North Adams

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    February Tricks of the Trade: Integration of Art and Community

    The FEBRUARY: Integration of Art and Community How can you effectively reach out and collaborate with the community through art? In these open-forum workshops, participants will discuss how to establish the connection between artist and community. Facilitating this relationship requires us to discuss identity, history,...

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    From MCLA’s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center: Three North Adams based artists chosen for 2012 deCordova Biennial.

    “Mary Lum, Kim Faler and Ven Voisey will be exhibiting new work. The deCrodova Biennial is a survey exhibition focused on emphasizing the quality and variety of work rather than any single or overarching theme. Highlighting artists from across New England, the exhibition displays a diverse range of approaches to media...

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    From iberkshires: Collector Planning Holocaust Museum in North Adams

    By Tammy Daniels NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Well-known World War II collector Darrell K. English plans to display a fraction of his materials in a new museum on Eagle Street. The New England Holocaust Institute will feature a curated exhibition of some of the countless...

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    Tricks of the Trade December Seminar Series

    Tricks of the Trade: Culture-Making: Engaging with the community while also helping your career! Tricks of the Trade is a professional development seminar series for artists and creatives.  A program of MCLA’s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, Tricks of the Trade is heading into its fourth year. This...

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    Creative Job Opportunities

    Look below for creative economy career opportunities in the Berkshires. Have a job opportunity you want to share? Click here and send us the job title, organization name, and  a link to your online posting. Job Opportunity: Economic Development Specialist, 1Berkshire This newly created opportunity is a...

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    Happenings + Events

    Fall Nonprofit Seminar Series Nonprofit organizations throughout the region are encouraged to participate in Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation’s “Center for Nonprofit Excellence Fall Seminar Series,” an upcoming series of seminars beginning on September 28, designed to provide essential guidance and professional development for nonprofits in...

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    EXCELSIOR NAMES BRENDAN BURNS CEO

    Excelsior is pleased to announce the appointment of Brendan M. Burns as Chief Executive Officer effective September 1, 2011.  Burns, forty-five years old, has a successful history leading the strategic growth of businesses in highly competitive industries. “For the past eighteen months, I have enjoyed...

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    Pop-up, Co-Working Space at MASS MoCA

    Work Site, part of the Bureau for Open Culture’s larger I Am Searching for Field Character project at MASS MoCA, invites freelancers in the area who work at home to participate in their pop-up co-working space. Wifi  is available, bring your own materials. Bureau for...

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    2011 Creative Communities Exchange Wrap-Up

    (May 2011)-On May 19 and 20, 2011, Berkshire Creative of Berkshire County, MA and the New England Foundation for the Arts of Boston, MA, co-hosted the Creative Communities Exchange-a major regional event highlighting successful creative economy work-at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. Over 220...

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    From the North Adams Transcript: MoCA to host regional arts conference

    By Jennifer Huberdeau Wednesday April 20, 2011 NORTH ADAMS — Learning from the successes and failures of others working in the creative economy will be the main focus of a two-day conference at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art next month. The Creative Communities Exchange,...

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