Mariel Capanna (b. 1988) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions […]
Below is a list of summer camps and activities for the Berkshires. This list will be updated as information is received. Berkshire Art Center - 2025 Young Artist Summer Program - registration opens 2/17/25 Berkshire East - Bement Mountain Bike Camp Berkshire Horseworks - Ranch Life 101 - registration opens 2/10/25 Berkshire Museum - Summer […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Family Friendly, School Vacation
This summer, Berkshire Botanical Garden (BBG) will transform into a haven for artistic reverie with DayDream, a new exhibition featuring works by some of the most renowned names in contemporary and modern art. DayDream will run in BBG’s Leonhardt Galleries, inviting visitors to escape the everyday and immerse themselves in the boundless possibilities of the […]
Taste and imagination, the two key ingredients for a first-rate revue, abound in this fresh take on the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon, conceived by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie. Over three decades after the duo’s final collaboration, The Sound of Music, took Broadway by storm, this new R&H musical opened the 1994 Broadway season with flair […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
The season kicks off in the Liebowitz Black Box Theater with up-and-coming playwright Maggie Kearnan’s How to Not Save the World with Mr Bezos, presented in association with Boston’s Playwrights Theatre. In How to Not Save the World with Mr Bezos, it’s illegal to be a billionaire, and Jeffrey Bezos has agreed to give an interview in exchange for information […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Bernard Pomerance’s Tony Award-winning drama, The Elephant Man, is a gripping true story of resilience, dignity and the search for acceptance. Directed by Eric Hill, an accomplished BTG veteran with over 25 years of celebrated directorial achievements and set in Victorian England, the play follows Joseph Merrick, a man whose severe physical deformities make him a […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
The idyllic tranquility of the lives of shepherds became a prominent subject in literature, music, and the visual arts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A new exhibition at the Clark Art Institute, Pastoral on Paper, explores artistic depictions of rural life by considering their representations of the people and animals who inhabited the landscapes. […]
Join the Clark, MASS MoCA, and nbCC Educators at the UNO Drop-In Art Club, a free weekly art program for youth ages 8 to 19! Taking place every Wednesday from 3:30 to 4:30pm, the Drop-In Art Club offers a supportive environment where young artists can experiment with various media, techniques, and styles. From painting and […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios, Family Friendly
In its capacity as a center for creativity, Chesterwood presents numerous programs in its performing arts series ArtsAlive! and speakers’ series WordsAlive! from June through September. Season-long series that showcase artists in music, dance, theater, and the literary arts, Arts Alive! and Words Alive! were designed to be a resource to bring community together to experience the arts and feel connected in the […]
Arts and Culture, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library's extensive holdings and presented in the Manton Research Center’s reading room. Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art brings together visually striking book covers, illustrations, and advertisements to showcase the clean lines and bright colors of the mid-century modern design aesthetic in print. […]