Your Local Art Gallery

& Third Space

All artists live within an hour of the Gallery, representing a swath of mediums, styles, and influences.

A ten-foot gathering table makes space for classes and intimate conversation. Or easy sharing of art supplies while crafting and creating together.

All the work in the Gallery is 100% local, meaning your money goes right to artists creating in and across the Valley!

CURRENT ARTISTS

Susan Roylance

Athol / Wendell, MA

Inspired by her love of fantasy, Susan’s art combines woodwork with her love of wool. Through the wet felting process, Susan creates fabric from fiber and creates life from the fabrics. These creations are sometimes busy, bright and complicated; sometimes dark, rich, and subdued. Often these whimsical subjects convey both positive and negative feelings and memories.

Melinda Nutter & Jonathan Pierce

Wendell, MA

Melinda and Jonathan enjoy collecting mineral specimens everywhere they travel which are then incorporated into pendants, earrings, rings and sun catchers. All of their pendants are created by hand wrapping sterling silver wire around beautifully shaped natural gemstones, faceted gemstones, cabochons, crystals, minerals, and fossils. With a focus on natural gemstones and one-of-a-kind designs, their jewelry creations will catch your eye at first glance.

Kathleen Anderson

Florence, MA

An award-winning artist, whose work has exhibited on the national scene, Kathleen handcrafts limited edition and one-of-a-kind adornment pieces for women and men, eyeglass boxes, key fobs, kaleidoscopes, and her original HeartBox™ collection. Influenced by Pueblo, Navajo, Chinese, Japanese, and West African art traditions, the process Kathleen uses to create patterns in clay is originally borrowed from the Italian glassmaking traditions of millefiori and murrini cane work, incorporating combinations of only the strongest, most durable translucent and opaque clay.

Becca Wheeler

Shutesbury, MA

Becca Wheeler’s work brings whimsical color to the home, with her brightly painted, often salvaged, furniture. She brings pieces back to life, with themes of day lilies, ravens, and other nods to nature. She has also done mural work and faux finishing in homes and businesses. You can find one of her pastoral creations in the bathroom at Cowls Building Supply down the road.

Liz Armstrong

Shutesbury, MA

Liz Armstrong rescues, restores and sometimes repurposes found items to be useful and beautiful for the next hundred years. The bulk of her art and artistry with woodworking appears on furniture rescues. She pulls her inspiration from cultures, textiles, nature and the works of other amazing furniture artists.

Helen M Thelen

Northampton, MA

Always fondly remembering her pottery classes with Ms. Melonis when she was a young child, Helen returned to clay and the joy of working on a wheel six years ago. White clay is her typical medium, though she does enjoy experimenting with other types of clay, such as black porcelain. Helen enjoys learning more each day through her apprenticeship with Joy Friedman.

Emily Miah Stewart

Amherst, MA

Twenty years ago, Emily began to create memory maps of daily life. Her maps are made of cloth, an intimate and familiar material, that she transforms using dye, bleach, gelli-plate printing, collage, and embroidery. Currently an elementary art teacher in both Erving and Pelham, Emily’s work has been exhibited nationally and has been published in American Craft, FiberArts, and Embroidery Magazine.

Danielle Parent

Florence, MA

Born and raised in western Massachusetts, Danielle currently enjoys creating art out of her home studio. Her work as a muralist can be found in many local buildings and business, including Providence Behavioral Hospital Latency and Adolescent Psychiatric Unit and HadLeaf Dispensary. Playing with abstract forms, collage, typography, and vibrant color, Danielle displays a wide range of emotion and personality on canvas. Her Beautiful Chaos series pushes the boundaries of identity within the contexts of mental health awareness, sexuality, gender, and culture.

Janice C. Alden

Warwick, MA

I’ve been a maker of many things throughout my life, but beading is my passion. Each piece of jewelry I create is handstitched bead by bead. I enjoy the process of choosing different shapes and colors and combinations, creating ombre effects, three-dimensional shapes and embellishing them.

Rosanne Helden

Amherst, MA

Rosanne is a New England-based oil painter who finds inspiration in nature. The sea, mountains, farms, and rivers are her muse. Rosanne’s seascapes were created using oil paint and cold wax – a buttery, thick paste made with beeswax that, when blended with oil, allows the artist to add texture and layers to the composition. While most often used in abstract work, Rosanne brings this process to her land- and seascapes to add movement to the scene. After many, many layers of paint and wax, often as many as ten layers, the image emerges.

Jennifer Ablard

Northampton, MA

Jennifer has been seeing the world through a camera her entire adult life. While she has focused on different subjects at different phases of life, Jennifer’s work always reflects her love of the outdoors, nature, and the abstract found in everyday life. Lately she’s been creating cyanotypes; an alternative photographic process. The source photographs are drawn from Jennifer’s significant body of work, and she enjoys seeing old work in a new light.

Stephen M. Kotfila

Hadley, MA

Stephen specializes in landscape paintings, though he occasionally does portraits. He has recently begun to experiment with other mediums, such as charcoal and pencil, though most of his works are oil paintings that he creates at home while on break from college. Many different things inspire Stephen, but he prefers painting scenes with bright, warm sunsets; he is heavily inspired by contemporary artists such as Layne Johnson and Mark Maggiori.

Stephen is currently studying microbiology at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.

Macaylla Silver

Leverett, MA

Macaylla Silver has a great love for Nature, Wine, Art and Women. For Silver, life has presented many opportunities to work with people far more talented and intelligent and by osmosis and observation, has achieved a small measure of talent. Whether derived by time spent selling free-range chicken eggs or high-powered camera equipment observing birds, all things have affected the style and substance of the work.

Jen Healy

Sout Deerfield, MA

A lifelong nature-lover, Jen considers photography an exercise in paying attention to the world around her. She first picked up a camera while living in Indiana, looking for a way to capture the rural landscape that was so different from where she grew up in Massachusetts. Whether a sweeping landscape or a tiny bird pecking at the back window, she hopes that her photos bring a little bit of astonishment and appreciation for the critters all around us and the planet that we share.

Christina Giebner

West Springfield, MA

One-of-a-kind semi-precious gemstones and metals are the foundation of this limited edition jewelry line. All work is designed and fabricated in Christina’s Western Mass. studio and is created with the utmost regard for quality and authenticity. Organic, delicate and singular - Hallies Comet Fine jewelry is the perfect alchemy of color, design and spirit bringing bliss and beauty to your life.

Arielle Jessop

Northampton, MA

Arielle’s work has been exhibited around the Pioneer Valley, the greater New England area and New York City. The work displayed at the Gallery emerged after Arielle spent a season farming.

“I wanted to capture the feeling of magic that can happen when you spend so much time in the dirt. I wanted to really do justice to what the earth can give us when we work with it and honor it.”

Maggie Hodges

Amherst, Massachusetts

My paintings capture my feeling and impression of the beauty in nature and especially in this area. When not painting I love being outdoors; hiking, kayaking, skiing, mountain climbing and gardening. My paintings reflect my deep connection to nature through color, light and atmospheric perspective.

Roy Johnson

Amherst, Ma

Growing up in a family culture of building and repairing anything, Roy Johnson feels most at home in his workshop. The founder of Knoxwood Studios, he enjoys creating tables, bowls, trays, and an assortment of wood related artwork from native lumber that is typically collected from backyards, either harvested or salvaged from storm damage.

Kaia Zimmerman

Easthampton, MA

Working primarily in gouache, watercolor and fiber arts, Kaia draws inspiration from dreams and simple moments — fleeting shadows, movements, expressions and juxtaposition of patterns. She focuses on themes of emergence and liminality and incorporates elements of surrealism and fantasy. Her work includes portraits, landscapes and scenes from her imagination.

Mary Walsh Martel

Conway, MA

Inspired by the drama of light and dark, Mary has been on a watercolor journey to convey her fascination with nature, its permanence and decay, through the beautiful transparency of the paint. She believes her job as an artist is to harness the way in which watercolor behaves as it meets the paper, and to further allow the colors to mix and blend as they choose.

S.T. Gately

Sunderland, MA

Gately attended Hampshire College where she received a B.A. in Comparative Religion and Visual Art in 2003. Then, in 2008, she received her M.Ed for Teaching Visual Arts PreK-8 from Lesley University. Gately’s visual style is influenced by the juxtaposition between graffiti or street art and the art of religiously narrated stained glass. For Gately, creating art is a compulsion and a necessary tool for revealing a voice that is often overlooked in our current society.

Diane Nevinsmith

Hadley, MA

Diane Nevinsmith is a New England native currently residing in Hadley, Massachusetts. She received a BFA in painting and printmaking from Syracuse University in 1978. Her artistic career has spanned studies and works in oils, stained glass, paper making and marbling, and more recently, watercolors.

Sarah Adams

Springfield, MA

A Western Massachusetts native, Sarah’s journey to launching her own arts business started in 2020, when she enrolled in the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) for her Master of Professional Studies in the Business of Art & Design. Using her skills in communications, implementation & optimization, and project leadership, she intends to help other creatives in the Pioneer Valley launch the business of their dreams. Primarily an acrylic and oil painter, Sarah also dabbles in linocut printmaking and digital photography.

Anthony Novak

Petersham, MA

Anthony Novak brings his skills on the laser cutter, 3-D printer, and CNC machine to bear in his work - creating everything from wooden display fixtures to beautiful heart dishes. He even captures cultural moments in his work, featuring subjects like Bernie Sanders’ mitten moment at Biden’s inauguration in earrings, magnets, and more. His original designs are fed through these technological machines to create wall hangings, decorative dishes, and so much more. You can find him most days at Launchspace in Orange, MA, where he is happy to show you how to use these advanced machines in your work.

Jackie Gallo

South Hadley, MA

Jackie’s artwork explores the interconnectivity of the natural world, the spiritual world, and the human world, by combining traditional and modern techniques of image-making. Inspired by ancient folklore, New England heritage, and the branching, growing, layered gifts of the Earth, she strives to stimulate curiosity and inspire a deeper connection to the natural beauty and wonder around us.

HOW IT WORKS...

1. Rent space monthly per linear foot (side to side)

2. Sell your work!

3. A percentage of your sales goes back into the gallery for events, marketing and other artist-forward opportunities

Your success is our success!

We welcome painting/drawing, digital, ceramics, mixed media, fiber/leather, photography, jewelry, sculpture, metal/wood, more!

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the Front Window Gallery

The front window is a gallery within a gallery. Featuring installations curated by the Gallery team, guest curators, neighbors, local business owners, and other unlikely curators. Stop by every few months to check out the new show in the Front Window Gallery as well as new local artists in the main gallery.

Currently Featuring

Macaylla Silver - Leverett, MA

Since 2015, Silver has watched, photographed and painted various breeds of birds, with each painting standing at 4 feet tall. Silver has always loved to make art, though it hasn’t always been in the traditional sense of the word. With a background in illustration and other arts, Silver's bird paintings came from a moment when he became “thunderstruck” looking through a pair of binoculars.

Each painting features one bird, most of which are birds of prey, photographed by Silver. He also uses paint to mimic photographic elements like bokeh, the out-of-focus background effect created by a camera with a wide aperture. Each painting is on a panel, rather than canvas, and includes combinations of oil and acrylic paint.

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CURRENT ARTISTS

HOW IT WORKS...

Your success is our success!

the Front Window Gallery

Over 800+ Art Supplies...

are available in The Mill District General Store's art supply section. We are constantly looking for new products to help you create. Let us know about art supply products you may like to see in our store below.

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