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“…as prohibitive rents have expanded the epicenter of Valley arts from Northampton into neighboring towns and cities, the creative urge is crafting solutions to the space issue. Gateway City Arts has quarried a multiarts center out of an abandoned Holyoke factory…”

Lori & Vitek talked about GCA’s 10th Anniversary with Donnabelle Casis Friday, April 22, 2022 on her weekly ArtBeat Report for WHMP’s Bill Newman Show.

ArtsBeat TV/Radio 8AM tomorrow from WCPC15, 89.5fm/WSKB, Southwick Community Programming, and Agawam Media. Broadway’s and Barrington Stage’s Mark H.

NEPM’s Karen Brown talks to GCA, Race Street Live, and others about the state of the music scene in western Massachusetts in 2022.

The Reminder spoke with Vitek & Lori about plans for 2022.

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Listen to Lori and Vitek on the Bill Newman show talking about Young@Heart’s virtual concert filmed in the Divine Theater.

“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.