An internationally acclaimed artist crosses the Atlantic to open a site-specific work, ‘Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America,’ a mosaic of ideas, stories, music and sculpture at Chesterwood.
Read articleLights, color, action — Chesterwood opens in film and Pride week — #Berkshire Weekend
The stone glows like alabaster channeled by waterfalls of glass. On an afternoon bright enough to be summer, sculptor Ron Mehlman has come to Chesterwood at the opening of his solo show.
Read articleLet’s do the time warp again — #Berkshireweekend
The warmer days seem to have lifted the energy in the hills, and our creative places are absorbing it from the world around them — and this weekend, events are flying.
Read articleIn Bridge’s Happiness Toolbox, youth celebrate their own stories
On a sunny morning, a group of young people stood in the meadow below an open ridge, reading a poem that Theresa (Miller) Beaudieu, a member of the Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of the Mohicans, wrote and set here in 1997 …
Read articleKinetic sculpture brings international artists with local ties to Chesterwood
George Rickey’s metal forms caught the light and shifted in the wind. By that summer, he had shown them worldwide from Osaka to Berlin. In 1978, Maxwell Davidson met George Rickey for the first time at Rickey’s studio in East Chatham, N.Y. Davidson had opened his New York gallery 10 years […]
Read articleGlass art grows roots in an outdoor exhibit at Chesterwood
On one coast, young artists camped under massive pine trees while a furnace glowed under a wooden-beamed tent. On the other coast, a trim man and his daughter molded clay into the folds of a white shift. A fountain played behind his studio, and his sculpture in bronze and marble dignified […]
Read articleLike a marble in the sun — Glass art gleams at Chesterwood
Glass art gleams in the woods and gardens at Chesterwood, the historic house and studio of Daniel Chester French in Stockbridge. On a bright afternoon this week I got to walk around the show with executive director Donna Hassler and the show’s curator, Jim Schantz, owner and director of Schantz […]
Read articleChesterwood contemporary sculpture holds a warm glow in early fall
Barn boards and harness, ruffed grouse, swallowtail butterflies — Boston Sculptors Gallery artists have come to the woods and fields around Chesterwood, Gilded-Age sculptor Daniel Chester French’s historic house and studio in Stockbridge, with site-specific shapes and forms. On an early fall morning, the sculptures brighten the grounds like ripe […]
Read articleFrench and France — Chesterwood sculpture on the ege of the bronze age? BTW Column
Light comes through broad windows high on the wall and sloping in the roof — northern light. Bill Allen, a guide waiting in the studio to talk with visitors, explains that sculptors like ambient northern light because it stays consistent, no movement during the day, no change in color, no […]
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