❖ HAPPENINGS ❖

March 2026

Happening Now ​

✴︎ Ben Hotchkiss: Nighttime Brushwork. 35 oil paintings on panel, following in introspective, intuitive line
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✴︎ CONNOR O'ROURKE: HEADSPACE TWO. Immersive Installation featuring collaged walls of three galleries​

✴︎ NEVAmuseum's collection​

✴︎ Genevieve Mae Burnett: A View of the Life that the Artist Within Saved        Painting from a phenomenal woman. with the strength to surpass a life under the lens of community mental health

✴︎ March 21, 3 p.m. On Saturday afternoon, March 21, Connor O'Rourke offers a public open studio session at the gallery. Materials provided. Bring ideas.

Ben Hotchkiss:  Nighttime Brushwork 

The New England Visionary Artists Museum presents the intricate oils on panels by Ben Hotchkiss, painted with tiny brushes and executed with intense focus. His work is entirely authentic and self-taught. Reclusive and prolific, there are over one thousand works now stored at Anchor House of Artists. This exhibit features new work and selections from shows at the Ricco Maresca Gallery in NYC, where he was previously represented.  He is placed in many private outsider art collections.

Hotchkiss works at night in bed, using an easel propped on his knees. He follows an intuitive thread in his design, considering it a kind of alchemy revealed to him as he works.
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Anna Bayles Arthur: West Street Paintings 2006 - 2026

Wednesday, April 1 through Saturday, May 30

Receptions in both April and May
Friday, April 10 and Friday, May 8

A twenty-year retrospective rooted in her Northampton studio practice. Working daily within a place-based discipline, Arthur transforms blank surfaces into intricate, otherworldly compositions that merge landscape, biology, and imagination. Her work reflects a sustained commitment to process, repetition, and the quiet act of world-making.

Genevieve Mae Burnett: 
​A View of the Life that the Artist Within Saved

Despite her struggles and the clinical fascination of the treating team, Genevieve Mae Burnett’s work is not merely "therapy" but a rigorous pursuit of truth. Her paintings bridge the gap between life and fiction, within the asylum, on the street, and in community programs. Elevating private experience into universal history, she provides a reliable artistic record of a nomadic existence that, despite pervasive despair, was ultimately redeemed and saved by the artist within.

A Magical Gathering

A magical gathering of artists: NEVAmuseum collection including Judith Abraham, Bruce Ackerson, Larry Alice (1952-2022), Anna Arthur, Kevin Bouricius (1951-2019), James Brown, Genevieve Burnett (1945-2015), George Frazetti, Howard Johnson, Caitlin Hurd, Anton Kaplan, Caroline Lambpert, John Landino (1947-2022), Kyle Mitchell (1980-2007), Charles Miller (1931-2024), Eliza Moser, Scott Prior, Gregory Rogers, Molly Rupp, Deborah Sklar (1964-2014), lLarry Slezak, Zoran Starcevic, Gregory Stone (1947-2016), Gordon Thorne (1941-2018, and Wendy Whitney (1958-1997) 

✺ Poetry reading April 25, from 3 - 5 p.m.
Darlene Elias, Straw Dog Writers Guild 2025 Emerging Writer Fellow Recipient

✺ Concert:  Sunday, May 3, from 3 - 5 p.m.Doug Abrams, with Fumi Tomita and Richie Barshay

✺ Concert:  Sunday, May 21, from 6 - 9 p.m.
Two CD release celebrations
◦ Eliot Cardinaux, Original Compositions for Piano
◦ Ryan Blotnick, Jazz guitarist, Release for new album titled The Woods on April 17, 2026, via Fishkill Records

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

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​Read about  NEVAmuseum, its purpose, and its founders
at this  link→Northampton City Lifestyle, April 2024  page 26.

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. Apply online or on-site.         →CLICK PEN IMAGE FOR APPLICATION

Let the artist speak!