Blog & Press

Judd’s Bar is re-opening October 6th (drinks and limited menu to start), Small Works Gallery debut show featuring the art of Bill Alatalo, GCA monthly programing/special events starting in October and an announcement about our newly renovated space!

Vitek and I have been busy making plans for the future of GCA and have exciting news to share.

It is one year ago today that Vitek and I decided to close the doors to GCA until the course of this mysterious disease became clearer.

“We are now entering the next phase at Gateway City Arts,” Kruta said. “We can never say the vision is complete. It’s evolving. But the physical work is complete. We have all the space developed.”

Vitek Kruta, a professional painter, sculptor, and conservator, originally went looking more than a decade ago for a larger studio space in Holyoke. Instead, he and his life partner, Lori Divine-Hudson, stumbled into something very different.

It started as a search for a new studio — some place of modest size and space where Vitek Kruta could do his painting, set design and art-restoration work.