Journal

"Celestial Cafe" Opens at Nina's Nook

Nina Rossi — Sun, 05 May 2013 12:52:04 +0000

Three Dimensional Collages by Emily Goodwin grace the walls of the gallery from May1- June 22.

Emily Goodwin grew up in Protestant New England, but her intricate works have been inspired by Catholic and Latin American art. She often combines religious elements with packaging, mythic, and fairy tale iconography to make 3-dimensional collages which she calls "Veronica's Icons" (after Saint Veronica.) Her work is currently being shown at Gallery in the Woods in Brattleboro, Vermont, and on line at Electric Gallery. She can be commissioned to make customized icons focused on favorite saints and/or topics.

Emily also writes short fiction and poetry, and sells antique books. She collects odds and ends at flea markets, thrift stores, book stores and rummage sales. If a book can't be salvaged and sold, it can be made into art. (Likewise, if it's not a good time, it can still be a good story.)
She has a doctorate in Education, but gave up practicing family therapy in order to write and make art every day.

After fifteen years in Springfield, MA, she and her partner, Carlos, have recently moved to Leyden, a serene and beautiful place to make art and plant vegetables.

Live Painting during the Month of April

Nina Rossi — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:44:12 +0000

In conjunction with the "Where I Live" community art project in Turners Falls, I will be painting some streetscapes at the Nook while it is open. Visitors may still browse arts and crafts in the gallery, and may request to be included in the paintings (photo necessary) if they wish. I hope to have time to complete four scenes this month. Scene below is from a scroll I painted in 1999 depicting the tragic Crocker Building fire.

What is Smut? Greenfield Recorder, March 7 2013

Nina Rossi — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:43:33 +0000

Interview about Triple S : Montague Cultural Update with Lisa Davol

Nina Rossi — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:29:37 +0000

mctv on vimeo

Hours at Nina's Nook

Nina Rossi — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:03:27 +0000

During Triple S my hours are

Wed-Thurs 4-6

Fri-Sat 1-6

Sunday by appointment only

Call 413.834.8800 for more info.

Directions, other stuff usually on Facebook which you can click on

if you go down to the box on the right side of this main web page.

Triple S Slideshow with Sharon Wachsler Reading

Nina Rossi — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:11:31 +0000

sharon slideshow

Sneak Previews of "Triple S"

Nina Rossi — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:20:15 +0000

Bruce Kahn image (above)

Marty Klein scanology "Magnolia Fruit"

Gina Williams "Beast"
Nina Rossi "Peecock"

Marty Klein "Calling Dr Freud" scanology

"Triple S:Sensual, Sexual, Smut" Opening on February 2

Nina Rossi — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:18:58 +0000

SSS premiers 3pm, Saturday Feb 2. The exhibit is in Nina's Nook, 125a Avenue A, but the RECEPTION with the artists will be at the Powertown Popup Shop in the old Colle Opera House on the corner of Avenue A and Third St from 5-8pm! Artists from far and near have contributed to the second year of this exciting show. Several artists from last year's SSS are creating life sized torso sculptures that will be on display at the Reception at the Popup Shop.

After the Reception at 8:30, downstairs in the same building, will be a reading "Sexy Scribes Speaking" hosted by local author Jeremy Edwards. The event features the kind of lineup you’d usually have to travel to New York to see: Michelle Augello-Page, Sally Bellerose, Elizabeth Black, Lana Fox, Sacchi Green, I.J. Miller, Teresa Noelle Roberts, Robin Elizabeth Sampson, and host Jeremy Edwards. Books will be available for purchase, and door prizes will include copies of major erotica anthologies that are hot off the presses! Don’t miss this unique opportunity to let the unparalleled sexual power of language get you in the Valentine’s Month mood. 18+

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Submissions Wanted for "SSS: Sensual>Sexual>Smut"

Nina Rossi — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:23:00 +0000

Bold and Original erotica wanted for my annual February SSS exhibit at Nina's Nook, Turners Falls. Playful, naughty, bawdy, steamy, whatever suits your mood---bring me the work you don't dare bring anywhere else! Smaller works more likely to be accepted due to my space constraints. However, the tiny nook makes for a very intimate and exclusive gallery experience.

Entries Accepted until January 20!

Send no more than 3 images to naban@verizon.net with SSS in subject line. Ten dollar non-refundable entry fee due to Nina's Nook, 125A Avenue A Turners Falls MA 01376, or pay through PayPal here:

Questions? Please call me 413.834.8800

Images from SSS 2012: "Erotic Nude" by Nelena Soro

"Serpentina" by Marvin Paige

"Cum-O-Matic" by Edite Cunha

"Sex Pot" By Leslie DeGraffe

"Views of Turners Falls" during October/November at Nina's Nook

Nina Rossi — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:27:00 +0000

"Crack Alley" by Nina Rossi

A collection of my streetscenes in and around TFMA, with additional photographic prints by Ariel Jones.( Expect shopping carts, bricks, streetlamps, lottery tickets.) Stop in at Pumpkinfest for the reception between 6-9pm.