In downtown North Adams, Oakland, Calif., artist Catherine Monahon is creating an exhibit in clay, glass, wood, wool — and you can hold the art.
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Collage artists are remixing the world at MCLA
The room is a kaleidoscope in paintings and fiber art, prints and panels, as Brandon Brewer joins Juan Hinojosa, Heather Polk, Evita Tezeno, Todd Bartel and Niki Haynes, in MCLA’s Layer/Build: Collage Explored.
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New Orleans poets inspire North Adams art
Los Angeles artist Lorenzo Baker sets a man and woman resting together, and a collective of Black poets from 1845, at the center of his new installation with MCLA’s Art Lab.
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Lorenzo Baker collages the past and future
Los Angeles artist Lorenzo Baker is exploring the richness of human experience and the daily lives of Black Americans in What Happens if February Never Ends?
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Conrad Egyir celebrates community with MCLA
A man meets your eyes with confident humor, alive with his own thoughts. A woman near him is listening to music, as a father sings to his daughter — ‘If we lay a strong enough foundation, we’ll pass it on to you — we’ll give the world to you …’
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Dance and sunlight at the solstice (#this weekend)
Conrad Egyir has gathered a community in this room – the creative and generous community Erica Wall has been gathering in North Adams for three years, even in a pandemic.
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Joshua Ross embodies light and shadow in his art
In a studio at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, bodies are moving in cloth as fluid as water — in Joshua Ross’ drawings, arms and legs are weaving together, sometimes solid and muscled, sometimes turning into shadow.
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Hostile Terrain 94 and West Coast artists reflect on immigrants’ lives
After nearly two years of work and a pandemic in the way, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ Gallery 51 has finally opened a show that starkly illustrates the violence and peril that exist around the US-Mexico border.
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Unison stronger than fission: Poetry and art hold a light in hard times
Artist Trinh Mai and poet Shann Ray have created a book of words and paintings probing a world where the beauty of high canyons and loving relationships can exist at the same time as fission and division.
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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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