Help us create a safe, supportive community for peer critique and artistic growth! Nayana LaFond leads this monthly gathering for artists.
By Mill District General Store & Local Art Gallery
Select date and time
Starts on Thursday, June 13 · 6pm EDT
Location
Mill District Local Art Gallery
91 Cowls Road Amherst, MA 01002
About this event
2 hours
Calling all artists living in Massachusetts and within an hour’s drive of the Local Art Gallery! Join us at our Artist Social and Critique on the 2nd Thursday of every month from 6 - 8pm. Starts August 10.
Artists of all abilities and mediums are welcome to bring 1-2 pieces of artwork or images of artwork for peer critique. This is not art school! Help us create a safe community space by providing constructive and supportive feedback. Let's boost each other up and encourage our artistic growth. Hosted by Nayana Lafond.
Free.
Ages 14+ with adult accompaniment.
If your work is digital or photos of works too large to bring in and needs to be displayed on our projector, please e-mail it ahead of time to gallery@cowls.com.
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Artist Bio
Nayana LaFond is a full time multidisciplinary artist and activist who resides with her child in western Massachusetts. She attended Greenfield Community College for Fine Art and Massachusetts College of Art for Photography and then dropped out to become a full time painter. Her paintings can be seen in collections in galleries and museums around the world. Her project, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples Painting Project, has gained her international acclaim and is currently on display in museums around North America. Including a Pacific Northwest Coastal tour, a tour through the Institute of American Indian Studies Museum and a tour through the Emerson Museum. Nayana has a solo exhibit booked at the Springfield Museum of Fine Art for 2024-2025, Southern Vermont Art Center in 2024 and many other exhibits booked for her work well into 2026.
Nayana has also been a curator and community arts organizer for over 20 years including former founding Chief Curator for The Whitney Center for the Arts. She also sits on several arts organization boards, including as an executive board member of Artist Organized Art and others. In addition to being a painter and photographer Nayana is also a sculptor. Her sculpture “Zoongide’e” (sculpture about domestic abuse), a metal, plexiglass and concrete Wetu (Wigwam) was on display outside Fenway Park in Boston for the summer and fall of 2022.
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