Black Artists on Change
The inaugural Valley Society writing retreat took place October 10-12, 2025, at the Film Shack on Tully Lake in Orange, Massachusetts. We gathered in a space built by Black filmmakers for Black artists, and the posters watching over us all weekend told their own story. Robert Patton-Spruill and Patti Moreno’s Welcome to the Terrordome and Turntables hung on the walls—documentaries about...
David Andrews is an artist with vision. I first met David at his well attended opening reception at 50 Arrow Gallery in Easthampton, MA last year. This was followed by a show, some months later, with an opening in Springfield MA at Art for the Soul Gallery in Tower Square. Like a sculptor, Andrews crafts his message by removing layers, piercing natural, found materials and written compositions to...
Seta Rampersad, a student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, died in the presence of at least three other people on September 13, 1978.
Black Artists on Change