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Tony Pisano, an artist and woodworker, beekeeper, musician and more in North Adams, carves spoons in a workshop at he has set up at Mass MoCA as part of an exhibit in 2018.

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Ceramics artist Paula Shalan applies a coating to a vessel in her studio in Stockbridge. Press photo courtesy of the artist
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Visual Arts

10th Berkshire Pottery Tour will open studios

September 18, 2023
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Ceramics artists show their art this weekend, as the 10th annual Berkshire Pottery Tour opens studios across Stockbridge, Great Barrington, new Marlborough and Monterey.

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A vinyl record spins on a turntable.
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Music

Record shops are turning up the sound in the Berkshires

September 5, 2023
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Vinyl is growing in the Berkshires — the past few years have seen a new energy and enthusiasm grow around records, and record stores are drawing in new audiences with live music and events.

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Victoria Palermo's Bus Stand turns a bus stop into color as vivid as stained glass on a sunny day in North Adams.
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North Adams

What gives you hope? — #berkshireweekend

August 10, 2023
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The question is hanging in the window of MCLA’s art lab on Main Street over a post box painted like a mosaic. In the sunlight, the colors look as bright and abstract as the bus stop across the street.

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Shaker Mill Books gathers unique new and known tales in West Stockbridge.
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Mapping wonder in West Stockbridge — #berkshireexperience

August 6, 2023
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I’m looking at the bin of old maps at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge and thinking, how would I draw a map of these hills, and what would I put in? When you have an afternoon in West Stockbridge to explore, how do you find unexpected places?

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Blueberries ripen at Second Drop Farm in Lanesborough.
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Tasting those East Taconic blues — #berkshireweekend

July 27, 2023
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Second Drop Farm has opened their pick-your-own blueberries, and Caretaker Farm’s CSA offers herbs and flowers and summer vegetables.

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Tables and ferns line the outside courtyard at GreylockWorks on a sunny day.
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Visual Arts

New artist co-ops, craft and food spaces open at GreylockWorks

May 31, 2023
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The artists of the Railroad Street Collective join a growing community of artisans and creative minds at GreylockWorks in North Adams.

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Artist and graphic designer Douglas Gilbert looks at a drawing in his studio at GreylockWorks.
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Visual Arts

Douglas Gilbert tracks visions in pencil

May 31, 2023
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In his studio at GreylockWorks, Douglas Gilbert invokes landscapes in hundreds of lines of graphite — individual strokes converge into a reflection on the water.

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Lilacs bloom in Lilac Park in Lenox.
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Gardens

Candidly we need to cultivate our gardens … — #Berkshireweekend

May 18, 2023
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The strawberry plants are small enough to hold in a palm, but some of them have blossoms forming. I’m cupping them in my hands and pressing them gently into the earth.

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Trees show crimson buds at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge.
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Fresh cheese and sourdough: Farmers markets and plant sales — #Berkshireweekend

May 11, 2023
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And suddenly it’s May. We feel the change coming for weeks, fizzing in catkins and lapping up the lower slopes — and then the sun comes out and the maples open their leaves, and the world turns green again.

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Crimson tulips bloom at the annual Daffodil and Tulip Festival at Naumkeag in Stockbridge.
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You’re going to meet some gentle people there — #Berkshireweekend

May 4, 2023
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Naumkeag’s annual spring festival is far enough along that the daffodils are wide open and just starting to give ground, and the tulips are all in full blow.

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