A special exhibition at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art explores a collaborative partnership built on mutual respect, trust, and a shared commitment to creating the best possible work. On view from September 7, 2024 through March 9, 2025, Artful Collaboration: Eric Carle & Ann Beneduce explores the 50-year professional relationship between the […]
This year's Downtown Pittsfield Restaurant Week will be renamed A Taste of Downtown, and will be celebrated for the entire month of February 2025. A Taste of Downtown will feature marketing efforts to highlight downtown Pittsfield’s local restaurants and restaurant owners. One component is our Taste of Downtown Dining Passport, which will be an incentive for people to dine […]
Join us for these winter events: 01/05: U12/U14 GS Race - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm 01/11: Grommie Jam - 11:00 am - 4:00 pm 01/25: U14 Slalom Race - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm 02/01: U18 Slalom Race - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm 02/09: Interclub Race - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm 02/22: […]
Family Friendly, Nature and Recreation, Outdoor Event
Taught by Jen Werner of Springfield Technical Community College, this is a four-week course. Learn about how and why pests become invasive, the governmental agencies and working groups that help determine an organism's invasive status, and the regulations around controlling their spread. Participants will learn strategies to stay abreast of new invasive introductions and how […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
This sequence of classes, taught by Duncan Himmelman on Zoom, is suited to gardeners of all levels, from novice to experienced. Sign up for individual classes or the whole series. Series topics include Native Vines, Native Groundcovers, Living Mulch, Native Bulbs, and Native Plants for Container Gardens.
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Winter's cold dark days are upon us. But take heart! Our resident winter birds are still with us, ready to lift our spirits with their cheerful presence. To stay active and outside this winter season, join us for our Winter Bird Walk series--back by popular demand. We will meet on Saturdays from January through the […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Family Friendly, Nature and Recreation, Outdoor Event
Come to the first Winter Wonders Market at Ventfort Hall and discover wintery delights from local craftspeople and farmers. The mansion is open for the market only. Visit this cozy, indoor marketplace featuring local growers and artisans! Come in out of the cold and enjoy the warmth of the mansion while you shop. Here are […]
Arts and Culture, Farmers' Markets
n Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, Anna Ting Möller, Nguyễn Duy Mạnh, and New Red Order invoke disgust to scrutinize power structures. Representing bodies beyond skin — mutilated figures and overflowing fleshy wetness — these artists interrogate the limits of traditional kinship, capitalist systems, and colonialist structures. Artworks made from ceramics, kombucha scoby, and photogrammetry pick at […]
In 2019, Iceland constructed the first memorial to mark the death of its Okjökull glacier. Since then, funerals have been held around the world to mark the melting of glacier bodies. These rituals of collective grief amplify the current state of climate emergency while expressing the intimate entanglement of human and environmental well-being. Consisting of […]
The Clark Art Institute hosts the next in its series of free tours of its permanent collection galleries designed specifically to meet the interests of new parents/caregivers and their infants. Participants should meet at the Clark’s main admissions desk. The program is specially designed to provide new parents and caregivers with a stress-free experience that […]