An Art Reception Party

A reception party with live art, live music, & refreshments too. 
Come and see the artists at work. Max Rudolph creates collages out of familiar images and 95% recycled materials.
He also creates conceptual installations that ask you the viewer to collaborate. 
Come and make your mark on the peace book.
Enjoy live music by Finding Reason a local cover band. 
Dance to music inspired by disco, reggae, and jam bands on a dance floor surrounded by art. 


The Barnes Gallery, 13 Montague Rd, is in Leverett center only 5 min. from Amherst.
For more information please contact: (413) 548-9070 -or- info@leverettcrafts.org

About Leverett Crafts and Arts Center

Originally called Leverett Craftsmen and Artists, LCA first came into being in the 1960's. The 19th century building was a steam powered factory which used native timber to make wooden boxes. After the factory closed in the 1940's, the building housed poultry and sank into decrepitude. In the 1960's Joseph and Lois Barnes came to Leverett with a visionary idea: to create a center for the training of crafters and the production and marketing of crafts and artworks. After Joe's premature death, Lois mobilized a grass roots group of artists and community members who made the dream a reality. This was an all volunteer effort, hard to imagine in today's world. The reconstruction of the building, led by Llan Starkweather, was heroic-from chicken coop to art center with no budget.

Since then, almost 40 years ago, LCA has survived and flourished. Where other arts organizations have succumbed to the pressures of changing times, LCA has continually reinvented itself. Hundreds of resident artists have passed through, leaving their stamp on a unique and always evolving creative community. The LCA artists in residence for 2005 form yet another creative and vital group which also helps shape the artistic life of our area.

• LCA provides low cost space for creative work in a beautiful setting.
• LCA resident artists give such classes and workshops as figure drawing, printmaking, ceramics, art for children, creativity training, flute making and more.
• The Barnes Gallery offers a full schedule of exhibitions, giving artists a chance to connect with the community.

• Opportunities for school, college and adult art students to learn by displaying their work to the public. Each May the gallery is opened to UMass art students for their thesis shows.
• Shows by individual artists
• Craft sales, such as Mudfest, Mudpie Potter’s annual show and pottery sale.
• Music and other performance events
• Group shows supporting local organizations such as the Peace Pagoda and the Dakin Animal Shelter.

Dance and Music Performance at the Barnes Gallery,
with metal sculpture by LCA founder Joseph Barnes.