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.
Additional information can be found on our FAQ document.
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:
March Barn Door Gallery 2026
I Got U
Ryan Murray and Sharona Color
March 6 - March 27
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
I Got U unites artistic collaborators Sharon Leshner and Ryan Murray—two distinct voices, each with their own style and way of moving through the world—who meet in the studio with a shared goal of togetherness.
The exhibition is grounded in a balance of optimism and reality—light and dark held side by side. It’s raw, open, and human—about the mess we all share and the beauty that comes from it. The work doesn't stand at a distance; it pulls you in, asking you to feel, reach out, and connect. The gritty texture of everyday life is expressed materially through torn layers of glued paper, textured paint, and freestyle brushstrokes.
Created in fascist times, I Got U centers common ground as a means of survival. The multimedia artworks include words drawn from intuition—subtle reminders and affirmations for getting through it. Mental health is not an abstract theme here, but a lived practice embedded in making, undoing, and remaking.
With figures moving and dancing, the work embodies togetherness as action rather than idea. In collaboration, in motion, and in care, I Got U offers connection as both resistance and refuge—an insistence that in creating together, we hold one another up.
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Ryan Murray (he/him), spray paint stencil artist and muralist, received his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014 and currently resides in western Massachusetts. He is currently represented by Art for the Soul Gallery. Through his work Ryan unearths and examines unsettling but important conversations about the stigma of mental illness, with the goal of normalizing the discussion and treatment of mental health in black communities. To examine Black mental health is to examine the effect of events in both the past and present, socioeconomic factors, how patterns of suffering repeat themselves, and the burden of certain societal expectations.
Ryan utilizes repeated symbolism and autobiographical elements in order to address the reality and the reasons that people of color suffer in silence more than their white counterparts. Some of these works incorporate elements from photos taken during childhood, while others are derived from collages made during the artist’s therapy sessions.
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Sharon Leshner (aka Sharona Color, she/her) is an Easthampton, MA based artist and community activator. She uses mesmerizing colors to capture fleeting moments of awe from life. Sharon’s work begins with a process of deep listening, both to herself and her community. She dives into the confluence of our innermost thoughts and the playful nuances of our shared experiences in a way that challenges societal norms and makes way for healing. Sharon’s work draws from the spontaneity and improvisation of abstract expressionism. Like a symphony of poetic phrases and words, curved forms, and bold colors, her work evokes a sense of ever-present movement and a joyful acceptance of change for the viewer. Sharon is the Artistic Director and Founder at the non-profit mural organization, The Color Collaborative. Her murals can be found in cities around the country and internationally.
February Barn Door Gallery 2026
Nature Printed, Stitched, and Pieced
Amanda Maciuba, Bonnie Sennott, & Sharon McCartney
February 6 - February 26
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
Fiber artists Amanda Maciuba, Sharon McCartney, and Bonnie Sennott use hand and machine embroidery, sewing, surface design, and printmaking techniques to create original textile art rooted in the natural world. Each artist brings a unique perspective: Maciuba examines how humans influence and reshape natural environments, McCartney focuses on memory, growth cycles, and the passing of time, while Sennott seeks rest and equilibrium through improvisational abstract embroideries.
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Amanda Maciuba (she/her) was born and raised in the Buffalo, New York area. She graduated from the University at Buffalo with a degree in visual studies and has an MFA in printmaking and book arts from the University of Iowa. She shows her work regularly throughout the United States and has participated in artist residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Indiana Dunes National Park Residency, the Kathmandu International Artist Residency, and the Haystack Open Studio Residency. Currently, she resides in the Connecticut River Valley and teaches printmaking, drawing, and book arts at Mount Holyoke College.
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Bonnie Sennott (she/her) is a resident of Amherst and an abstract embroiderer. She has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions at Kingston Gallery in Boston, Vermont’s Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Easthampton City Arts, Northampton Center for the Arts, the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke, and other venues. She was born in Wichita, Kansas, grew up in Illinois, and received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 1988. Her work is in private collections in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
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Sharon McCartney (she/her) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to New England in 1983 to pursue a master’s degree in art history at Boston University. In 2005, she relocated to Belchertown to build her two-story studio surrounded by woodlands. Sharon draws from influences of both Asian and European art with natural themes. Her textile pieces, paintings, and artist books have been exhibited throughout the U.S. and have been included in museum, corporate, university, and private collections. Her work has been featured in publications such as American Craft, Fiberarts, Fiberart Now, and Surface Design Journal, as well as in several books on fiber art. She is currently represented by BE Galleries.
Read more about her process on Art Quilt Collector #5 (SAQA Publication) and on the Boston Voyager .
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