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Pinewoods Potters offers cups at the renovated Norad Mill in North Adams.

Category:
Art and craft

Photo by Kate Abbott

Local artisans are working in studios in the hills, some with national and international followings. You’ll find forges and lathes, ceramics, glass, metalwork and woodwork, painting and sculpture …

Kid goats curl up together at Mountain Heart Farm. Press courtesy photo
Photo by Andrea Myklebust
Visual Arts

Weaver and fiber artist grows and teaches her art

March 11, 2021
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Sculptor, weaver and fiber artist Andrea Myklebust has come a long way from urban centers and metro lines to a farmyard where she cares for the goats and sheep who grow the wool she will weave by hand.

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Sheep contemplate a quiet morning at Hancock Shaker Village.
Photo by Susan Geller
Visual Arts

Shops and co-ops link knitters and locally grown wool

March 10, 2021
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It’s a quiet movement, sliding the yarn over the needle, pulling the loop through and repeating. The the feel of wool can be warm and earthy in your hands.

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Mike Zabian tries on a tie and an orange vest at Zabian's, his family business in Lee. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Photo by Siobhan Connally
Community

Zabian family builds businesses and trust on Main Street

January 27, 2021
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Mike Zabian cuts a striking figure as he strolls in front of the Main Street building that bears his name, wearing dark gray slacks and an orange wool sweater-vest, smiling at people passing by.

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J.K. Custom Furniture and Designs crafts woodwork. Courtesy of the artists.
J.K. Custom Furniture and Designs
Winter holidays

A holiday artist co-op forms in Great Barrington

December 10, 2020
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In a year when Covid has cancelled in-person markets across the region, makers from the Great Barrington Arts Market and their friends are forming a popup holiday co-op.

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Sheffield's Festival of Holidays returns with tabletop trees. Press photo courtesy of Sheffield Historical Society.
Sheffield Historical Society
Winter holidays

Festival of Holidays in Sheffield turns up the lights

December 9, 2020
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In Sheffield, the historical society is creating its own new tradition in lights. In the grounds of the historic Dan Raymond House, 20 lighted Frasier firs will glimmer.

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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.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Winter holidays

Come out and meet the elves

December 7, 2019
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Around me now, in many workshops smelling of new wood, many artists are whittling and sanding and wedging clay and cleaning paint brushes.

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