’62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Williamstown
Hosting theater and dance performances year-round while the college is in session.
Visit the country’s largest center for contemporary arts or one of the most revered collections of impressionist paintings. Enjoy live theatre with top-notch actors, directors, designers, and playwrights. Or catch a new award-winning documentary film.
Arts thrive in the northern Berkshires. Come. Be inspired.
Hosting theater and dance performances year-round while the college is in session.
Barrington Stage creates theatre experiences that engage and excite audiences by entertaining as well as challenging them with the most dynamic and provocative productions possible.
The Chapin Library holds a deep collection of rare books and manuscripts gathered over the last 100 years – the first collection begun at any American college or university.
Historical novelties, self-taught and regional artists, and the largest public collection of Grandma Moses paintings.
Permanent collection spanning five-centuries of art with an emphasis on the 19th century.
A leading gallery and consultant on Post-War and Contemporary Art.
FreshGrass is rich in both traditional and cutting-edge bluegrass, presented in a wide array of s tucked appropriately into a 19th-century factory turned 21st-century museum.
With oil paintings, landscapes and whimsical metal sculptures, the gallery brings together traditional and contemporary art from emerging and established artists.
The 1863 Jane Stickle Quilt is only on display for a brief time at Bennington Museum each Fall.
Images Cinema is a year-round community film house, showing contemporary movies, documentaries, art and international films and more.
Kidspace presents contemporary art in a kid-friendly fashion and with hands-on activities available.
MASS MoCA is one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums, with vast galleries and indoor and outdoor stages.
The Berkshire’s African art and photo gallery
A long-term installation of upside down trees in the front courtyard at MASS MoCA
WCMA creates innovative exhibitions, programs, publications and projects.
A series of free concerts with faculty and visiting performers from across the globe.
More than 20 outdoor sculptures can be found on the Williams College Campus and at Field Farm.
The Objects and Furniture labs restores paintings, photographs, sculpture, and woodwork of all kinds.
Highlighting world-renowned visual and performing arts, academic and cultural attractions and serene surroundings.
Beautifully presented rotating exhibits and a permanent exhibit that displays the history of Williamstown from the earliest days to present time.
WTF brings award winning actors and veterans of television and film to perform in a series of plays, comedies, dramas, musicals, classics and new work.
Billsville House Concerts brings talented musicians to intimate venues around the region.
The artists listed here live and/or work in the northern Berkshires. Their presence reveals the rich artistic atmosphere inspired by our community.
The authors listed here reveal the rich literary community in our region.
An local, intimate setting for some of the best music around.
A tribute to the Green Mountain Boys who fought in the 1777 Battle of Bennington.
The Berkshire Museum combines art, science, and history to create thought-provoking experiences for visitors of all ages.
Home to two theatre companies and offering classes and lecture series.
The 12th annual festival showcases both the latest in independent films as well as various special events focusing on artists from both sides of the camera.
Berkshire Theatre Group runs two stages, The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, and the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge.
The country home, studio and gardens of America’s foremost public sculptor, Daniel Chester French.
A local artist collective working to inspire creativity and artistry, and to contribute to the community on positive ways.
Art classes and workshops for children and adults
An influential comics artist and graphic novelist who is considered The Godfather of Queer Comics
Tour the buildings, farm and gardens, meet baby animals in the spring, and savor the harvest in the fall.
A painter and collagist of luminous landscapes whose work can be found in prominent museum and private collections.
Herman Melville lived at his Pittsfield farm at Arrowhead was the from 1850 to 1863, while he wrote Moby-Dick.
The Coffee Bar is a place for coffee, tea, treats, art, and live music.
A nonprofit organization and publisher of art books. It has an open work and gallery space in Building 13 on the MASS MoCA campus.
A former mill renovated into airy live/work spaces for artists plus a gallery open to the public.
The preferred source for contemporary ceramic art circa 1950 – present, with over 35 years of experience and expertise in the presentation for sale of works by leading international artists whose primary medium is clay.
Visit the home of American Abstract Artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen, set on a 46-acre estate in the heart of Lenox.
Greylock Opera Collective is an arts organization dedicated to producing and promoting opera and musical theatre.
MCLA’s gallery presents work from a wide range of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists.
A place for contemporary artists to exhibit, come together and exchange ideas.
Check out David’s line and color figure drawings and learn how he’s managed to continue working from a live model even during the pandemic.
Mary Lum’s work involves geometry, collage, drawing, book projects, tapestry, and more!
A public humanities project connecting residents to the literary history of the region, creating a forum for thinking about place, and supporting the production of new creative work.
The Mount is the historic home of the Pulitzer prizewinning and internationally beloved American novelist Edith Wharton.
This local artist’s paintings offer inspiration and beauty of the surrounding landscapes.
Contemporary art by mid-career and established artists represented by galleries in New England and NYC.
The world’s largest collection of original Norman Rockwell art and the best of American illustration.
Working to make the Northern Berkshires’ community and economy a supportive and inclusive place for artists of all disciplines.
Bike and walk to discover over 30 outdoor artworks.
Jacob’s Pillow is lauded worldwide as “the dance center of the nation” (The New York Times).
One of the finest, most significant, and best preserved Victorian Mansions with beautiful grounds for walking and hiking.
A gallery featuring immersive, interactive, interpretive, and informative art exhibitions.
The Robert Frost Stone House Museum is a literary landmark located only minutes away from Frost’s gravesite in Old Bennington.
Artist John MacDonald shares his favorite places to paint outdoors in and around Williamstown, MA.
Located in the lobby of an old bank, this gallery features regional art exhibits throughout the year.
Frank and Amy have been creating art, living, and teaching in the northern Berkshires for decades.
Strengthening Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE) has been engaging community through creativity since 1994.
Shaker Museum holds the world’s most comprehensive collection of Shaker objects, archives, and books.
Studio 9 is an intimate state of the art recording studio and performance venue on the campus of Porches Inn.
A ceramic artist with a deep connection to land, work, and learning. Her unique retreat offers opportunities for everyone to explore making with clay.
Susan B. Anthony’s birthplace and museum.
One of the longest running professional theatre companies in America.
Wilco takes over MASS MoCA with this festival curated by the band and showcasing bandmembers new work, emerging bands, art, and comedy.
A photographer who composes some of the most beautiful and always changing scenes of Williamstown and the Northern Berkshires.
A converted industrial building that housed the former Crane & Co. stationery division and now serves as a performance and rental venue.
Based in the MASS MoCA campus and publishing books that teach people to be more self-reliant and engage with the natural world.
Discover Diane’s haunting, beautiful ceramic heads…
Tanglewood is the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and features many concerts of jazz, classical, and popular music.
The history of the Thunderbolt trail features exhibitions and memorabilia.
Passage is stocked with handmade pots, original art, unique blankets and pillows, and other home design products.
Two large rooms filled with art and gift items made by regional artists.
An independent literary press fostering the literary arts since 1999.
Embracing the classical ideals and visceral experience of Shakespeare’s work.
This urban park that uses historical artifacts to bring to life the controversial and danger-filled construction of the Hoosac Tunnel.
“Where Art and Activism Meet” WAM creates opportunities for women and girls through their mission of theatre as philanthropy.
Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery is the art gallery at Bennington College.