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Kate Abbott
Bonney Hartley, historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge Munsee community of the Mohican Nation, and a team of volunteers work at a dig at the site of the 1783 Ox Roast in Stockbridge. Press photo courtesy of the Mohican nation.
Photo by Rob Hoogs
Native Northeast

Mohican families connect in the land — across time

October 13, 2021
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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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The Housatonic Rover gleams in late afternoon sunlight near the homesite of Uhhaunauaunmut, a leader and captain, orator and ambassador also called King Solomon, as Bonney Hartley, historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge Munsee community of the Mohican Nation, explains in the newly opened exhibit at the Berkshire Museum.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Native Northeast

Mohican storytellers curate their past and future at Berkshire Museum

August 24, 2021
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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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AIM company dancers perform An Untitled Love.
AIM dance company
Visual Arts

MCLA and Berkshire museums bring energy in hard times

June 2, 2020
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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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The night sky fills with light as lanterns soar and reflect a mirror image in the surrounding water. At the Loy Krathong festival, which usually takes place at the end of rainy season in Thailand, festivalgoers release lanterns to protect against bad luck. (Nanut Bovorn, Thailand)
National Geographic
Arts

Rarely Seen gathers wonders at the Berkshire Museum

October 10, 2018
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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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Stan Wamiss' Thunderbird appears in a show of contemporary and recent artwork from the Pacific Northwest at the Berkshire Museum. Photo courtesy of the Berkshire Museum and Paul and Joan Gluck
Stan Wamiss' Thunderbird
Visual Arts

Finding Raven at the Berkshire Museum

June 10, 2016
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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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The gardens at Hancock Shaker Village grow vigorously in summer.
Photo by Kate Abbott
History

Robert Hite builds spirit houses at Hancock Shaker Village and Berkshire Museum

June 3, 2016
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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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A bonfire warms visitors at the annual 10x10 Festival in Pittsfield.
10x10 Festival
Arts

10×10 Festival heats up in Pittsfield

February 11, 2016
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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 Santas with character.
Photo by Jess Gamari
Visual Arts

Berkshire artist Coleen Curley carves wooden characters with whimsy

December 8, 2015
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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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A young visitor takes a close look at the Festival of Trees at the Berkshire Museum.
Photo by Susan Geller
Holidays

Festival of Trees goes West

December 7, 2015
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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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A starry night gleams above Owachomo Bridge at Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah, 2008. Photo by Jim Richardson/ National Geographic Stock. Part of the exhibition National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West.
National Geographic
Visual Arts

National Geographic photographs ‘Look West’ at the Berkshire Museum

October 25, 2015
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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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