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:
November Barn Door Gallery 2025
Tributary
Cassidy Clark
November 5 - November 22
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
Probably somewhere between your outer ear and the location of the voice in your head as you read this is a chamber of fluid in your inner ear known as endolymph. That liquid is crucial for your sensations of hearing, balance, and orientation. It gives you an indescribable sensation of which way is up. It tells you whether you are upright, laying on the ground, or swimming in the ocean. If the world turned upside down, you’d be the first to know.
Tributary is my exploration of stillness, turbulence, and the tension that photography creates between the two. The spark for this project was Jeff Wall’s essay “Photography and Liquid Intelligence,” which explores how liquids used to create images are abstractly reflected in photography’s ability to capture complex, organic forms, such as liquid itself. In my work, this concept extends outward from the visual to the physical, represented not just in images but in the unique forms their prints take.
As such, Tributary has its own liquid origin, in the milk-white melted silver gelatin, or home-brewed blood-red bleach-fix bath sloshing nearly silently in its wide, shallow tray. Turbulence itself is expressed in the uncontrollable variables in my work. The steel subsurface of geography I, rusted by rainfall, acid etched, and stained with steel bluing, is one such example.
My goal is to explore this liquid turbulence through its contrasting and complimentary form, stillness. The species of stillness on display here range from the undisturbed morning air in geography II to the balanced tension of w/r/t. The moments rest between inhale and exhale. But what looks like a placid surface has a pulse underneath, waiting for the stillness to break. Probably somewhere between your outer ear and the location of the voice in your head as you read this is a chamber of fluid in your inner ear known as endolymph. That liquid is crucial for your sensations of hearing, balance, and orientation. It gives you an indescribable sensation of which way is up. It tells you whether you are upright, laying on the ground, or swimming in the ocean. If the world turned upside down, you’d be the first to know.
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Cassidy Clark (she/her) is an artist and photographer looking at circumstantial artifacts of images, such as (finger)prints. For her, the key to understanding images is to look around them at what isn't usually visible. Her work is usually based in portraiture and story, with an interest in how gaze and touch can be carried through physical media. More recently, Cassidy has been working to describe the various architectures of visual and visualized data that moderate the 21st century.
IG@carsicksadly
November Split Level Gallery 2025
Noho Art Club: A Third Space Project
curated by Paige Quinn-Vasic
November 5 - November 22
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
After 2 1/2 years, Noho Art Club is a hidden gem, one that opens up space and community to artists in any stage of their creative journey. Don't be fooled by our casual and silly nature. It is exactly this that grows our roots deep into the life of this town.
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Paige (she/her) is an arts educator, community builder, and artist of whimsy who cannot pick just one hobby. Much of her inspiration comes from color harmonies, geometry in nature, and cats. Her art tends to reflect her ever-loving affair with ecology and the natural world while also experimenting with alternative materials and techniques. She's always seeking art processes with the element of surprise, or a trick expertly pulled off. She hopes to leave a bit of mystery in our midst.
IG@Paigesquinn
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Ananya (she/her) is a scientist, dancer, and artist who tries to find answers everywhere. She is inquisitive about the world and tries to understand it by questioning and exploring concepts through science, art, and dance. Her art is often a colorful concoction of these ideas, and her aim is to share these ideas with people who will revel in them.
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Arielle (she/they) is an Illustrator and Designer based in New England. Their work explores the intersection of magic and nature through whimsical portrayals of plants and animals. When they’re not painting, they can be found searching for fairies with their cat.
IG @arielle.szt
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Chelsea Counsell (she/her) is a writer, illustrator, and musician currently busting her butt for an MFA in Creative Writing for Children. Most of the time, her art skews cute, and her writing is aimed at middle grade audiences, but sometimes she likes to make spooky things. Her current work in progress, which you can see here, is a cozy fantasy anthology called The Cat Survives, which she plans on funding through Kickstarter.
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Chelsea Martel-White (she/they) started furiously into painting in plein air when the pandemic hit, and they've been at it ever since. They first took inspiration from James Gurney's YouTube channel, applying lessons from him and others when painting corners of their beloved Massachusetts. Following in the footsteps of the impressionists, they seek to learn how to transport a viewer with the fleeting glints of light and shadow that can make an ordinary corner of town feel alive, even when the brushstrokes show.
IG@barnlionart
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Ethan (he/him) is from Nashville, Tennessee and now currently resides in Northampton, Massachusetts
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Jacob (he/him) is an unlikely gem of a person whose mind is always on, for better or for worse. His art is made to pull people in using vivid color schemes—often involving food— and make them think using philosophical imagery and pen strokes that choose whether they care about the piece or not.
IG@belabedj.art
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James (he/him) began making marker portraits while decorating his classroom as a public school teacher. These ‘cheap’ materials bleach quickly with time in hot fluorescent light, draining both legibility and value from the work. Black lines go green, color washes out, and something that seemed so permanent when you marked it is now faded, pale.
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Jennifer (she/her) lives in Northampton with her husband and son. She started knitting in college, but it became a go to craft in 2020. Recently, she has been working on learning more colorwork techniques and on making garments.
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Julia Meslener (She/Her) is a photo editor and producer who turns to painting to unwind after long hours at the computer. Her paintings are all about nature and color; trying to capture that feeling of being outside, as well as the small details she notices while spending time outdoors. She now uses her own photographs as inspiration, turning the moments she captures on her camera into vibrant, expressive paintings that reflect how she sees the natural world.
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Julia Ryan (She/Her) is a multimedia artist with a preference for digital art, charcoal, and pastels. The majority of her work is in greyscale and she enjoys creating moody and whimsical pieces. She has been making art for over 15 years and loves experimenting with mediums.
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Julie (she/her) is a school psychologist and artist who makes gentle, painterly things for people who feel everything deeply — like hand-lettered reminders, wildflower prints, and paper collages for the hard days. Her work is a mix of watercolor, gouache, and torn paper that reflects her deep appreciation to mother nature and hope for the future.
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Kira (she/her) is a visual artist whose practice explores themes of identity, memory, and belonging. A process-oriented artist, she uses art to reexamine and work through memories, creating dream-like works that de-fragment past experiences and transform them into something new. Guided by curiosity and intuition, she approaches artistic practice as a meditative act and an opportunity to look inward.
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Leah (she/her) is an artist who often wrestles with the nearly impossible task of impressing herself. With a focus on portraiture, she works with graphite, charcoal, and colored pencil to capture realistic facial features, and also enjoys drawing flowers and plants. After almost a decade of semi-consistent practice, Leah hopes to expand her style and create work that embraces uncertainty over perfection.
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Mike (he/him) is a complete dilettante when it comes to art. He likes to try new mediums and materials, in an ongoing effort to capture some semblance of the world around him.
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Naomi (she/her) creates art that calms the mind and reminds us it is okay to rest. She loves the saplings on her porch, and watching the squirrels chase each other through the trees. Naomi relaxes with a slow, quiet tea ceremony on rainy days.
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Nicole (she/her) is a multi-passionate artist, ranging in fiber arts, costume/clothing construction, performing arts, photography, and more. She enjoys taking inspiration from history, as with these pieces created for the club's show. Her small business, Piccolo Stitchworks, offers doll clothing and patterns online and at local artisan market events.
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Saleem (he/him) is a freelance designer and retro geek who has recently rediscovered a passion for professional wrestling. He is exploring new techniques and experimenting with materials while still developing his signature artistic style. His work reflects his interests and ongoing journey as an artist.
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Syd (she/her) is a lover of creativity; she has done art as a hobby for years on and off. They hope art can become part of a career, one day in the future.
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Tim (he/him) is a tabletop game enthusiast turned painter, combining his love for storytelling with a tendency for tedious, detail-oriented work through the hobby of painting miniatures. Whether gritty realism or playful fantasy, Tim enjoys using bold color harmonies to bring the characters of the figures to life.