91 COWLS ROAD NORTH AMHERST, MA

YOUR LOCAL ART GALLERY

25+ ARTISTS

Artists represent a swath of mediums, styles, and influences

bringing their unique inspirations to our local community to enjoy.

GATHER

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

LOCAL IMPACT

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

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CURRENT ARTISTS

JASPER COWLEY

Easthampton, MA

Influenced by many global pottery traditions and the natural world, Jasper works with a variety of clays, including black clay, porcelain, and red clay. His work features a wide range of styles, from earthy to intricate designs, but still maintains a distinct, cohesive aesthetic that sets his pottery apart. Jasper’s pieces are designed to be both beautiful and functional, meant to be used and cherished every day.

MICHAELA SCHWARTZ

Holyoke, MA

Michaela’s journey into art began as a child with a deep love for arts and crafts, but it wasn’t until 2020 that she started to consider herself an artist. Self-taught in polymer clay artistry, Michaela has honed her craft through workshops and community learning. Experimentation with colors, textures, and joyful patterns plays a central role in her creative process. Michaela loves seeing her earrings out in the wild as she aims to bring joy to everyone who wears earrings!

JERRY T. EIDE

Wendell, MA

After spending more than 40 years in the Architectural Preservation trade, Jerry is devoting most of his time exploring woodturning. For the last year, Jerry has enjoyed focusing his attention on creating practical and artistic objects using wood collected from his property in Wendell or brought to him from friends around this valley. His knowledge and use of decorative profiles and historic style edge beading have elevated the look and design of useful bowls and containers. The distorted pattern of the burls provides endless delight in the variation of the colors and grains from the different species of wood, making each art piece a treasure to own or gift.

GRETCHEN HOLESOVSKY

Belchertown, MA

Gretchen Holesovsky is a self-taught artist who has been painting and drawing since childhood. Gretchen was introduced to watercolor in her twenties and fell in love with the medium. Over the years, Gretchen has earned memberships into many elite watercolor societies and has earned many awards, and has been published in Splash 10. Now retired, Gretchen pursues new endeavors in multimedia, acrylic, rock painting and many other creative muses.

KAITLIN SCUTARI

Orange, MA

Kaitlin managed the Pinch Gallery in Northampton for many years, where she also sold her popular ceramics, such as her elephant-handle mugs, hanging air plant holders, and more. Her work is in a constant state of evolution, bringing her personal journey into the making. You can find her work online, under the name ‘Wicked Thrown Pottery’ and in galleries around the area.

SOPHIE THEROUX

Easthampton, MA

Sophie Theroux is a local artist born and raised in Leeds. After volunteering for a year with AmeriCorps, Sophie returned to western Mass and completed her studies at Amherst College, earning a double major in Fine Art and Environmental Studies. Though she has experimented with a wide variety of subject matter and art materials, Sophie currently focuses on landscape paintings of the Pioneer Valley with oil paint. She often paints “en plein air” (on-site).

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 times, Jennifer's work always reflects her love of the outdoors, nature, the abstract, and occasionally the absurd! Jennifer intends for her work to evoke questions of ‘where?’, ‘how?’, and ‘what?’.
The source material for Jennifer's Cyanotypes, an alternative photographic process, is drawn from her archive of 30+ years of traditional photography or from materials whose shapes are appealing to her.

HEATHER GEOFFERY

Springfield, MA

Heather Geoffrey is an interdisciplinary artist whose body of work includes acrylic painting, digital photography, analog collage, multimedia works, written word, and performance. Heather’s works have been exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions and has been commissioned for public murals and private collections. Heather approaches the creation of art as an ongoing dialogue with the source of existence.

DANI ANTES

Chicopee, MA

Dani Antes is a self-taught, queer artist who works primarily in watercolor and linocuts, exploring the stark contrast between the two mediums. Her work is deeply inspired by the beauty of both the Pacific Northwest and Massachusetts and finds that she is most drawn to bees, tiny creatures, and dreamy landscapes as her primary subjects. Dani hopes her work reminds people to pause and enjoy the little moments of light, beauty, and maybe even magic that surrounds them everyday.

STEFANIA AMORE

Springfield, MA

Stefania Amore is an artist whose first love has always been fashion and textile design. Learning at the feet of her Sicilian matriarchs, Stefania has always been around the buzz of a sewing machine. Over the last 25 years, Stefania has created jewelry, wearable art, and custom handbags. Stefania’s latest project unleashes her artistic expressions in the form of denim wear. Her goal is to tell stories through her works, mixing paint, thread, and found objects in thoughtful ways.

LIST OF FORMER GALLERY ARTISTS

HOW IT WORKS...

1. Rent space monthly at $20 per linear foot

(Side to side -2.5' Minimum)

2. Sell your work and keep 80%.

3. The other 20% of your sales goes back into the gallery for events, marketing you as an artist and other artist-forward opportunities.

YOUR SUCCESS IS OUR SUCCESS!

Artists are reviewed and selected by a community panel on a quarterly basis. We welcome painting/drawing, digital, ceramics, mixed media, fiber/leather, photography, jewelry, sculpture, metal/wood, more!

GALLERY ARTIST APPLICATION

THE FRONT WINDOW GALLERY

The Front Window Gallery is a flexible exhibit space within the Local Art Gallery featuring rotating installations that may be curated by the Gallery Team, guest curators, neighbors, or local business owners. If you have an idea for an exhibit, please fill out the application form below.

Currently Featuring

Mabel Loomis Todd Exhibit to benefit Emily Dickinson Museum

The Mill District Local Art Gallery is pleased to present new images of Mabel Loomis Todd through a rarely seen collection of her paintings created for a book of her father’s poetry published over a century ago, entitled “A Sunset Idyl and Other Poems” by E. J. Loomis.

Please join us at our Opening Reception on Friday, January 16, 2026 from 5-7pm. Reception RSVP encouraged.

Exhibit Details:

Mabel Loomis Todd (1856-1932) left an unmistakable imprint on the Town of Amherst through her inexhaustible energy and abundant artistic, literary, and civic organizing talents.

Now chiefly remembered as the editor of the first posthumous collections of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Todd also wrote and published a novel, travel memoirs, popular works on astronomy, and volumes of her own poetry.

She led the establishment of a number of community institutions including the Amherst Historical Society, the Mary Mattoon chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Amherst Woman’s Club as well as other local and regional clubs related to writing, theater, and music.

Eighteen paintings and the manuscript of “A Sunset Idyl and Other Poems” by E. J. Loomis are also the subject of a 2026 exhibit at the Emily Dickinson Museum.

100% of the proceeds from the sale of post card prints of her paintings exhibited at The Mill District Local Art Gallery benefit the Museum. To learn more about Mabel Loomis Todd, please visit the Emily Dickinson Museum on Main Street or online at www.EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org.

The Mill District Local Art Gallery is donating space and sales commission to support this cause.