Museums Archive

New Art Shuttle Service

Published: February 12, 2010Posted in: FEATURES 1, FOR PROFIT RESOURCES, NON PROFIT RESOURCES, RESOURCESTags: Artists, Galleries, Museums, Resource

Chapman Studio Frame & Crate of North Adams now offering monthly art shuttle service to New York and other destinations.

CSF&C is an art services company operated by Michael Chapman, offering museum quality custom frames and crates using locally sourced woods. CSF&C also provides panels and stretchers for individual artists. Michael has over 20 years in the art handling and installation business with 10 years at Bark Frameworks LLC. He also worked as preparator at MASS MoCA and Williams College Museum of Art.

The first trip will be mad Thursday, February 25, 2010 and will travel to New York City and the surrounding areas .

For more information or an estimate, please contact Chapman Studio Frame & Crate Space is limited as to allow for same day, safe delivery of items. Delivery services are also available for an exclusive shipment or to other destinations. Details may be arranged upon request.

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New York Foundation for the Arts

Published: January 11, 2010Posted in: FEATURES 1, RESOURCESTags: Advocacy, Artists, Call for Submissions, Funding, Grants, Jobs, Museums, non-profit, Professional Development, Reisdencies, Resource, Website

The New York Foundation for the Arts’ mission is to empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives. NYFA offers resources for artists, art organizations, and those working in the arts related fields.

NYFA’s mission starts with individual artists in the visual, media, performing and literary arts. Their site offers access to a comprehensive list of resources for artists in the nation, including financial, educational, technological, and institutional resources and information such as jobs in the arts, opportunities & services for artists, event Listings, learning workshops, business of art articles, information for for teaching artists, fellowships, fiscal sponsorships, and more.

NYFA’s Arts Advocacy section regularly provides up-to-date listings of select arts advocacy issues at the local, state, and federal levels. These listings are for current legislation efforts, which if approved will have a direct impact on artists and arts workers across the country.

NYFA also provides information on the management of small and mid-sized organizations that serve the needs of artists including resources for management assistance and fundraising on the web, marketing and public relations, as well as an annotated list of nonprofit management & staffing resources list.

Click here to learn more!

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MASS MoCA Makes Boston Globe’s List of Top Ten Art Stories for the Decade

Published: December 31, 2009Posted in: FEATURES 1, LOCAL NEWS, NEWS BULLETIN, STATE NEWSTags: MASS MoCA, Museums, non-profit, North Adams, Press

Check out the Boston Globe’s Geoff Edgers round-up of the Top Ten Art Stories of the Decade, including the evolution of MASS MoCA, which marked it’s own 10 year anniversary in 2009.

Edgers writes of Boston, “Just 10 years ago, we were culturally a city of have-nots, with crusty institutions desperately trying to stay a step ahead of the next round of budget cuts. Consider these snapshots: A Museum of Fine Arts embroiled in controversy over curatorial firings; an Institute of Contemporary Art barely able to draw 20,000 people a year to its cramped Back Bay space; no Opera House, Calderwood Pavilion or — brace yourself — Guitar Hero. Certainly, not everything has been rosy in the last decade. We’ve watched crushing deficits and general inactivity damage the Citi Performing Arts Center (formerly the Wang Center for the Performing Arts). Museums, theater companies, and even the mighty Boston Symphony Orchestra have had to make cuts. But the real story of the ’00s has been a cultural building boom that’s brought nothing short of an arts revolution to Boston. Here are the 10 biggest developments”

Click here to see the list!

Norman Rockwell Museum Director/Berkshire Creative Co-Founder Appointed Official Delegate to Russia for Upcoming Cultural Diplomacy Trip

Published: December 7, 2009Posted in: BERKSHIRE CREATIVE, FEATURES 1, LOCAL NEWS, NATIONAL NEWS, NEWS BULLETIN, PRESSTags: Advocacy, American Museum Association, Berkshire Creatives, Museums, non-profit, Norman Rockwell Museum, Press, Russia, Sterling and Francine Clark art Institute, Stockbridge

Norman Rockwell Museum Director/CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt has been appointed by the American Association of Museums (AAM) to serve as an official delegate on a cultural diplomacy trip to Russia with the United States Department of State and the President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities. Ms. Norton Moffatt will be joining a delegation of American and Russian officials and several private sector leaders in Moscow from December 7 to 9, to discuss ways to continue fostering positive relations between the United States and Russia, and how various organizations might support the objectives of the commission. Funding to support Ms. Norton Moffatt’s trip has been made possible by The Henry Luce Foundation for American Art, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and The Berkshire Taconic Foundation.

POST UPDATE: Click here to read Laurie’s blog post on her experience on the Norman Rockwell Museum Blog!

“I am honored that the AAM has invited me to represent our country through this unique opportunity,” says Norton Moffatt, who serves as a board member of the national organization. “While I am representing the nation’s museum and cultural community, I will also be an ambassador for Norman Rockwell Museum; Norman Rockwell is an American icon, and should serve as a wonderful entry point for the Russian people to learn more about our country’s rich cultural tradition.” The diplomacy trip marks Ms. Norton Moffatt’s second visit to Russia; in the late 1990s, the Museum Director traveled to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to meet with Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovskiy. The visit was arranged in order to help prepare for Norman Rockwell Museum’s 2000 exhibition “Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent,” which included seven original paintings by the noted illustrator, which are part of the permanent collection of the Hermitage.

Leadership and support of culture and the arts are driving forces behind the success Russia and the exchanges between the two nations continue to enjoy.
In July, United States President Barack Obama and President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev announced the creation of the new United States – Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at their summit meeting in Moscow. Lead by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith A. McHale, the Commission aims to deepen cooperation between the United States and Russia in concrete ways and to promote active development of relations in all priority areas. Each delegate attending will serve on a United States – Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Working Group on Education, Sports, Cultural Exchanges, and Mass Media. Each sub group will facilitate information sharing among organizations in the United States and Russia, and work to identify potential partnerships and initiatives between the public and private sectors. The group’s cultural
discourse is in preparation for a larger meeting planned for Washington, DC, in the spring of 2010.

Click here to read more!

Calls for Submissions

Published: November 27, 2009Posted in: FEATURES 1, OPPORTUNITES ARCHIVESTags: Artists, Berkshire County, Berkshire Creatives, Call for Submissions, Creativity, Education, Galleries, Museums, Networking, Resource

Check out these calls for submissions and connections! Click each title to learn more!

EMERGING ARTISTS 2010: Call for Submissions

November 30, 2009

BERKSHIRE CITY: PITTSFIELD ON FILM: Call for Submissions

Deadline: December 7th, 2009

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS: Call for Papers

Deadline: December 7th, 2009

LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP: Residency

Deadline: December 2nd, 2009

THE 2009 WINTER GROUP SHOW AT WARD 3: Call for Submissions

Deadline: December 3rd, 2009

ART OMI INTERNATION ARTISTS RESIDENCY: APPLICATION

Deadline: December 11th, 2009

“IN PROGRESS” –A JURIED SHOW OF PROCESS WORK: Call for Submissions

Deadline: December 11th, 2009

DRAWING ROOM: Envelope(s) Call for Art

Deadline: December 15th, 2009

GRAMERCY BISTRO: Call for two dimensional Art

Deadline: December 15th, 2009

BERKSHIRE INTERNATION FILM FESTIVAL (BIFF): Call for Film Submissions

Deadline: March 1st, 2010

9th Annual International Photography Competition: Call for Submissions

Deadline: January 22nd, 2010

UPSTREET: Call for Submissions, Writing

Submission Period: Until March 1, 2010

SODUS ART BANCK: Residency and Workshop Applications

Deadline: One month before session

MANIFEST: Call for Entries

Deadline: Rolling

HILLTOWN FAMILIES: Call for Submissions, Writing and Photography

Deadline: Rolling

INDEARTS: Call for Submissions, Writing

Deadline: Rolling

GICLEE PRINTS: Fine Artist searching for a source for giclee reproduction printing in the Berkshires

Deadline: Rolling (Click link to email Deidre)

LONDON 2010 OLYMPICS: Contract Opportunities

Deadline: Variable

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Training Sessions for the Cultural Data Project

Published: September 28, 2009Posted in: ARCHIVES, FEATURES 1, HAPPENINGS ARCHIVETags: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Data, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Museums, non-profit, Resource, State

Get the most from the Massachusetts Cultural Data Project (CDP). Attend a free training session that will show users how to enter data and use its powerful reporting features.

Note from MCC: Participation in the CDP is required of all Partners and Colleagues in the MCC’s new Cultural Investment Portfolio for arts, humanities, and science organizations. CDP data must be entered by December 4, 2009. In order to meet that deadline, we strongly encourage all organizations to participate in a training session, and to get started on their CDP profiles well in advance.

October 13 – 15, 2009

Boston
October 13, 2:00 pm
New England Aquarium

Amherst
October 14, 9:30 am
Amherst Cinema Arts Center

Cape Cod
October 15, 9:30 am
Barnstable Town Hall

November 3 – 4, 2009

Boston
November 3, 9:30 am
The Boston Foundation

Worcester
November 4, 1:00 pm
Worcester Art Museum

Not able to attend the on-site training sessions listed above? Attend a training ONLINE via webinar!

WEBINAR
October 19, 1:00 pm

WEBINAR
November 6, 10:00 am

Please feel free to attend the session with more than one representative of your organization, including your executive director, your development director, and your finance manager/bookkeeper. Refreshments will be served.

Get started by visiting the Massachusetts CDP website http://www.massculturaldata.org today!

Questions? Visit http://www.massculturaldata.org or contact the
Massachusetts CDP Help Desk at help@massculturaldata.org or 1-877-MASSCDP (1-877-627-7237).

Norman Rockwell Museum Celebrates 40th Anniversary

Published: July 2, 2009Posted in: LOCAL NEWS, NEWS BULLETINTags: economic impact, Event, Museums, non-profit, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge

With nearly 140,000 visitors last year and an average of 148,600 over the past five years, according to the institution’s annual report, the museum has become an institution that both preserves Rockwell’s legacy and nurtures his art form, expanding the public’s understanding of illustration.

“We present Norman Rockwell’s art in the context of the whole field of American illustration, an art that tells the story of us and the nation and our culture,” said Laurie Norton Moffatt, the museum’s director and CEO since 1986.

That celebration of Rockwell’s legacy will hit full force Saturday when “American Chronicles,” a major touring retrospective of his most popular work, returns to the museum for a two-month run. For Stockbridge, the relationship with Rockwell has become an integral part of the community’s identity, perhaps most clearly embodied by the annual re-creation of “Main Street at Christmas,” when the town literally makes itself into a Rockwell painting for a day.

“The Rockwell Museum is one of the top tourist attractions in Stockbridge,” said Selectman George Shippey. “It greatly benefits our local economy and beyond. The uniqueness of the Rockwell Museum is evidenced by their creativity — they are always bringing in new exhibits, which increases the visibility of the museum for its visitors.”

Click here to read the full Berkshire Eagle coverage of the Norman Rockwell Anniversary!

Click here to read Jeffrey Borak’s interview with Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell Museum Executive Director and Berkshire Creative Co-Founder: Laurie Norton Moffatt: From intern to in charge.

Click here Saturday July 4th, 2009 to listen to a live broadcast of WAMC roundtable from the Museum starting at 9am!

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Emerging Museum says “Hire locals first, if you can”

Published: June 17, 2009Posted in: LOCAL NEWS, NEWS BULLETINTags: Berkshire Creatives, economic impact, Museums, non-profit, Writers

What could be more creative than starting a museum in the Berkshires in this economy?

Carol Crossed, President of the Board of Trustees of the newly emerging Susan B. Anthony Birthplace and Museum at 67 East Road in Adams, has hired architects, general contractors, demolition experts, excavators, painters, carpenters, glazers, masons, electricians, plumbers, heating and air conditioning experts, historians, museum professionals, quilting experts and others as the rural, Federal-style birthing place and first home of Susan B. Anthony becomes a destination.

“Hire locals first, if you can,” she said and there are many people grateful for her passion to preserve the house and legacy of Susan B. Anthony. Soon, the museum will be looking for volunteers who are willing to advance the mission of the museum and extol Anthony’s many contributions to human rights. Questions? Click here to visit susanbanthonybirthplace.org to learn more or call the museum at 413 743 7121.

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2009 Berkshire Gallery Guide

Published: May 28, 2009Posted in: BERKSHIRE CREATIVE, FEATURES 2, UPDATESTags: Artists, Berkshire Gallery Guide, berkshire living, Berkshire Visitors Bureau, Collaboration, For-Profit, Galleries, Museums, non-profit, Resource, Website

The 2009 Berkshire Gallery Guide is now available!

Now in its second year, the Berkshire Gallery Guide, produced through a collaboration among Berkshire Creative, Berkshire Living magazine and the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, is the only county wide guide to the Berkshire’s contemporary art galleries.

Look for the guide in the June edition of Berkshire Living, at all participating galleries and museums or click here to view and download the gallery guide online!

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MASS MoCA’s Celebrates 10 Years of Economic Impact

Published: May 27, 2009Posted in: LOCAL NEWS, NEWS BULLETINTags: Downtown Revitalization, Economic Development, economic impact, MASS MoCA, Museums, non-profit

Last Saturday, MASS MoCA celebrated its 10th Anniversary.

Politcians, such as former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and North Adams Mayor John Barrett III, who originally recognized MASS MoCA as an economic engine for the revitalization North Adams, joined fellow patrons and other party goers to celebrate the landmark event.

Click here to read about MASS MoCA’s economic impact and growth!

Click here to read Joe Thompson’s refelcctions on the development of MASS MoCA from concept to reality from the Berkshire Eagle!

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