Reading about food
Rob Chirico, author of the new book, “Not My Mother’s Kitchen — Rediscovering Italian American Cooking Through Stories and Recipes,” will give a talk and sign books Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. at Booklink in Thornes Marketplace, 150 Main St. in Northampton.
The book is “filled with nostalgic stories, delicious recipes, and a wealth of facts and tidbits about Italian food, (that) will appeal to readers who enjoy chef biographies” (Library Journal).
“Introduction to the Public Art Process,” workshops offered by the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will be held this fall in area communities.
“Public art projects … offer opportunities for area artists to expand their vision, to be paid to make art, build their portfolio and have their work seen by a diverse audience,” said AES director Dee Boyle-Clapp.
The workshop will address a broad overview of issues, skills needed and steps required to create a competitive public art project application.
Locally, the workshops, which are free, will be offered Sept. 21 at the Flywheel Arts Collective, 43 Main St., Easthampton and Nov. 15 at the Jones Library, 43 Amity St, Amherst.
Additional workshops will be offered in Holyoke and Pittsfield.
The workshops are free. To pre-register (required), call 545-2360, send an email to aes@acad.umass.edu, or visiting www.umass.edu/aes.
“Re-WAVE-ing,” an exhibit of sculpture and painting by John Landino, Ben Westbrook and Michael Tillyer, will be on view through Sept. 23 at the Anchor House of Artists, 518 Pleasant St. in Northampton.
The three first showed together 30 years ago at the WAVE gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.
Landino, an autodidact dadaist who goes by the name Bishop Boo Boo, gathers junk to use as visual elements of his sculptures.
Westbrook is a self-taught formalist who juxtaposes large scale, anthropomorphic paintings on paper against ceramic sculpture. Tillyer, who curated the show, has inserted his own whimsical, folksy figures.
Gallery hours are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 1 to 6 p.m. and by appointment. For information, visit www.anchorhouseartists.org.
There will be a symposium about legacy, emotional and probate concerns faced by artists at life’s end Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.