In: Fellowship & Shows

Fellowship Show 2020: The Berkshire Art Association was forced to cancel this year’s show due to the COVID-19 virus and our community’s response. We do want to recognize the talented art students whose work was chosen: Kelsey Sherman MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Tara Gilardi* MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Phaedra Duhon SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART Sarah Scire WILLIAMS COLLEGE Nicole Ford* WILLIAMS COLLEGE Catherine Brule* WILLIAMS COLLEGE Macie Turrell* MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Sierra Lamonde MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Sophie Gerry* BATES COLLEGE Gillian Fournier MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Spring Hajjar MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Lucy Van den HeuvelRead More →

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In: Art Calls, Events & Albums, Fellowship & Shows

December 2019 – Berkshire Art Association (BAA) and Storefront Artist Project (SAP) in collaboration with the Berkshire Museum ARTISTS FROM THE BERKSHIRES AND BEYOND: CALL FOR ART for the 10×10 RAP (REAL ART PARTY) Berkshire Art Association needs your help! We are seeking donations of 10×10 inch original art for the 10×10 RAP – a fundraiser benefitting Berkshire County art students. The 10×10 RAP will be at the Berkshire Museum during the City of Pittsfield’s 10×10 Festival in February. It’s an art exhibit and FREE art party. A $25 ticket purchase guarantees a piece of original art, drawn at random, to take home. “ARTIX” will be sold atRead More →

BEN GARVER — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE Artist Melanie Mowinski hangs examples from her “50 Card Project” in the “Showing Up: for Our Communities, Our Neighborhoods and Our Selves” exhibit at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfield.

In: Events & Albums, Fellowship & Shows

By Benjamin Cassidy, The Berkshire Eagle PITTSFIELD — The concept of community isn’t traced by town or county lines. Neither is Berkshire Art Association’s (BAA) biennial juried show “Showing Up: for Your Neighborhoods, Communities and Each Other” which is on view at Pittsfield’s Lichtenstein Center for the Arts through Nov. 16. The display of painted, sculpted, drawn and photographed art represents a bevy of Berkshire-based artists’ work, but the exhibit also includes creators from New York and other parts of New England. Denise Minnerly of Norwalk, Conn., and Donald Bracken of Cornwall Bridge, Conn., collaborated on “Village Project,” an installation that directly engages with theRead More →