Ground/work 2025
2025-09-11 - 2025-09-16, 2025-09-17 - 2025-09-22, 2025-09-23 - 2025-09-28, 2025-09-29, 2025-09-30 | Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street, Williamstown, 01267, United States
In 2020 the Clark opened Ground/work, a one-year exhibition of monumental sculpture by six artists that was situated in the landscape surrounding the museum. Ground/work 2025 once again features specially commissioned works located across the Clark’s campus. This sequel exhibition focuses on global conceptions of craft, defined as the physical process by which artists transform the world around them. Each of the six international artists participating in the exhibition exemplifies how artisanal traditions can be reinvented to generate contemporary form and meaning. The Ground/work 2025 artists are: Yō Akiyama (Japan), Laura Ellen Bacon (United Kingdom), Aboubakar Fofana (Mali), Hugh Hayden (United States), Milena Naef (Switzerland), and Javier Senosiain (Mexico).

Paginations – Bold by Design: Mid-Century Modern Graphic Art
2025-09-12, 2025-09-13, 2025-09-14, 2025-09-15, 2025-09-16, 2025-09-17 | Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street, Williamstown, 01267, United States
Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library’s extensive holdings and presented in the Manton Research Center’s reading room. Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art brings together visually striking book covers, illustrations, and advertisements to showcase the clean lines and bright colors of the mid-century modern design aesthetic in print. This display, free and open to the public, is drawn from the Clark Art Institute library’s collection and curated by members of the library staff.

A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875-1945
2025-09-12, 2025-09-13, 2025-09-14 | Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street, Williamstown, 01267, United States
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 features paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts made by twenty-five professional women artists in Great Britain who were, in fact, answering Virginia Woolf’s call during her lifetime. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which furthered their artistic ambitions, including their rooms, homes, studios, art schools, clubs, and public exhibition venues. Their roles in creating change and opportunity—whether through art education, marching for women’s suffrage, protesting World War I, or creating networking opportunities for fellow artists or members of their community—is also highlighted in this presentation

Novel Creations Auction and Ball
2026-03-27 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, Massachusetts (MA), 01223, United States
Turn the page on a typical Friday night—help us write a bright future for the Becket Arts Center’s young artists.
Step into a world where stories leap off the page and into the gallery. Following the incredible success of our Coffee Sack Art challenge, the Becket Arts Center invites you to a night of sculptural storytelling: The Novel Creations Ball.
Come dressed as your favorite author or literary character and bid on community-member-created works of art made out of books destined for the recycling pile!
100% of proceeds support free youth art classes
$20 ticket (includes live music by Razztime, food & drink)
Snow date: March 28th
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Sashiko Hand-Stitching Basics
2026-03-28 12:00 - 16:00 | Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, Massachusetts (MA), 01223, United States
Sashiko Hand Stitching Workshop
With Rachel Barclay
All Skill Levels Welcome!
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED – MUST REGISTER BY MARCH 21, 2026
Sashiko is a Japanese mending and embroidery handwork skill which uses a simple running stitch to create bold and geometric patterns on textiles. The stitching tradition has been used for centuries in Japan, and continues globally, as a contemporary needlework practice to mend, patch, strengthen, quilt, and embellish garments or home goods for longevity and beauty. With focus on exploration of the craft, workshop participants will learn how to handle thread, layout a grid, draw patterns, employ a Sashiko needle, and use “small stabs” to stitch designs onto their mini-patch samplers.
Sashiko patterns are inspired by nature, architecture, and culture. Students will choose from a variety of motifs that suit their design aesthetic and comfort level; tiny plus signs, woven tortoise, ocean waves, and seven treasures to name a few. The stitched squares can later be transformed into purposeful, small goods such as a pocket, pin cushion, patch, sachet, or coaster.
All skill levels are welcome whether a novice stitcher or experienced fiber artist! Everyone will work at their own pace. Bring your good reading glasses! There will be a break halfway through the workshop. Feel free to bring snacks or a lunch and beverage.
Workshop Fee……………….…………$80
Member Fee..….……………………….$70/$60 (Tiered Pricing)
Card to Culture Member Fee………….$40
Youth (9th – 12th Grade)* Material Fee..$25
*Please Note: High School students under 16 must be accompanied by an adult
( *** Snow Date: March 29th ***)
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Beginner Watercolor Painting
2026-04-10 13:30 - 15:00 | Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, Massachusetts (MA), 01223, United States
Join us for a 5-week Beginner’s Watercolor Painting series instructed by Suzanne Gammon. In this hands-on series, we’ll move from basic brush strokes to finished compositions. Come turn a blank page into something beautiful. Space is limited!
Suzanne Gammon has a degree in Arts History as well as Fine Arts.

$40 per class
Member Tiered Pricing: $35/$30
Materials Included

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Mary Ann McSweeney Jazz Trio
2026-04-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, Massachusetts (MA), 01223, United States
Travel the world through sound! From the heart of Portugal to the stages of South America, this trio will bring you a night of eclectic music. Featuring original Fado compositions and reimagined global standards, this is a performance that bridges cultures and continents all from the Becket Arts Center stage in the upstairs gallery.

Tickets: $15
Members: $10

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Needle Felting Workshop with Tina Sweet
2026-04-11 13:00 - 15:30 | Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, Massachusetts (MA), 01223, United States
Join us for this beginner-friendly workshop! Tina will introduce you to the basic tools and techniques used to felt wool fibers into an adorable owl. No experience necessary.
Please note: this process involves working with sharp, barbed needles, and is not appropriate for those under the age of 13
Workshop Fee ……………………….…$80
Members Fee……………………………$70/$60 (Tiered Pricing)
Card to Culture Member Fee ……..….. $40
Youth (9th – 12th Grade) Material Fee.. $10
Spaces are limited, so register today to secure your spot!
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Beginner Watercolor Painting
2026-04-17 13:30 - 15:00, 2026-04-24 13:30 - 14:30 | Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, Massachusetts (MA), 01223, United States
Join us for a 5-week Beginner’s Watercolor Painting series. In this hands-on series, we’ll move from basic brush strokes to finished compositions. Come turn a blank page into something beautiful. Space is limited!

$40 per class
Member Tiered Pricing: $35/$30
Materials Included

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Pollinator Paradise with Chris Ferrero
2026-04-25 10:00 - 11:30 | Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, Massachusetts (MA), 01223, United States
Learn How to Create a Paradise for
Pollinators in your Home Landscape and Garden
Join us for this informative talk with Cornell Master Gardener Chris Ferrero.
Chris Ferrero Gardening Speaker, Writer and Consultant: Chris trained as a Cornell Master Gardener in New York where for ten years she led demonstration garden teams, plant propagation workshops, alternatives-to-invasives work groups, and children’s programs. She regularly consults on challenges like shade gardening, deer deterrence, and pollinator gardening with native perennials and flowering shrubs, and she has designed gardens that are recognized by Pollinator Pathways and the National Wildlife Federation. Her 20 talks keep her busy speaking to garden clubs, library groups and master gardener symposiums. Formerly a corporate marketing director, she has retired to Stockbridge, MA near the Berkshire Botanical Garden, where she serves on the faculty and also sits on the Horticulture Advisory Committee.
This project, Wings and Roots: A Garden for Pollinators and Community is supported by grants from Keep Massachusetts Beautiful and Becket Conservation Commission.

Event Fee $10
Event Fee for Members $5

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