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 …’
Read articleDance 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.
Read articleJoshua 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.
Read articleHostile 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.
Read articleTheatre and art leaders commit to change
As the theatre season is reopening in the Berkshires, more than 30 arts and theatre organizations gathered with MCLA (in a virtual event) to talk with two nationally renowned theatre makers.
Read articleThe Mastheads’ INSCAPES taps into new Berkshire poets
What defines the Berkshires for those who live here? The Mastheads has partnered with MCLA’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities to launch INSCAPES, a yearlong regional community art project across the Berkshires.
Read articleUnison 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.
Read articleMCLA 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.
Read articleOcean Vuong holds calm in chaos with contemporary poetry rooted in Viet Nam
In honor of National Poetry Month we honor and thank a poet who recently came to visit. Five years ago he was giving readings in Brooklyn — Zachary Finch heard of them through a friend in the city and listened, awe-struck, to poems like Aubade with Burning City. Ocean Vuong […]
Read articleMothering takes grit and soul
May and Mother’s Day — and women are coming to town this week, dancing and playing music and telling stories, and drawing energy like trees in the rain. As I look through this week’s calendar, I read about Portuguese jazz, and I think of my mother singing to Ray Charles and […]
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