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Rising Forth
Writer, artist, and teacher Suzi Banks Baum created this mandala with Berkshire artist Sarah Nicholson on a tabletop at a women’s...
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Feb 20, 2023


A Rehearsal
Shawn Fields lives in the quiet village of Mill River, where he and his wife, Kenzie, raise their three children. Fields, whose technique...
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Nov 30, 2022


En Plein Air
Carolyn Abrams started painting more than 40 years ago when her husband brought home paints and a canvas because they couldn’t afford...
Laura Mars
Sep 29, 2022


Berkshire 25 2022
For 11 years running, Berkshire Magazine has recognized individuals who work to make a better Berkshires. What stands out among this...
Berkshire Magazine
Sep 8, 2022


John Williams at 90!
For young and old, musicians and moviegoers, stars and storytellers, the name, “John Williams” is part of America’s vernacular.
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Aug 15, 2022


Scaling Sandisfield's Hanging Mountain
HANGING MOUNTAIN HAS IT ALL
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Jul 31, 2022


A Trail That Begins With Innocence
Sculptor Andrew DeVries’s career spans four decades, and he is most widely recognized for his depiction of ballet dancers in bronze. Many...
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Jul 31, 2022


Lady Liberty
This painting was created by artist KATRINA COUTURE through Community Access to the Arts (CATA), a Berkshire-based nonprofit that...
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Feb 20, 2022


A Legacy of Calendar-Making
DOLPHIN STUDIO’S hand-screen calendars are legendary. They have been in production for three generations, racking up 3,000 customers (85...
Laura Mars
Nov 30, 2021


ArtWeek Berkshires
RACHELE DARIO has worked in galleries ever since graduating college, and the first place was curating at Canyon Ranch in Lenox. She is...
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Sep 29, 2021


Ten Minutes With... Béla Fleck
Listening to one of Béla Fleck’s dynamic and dazzling records, one is transported into a surreal and wondrous auditory netherworld. As an...
Benjamin Lerner
Sep 20, 2021


Berkshire 25 2021
For 11 years running, Berkshire Magazine has recognized individuals who work to make a better Berkshires. What stands out among this...
Berkshire Magazine
Sep 9, 2021


The Openness of Possibilities
BARBARA TAKENAGA’S paintings are found throughout the town where she has lived for so many years. Her works hang at Williams College...
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Jul 31, 2021


The Real and the Imaginary
“ALMOST ALL MY IMAGES have to do with relationships, with connections—human to her environment or natural world, humans to each other,...
Anastasia Stanmeyer
Apr 29, 2021


Richard Bourdon: The Sourdough Sage
Richard Bourdon's Impassioned Plea for Fermentation
Ellen Spear
Apr 1, 2021
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