Join Us in Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary in 2025
The Arts Center is pleased to host Lara Tupper's community writing workshop. In this 60-minute workshop, you will learn practical tips and easy prompts that will allow you to develop a writing routine and complete your writing project. No prior writing experience necessary; all adults are welcome to attend. Please bring a notebook, a pen, [...]
Bring your jokes, poems, songs, and other talents to share with your neighbors over light refreshments. If you're contributing, please arrive 15 minutes early to sign up. Free.
Unearthed: Group show featuring three-dimensional work Opening reception Saturday July 13 4-6 pm. Meet the artists, enjoy light refreshments. The show runs until August 11. Gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from 11 to 3. "Unearthed," the three-dimensional art show hosted at the Sandisfield Arts Center in Western Massachusetts, promises a captivating exploration of our connection [...]
Young pianist Josh Luxon-Robinson returns by popular demand after his terrific recital here last summer. The program: Johannes Brahms -Rhapsody in G Minor, Op. 72, No. 2 Leonard Bernstein -Touches: Chorale, Eight Variations and Coda Franz Liszt -Consolation No. 3 Sergei Rachmaninoff -Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5 Claude Debussy -Ballade -Deux Arabesques [...]
We are proud to continue the Bill Cohn/Val Coleman Series on History and American Culture with this timely talk by Kenneth Cohen, who will discuss what we can learn about today'Constitutional issues from Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with a conservative court. Ken Cohen has taught and practiced law in Boston. After law school, he clerked for [...]
August 17 – September 8 Group show featuring small and often very affordable works. Opening reception 4-6 pm. Show continues through September 8. Image above is Vitro Muralis by William Carlson. Gallery visiting hours 11 to 3 Saturdays and Sundays except for 11 to 2 on Sunday August 18. The Gallery Committee at The Sandisfield [...]
September 14 – October 6 Please note the date change! 3rd Annual Daniel Manacher Prize for Young Artists Opening reception 2-4 pm We are very excited to announce the winners of the 2024 Daniel Manacher Prize for Young Artists! This year's juror was Josephine Halvorson, an accomplished artist and the Chair of the MFA Program in [...]
Photograph by Richard Migot. We lost our beloved Ben Luxon - maestro of the Sandisfield Players, director, producer, actor, and of so many Sandisfield Arts Center events over the last decades - on July 25, 2024. This evening will celebrate the incalculable contributions that Ben made to our Arts Center -- not just plays (creating [...]
Dick & Jim is an original play be poet/playwright Neil Silberblatt tracing the friendship and collaboration between photographer Richard Avedon & essayist/playwright/activist James Baldwin. The play revolves around (imagined) conversations between Avedon & Baldwin leading up to the publication of their book, Nothing Personal (with photos by Avedon & essays by Baldwin). Marlon Carey & Geof Newton – both [...]
A talk with Professor Paul Karabinos, Chair and Edna McConnell Clark Professor of Geology, WIlliams College. Over a billion years of earth's history sculpted the iconic Berkshire landscape. The diverse terrains, many captured in classic paintings and sketches, reflect the underlying geology and recent glaciation. Painting: Bash-Bish Falls, Massachusetts, 1855, by John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816–1872)
