Artists from THERE are HERE October 8 - 10th

Long weekends in the fall mean artists from outside the area are speaking, exhibiting and demonstrating throughout the Berkshires (bonus: incredible leaves to see while you drive between the events)

THURSDAY:

October 8 6:00 pm
HERE - “Ten Years of Re-Imaging North Adams" - Artist Salon - moderated discussion with curators Leslie Ferrin, Ven Voisey, Jonathan Secor discussing the impact of ten years by MASS MoCA as revealed through photography, painting and mixed media (MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams) with artists from both here and there.

Artists include: Kay Canavino, Gordon Chandler, Laura Christensen, Joan Diamant, Wendy James, Jaye Fox, Joe Fusaro, Wendy Goldberg, Amanda Hartlage, J.C. Jorgerst, Phelan Levall, Melanie Mowinski, John Mitchell, David Ricci, Greg Scheckler, Nicholas Whitman, and Michael Zelehoski.

FRIDAY - SUNDAY
Locally Thrown/Locally Grown

Join us, IS183 Art School and potter - sculptor Chris Gustin, featured guest artist for the weekend that includes a benefit dinner, demonstration, artist talks, gallery preview and reception. Proceeds from the events help support the ceramics program that provides work space, classes, demonstrations and workshops at IS183 Art School in Stockbridge.

413.298.5252 x 100 to purchase dinner tickets and register for demo

FRIDAY
DINNER 7:00 at IS183 Art School (Stockbridge) Chef Daniel Mahoney - cocktail party with special guest Chris Gustin, then sit down dinner with locally grown produce (onion tart, butternut squash soup, coq au vin and gnocci, apple tart dessert).

SATURDAY, October 10,
DEMO
Chris Gustin potter/sculptor
IS183 Art School (Stockbridge)
10 to 12:00, Fee: $25

ARTIST TALK
3:30 p.m. Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield FREE
Lucy Feller - Digital Collage Photography

RECEPTIONS
4- 6:00 p.m. Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, FREE

Lucy Feller, Solo Show - Wish You Were Near

Chris Gustin - Featured Artist

2009 Studio Pottery Invitational
Preview of Group Show Functional Ceramics by American Studio Potters

SUNDAY
October 11, Studio Tour and Brunch

Project Art, Cummington $20 for Brunch with Visiting Artists
Tour studios of International Sculptor, Sergei Isupov and Studio Potter, Michael McCarthy

Chris Gustin - Featured artist at Locally Thrown /Locally Grown Dinner and Demo at IS183 Art School (Stockbridge) Studio Pottery Invitational 2009, Ferrin Gallery (Pittsfield)

Michael Zelehoski - HERE - MCLA Gallery 51, (North Adams)

Mary Anne Davis - featured in Studio Pottery Invitational 2009 - Ferrin Gallery (Pittsfield)

Locally Thrown/Locally Grown
Series of events on Columbus Day Weekend focused on Ceramics- organized by Ferrin Gallery and IS183 Art School

[Ferrin Galley] Weekend of Visiting Artists and Events

CHRIS GUSTIN: Artist Focus Chris Gustin, acclaimed potter, sculptor and founder of Watershed Center for Ceramics, is the featured artist at Ferrin Gallery's Studio Pottery Invitational. More than 25 new, functional works are on display and available for purchase. Exhibition preview: Saturday, October 10th from 4-6 pm. Ferrin Gallery 437 North Street, Pittsfield MA (413) 442-1622 Locally Thrown/Locally Grown Benefit: Friday, October 9th IS183 Art School 13 Willard Hill Road, Stockbridge, MA 7:00pm - brief talk by Chris Gustin 8:00pm - dinner Fee: $75 (413) 298-5252, ext. 100 to purchase tickets or for more information. Demonstration: Saturday, October 10th 10am-noon IS183 Art School Fee: $25 Chris Gustin grew up in Los Angeles, California where his family were part owners of several commercial whiteware ceramic manufacturing companies. Immersed in the beauty and function of ceramic tile manufacture from a very young age, Gustin has held a lifelong love of the art of ceramics. Gustin started Gustin Ceramics Tile Production in 1996, and now devotes his full time and energies to his studio work and tile production company in South Dartmouth, MA. Photo caption: Chris Gustin, Vessel #0606, 2006, woodfired stoneware, 34 x 20 x 22" Click Here for a Link to Chris Gustin's portfolio of available work at Ferrin Gallery STUDIO POTTERY INVITATIONAL PREVIEW Saturday preview October 10th, 4-6pm Studio Pottery Invitational Ferrin Gallery Dates: October 17th - December 31st, 2009 Artist Reception: October 17th, 4-6pm This exhibition introduces a group of studio potters who have not shown previously at the gallery. Each year ten artists are invited to show a series of 10-25 functional pots that are related by form and surface. These artists live and work across the country but Molly Hatch of Northampton MA and Mary Anne Davis of Chatham NY are local. Davis, who will be presenting an installation involving ceramics, linens and a dinner table, will be available for questions and discussion during the October 10th preview. Exhibiting artists include: Christa Assad, California Nicholas Bernard, Arizona Mary Anne Davis, Massachusetts Sanam Emami, Pennsylvania Steve Godfrey, Alaska Molly Hatch, Massachusetts Kristen Kieffer, Massachusetts Seth Rainville, Massachusetts Kevin Snipes, Montana Gwendolyn Yoppolo, Montana Photo caption: Mary Anne Davis, Naked Dishes Installation, detail, 2009, ceramic, sizes vary Click here for Ferrin Gallery's Studio Pottery Invitational page LUCY FELLER: Artist Talk and Closing Reception LUCY FELLER Artist Talk Saturday, October 10, 3:30pm LUCY FELLER: Wish You Were Near - A Postcard Series solo show of digital photographs Artist Talk and Closing Reception: Lucy Feller presents an artist talk at the gallery at 3:30pm preceding a closing reception in her honor from 4-6pm. Photo credit: Lucy Feller, Best Riches, 2009, digital photograph, 6 x 4" Click here for Lucy Feller's Wish You Were Near page on FerrinGallery.com --------------------------------------- Use SelfUnsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive emails from us. Powered by MainStreetMAIL.com ™

CULTURAL CORRIDOR - September 30 - October 3

WHO is doing the scheduling around HERE?

Something is changing in the Berkshires other than the leaves when there are 3 contemporary visual arts events on 1 weekday night (Thursday) in the shoulder season. There is no way you can attend them all, but, no excuses on Wednesday, there is only one, JOE GOODWIN Ferrin Galllery 7:00 (except for those who already bought tickets to David Sedaris at The Colonial).

September 30, WEDNESDAY - PITTSFIELD

JOE GOODWIN- 7:00 Pittsfield abstract painter discusses his recent work currently on view in his solo show (Ferrin Gallery)

Read more: Lesley Beck in Berkshire Living Magazine
http://www.berkshirelivingmag.com/scenearound-joe-goodwin-lesley-ann-beck-september-2009

October 1, THURSDAY - WILLIAMSTOWN, PITTSFIELD, BECKETT
You have to choose - they are all at 7:00 p.m.

NORTHERN BERKSHIRES - WILLIAMSTOWN

VIK MUNIZ
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College

Brazilian-born photographer Vik Muniz discusses his work and artistic process, which often incorporates unconventional materials (chocolate sauce, peanut butter) WCMA recently acquired ten Memory Renderings from the artist’s 1989-2000 series “The Best of Life,” drawn from his recollection of a book that featured iconic photographs from Life magazine between 1936 and 1972.

Read more:
http://iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=32353

MID BERKSHIRES – PITTSFIELD

TOM O'NEIL and CHUCK WEBSTER
Curator Hellmut Wohl
Discussion with artists about Color & Form: The Language of Abstract Art
The Berkshire Museum

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=845860&category=ARTS#ixzz0SOQ2B1W2

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS BERKSHIRES - BECKETT

JESSICA HESS & WAYNE CANEPA – Parlor Games
Opening reception , dinner and parlor games
Loo Gallery - Dream Away Lodge

Jessica Hess & Wayne Canepa spent much of this summer playing Exquisite Corpse, one of the surrealist's favorite art games. Using pen and ink on paper, Hess a noted young Boston / Berkshires based painter and emerging artist Wayne Canepa, shared the drawing process. "It is a fun venture into your friend’s imagination and creating corpses can be a lot like raising Frankenstein".

FYI - Loo Gallery is an intimate space for quiet contemplation at the legendary Becket landmark restaurant, bar and lounge.

FB event page - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pittsfield-MA/Ferrin-Gallery/61002166762#/event.php?eid=144630766572&index=1

Jessica Hess shows with Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield and Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington and galleries throughout the US.

SATURDAY – October 3

HILLSDALE, NY – Still in The Berkshires - just over the MA border

GOLIATH – Opening Event

6-8pm – 32 Anthony Street, Hillsdale, NY
Featuring the work of painter, Ben Tritt and photographer, Will Wendt
Curated by John Haas
http://www.goliathgallery.org/

FERRIN GALLERY ONGOING EXHIBITIONS:

MAGGIE MAILER (Berkshire Museum) paintings from her summer residency

JOE GOODWIN- Pittsfield painter in solo show (Ferrin Gallery)
LUCY FELLER - New York photographer in solo show (Ferrin Gallery)

http://www.ferringallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=335&ifPress=true

NORTH ADAMS

HERE - group show of art in all media showing impact of 10 years of MASS MoCA on regional artists, curated by Leslie Ferrin, Ven Voisey and Jonathan Secor (Gallery 51). Gallery artists include Gordon Chandler, Nicholas Whitman and Michael Zelehoski
http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/events/mclagallery51_223/

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JESSICA HESS & WAYNE CANEPA – Parlor Games
Loo Gallery - Dream Away Lodge, Becket
Pen and Ink on Paper

JOE GOODWIN - Self Portrait in Studio

MICHAEL ZELEHOSKI - at the opening of HERE@ MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams- in front of "Dodecadillion", made from found wood from building 17 at Mass MoCA

Cultural Corridor - North South - September

You can leave the Berkshires after Labor Day but you can't escape.

CULTURAL CORRIDOR - Contemporary Visual Art from NY to VT

NYC- Berkshire connections

NANCY GRAVES @ Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe - Chelsea
http://www.ameringer-yohe.com/?a=23
Born in Pittsfield, 1939 - 1995 - She was the first woman to have a solo at the Whitney in 1969. Known sculptor, this show focuses on bronze from the 1980's.

MIKE GLIER: Along A Long Line @ Gerald Peters Gallery - Upper East Side
An artists journey from the Arctic Circle to the equator
http://www.gpgallery.com/exhibitions/view/113

Just released from Berkshire based Hard Press Editions 208 page monograph with interview by Carol Diehl and essay by Lisa Corrin
http://www.hardpresseditions.com/glier/

Coming soon to Williams College Museum of Art - October 31, 2009 to February 21, 2010

PITTSFIELD, MA

MAGGIE MAILER (Berkshire Museum) paintings from her summer residency

RANGE (Storefront Artist Project) & EAST meets WEST (Ferrin Gallery)
two group shows of emerging and established artists from Northampton

JOE GOODWIN- Pittsfield painter in solo show (Ferrin Gallery)
LUCY FELLER - New York photographer in solo show (Ferrin Gallery)

http://www.ferringallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=335&ifPress=true

BECKET

MICHAEL ZELEHSOKI - Boys 'N Girls (Loo Gallery - Dream Away Lodge)
http://www.ferringallery.com/dynamic/artwork_detail.asp?ArtworkID=5069

LENOX

BARBARA NESSIM: The Model Project - New York artist (Sienna Gallery)
http://www.siennagallery.com/exhibitions.php

NORTH ADAMS

HERE - group show of art in all media showing impact of 10 years of MASS MoCA on regional artists (Gallery 51)
http://www.mcla.edu/About_MCLA/events/mclagallery51_223/