Eight tall forms stand in a wide circle like dolmens. They are metal frameworks 8 feet high and bright with color. They are holding glasswork, ceramics, encaustic protected in wax … and all of them will stand up to the weather.
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Freedom of body and freedom of mind (October 15 newsletter)
High on Pine Cobble the color is deepening. When I climbed up a few days ago, the maple and beech and birch were in a glow, and I wandered along the ridge for awhile just breathing. In 20 years I had never walked the class of ’98 trail.
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Live poets at Chesterwood feel the pull of current change
In these short weeks before the election, Western Massachusetts poets come together at the historic home and studio of the sculptor of the Lincoln memorial, to share work that feels relevant to this time and in that place.
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Gotland sheep grow silver fleece and grassland
Laura Gates lives at Shepherds Craft Farm in a house she and her husband built themselves, with tall windows and beams of honey-golden wood, and she can look up on a fall morning to see silvery Gotland ewes grazing in the field.
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Trinh Mai and fellow artists weave immigration and family stories
In her studio in southern California, Trinh Mai Thạch turns to show a life-sized portrait of her husband in an artwork inspired by prayers of protection and migration. She plans to bring her work the country.
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Remember the feel of clay or wool or hand drumming
We have a chance to touch this weekend, and listen, and taste. Artists and artisans are coming out, with care, to show their work, from Hancock Shaker Village to Hilltown6 potters to the Lenox Art Walk …
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Don’t Touch the Art — performance moves from pain to healing
Raw, and difficult, and reaching for joy — somewhere trauma is etched in paint as a community breaths towards wholeness, and art offers a space for holding and healing …
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Ground/Work gathers international artists at the Clark
Songbirds were flying through the sculpture. … I was walking slowly along Analia Saban’s Teaching a Cow How to Draw, one of the six new works in the Clark Art Institute’s first outdoor sculpture show, Ground/Work.
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Coral fountains and pearl pools: Berkshire museums turn outdoors
Stone blocks stand in rough steps, the color of quartz and clam shells … Art OMI has installed new work this summer, as museums are adapting their gardens and grounds, virtual content and outdoor artwork.
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Wendy Red Star imagines the past and future of the Apsáalooke
Commanders and ambassadors who fought to keep their people alive hold a central place in nationally recognized artist Wendy Red Star’s exhibit at Mass MoCA, Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird
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