Join us for the Downtown Celebration! The heart of downtown North Adams is closed to all but pedestrian traffic. Groups, businesses and organizations distribute information, hold contests and giveaways, and bands play everything from Dixieland to Rock and Roll. The streets are filled with delicious aromas as our local restaurants and vendors provide all kinds of […]
Family Friendly, Outdoor Event
Come hear live music every Wednesday throughout the summer. Bring friends and family and enjoy the beautiful surroundings! Free! 06/04: Sky Full of Dippers 06/11: Christine Spero Duo 06/18: Greg Caproni 06/25: Iam Campbell 07/02: All Over the Map 07/09: The O-Tones 07/16: E.R.I.E. 07/23: Bang on a Can 07/30: Sean Maguire 08/06: Eli Elkus […]
Outdoor Event, Performing Arts & Entertainment
07/15: Bryn Terfel 07/16: Seong-Jin Cho 08/07: Music for New Bodies 08/13: Brooklyn Rider 08/14: The Sixteen
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Join us for live music with these talented musicians. Free! 08/11: Dustin Lee Martin 08/13: Thor & Friends 08/14: Cold Chocolate 08/17: Freedy Johnston 09/11: Lost Film 09/14: Mark Erelli & Dinty Childs 09/15: Julie Doiron
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. […]
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 features paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts made by twenty-five professional women artists in Great Britain who were, in fact, answering Virginia Woolf’s call during her lifetime. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which furthered their […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, History and Heritage
In 2020 the Clark opened Ground/work, a one-year exhibition of monumental sculpture by six artists that was situated in the landscape surrounding the museum. Ground/work 2025 once again features specially commissioned works located across the Clark’s campus. This sequel exhibition focuses on global conceptions of craft, defined as the physical process by which artists transform the world around […]
Berenice Abbott’s Modern Lens begins with Abbott’s earliest portrait photography, taken in 1920s Paris while working as an assistant in the legendary Man Ray’s studio. Writers, musicians, artists, publishers, and socialites—many of whom lived visibly queer lives, like Abbott herself—all found themselves looking through her discerning lens as she captured a sense of the rapidly changing […]
This non-chronological survey of Noguchi’s work across media presents some of his most compelling engagements with time. The exhibition traces Noguchi’s interventions in the long march of geologic time, his explorations into the life cycles of natural and industrial materials, his meditations on memory and the relationship between the enduring and ephemeral, and his fluid […]
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 […]