In addition to featuring hands-on workshops and demos, HPF also celebrates the medium of paper through a juried art exhibition. This inaugural show was juried by Felice Caivano, the Holyoke Community College Chair of Visual Art. As an artist her work centers on an interest in what lies beneath the surface of things.  This curiosity has embedded itself in her art for nearly forty years – metaphorically or physically. Her practice has evolved from a deep need to make things, driven by a very specific set of ideas.  However, in recent years, what Caivano refers to as ‘informed intuition’ has crept into her process.

Ms. Caivano has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy. Among her awards she has received a Fellowship in Sculpture from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant to attend the workshop, Working Methods of Early Italian Tempera Painters, at the University of Delaware. She has presented numerous artist lectures and exhibited her work nationally. She earned a BFA from the Hartford Art School, and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

2025 HPF Artists

Victoria Bradley
Cheryl L Dawdy
Madge Evers
Cara Gonier
Jodi Hoover
Lee Hutt
Stacy Leeman
Catherine Lipsetz Dauer
Amanda Petrovato
Sally Ann Pirie
Anne Riesenberg
Ruth Rinard
Allen Spetnagel
Alexis Viele
Sharon Whitham