Bonney Hartley’s family lived here six generations ago. She is standing in the Stockbridge cemetery, in the sun under the maple trees, where her ancestor, Naunauneekkanuck, stood in 1735.
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Mohican storytellers curate their past and future at Berkshire Museum
The canoe floats at the center of the room, a long tapering organic shape ribbed like a whale, and above it the shape of a wave crosses a banner in a web of blue lines, like a three-dimensional digital model, or a weaving.
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MCLA and Berkshire museums bring energy in hard times
This spring, museums in the Berkshires are moving online. Cultural and creative places have faced abrupt disruption, and they are cutting back, but at the same time they are reaching out.
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Rarely Seen gathers wonders at the Berkshire Museum
Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary, a National Geographic exhibition based on a book of 400 images from around the world, comes to the Berkshire Museum in 2018 and 2019.
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Finding Raven at the Berkshire Museum
Finding Raven: Art and Stories from the Northwest Coast, a 2016 exhibit (and app) at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, brings together contemporary artwork and work from the 19th and 20th centuries, from artists of the Haida, Coast Salish, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka’wakw and Tlingit.
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Robert Hite builds spirit houses at Hancock Shaker Village and Berkshire Museum
Robert Hite, an artist based in the Hudson Valley, has brought sculptures from his “Imagined History” series to the Berkshires — miniature buildings that settle into the landscape and seem to hold their own stories.
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10×10 Festival heats up in Pittsfield
Drum beats and improvisation, bonfires, dance, oil paintings and spoken word … the city is getting ready. As I revise the poem I’m working on for the WordxWord Project on Friday, Pittsfield is preparing for its annual 10 days of performance and art — with tacos. And chocolate.
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Berkshire artist Coleen Curley carves wooden characters with whimsy
Artist and wood carving instructor Coleen Curley of Pittsfield finds inspiration for her carvings in the small details of everyday life — a childhood toy or a curve of tree bark.
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Festival of Trees goes West
At the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, trees tell stories. Sasha Sicurella, Visual Arts Coordinator at Berkshire Country Day School in Lenox, has hung her tree in the 2015 Festival of Trees with sepia-toned photographs and words.
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National Geographic photographs ‘Look West’ at the Berkshire Museum
American bison gallop over open ground in a golden haze in an exhibit at the Berkshire Museum, as National Geographic images probe deep into the West.
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