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Sergei Isupov is an Estonian-American sculptor internationally known for his highly detailed, narrative works. Isupov explores painterly figure-ground relationships, creating surreal sculptures with a complex artistic vocabulary that combines two- and three-dimensional narratives and animal/human hybrids. He works in ceramics using traditional hand-building and sculpting techniques to combine surface and form with narrative painting using colored stains highlighted with clear glaze.
Learn more about Sergei Isupov here.
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Learn more about Kadri Parnamets here.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”193.9px” custom_margin=”38px|auto||auto||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”3px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]NORTH ADAMS, MA to CUMMINGTON, MA– ARE WE THERE YET? is a celebration of Ferrin Contemporary’s 40+ years as leaders in the field of modern and contemporary ceramics. What began in 1979 as a woman-owned cooperative studio and gallery in Northampton, MA has flourished across the years and the locations to become the international ceramic experts and material champions known as Ferrin Contemporary.
Part of the Open House at Project Art, during the 2023 Hilltown Open Studio Tour, Ferrin Contemporary will open the doors of its
54 Main Street Showroom to the public.
Beginning September 30th, the long-time residents of Cummington will be open by appointment to interested collectors, arts professionals, ceramic artists, and art fans.
With the 2023 designation of Cummington as a cultural district, and the central location of Project Art to the gallery’s lives and growing focuses, the choice to highlight this unique space and follow this momentum on The Road to Cummington, was the right path.
SEPT 30th | 1 PM
OCT 1st | 1 PM
RSVP ABOVE
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WHAT YOU WILL SEE
During the course of four decades, the gallery has championed artists whose primary medium is clay. Beginning with a commitment to providing support for living artists, decades-long relationships grew with artists whose works explore traditions and history, deliver social commentary, experiment with the material, and use the medium to challenge themselves to produce new works.
As part of the exhibition that ushered Ferrin Contemporary from North Adams to Cummington, selected classic works will be presented directly from the artists’ archives or offered by private collectors, illustrating career highlights both in the Project Art 54 Main Street Showroom and online.
The exhibition asks us, the artists, and the collectors to reflect on the road we’ve taken and invites the public to join the dialog while we speculate about the future.
Learn more about Ferrin Contemporary HERE
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HOURS: 10 – 5 pm
GARDEN TOURS: Ongoing with June Ferrin
DEMONSTRATIONS:
2:00 Saturday | Mara Superior | Painting on Porcelain
2:00 Sunday | Lily Fein | Hand-building with Porcelain
GUEST CHEF: Alice’s Kitchen
Our spring open house is in conjunction with second annual weekend-long Hilltown Open Studio Tour organized by the Hilltown Arts Alliance featuring thirty artists across five Hilltowns in Western Massachusetts. The participating artists engage in a variety of media and the tour encourages discussion of their work on both the technical and creative sides. The tour is an admission-free event, and many of the artists will have work for sale. Meander timeless backroads, rolling hills, farms, forests, and mountain streams as you make your way between studios. You may begin at any studio or see the group show of work by artists on the tour are on view and pick up a map at the Cummington Community House, 33 Main Street.
Click HERE to view the Hilltown Open Studio Tour Map.
We welcome Alice Cozzolino of Alice’s Kitchen as our guest chef. She and partner, Amy Pulley, formerly of the Old Creamery, live and work on their nearby Honey Hill Homestead. The culmination of a life-long caring for their land, Honey Hill Homestead now offers weekly prepared foods, catering, cooking classes, pollinator plants and more … Order ahead or just stop by and learn about their weekly prepared foods. In addition to the lunch menu, their a la carte selections offer tasty treats and take home foods.
Alice’s Kitchen will offer some of the following items: Fresh Mozzarella, Pesto, Caramelized Onion Baguette Sandwiches * Turkey Wraps * Stuffed Grape Leaves * Endive Salad Canoes with Pear, Goat Cheese, Candied Pecans & Aged Balsamic Vinegar * Pesto Tortellini Skewers * Veggie Egg Rolls * Pizza * Cookies * Watermelon Slices * Herb Tea Tonic * Ginger Honey Lemon Tea * Chai
Join us for the opening of Ferrin Contemporary’s summer gallery, June Ferrin’s Garden Tour and open studios at Project Art. We welcome our newest resident artist, Lily Fein and feature works by resident and visiting artists, June Ferrin, Sergei Isupov, Kadri Parnamets, Paul Scott and guest, Mara Superior.
This event is in conjunction with the weekend long Hilltown Open Studio Tour with 26 artist studios in all media in four nearby Western Massachusetts towns.
MARA SUPERIOR, is a frequent, short term resident artist and actively engaged in creative collaborations with the other artists at Project Art. The 2017 recipient of MCC’s prestigious artist fellowship award, her work is in numerous museum collections throughout the country and in New England including the Peabody Essex Museum, MFA Boston, Fuller Craft, RISD Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art. Known for detailed works in porcelain, she will be introducing “The Pollinators”, a new series on a range of forms that feature birds, bees and the plants they support. Represented by Ferrin Contemporary, her work can be seen at Project Art and in selected exhibitions at the gallery’s North Adams location in Building 13 on the MASS MoCA campus. Based in Western Massachusetts, Mara lives in nearby Williamsburg and maintains her primary studio at East Street Clay Studios in Hadley.
Demonstration: 2:00 Saturday | Mara Superior | Painting on Porcelain
Click HERE to learn more about Mara Superior.
LILY FEIN is the newest resident artist at Project Art. Arriving in January of 2019, since her graduation from Syracuse with a BFA in ceramics in 2016, she has been traveling and working in residency programs including the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT; Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN; Craigardan in Upstate New York; The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, MA and Japan. She employs simple hand building techniques of pinch and coil to make utilitarian pots and sculptural vessels using the most challenging of clay bodies, porcelain. Her time at Project Art has focused on developing a body of new forms that morph and change, and curve and twist with unexpected interruptions and intersections. Her work invites and encourages touch with soft surfaces that reveal the imprint of her fingers on shapely, pleasing, delicate shapes. When not working in clay Lily enjoys dipping in creek beds (including the Westfield River) and playing in her band, The Glue.
Demonstration: 2:00 Sunday | Lily Fein | Hand-building with Porcelain
Click HERE to learn more about Lily Fein.
JUNE FERRIN captures the light and blooms of her extravagant flower gardens in her watercolor paintings. Graduating from UCLA in the 1950s, Ferrin has been an active artist and teacher throughout her life and continues to teach a weekly watercolor class on Wednesdays in the art room of the now closed, former Berkshire Trail Elementary School. Her current work will be on view during the HOST tour. Living and working in Cummington, June’s glorious inspirational flower gardens surround her home and visitors are welcome to tour her gardens and enjoy the view of the Westfield River when stopping by at Project Art during the HOST tour.
GARDEN TOURS: Ongoing with June Ferrin
RESIDENT ARTISTS recent works by resident ceramic artists Sergei Isupov and Kadri Pärnamets will also be on view. OTHER ARTISTS selected works by Project Art’s visiting artists and other artists represented by Ferrin Contemporary.
OPEN STUDIOS & SUMMER GALLERY
Ferrin Contemporary will present works from recent projects in the summer gallery.
Featured will be work by resident artists Kadri Pärnamets and Sergei Isupov as well as visiting artist Paul Scott.
Paul Scott
Sergei Isupov
Kadri Pärnamets
BEER TASTINGS:
With GrowlerFest founders Brad Klem and Alexandra Jelleberg
Featuring selected local beers and sponsored by Pop’s Package
On both Saturday and Sunday at 4pm
OPEN STUDIOS:
Guest artists Brad Klem and Brian R. Jones join resident artists Alexandra Jelleberg, Jessica Detweiler, Sergei Isupov, Kadri Pärnamets, and Paul Scott in the studios.
Brian R. Jones, recently moved from Portland, OR to the Albany, NY area. A studio potter who is also well known for his podcast the Jonescast, Brian will be showing recent works from the new studio. Brian will also be recording short interviews with visiting artists, neighbors and pottery collectors. His studio assistant, Aleka Tomlinson, will also be joining the group for the weekend.
Bradley Klem, a former visiting artist returns with hand made growlers and functional ceramics he has been producing while completing his MFA at Penn State University.
Resident Artists Click here to for more.
PROJECT ART supports and promotes local and international ceramic art and artists through artist residencies, studio rentals, events, and exhibitions.
SUMMER GALLERY exhibiting selected works from ongoing projects by represented artists on view throughout the summer and fall.
AMERICAN STUDIO POTTERY from private collections by various artists 1970–2000 are available for sale with a portion of the sales on the night of the HOPS+POTS event going to benefit the Studio Potter. A special selection of cups by Michael Simon are available first come basis.
• Christa Assad
• Kim Dickey
• Jane Hamlyn
• Karen Karnes
• Robbie Lobell
• Warren Mackenzie
• Jim Makins
• Michael McCarthy
• Lorna Meaden
• Jenny Mendes
•Matthew Metz
• Hiroshi Nakayama
• Jeff Oestreich
• Mark Pharis
• Mark Shapiro
• Linda Sikora
• Michael Simon
• Lisa Stinson
• Sam Taylor
• Claire Weissberg
You’re invited to the mill — visit the artists, tour the studios, and stroll through the summer gallery. The studios of current resident artists Paul Scott, Alexandra Jelleberg, and Jess Detweiler will be open to the public.
Small works by Sergei Isupov, Kadri Pärnamets, their daughter, Roosi, as well as the resident artists will be available for sale. Recent consignments from private collections of American Studio Pottery and Ceramic Art 1960–2000 will be available for sale by Ferrin Contemporary in the summer gallery, including works by Karen Karnes, Linda Sikora, Michael Simon, Matthew Metz.
This event is free and open to the public.
Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s) Flower Pots, Paul Scott, Cut detail from transferware plates with gold lustre, coarse sand and gravel in terracotta pots, 2016
The studios of Sergei Isupov, Kadri Pärnamets and current resident artists Paul Scott, Alexandra Jelleberg and Jess Detweiler will be open to the public. Small works by the artists will be available for sale. Recent consignments from private collections of American Studio Pottery and Ceramic Art 1960 – 2000 will be available for sale by Ferrin Contemporary in the summer gallery, including works by Karen Karnes, Linda Sikora, Michael Simon, Matthew Metz.
This event is free and open to the public.
GUEST ARTIST: Mara Superior
Ferrin Contemporary artist Mara Superior will be our guest this weekend. She will be presenting her recent work that includes salt-fired porcelain pieces pulled from a wood-fire kiln.
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
Selections fromPaul Scott‘s American Scenery Project and 2015 residency, as well as works in progress by artist-in-residence and Project Art directorAlexandra Jelleberg.
EAST STUDIO: Growlers and Drinking Vessels
Growlers and tumblers from GrowlerFest will be available from the 2015 participants includingBradley Klem and Justin Rothshank. Justin and his wife, Brooke Rothshank, will be featured in the exhibit “Know Justice” this fall atFerrin Contemporary.
SUMMER GALLERY
Selected works from Ferrin Contemporary’s recent exhibitions, including work by Bouke de Vries, Stephen Young Lee, Peter Pincus, Vipoo Srivilasa, and Kurt Weiser.
ISUPOV and PARNAMETS
Recent work and works-in-progress bySergei Isupov andKadri Pärnamets.
JUNE FERRIN
Enjoy the gardens that inspire watercolor paintings by June Ferrin on view throughout Project Art.
Visit with resident artists, enjoy demos in the studio, and join us for Saturday lunch.
Selections from current projects: GLAZED & DIFFUSED and Paul Scott’s 2015 American Scenery.
FAMILY AFFAIR: Sergei Isupov, Kadri Pärnamets, and their daughter, Roosi
Finished pieces and works in progress by current artist-in-residence Alexandra Jelleberg (left).
Watercolors by June Ferrin. Elenor Wilson (left), a past Project Art resident, will also join us.
Join us for conversation and lunch with artists and friends at Project Art. Lunch from The Olde Creamery is $15. Reservation deadline is July 23.
These events are concurrent with the Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour.
Click here for more information about the Hilltown 6 events.
