Lauren Clark Fine Art, and Castle Street Café are pleased to announce an exhibit of paintings by Richard Britell. The exhibit, in the large dining room of the café will consist of Mr. Britell’s color field landscape paintings created between 2004 and 2011.

The Cartographer’s Conundrum is a major multi-disciplinary installation By New York-based artist Sanford Biggers. This new work is inspired by the Houston, Texas based artist, scholar and Afro-futurist John Biggers (1924-2001). A cousin of his subject, Sanford Biggers’ goal is to both study and expand the emerging genre of Afrofuturism, which engages science-fiction, cosmology and technology to create a new folklore of the African Diaspora while simultaneously illuminating the underrepresented career of master painter and muralist John Biggers.

Award-winning artist and author Kadir Nelson spent seven years researching, writing, and creating striking oil paintings to be included in the brilliantly illustrated book, WE ARE THE SHIP: The Story of Negro League Baseball, which is dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Negro Leagues.

Using Greek Flokati carpets as a ground for a mix of pigments that range from brilliant to muddy, Anna Betbeze creates unexpectedly textural paintings that verge on the sculptural. The new works made for MASS MoCA take as their inspiration an array of natural forms including mold, moss, foliage, fungus, rust, and rot. The cycles of decay and regeneration inherent in nature are echoed in Betbeze’s own process which she has described as the death of one object and its rebirth as something new.

Explore the artists, aesthetics, and economics involved in the creation of poignant memorials to lives lost in the exhibit “Memento Mori”: The Art and Commerce of Gravestones in Bennington. The exhibit is staged in two phases with the first phase now open featuring photographs of gravestones taken by Daniel Farber. Second phase opens on March 10 featuring original gravestones, including the markers (head and foot) created to memorialize Bennington’s first minister, Rev. Jedidiah Dewey, and a group of early stones from the Shaftsbury Center Cemetery. Also on view during phase II are selections from an archive of manuscripts documenting the Rule family of stonecutters from Arlington during the 1820s. 10am – 5pm. Closed Wednesdays until July.

The new exhibition Making Room: The Space Between Two and Three Dimensions features works by an international group of artists who combine two- and three-dimensional media in a single work. These works are also characterized by their marriage of new technology with more hand-crafted or out-of-date processes. By using traditional or analog media, these artists reflect a shared yearning for deceleration in the digital age and nostalgia for simpler technologies.

Highly regarded as a prominent American portraitist, Everett Raymond Kinstler began his career as a comic book artist and illustrator working for the popular publications of his day. Following in the tradition of Norman Rockwell, the artist’s original illustrations and portraits of noted celebrities—from John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn, Tony Bennett, and Tom Wolfe to artists James Montgomery Flagg, Alexander Calder, and Will Barnett will be on view in an installation that explores the process of capturing likenesses of his subjects for posterity.

This juried group show will feature photography by 19 artists and judged by freelance photographer Scott Barrow. Staying true to Sohn Fine Art’s mission to integrate Community, Arts, and Education, the exhibition includes supporters and students of IS183 Art School, as well as students of Cassandra Sohn (owner of Sohn Fine Art). 20% of sales will be donated to IS183 Art School. The Exhibition runs from March 23 – May 7 with a reception announcing the winner on April 28 from 4-7pm.

Artist Anda Styler enjoys the combination of on location and studio work and continues to explore subject matter, but is especially drawn to the magic of the New England landscape. Gallery open Mon-Sat 10am-5:30pm; Sun 11am-4pm.

Today, as in the past, the images of mass culture exert immense influence. Imprinted upon us in a steady stream across media formats, pictures shape public opinion, inspire debate, and fuel aspiration. These interactive sessions will include critical thinking experiences that explore the deep and ever-present links between imagery and culture, inspiring consideration of the unique power of the artist as a commentator in his or her time, with Museum Curators Stephanie Plunkett and Joyce K. Schiller, Ph.D. Please contact OLLI at 413-236-2190 to register. 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Greenagers will help lead volunteers with weekly instruction in the Community Garden located at Berkshire South Community Community Center. Volunteers are able to take home some produce based on the bounty quantities and what’s in season. The majority of the produce will be used for educational purposes and for Berkshire South Regional Community Center’s community suppers. Wednesdays 5:30 – 7:30pm; Sundays 3:00- 5:00pm. For more information call Berkshire Co-Op Market at 413.428.9697

The opening of IS183’s inaugural Citizen’s Hall Residency installation project, electro-synthetic. Open to the public, all ages welcome.

The Harrison Gallery will be presenting a solo exhibition of paintings by Leslie Peck. This is Peck’s first solo show with the Harrison Gallery. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Saturday, May 5th from 5 – 7 pm and is open to the public.

Guided tours of the house and gardens available weekends and Memorial Day through May 31 and daily starting June 1. Visitors are also welcome to take self-guided tours. 10am – 5pm daily. $16 General Admission; under 18 free.