When Raven Chacon composes, he seems to draw the voices of a forest. We haven’t yet had the chance to hear his music in the Berkshires — but we can see him, and artists with him and around him, re-imagining the world.
Read articleMaria Irene Fornés reclaims the stage at MCLA
MCLA opens a festival of events honoring one of the most influential playwrights of the last 75 years — whose name is still new to many people in her own country.
Read articleAshley Eliza Williams explores nonhuman senses and sentience
Moths can fly in wind and rain, Ashley Eliza Williams writes, and in her painting, a ghostly form opens wings like lightening. They fan out across the night sky over the sea ...
Read articleMalaika Ross traces ecosystems at the roots
Malaika Ross creates mixed media drawings in patterns of light and shadow inspired by microorganisms like Funneliformis mosseae — a fungus that can form relationships with plants to help them heal and grow.
Read articleJuneteenth celebrates global Black American music — #Berkshireweekend
Guitar and percussion are racing, warm and complex as a river in the rain, and Tendai Muparutsa is singing songs he grew up knowing … laughing, drawing in the audience to clap, playing the rhythms against one another.
Read articleReimagining the Hoosic River — community weighs in
The Hoosic River faces challenges to a healthy flow of water for the plants and animals and people who live along it, and local nonprofits and volunteers are talking about the future — as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opens a study that has taken years to secure.
Read articleArtists collective brings work to hear and touch @ MCLA
In downtown North Adams, Oakland, Calif., artist Catherine Monahon is creating an exhibit in clay, glass, wood, wool — and you can hold the art.
Read articleCollage 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.
Read articleNew 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.
Read articleLorenzo 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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