ArtHampton Morning Workshops, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. $35 for three workshops Begins at Eastworks, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton Rm. 137

Workshop 1

9:00-10:00 a.m. A. Live Model Mini-Drawing Marathon with Barbara Johnson, please bring drawing materials, Eastworks’ Event Space (across from Riff’s) B. Anyone Can Be an Actor with Marcia Morrison, please wear comfortable clothing, Eastworks Rm. 120

Barbara Johnson received her BFA in painting from Indiana University and her MFA in printmaking from the University of Massachusetts. She has exhibited widely, including exhibitions in Boston, New York, California, Mexico City, Berlin, and Singapore. She has taught at Smith College, the Academy of Realist Art in Seattle, Hartford Art School, the University of Maryland, and the University of California. Her work currently hangs in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, CA, Washington, D.C., Rome, Italy, Manchester, England, St. Louis, MO, Boston, and Western Massachusetts. Barbara JohnsonWorkshops.com provides a listing of workshops offered in Easthampton at her Cottage Street Studio, including Figure Drawing Anatomy.

Marcia Morrison arrived in the Pioneer Valley eight years ago to serve as Dean of Arts and Humanities at Holyoke Community College. She is happily ensconced in Easthampton, where she is a member of the ECA+ committee and supports various Easthampton artistic endeavors. Her background in theatre includes directing in Los Angeles, Boston, and Buffalo, performing in New York City as well as in summer stock theatres in Maine and Idaho, teaching acting on the college and university level, and being a sort-of playwright with two fully-produced plays and one fully-produced monologue in her bag of tricks.

Workshop 2

10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. A. Discussion1: Tactical Urbanism and Art that Transforms Communities with Jessica Allan, Lisa DePiano, and Erica Ann Flood, Eastworks Rm. 140 B. Discussion 2: ECA+ Artists Re-Create with Rosemary Barrett, Carolyn Clayton, Maggie Nowinski, Alicia Renadette, Angela Zammarelli Exhibition Hall, Eastworks Rm. 136

Jessica Allan has served as the City Planner of Easthampton since March 2012 and has a keen interest on creative placemaking techniques for communities. Prior to being the City Planner, Jessica was a Principal Planner at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission where she provided technical planning and zoning assistance to 43 communities in Western Massachusetts. She holds Masters Degrees in both Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Jessica has been a resident of

Easthampton since 2005.

Lisa DePiano is a certified Permaculture designer/teacher and co-founder of the Montview Neighborhood Farm, a human-powered farm and edible forest garden in the Connecticut River Valley. She has a Master’s degree in Regional Planning from UMass and loves working with people to create the world they want to live in. She currently runs the Mobile Design Lab which specializes in participatory, regenerative design and teaches ecological design at Yestermorrow Design school and the University of Massachusetts.

Erica Ann Flood is a documentary style photographer who was born and raised in the Pioneer Valley. She has been on a personal mission to gain a deeper understanding of the human experience around the globe. Her explorations have taken her to the San Blas Archipelago-Panama, Buenos Aires-Argentina, Kino Bay-Mexico, Kenya and Berlin-Germany, to name a few. She received her Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts in 2002 from Greenfield Community College, with academic work concentrated in

Human Ecology & Environmental Studies. She attended Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona where she received her BA in photography with an emphasis in documentary studies. Erica Ann was a part-time Program Coordinator for the Girls Eye View & E’town Rising youth photography programs in Amherst & Easthampton, MA; both are programs of the non-profit Youth Action Coalition that focuses on empowering and inspiring youth through arts & activism. Currently, Erica Ann is the Program Manager for the International Limited-Residency MFA in Photography at Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.

Alicia Renadette is an artist who lives and makes sculpture in Easthampton, MA. Her experiences growing up in both a trailer park and a decrepit Victorian house on the outskirts of affluent Saratoga Springs in upstate NY, have influenced the range in her choice of materials and cultural signifiers. Alicia was the least popular girl on her field hockey team, but the most popular girl in her clique of artists friends...She received a BFA in sculpture with a minor in

experimental studio from the Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT and a MFA in sculpture from

the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been shown at several regional galleries as well as The Sculpture Center, NY, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT, The Housatonic Museum, Waterbury, CT and New Puppy Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work can currently be seen in this year's Amherst Biennial as well as the upcoming show "The Body Radio" at Parson's Hall Project Space in Holyoke.

Angela Zammarelli uses installation, video, and sculpture while exploring fictional and personal narratives dealing with desire and consumption. She received BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has been an artist in residence at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, Greensboro, NC, Montana Artist Refuge, Basin, MT, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE. In 2011 she received

a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in sculpture/installation.

Maggie Nowinski is a multi-media artist based in Easthampton. Her artworks are frequently presented as installations and often combine traditional, unusual and new media approaches, along with found objects and performative processes. She is currently working on multiple projects that process tensions related to the perception of time passing, loss, lifestyle, and notions of choice. Her work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and beyond. Maggie has worked collaboratively with artists since 2008 and has been supported by

grants from the Easthampton Cultural Council. Maggie earned an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BFA in painting from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is an educator of visual studio arts and art history at Manchester Community College and Westfield State University.

Rosemary Barrett comes from a long line of artists and crafts people who have influenced her sculpture and painting. She graduated from the School of Worcester Art Museum and has exhibited extensively throughout the northeast including at Sunne Savage Gallery in Boston, the Berkshire Museum, and OK Harris in New York City. She has recently returned to the area and teaches sculpture, mold making, and painting at After Midnight in Eastworks located in Easthampton, MA.

Carolyn Clayton completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. Carolyn recently completed Within Range, a community interactive project in Northampton. She has been awarded a grant from the Northampton Arts Council and has exhibited her work in Northampton, Pittsburgh, and Paris. Carolyn is an ECA+ artist and maintains a studio in Eastworks.

Workshop 3

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. A. Beginner's Ballroom Dancing with Steve Bailey Eastworks’ Event Space (across from Riff’s) B. Intro to Circus Training with SHOW Circus Studio with Chris Oakley, Paragon Building 150 Pleasant St. #313

Steve Bailey has been teaching Ballroom dance for 22 years. He had taught for Arthur Murray School of Dance, Fed Astaire School of Dance and the American Academy of Ballroom Dance. He currently teaches ballroom dance at Holyoke Community College and every Tuesday night at the Council on Aging in Easthampton. Roxanne Labato Bailey has been a singer, dancer and performer all her life and has assisted in teaching ballroom dance for the last four years.

Christopher Oakley has been performing and studying contortion and circus for the past nine years. He has studied at the San Francisco Circus Center, EOA Contortion Studio in Las Vegas and The New England Center for Circus Arts. He is a freelance performer for various circus companies in the U.S. and continues to perform as a contortionist and aerialist. He has been teaching youth circus and adults since 2006. While focusing on teaching high level contortion, he is also highly experienced in coaching aerials and most ground circus skills, having completed both trapeze and fabric teacher trainings at The New England Center for Circus Arts. In 2009 he opened SHOW Circus Studio in Easthampton with Henry Wheaton where he is currently the co-owner, executive director and one of seven experienced circus instructors that teach both youth and adult classes.

SHOW Circus Studio is a circus training facility in Easthampton. As a recreational circus school, we teach adult and youth classes in aerial arts, juggling, hand balancing, contortion, tumbling, mini trampoline, tight wire, rolla bolla, rolling globe, partner acrobatics and clowning. SHOW Circus Studio is also more than just circus. The studio is a safe space that fosters creativity, builds confidence, and promotes life long fitness. We aim to provide top-notch instruction for people of all ages, body types, and skill levels in a non-competitive environment. Circus for Fun. Circus for Life.

Don’t forget to pick up a map and visit artist studios and participating restaurants!