Colrain the inspiration for weekend art show

 

An article about the “Colrain on Canvas II” Art Show was in the Recorder on Tuesday, September 28. Read the article on the Greenfield Recorder website.

https://www.recorder.com/Colrain-the-inspiration-for-weekend-art-show-42693955

Colrain on Canvas ll

Colrain on Canvas ll

Saturday and Sunday, September 25-26

10 am - 4 pm

Shelburne Buckland Community Center

53 Main St, Shelburne Falls, MA

Admission $10

The Colrain Historical Society will present Colrain on Canvas II, with 65 Colrain scenes recently found in private collections.

Most of the works are from private collections in the Hilltowns, many depicting homes and villages in Colrain “as they once were.” The paintings are all different from the last show in 2019.

Artists are both contemporary and deceased, famous and not-so-famous, trained as well as self-taught. It is intentionally a non-curated show: the mixed media, the varying skills of the artists and their perspectives are part of the magic. Among the paintings to be shown is this Griswoldville scene by Colrain native, Maria Miller Kingsley.

In a separate room, prints of some of the show paintings, antique map reproductions, and some contemporary paintings will be available for sale.

Also, there will be a separate side exhibit assembled by Sarah Hollister, “Found at the Conway Dump,” which documents the names and lives of workers in the early Griswold Mill, 1838 to 1842. This material came from a ledger kept at the mill by a 19-year-old accountant of sorts, which was found recently at the Conway dump.

The show is a fundraiser for the Colrain Historical Society.

October News: Program Postponement and Annual Meeting Via Zoom

We had planned to have our annual meeting and a much-anticipated program about the Colrain dude ranch at the former dude ranch property in October. Alas, the spread of the Covid delta variant has made an indoor gathering now feel unwise. We have reluctantly decided to postpone that program until 2022, perhaps in June.

However, because under the society bylaws we need to hold an annual meeting and election of officers, we will do that on Zoom on Thursday, October 14, at 7 p.m. We will send you a reminder and link for the Zoom meeting in advance. We hope enough of you will attend this fairly brief meeting to provide a quorum. 

Regretfully, Belden Merims, chr., Board of Directors