A note from ECA's Arts & Culture Program Director
Dear ECA Community,
Easthampton City Arts is thrilled to announce our 20th Anniversary Year of community arts and cultural programming in the City of Easthampton! We extend our immense gratitude to each and every one of you who has played a part in establishing our organization, volunteered as an ECA Committee & Subcommittee Member, participated as a Visual Artist, Musician, Poet, or Performer, contributed to our programming as an event attendee or volunteer, and has shared your voice and vision with us as dedicated community members!
As a municipal organization, we orient ourselves and operate in direct response and relationship to this vital and evolving community we are a part of — and we are simultaneously honored, proud, and humbled to reach this meaningful milestone, as the direct result of working and growing together. Thank you all so much!
To celebrate, we’ve got a robust lineup of public programming throughout 2025 that’s free and engaging for people of all ages — and we encourage you all to mark your calendars for all that’s to come! And, if you aren’t familiar with ECA’s unique history and role in the City, you can learn more about it here.
COMMUNITY EVENTS & FESTIVALS
Art Walk: First Saturdays of the Month
February-December // Various Locations
*Congratulations to our incoming roster of ECA Gallery Artists!
Easthampton Futures Project Public Sharing
Wednesday January 22 @ 6pm // Old Town Hall
Have a Heart for Public Art
Sunday March 2, 10am-1pm // Galaxy
Art Floats Easthampton
Saturday May 17, 2-4pm // Nashawannuck Pond
Cultural Chaos
Saturday June 14, 12-5pm // Cottage Street Cultural District
Light Up the Arts
Date & Location Will Be Announced…
ECA POETRY EVENTS
Easthampton Poet Laureate Exhibition
April 5-30 // ECA Gallery @ Old Town Hall
What Is the Flavor of Poetry?
April 5-30 // Mt. Tom’s Homemade Ice Cream
Poetry Poster Project
April 5-30 // Cottage Street Storefronts
Voices of Easthampton &
Easthampton Poet Laureate Inauguration
Saturday April 26, 2pm // CitySpace
WEEKLY SPOTLIGHTS on OUR SOCIALS
- #ECAMondayMemories
- #ECALocalSpotlight
- #ECA20th
*We encourage you all to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to receive regular updates and announcements about these programs and more! AND, we encourage you to sign up for our monthly newsletter, too! Many thanks to each and every one of you for supporting and celebrating our beloved community of local working artists in all the ways you do!
With art + heart,
Pasqualina Azzarello
Arts & Culture Program Director
Easthampton City Arts
Eca News
Annoucements
Reposting an opportunity for artists and makers who are looking for a place to sell their art! See below for more info on the Art Bazaar pop-up market at @cityspace413✨
“Organized by Doris Madsen @dorismadsen and Marjory Zaik @zaikmarjory , Art Bazaar is seeking artists, makers, and collectors to sell at a fun, creatively inspiring, affordable, pop-up market taking place in The Blue Room at CitySpace @cityspace413 , 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA on Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 12-5.
Sellers should offer an eclectic range of affordable items curated with the buyer in mind: original artwork/handiwork or work by others; materials/supplies; vintage items; ephemera (booklets, photos, postcards, handmade paper, etc.); creative reuse items suitable for repurposing. Wares are ideally priced at a low end of $1-$5 to a high end of $25.
Email artbazaar01027@gmail.com to apply”
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Resharing an art residency opportunity posted by @artshub.wma!
“📣Long Meadow Art Residency 2025 @longmeadowartresidency ✨
Long Meadow Art Residency is a six week – three-month solo residency nestled in the Berkshire Mountains. LMAR offers studio space and housing, allowing time for artists to retreat and deepen their practice.
✅ The residency provides a $3,000 monthly living stipend, a $2,500 supply budget, as well as access to a vehicle for transportation.
🗓️ Deadline to apply: February 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST”
To find more information on the application and residency, go to @artshub.wma bio on Instagram and find the link.
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Easthampton City Arts is looking forward to the Easthampton Futures Project Public Sharing event, taking place on Wednesday January 22 @ CitySpace. We encourage you all to attend this special event! It will serve as a “community check-in” at the halfway point of the 10-year plan for Arts & Culture in Easthampton. We’ll be sharing the ways this plan has directly informed our programming over the past 5 years — and we will also be seeking community input for future opportunities, too. Many thanks to @dpict.info for their imagination, collaboration, and efforts on this project — and many thanks to @cityspace413 for hosting this public sharing!
Here’s some background for those who aren’t familiar with the Easthampton Futures Project — EFP was a thoughtfully co-designed, months-long community visioning process about the future of arts and culture in the City of Easthampton, that generated new goals and strategies for a municipal master-plan. And, at the same time, it was a powerful demonstration and actualization of non-traditional models of participatory planning and meaningful civic engagement that allowed for the complexities of our City and our time. The final public sharing event — pictured in these slides — took place under a blanket fort, around an electric, cardboard campfire, and involved meaningful discussion, reflection, and poetry. Our mayor was present, as were city councilors, children, teenagers, elders, artists, new residents, and people who’ve lived in Easthampton their whole lives. All this to say, we gathered input from community members with a wide range of perspectives and experiences — and we are proud of how the plan that was made has helped us to navigate an ever-evolving City through some distinctly challenging times.
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On display at Oxbow Gallery @oxbowgallery through February 2nd, ‘Transition Quilts’ by Kathy Ford @a.quiltmakers.way and ‘Radical Color’ by Elizabeth Meyersohn @elizabeth_meyersohn will be available for viewing🌟
We hope you’ll get a chance to explore this impressive and vibrant show!
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Tonight (Saturday January 11th 4:30-8pm) at 50 Arrow Gallery @50arrowgallery, Artist Lisa Brown’s Solo Show ‘Small Hands Big Dreams’ will be opening for viewing! @d.c.mamacita
“Lisa’s cyanotypes on raw canvas celebrate resilience and the beauty of Northern Ghana’s youth while exploring healing, self-discovery, and cultural preservation.”
50 Arrow Gallery will also be celebrating the “Closing Ceremony of the PeaceBirds Project and Evocation
Created by Mona Shiber and JuPong Lin, the PeaceBirds Project transforms grief into hope, with over 40,000 origami doves and cranes folded to honor lives lost since October 7, 2023. Be part of this powerful closing ceremony as we reflect and celebrate unity and healing”🕊️
We hope you’ll get the chance to experience this evening of connection, reflection, and inspiring art!
📍 50 Arrow Gallery
116 Pleasant St., Suite 136, Easthampton, MA
@d.c.mamacita darrellclemmer13 @clearvisionstudio @juponglin
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Sharing out @mxedgreens post about an awesome community art making opportunity!
“❄️ QUEER ART LOUNGE ❄️
join us Sat Jan 18th 6-8pm for art making - we’ll have supplies for linocut printing, embroidery, paper crafts, and and feel free to bring your materials or whatever project you are currently excited about
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Feel free to come solo, bring a friend/date/your kids, and be social or in your own lane.
We aren’t charging a cover for this event, but if you’re using materials from the studio, $5-$10 is appreciated to make these events sustainable to keep hosting.
all ages welcome ~ KN95, N95, or equivalent respirator masks required for everyone while in the studio💋😷 (just like for all our studio events, lil up-downs for tea/hydration inside is great, but for longer mask breaks or snacking we ask that folks into the hallway!)”
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While the wildlife of Nashawannuck Pond are asleep for the winter, a glimpse of warmer days can be found on the corner of Cottage & Pine Street. We love seeing Peggy Grose’s mural lighting up Easthampton and reminding us of the spring to come🌱
@bigboy_and_littlepaws
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Reposting @easthamptonclay and their post detailing how to get involved with their studio in the Spring Term🪴
“Happy first day of Winter term! We’re so excited to meet all the new faces joining us in the studio, and all the lovely friends returning for class this term 🩵❄️
Winter term always flies by! If you weren’t able to register this term, it’s not too early to mark your calendars for February 3rd, when registration for our Spring term opens to the public. Sign up for our newsletter at the link in our bio and be the first to know when spring classes are live! In the meantime, have a great winter everyone. We can’t wait to see you, where clay meets community ❣️🏺”
📸: @msellaneoushandmade
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Are you familiar with ECA’s origin story? Here’s a little snapshot for our first #ECAMondayMemories post, as part of our 20th Anniversary year 💜
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