Augusta Savage Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday & Tuesday 1-7pm, and Wednesday through Friday 1-5pm while the University is in session.
Current Events || Past Events
 Young Artists: Images from Israel
Tuesday, September 24 - Friday, October 18, 2002
An exhibit of children’s art coordinated by two Israeli teachers, Phyllis Gross and Haya Cohen. The children are presenting their visual images of war and peace in these challenging times.
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 Islamic Art: Peace and Beauty
Arabic Calligraphy by M.J. Alhabeeb
Monday, October 28 - Friday, November 22, 2002
Iraqi painter and UMass Resource Economics professor exhibits his works inspired by the ancient and breathtaking Islamic calligraphy traditions.
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 Such Sweet Thunder: Views on Black American Music
Tuesday, February 18 - Friday, March 14, 2003
An exhibit of photography documenting 11 years of UMass’s Black Musicians Festival. This exhibit features 30 classic Black & White portraits of great names and faces from the years 1988-99.
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 Michael Coblyn: The Way I See It
Tuesday, March 25 - Friday, April 18, 2003
Coblyn refers to his work as “Social Expressionism.“ When asked about the inspiration for this new body of work, Coblyn says he often looks to the past for visual resources. “This exploration has exposed me to the richness, craftsmanship and spirituality of the cultures of Africa and Ancient Mexico. The complexities of the present and the possibilities of the future are also a constant basis of imagery, concept and metaphor. The social history and current events of our world are such a powerful and compelling source of aesthetic guidance for me and I have attempted to use their influence.”
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 BFA Thesis Exhibition
Diana Simard: Tableaus and Innuendos
Thursday, May 1 - Thursday, May 8, 2003
Inspired by the aesthetics of seventies video, and executed in a meticulous classic painting method, Simard’s paintings deal with notions of intimacy and artifice.
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 Thesis Exibition - Michael O'Bannon
Monday, May 12 - Friday, May 16, 2003
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 Twenty-six Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Thursday, September 25 - Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Augusta Savage Gallery is delighted to announce the op ening of the exhibition of poetry by Raymond R. Patterson (1929 - 2001) along with images and calligraphic text by artist, Benn T.F.Nadelman.
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 The Desert is No Lady
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
A film by Shelley Williams and Susan Palmer, looks at the Southwest through the eyes of its leading contemporary artists and writers. It features nine women from Pueblo, Navajo, Mexican American and Anglo backgrounds.
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 La Lucha Continua/ The Struggle Continues
Campesino Art from Solentiname, Nicaragua
Wednesday, October 29 - Tuesday, November 25, 2003
This exhibit of paintings and crafts from an archipelago of small volcanic islands celebrates the revolutionary vision of artists in their struggle for social change.
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 Judyie Al-Bilali
Thursday, October 30, 2003
New York-based actress, writer and Fulbright Scholar reads from her new works. Blending passion and process, she talks about her teaching method called Brown Paper Studio, and recent residency with South African youth, which was sponsored by the gallery’s new Arts International Residency
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 Jin Hi Kim
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Recital and talk by acclaimed Korean-born and Connecticut-based Komomgo player. She brings together the new and the old, blending the sound of this traditional Korean instrument with exceptional talent as an adventurous new music improviser.
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 BFA Show
Patricia Siudut Rachel Allison Esancy
Monday, December 8 - Friday, December 12, 2003
Rachel Allison Esancy's For your Bitter Little Heart and Patricia Siudut's Nightscapes
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 Young Artists: A Moment in Tamulte
Tuesday, February 10 - Friday, March 12, 2004
This exhibit features photographs of family, friends and local scenes from a workshop with Mayan teens in Tabasco, Mexico. The workshop conducted by Michael O’Bannon , is part of the gallery’s new Arts International Residency.
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 Three Bags Full
Thursday, March 25 - Friday, April 23, 2004
An exhibition of imaginative handbags featuring Marlene Housner, Amy Corey, and Rachel Pfeffer
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 Song Hee Lee
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
A demonstration of Korean ritual dance by Song Hee Lee, formerly a member of the Pusan Metropolitan Dance company and presently based in New York City.
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 Miya Masaoka
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Performance by improvisational Koto player from Japan
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Student Shows (TBA)
Monday, May 3 - Friday, May 7, 2004
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Mario Avila
INTERIORS
Monday, September 20 - Friday, October 15, 2004
INTERIORS features luscious, detailed, abstracted views of Mexico City. Using oil paints on paper, Mario Avila offers us a perspective rarely seen. He says: "The world is chaotic and only by choosing its components do we give it form and name it."
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 Maria Mitchell
Monday, September 27, 2004
7:00 pm Maria Mitchell’s presence on the stage is mesmerizing! Her expressive style, fierce energy, and sensitive timing display an impressive range of influences on her work, including modern and jazz techniques, traditional West African movement, the healing arts, and a long-standing passion for African American literary work.
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 Henry Grimes
Thursday, October 14, 2004
7:00 pm Henry Grimes will perform a concert of bass music in the jazz tradition. His skills and credentials as a master bassist are unsurpassed, but his story is unique and complex. Missing from the music world since the late '60s,Grimes has made an unprecedented comeback after receiving the gift of a bass to replace the instrument Henry had given up some 20 years ago. Miraculously, he is playing at the very height of his artistic powers today. Still in his sixties, healthy and strong, his courageous story has inspired all those privileged to know him and hear him.
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 Anchor House
After Dibutade: Four Women from the Anchor House of Artists
Wednesday, October 27 - Tuesday, November 23, 2004
This show features work by Genevieve Burnett, Wendy Chicoine, Virginia Harlow, and Deborah. Neoclassic poets once attributed the origin of picture making to a legendary Corinthian woman named Dibutade. She traced her lover’s shadow on the wall so that her lover’s form would then be with her while her lover was gone abroad. Four women from the Anchor House of Artists, the collective atelier and gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts that represents artists living with mental illnesses, cling to the same spirit of remembrance in their art.
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 Ras Jahn Bullock
Thursday, February 10 - Friday, March 11, 2005
Portrait drawings of renowned musicians.
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 Carlos Santiago Arroyo and Angel Sanchez Ortiz
Masks and Santos:The Earthly and the Holy in Puerto Rican Popular Culture
Monday, March 28 - Friday, April 22, 2005
Sculptures of saints by Carlos Santiago Arroyo, and festival
masks by Angel Sanchez Ortiz.
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 The Ahisma Ensemble
Rahul Roy and Bob Weiner
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
7:00 pm Hailed as "mesmerizing", "hypnotic", and "visionary," their music is truly original. The Ahisma Ensemble is comprised of Rahul Roy and Bob Weiner: two passionate and committed musicians, who bestow their audiences with a unique auditory experience.
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 Jose Gonzales and Conjunto de Bomba
An evening of performances
Thursday, April 14, 2005
7:00 pm Jose Gonzales and Conjunto de Bomba offer a sensational evening of Puerto Rican music and dance! Don’t miss it!
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 Carmen Leonor Rivera-Lassen
lecture on contemporary Puerto Rican artisans
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
7:00 pm Ms. Rivera-Lassen gives a lecture on contemporary Puerto Rican artisans. Using a small exhibition of work as well as a slide presentation, she will give a history of the development of Puerto Rican crafts from the original inhabitants from the 19th century, to their contemporary forms.
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 BFA Thesis Exhibition
Emma Weisman and Jennifer Dardano
Monday, April 25 - Friday, April 29, 2005
BFA Thesis Exhibition of paintings by Emma Weisman and Jennifer Dardano.
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 BFA Thesis Exhibition
Alexia Cota and Tyler Jacobson
Monday, May 2 - Friday, May 6, 2005
BFA Thesis Exhibition of Paintings and Digital Images by Alexia Cota and Tyler Jacobson
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 BFA Thesis Exhibition
James Adelman and Sundai Bestman
Monday, May 9 - Friday, May 13, 2005
BFA Thesis Exhibition featuring paintings by James Adelman and Sundai Bestman.
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 Petri Dishes and Arthrax
Tuesday, September 20 - Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Local artist Edgar Sabogal returned to his homeland of Medellin, Colombia in 2004 as part of Augusta Savage Gallery's new Art International Residency Program where he worked and lived with gallery partners for one month. Upon his return, he began work on an exhibit that would tell a story about his experience. While in Medellin, Sabogal reflected on politics and "the sarcastic reality of recent plastic and duct tape scare tactics." This exhibit is his reaction to the recent anthrax scares.
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 Leroy Jenkins
Renowned violinist
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
7:00 pm Leroy Jenkins has been a pioneer and influential figure in the world of improvised music for over three decades.
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 Magdalena Gomez
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
7:00 pm Local award-winning theater artist in a bold and passionate solo performance
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 Kalaparush
Thursday, October 6, 2005
7:00 pm Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre is a multiple reed specialist who has appeared throughout the world in festivals and clubs, at colleges and universities, and on television and radio.
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 Dark Descendants
21 Days in Rodenbosch, South Africa
Wednesday, October 26 - Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Louisiana-born painter Donald Boudreaux spent three weeks in South Africa in January 2004 as part of Augusta Savage Gallery’s Arts International Residency Program (AIR). During his time there he visited artists and youth and experienced the challenges and victories of this post-Apartheid nation at such an important time in its history. This exhibit is a way of sharing what the artist learned.
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Africaura
Curated by Joseph Danjie
Monday, December 12 - Friday, December 16, 2005
Paintings by university students in Cameroon, West Africa explore the notion of progress and development through imagery and text.
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 Colors of My Soul, Textures of My Spirit
Artist Kiran Bhowmik
Thursday, February 9 - Thursday, March 9, 2006
Kiran Bhowmik is a local Shutesbury artist who earned her B.A. at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Raised in this area, she is now emerging into her full creative expression and speaks confidently about her path as an artist, explaining that the role of art in her life is for the expression of beauty, sadness and awe of the world.
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 Watching With My Ears
Cartoonist and painter Jorgo Schäfer
Monday, March 27 - Saturday, April 22, 2006
Jorgo Schäfer is a painter and cartoonist – and he loves free jazz. For the past five years, he has traveled to New York City. While there, he attends the cutting-edge Vision Festival, where he sits at a table within the audience and paints improvising musicians who perform throughout the week. This exhibit at the gallery features some of these recent watercolors.
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 The Makanda Project
a tribute to the late Makanda Ken McIntyre
Monday, April 3, 2006
7:00 pm This remarkable tribute is comprised of unrecorded works by the Boston-born saxophonist. John Kordalewski the arranger and coordinator of the project has arranged unrecorded compositions for 6 horns.
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 Kim Clarke and Tim Siciliano
Bassist and Guitarist Duo
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
7:00 pm Kim Clarke performs on the Acoustic Bass, Electric Upright and four and five-stringed Electric Bass Guitar as the situation demands. Her electric bass playing has been described as soulful and rich, and she has been touted internationally as "the only well-know woman bassist in Jazz -of her generation." Guitarist Tim Siciliano has been a fixture on the New York Jazz scene since the 1980’s.
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 Lenelle Moise
a evening of spoken word with poet/performer Lenelle Moise
Thursday, April 6, 2006
7:00 pm Lenelle Moise creates personal-political texts about the spirits in sexuality, maculinities, being bicultural, and the intersection of race, class, gender, and resistance.
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 My Own Prison: My Own Escape
photographs by Brianna Lamke
Monday, April 24 - Friday, April 28, 2006
A compilation of photographs celebrating the successes of, and exemplifying the struggles, facing a diverse group of women who have broken societal expectations to become respectable individuals.
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BFA Thesis: Valerie Nyby and Whit Rigali
Monday, May 1 - Friday, May 5, 2006
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BFA Thesis: Jason Forrest and Mike Kopson
Monday, May 8 - Friday, May 12, 2006
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 Hopes, Dreams, Sorrows
Artist Frank Diaz Escalet
Monday, September 18 - Friday, October 13, 2006
Exhibition of bold, vibrant paintings by Puerto Rican born artist. Colorful depictions of precious moments.
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 Steve Tracy
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
7:00 pm UMASS Afro-American Studies professor and harmonica player shares his passion for Blues. Performing with members of local Blues favorites, The King Bees.
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 Pablo Yglesias
Thursday, October 5, 2006
7:00 pm Slide presentation and talk to celebrate "Cocinando! Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art" by local author Pablo Yglesias. His book draws together the most beautiful, sexy, colorful, innovative, and creative Latin record covers from all the various genres of Latin music.
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 Ravish Momin
Friday, October 6, 2006
7:00 pm New York-based drummer leading his ensemble, Trio Tarana, rooted in the musical language of improvisation and experimentation.
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 On Being...and Finding Voice
Artist Charlotte Hill O'Neal
Tuesday, October 24 - Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Exhibition of inspired mixed media works by artist, community activist and former Black Panther.
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BFA Thesis Exhibit
Ian Moore and Jose Reynoso
Monday, December 4 - Friday, December 8, 2006
Ian Moore and Jose Reynoso present their BFA Theses.
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BFA Thesis Exhibit
Dana Bergstrom and Alla Lazebnik
Monday, December 11 - Friday, December 15, 2006
Dana Bergstrom and Alla Lazebnik present their BFA Theses.
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 Desplazamientos
Watercolors by local artist, Mercedes Taylor
Tuesday, February 13 - Tuesday, March 13, 2007
A series of watercolors developed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, abstract images capture the artist’s bi-cultural experience and her quest for home.
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 Myths and Moments
Assemblages by Shawn Farley
Monday, March 26 - Friday, April 20, 2007
Works in wood, oil, acrylic paint, and found objects find their inspirations in dreams and the mysterious hidden places of the mind.
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 Ron Welburn
A poetry reading exploring the worlds of the American Indian and the African American
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
7:00 pm Poetry reading by UMass English professor expoloring what he calls "Native American and Black color line". He will read from his sixth book of poems, 'Coming Through The Smoke And Dreaming' (2000)
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 Herb Robertson
NYC based trumpeter leads a trio in performance / Mark Helias, bass; Chis Lough, bass
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
7:00 pm An evening of music by NYC-based trumpeter leading his trio. This soulful and original player defies all catagories.
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 Avery Sharpe
Solo bass performance
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
7:00 pm Honesty, clarity, and dignity are words that come to mind when you hear the music of this Georgia-born player.
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Keli Stewart
Reading by poet, playwright and Afro-American Studies doctoral student
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
7:00 pm Her unpublished poetry collection entitled "Womanish" celebrates girl/womanhood and growing up in Chicago.
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 Andrea Assaf
Reading of recent works by New WORLDTheater director
Thursday, April 5, 2007
7:00 pm Offering intensity, focus, and commitment to visions of a new world.
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BFA Thesis Exhibition
Dylan Goettlich and Liza Lynch
Monday, May 7 - Friday, May 11, 2007
Dylan Goettlich and Liza Lynch present their BFA Thesis.
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BFA Thesis Exhibition
Rosanna Cipriani and Chloe Pollack-Robbins
Monday, May 14 - Friday, May 18, 2007
Rosanna Cipriani and Chloe Pollack-Robbins present their BFA Thesis.
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 AmericAura, Part 1
Tuesday, September 25 - Friday, October 19, 2007
First exhibition of three-part group show of 25 works on paper. For more information on Part 3, see Hamden Gallery.
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 AmericAura, Part 2
Friday, October 26 - Tuesday, November 20 2007
Second exhibition of three-part group show of 25 works on paper. For more information on Part 3, see Hamden Gallery.
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 the the the is
Installation by local artist Ryan McDonnell
Monday, December 3 - Friday, December 7 2007
An installation inspired by John Coltrane, the shape of broccoli, Jean Micheal Basquiat, and Mohandas K. Ghandi.
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BFA Thesis
Monday, December 10 - Friday, December 14 2007
Mariettos and Martins complete their BFA career with this exhibition of their senior theses.
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 He's Covered All His Tracks
mixed media by musician, poet and visual artist Oliver Lake
Wednesday, February 13 - Wednesday, March 12 2008
Oliver Lake is a true renaissance man. Poet, painter, performance artist and creator of theatrical works, Oliver is best known for his enormous contribution to the world of contemporary music. His mixed media works are an extension of a lifelong affair with improvisation: energetic, daring, playful, and provocative. Short performance by Oliver Lake during Opening Reception, February 13, 5-7pm.
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 Charles "Teenie" Harris: Rhapsody in Black and White
Tuesday, April 1 - Saturday, April 12 2008
Co-curators - Deborah Willis and Ronald K. Brown bring 31 works of the late Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1998) in a photographic exhibition mounted in collaboration with the FAC Center.
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 Background Stories
Heike Fescharek
Tuesday, April 15 - Saturday, April 26 2008
Paintings by visiting German artist
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 Jaguar Dreams: Each Day, A Lifetime
Reading by local poet and playwright
Tuesday, April 22 2008
7:00 pm
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 Shades of Jazz on Noir
Wednesday, April 23 2008
from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm A film featuring classic film noir excerpts, accompanied by live, improvised music.
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 Keli Stewart
Reading by Amherst based poet and playwright
Wednesday, April 23 2008
7:00 pm
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BFA Thesis
Works by Jessica Pollard
Monday, May 5 - Friday, May 9 2008
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BFA Thesis
Jenna Faden and Jessica Horton
Monday, May 12 - Friday, May 16 2008
Faden and Horton exhibit their senior theses to wrap up their BFA career.
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 I Wish
Hayden Denny
Saturday, May 17 - Friday, May 23 2008
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