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the life of the artist matters


​REGULAR HOURS:
Wednesday through Saturday, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
We have Public Receptions 2nd Fridays of each month , 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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Closing in on our eighth year of subsidizing a platform for visionary artists, research, education and conservation continues with a season supported by your help. Do you want to join? Click on the heart.
Read about  NEVAmuseum, its founders, & purpose at the link→
Northampton City Lifestyle, April 2024 
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❖ HAPPENINGS ❖
March 2025
MARCH EVENTS
ARTS NIGHT OUT →      Friday, March 14, 5-8 p.m. 


● Noah Pierce as Carin O'Heep presents "New Artifacts from the Cave of Stories" showing the artwork process behind his book "Little Hopkins and the Big Scribble,
● Tillyer and Foley Collection
Selections from a collection stemming back fifty years.

● James Brown, Mary Dunn, Anton Kaplan, Ben Westbrock: This group show presents graphic work by several artists
EVENTS COMING UP
​ARTS NIGHT OUT →      Friday, March 14, 5-8 p.m.

● MARCH 2
 , 4- 6 p.m. It’s a Sunday matinee… Eliot Cardinaux Ensemble and 3 poets

● MARCH 30, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. The Policy Playhouse presents
Education, Our Children, Our Future
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Tillyer & Foley Collection
Closing March 25      
Co-directors Susan Foley and Michael Tillyer have shared their joy of art through collecting a extremely eclectic body of artworks. During this January interlude into 2025, they will curate pieces to display through February.
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New Artifacts from the Cave of Stories
Noah Pierce as Carin O'Heep
"New Artifacts from the Cave of Stories" shows the artwork process behind the book "Little Hopkins and the Big Scribble," product of the author/illustrator Noah Pierce under his adopted creative personality, Carin O'Heep, a twin spirit. Consider this as Carin's book, where the twin brothers Noah and younger sister Holly inspired Hopkins & Bonnie's characters, respectively. Life lost touches the tale's heart, which explores the use of art to cope with loss & trauma

In his words, "For many 
.years I made comics, zines, designs and paintings in my own little world before it occurred to me to make a picture book. I found the process of trying to do a new thing the right way to be extremely challenging but greatly satisfying, so I saved a lot of stuff. I think that by including my notes, storyboards, trials and errors alongside the finished pages, you can peek behind the curtain to see an important truth: the artist is a human, just like you."

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 James Brown, Mary Dunn, Anton Kaplan, Ben Westbrock: This group show presents graphic work by four artists using meager means to produce profound results
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Finger Paintings
Andrew Magee

Raised in an academically accomplished family, Magee had an enriched artistic childhood. He focused on zoological subjects. His avian illustrations were included in a bird identification manual published by a Massachusetts Wildlife agency. Later in life, he settled on making large action paintings with organic references. He makes these with thick oil paints applied with his fingers in latex gloves. 
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Peter Mishkin
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Ways of Seeing



Selecting what to represent in a painting is a defining act. What an painter sees is specific to that person. Mishkin chooses limited details rendered in color harmony. His abstract paintings are presented along side of still life canvases.
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POETRY ● MUSIC ● ART ● HUMANITY

Our Mission
  • Subsidize artists living with neurodiverse conditions through the Anchor House of Artists supported studios
  • Conserve & research regional self-taught and visionary art
  • Give New England artists the platform to self-stage exhibitions the way they see it
  • Celebrate new music and performance
  • Provide art education to income-sensitive citizens
NEVAmuseum is a Peoples' Museum
So if you think a place like this should exist, please DONATE HERE→
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CURATOR OPPORTUNITY
New England Visionary Artists Museum is offering two-month slots for curator projects. Preferred projects offer a talk and exhibit presenting self-trained New England artists, living or deceased, who work outside the academic tradition. Applicants will include documented credentials: Vitas, articles and images, and references. Apply online or on-site.                                                       →CLICK PEN IMAGE FOR APPLICATION
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Because art is incidental to the life of the creative hand who crafted it,
let the artists speak.
Hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, & Saturday, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Free Public Receptions every ARTS NIGHT OUT on the second Friday of each month, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Regular exhibits feature regional art from established and self-taught artists and an extensive array of objects and artifacts from the hands of creatives who traveled the difficult path of the visionary.
​​Admission requested: $10 to support the museum and its visionary mission.

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LOCATION: 518 PLEASANT STREET, NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS 01060
TELEPHONE: (413) 588-433
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NEVAmuseum is a Section 501(c) (3) charitable organization
© 2025 NEVAmuseum
  • Home
  • Artist Biographies
    • Genevieve Mae Burtnett (1945-2015)
    • Mary Dunn (1956-2010)
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Walkthough Tours