Art in Paradise: Paradise Poet

Art in Paradise: Paradise Poet

It’s remarkable that a city the size of Northampton wants a poet laureate. It’s more remarkable yet that Northampton’s 30-ish thousand residents include a sufficient number of poets to sustain the office of laureate. The office, with its two-year...
Silicon Farmers of the Pioneer Valley

Silicon Farmers of the Pioneer Valley

It’s a typical day in the affectionately named “Nerdodrome,” the Hampshire College headquarters of Bit Films, which describes itself as “in part, an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry” in the field of computer...
North Easton's Public Palaces

North Easton's Public Palaces

As exciting as spring is for anyone who appreciates leaves on a tree or green grass underfoot, for landscape architects it’s a season with added thrills—with professional consequences. In their art form, the brushstrokes they make—the geographical...
Princesses and Saints

Princesses and Saints

At the intersection of Easthampton’s Union and Cottage Streets, you’ll find One Cottage Street. Look up on the Union Street side, and you’ll see a couple of giant snowflakes in two windows. Those windows look out from the studio space of illustrator...
Art in Paradise: Ramble On

Art in Paradise: Ramble On

Outside the Oxbow Gallery rests an odd contraption. A steam kettle sits on a hot plate. From its spout, a piece of garden hose exits. The hose then enters a long rectangular box made of cut-up insulation of some sort. Here and there, a bit of steam leaks out....