The Westfield Women’s Club  28 Court St   (Westfield Theatre Group 572-2646)

This Holiday season we will once again be doing a wonderful Christmas show adapted for stage and directed by Kathi Palmer with musical arrangements written by Marion Dunk and Kathi Palmer. This year our stage will be graced by the great cast of “The Littlest Angel”.

The performance dates for this are set for December 5, 6, 12 and 13, 2008 at 7:30 p.m., with a special matinee at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday December 13th. It promises to be a great time for all!

Tickets are $12 for Adults and $10 for Students and Seniors. Call the theater at (413)-572-2646 to reserve your tickets today.

Garden Room  Westfield State College   333 Western Avenue

In a unique collaborative fundraising event, the Alzheimer’s Association, MA/NH Chapter, the Tri-County Alzheimer’s Partnership and the YMCA of Greater Westfield will hold an art auction featuring watercolor paintings created in the Alzheimer’s Association art expression program called, Memories in the Making. The event, scheduled to take place at Westfield State College on Friday, December 5th from 6:30-9:00PM, will also have accompanying paintings submitted by student artists from the YMCA and Westfield State College. The evening will be an intergenerational celebration of the arts, recognizing the power of art to enrich our lives throughout the lifespan from early childhood to older adulthood.

Tickets are $25/person and will be available beginning on November 1st, at the YMCA, located at 67 Court Street in Westfield and the Alzheimer’s Association, located at 264 Cottage Street in Springfield.

Sponsorships are available at the $25 level to the title sponsor level of $2,500.

For more information or to be a personal or corporate sponsor, please contact Rosann Scalise, Program Operations Director at the YMCA at 413-568-8631 or Ginny Sinkoski, Outreach Coordinator at 413-787-1113.

The 50 paintings for both silent and live auction will be available to view by November at the Alzheimer’s Association website, http://www.alzmass.org/. Online bidding will also be available of select paintings.

If you have any additional questions please contact Rosann Scalise at
rscalise@westfieldymca.org or call her at 413-568-8631.

 Rinova Building    105 Elm Street

We are so excited and pleased to welcome…

Westfield State College Celebrates its 170th year

Past Presence Alumni Art Show

Westfield State College Downtown Art Gallery

 Rinnova Building - 105 Elm Street, Westfield, MA

September 23 - October 31

Tuesday - Saturday 2:00 - 5:00

Artist Reception

Homecoming Weekend October 18, 5:30 - 8:00pm

Distinguished Alumni Artists featured in the Past Presence Show include:

Nevartte Bedrosian:  Abstract Expressionist, Painting, Member of the Art Students League, New York, New York during the early 1950’s.  Her career brought numerous awards.

Diane Savino: Tempera Painter, Exhibitions John F. Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.,

World Financial Trade Center NYC, Chelsea Art Fair, London, England, among others.

Reviews in American Art Collector, American Artist Magazine, Art New England among others.

Laura Jennings:  Paintings are part of the following collections:  musician Bruce Hornsby, television personality Joan Lunden, major modern artist Steve Pace

She has exhibited extensively including the Harvard Museum.

Roberta Williams:  Painting, local artist with extensive exhibitions and part of permanent collections one of which is Westfield State College.  

Questions contact Gallery Curator Faith Lund at flund@wsc.ma.edu