Date: April 11, 2013, Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

It is presented by the Amherst Art Walk, a forum intended to help inform artists about online self-promotion.

Catherine will discuss how artists can successfully use blogs, Facebook, and photo-sharing sites to promote and sell their art for most of the talk. She will integrate examples of artists who are successfully using these tools, cover common misconceptions about having an online presence, and emphasize the importance of online etiquette.

I will discuss the WordPress platform and how it can be used to show your work, optimize your pages with keywords,  and Google analytics, and communicate to customers via social media platforms. He will also show users how to update and personalize websites, even for those with little or no web experience.

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The Freedom Trails Gallery will be exhibiting New World: Images of a Changing Planet, a series of large-scale photographs of Earth from Space. The exhibition includes a variety of images captured by satellites, including areas of Earth that resemble abstract artwork when printed large scale. The series portrays changing climate and terrain that

could be a result of human influence or natural causes. Astronomer George Greenstein will be speaking about the impact of the images at the reception. We can learn a lot from these images when we take a large step back and look at what is happening around us.

There will be an opening reception Thursday, April 4th from 5:00 – 8:00 pm during the Amherst Arts Walk.

The Freedom Trails Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 pm to 6:00 pm. The reception is free and open to the public.

For more information:

Contact Anna Rotty at 413-256-0949 or anna@amherstvalleyframeworks.com

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We are excited to be displaying several artists here including Maggie Nowinski, Alicia Renadette, Lourdes Morales, Marlene Rye, Jeff Stauder, Olivia Bernard, David Shapleigh, Sarah Bliss, Kelly Popoff and Dawn Howkinson Siebel. The works includes video, installation, painting, drawing and mixed media. We would love to have you at the reception this weekend when many of the artists will be present!

The show will run from Oct. 6th through Nov. 30th. If you have any questions or seek further information feel free to contact us here at the gallery.

For more details about the Amherst Biennial check out their website at www.amherstbiennial.com or their facebook page. We look forward to seeing you at the event.

Download a catalog HERE

Showing works by:

1. Ralph Munn
2. Norm Vexler
3. Anna Rotty
4. George Greenstein
5. Ani Rivera
6. Ed Kwaitkowski

June 5^th – July 26^th

Opening Reception June 7^th, 5:00- 8:00 pm

Gallery Hours: Tue- Fri 10-6, Sat 11-6

The Freedom Trails Gallery is pleased to present a photographic exhibition by Norm Vexler this summer. Vexler specializes in nature photography, in particular photographing underwater marine life. He has traveled to a number of places including the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and Fiji. This exhibition will feature photographs from a trip to the Galapagos Islands

“For the past 25 years, my traveling adventures have taken me to some of the most remote locations on the planet. I love to photograph nature. Whether it is an amazing underwater creature or a spectacular sunset, there is a hidden force within that attracts me to capture the image.  The photo is only a moment in time, and as beautiful as the scene might be, nothing can compare to the actual living experience”, he describes.

The exhibit will be shown from June 5^th to July 26^th with the opening reception on June 7^th during the Amherst Arts Walk. As part of the Freedom Trails Gallery policy, 25% of sold works will go to one of our non-profit partners. The organization that Norm Vexler has chosen to contribute to is the Friends of Children Inc., an organization that provides advocacy for children in the Foster Care System throughout Massachusetts, one of which is exposure to photographic processes.

Daniels is an award-winning photographer who for more than 45 years has captured images of news events and people. His photographs offer iconic images of life in the Pioneer Valley.

The show will be a retrospective of Daniels photographs while working as a photojournalist in the Valley.

The reception is free and open to the public Tuesday May 15th from 5-7pm.

Washed Over Me Exhibition Information, Image by Anne Crossley