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Quintessence Easthampton is a newly formed group of five local independent businesses that decided to combine their professional knowledge, personal attention, experience and their unique connections to the artistic and cultural acivities of Easthampton and the region.
KW Home, Harry King Rug & Home, White Square Fine Books & Art, the Nash Gallery and Eastmont Custom Framing aim to use this synergy to offer you a unique yet complementary blend of services and products.
QE will be creating events and promotions on a regular basis. The first such event will happen on November 26th, scheduled to coincide with the second annual nationwide
Small Business Saturday For more information about this cool 5 course progressive soiree, and a chance to win a $500.00 prize, visit QE's Facebook page here. And don't forget to "like" the page so you will be kept updated of our events and promotions. |
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The Elusie Gallery is happy to introduce
Elizabeth Denny
in her first Solo Exhibit
NSH.Reclaimed
An exhibit of photographs, mixed media, stained glass artwork and sculpture.
November 12 - December 5, 2011
Come meet the artist during our reception
Saturday November 12 from 5 to 8PM
About the artist: From Florence, MA, Elizabeth Denny works with cast-off materials such as broken glass, bottles, farm equipment, rusty tools, and paper, metal, and plastic items that she finds by the side of the road, at tag sales, or in local landfills. Her sculptures often involve appliances doing the work they were designed to do--a file cabinet running across the lawn holding one of his drawers up to the sky, for example, or a typewriter reading the newspaper or a clothes dryer hanging up laundry. Denny makes three-dimensional stained glass windows out of bottles and jars she collects at an abandoned dump she discovered years ago in Easthampton, combined with tumbled glass from the Mill River in Northampton. Denny also takes photographs of derelict buildings that she sometimes incorporates in her sculptures. Even her watercolors have an element of ancient history -- she often combines gouache with India ink from a 75 year-old bottle of Carter's Black that she found in a free box at the end of someone's driveway. "Gritty, but the color is gorgeous" Denny says. Elizabeth Denny has a PhD in Sociology, has worked for decades as a social researcher, and loves the connections between history and the materials she ends up using. "There is so much that is beautiful in what we throw away" 
This event is part of the monthly
Art Walk Easthampton. To find out more about AWE, click here
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~ NEW ~ Eastmont Custom Framing has a new website! Six months in the making, it is 80% complete! Less cluttered, with easy navigation and more interactive, I hope you will enjoy it and find it useful and informative. One of the new features is a shopping cart for the Eastmont Art Fund where you can purchase any of the Eastmont Art Fund's past edition winning artworks. A thoughtful gift by the way, the proceeds from your purchase will go to one of the four beneficiaries of the Eastmont Art Fund and the artists who have created these winning artworks.  Echodale Farm by Doris Madsen Winner of the first Eastmont Art Fund
juried fundraiser. One other new feature is our Store, still under construction, but which contains already a great new concept in posters and prints sales: Check it out, it's another idea for your holiday gift giving. I hope you will like the new Feedback appreciated, thank you!
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~ NEW ~ Besides the new website, Eastmont has also now it's own Facebook page. So, if you only care about the frames and not what's in the framer's head or heart, you won't have to deal with my bad jokes and silly posts or know everything about my "socialist" political opinions anymore (as someone recently described them!) Please check out Eastmont's Facebook page, and "like" it! And of course you can remain a friend , or become one (socialists too...) Eastmont's Facebook page will be frequently updated (I hope) with information about our business, images of framing samples, recently framed items. We will keep you posted about what's going on in our wonderful location in Easthampton's Old Town Hall and the great city of Easthampton who is just recuperating from a very exciting mayoral campaign! Congratulations to Mayor Mike Tautznik for having retained the citizens' trust and good luck on his 8th and last (?) term. |
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We will send another email shortly to offer you the chance to get the Vital Connections Calendar, which will contain 12 imahes from the fundraising exhibit held this summer to benefit Cancer Connection. Stay tuned, and thank you for reading,
Jean-Pierre Pasche
PS: it's hard to proofread at 1:30 in the morning,
please forgive the mistakes that I most certainly missed...
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