Light glimmers in glass, or in a wooden bowl, warm and moving gently in the air. When Jenna Gable of Lanesborough pours her own for Berkshire Candle Co., the room can fill with a scent of balsam fir or cinnamon.
Read articleBerkshire artists and artisans work in many fields — ceramics and glass, wood and metal, paint and ink and more. Many of them have invited me into their studios, and some have given me a chance to roll up my sleeves and join them. Come and see.
10th Berkshire Pottery Tour will open studios
Ceramics artists show their art this weekend, as the 10th annual Berkshire Pottery Tour opens studios across Stockbridge, Great Barrington, new Marlborough and Monterey.
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 articleClay 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.
Read articleCuring cabin fever with bright color — #Berkshireweekend
I’ve walked into the Plant Connector on a winter night, whenNorth Adams is quiet, and Meg Bantle and Laura Tupper-Palches from Full Well Farm are teaching a workshop on how to make flower crowns.
Read articleTamarack Hollow protects rare high wetlands
Aimee Gelinas and Daniel Cohen live in an island of Boreal forest, evergreens and moose, an ecosystem they feel is increasingly threatened by climate change — and vital in slowing it.
Read articleKarlene 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.
Read articleSilkscreen printing recalls the pleasure of inky fingers
Three artists spent two days helping students create a batch of silkscreen prints — easing shapes out of cardboard and getting soaked in spray at the set tub … I haven’t gotten to play like this in years.
Read articleWallasauce creates fashion for the future
On the top floor of the Beaver Mill, Sarah DeFusco and Andrew Casteel are working in a room full of cloth. They are becoming known for their colorful crazy-quilt clothing — together they’re Wallasauce.
Read articleGifts of time and touch can hold warmth
This holiday, I’m looking for gifts like a warm sip of home-made cordial on a cold night — something that takes time and some quiet thinking. And touch.
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