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June 2019
Olwen Dowling “The Past is Present”: Oils, Watercolors, Monoprints — Opening Reception. Show runs through June 30.
Free opening reception Saturday, June 1st 2:00-4:00 PM. After the opening reception, the show will run until June 30th, and can be seen before performances or by appointment. Call 413-258-4100. Artist's Statement: Olwen works in both oils and watercolors in her depictions of the west of Ireland as well as North Chester where she lives in the Berkshires. She is a printmaker in Intaglio and a Member of the Zea Mays Printmaking Studio. Olwen is also a member of the…
Find out more »Free Family Movie for June
It’s Friday night at the movies at the Arts Center. This month’s selection for the whole family will be posted here when the date is closer, and in the Sandisfield Times.
Find out more »July 2019
Patricia Hogan — Opening Reception. Show runs through August 1
Free opening reception Saturday, July 6th 2:00 - 4:00 PM. After the opening reception, the show will run until August 1st, and can be seen before performances or by appointment. Call 413-258-4100. Artist's Statement: Pat Hogan specializes in paintings inspired by nature. Recent works reflect her respect and love for our beautiful Berkshires, the mountains and sea coast of Maine, and the vanishing islands of the Chesapeake Bay. She is passionate about watercolor and the illusions created through the transparency…
Find out more »FREE Family Movie Night
It’s Friday night at the movies at the Arts Center. This month’s selection for the whole family will be posted here when the date is closer, and in the Sandisfield Times.
Find out more »August 2019
Marguerite “Marge” Bride — Opening Reception. Show runs through September 5
Free opening reception Saturday, August 3rd, 2:00 - 4:00 PM. After the opening reception, the show will run until September 5, and can be seen before performances or by appointment. Call 413-258-4100. Artist's Statement: “Wherever I go I cannot help but see the colors and scenes around me as a painting. Watercolor always provides a fun surprise … no matter how I may initially visualize the finished painting; the medium always tells me who is really the boss here. Often…
Find out more »FREE Family Movie Night
It’s Friday night at the movies at the Arts Center. This month’s selection for the whole family will be posted here when the date is closer, and in the Sandisfield Times.
Find out more »Children’s Book Author Jana Laiz Reads from Recent Books and Talks about Being “A Writer with a Purpose”
Jana Laiz, writer in residence at Herman Melville's Arrowhead, will read from and talk about recent books such as Blanket of Stars and A Free Woman on God's Earth: The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, The Slave Who Won Her Freedom (to be a feature film with Octavia Spencer as executive producer). A writer with a purpose, Laiz's goal is to "change the world one book at a time." A great event for the whole family!
Find out more »September 2019
Claudia D’Alessandro “The Nature of Things” — Opening Reception. Show runs through October 3
Free opening reception Saturday, September 7th 2:00-4:00 PM. After the opening reception, the show will run until October 3rd, and can be seen before performances or by appointment. Call 413-258-4100. Artist’s Statement: All around us, the natural world offers a distant mirror of our experiences: in the sky and water and on the earth. Great drama, intricate patterns, faces, shapes, and colors are all around, and sometimes, the most beautiful of these lasts only an instant. The light, patterns, colors…
Find out more »Film: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Join us for this Academy Award - winning classic (Best Foreign Language Film, 1971), setting the context for historian Robert Maryks’ talk the next day, which will include correspondence from the Finzi-Continis. Amid the ravages of WWII, the Finzi-Continis, a cultured Jewish family, live in aristocratic splendor on their Eden-like estate in Ferrara, Italy. As the political atmosphere becomes increasingly hostile to its Jewish citizens, the handsome and carefree Finzi-Contini children, Micol (Dominique Sanda) and Alberto (Helmut Berger), turn their…
Find out more »October 2019
Mark Farnum and Alan Papscun — Opening Reception. Show runs through October 31
Free opening reception Saturday, October 5th, 2:00 – 4:00 PM. After the opening reception, the show will run until October 31, and can be seen before performances or by appointment. Call 413-258-4100. Mark Farnum Artist’s Statement: Mark started painting when he retired from the Army in his early sixties. He works with acrylic paints, and his subjects are landscapes, seascapes, barns, people, things — whatever inspires him on any given day. He lives in Tyringham. …
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