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Augusta Savage Gallery
Myths and Moments
Monday, March 26 - Friday, April 20
University Gallery
The Experience of Color: Ann Veronica Janssens & Diana Thater
Wednesday, March 28 - Sunday, June 3
University Gallery
Unforeseen
Wednesday, March 28 - Sunday, April 15
Hampden Gallery
Terry Jenoure: Between Heaven and Earth
Monday, April 2 - Sunday, April 29
Hampden Gallery
Lillianna Pereira
Monday, April 2 - Sunday, April 29
Central Gallery
Flash Forward/Flash Back: Curated by Klaus Postler
Tuesday, April 3 - Thursday, April 12
Augusta Savage Gallery
Gunda Gottschalk
Thursday, April 5
Augusta Savage Gallery
Andrea Assaf
Thursday, April 5
University Gallery
Curatorial Roundtable
Thursday, April 5
University Gallery
Amherst Art Walk / UMass Art Hop
Thursday, April 5
University Gallery
In Conversation
Wednesday, April 11
Center Series
Dance Master Class
Wednesday, April 11
Center Series
Stephen Petronio Dance Company
Thursday, April 12
Central Gallery
Flash Forward/Flash Back: Part II
Sunday, April 15 - Sunday, April 29
University Gallery
Music @ Noon
Wednesday, April 18
New World Theater
Disposable Men
Thursday, April 19 - Friday, April 20
University Gallery
What Is Love: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Thursday, April 19 - Sunday, June 3
University Gallery
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 19
University Gallery
Gallery Talk
Thursday, April 19
Center Series
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Saturday, April 21
Central Gallery
Reception
Sunday, April 22
Central Gallery
Collage Workshop
Tuesday, April 24
Magic Triangle
Roscoe Mitchell Trio
Thursday, April 26

April Events > Stephen Petronio Dance Returns to Where it All Started

Stephen Petronio Dance Returns to Where it All Started

Hampshire College Alum Stephen Petronio has emerged as a major force in American dance. His explosive, intrepid choreography weds exhilarating speed and raw energy with fluid movement, masterfully expressed emotion and sensual freedom. For 20 years, Petronio has worked with some of the most talented and provocative artists of the time. In BLOOM he commissioned a score from poetic pop singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, exploring the creative freedom of youth and the bittersweet poignancy of transformation. Bud Suite, set to four original Wainwright songs, and The Rite Part, an excerpt from Petronio’s 1992 piece, complete an evening-length program on Thursday, April 12 at 7:30pm in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall. There will be a post-performance talk-back immediately following the performance. Petronio will conduct a master class for Five-College Dancers Wednesday, April 11 at Hampshire College from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. The class is free and open to the public for observation.

Fine Arts Center Offers Podcasts

What better way to deepen your arts experience than to learn about the art directly from the artist? The Fine Arts Center is now offering podcast for selected exhbitions. Find out more about the art you'll be viewing, the inspiration behind the work and the artist's approach to their artform. Patrons can either download the file at our website prior to attending the exhibit or listen to the recording on a cd player at the gallery. Podcasts are currently available for Myths and Moments at Augusta Savage Gallery, Between Heaven and Earth at Hampden Gallery and Flash Forward Flash Back at Central Gallery.

Mediaeval Breakfast

A handful of Fine Arts Center donors were treated to breakfast with the delightful and enormously talented women of the Mediaeval Trio. Members of the trio, two Norwegians and one Swede, clad in clothing designed for them and rested by a post-performance night of sleep, talked with donors around the table about their families, homelands, history as an ensemble, and antics on the road together. An impromptu rendition of the anonymous 14th century piece Flos Regalis which they sang seated at the table was thrilling to all.

James Scruggs in Disposable Men

King, Kong, African American men, and Frankenstein collide in humor-laced tales about themed-restaurants featuring mutilation with dessert, and party motivators with major minstrel twists. Disposable Men is richly interactive live multimedia performance. It explores the uncanny relationship that African American men and classic Hollywood monsters share… the unfounded fear of, and the imaginative ways that they are killed. Thursday, April 19 - Friday, April 20, Northampton Center for the Arts at 8pm.