Please join us for an artist reception featuring June’s gallery artist, Thom Haxo.

Specializing in figure sculpture and drawing, puppetry, and computer modeling and animation, Thom Haxo is an imaginative artist and associate art professor emeritus at Hampshire College (MA). He was a finalist in the 2001 Harold Connolly Memorial competition, the 2001 Sojourner Truth Memorial competition, and the 1988 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial competition. Haxo’s commissioned sculpture for the James Brendan Connolly Memorial currently stands in Columbus Park in South Boston. His works have been exhibited at the Holter Museum of Art (MT), Sharon Art Center (NH), Boston Public Library, Hampshire College, and the Northampton Center for the Arts (MA), amongst other galleries. Haxo has worked on set, puppet, and mask design for the last twenty years. Projects include The Skrikerby Caryl Churchill, I Stand Before You Naked by Joyce Carol Oates, and The Millennium Two- Step, a collaboration with Peter Lobdell and Charles Ditto. Most recently, he has worked on Noveto, another collaborative project with Lobdell and Ditto, and Naufrage, a work with his daughter, composer Cara Haxo. Haxo received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Haydenville, Massachusetts, with his wife, Anne, and his cats, Mimi and Moose.

Available for viewing during open library hours this June. 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.