About NEVA museum

What is New England Visionary Artists Museum?
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In Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, the museum conserves the work of and educates on the life of creatives who have been served by the Anchor House of Artists and presents the life view of creative workers through their products and labors.

The mission...to serve the legacies of artists who dedicated their lives to producing images derived from the wellspring of inner vision.

The collection includes artifacts from the lives and works of artists who touched the Anchor House of Artists since its founding in 1997, the works by living artists with a special visionary focus, and more.

Neal Parks: Twelfth House Introspective Retrospective
A showcase of large oil paintings that Parks has developed over three decades and smaller works in other media. This will be the first time the public has seen many of these works. The paintings are large, allover surfaces that evoke the feel of the transcendental. The public reception for this show is Friday, May 10, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Arts Night Out in Northampton.
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THE MUSEUM'S CONCERN
Our understanding of art work today is different then what it has been in the pre-digital past. From a general appreciation of what they are, the traces of human lives that strive to bring inner visions into form, there has been a universal shift to see creative work as transitory and instantaneous , the effect of the Internet. What were stable canons of art tradition are now the subject of memes and rifts for new image makers. Though artifacts do remain and their histories are important, their value is diminished to the level of how their appearance, form, and content can be used to build the digital new artifact.

​The value accorded to artifice and manufacture have changed, too. Since smart technology generates perfect imposters for the actual labors of human hands, the latter has become more a matter of revered regard and the former the subject of adornment; who needs to acquire the real thing when the exact reproduction will serve at a fraction of the cost.

Actual work of the hands though is not to be dismissed. The survival of human relationship is under assault from a machination of our collective technological genius. We have arrived at a place where we have essentially left the activity of the human hand to the realm of an anachronism.

In this place here and now though, we set that work of the hand near each other to explore what is human relationship and how it can continue. 

A LIFE THAT THE ARTIST WITHIN HER SAVED:
​GENEVIEVE BURNETT THROUGH JUNE

Featured legacies:

Genevieve Mae Burnett (1945-2015)

Mary Dunn (1956-2008)

Deborah Sklar (1964-2014)

the life of the artist matters.

-LET THE ARTIST SPEAK-