Yomarie Silva-O'Neal, an artist in residencen at Mass MoCA, sculpts in her studio. Press photo by Thomas J. Logan, courtesy of Assets 4 Artists

Arts

Here are the Hill Country Observer’s articles about the Arts, listed from newest to oldest. Topics include theater, music, dance, painting, sculpture, film, and writing. The Hill Country Observer talks with artists and makers in many media, in New York, Vermont and Western Massachusetts.

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    A passion for performance

    In Dorset, community-theater tradition thrives in ninth decade By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer DORSET, Vt.   Members of The Dorset Players, seen here in this fall’s production of “The Heiress,” are apt to play many roles both on and off the stage. The community theater group has no artistic director; instead, its board makes group decisions read more

    A passion for performance
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    Modern landscapes, digitally refracted

    Exhibit showcases a pioneer of using computers in visual art By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Works by Anne Morgan Spalter, who wrote a widely used textbook on the use of computers in the visual arts, are the focus of a new exhibit at the Independent Art Projects gallery in North Adams. In Anne read more

    Modern landscapes, digitally refracted
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    Celebrating W.E.B. Du Bois

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    Center explores context of a civil rights pioneer’s legacy By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. W.E.B. Du Bois wasn’t born until three years after the Civil War ended, but the war and its aftermath were crucial in shaping the views of one of the nation’s first prominent African-American scholars and civil rights activists. With read more

    Celebrating W.E.B. Du Bois
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    Rhiannon Giddens and Carolina Chocolate Drops play FreshGrass

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    Arts & Culture Sept. 2014 Carolina Chocolate Drops to perform at Fresh Grass Festival By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   When the Carolina Chocolate Drops perform at the opening night of this year’s FreshGrass festival in North Adams, Rhiannon Giddens, left, will be the only one of the founding members still in the read more

    Rhiannon Giddens and Carolina Chocolate Drops play FreshGrass
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    Going beyond the traditional

    Bennington Museum widens scope, adds taste of Vermont modernism By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Up until two years ago, the Bennington Museum mostly focused on local history, arts and culture from the 18th and 19th centuries. Then Robert Wolterstorff was hired as the museum’s new director in the summer of 2012 after a yearlong read more

    Going beyond the traditional
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    Worlds apart, under one roof

    Exhibit links artist’s life experiences, Egypt’s upheaval By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Julia Morgan-Leamon’s “Split/Level” takes a suburban housing style from the 1970s and reshuffles it into a metaphorical zone that’s part personal history and part global reality. The exhibition, which opened July 31 and remains on view through Aug. 24 in Gallery read more

    Worlds apart, under one roof
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    Clark Art Institute — A museum transformed

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    By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. The Clark Center, a new visitors center, and the Manton Research Center are seen from across a new 1-acre reflecting pool at the redesigned campus of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. For lovers of fine art, it’s an occasion worthy of fireworks: On the Fourth read more

    Clark Art Institute — A museum transformed
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    Couple’s efforts lead to new arts center for Pittsfield

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    By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. Over the past two years, a Pittsfield native’s desire to give something back to her hometown has resulted in the creation of a new arts center in a converted mansion in the city center.The Whitney Center for the Arts began hosting performances and exhibitions last summer in a sprawling read more

    Couple’s efforts lead to new arts center for Pittsfield
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    From Broadway to North Broadway

    By STACEY MORRISContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. When it comes to being a Broadway performer and an in-demand chanteuse, height is an advantage, and Linda Eder, at nearly 6 feet, definitely has it. But there was a time when her statuesque frame lost her a coveted part: that of Maria in her high school’s production read more

    From Broadway to North Broadway
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    In defense of love

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    By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer SALEM, N.Y.   The black-and-white photographs could be of almost any happy, affectionate family from the mid-1960s. They show a husband and wife sharing a conversation or tender moment, playing with their three children on the living room couch, working with a friend on a car in the back yard, the read more

    In defense of love