Murals and wood-fired ceramics, Japanese Shiburi tie-dyed cloth, graphic novels and living walls — the county is filling up this week with events and shows and painters out in the open, in ArtWeek Berkshires.
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Gloria Calderon Saenz carves current and color
A palm tree leans outward by a pool where the water ripples in concentric circles, as though a fish has just jumped and gone under … Gloria Calderon Saenz has come to the Berkshires to find space and time for her art, paintings and drawings, and most of all, woodcuts and woodblock prints.
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Women (artists) about town …
I walked through WCMA on Monday afternoon, with the work of women artists around me, and wondered where else have I seen work by women in the Berkshires this summer … And I’m finding the answer more challenging than I expected.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed weaves a room of all possible stories
I’m standing in a round room at the top of the Williams College Museum of Art and seeing it transformed through Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s eyes.
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She can turn a library into a labyrinth (Sept 1 newsletter)
WCMA has reopened, after more than a year closed in the pandemic, and I am transfixed by Amalia Mesa-Bains’ Library of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz.
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Mohican storytellers curate their past and future at Berkshire Museum
The canoe floats at the center of the room, a long tapering organic shape ribbed like a whale, and above it the shape of a wave crosses a banner in a web of blue lines, like a three-dimensional digital model, or a weaving.
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Artists form and perform Rites of Passage
Women have come from around the country to perform here tonight — in Rites of Passage, musicians, visual artists, writers, healers are creating a ritual and a refuge, and I’m waiting to walk in.
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North Bennington sculpture livens a country town
A man is standing on the platform, looking at his watch — waiting for a train that hasn’t come in 50 years. By the historic station around the corner from the feed store, he’s a sculpture in the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show.
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‘If I had wings’ … artists chart new worlds (August 4 newsletter)
An angel is kissing a woman. It’s an arresting way to begin. As you walk into the rooms of fantasy paintings at the Norman Rockwell Museum, he stretches out wings shimmering pale pink and green like the inner side of a mussel shell.
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Sculpture waits on the wildflower walk at Bennington Museum
A quiet man in a hoodie closes his eyes as though he’s praying, and in the meadow above him a man with rainbowed wings turns in the sun. At Bennington Museum the art is moving, and it’s coming out.
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