Berkshire County is wondrously rural,
yet located within a convenient traveling distance from Boston
and New York. The Berkshires' appeal to metropolitan residents
seeking a cultural getaway is a draw for many artists. Many visitors
have fallen in love with the area and relocated here. Cultural
and recreational pastimes abound in the Berkshires, giving
residents and visitors alike an appealing alternative to urban living.
Berkshire artSTART - Cultural Resource Guide
artSTART’s Culture Guide is a growing list of art and culture in the northern Berkshires of Massachusetts. From culinary art to galleries, folk art to video art, the Culture Guide connects you to the spectrum of culture in the region.
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The Berkshire Cultural Resource Center--a collaborative project of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and the City of North Adams--provides the regional arts community training, resources, access, and marketing support to artists, arts managers, arts scholars, and arts-related entrepreneurs. |
Featured Artists:
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Samuel
T. Adams
North Adams, MA
Creates cartograms with ink, layered Mylar, gouache and acrylics |
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Larry
Alice
North Adams, MA
Larry combines drawings, images, and words to explore our sense of self and being
in the world.
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Sandra
Butler
North Adams, MA
Vivid abstract monotypes and paintings (mixed-media) based on intuition and perception,
as well as visual responses to images, ideas and personal experiences in the
natural world. She is also an artist/educator and teaches children and adults
in the Boston area. |
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Peggy
Diggs
Williamstown, MA
A performance and installation artist, whose work has social and political connotations. |
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Peter
Dudek
Windsor, MA
Creates sprawling mixed-media sculptures with an element of architecture. |
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Joshua Field
North Adams, MA
Joshua Field's paintings are at once spartan and poetic, using a broad range of materials and techniques. |
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Walton Ford
Great Barrington, MA
Walton Ford's prints and paintings look like large-scale allegorical narratives in the form of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century tradition of natural history painting. |
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Joan
Kiley
North Adams, MA
Joan Kiley works in oils using multiple imagery with influences from current
advertising media and folk art. |
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Lisa Nilsson
North Adams, MA
Lisa Nilsson creates intricate box assemblages of small found objects. Her detailed work enhances these small objects with a sense of preciousness. |
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Laurie McLeod
Stockbridge, MA
McLeod, a choreographer, film maker and performance maverick,creates short underwater films which have been seen at MassMoCA, Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow and on PBS. |
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Danny
O
North Adams, MA
Daniel "Danny O" O'Connor's vibrant art is built upon inventive imagination.
An instinctive recycler, he creates collage art using a range of mediums, from
colorful magazine paper to subtle and sophisticated Scotch Tape drawings. |
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Gregory Scheckler
North Adams, MA
Gregory Scheckler makes paintings dealing with allegory, landscape, and figure. Greg is also an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. |
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Norm
Thomas
North Adams, MA
Norm Thomas works in oils producing large scale geometric abstractions using
primary colors. Inspired by jazz instrumentalists, and dance, these paintings
are rhythmic and colorful. |
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