Center for Creative Work
LITERARY / LETTERPRESS Retreat, in partnership with The Golgonooza International School of Typograpy & Letters Announcing a special retreat for writers where we will work with you to design and print a small Broadside from a piece of your writing. (See Workshops page for more info.) While we pause till spring, we are contemplating our …
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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 current. Saturday September 24, 11:05am – 1 pm on the lawn (weather permitting) of the 32M Center, beside the Ashuelot River. Contact …
The creative team at 32M have been busy painting.
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.
We gathered by the river to celebrate the final day of our retreat artist: Isabelle Arnone’s visit, with a reception for her work.
Fiber artist Isabelle Arnone during her time at the 32M Center for Creative Work.
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 …
There are slow forms of destruction that have approached this building: trees too close to the foundation that would in time displace the stone with their roots. And so they must go for now. My friend Robert Wurzburg stopped by with his chainsaw to give a hand. It’s a reminder that work like this is …
Another room is now empty and swept. It looks out on the river. The plan is to make it a meditation room and handicap accessible bedroom when needed. Beautiful view out the window. Look at that old wallpaper. The plan is to document all the old 19th century wallpaper in the building with a swatch …