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 2025
El Telar De Un Sueño
Pamela Acosta
March 5 - March 28
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
Pamela Acosta often finds inspiration in literature and nature. She draws on dreams of flourishing inner lives and creates visual narratives that explore a myriad of beings, quests, and the symbiotic relationships formed between these beings and their environments. Her work investigates how we construct, transform, and are transformed by our surroundings. Characterized by figurative narratives, her art embraces elements of visual poetry and magical realism. Currently, she is developing a body of work that focuses more closely on the poetics of flora, fauna, and the connections within the natural world.
"El Telar De Un Sueño" or “Looming Dreams” is a comprehensive exhibition featuring works created over the past decade. It includes a variety of mediums, such as drawing, painting, and analog collage. A key highlight of the exhibit is one of Acosta's most recent pieces, "Fuegos Fatuos," her first tapestry.
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Pamela Acosta (she/her) is a Mexican painter, illustrator, and occasional animator from the borderlands along the Rio Grande Valley, currently living and working in Northampton, Massachusetts. She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley in 2013 and pursued studies in traditional animation at the School of Visual Arts throughout 2014 and 2015.
February 2025
Headspace
Connor O’Rourke
February 5 - February 27
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
HeadSpace is an immersive installation of over one hundred large scale, mixed-media, dimensional illustrations. These “heads” are made of recycled cardboard, paint, hot glue, crafting scraps and trash! This space is meant to be a reminder of just how good it feels to make art for yourself and what it really means to share that feeling with others.
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Connor O’Rourke (he/they) is a line cook for money and an artist for fun! Their work is often cartoonish and silly, but considerate in a way that makes you at least hope there’s more to it than bold lines and bright colors. They use recycled materials as well as traditional illustration methods to create an uncanny variety of tangible things.