Paradise City Arts Festival

Date/Time

10/14/2024 10:00am–4:00pm

Location

Paradise City (54 Old Ferry Road, Northampton, MA 01060, Northampton MA)

More than 220 selectively curated artists and makers come to Northampton for the annual three-day celebration of art, live music and local food.

On the festival’s 30th Anniversary, an exhibit explores Fables & Folklore: Reframing the Classics with Abbie Chambers, Aisling Colleary, Maura Cronin, Mary Alice Dalton, Nancy Donato, Anne & Jacky Dupont, Wendy Ellertson, Sheila Fernekes, Karin Houben, Vanessa Kerby, Robert Osborne, Louise Pigott, Ken Salem, Jo Smith, Naomi Tussin, Geoffrey Warner and Nina Zotcavag.

Dwight Baird lives on the border between Canada and New York State, but his heart resides in the tropics. Baird’s current series of paintings shows the people of Cuba. These sun-drenched works move through the backstreets of Havana, with old men playing dominos and rolling cigars, women swaying to a Latin beat in mysterious doorways and vintage cars rolling slowly down the road. Photo courtesy of Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton

A full Professor of Art at CCSU since 1997, Vicente Garcia makes raku-fired stoneware with metallic finishes created with smoke, copper glazes and washes. He demonstrates his craft at the Paradise City Arts Festival.

Green Street Trio

Avery Joi and the Green Street Trio perform at Paradise City. Press photo courtesy of Paradise City Arts

Visitors will also find live music, snacks and charcuterie by local Fed by Foley, a second wine bar, and creative activity stations hosted by Paper City Art Kids out of Holyoke, and artist demonstrations, and a Silent Art Auction benefits the Chamber of Commerce of Northampton.

The festival runs October 12 to 14.

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At the Paradise city Arts Festival in Northampton on Memorial Day Weekend, ceramic sculptor Stephen Procter demonstrates his human-sized vessels, using the potter's wheel. Press photo courtesy of Paradise City Arts — At the Paradise city Arts Festival in Northampton on Memorial Day Weekend, ceramic sculptor Stephen Procter demonstrates his human-sized vessels, using the potter’s wheel. Press photo courtesy of Paradise City Arts

Marlene Rye's abstract painting Tornado shows a swirl of vivid color at the Paradise City Arts Festival. Press photo courtesy of Paradise City — Marlene Rye’s abstract painting Tornado shows a swirl of vivid color at the Paradise City Arts Festival. Press photo courtesy of Paradise City

Photo by Karen Barnicle Garro

Abbie Chambers joins an exhibition of artists, as Paradise City asks artists to explore ideas of community. Press photo courtesy of Paradise City Arts Festival

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