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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 08/03/2026

Tumultuous times call for protest songs. I put all my heart into this one. I hope you enjoy it. ❤️✨ Stream unlimited times for free on my Bandcamp page.

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Alien Double, by Trace Meek

track by Trace Meek

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 28/02/2026

Thank you, all of you who visited my show, or checked out my work on my website as it was progressing. Your friendship and support means a lot to me, and I’m thankful that you came out to view and consider my work. ❤️✨

Panoramic view of some of my work in the ECA Gallery in Easthampton, Massachusetts, February 2026.

That’s a wrap! I rented a U-Haul van and took down my show today, to make way for the next artist to grace the ECA Gallery. I might have shed a tear or two.

After loading up the van, I happily delivered a couple of big paintings to some wonderful people who are now collectors of my work. If you’d like some of my work in your home too, reach out—there’s plenty to choose from, and I need to make room in my small studio for my next body of work, which I’ll be showing at Mt. Tom’s Homemade Ice Cream the month of September, later this year. I’ve got to get crack-a-lackin’ on that—I plan to make a dozen paintings, and I’ve only just begun. They will be smaller, so I’m not worried. 😊

One of these days I will host a proper open studio event.

Thank you, all of you who visited my show, or checked out my work on my website as it was progressing. Your friendship and support means a lot to me, and I’m thankful that you came out to view and consider my work. ❤️✨

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(Why I can’t post all of this content as a complete post in Bluesky—but I can post it as alt text—is a mystery to me. Please pardon the workaround.)

Me on the last day of my show—photo by Pasqualina Azzarello.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 23/12/2025

Joey Pesce, Clark Goodpaster, and I will play and sing music at First Night Northampton. We have an 8:00 slot in the “Workroom” at the Noho Center for the Arts, at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton, Massachusetts. Admission buttons: www.firstnightnorthampton.org/buttons. Hope to see you there!

Concert poster for Joey Pesce and friends.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 26/10/2025

Went to an amazing concert: Ezra Furman at the Sinclair in Cambridge, Mass. Left feeling hopeful and connected, despite the precariousness of our times.

Five-person band fronted by singer, songwriter, and guitar player Ezra Furman, delivering a concert to an attentive audience at a packed nightclub.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 14/10/2025

Trees in a row, a favorite thing

Four old trees (one of which is no longer living) thoughtfully planted in a line by people of an earlier generation for the benefit of people they would never know. Ashfield, Massachusetts.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 30/09/2025

An inadvertent visual collaboration between my camera and the computer screen I was projecting it to.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 11/09/2025

A friend and I went out on an evening kayaking expedition on the Connecticut River, to see the moon rise over the water. We got a bonus shooting star out of the adventure. He saw it in real-time. I discovered it later, while editing my photos.

Kayaker on river at night with lights on the far shore, a shooting star, a rising moon, and the east end of the Holyoke range in the distance.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 08/09/2025

Fascinating and soothing electric guitar + tape loop performance by Portland, Oregon-based Marcus Fischer. Also love the raw industrial ambience of the space.

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Benson Amps Presents - Marcus Fischer Tape Loop Performance

YouTube video by Benson Amps

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 03/09/2025

Life drawing at the Guilded Brick Holyoke, Massachusetts

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 03/09/2025

Halibut Point Rockport, Massachusetts Labor Day, 2025

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 20/08/2025

A 🔥 song by a new favorite band, Deep Sea Diver, featuring new fave singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jessica Dobson. The video captures some of the fervor and absurdity of our time, and the song just smokes. Enjoy the earworm.

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Deep Sea Diver - What Do I Know (Official Video)

YouTube video by Deep Sea Diver

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 07/07/2025

I made another painting. “Looking Up” Acrylic on canvas 30 by 30 inches ==== I’ll be showing this in February 2026 at the ECA Gallery in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Square painting representing a view of a star-strewn night sky, looking up through a stand of trees.

Square painting representing a view of a star-strewn night sky, looking up through a stand of trees. Hung on the side of a milk barn, to show scale. (And to photograph the painting in even light.)

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 20/06/2025

What better day than a breezy, fall-like first day of summer to introduce a painting that I just finished yesterday. Set in autumn, it is an ode to our connectedness (by way of one attribute that we all share—our mortality). I am calling it “Ghost Trees.”

Painting of a peak-autumn scene: a pathway through a cemetery, littered with the fallen, golden leaves of autumn.

A portal into autumn. Photograph of a series of barn structures. One of them has a painting hung on its side. The painting is of an autumn scene set in a cemetery.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 10/06/2025

Scenes from a recent vacation to Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia

Path through Bonaventure Cemetery, flanked by trees draped in Spanish moss

Sunset at Tybee Island beach, with Rebecca in the frame, clouds, and reflections in wet sand

Moss-draped trees and old homes in Savannah, Georgia

Sunset at Tybee Island, Georgia, with sun behind the clouds producing subtle warm tones

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 31/05/2025

I won’t be there (schedule conflict), but one of my paintings will.

Poster advertising the Holyoke Arts League’s annual Wistariahurst exhibition. The reception takes place Monday, June 2, 2025, from 5–7 PM, at 238 Cabot Street, Holyoke, MA 01040.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 28/05/2025

Earlier this month, the seminal 80s band ’til tuesday reunited for the first time in nearly 40 years (!) to play a show at the Cruel World festival in Pasadena, California. Sadly, I could not attend. Fingers crossed that they’ll play another show. Perhaps in Boston, where it all started? 🙏

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‘Til Tuesday - Voices Carry - live at Cruel World Festival - May 17, 2025

YouTube video by Synthetik Films

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 15/05/2025

On this day in 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts, poet and visionary human being Emily Dickinson was C A L L E D B A C K

Photo of Emily Dickinson’s gravestone. Inscription on the stone reads: EMILY DICKINSON / BORN / DEC. 10, 1830 / CALLED BACK / MAY 15, 1886

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 28/04/2025

This weekend I took a monoprint workshop at Amanda Barrow’s studio in Easthampton, Massachusetts. I enjoyed learning a new-to-me image-transfer process, and I’m fairly pleased with the results!

A monoprint On paper featuring a distorted photograph of the Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) printed in black atop an orange-to-yellow gradient.

A monoprint On paper featuring a distorted photograph of the Ludlow Clock Tower (Ludlow, Massachusetts) printed in black atop an orange-to-yellow gradient.

Artist Amanda Barrow in her studio demonstrating an image-transfer technique using a gel plate, a laser print of a photographic reference, and acrylic paints and mediums.

A common area on the second floor of the Eastworks building in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Three large windows made up of multiple smaller frosted panes for soft, diffuse light. An old, characterful hardwood floor. An elevator. A hot water heater.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 21/04/2025

The band Spouse rocked the Iron Horse. Northampton, Massachusetts, April 20.

The band Spouse plays music at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts.

The band Spouse plays music at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts. View from the rafters.

The band Spouse plays music at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts. View from the side of the stage.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 19/04/2025

Modern architecture Chicago O’Hare

A walkway connecting terminals at Chicago O’Hare airport, where we were laid over while returning from Kansas City to visit my dad on his 80th. Walls and ceiling paneled with colored lights and mirrors create an interesting ambience and perception of interior space.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 05/04/2025

Signs of the times #HandsOff our democracy rally in Conway, Mass. (and nationwide) April 5, 2025.

Friends gathered in Conway, Massachusetts, displaying handmade signs supporting humanity and democracy.

Friends gathered in Conway, Massachusetts, displaying handmade signs supporting humanity and democracy. Photo by Bre.

Friends gathered in Conway, Massachusetts, displaying handmade signs supporting humanity and democracy. Photo by Rebecca.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 26/03/2025

I don’t know whether dancing is a valid form of resistance, but I’m fairly certain that it provides much-welcome solace. Video of Becca and me by our friend Nancy.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 08/03/2025

The bulb show at the Smith College Botanic Garden was a sight for sore eyes, and a warm refuge on this chilly, windy day.

Flowers at the Smith College Botanic Garden

Flowers at the Smith College Botanic Garden. Some kind of orchid, I believe.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 27/02/2025

Burning ’cross the breeze Revisiting a piece I made four years ago during a pandemic. Mediums: photography, Gocco screen print, antique map, waxed red embroidery thread, peach twigs, wind, chimes, peepers (none were harmed), video, the internet. Given to a friend.

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 16/02/2025

In the wake of the Hunger Moon

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Trace Meek @tracemeek.com · 10/02/2025

Toning canvases Yellow ochre For a show (Feb 2026)