I recently had a successful exhibition of my artwork at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, for which I’m profoundly grateful.
I want to extend public thanks to the Northampton Arts Council for its generous grant support. As an educator and manager, I’ve been a proponent of the arts for decades, offering opportunities to artists through Augusta Savage Gallery, the program at UMass that I direct, and through various international trainings. This is work that prioritizes the role of imagination in our lives.
To this point, the project at A.P.E. Gallery enabled me to do what I always encourage others to do: Experiment — to take hunches, test them and present them as fleshed-out ideas. I brought my work as a jazz improviser, visual artist, and multiculturalist into one solid project.
It honored the 100-year anniversary of my Jamaican grandmother’s immigration to Harlem in the context of a year when we also acknowledge the 400th anniversary of the forced migration of Africans to the United States. A big “thank you” to the Northampton Arts Council for making this possible and generally for the important work they do!
Terry Jenoure
Northfield