Community Directory
Artspace is proud to host creatives and educators alike, in order to create something beautiful for our community. Offering fully-funded and low-cost studios, and teaming up for public events, fosters a rich environment for ingenuity and innovation.
Lo oking to support Artspace and advertise your creative business in our directory?
Artists + Instructors
Althea Keaton | they/them
Artist + Instructor
Althea Keaton (they/them) was raised in the woods of downstate New York. They work in a wide range of media, including printmaking, drawing, comics, digital art, murals, felting, and animation. They live in Greenfield with their partner and two adorable but mischievous cats.
Printmaking, painting, illustration, felting + fiber art, collage, sculpting, + youth classes
Ben Eberle (he/him) is a friend of Artspace, working with us on the Community Ceramics Studio Project
Studio potter, ceramic educator, kiln builder
Jean Minuchin (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist /educator, Minuchin, who combines puppetry, video, and storytelling about social concerns. She has taught people from 5 yrs old to seniors. Her non-profit, World and Eye produces art events.
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Visual Art, performance art, video art, storytelling, + teen classes
My name is Jill Leger, I started my creative expression with paper quilling, that lead to cake decorating and baking that lead to wool felting, that lead to acrylic paint pouring and origami paper folding! I love birds and gardens and am building a bird and flower sanctuary around my house!
Acrylic Paint Pouring, origami, paper quilling, multimedia sculpture, + youth classes
Laura Krok-Horton (she/her) is local pop-up card artist & paper enthusiast. She loves crafting cards for friends and family in her free time. She also works locally as an ecological designer at Regenerative Design Group, a worker cooperative right here in Greenfield.
Paper art, pop-up cards
Lucas C. May (he/him) is a friend of Artspace, working with us on the Community Ceramics Studio Project and as a hand-building ceramics instructor.
Lucas likes to make pots that he can see himself in and can relate to. Usually, they have some kind of mark or scar, a signifier of a journey. He finds inspiration in the materials he uses, many of which he sources locally by hand, and the processes themselves. His love and appreciation for the natural environment are a driving force of his creativity.
Studio potter, ceramic educator, digital + film photographer
Sam Staas (he/him) is a friend of Artspace, working with us on the Community Ceramics Studio Project and as a hand-building ceramics instructor.
Sam is a potter with a fascination for just about everything. A few of his interests outside of making pots are: fly fishing, reading, taking care of my garden, and exploring the natural world. He creates work that reminds him of the natural world. Pulling imagery and ideas as far back as the pre-Cambrian explosion, when complex life started appearing in the fossil record.
Studio potter, sculptor, ceramic educator, + bookmaker
Community Partners
Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
Community Foundation
The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts seeks to enrich the quality of life of people in Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties.
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The CFWM has awarded Artspace Community Arts Center a 2023 Flexible Funding Grant, giving us the resources to grow as an organization and provide more access to free and low-cost arts educati
Greenfield Arts Walk
Community Group + Event Organizer
On every last Friday of the month downtown Greenfield comes alive in a celebration of the local arts scene! The Greenfield Arts Walk is a town-wide event featuring a cohort of local arts organizations including Madhouse Multi-Arts, Hawks & Reed, and Greenfield Gallery to name a few. The Arts Walk's mission is to grow the local creative community and economy by attracting interest from beyond the region while strengthening the connections within.
Mass Cultural Council
Community Foundation
Mass Cultural Council works to elevate our rich cultural life in Massachusetts. We serve the Commonwealth and all who live, work, visit, and play here by amplifying creativity, providing resources, expanding relationships, and championing transformational changes that maintain and grow a thriving creative and cultural ecosystem.
The Artspace Community Gallery is in part supported by The Mass Cultural Council and the MCC Festivals and Projects Grant
Música Franklin
Non-Profit, Music Programming
Música Franklin's intensive after-school music program is based on the belief that the pursuit of musical excellence teaches students to strive for excellence in all areas of their lives. Música Franklin envisions a future with no limits or barriers to achievement, in which all people are equipped with the tools and resilience to express their unique voices, and those voices are heard.
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Pioneer Valley Symphony
Music Programming
admin@pvso.org
pvsoc.org
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Building community through music since 1939. Orchestra, chorus, chamber choir, youth orchestra, music education programming.
The Recover Project
Community Organization
The RECOVER Project is a welcoming community that supports substance use recovery by sharing the wisdom of our lived experience. We strive to create conditions for a safe environment. We seek to strengthen our community by encouraging full participation. Through advocacy and connection, we overcome barriers and promote the reality that recovery is possible for all. Participate, Grow, RECOVER
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The Vision:
The peer recovery movement is exploding across this country and throughout the world. The fact that peer recovery has been happening in Greenfield since 2003 is a big story. Our vision is to create a net of recovery-informed organizations and individuals throughout Greenfield. This net will be ever widening, ever deepening, to allow for sustained recovery by removing barriers that exist via stigma, outdated social policies, antiquated healthcare practices, and commonplace ignorance. We carry hope, opportunity, and experience to anyone seeking help with our mantra: participate, grow, RECOVER!
Sponsor Spotlight
Franklin Community Co-Op
Grocery Story
Local, community-owned food co-op with two vibrant markets. Green Fields Market in Greenfield, MA, and McCuskers Market in Shelburne Falls, MA. The Franklin Community Co-Op has been providing access to natural foods in Franklin County since 1977. Working together with community partners, farmers, food security organizations, and other co-operatives that are all part of our vibrant food system.
Community is Key
We aim to feature our instructors and organizations currently working with Artspace, businesses that have a longstanding relationship with Artspace, and all local creatives.
To help support our mission and to keep the good times rolling, we ask for a $10 annual donation for any new community feature on our directory. Please email us your receipt, a photo to feature your business,
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1-4 sentences about you and your business, contact information to share,
and links to where folks can find you online