Los Angeles artist Beatriz Cortez speaks to people across time in Portals at the Williams College Museum of Art, sharing resonances with Antigua and Guatemala and El Salvador.
Read articleLife in these hills goes back thousands of years in wide spirals of stories. Here we honor human stories, from the Mohican people who live and return here today to Elizabeth Freeman and W.E.B. DuBois, people who have come from many parts of the world to work here in the mills, and to live in the cities and the hills today, and many more.
Moving right along — Tony Sarg gives puppets an artist’s hands
Tony Sarg has come a long way to reach the Norman Rockwell Museum this summer. An artist and illustrator in Germany, London and New York, he influenced puppetry across America — even to the Muppets.
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Beninois artist Georges Adéagbo invokes Abraham Lincoln
An internationally acclaimed artist crosses the Atlantic to open a site-specific work, ‘Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America,’ a mosaic of ideas, stories, music and sculpture at Chesterwood.
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Here be dragons … real ones #berkshireweekend
I met a dragon in the ruins at Ashintully. A live one — really. She’s a bearded dragon named Phoebe, and she came up with a young couple exploring the hills …
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The Ancient Beauty of the Hoosic and the Housatonic
Tricia De Souza’s North Adams podcast continues with an in-depth look at the life, history and future of the Hoosic River.
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Introducing Podcast Series ‘Back in the Berkshires’
North Adams may be small, but it is strong. Listen to this podcast to learn about its prominence in World War II and its ongoing evolution.
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‘Imprinted’ honors BIPOC artists and histories and futures
Imprinted at the Norman Rockwell Museum honors contemporary BIPOC artists and considers representations of Black, Indigenous, people of color in America across 400 years.
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Global artists imagine Shaker sisters’ lives
Women worked here. Women lived here. When I walk through the Shaker kitchen, looking for Pinaree Sanpitak’s sculptures, I feel that in new ways.
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You were only waiting for this moment to be free — #Berkshireweekend
In the heart of a Shaker garden, Pinaree Sanpitak has made an affirmation of life and force in a woman’s body and a Buddhist sacred space.
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International artists on Shaker land — Exploring central Berkshires
We're looking for three international summer artists at Hancock Shaker Village on a summer day and exploring the center of the Berkshires around them.
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