Wistariahurst Museum
Wistariahurst is a community museum dedicated to preserving the history of Holyoke and inspiring an appreciation of history and culture.
Through educational programs, exhibits, and special events for the Connecticut River Valley and beyond, their year-round exhibits and events are open to all.
Wistariahurst also offers a unique wedding venue with historic spaces and beautiful gardens.
50 Arrow Gallery is a new free to use gallery space dedicated to social equity and inclusion in Easthampton. This 2000 square ft. BIPOC focused curated gallery space is free to use, free to attend, and does not charge artists any form of gallery fees for sales. This space will focus on providing a platform to historically marginalized communities, while maintaining a “meet people where they are” philosophy.
SPEC [suspended play & educational circus], founded by artistic and life partners Mykelle Walton and Jennifer Thornquest, is a creative collective rooted in connection and driven by curiosity.
Double Edge is a cultural cooperative and ensemble collective -- a place of nurturing and sanctuary. Like the water that runs around and through the land it occupies, Double Edge is a river for artists who thirst. From all ancestral legacies, cultural backgrounds, community contexts, & walks-of-life. Often artists, educators, and scholars come here to identify more clearly, to understand themselves, and to seek where their courage will allow them to go. Double Edge protects the silence of their internal space, while simultaneously ensuring that no one is silenced. They fuse the highest caliber of artistic work, a deep love of the natural environment, and an unwavering faith in human potential. They value awareness of the earth around us as essential to the ability to invent, cultivate, witness -- and to share a communal meal, or fruit from the trees, or an intimate conversation. Double Edge is a place of demand, deep research and development outside the rigid structures of institution, academia, and form. It is a place of continuous experimentation and necessary risk taking.
Wistariahurst is a community museum dedicated to preserving the history of Holyoke and inspiring an appreciation of history and culture through educational programs, exhibits, and special events for the Connecticut River Valley and beyond. Year-round exhibits and events are open to all.