Neighboring Systems

19/09/2024

Grants for artists and artist projects- find out more!

Current ECC board:Jo CaterSteve CollicelliSean Collins, SecretaryTracey EllerChandler FrantzFelicia Jadczak, ChairNancy Natale, TreasurerMichael Sjostedt

25/06/2024

Come support the artist tenants of One Cottage street!

20/04/2024

Press On: Indie Publishing Festival will have a day full of programs to take part in! Both drop-in activities throughout the day—write, draw, type, admire—and timed poetry readings and workshops in the small gallery. All happening concurrently with the writer, artist, and press exhibiting vendors. Take part and take away small press treasures.

Program Schedule: Timed Activities

12pm: DIY print-making, organized by Resilient Community Arts
1pm: We Speak to Each Other, an intergenerational climate poetry reading, organized by Carolyn Cushing
2pm: Facilitated poetry workshop, led by María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado *limited to 25, first come
3pm: Imagining Gender Justice zine & comic-making workshop, organized by Translate Gender, youth focus
4pm: The But Also poetry reading, organized by Threshold Academy

Program Schedule: Drop-In Activities

Exhibitions, The Debt You Owe by Oliver James and Resonance Advisory Council by Alyssya & Gerald Clark, organized by 50 Arrow Gallery
Type-In & Poetry Vending Machine, organized by Attack Bear Press
Drop-In Poetry Activity & Book-Binding Exhibit, organized by Easthampton Public Library & Teen Advisory
Doodle-a-Thon, organized by Resilient Community Arts

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

15/04/2024

A collection of works by students and faculty from the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst UMass Amherst. The table includes zines and printed matter developed as part of a studio course taught in the Spring 2024 semester, entitled “Publishing as Practice” and led by Assistant Professor Roopa Vasudevan, alongside other related works produced by affiliated members of the department. Find the UMass Art Department at https://www.umass.edu/art/, and on Instagram at .

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

15/04/2024

Translate Gender is a trans-led, consensus-run community 501c3 non-profit that works to support trans and gender-expansive youth and their families through a variety of programming. Translate Gender staff will lead a zine and comic-making workshop for youth, teaching the importance of zines in q***r and trans history, and hold space for participating young people to make their own. Youth who participate in this workshop will be asked to dream about what a future of gender justice looks like, and to put it to paper in their zines and comics. Find out more at https://www.translategender.org/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

15/04/2024

Threshold Academy is an umbrella project for The But Also and for the pop-up bookselling and tarot-poem collaborations of Britt Billmeyer-Finn and Zoe Tuck. Its current manifestation is as a school offering literature and creative writing classes outside of academia, such as Bring Me a Higher Love, a love poem writing workshop, Creative Reading, Ghoul School, and The Poetics of Space, among others.

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

15/04/2024

Things You Don’t Need is a project founded by Easthampton-based lettering artist & designer, Brittany Arita. It’s all about the handmade goods you want, but don’t need;from linocut prints and cards, to stickers, grab bags and more. Our work is inspired by lettering, poetry, anxiety, self-expression & cats.
https://thethingsyoudontneed.com

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

15/04/2024

Saint Lydia is the publishing project of Alison Baitz. Covering florals, words — what else is there? Alison Baitz began publishing as Saint Lydia in 2013. Saint Lydia aims to investigate the wonderful weirdness of our world through printed publications. More details at https://www.saintlydia.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

15/04/2024

Malaika Ross is a Caribbean American visual artist in Western Massachusetts. She is currently working on two collections of paintings which incorporate botanical and soil elements as part of a novel landscape which center black female figures. All her paintings incorporate shapes and patterns developed in her soil microbial drawings into contemporary ecologically based botanical paintings which include native and introduced flora. She considers the act of observing and documenting nature through painting and drawing as a black woman as a form of liberation, environmental stewardship and anti-oppression work. Learn more at https://www.malaikaross.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

13/04/2024

Looky Here, founded by artists in 2017, is a non-profit arts organization, Risograph print shop, and publishing house tucked away in the valley of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Our shop is predominantly volunteer-run and serves the community by providing affordable used and donated art supplies, Risograph printing services, and access to our printing equipment. Our programming includes workshops, literary events, gallery shows, and more. We are open for business on Wednesdays -Friday from 12:00 - 5:00 and Saturdays from 12:00 - 3:00. https://lookyheregreenfield.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

13/04/2024

Gourd Friend is a project founded by Yiyi Han and Kathy Guo in 2021. Gourd friend seeks to share personal stories and celebrate culture attached to the Chinese and Chinese diaspora living in the US through sculptural objects or print. Gourd Friend explores and draws inspiration from Chinese idioms, language, mythology, as well as collaborating with various artists.
https://www.gourdfriend.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

13/04/2024

Ghost Proposal is a journal and press founded in 2012. We publish work that transcends or sits outside of traditional notions of genre. More at https://ghostproposal.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

13/04/2024

Eternal Spiral Project is an exploration of the intersection between folk art and magic. Haven Douglas uses an amalgamation of sewing techniques, drawing, and writing to create enchanted art objects. She uses upcycled material to make garments, plush figures, Drawings, and other art works that are imbued with esoteric symbolism. Haven's work is inspired by mythology, folklore, western mystery traditions, and the everlasting spirit of the working class. https://www.eternalspiralproject.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

11/04/2024

Ebbie + Julissa are gender expansive BIPOC visual artists, performers, poets, teaching artists, and organizers who host Covid-cautious multi-arts workshops and markets centering QTBIPOC. Ebbie Russell is a Q***r Black Feminist Futurist diving into grief, chosen kin & longing. Their poems appear in the anthology From Root to Seed: Black, Brown & Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast ('23). Find them on Instagram . Julissa Rodríguez is a proud Q***r Boricua musician, writer, arts facilitator, community organizer, and cultural worker. Their free expression through percussion, theatre, dance, poetry and spoken word pays homage tos our African, Indigenous, and Q***r Ancestors and opens spaces for community building, connection and healing. Contact them at [email protected].

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

11/04/2024

The Easthampton Public Library is a core service, resource, and programming space in the heart of Easthampton, offering books and a range of arts and poetry programming, including many programs specifically for children and teens. Youth poets and participants in the Easthampton Public Library-supported Antler Editions bookbinding workshop at the library will display their bookbinding projects and facilitate a drop-in poetry activity for table visitors. Learn more about youth programs at the library by visiting https://ewmlibrary.org/calendar-actionagenda-request-formatjson-cat-ids810/action~agenda/request_format~json/cat_ids~8,10/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

11/04/2024

Sally Pirie is a Professor at Umass and a comics-based researcher. She and her colleagues in her Comics-Based Research Lab (CBR) teach people to use non-fiction comic writing as a form of research in every academic discipline and in schools K-12. Trained as a newspaper cartoonist before she became an anthropologist, Dr. Pirie combines both of those worlds by writing non-fiction research comics as zines, art books,and other subversive projects– and she teaches others to do the same! Learn more at https://sallypirie.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

11/04/2024

Carolyn Cushing is the current Easthampton Poet Laureate. In addition to her own writing practice, Carolyn has initiated Poets in the World: Visioning and Skills Building, to explore alongside other poets questions like: What is the power of poetry? How can poets claim this power? And, What skills do we need to use and grow this power? Learn more at https://soulpathsanctuary.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival

11/04/2024

Founded in 2016 by poets Alex Woolner and Jason Montgomery, Attack Bear Press is a clearing house for all things art. Located in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Attack Bear Press works with local artists and writers on collaborative, creative projects. Learn more at https://www.attackbearpress.com/

3rd Annual Press On: Indie Publishing Festival