Coming Events
Panel Discussion on Spatial Relationships
Thursday at 7 p.m.
Berkshire Museum 39 South Street, Pittsfield, MA
Phone: (413) 443-7171 Price: Free
Carol Diehl, artist, writer and contributing editor to Art in America leads a conversation with sculptors Susan Rodgers and Joe Wheaton on their Crane Room installation, Spatial Relationships.
13th Annual Country Fair
Saturday
Hancock Shaker Village Pittsfield, MA
Phone: (413) 443-0188
Celebrate the bounty of the harvest at the Country Fair! A Kid's Tent,a Pie Contest, vendors of handmade crafts, a local Farmers' Market, as well as agricultural demonstrations and wagon rides offer hands-on fun for the whole family!
Book Signing: Woodland Style
Saturday at 5 to 7 p.m.
Berkshire Museum 39 South Street, Pittsfield, MA
Phone: (413) 443-7171 Price: Free
Meet artist and author Marlene Marshall to celebrate the launch of Woodland Style, a book about art inspired by nature. Publish by Storey Publishing.
September 4 through January 2
Woodland Style
As the seasons change, Berkshire Museum brings the outside in with art not only inspired by nature but using materials found in our natural environment. Berkshire-based artists Linda Horn, Ellen Grenadier, Joan Meakin, Carole Clark, and Anna Brahams will transform the Museum’s lobby into a forest of fanciful design. The exhibition will expand into the second floor, with more work by other artists, as an entry point to the Festival of Trees.
Medical Mysteries Revealed
Saturday at 1 p.m.
Berkshire Museum 39 South Street, Pittsfield, MA
Phone: (413) 443-7171 Price: Free with Museum admission
Berkshire Medical Center staff will explore the diseases that plagued people who became the mummies on view in Wrapped! Audiences will learn what medical treatments would be available to them if they were alive today. Experience a guided fly-through using state-of-the-art CT scan technology by BMC radiology staff.
Employer Recognition Breakfast
Wednesday at 7:00 - 9:00
Berkshire Hills Country Club 500 Benedict Road, Pittsfield, MA
Phone: 413-443-1038 Price: Free to Registrants
Partnerships In Employment is recognizing Berkshire County employers who support the employment of individuals with disabilities.
Sponsored by the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce
Presentation: CET Green House Tour Kick Off
Friday at 5:30 p.m.
Berkshire Museum 39 South Street, Pittsfield, MA
Phone: (413) 443-7171 Price: Free with Museum admission.
Preview local homes and buildings on the annual Green Buildings Tour. Tour hosts will discuss the varied approaches to green construction and energy conservation. Visit www.cetononline.org for more information on the speakers and October 2nd tour. In Partnership with Center Ecological Technology
Color Forms 1: Pink and Blue Projects
Saturday at 11AM-4PM Everyday but Tuesdays
MASS MoCA 1040 MASS MoCA WAY, North Adams, MA
Phone: 413.MoCA.111 Price: Free with MASS MoCA gallery admission
Kidspace at MASS MoCA’s two-part exhibition series Color Forms will feature new work by three internationally exhibited artists—Portia Munson, Soyeon Cho, and Lisa Hoke—exploring how color can become form and how it can be connected to social constructions of meaning such as gender. Munson will use paintings, photographs, and everyday objects to organize an installation focusing on how the colors pink and blue help to shape and reinforce gender roles. Her work will also be used to discuss the mixed messages sent to children about gender and about mass consumption. The sheer mass quantity of collected pink and blue material goods to be displayed will make plain how children are indoctrinated into the world of materialism and are taught social rules for gender identity. The first exhibition will be targeted to 3rd–8th graders.
KIVA: Native Elements
Saturday at 5-8 PM
Berkshire Gold and Silversmith 152 Main St., Great Barrington, MA
Phone: 413 528-0013
Unique watercolor exhibit featuring the work of emerging artist Peter Goldberg. Based on the spirit of the Anasazi culture of the Southwest United States, the paintings explore the complexity within simple shapes and forms of the earliest inhabitants of North America.
Spinning & Weaving Week
Sunday
Hancock Shaker Village Pittsfield, MA
Phone: (413) 443-0188
As part of National Spinning and Weaving Week, Hancock Shaker Village highlights Shaker textiles. See and participate in activities related to making cloth - flax processing, spinning, dying and weaving. See Shaker textiles from our collection that will change your notion of what the Shakers wore and made.
Nostalgia's Thread: Tem Poems on Norman Rockwell's Paintings
Saturday at 1:00 pm.
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA
Phone: 413-298-4100 Price: Free with Museum Admission
Author Randall R. Freisinger will read from his recent volume of poems inspired by Norman Rockwell's art, with a book-signing to follow.
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