Join us for a reception featuring May gallery artist, Bill Arnold.

Photographer Bill Arnold’s exhibit in the Neil Hammer Gallery at the Meekins Library in Williamsburg celebrates a farm stand in Hadley taken with a plastic children’s Kidamento camera, and a 17’ x 4’narrative banner offering 23 paired images side by side consecutively along the banner, beginning with an homage to creative photography, placing Arnold in that tradition.

Bill Arnold sees his role as an artist, as finding the beauty in everyday experiences and capturing them with the lens of a camera.

He has been highly influenced by new technologies in photography, including the Itek reading and printing machine he uncovered in 1970 at a public library, and the Kidamento, point and shoot digital camera; hind-sized; designed for kids; slip in your pocket camera that creates high quality photos.

He has received many honors including a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Available for viewing during open library hours this May. The gallery occupies the same space as our community room; if there is an ongoing program, we ask that patrons refrain from interrupting the event.