Category: Voices
Our local communities share their stories — the Hill Country Observer offers a place to lift up many perspectives, from many backgrounds and experiences, bodies and minds, places and languages — from many migrations and diasporas and Native roots and more.
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Issue: August 2022
Williamstown festival works to transform and cast off a toxic legacy
Williamstown festival works to transform, cast off a toxic legacy Students head out the back door of the ‘62 Center for Theatre & Dance at Williams College, where the college and Williamstown Theatre Festival have set up a new intensive training program this summer. Photo by Susan Sabino By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, read more
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Issue: July 2022
MCLA artist’s residency lifts portraits of a community
Exhibit reflects artist’s yearlong residency in North Adams Conrad Egyir’s new exhibit, “Travelogue,’ which opened in June at Gallery 51, includes his portraits of, from left, Odiase Williamson, Winston Wall and Delano Mills, along with others he met in the course of his artist residency at MCLA. Courtesy photos By KATE read more
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Issue: June 2022
Jacob’s Pillow opens 90th season with celebration of diverse traditions
At Jacob’s Pillow, opening show draws on diverse traditions Mythili Prakash, one of a new generation of dancers in the Indian tradition of Bharatanatyam, is among the diverse group of performers in “America(na) to Me,” the opening show in this year’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Photo courtesy of Mythili Prakash By KATE ABBOTTContributing read more
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Issue: June 2022
New Lebanon farmers market expands to year-round storefront
Farmers market expands through year-round retail storefront Volunteers and staff of the New Lebanon Farmers Market — Phoebe Young, Josh Young, Lucas Cipkowski and Eleanor Young — stand behind some of the fresh produce at the market’s new year-round retail storefront. Susan Sabino photo By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer NEW LEBANON, N.Y. The food read more
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Issue: April 2022
Ceramics and sculpture anchor new shows at Mass MoCA
Ceramics, sculpture anchor new shows at Mass MoCA Tomato frames bound together with kudzu vines form one portion of Lily Cox-Richard’s new installation, “Weep Holes,” at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. The museum also has a new group show, “Ceramics in the Expanded Field,” with works by eight artists. Photo read more
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Issue: February-March 2022
In New York’s new farm overtime rules, progress or ruin?
In New York’s new overtime rules, some see agriculture’s transformation — or its ruin Stewart Ziehm tends to the cows at Tiashoke Farms, a dairy operation near Buskirk, N.Y., on a cold winter day. Joan K. Lentini photo By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. Labor and social justice activists are calling it a read more
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Issue: February-March 2022
Robert Blackburn changed views of printmaking
Show at Hyde celebrates master printer Blackburn and those he inspired Robert Blackburn’s “Refugees” (also known as “People in a Boat”) was completed about 1938, when he was still a teenager, and nearly a decade before he opened the printmaking workshop that would reshape his own art and the works of many others. He read more
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Issue: December 2021-January 2022
For winter, art inspired by snow and ice
Famed snowflake photos offer starting point for Bennington group show Erik Hoffner’s “Ice Fishing 12” is one of a series of photographs he’s taken of ice-fishing holes that have frozen over. Some of these photos are included in the new group show “Transient Beauty” at the Bennington Museum. Courtesy of Bennington Museum By read more
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Issue: November 2021
Farming for a greener future
New effort guides investment in region’s local food system The sheep at Studio Hill Farm in Shaftsbury, Vt., are rotated frequently to new grazing areas. Photo by Joan K. Lentini By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer SHAFTSBURY, Vt. Jesse McDougall became a farmer a decade ago by twist of fate. He and his wife, Caroline read more
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Issue: November 2021
Japanese prints in the 20th century – Tradition reshaped in a changing world
Exhibit traces evolution of Japanese prints in the 20th century Kawase Hasui’s “Rain in Uchiyamashita, Okayama District” (1923) is among the works included in the exhibit “Competing Currents: 20th Century Japanese Prints,” which opens Nov. 30 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. Courtesy of Sterling and Francine Clark Art read more
