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Imaginary Friends

June 23 @ 4:00 pm - June 27 @ 4:00 pm

Contact Name: Alexandra Ripp Contact Phone: 6092403595 Contact Email: alex.ripp@gmail.com

Venue Name: A.P.E. Gallery

Venue Address: 126 Main St Northampton MA 01060

Event Details: Imaginary Friends is a multi-day gallery installation for all ages that fosters rigorous experimental arts collaboration between parents and their children. The represented projects have been co-created by local artist-parents—and one grandparent—and their children (ages 1-12), led by child collaborators’ imagination and play. The project seeks to challenge the binary between “kids” and “adult” art, and explore new modes of intergenerational artistic collaboration. Taking seriously the creative potential of children’s play, the artists use their children’s imagination and play as the prime source for collaborative experimental art practice. Media represented include textile, sculpture, film, participatory art, and installation. 

OPENING RECEPTION
Tues, June 23, 4-6pm

EXHIBITION HOURS*
Weds, June 24, 10am-4pm
Thurs, June 25 + Fri, June 26, 12-6pm
Sat, June 27, 10-4pm
*Subject to changes. For the most up-to-date information plus more on the artists and project, visit: https://apearts.org/arc-2026

Imaginary Friends is funded in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council, the South Hadley Cultural Council, and the Hadley Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. A.P.E.’s programming is made possible in part through sustained support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.

Details

  • Start: June 23 @ 4:00 pm
  • End: June 27 @ 4:00 pm