While we pause till spring, we are contemplating our offerings for the summer, including a Poets Letterpress broadside session. Shop Talk Sessions Join current resident and experimental musician, Gahlord Dewald, a stand up bassist, here from Hawaii, for a Shop Talk Session, and talk improv music, its challenges as a musician and what’s new and …
Author Archives: Julia Ferrari
Painting the floor
The creative team at 32M have been busy painting.
Preparing the space for our visiting artists
Working on adding back the original doors for the studios. We will use an historic Swedish paint, that should last a long time, and nourish the wood.
Inaugural event and show of Isabelle Arnone’s work
We gathered by the river to celebrate the final day of our retreat artist: Isabelle Arnone’s visit, with a reception for her work.
Our Current Artist in Residence
Fiber artist Isabelle Arnone during her time at the 32M Center for Creative Work.
the west studio
I’ve been working in the west studio, researching ideas for a new book project. The space is very quiet, with a strong river presence because of all the rain. I am experiencing the incredible sense of liberation from purposely working in an internet free zone…no distractions, just the work.
Sun Printing: create beautiful botanical prints
Saturday August 7, 1-4 pm Join us for an afternoon of sun printing using natural botanic materials for images. We will work outside weather permitting. (Participants are asked to have been vaccinated, thanks.) $35.00 Location: 32 Main Street, Ashuelot, NH 03441 contact info: 347-441-0089 to reserve a place limited registration Some student work/trade available for …
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beginnings and renovations
During this summer of beginnings and renovations, I’ve begun a new series called, at this point, “being there” which comes from a scene in a dream. It mirrors the working out of a frustratingly hampered and deeply blocked sense of self— the state of feeling the weight of one’s past and being blindfolded about the …
Painting begun
Today the East studio has begun to be painted, in preparation for incoming studio occupants in the fall. We are painting out the intense sky blue and toning it neutral with an off-white as suggested by our color expert Meg Graham. This lets the greens outside the window be the dominant color, with the sound …