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The LAVA Center

a community arts venue in Greenfield, MA

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  • Events
    • Cafe & Activities
    • About our Event Pricing
    • On the Boards: New Play Fest
    • Film Festival
  • Art Gallery
    • Exhibits
    • Display Your Work
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  • About
    • Press
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    • Contact
    • Rent Our Space
  • Donate to The LAVA Center
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  • current project: RE-ART
  • current art: Christine Miarabal
  • Rising River’s Edge
  • Submit to Film Festival
  • Submit to Community Art Show

Humanities

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“Rising River’s Edge”

a film documenting extreme weather events (specifically in 2023) in Franklin County through farmers’ struggles, and how that shapes consumer experience.

indiVISIBLE

documenting the lives of indispensable yet too often invisible agricultural workers in Western Massachusetts through images and stories.

ECHO Greenfield

for people of all ages to be curious about the histories that surround us, both known and forgotten, and the histories that live within us.


Exhibits

In 2023, The LAVA Center launched our humanities exhibit wall, which hosts longer-running exhibits with a focus in the humanities. For information on this space and its exhibits, contact us here.

MAY–JULY 2026

The PeaceBirds Project Exhibit

FEBRUARY–APRIL 2026

TREES!

MAY–JULY 2025

Nayana LaFond’s Portraits in RED: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People

MARCH–APRIL 2025

New Roots in River Banks: Polish Immigrant Stories

OCTOBER–DECEMBER 2024

JJ White: World on Fire

SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER 2024

Every Vote Counts, installation by A.L.R. Keaton

MARCH–SEPTEMBER 2024

indiVISIBLE

FEBRUARY–APRIL 2024

Faces of Medicine

NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2023

Climate Crisis Community Photography Exhibit

JULY–OCTOBER 2023

Black Families of Greenfield: A Brief Historical Snapshot

MARCH–MAY 2023

No Somos Máquinas (We Are Not Machines): Farmworker Resistance in the Connecticut River Valley

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Visit The LAVA Center

324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA
(btwn TD Bank & Pushkin)

cafe/activities/gallery hours:
Mondays, 11am-2pm
Thursdays, 11am-2pm
Thursdays, 5-8pm
Fridays, 5-8pm
Saturdays, 11am-2pm
+ special events

Current & Upcoming Offerings

  • current project: RE-ART
  • current art: Christine Miarabal
  • Rising River’s Edge
  • Submit to Film Festival
  • Submit to Community Art Show

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The LAVA Center stays open, and keeps our programming free or affordable, because of our generous sponsors!

Learn more about sponsors and donors or become a donor.

Accessibility

We are partially ADA compliant: Our entire facility (including accessible, gender-inclusive bathroom) is on the ground floor. We strive to make our programming and events accessible to the widest possible range of community members. To inquire about accessibility, click here to contact our staff.

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