Join Berkshire Environmental Action Team and Matthew Rymkiewicz for a nighttime light-sheeting demonstration in celebration of National Moth Week to observe, photograph, and identify moths and nocturnal insects. No experience necessary.
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Outdoor Event
Join us for a Textile Repair Workshop and contribute to Jimena Sarno’s installation Life in the Forest. This two-day workshop introduces tatreez — traditional embroidery from the eastern Mediterranean — as a form of visible, structural mending. Participants will explore how Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian, and Lebanese embroidery practices have historically combined decoration with repair, emphasizing reuse, improvisation, […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Diversity and Inclusion
Check out these Focal Point classes at Tanglewood. All classes start at 11:00 am. 07/11: Intoduction to Smartphone Photography 07/18: Smartphone/Tablets - Techniques, Tricks, Tips, and Hacks 07/25: Introduction to DSLR/Mirrorless Photography 08/01: Smartphone Intensive 08/08: Performance Photography 08/15: Smartphone/Tablets - Techniques, Tricks, Tips, and Hacks 08/22: Intoduction to Smartphone Photography
Arts and Culture, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Check out these hands-on workshops for youth this summer at The Mount! 07/05: Make Your Own Mini-Comic Workshop with Collen AF Venable 07/12: Playful Engineers Artful Mechanisms Workshop 07/19: Explore the Elements Art Workshop - Line Lab 07/26: Play the Poetry Relay 08/02: Monsters! Aliens! Robots! Illustration Workshop with Matt McElligott 08/16: Explore the Elements […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Family Friendly, School Vacation
Enjoy the ancient Chinese, mind-body practice of Qigong, meaning mastery of your life-force energy. Qigong, a simpler form of Tai Chi, combines gentle movements that mimic nature, self-applied massage, breathwork, and meditation with the goal of improving and maintaining physical and emotional health. This self-care practice has been found to relieve stress and anxiety, calm […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Every Monday - West African & Caribbean drum and song classes with Aimee Gelinas M.ED at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield. Beginner class at 5:30 pm; advanced class at 6:30 pm advanced. Registration required for all new students.
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Capturing the beauty of the many warm and cool whites of snow as the sun and shade shift, we will learn to use a myriad of different white or neutral slips, underglaze, terra sigillata, and glaze for our surface effects. Patchwork texture and an emphasis on the seams, created in the making process, will give […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
In this class we will cover the basics of throwing on the potter's wheel. We'll get to know the various stages of the pottery-making process, and build skills to help you start your creative journey in clay. This class is meant for completely new folks, as well as beginners with some experience who would like […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
American Stories: Rebels and Revolutionaries of the Berkshires examines the history of the American Revolution and its reverberating echoes in the region, nation, and world by highlighting the fascinating but complicated biographies of Berkshire County residents who impacted American history and culture from the late eighteenth century onward. This historical and civic education program explores […]
Berkshire250, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Learn how to form and join small hand made clay components to create a larger, complex pot. Using hand made templates, we will make various smaller forms that will be joined at the leather hard stage in order to build bigger pots with repetitive shape: the results will be a dynamic creative and joyful form! […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios