Amherst Arts Night

04/23/2026

04/17/2026

04/15/2026

07/11/2024

ARTS NIGHT REVITALIZATION - PULSE SURVEY

The Amherst Center Cultural District is creating a framework for reviving Arts Night in close collaboration with Amherst community members. Take our Pulse Survey (below) and offer your opinions about what you'd love to see in Arts Night programming moving forward. Your feedback will help us create an inclusive and dynamic event series that celebrates all the creativity that Amherst has to offer.

This 6-question survey should take around 10 minutes to complete. Your answers will be kept confidential, and will help us shape future Arts Night events. We will analyze responses for an report that will be made available to the community.

Optional: after completing the survey, add your email to enter into our raffle win a $25 gift card for Amherst Books or Amherst Cinema.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions. Thank you so much for your input.

Tell us about your experience with Amherst Arts Night and what you'd like to see in community arts programming moving forward! This 6-question survey should take around 10 minutes to complete. Your answers will be kept confidential, and will help us shape future Arts Night events. We will analyze re...

10/07/2021

AMHERST ARTS NIGHT PLUS CEASES OPERATIONS

Dear Friends of Amherst Arts Night Plus,

We’re writing to share news with you about Amherst Arts Night Plus (AANP). After nearly 20 incredible years of art and community in Amherst, the governance committee has jointly decided to discontinue the operation of Arts Night Plus.

The decision to dissolve the current operation was not an easy one. As you know, managing the core operations and organizing additional events is a labor of love from our team of volunteers. Our final decision was prompted by the need of two long-standing leaders to step down, and the recognition by the two interim co-chairs that leading Arts Night would be unsustainable for them.

Prior to the shuttering of galleries and museums in March 2020 due to COVID, AANP provided a monthly Thursday evening art walk through more than 15 art and culture venues in downtown Amherst. For some months following the COVID shutdown, AANP operated virtually by offering online art presentations and discussions for several months. That ultimately became unsustainable and it became clear that the operation would not be able to continue.

Since its inception in early 2002, AANP estimates that it promoted more than 2,000 exhibitions, art forums and events, seven seasons of performances by area musicians, curated broadcasts on Amherst Media during the COVID 2020 spring, and produced a walkable “Windows Into Art” exhibit last fall featuring more than 90 artists in Amherst storefronts..

“The decision to dissolve the current operation was not an easy one,” said the governance committee. “Changes to the downtown landscape following COVID-19 as well as a lack of volunteer support meant continuing was not sustainable for the present team. However, change brings opportunity, and we look forward to seeing the next iteration of community arts events in downtown Amherst. We hope this creates space for a new vision to emerge, and encourage those with serious proposals to be in touch.”

Interested parties should email the AANP at [email protected] by the end of October.

We want to extend our heartfelt appreciation for your years of support. WIth your help, Amherst Arts Arts Night Plus became a beloved community event.

At the time of its dissolution, AANP venues included: Amherst History Museum, Burnett Gallery, Gallery A3, Amherst Visitors Center, Hope & Feathers Framing and Printing, Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst, Bistro 63/Monkey Bar, Amherst Cinema Arts Center, Emily Dickinson Museum, Jewish Community of Amherst Hall Gallery, Frost Library (Amherst College), Amherst Public Art Commission, UMass Museum of Contemporary Art, Bower Studio, Roseanne Helden & Sally Keely, Ramboll, Common Share Food Coop.

09/16/2021

Artists and Crafters: Hope & Feathers' Small Works show happens in December. Panels now available for your creative inspiration. Pick up in person or order online.

Hey artists! Small Works panels are now available! Come in and grab 6x6” or 5x7” panels to create your masterpieces on, or order them online!

Submissions end November 26th!

The 10th Annual Small Works Show runs December 1st, 2021 to January 11th, 2022.

09/07/2021

Excellent news for the Amherst Center Cultural District!

Mass Cultural Council Redesignates the Amherst Center Cultural District

07/19/2021

A $21.4 million investment in the cultural sector. Thank you Gov. Baker.

Success! Governor Charlie Baker signed the FY21 General Appropriations Act: including a $21.4M investment into cultural sector, the highest appropriation since the late 1980s. https://bit.ly/3zgwcnE

06/26/2021

When you come to see the Celebration of the Arts event on Sunday, be sure to walk around town to view the Windows into Art exhibit.

Jason R. Montgomery is a Chicano/Indigenous Californian activist, writer, painter, and playwright from El Centro, California. Jason is the co-founder of the police transformation group “A Knee is Not Enough” (AKINE) in Easthampton, MA. In 2016 he founded the arts activism collective Attack Bear ...

06/26/2021

Happening tomorrow, Sunday, June 27, A Celebration of the Arts, on the Town Common, 12-6pm. Art. Music. Poetry. Performances. Dance.

06/24/2021

https://youtu.be/CeGZlUmQTYA
Ted Hinman is an incredible artist and his work is featured in the windows of Elements Hot Tub Spa for the Windows Into Art exhibit. He's also a blacksmith and metalsmith and will be doing some demonstrations at this Sunday's Celebration of the Arts on the town common. Stop by and say hello!

Ted Hinman demonstrates how to make a homemade, hand forged Celtic-Style Aluminum bracelet as part of a series of How-To videos for tools, equipment, jewelry...