Mill Brook Sugarhouse is boiling sap in a spring day around the corner from the Roaring Brook Trail, and Irish musicians are tuning up as I explore the Southern Berkshires.
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Clay from an outdoor fire-pit carries ‘Volumes’
Wood-firing ceramics in an open-face pit is a volatile craft — Karlene Kantner can spend 12 hours and more stoking the fire when she makes the clay vessels she has shown at Berkshire Botanical Garden.
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Hands-on celebrations for Valentine week
Imagine sitting side by side with a quiet man in a slip-spattered t-shirt, in front of an electric pottery wheel. He is teaching you to center a lump of clay.
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Karlene Kantner shapes wood-fired vessels
On a slope in West Stockbridge, the air smells of wood smoke and frost and the unmistakable, clean sour scent of reduction — fire pulling oxygen from clay.
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Winterlights glow on full-moon nights — #berkshireweekend
Coming up the hill, you can see the house gleaming in the distance and the birches shining like candy canes all along the Blue Stairs. Naumkeag is decked out again in Winterlights.
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Hilary Knight reveals hidden worlds in New York
Hilary Knight has explored New York as an artist for more than 70 years — and at 96, he still explores the city today in his drawings and paintings. Though he is often known as the illustrator of the Eloise books, he has wandered over a wild field.
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Eloise in the Berkshires — A book behind the scenes
Eloise has come to the Norman Rockwell Museum with visions of New York — a look into the mind of the artist who brought her to life.
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Fresh bread on rainy mornings – #berkshireweekend
Ice Glen feels like its own world. You walk through a gap in the rock, and the land changes — steps and caves, boulders covered with moss and fern.
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Magical mystery tours are waiting to take you away (#berkshireweekend)
A luna moth made out of firelight is glimmering in the leaves. Jack o-lanterns hang like lanterns, carved with petals and wings …
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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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