This round trip, 2-mile trek on the Hume Brook Trail will be led by Tamarack Hollow Nature and Cultural Center Director Aimée Gelinas M.Ed who is a seasoned boreal forest naturalist guide and certified Cybertracker Wildlife guide. Learn about spruce-fir boreal forest ecology and how to identify wildlife tracks, signs of wildlife, and trees along the […]
Nature and Recreation, Outdoor Event
Join us for a week of special family-focused programs to explore how Norman Rockwell turned moments from everyday life into art! Take a guided family tour with our museum educators, then try your hand at drop-in artmaking inspired by Rockwell’s artistic process.
Bubble rainbows with people inside. Audience members making volcano bubbles! Gigantic bubbles that blow their own bubbles? See the newest, funniest, zany spectacular from world-famous, Guinness Book of World Records-holding, master bubble wrangler Jeff Boyer as he takes bubbles to the max with big bubble flair. Mixing comedy, music, and interactive bubble-magic, Jeff engages and delights […]
Family Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment, School Vacation
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
Parents looking for a fun, meaningful, and creative way to keep kids engaged this February Break can look no further. Berkshire Art Center (BAC) is thrilled to announce its February Vacation Program: Five Days of JOY! — a vibrant, hands-on art experience for children ages 6 and up. Running Monday through Friday, February 16–20, 2026, from 9:30am–3:30pm, this […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Family Friendly, School Vacation
The Clark Art Institute offers children and families fun activities celebrating its permanent collection and the special exhibition Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70 from Tuesday, February 17 through Thursday, February 19 (part of the Massachusetts public school system’s February vacation week). The Clark’s vacation week programming explores themes of imagination, fantasy, and ghostly realities. Tuesday-Thursday […]
Family Friendly, School Vacation
Join us for a week of special family-focused programs to explore how Norman Rockwell turned moments from everyday life into art! Take a guided family tour with our museum educators, then try your hand at drop-in artmaking inspired by Rockwell’s artistic process.
This class is not only for beginners but for any painter needing the basics of oil or acrylic painting. Setting up a palette, how to establish a strong composition, mixing colors, how to desaturate/mute a color to create subtle tones, ways of applying paint, and the latest in properly cleaning a brush. Come work in […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
This course will focus on the investigation of form for the soda firing process. Altering utilitarian wheel thrown forms with the intention of creating surfaces that will emphasize the firing technique. Students will develop wheel throwing skills while learning to consider the depth that can be created through sculptural additions and layering of slips and […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios