Tag: Stockbridge

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    Celebrating light in a season of darkness

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    Exhibit explores traditions through artwork from children’s holiday books “Cultural Traditions: A Holiday Celebration,” now on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum, includes Uri Shulevitz’s illustation from “Dusk” (2013), above, and Brian Pinkney’s images for the book “Seven Candles for Kwanzaa,” right. Courtesy Norman Rockwell Museum/Copyright Uri Shulevitz   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.People read more

    Celebrating light in a season of darkness
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    Photos for a cause

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    Exhibit benefits center for survivors of domestic violence, sexual abuse Susan Sabino’s photo “Rolling Clouds” is among the works she’ll exhibit this month at Stockbridge Coffee & Tea to benefit the Elizabeth Freeman Center, the Berkshire County organization that aids survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse.  Courtesy Susan Sabino   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer read more

    Photos for a cause
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    Berkshire Theatre Group celebrates local creativity

    November festival gives stage to artists of the Berkshire By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass.   Members of Funk Box Dance Studio perform on the opening night of last year’s Made in the Berkshires Festival. The festival, which showcases local artists, is scheduled for Nov. 11-13 this year. Courtesy photo/Michelle McGrady After a summer cultural read more

    Berkshire Theatre Group celebrates local creativity
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    Roz Chast — Comic relief for an era’s anxieties

    New exhibit reveals the range of cartoonist Roz Chast By JOHN SEVENContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. As a student in art school, Roz Chast wanted to be a cartoonist but was stuck in a world that looked down on that form and insisted she work on creating fine-art paintings instead. But with a massive new show read more

    Roz Chast — Comic relief for an era’s anxieties
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    EPA tries to navigate conflicting demands on Housatonic cleanup

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    EPA tries to navigate conflicting demands on Housatonic cleanup By DAVID SCRIBNER Contributing writer   PITTSFIELD, Mass.Twelve years ago this month, General Electric Co. signed a consent decree with state and federal environmental agencies under which it agreed to clean up PCB pollution in the Housatonic River, setting the stage for the dredging of 1.5 read more

    EPA tries to navigate conflicting demands on Housatonic cleanup
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    Art school extends its reach

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    IS183 goes off campus to public schools, downtown Pittsfield By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.Over the past two decades, IS183 Art School of the Berkshires has become well known for the classes and workshops it offers at the historic Citizens Hall building in the village of Interlaken. But the nonprofit art school also has read more

    Art school extends its reach