The Colrain Historical Society sponsored the fourth annual fundraising art show on Sept. 23 and 24 at the Shelburne Buckland Community Center Main St., Shelburne Falls.
This year, art showing our neighboring hilltowns rounded out the Colrain paintings. Regionally famous painters will include George Gardner Symons, Steve Maniatty, Robert Strong Woodward, W. Lester Stevens, and Edwin Lorenzo Elmer among others.
A special feature will be paintings by Judith Russell, a longtime Shelburne Falls folk artist. Some of her original work will be for sale as a special offering. We will also have prints and reprints of some items in the Historical Society’s collection and old maps for sale. The Historical Society will have a new booklet for sale, based on the Industries and Occupations of Colrain done by Katherine Cram in the late 1930s.
There will be over 75 paintings by 48 different artists. Most are works on loan from private collections and homes in the hilltowns. The artists are contemporary or deceased, famous and not-so-famous, as well as self-taught. it is intentionally a non-curated show. The mixed media, the skill of the artists, and their perspectives are part of the magic.
Please join us again this year for this rare opportunity to see this bit of visual history. Admission is $10.00