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Raise a Glass for Art! In-person Potluck for Members and Partners. You are also invited to join us on zoom. Celebrate the chance to see your friends, other artists and be inspired by their company.
Join us for an in person Potluck at a fellow artist's house. Bring an entree, dessert, or salad for 8 people and what you want to drink. Plates, flatware, napkins, and glasses will be provided. Also available on Zoom, see link below.
Join on Zoom
Meeting ID: 845 6151 8643
Passcode: 491838
| Contact: |
RSVP to Freya at:
ftsegal@nycap.rr.com |
| Plein Air Workshops with instructor Chris Morel |
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| Contact: |
For more information email or text between 8am and 6pm:
info@berkshireartists.org 617-868-7082 |
Join Michele Caplan and other Members on second and fourth Tuesdays 7:30-8:30pm.
Share art work and get positive feedback.
To participate: Members should email Michele Caplan at mdwcap@gmail.com with one or two pieces of their work that they like, and one or two they are not finished with and want suggestions. Members will show only one piece of work at our meetings so we have time to really think about them and talk about them. The work will be shared on the screen, not by holding it up on zoom, so it can be seen well. Members should submit their work at least the day before to Michele’s gmail.
Please read below “Elements of Positive Critique”. A printable PDF version can be found (“Elements of Positive Critique pdf ) before the 7:30 p.m. meeting.
Join on Zoom
Meeting ID: 810 4703 7719
Pass Code 699409
ART Together Wednesdays
Zoom Meetings: Wednesdays 10am - 12pm
Join the Guild of Berkshire Artists making ART Together online. Choose one of a few times available to join us! We start by making introductions and sharing our intentions for the session. We then make art and at the end of the session we will have another check in.
Wednesday at 10:00 am
Zoom link: Join on Zoom
ID: 891 8918 0038
Passcode: 206650
Daily, 10am-1pm, except Sundays
Subject to weather and restrictions.
SIGN UP HERE for specific Plein Air dates
You must sign up by 6:30pm the night before, follow the rules, and check our website after 8am that day for changes due to weather, location or regulations. If no one signs up, the event is cancelled.
Please click on our Plein Air Instagram link for weather and location updates, daily at 8 am. Please refresh your browser for the latest feed.
Free for Guild members, @$50 the season for nonmembers, @$10 a day for nonmembers or @$25 the season for members of affiliated Plein Air locations, Please state the name of the affiliate organization. Participants must abide by our rules*.
Before June 18, 2022, Guild members may propose a Plein Air location and time on either of these FaceBook groups:
- Guild of Berkshire Artists Members Only
- Berkshire Plein Air
Pay entrance fee if required ** or membership or join NARM and go everywhere we go plus 850+ other locations in North America all year for two named adults. Open to artists of all levels! See resources and videos on Plein air.
For more information visit the website.
| Contact: |
Karen Carmean
(617) 868-7082 |
| Plein Air Workshops with instructor Chris Morel in West Stockbridge, MA 2-day workshop: June 20-21, 2022 9:00am - 5:00pm each day Registration required: REGISTER HERE Skill Level: Beginner through Advanced Materials used: Oil, Acrylic 2-day workshop: Members Fee: $300, Non-Members: $350 Chris's Workshop Details: We will work outside on location, weather permitting, starting, and completing both a morning and an afternoon session. In case of inclement weather,covered space will be provided. The workshop starts with a quick demonstration highlighting processes and techniques of Plein air painting and then students will get started on their pieces. "I'll focus generally and individually on helping students improve from their current skill level, to the next. We will touch on all aspects of painting outside:from choosing subject matter, position, value, color mixing, and application. Individual attention is given to each student as I get around to everyone at their easel throughout the day." All you will need to bring is a great attitude, a desire to learn to paint from nature, and your supplies. Chris was featured on the Plein Air Magazine cover with an article by Bob Bahr in the Dec-Jan 2022 issue of Plein Air Magazine! |   |
| Contact: |
For more information email or text between 8am and 6pm:
info@berkshireartists.org 617-868-7082 |
10:00 - 11:00 am Monthly on the first and third Mondays.
Share something you want to do but have been putting off. Perhaps you need to learn something to do it, or encouragement to continue. Bring a piece of your unfinished work to share. You may submit a photo of it to infoberkshireartists@gmail.com half hour before the event with Procrastinator’s Challenge in the subject heading. We discuss our process and what helps and hinders our artistic process. Join us the first and third Mondays of the month 10-11am. You will receive the zoom link 5 minutes before 10am.
| Contact: |
Guild of Berkshire Artists
info@berkshireartists.org |
There will be a garden party at Shaker Mill Inn on June 21, 2022 to celebrate the new installation of art at the Inn and meet the participating artists. This event also concludes the Chris Morel Plein Air workshops and features are created during those workshops. Chris Morel will be in attendance and may provide entertainment on guitar.
Access to the rooms to view the art will be limited by the number of guests in residence.
This event is open to the public.
| Contact: |
For more information please contact:
info@berkshireartists.org |
ART Together Wednesdays
Zoom Meetings: Wednesdays 10am - 12pm
Join the Guild of Berkshire Artists making ART Together online. Choose one of a few times available to join us! We start by making introductions and sharing our intentions for the session. We then make art and at the end of the session we will have another check in.
Wednesday at 10:00 am
Zoom link: Join on Zoom
ID: 891 8918 0038
Passcode: 206650
For more information see https://berkshirephotogathering.com
Daily, 10am-1pm, except Sundays
Subject to weather and restrictions.
SIGN UP HERE for specific Plein Air dates
You must sign up by 6:30pm the night before, follow the rules, and check our website after 8am that day for changes due to weather, location or regulations. If no one signs up, the event is cancelled.
Please click on our Plein Air Instagram link for weather and location updates, daily at 8 am. Please refresh your browser for the latest feed.
Free for Guild members, @$50 the season for nonmembers, @$10 a day for nonmembers or @$25 the season for members of affiliated Plein Air locations, Please state the name of the affiliate organization. Participants must abide by our rules*.
Before June 18, 2022, Guild members may propose a Plein Air location and time on either of these FaceBook groups:
- Guild of Berkshire Artists Members Only
- Berkshire Plein Air
Pay entrance fee if required ** or membership or join NARM and go everywhere we go plus 850+ other locations in North America all year for two named adults. Open to artists of all levels! See resources and videos on Plein air.
For more information visit the website.
| Contact: |
Karen Carmean
(617) 868-7082 |
Daily, 10am-1pm, except Sundays
Subject to weather and restrictions.
SIGN UP HERE for specific Plein Air dates
You must sign up by 6:30pm the night before, follow the rules, and check our website after 8am that day for changes due to weather, location or regulations. If no one signs up, the event is cancelled.
Please click on our Plein Air Instagram link for weather and location updates, daily at 8 am. Please refresh your browser for the latest feed.
Free for Guild members, @$50 the season for nonmembers, @$10 a day for nonmembers or @$25 the season for members of affiliated Plein Air locations, Please state the name of the affiliate organization. Participants must abide by our rules*.
Before June 18, 2022, Guild members may propose a Plein Air location and time on either of these FaceBook groups:
- Guild of Berkshire Artists Members Only
- Berkshire Plein Air
Pay entrance fee if required ** or membership or join NARM and go everywhere we go plus 850+ other locations in North America all year for two named adults. Open to artists of all levels! See resources and videos on Plein air.
For more information visit the website.
| Contact: |
Karen Carmean
(617) 868-7082 |
| Co-Presented with:
Zoom link:
Art instructor, aspiring poet, and mixed media artist, Nicole Irene, creates out of her home in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. A gem + mineral enthusiast and consciousness explorer, she believes in magic. Nicole Irene is moved by the beauty of the nocturnal sky, esoteric spirituality, astronomical phenomena, mysticism, and cosmology.
Nicole Irene specializes in abstract geometrics, fluid applications, and reinventing our rich heritage of craft through employing artistic processes and embracing methods that lie outside the art historical canon. She manipulates unlikely combinations of ideal standard and unsophisticated materials that pry apart the hierarchies of artistic value.
Rebelling against conservative categorization and aesthetic conventions, Nicole Irene challenges notions of status, excess, and taste with a fresh and playful sense of experimentation. |  |
Join Michele Caplan and other Members on second and fourth Tuesdays 7:30-8:30pm.
Share art work and get positive feedback.
To participate: Members should email Michele Caplan at mdwcap@gmail.com with one or two pieces of their work that they like, and one or two they are not finished with and want suggestions. Members will show only one piece of work at our meetings so we have time to really think about them and talk about them. The work will be shared on the screen, not by holding it up on zoom, so it can be seen well. Members should submit their work at least the day before to Michele’s gmail.
Please read below “Elements of Positive Critique”. A printable PDF version can be found (“Elements of Positive Critique pdf ) before the 7:30 p.m. meeting.
Join on Zoom
Meeting ID: 810 4703 7719
Pass Code 699409
| Contact: |
Michele Caplan
Mdwcap@gmail.com |
ART Together Wednesdays
Zoom Meetings: Wednesdays 10am - 12pm
Join the Guild of Berkshire Artists making ART Together online. Choose one of a few times available to join us! We start by making introductions and sharing our intentions for the session. We then make art and at the end of the session we will have another check in.
Wednesday at 10:00 am
Zoom link: Join on Zoom
ID: 891 8918 0038
Passcode: 206650
Daily, 10am-1pm, except Sundays
Subject to weather and restrictions.
SIGN UP HERE for specific Plein Air dates
You must sign up by 6:30pm the night before, follow the rules, and check our website after 8am that day for changes due to weather, location or regulations. If no one signs up, the event is cancelled.
Please click on our Plein Air Instagram link for weather and location updates, daily at 8 am. Please refresh your browser for the latest feed.
Free for Guild members, @$50 the season for nonmembers, @$10 a day for nonmembers or @$25 the season for members of affiliated Plein Air locations, Please state the name of the affiliate organization. Participants must abide by our rules*.
Before June 18, 2022, Guild members may propose a Plein Air location and time on either of these FaceBook groups:
- Guild of Berkshire Artists Members Only
- Berkshire Plein Air
Pay entrance fee if required ** or membership or join NARM and go everywhere we go plus 850+ other locations in North America all year for two named adults. Open to artists of all levels! See resources and videos on Plein air.
For more information visit the website.
| Contact: |
Karen Carmean
(617) 868-7082 |
Art Book Gathering
Hosts Mark Mellinger and Keith Emerling
Last Thursdays of the month at 10:00-11:00 am on Zoom
ID: 840 4608 0429
Passcode: 408857
Share your favorite book on an artist, process, era, or style with other members of the Guild. Explain why you love the book. Show your favorite pictures, diagrams or paragraphs from the book. In the past, we met at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge, where it was hard to leave without finding a fabulous new or old art book. Now online on Zoom.
Daily, 10am-1pm, except Sundays
Subject to weather and restrictions.
SIGN UP HERE for specific Plein Air dates
You must sign up by 6:30pm the night before, follow the rules, and check our website after 8am that day for changes due to weather, location or regulations. If no one signs up, the event is cancelled.
Please click on our Plein Air Instagram link for weather and location updates, daily at 8 am. Please refresh your browser for the latest feed.
Free for Guild members, @$50 the season for nonmembers, @$10 a day for nonmembers or @$25 the season for members of affiliated Plein Air locations, Please state the name of the affiliate organization. Participants must abide by our rules*.
Before June 18, 2022, Guild members may propose a Plein Air location and time on either of these FaceBook groups:
- Guild of Berkshire Artists Members Only
- Berkshire Plein Air
Pay entrance fee if required ** or membership or join NARM and go everywhere we go plus 850+ other locations in North America all year for two named adults. Open to artists of all levels! See resources and videos on Plein air.
For more information visit the website.
| Contact: |
Karen Carmean
(617) 868-7082 |
