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Berkshire Community College to Open Art Exhibit in Koussevitzky Art Gallery| 11:54AM / Tuesday, September 07, 2021 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College (BCC) welcomes artist Nicole Irene for an exhibit in the Koussevitzky Art Gallery called "Endanger Your Complacency by Tempting the Lumps in the Cosmic Gravy." The exhibit will be on view Wednesday, Sept. 8 through Friday, October 8. Gallery hours are weekdays from 9 am to 5 pm. On Friday, Oct. 1 from 5-7 pm, the artist will host a reception as part of Downtown Pittsfield Inc.'s First Fridays Artswalk. Light refreshments will be served. The artist will be actively creating art during the reception, and limited-run prints will be available for purchase. According to the artist, the show is a 0 Comments
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MCLA to Feature Sgt. Justin Biasin as Artist of the Month | 04:35PM / Friday, September 03, 2021 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA Sergeant Justin Biasin will be MCLA-Pittsfield's featured Artist of the Month, with work on display at the College's Pittsfield location at 66 Allen Street. Biasin's work will be exhibited for the entire month, and an opening artist reception will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 3, during the city's First Fridays Artswalk. Biasin, a photographer, will show new work he has created over the past year. According to a press release, Biasin's work offers a glimpse of modern-day life contrasted with the expansive serenity of the Berkshire County landscape. In his free hours, Biasin spends his 0 Comments
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At Final ARPA Hearing, Cultural Organizations Ask for Monetary, Tech AssistanceBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
04:15AM / Thursday, August 26, 2021 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Workers and supporters of cultural organizations hope that the sector crippled by COVID-19 can find some refuge with the use of Pittsfield's nearly $33 million allocation of American Rescue Plan Act funds. At the last of the four American Rescue Plan Act hearings — this time at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts — cultural industry attendees voted the provision of monetary and technical assistance as the most urgent use of the funds. When asked over a phone survey how the pandemic impacted their organization or workplace, a majority of people said they were "shutdown." "Financially devastating" and 100 Comments
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Berkshire County Historical Society Announces Melville Fellows| 12:22PM / Wednesday, August 25, 2021 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire County Historical Society has named Shawna Hennessy, Aylen Dominguez, and Hazel Richards Melville Fellows for 2021-22. The fellowship program, which began in 2018, annually awards Berkshire County college students the opportunity to work at Herman Melville's Arrowhead to create one or more pieces of original writing inspired by Arrowhead's surroundings and the BCHS collection. The fellowship program does not restrict the type or subject of the works created, giving participants a breadth of creative freedom. Arrowhead's Writer-in-Residence Emeritus Jana Laiz spearheads the program and works in groups and individually 0 Comments
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Smithsonian Host Sites Sought for 2022 Tour| 04:09PM / Tuesday, August 24, 2021 | |
 NORTHAMTON, Mass. — Through a partnership with the Smithsonian, Mass Humanities will select six local institutions to host "Crossroads: Changes in Rural America," a traveling exhibit produced by the Smithsonian Institution's Museum on Main Street program. Applications open Aug. 30 for museums, libraries, and other cultural centers interested in welcoming the Smithsonian to their communities. Organizations must be located in a town with a population of 12,000 or less to be eligible to host the exhibit. In October, Mass Humanities will select six sites for the "Crossroads" tour, which arrives in Massachusetts in September 2022. "We're 0 Comments
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MCLA Professor Receives Irene Buck Award | 12:02PM / Tuesday, August 24, 2021 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Arts|Learning, a state advocacy agency for arts education, has named MCLA Professor of Arts Management Lisa Donovan its 2021 Irene Buck Service to Arts Education Award recipient. According to a press release, the Irene Buck Award honors an individual for distinguished and prolonged service as an advocate for arts education. The recipient exemplifies commitment and service to, and support of the arts, and arts-education communities. It was named to honor Irene Buck, President of the Massachusetts Alliance for Arts Education for many years, who was the first recipient in 1998. Donovan has published widely on arts 0 Comments
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Downtown Pittsfield StoryWalk And Treasure Hunt| 08:03AM / Tuesday, August 24, 2021 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. and the Berkshire Athenaeum will continue the Downtown Pittsfield StoryWalk of Ty Allan Jackson's book "When I Close My Eyes" through Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021. They have partnered with CozQuest for a free, family-friendly Treasure Hunt along the StoryWalk route from Saturday, Aug. 28 through Monday, Sept. 6, 2021. Kids will be able to solve "Spot Cozmo" picture puzzles to find hidden QR codes that will unlock treasure at local businesses. If they find all of the QR codes, they'll be entered to win one of five limited edition "When I Close My Eyes" posters signed by the author, and one 0 Comments
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Lifting The Veil: Mourning in the Berkshires| 12:32PM / Friday, August 20, 2021 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — "Lifting the Veil: Mourning in the Berkshires" is currently on view at Herman Melville's Arrowhead and explores historic mourning practices, focusing primarily on the nineteenth century. The exhibition contains objects from Berkshire County Historical Society's (BCHS) collection including an array of mourning attire, an embroidered silk mourning picture, headstones and funerary items, and ephemera. Lifting the Veil is on view through October 2021 and is free and open to the public. "This exhibition was well into the planning phase in 2020 when COVID-19 caused us to close for the year," said Lesley Herzberg, Executive 0 Comments
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The Weekend Beat: Fort Mass, Anthony AnniversariesBy Gregory Fournier, iBerkshires Correspondent
02:04AM / Friday, August 20, 2021 | |
 Siege of Fort Massachusetts The biggest anniversary event this weekend is undoubtedly the Susan B. Anthony Celebration in Adams but the oldest is in North Adams on Saturday with the marking of the 275th anniversary of the Siege of Fort Massachusetts. The North Adams Historical Society is hosting the annual commemoration at 10 a.m. Saturday at its new museum space on the first floor of the Holiday Inn. The Museum of History and Science reopened in July after being closed much of last year because of the pandemic. Fort Massachusetts is believed to have been located on the Hoosic River somewhere near what is now Roberts Drive. Part of a line of forts built by the British to
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Ventfort Hall Presents "The Gibson Girl: A Gilded Age Icon"| 09:49AM / Monday, August 16, 2021 | |
 LENOX, Mass. — "The Gibson Girl: A Gilded Age Icon" exhibit is now on view at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum with an accompanying event to take place on Saturday, Sept. 25 as part of the ArtWeek program. Comprehensive signage will allow visitors to view the exhibit at their own leisure. Charles Dana Gibson, a commercial artist who was active between 1890 and 1920, created the Gibson Girl. One of Gibson's images for satirizing the social scene of the Gilded Age. A collection of Gibson's illustrations representing some of these and other subjects will be on view. According to a press release, the 0 Comments
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