THE BARN DOOR GALLERY
AT 33 HAWLEY
Stewarded by the Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA), the Barn Door Gallery supports our mission to foster community connections through the arts, and is a dedicated venue for evolving, transformative dialogue between artists and audiences.
OPEN HOURS:
12 pm - 7 pm - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Closed - Sunday, Monday & Tuesday
The Barn Door Gallery is ADA compliant and admission is free.
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THE SPLIT LEVEL GALLERY AT 33 HAWLEY
Stewarded by the Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA) and A.P.E . (Available Potential Enterprises, Ltd.) the curation of this gallery is shared by both building partner organizations and supports our mission to foster collaboration and community connections through the arts.
Current Exhibits:
December Barn Door Gallery 2025
HOME AS COUNTERPOINT
Adeyemi Adebayo, Bo Kim, & Josue Salazar
December 4 - December 20
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
A counterpoint is the relationship of two or more simultaneous musical lines that are harmonically dependent on each other, yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour.
Home functions here as a site of dialogue, thought-making, ongoing inquiry, and, importantly, as a counterpoint. Home stands beside, in conjunction, in juxtaposition, and in contrast to other concepts: of foreignness, of immigration, of fugitivity, of mobility, and of exile. These concepts all gain meaning, richness, and depth when they stand beside each other.
This exhibition brings together three artists from three different countries and continents, currently residing in the US, as they explore what home means to them. The notion of in-betweenness resonates in all their works, as seen in Bo’s definition of home as an affective site that allows for cultural hybridity, Josue’s exploration of binational identity through a meditation on the borderland of Nogales, Mexico, and Adeyemi’s inquiry into the liminal identities of the postcolonial African diaspora.
In the exhibition, Bo’s drawings and paintings engage with developing forms of hybridity in culture through institutionalized traveling objects. She examines the reconstruction of meaning, misclassification, and transformation of these objects within their new spaces. Josue’s landscape drawings and mixed-media approaches explore life, stories, and movement along the U.S.-Mexico border. Adeyemi’s photographs examine spaces in which postcolonial African diasporic people recreate community and home.
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Adeyemi (he/him), born in Osun, Nigeria, is a documentary photographer interested in themes of home, belonging, migration, and the environment. He received his undergraduate degree in Agriculture and a Master's in Ecology and Population Genetics, and is currently doing a Master’s in Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts. Adeyemi’s work has been featured in Nataal and Oulun ylioylioppilaslehti. He is the recipient of the Frank and Folwell Photography Award 2024, 2024 ACDD grant, 2024 University of Massachusetts UMCA Eva Fierst Curatorial Fellowship, and the Factory of Willow 2024 Summer Resident Artist.
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I’m Bo Kim (she/her), a third-year MFA candidate in Studio Art at UMass Amherst, originally from Busan, South Korea. My practice blends traditional Korean painting materials—like sumi ink, natural pigments, and mulberry paper—with research-driven installation, drawing, and community-based projects. As both an artist and educator, I investigate themes of cultural memory, displacement, and healing. My work often engages personal and collective archives, inviting participation and dialogue. I currently teach Drawing and Painting at UMass and am committed to creating inclusive, accessible spaces for interdisciplinary artistic expression.
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My name is Josue Salazar (he/him), and I’m a contemporary artist based in Western Massachusetts. I was born in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States at a young age. Growing up in a predominantly Hispanic community in Southern California has had a profound influence on my artistic practice. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Studio Arts from California State University, Sacramento, and have exhibited work throughout California, including at the Crocker Art Museum. My work explores identity, memory, and the nuances of cultural experience shaped by borderland life.
December Split Level Gallery 2025
In a world increasingly afflicted by upheaval and destruction, the notion of place sits at the crux of fragility and resilience. How and where do we belong? Through the use of collage and mixed media practices, Colbert and Hoover build real and imagined landscapes that explore hopes and fears for our world. Labor intensive processes become a meditative way to balance tensions, create cohesion, and understand our connections and place within today's chaos.
Worlds in Pieces
Kristi W. Colbert and Jodi Hoover
December 5 - January 10
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
In a world increasingly afflicted by upheaval and destruction, the notion of place sits at the crux of fragility and resilience. How and where do we belong? Through the use of collage and mixed media practices, Colbert and Hoover build real and imagined landscapes that explore hopes and fears for our world. Labor intensive processes become a meditative way to balance tensions, create cohesion, and understand our connections and place within today's chaos.
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Jodi Hoover (she/her) is an artist, teacher, and librarian working in Western Massachusetts. Her work explores storytelling as a (sometimes unreliable) way to explain the dangerous, beautiful world. Familiar and domestic designs, such as quilt patterns, bleed into fairy-tale landscapes created through the use of layered hand-cut collage work.
Hoover holds a Master of Fine Art degree from Towson University and a Master of Library Science from University of Maryland, College Park. She teaches book and printmaking workshops and has exhibited work throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. She enjoys talking about her rescue dogs and loves cicadas.
IG @jodi_hoover
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Kristi W. Colbert (she/her) is a mixed media artist specializing in painted paper collage - a medium she wandered into experimentally as a means of breaking out of her perfectionism and into her creative freedom. For Kristi, collaging is the best of both worlds: painterly and sculptural; deconstructive and reconstructive; realistic and abstract; intricate and unfussy. With a B.A. in Studio Art and Geology from Colgate University, a M.S. in Leadership from Northeastern University, and nearly 20 years experience working in various sectors of education, Kristi returned to her lifelong passion for art in earnest at the onset of the pandemic. Now working from her home studio in Leverett, MA, she draws inspiration from her surroundings—country life in Western Massachusetts as well her travels and wanderlust beyond. Made from scraps of recycled junk mail painted with gouache, pencil, and neocolor crayon, Kristi’s work palpably explores sense of place, as transportive landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes emerge from paper bits. Ultimately, it is a record of places traveled, a map to what lies ahead, and an energetic manifestation of hope and repair - gluing together pieces of a broken world as a reminder of the beauty that surrounds us. Through her work, Kristi invites viewers to revel in multiplicity, sink into the wonder of place, and make meaning from scrap. Her work has been exhibited by galleries in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Michigan, recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, featured in Gillette Stadium and the Massachusetts State House, and has a fast growing body of collectors near and far.