on Thursday, January 7 and running through February 27, 2021. An Art Forum will be held on Zoom on Thursday, February 4 at 7:30 pm.
The exhibition's title, “Bridge through My Window,” takes inspiration from an Audre Lorde poem of the same name. The show is a collection of works by gallery members that seek through their making and viewing to convey a sense of looking inward as artists in regards to race, privilege and collective change. As white artists we hope to learn as we go – to open up and expand our “tokenism” to genuinely protest racism.
Audre Lorde famously introduced herself to audiences as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." Her work bridged experiences and ideas that others might see as separate: art and politics, race and sexuality, economics and culture. According to The Poetry Foundation, "Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia."
This exhibition in the gallery’s windows represents Gallery A3’s efforts to keep visual art actively present in the community, despite restrictions due to the coronavirus. In addition to the gallery’s front windows, exhibition space expands into the adjacent storefront of the temporarily closed GoBerry Frozen Yogurt in Amherst.
Gallery A3, an artists’ cooperative, is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The gallery also thanks GoBerry Frozen Yogurt for graciously allowing its windows to serve as exhibition space for BRIDGE THROUGH MY WINDOW.
*Quote from (Poetry Foundation. (n.d.). Audre Lorde. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde
BELONGING: Zoom Art Forum
Thursday, February 4 at 7:30 pm
Click to register
As part of a two-month exhibit “Bridge Through My Window: In Support of Black Lives Matter,” Gallery A3 presents an art forum addressing the issues of inclusion, diversity and belonging. Registration is required for this zoom event.
Moderator/Coordinator: Sue Katz is one of the founding members of Gallery A3 and the Amherst Art Walk. Katz wanted a place where she and her art work could belong, and where the whole community could share art. Katz is also a graphic designer, and created the gallery logo, which is about belonging and community. She now asks how to bridge through our gallery “window” to artists of every color.
Presenters:
Yvonne Mendez is an educator, arts event producer and media artist living in Amherst, MA. Through her engagement work, digital storytelling and videography, Yvonne advances her ideals of community building, empowering youth and adults and promoting social equity and justice.
Marianne Connolly is an artist and writer living in Amherst, MA. She’s been a member of Gallery A3 since it’s founding in 2002, and coordinates the gallery’s online and social media presence. Marianne has an MFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Mass. College of Art, and has worked in collage, photography and time-based media.
Val Gilman is an artist, coach for artists and creatives and an educator living in Shutesbury MA and has been a member of Gallery A3 since 2016. She is the owner of Taproot Arts and Insight through which she supports artists and creatives to work from a place of integrity and authenticity, tapping into vulnerable places at the edge of their own growth, and to get it out into the world because as members of our cultures, our very personal edge of growth mirrors the edge of growth in our cultures. Bringing compassion to our vulnerability and integrity through our work is healing to our overlapping cultures.
Paul Dennis, MFA, CMA* (he, his, him) is an Associate Professor in the Dance program at UMass Amherst and the Five College Dance (FCD). A former member of the José Limón Dance Company, Paul's current research, “Movement Intervention for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND): Dance for Huntington’s Disease (DfHD) uses movement analysis to develop nontraditional movement intervention programs for people living with HD.
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ADDITIONAL LINKS: Find visit us on Instagram, Facebook, and our new Vimeo page. Amherst Media: Pictures at an Exhibition: Video Interview with Constance Hamilton Daily Hampshire Gazette: Art, demystified: ‘Pictures at an exhibition’ features TV interviews with artists in Amherst (featuring Constance Hamilton) ARTISTS IN COMMUNITY
Forums and videos are part of the Artists in Community program. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. 
Top Image: John, Keith Hollingworth, mixed media collage Right: HOW (to relate to Black Lives Matter), Sue Katz, mixed media Above: Vision III, The Destruction Of Hate, Margaret Jean Taylor, etching |