International artist and children’s book author Leo Lionni can tell complex stories in bright strokes, as his characters question their worlds with open curiosity … and transform them.
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Winter holidays in the Berkshires
Holidays return in the Berkshires — even in an uncertain year, we can find music and storytelling and lights in the dark, and an energy in local places ...
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Thankful for clear and quiet nights — #berkshireweekend
This is the season for spice and texture — evergreens and candlelight and makers gathering to show what they create by hand …
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Gathering warmth to carry us through the winter — #berkshireweekend
Winter makers and winter harvests are coming to us this week — as the Norman Rockwell Museum opens a retrospective on internationally known illustrator Leo Leonni, the nights are warming up with music.
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Daydreaming collage meets a native winter garden
On a clear November morning, I was walking through the native plant garden at the Bennington Museum, and I found a mouse telling stories.
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Voice of the wild iris — in memory of Louise Glück
She wrote days on the edge of thaw. She spoke in the voices of the earliest ephemeral wildflowers. They move out of the earth in the sleet, and new petals shake in a wind as high as a mountain. And they become oracles …
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Ashley Eliza Williams explores nonhuman senses and sentience
Moths can fly in wind and rain, Ashley Eliza Williams writes, and in her painting, a ghostly form opens wings like lightening. They fan out across the night sky over the sea ...
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Malaika Ross traces ecosystems at the roots
Malaika Ross creates mixed media drawings in patterns of light and shadow inspired by microorganisms like Funneliformis mosseae — a fungus that can form relationships with plants to help them heal and grow.
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Behind the scenes with artists — #berkshireweekend
On a cool grey Saturday, MCLA invited me to talk with the artists in their fall art show, Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature, as they focus in on a lacewing moth, a blown down branch, a river stone …
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Artists conjure hope and resistance — Like Magic
At Mass MoCA, a group of artists are seeking ways to grow and go on when life and health and well-being feel fragile.
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