Past Grant Recipient

Kathy Couch, Lighting Designer (photo by Kathy Couch)

Board of Directors/Spring 2010:

Jesse Adams*

Ellen Augarten: Ellen has been a portrait photographer for over twenty-five years, specializing in fine black and white images of her favorite subject; people. After receiving her MFA from Hartford Art School at The University of Hartford, her work became more personal with experimentation with subject and darkroom processes. Though she continues to be solidly grounded in traditional film, she now uses digital processes as well. She has been a Northampton Arts Council board member for almost four years. http://www.ellenaugartenphotography.com

Janet Beattie

Marvin Cable: From childhood professional acting and music performance, to technical director of a university, to live/recording sound engineer, to artist hospitality for large festivals, to a two year internship with Joanne Woodward and the late Paul Newman, Marvin Cable, J.D., has worked in different capacities in the artistic world.  He also enjoys refereeing soccer and lacrosse for the local high schools and amateur leagues, along with volunteering as an EMT, and other community outreach programs.   Above all, he is commonly found hanging out with his friends and family while enjoying a good drink.  http://www.marvincable.com

Mary Clark: Mary trained at the University of Texas, The Drama Studio in London, and in Paris at Ecole Jacques Lecoq.  Focusing on concerts and original theater work, she has worked with companies in Europe, Canada,  and the US.  Mary is a Cabaret Symposium Fellow at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterbury, CT.  Her acappella quintet Whatever 4 has performed at the Streets Ahead in Manchester, UK, the Toyota Comedy Festival, NewHaven International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Symphony Space,and BBC Music Live. She has worked consistently in outdoor performance art and circus/visual performance. You may have seen her stilt walking as a giant dancing autumn leaf at the World Trade Center,  animating shop windows along main streets in Manchester with La Cie Cacahuette, or dancing as a giant paycheck on the TODAY Show.

Rick Fantasia

Lesley Farlow is a dancer, actress and vocalist. She has performed Off and Off Off Broadway, all over the U.S. and Europe, and has worked with such choreographers and theater artists as Douglas Dunn, Ann Carlson, Ping Chong, Meredith Monk, Phyllis Lamhut, Johanna Boyce, Moses Pendleton, and Judy Dworin among others. Her own work has been seen at Dixon Place, the Joyce/Soho and other New York venues. In addition, she has worked as a teaching artist with Hospital Audiences, ArtsConnection and ArtsExposure in the New York City public school system, as well as in public school systems in Rockland County, NY and Louisville, KY. She has used movement as a learning tool in the classroom to teach reading, writing, science and math and has helped teachers implement these techniques. Lesley is a choreographer for the Northampton-based company, The Performance Project, a theater company of formerly incarcerated men and women, and the First Generation Project, a new performance company of teenagers and young adults. Her own solo work combines movement, theater and singing. She is an Associate Professor of Theater and Dance at Trinity College.

Brian Foote

Rosa Ibarra: Rosa is a Puerto Rican figurative artist, living and making art in Northampton, Massachusetts. First time she came to Northampton was in 1983 and has loved it ever since. She has been a member of the Northampton Arts Council since 2002. http://www.rosaibarra.com

Alyssa Dee Krauss

David Kutcher: David, treasurer of the Northampton Arts Council, is the President of Confluent Forms LLC, a graphic design and web development firm based in downtown Northampton. He has a B.A. from Hamilton College in Studio Art and Religious Studies where he focused on intaglio printmaking. http://www.confluentforms.com

Jim Neill, Chairperson: Jim Neill grew up in Amherst and Northampton in the 70s/80s before seeking his fortunes in the music business in Boston and Los Angeles. Back in the area since 2003, he’s the marketing director for Iron Horse Entertainment, a DJ on WRSI-The River, a poet and collage artist. Jim's website, Life in the Nohodome, can be viewed at http://nohodome.blogspot.com.

Ali Osborn*

Stephen Petegorsky

Julie Robbins

Kathy Service, Clerk

Betsy Stone* Elizabeth Stone is a contemporary realist artist who paints at her home studio in Florence, Massachusetts, USA.   She began painting in the late 1990’s when she inherited her grandfather’s set of pastels.  Still life, figure and portraiture are her favorite subjects.  Her portraits are said to convey "emotional resonance beyond surface detail". Her current body of work includes a miniature series in oils of domestic objects.  http://www.ehstoneart.com

Dana Wilde: Dana Wilde has a mission to help people apply their natural creativity to the art of making better lives.  She's a self-taught artist, co-host of Best Damn Poetry Show, and co-facilitator of the Springfield and Northampton area Do What You Love Group.  Dana likes to envision cities and towns that use buildings, land, people, and money more efficiently, in a way that substantially supports and showcases young and emerging artists, visionary entrepreneurs, and awesome community-builders.  She's currently working on her own creative counseling and art business called Inner Studio.  Dana moved to downtown Northampton in 1996, and still lives here today!   http://www.danawildeart.com

*Associate Board Members