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A Community Arts Center & Venue in Greenfield, MA
A cafe & community space to hang out. An arts incubator to nourish creative work. Programs on local history & social & environmental justice.
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Christine Mirabal: Escape!
Christine Mirabal is an emerging Latina artist who has been painting with acrylics for over three years. Her style is abstract and nature inspired. She mainly paints landscapes, animals, and flowers. Other subject matters include cityscapes, feminism, and the depiction of underrepresented voices. Her pieces range from colorful to black-and-white and are playful, though sometimes enigmatic. She challenges the viewer to figure out their meaning and in doing so, draw closer to themselves.
on display in September
opening reception: Saturday, September 5, 11am–2pm
RE-ART
LAVA’s extended season of creating art from reclaimed, repurposed and reused materials! Through workshop sessions, we will learn from local artists who turn waste to wonders, trash to treasures. RE-ART will culminate in the fall with a community art show featuring work created by those who have attended one or more of the sessions.
Upcoming Events
Christine Mirabal: Escape! - opening reception
Greenfield First Sunday Word - A LAVA Center fundraiser / Celebration party National Beat Poetry
Writers Read: Ellen Meeropol, Carolyn A. Cushing, Elizabeth MacDuffie
CURRENT HUMANITIES PROJECT:
Rising River’s Edge
Rising River’s Edge is a film documenting extreme weather events (specifically in 2023) in Franklin County through farmers’ struggles, and how that shapes consumer experience.
The extreme weather in 2023 left farmers struggling with funds to make it to their next season. Damaging floods and late frosts contributed to major crop loss and revenue loss for the local farms in our county. This film documents 3 local farms (Clark Brothers Orchards, Red Fire Farm, and Just Roots) as they navigate difficult weather patterns in order to continue their livelihood. Franklin County’s strength comes from local farms who provide nutritional food to the public through farm stands and farmers markets. The mission of our film is to bring awareness to drastically changing weather, and that by supporting our local farms we can keep Franklin County strong, profitable, and healthy.
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Franklin County Arts Being the Change/ Black Lives Matter
The LAVA Center is located on the unceded, stolen lands of the Pocumtuc nation. Today, the Pocumtuc nation no longer exists, done in by the effects of English colonization in New England, which brought with it epidemics, violence, and warfare; yet, there remains an Indigenous presence throughout our region today.
We encourage people to learn more at the Nolumbeka Project. Also, if you are from elsewhere, we encourage you to learn about the indigenous past and present of your homelands.
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