Escape winter for the day and join us for a balmy February day at the beach of Bousquet! We’re bringing summer vibes to the slopes with free leis, beach balls, summery tunes, and BBQ-style eats that’ll have you wondering if you’re at the mountain or the shore. Break out your brightest Hawaiian shirt, dust off […]
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
In this class we will cover the basics of throwing on the potter's wheel. We'll get to know the various stages of the pottery-making process, and build skills to help you start your creative journey in clay. This class is meant for completely new folks, as well as beginners with some experience who would like […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
A community group for independent figure drawing from a live model, held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Artists should bring their own materials. Please be sure to register early! We will use the registration list to determine whether the group can run and if we may hire a model for the […]
Class, Workshop, and Open Studios
Discover a bold, interactive way to support Roots Rising! The Art Switch is a live, fast-paced art experience benefiting Roots Rising where artists rotate through one another’s work, creating powerful, one-of-a-kind pieces in real time. Watch 10 locally known artists paint in a high-energy round-robin format as the music plays and the artwork transforms before your […]
Benefits and Galas, Performing Arts & Entertainment