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Berkshire Creative Director Interviewed on Createquity.com
Posted on August 25, 2010 | No CommentsCreatequity.com, ‘an online think tank exploring the intersection of the arts with a wide range of topics’ launches new interview series with Berkshire Creative’s own Helena Fruscio. Fruscio was interviewed by Ian David Moss who founded Createquity in 2007 as a first-year student in the... -
Pittsfield Revitalization Covered in Boston Globe
Posted on July 26, 2010 | No CommentsThe art of saving a city When its biggest employer bolted, the proud old city of Pittsfield slumped and shrank PITTSFIELD — City of art, city of funk. The SoHo of the Berkshires, the Brooklyn of the Berkshires. The sobriquets urban planners bestow upon this... -
Berkshire Museum Sited on ArtLawBlog
Posted on July 21, 2010 | No Comments“Yet a museum is much more than its objects” Mark Gold has a piece on deaccessioning in the latest issue of the Journal of Advanced Appraisal Studies (portions of which appeared in a 2009 article he did for Museum magazine). He runs through the real-life... -
Crane Creative Challenge Covered on WAMC
Posted on July 12, 2010 | No CommentsLocal Talent Paired With National Firm Charlie Deitz (2010-07-09) “As a way to stimulate the local creative economy, a Pittsfield based group is connecting creative designers with large firms in the region through what’s being called the Creative Challenge. WAMC’s Berkshire Bureau Chief Charlie Deitz... -
From Business West: Doing Business in The Berkshires
Posted on May 26, 2010 | No CommentsWhere 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 a second retail store called You Are Here – Robin’s... -
Jacob’s Pillow to be Featured in HBO Series
Posted on May 6, 2010 | No CommentsJacob’s Pillow will be featured this Sunday on HBO’s MASTERCLASS, a nine-part arts documentary series. The episode premieres May 9 at 5:45pm, and features Jacques d’Amboise, New York City Ballet legend and National Dance Institute founder, as he guides a group of young dancers through... -
MASS MoCA Makes Boston Globe’s List of Top Ten Art Stories for the Decade
Posted on December 31, 2009 | No CommentsCheck 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... -
Norman Rockwell Museum Director/Berkshire Creative Co-Founder Appointed Official Delegate to Russia for Upcoming Cultural Diplomacy Trip
Posted on December 7, 2009 | No CommentsNorman 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... -
National Geographic Sites Berkshires as Top Destination
Posted on November 15, 2009 | No CommentsBenning W. De La Mater of the Berkshire Eagle reports that “In this month’s edition of National Geographic Traveler magazine, the region tied for 7th out of 133 vacation destinations ranked by a panel of 437 experts in fields such as historic preservation, sustainable tourism,...


















