Elle Pérez stretches time — their images can join people in the land, in places that have held light and life for hundreds of years.
Read articleJuneteenth celebrates global Black American music — #Berkshireweekend
Guitar and percussion are racing, warm and complex as a river in the rain, and Tendai Muparutsa is singing songs he grew up knowing … laughing, drawing in the audience to clap, playing the rhythms against one another.
Read articleWildwoods warm up Nebraska folk music in the Northeast
Guitar chords build. The fiddle is rising in a low minor wave, and the bass beats slow. Two voices are singing in close harmony. Noah and Chloe Gose on guitar and violin and Andrew Vaggalis on bass perform as the Wildwoods.
Read articleReimagining the Hoosic River — community weighs in
The Hoosic River faces challenges to a healthy flow of water for the plants and animals and people who live along it, and local nonprofits and volunteers are talking about the future — as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opens a study that has taken years to secure.
Read articleHot shades in the summertime … — #Berkshireweekend
A collage of conversations explore honesty, communication and silence in Joseph Grigely’s In What Way Wham? White Noise and Other Works,’ at Mass MoCA.
Read articleNew artist co-ops, craft and food spaces open at GreylockWorks
The artists of the Railroad Street Collective join a growing community of artisans and creative minds at GreylockWorks in North Adams.
Read articleDouglas Gilbert tracks visions in pencil
In his studio at GreylockWorks, Douglas Gilbert invokes landscapes in hundreds of lines of graphite — individual strokes converge into a reflection on the water.
Read articleArtists collective brings work to hear and touch @ MCLA
In downtown North Adams, Oakland, Calif., artist Catherine Monahon is creating an exhibit in clay, glass, wood, wool — and you can hold the art.
Read articleMass MoCA and Flamenco tap into living rhythm — #Berkshireweekend
‘The Eve of the Future’ … I was walking through Mass MoCA’s new spring shows, and the name of one of Carrie Schneider’s photographs caught my eye.
Read articleCollage artists are remixing the world at MCLA
The room is a kaleidoscope in paintings and fiber art, prints and panels, as Brandon Brewer joins Juan Hinojosa, Heather Polk, Evita Tezeno, Todd Bartel and Niki Haynes, in MCLA’s Layer/Build: Collage Explored.
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