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
Join Robin for a walk at Mailbox Hill to look at plants. We’ll explore the margin of Sweet Brook, looking for wildflowers and budburst on the woody things. Park across the street from our accessible parking, unless you need Accessible parking. We will walk along the road to the stream, then follow the stream bank […]
Nature and Recreation, Outdoor Event
On Wednesdays in July and August, the Clark Art Institute presents a free series of Works on Paper Highlights Talks in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, which houses the Clark's collection of more than 6,500 prints, drawings, and photographs. Each week, discover a unique selection of rarely exhibited works on paper with […]
Arts and Culture, Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ (MCLA) popular Green Living Seminar series returns this spring with Nature and Spirituality, a 12-week exploration of how faith, religion, and spiritual traditions shape our relationship with the natural world.
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Is your child a Minifigure collector? Join us every 3rd Wednesday of the month for a special evening dedicated to Minifigure trading. Bring your duplicates and trade with others! It's a great opportunity for kids to work on their social skill and meet other kids who share a passion for LEGO. Suitable for kids up […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a band that would play marching music to other prisoners and was also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers. Being in the orchestra […]
Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks
One if the most important elements in painting for me is the poetry that light and shadow create. I am drawn to the beauty I see in everyday life: a kitchen, a pot, or haybales on a hillside. I look to Manet, Vermeer, and Cezanne for inspiration; their brush strokes, the warmth of their palettes, […]
ArtWeek Berkshires Event, ArtWeek Open Studios
The Clark Art Institute hosts Attention and Distraction, Then and Now, a panel discussion exploring visual and literary interpretations of focus and distraction from the nineteenth century through the present. The talk takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium.
Literature, Lectures, and Talks
Join us for the 14th Annual Teen Invitational, a weekend-long exhibition featuring over 400 works of visual art by students and teachers in thirteen high schools in the northern Berkshires. The opening reception is on April 16, 2026, from 6 to 9 pm, and the exhibition is on view through Sunday, April 26. The reception […]
Arts and Culture, Family Friendly
Attend the final talk in the series about the Knox Trail where Tom Ragusa will discuss how he has traced and marked the route of the old road for 8 miles, and his effort to list the road on the National Register. This is the longest undisturbed stretch of the historic road in Western Massachusetts. […]
Berkshire250, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event