About Holyoke: Points of View
H:POV is a series of art and cultural events which will take place during April
2013 in venues throughout Holyoke’s Arts & Innovation district. All programs are free
and open to the public.
This program is presented with the support of The Holyoke Cultural Council,
Smith College Museum of Art, El Sol Latino, the Holyoke Medical Center, and
United Bank. All proceeds benefit the Holyoke Public Library.
For a complete list of H:POV events, please click here.
H:POV is a series of art and cultural events which will take place during April
2013 in venues throughout Holyoke’s Arts & Innovation district. All programs are free
and open to the public.
This program is presented with the support of The Holyoke Cultural Council,
Smith College Museum of Art, El Sol Latino, the Holyoke Medical Center, and
United Bank. All proceeds benefit the Holyoke Public Library.
For a complete list of H:POV events, please click here.
Exhibits Throughout Holyoke's Arts & Innovation District, April 4-30:
- The Puerto Rican Cultural Project, in conjunction with Holyoke: Points of View, will exhibit DIVEDCO Posters From Puerto Rico: 1949-1989 at Open Square Gallery 4, April 25 - May 11.
- Jerome Liebling: A Walk Through Holyoke - 1982, a never-before-exhibited series of classic Holyoke photographs. April 9-27 at Wistariahurst Museum and the Holyoke Public Library (at City Hall).
- Holyoke Through Our Eyes, a series of hands-on photography workshops using the Jerome Liebling photographs as inspiration. These workshops, co-sponsored by Girls, Inc. and the Holyoke Public Library will culminate in an exhibit at the Library. Erika Zekos, artist-in-residence.
- Enchanted Circle Theater will be taking the photographs generated in Holyoke Through Our Eyes to 6 regional community organizations and conducting writing response workshops with youth and seniors. Writings from this project Ripple Effect will be displayed alongside the photographs. Co-produced by Enchanted Circle Theater and the Holyoke Public Library.
- Holyoke Then and Now, an exhibit of works by photographers Jeffrey Byrne and Bill Ravanesi and landscape paintings by Greg Stone.
- Holyoke in Film presented by Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts.
- Holyoke: Paint the Views, a landscape painting show of the diverse landscapes of Holyoke, urban to rural, realist to abstract.andscape painting show of the diverse landscapes of Holyoke, urban to rural, realist to abstract.
- Holyoke Surfaces, a collaborative project between artist Lyn Horan, students from Holyoke High, & the Holyoke community at large.
- REACH, local and national artists showing in a multi-city exhibition.
- HCC 2013 Art Exhibition, featuring work produced by students at Holyoke Community College.
- Deposit: A Pop Up Restaurant, an innovative culinary experience and a level of culinary imagination currently absent from downtown Holyoke.
- Boomtown, a photographic collection of Holyoke homes, factories, and business from the HPL History Room.
- Glass Block Art Project, a juried competition of sculptures that incorporate 100-year old glass blocks from the original Holyoke Public Library stack wing.