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• Americans for the Arts Creative Industries Report

  Creative Industries: Business & Employment in the Arts reports continue to offer a research-based approach to understanding the scope and importance of the arts to the nation’s economy. While most economic impact studies of the [...]

• From Business West: Doing Business in The Berkshires

  Where Culture and Commerce Connect By Kathleen Mitchell Robin Helfand says the Berkshires are a mecca for small, independent businesses to develop and thrive. She owns Robin’s Candy Shop in Great Barrington and just opened [...]

• Studio Two of Lenox Wins 4 American Graphic Design Awards

  Graphic Design USA, the News Magazine for Creative Professionals, recently announced the recipients of the 2010 American Graphic Design Awards for Website Design, which included Lenox based design firm, Studio Two. “The American Graphic Design [...]

• From the Advocate: Summer jobs abound for Berkshire teens

  By Nichole Dupont Wednesday May 26, 2010 After the last essays are handed back and graduation ceremonies ring out through the Berkshires, many area teens will begin pounding the pavement. And they are sure not [...]

• Norman Rockwell Museum Director to Attend International Four Freedoms Award Ceremonies in Netherlands

  Norman Rockwell Museum Director and CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt has been invited by the Roosevelt Institute of New York City, New York, to join the American delegation to theTo learn more about the awards and [...]

• From The Berkshire Eagle: Unemployment drops in Berkshire County

  By Tony Dobrowolski, Berkshire Eagle Staff Tuesday May 25, 2010 PITTSFIELD — Berkshire County’s unemployment rate dropped by half a percentage point in April to 9.1 percent, the lowest level this year. It was the [...]

• Shakespeare & Company Announces Financial Breakthroughs

  In a move that signals the organization’s emergence from a period of pronounced financial stresses, Shakespeare & Company today announced a crucial restructuring of its bank debt, and the simultaneous out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit [...]

• Berkshire Leadership Program Applications Due June 1st

  Are you committed to creating a better tomorrow for your community? Are you ready to assume a leadership role in making that happen? Then the Berkshire Leadership Program wants you!  Apply today, and you may [...]

• 3rd Gateway Cities Creative Economy Roundtable

  Gateway Cities Creative Economy Roundtable: Creative Placemaking Friday, June 11, 2010 The Colonial Theatre, Pittfield, MA This event is co-sponsored by MassINC, the MCC, the City of Pittsfield’s Office of Cultural Development, and Berkshire Creative. [...]

• BarCamp Successs!

  Berkshire creatives from across the county convene at Shakespeare & Co. for third BeCreative BarCamp! Over 70 participants attended the 14 presentations on topics that ranged from the Pan Mass Challenge to Breaking through your [...]