adrian almquist was born and raised in Eastern Massachusetts and has been interested in the natural environment, agriculture, crafts, gardening and building since he was in his teens. His work spans mediums of sculpture, textiles, ceramics, wood work, and mixed media. He lives in the hills of Western Massachusetts, where he gains inspiration from his local fibershed, forests, quarries, wood kilns, and thriving arts community.

Andrea Holland (she/her/hers) is an American freelance illustrator and fine artist. Andrea’s studio is located in the historic D. A. Sullivan building in Northampton, Ma. She began her artistic journey as a response to the isolation of the Covid pandemic after decades in the healthcare industry. Andrea creates a wide range of images in different mediums with a clear focus on the natural world. Magic lives in the trees and she's determined to find that magic.

Brendan Albetski (he/him) is a cartoonist and games artist whose distinctive style delivers expressive, action-packed and exciting works. He started teaching himself to draw after college because he wanted to write comics but couldn’t afford to hire an artist. This spiraled into a true love of sequential art and drawing. Brendan is best known for his creator owned comic series Maru Kiru Destroy the Moon. Brendan lives in New England where he is the resident artist at The Battle Standard Tabletop Game & Hobby.

Cathy Durso is a visual artist based in Springfield. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she paints the world of tiny things beneath our feet such as rocks and moss, as well as objects that exist beyond Earth such as galaxies and nebulas. Her paintings serve as meditations on the relationship between the microcosmos and the macrocosmos, and humanity's place in between.

Debra Hoyle is an artist and writer from Conway, MA. She has a degree in art history, has studied with various artists, is mainly self taught, and has worked in a variety of media. Her work has been exhibited in New England at galleries and libraries. Currently she is exploring collage with mixed media and is inspired by nature, memoir, and everyday objects. Her work is intuitive and includes consideration of the formal elements of painting. Art is at the core of how she perceives life.

Enchanted about dance as a sustainable physical practice, Francesca Baron (MFA, ryt200) delights to be in conversation with/in movement + dance-making alongside students, collaborators and communities. In the past decade she has produced original work that has been presented at academic institutions, festivals, self-produced shows, film festivals, art galleries, weddings and on dance companies, studios and competition stages across the Midwest and New England. She has lectured and set work at Mt. Holyoke College, Keene State College, Smith College, Amherst College, Kenyon College, Lindenwood University. Baron’s current creative kindling is composited by attentional states, subtlety, soft-vigor, kinetics and somatics.

Gabby Carmichael is a choreographer and educator based in Western Massachusetts whose interdisciplinary practice weaves choreography, writing, sound design, and scholarship. Her work approaches dance as a site of transformation, and positions the body as a living archive that honors both the extraordinary and the everyday. Her current research investigates contemporary restagings of AIDS-era dances from the 1980s and 1990s, examining how these works transform and produce meaning across time. Gabby holds an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College and a BA in Anthropology and Dance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Harold Dumas is a self‑taught visual artist inspired by the light, atmosphere, and quiet stories of Western Massachusetts. His paintings blend realism with a subtle, poetic mystery shaped by a lifelong fascination with memory and place. Working with both traditional study and contemporary tools, he creates regionally grounded images that invite reflection. Through his studio practice and public engagement, he aims to spark moments of connection.

Indë (they/he) is an artist-scholar born, raised, and residing in Massachusetts. In a nutshell, they contend with American imperial systems of division, using multimedia compositions to combat the lynching, disenfranchisement, and misrepresentation of queer people of color. Their undergraduate studies at MassArt and Berklee nurtured a rigorous work ethic, collaborative capacity, and advanced multimedia approach to creative expression.

James Lipshaw is an artist and educator permanently settled in Huntington, Massachusetts. Prior to his current role as the creative director of a small healthcare education non-profit, he was a Visual Art and English teacher in MA public schools. He holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has always been interested in creative products that the viewer can touch, play with, and contribute to or build upon in some way.

Jennie Moss is a self-taught artist who specializes in minimalist line and acrylic drawings, centering on themes of emotional expression, self-love, and personal evolution. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2020 with a degree in Marketing, and two years after graduating, began taking her creative practice seriously. She has displayed her work at the Mill District Local Art Gallery’s Femme Locale exhibitions in 2024 and 2025, and is a vendor at local artisan markets in the Pioneer Valley. She currently works out of her home studio in Hadley, MA under the name Jennie Juniper Designs. 

Kate Jenkins has been working at Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence for over 20 years. Lately, she has begun cutting up some of her old one-of-a-kind monoprints and rearranging the parts into new collage images. Kate is also a hand weaver. In addition to doing production weaving for several hand-made clothing designers, she also has her own line of hand woven scarves and house wares. Kate has taught both weaving and printmaking at several craft schools locally.

Katrina Parker (b. 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist and craftsperson. Her practice spans an array of mediums, from yarn to microcontrollers to animation, overlapping to form interactive sculptures, installations, and performances that remind us of our interconnected world. Recent projects include: an 8-foot-tall knit sculpture of the universe, a giant video-interactive loom, and three hours of nighttime crochet while walking barefoot in a spiral and contemplating entropy.

Kira Yan is a visual artist and cultural worker of Korean descent, born in Uzbekistan and currently based in Northampton, Massachusetts. She holds an MA in Curatorial Practices and Arts Management from the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Her practice explores fluid identity, displacement, and liminality through lived experience, dreams, and fragmented memory. Through a process-oriented approach, she transforms memories and imagined worlds into dream-like works that reflect states of transition, flux, and in-betweenness.

Mariana Cicerchia is a self-taught visual artist from Buenos Aires, born in 1977. Her work reflects personal experiences shaped by Argentina’s repressive military dictatorship and her history of immigration, exploring complex themes such as identity, belonging, and isolation. Describing her process as "screaming out into the night without making a sound," Cicerchia's work invites viewers to consider both individual and societal boundaries, as well as the nuanced interplay between solitude and freedom.

Nikki Gardner is a visual artist, photographer, and writer based in Northampton, MA. She works primarily with film and digital photography along with video, creating work that exists in the space between memory and story. Her photographs explore themes of language, memory, and transformation. Nikki’s work has been exhibited nationally, including the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Washington County Arts Council, and The Paseo.

Nona Monahin researches dance and music relationships, teaches historical dance at Mount Holyoke College, and creates dances in her own eclectic (non-historical) style, which she performs with her group, “Another Dance Group.” She has a PhD in musicology with a focus on dance.

Paige (she/her) is an arts educator, community builder, and artist of whimsy who cannot pick just one hobby or medium. Much of her inspiration comes from color harmonies, geometry in nature, and microagressions. She grapples with her reality of making too much art about cats and is always plotting her next formal execution of a new recipe. Her art tends to reflect her ever-loving affair with ecology and the natural world while also experimenting with alternative materials and techniques.

Phyllis Meredith is a Northampton, MA based artist working in cyanotype, drawing, and fiber. She prints from vintage family photographs and from nature pressed flowers and leaves and finishes each piece with hand with illustration, gilding, painting, or embroidery. Some works are cut and woven into paper cyanotype weavings; others are printed on fabric enhanced with embroidery and vintage lace. Her blue-toned work explores memory, place, and our ties to the natural world. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across the country, including the New Britain Museum of American Art. She loves sharing her process through approachable demos and workshops.

Robin is a mixed media artist and photographer. The art created by Robin often focuses on women of color and other underrepresented groups. The use of bold and bright colors is a signature style in her work. She strives to communicate to her audience that art is political and a transformative.

Ruth LaGue is a contemporary folk artist whose work is rooted in traditional rural imagery and filtered through a modern lens. She paints landscapes and architectural forms, reducing them to essential shapes that emphasize light, texture, and a sense of place. She works with both planning and intuition, allowing each painting to develop naturally through simplicity and mood.

S.T. Gately is a Massachusetts based Visual Artist and certified Visual Arts Educator. Gately has been a practicing Visual Artist for over twenty years and has exhibited in group and solo shows throughout Massachusetts. For Gately, creating art is a compulsion, a necessary tool for expressing emotions as a means of survival.

Sol Yael Weiss is a multidisciplinary artist and printmaker whose work weaves together ecology, ritual and Jewish mysticism into layered visual narratives. Through linocut, letterpress, bookbinding, acrylic painting and digital illustration, they create images that honor ancestral stories while reimagining them for the present. Their practice explores the intersections of identity, land, and healing, often collaborating with writers, herbalists, and spiritual leaders to create art that bridges tradition and contemporary justice work. Sol’s art is both a practice of remembrance and a prayer for renewal, carrying threads of myth, memory, and justice into the present and future.

Youme is an author/illustrator and community muralist known for her evocative illustrations that address social issues and cultural narratives. She has co-created large scale public art in Haiti, Ghana, Cuba and Lao PDR. Recent work; illustrations for Holyoke resiliency cookbook “Slainte y Sabor”, and “Love Always Finds It’s Way Home,” with Commonwealth Murals, MassDOT and the city of Holyoke. Image:Four Rivers mural in Greenfield with Jasmine Thomas 2025

Zazie Tobey is a dance maker who blends modern dance, butoh and musical theatre experience. She has been creating solo narratives that while deeply personal, tap into the shared human experiences of love, isolation and resilience. Zazie has been blessed to travel extensively to study dance in Ukraine, Türkiye, Japan, Serbia and Germany. She is a choreographer and gardener born and raised in the valley.