A.P.E. Gallery

Gallery hours for the next few days + two events this weekend! Gallery Hours for RECORDS: Memory as Protest W - Su 12-5 Friday 1-8! Tomorrow in the gallery we have a FREE workshop 2-4pm. “Visual Diaries and Daydreaming” created by Tana Oshima and facilitated by Sophie Gill. Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your favorite notebook or pen/pencils. Participants will get an inside look at artist Tana Oshima’s work & get to draw their own creations. @tanaoshima @s0phiegill Sunday (5/17) we have our first Making Ground: Dialogues event of Spring 2026 with Tracey Cockrell’s “Listening Field”. Join us 1-4pm at Bramble Hill Farm—this event is free but registration is required (link in our bio) @tracey.cockrell

We’ve got some mini books available for RECORDS: Memory as Protest! A way to remember… Includes all twenty-two artists! Printed by our friends over at @collectivecopies in Florence. Pick one up during gallery hours or DM to purchase & we can figure out delivery/pick up! $5 Front cover by @ana.b.making Design by @s0phiegill

Free workshop this Saturday afternoon in the gallery! We’re very lucky to have an event designed by artist Tana Oshima (one of the many talented folks in RECORDS: Memory as Protest). Join us 2-4pm for Visual Diaries and Daydreaming! We’ll be watching some videos Tana created and drawing along ✍️ Facilitated by co-curator Sophie Gill

Opening Reception this evening 5-8pm! Free & open to all. Come hang! “RECORDS: Memory as Protest” is a group exhibit featuring 22 artists. On view at A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery May 1-24, 2026.

Join us for an opening reception tomorrow evening of RECORDS: Memory as Protest! 5-8pm A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery 126 Main Street Free & open to the public! Above: “Koreatown by Night | September 27, 2013” by Bo Kim (2024)

Here until 5pm today! RECORDS: Memory as Protest On View // May 1 - 24, 2026 Join us for the artist/opening reception Friday, May 8th 5-8pm! FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE: Simone Alter-Muri, Matthew Best, Jacob Clayton, Binda Colebrook, Clarajames Daly, Eva Fahey, Ken Gagne, Eliza Gelinas, Ula Grabski, Haley Jenner, Boram Kim, Hallie Krause, Amina Meckel-Sam, Michael Medeiros, Zoe Mikic, Tana Oshima, Anna Parisi, Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui, Mugi Takei, Sam Staas, Garrett Sanders, Chloe Torri CURATED BY Sophie Gill and Adrienne Albro-Fisher

Join us this May for another series of Making Ground Dialogues! This workshop is FREE but registration is required. Link in our bio to register. MAKING GROUND: IN PRACTICE WITH THE SOIL with River Aragon & Rose Cherneff May 31, 2-5pm at The River Rose Farm at Grow Food Northampton’s Community Gardens @growfoodnorthampton Join us at The River Rose Farm to explore how the ground beneath us is shifting. We will meet the land in the floodplain of the Mill River, and notice where the ground has been washed away, where it has been carried, and where it is being created. We will study how living roots through history—from the roots of the mulberry trees during the time of the silk mills to today’s clover and elderberry—have built soil from sunlight, making ground literally. What does it feel like to participate in this creative process of generating earth? How can gaining intimacy with this practice of making ground sustain us in the time ahead? And how can our art practices be informed and strengthened in relationship to this ever-changing ground? RIVER ARAGON is an artist, practicing healer, and land tender, whose work is influenced by the sacred knowledge and wisdom of curanderismx. ROSE CHERNEFF is a farmer and educator whose work supports people in connecting to the land and each other in the face of climate change. River and Rose run The River Rose Farm in the floodplain land at the edge of the Mill River on Grow Food Northampton’s land in Florence, MA. To learn more about Making Ground: Dialogues & this particular workshop visit our website: apearts.org/making-ground-1 #westernmass #pioneervalleyma #freeevent

ARC (activate, research, create), A.P.E.’s curated summer residency program, is in its ninth season, continuing the investigation of a contemporary art gallery as an active space within the community. From ​JUNE 1 thru 28, 2026, A.P.E. will host four projects in our Main St. Gallery that include explorations of durational performance, relationality, and ethical engagement with terrain, live bilateral painting as embodied inquiry into regenerative and restorative practices, quiltmaking as a project to connect trans people to each other across identity, geography and time, and new modes of intergenerational artistic collaboration that challenge the binary between art for “kids” and “adults.” During each residency, the gallery will be open to the public through a variety of workshops, performances, showings, and interactive installations. Each project maintains a central inquiry into the relationship between the public, the work, and the space in which it is made. The ARC 2026 projects are: Bodies of Land - NiFe Lucey-Brzoza @ni___fe fires + flowers (and the meaning we make) - Pasqualina Azzarello @pasqualinaazzarello Places - presented by Transmissions: Quilts for Trans People; Cordy Joan and Joey Dehais @transquilts @toyotacorolla_lover Imaginary Friends - Alexandra Ripp and Daniel Sack, Odradek Projects Learn more on our website! above image: flowers + fires (and the meaning we make) by Pasqualina Azzarello

COMING SOON to A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery… RECORDS: Memory as Protest A Group Show May 1 - 24, 2026 Curated by @s0phiegill & @adriennealbrofisher Opening Reception: Friday, May 8; 5-8pm Featured Artists: Simone Alter-Muri, Matthew Best, Jacob Clayton, Binda Colebrook, Clarajames Daly, Eva Fahey, Ken Gagne, Eliza Gelinas, Ula Grabski, Haley Jenner, Boram Kim, Hallie Krause, Amina Meckel-Sam, Michael Medeiros, Zoe Mikic, Tana Oshima, Anna Parisi, Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui, Mugi Salaverry-Takei, Sam Staas, Garrett Sanders, Chloe Torri RECORDS: Memory as Protest is part of A.P.E.’s Guest Curator program. Above: “Untitled studies of living memory” by Mugi Takei @mugisalaverrytakei89 126 Main Street Northampton, MA

Join us this May for another series of Making Ground Dialogues! This workshop is FREE but registration is required. Link in our bio to register. LISTENING FIELD with Tracey Cockrell May 17, 1-4pm at Bramble Hill Farm “Listening Field” is a participatory workshop that uses listening as a way to understand place. Through a combination of a short introductory talk and guided outdoor exercises, participants are invited to pay attention to the sounds that shape an environment and to notice how those sounds relate to space, movement, and experience. The workshop begins with a simple listening exercise focused on identifying near and distant sounds and becoming aware of how attention changes what we hear. From there, the group moves into the wooded farmland for a slow, guided listening walk. Participants are encouraged to move at a reduced pace, stop frequently, and follow sounds as they shift across different areas of the landscape. Rather than focusing on identifying or naming sounds, the workshop emphasizes noticing relationships—how sounds overlap, how they change across distance, and how human-made and environmental sounds interact. Listening Field is open to all ages and requires no prior experience. Tracey Cockrell is an artist working with sound and place. Her work explores how environments are shaped by overlapping systems—natural, human, and historical—and how listening can make those relationships more perceptible. She works with field recordings, spatial audio, and archival materials, and leads workshops that invite participants to engage with environments through shared attention and listening. To learn more about Making Ground: Dialogues & this particular workshop visit our website: apearts.org/making-ground-1 #westernmass #pioneervalleyma #freeevent

Final days to see “You Have To Do Something: Works and Process of Phil Lawrence”! PHIL LAWRENCE (1947-2025) attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He moved to Northampton in 1972, working as a builder/carpenter. He spent many years doing community and college theater work; acting and building sets with No Theater from 1980-86. As a visual artist he regularly exhibited his sculpture, paintings, drawings and installations at A.P.E. Gallery, Oxbow Gallery, Taber Gallery, and Anchor House for Artists. Over the years he experimented across media and shared his enthusiasm for drawing, design and sculpture with students at Holyoke Community College. Curated by Felice Caivano, Kathy Couch, Mollye Maxner, and Lisa Thompson. The last day to see this exhibit is Sunday, April 26th. Gallery Hours: W - Sun 12-5pm; Friday 1-8pm

Opening May 1st at A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery… RECORDS: Memory as Protest A Group Show Curated by @s0phiegill & @adriennealbrofisher On View: May 1 - 24, 2026 Opening Reception: Friday, May 8; 5-8pm Featured Artists: Simone Alter-Muri, Matthew Best, Jacob Clayton, Binda Colebrook, Clarajames Daly, Eva Fahey, Ken Gagne, Eliza Gelinas, Ula Grabski, Haley Jenner, Boram Kim, Hallie Krause, Amina Meckel-Sam, Michael Medeiros, Zoe Mikic, Tana Oshima, Anna Parisi, Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui, Mugi Salaverry-Takei, Sam Staas, Garrett Sanders, Chloe Torri RECORDS: Memory as Protest is part of A.P.E.’s Guest Curator program. Above: Big Fish by Sam Staas @samstaas_ . Photo by Kamden Storm. 126 Main Street Northampton, MA