’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 and one of the most revered collections of impressionist paintings all within a few miles of each other. Enjoy live theatre with top-notch actors, directors, designers, and playwrights.
Arts thrive in the northern Berkshires. Come. Be inspired.
Hosting theater and dance performances year-round while the college is in session.
MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program helps artists istrengthen their financial and business capacities.
Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend fills MASS MoCA with renegade composers and performers of new music.
Twenty miles south in Pittsfield, Barrington Stage Company fills two stages from June to August and into the Fall.
Historical novelties, self-taught and regional artists, and the largest public collection of Grandma Moses paintings.
A beloved and respected art museum known for its intimate galleries and stunning natural environment.
A leading gallery and consultant on Post-War and Contemporary Art.
A music festival rich in traditional and cutting-edge bluegrass. Very family-friendly.
With oil paintings, landscapes and whimsical metal sculptures, the gallery brings together traditional and contemporary art from emerging and established artists.
A non-profit community movie theater, presenting a wide range of independent, foreign and classic films all year round.
Kidspace presents contemporary art in a kid-friendly fashion and with hands-on activities available.
A local quilting studio offering longarm quilting services and quilting workshops.
The Art Lab is a venue space next door to Gallery 51. Both are part of MCLA’s Art and Culture (MAC) program.
MCLA’s gallery presents work from a wide range of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists.
MASS MoCA is one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums, with vast galleries and indoor and outdoor stages.
Featuring a curated African Fair-Trade gallery and wildlife photographs by Xtina Parks.
The Chapin Library holds a deep collection of rare books and manuscripts gathered over the last 100 years.
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.
Cultural Districts drive economic growth, strengthen distinctive local character, and improve the quality of life of families across Massachusetts.
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.
The Adams Theater is an inclusive, affordable, and interdisciplinary Performing Arts Center.
Beautiful hand-thrown and hand-built bowls, plates, mugs, and more.
A nonprofit organization and publisher of art books. It has an open work and gallery space in Building 13 on the MASS MoCA campus.
AR Designs Fine Art & Tattoo offers safe, clean tattoo parlor with an all-women team.
Karl Mullen’s The Barn is a casual, warm, and intimate music venue.
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.
Art classes and workshops for children and adults.
Berkshire Theatre Group runs two stages, The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, and the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge.
A world-class festival that is an integral part of the cultural fabric of the Berkshires.
The Berkshire Music School offers quality music education activities, community collaborations, and performance opportunities.
BAAMS empowers area youth and young adults to express themselves musically and artistically.
A small stage with a big commitment to educating, entertaining, enriching, and engaging the community through live performance.
Billsville House Concerts brings talented musicians to intimate venues around the region.
Center of Gravity (CoG) is a gallery space run by Walkaway House.
The country home, studio and gardens of America’s foremost public sculptor, Daniel Chester French.
CIAO! is the Community Intergenerational Action Orchestra, a string orchestra of school-age students and adults.
Community Access to the Arts (CATA) nurtures and celebrates the creativity of people with disabilities through the arts.
A summer chamber music series at Plainfield Congregational Church.
Creative Soul is a dance school for youth and adults.
A former mill renovated into airy live/work spaces for artists plus a gallery open to the public.
The Dusk Chapel is the premier venue for experimental & heavy music in the Berkshires.
A local artist collective working to inspire creativity and artistry, and to contribute to the community on positive ways.
The Colonial Theater is the year-round Pittsfield location of The Berkshire Theatre Group.
The Coffee Bar is a place for coffee, tea, treats, art, and live music.
DJ BFG performs for arts organizations, wedding receptions, dance residencies, and private parties.
Future Lab(s) Gallery is a collaborative gallery of three artists/art enthusiast that exhibits contemporary art.
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.
Tour the buildings, farm and gardens, meet baby animals in the spring, and savor the harvest in the fall.
Greylock Opera Collective is an arts organization dedicated to producing and promoting opera and musical theatre.
A painter and collagist of luminous landscapes whose work can be found in prominent museum and private collections.
Herman Melville lived at Arrowhead, his Pittsfield farm, from 1850 to 1863, while he wrote Moby-Dick.
An influential comics artist and graphic novelist who is considered The Godfather of Queer Comics
A gallery featuring immersive, interactive, interpretive, and informative art exhibitions.
Jacob’s Pillow is lauded worldwide as “the dance center of the nation” (The New York Times).
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.
Located in the lobby of an old bank, this gallery features regional art exhibits throughout the year.
A community arts center housed in a historic building in Pittsfield’s Upstreet Cultural District.
Little City Cider Co. makes great cider and hosts fun music!
The authors listed here reveal the rich literary community in our region.
Mary Lum’s work involves geometry, collage, drawing, book projects, tapestry, and more!
This local artist’s paintings offer inspiration and beauty of the surrounding landscapes.
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center presents live performances, film, and cultural events year-round.
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.
Merchant’s Park is located in downtown Bennington, VT, and is home to the Thomson Family Stage and the Splash Pad.
This Colonial-era house and museum and garden tells the story of the Stockbridge Mohicans and missionary John Sergeant.
Theatre and dance performances, fine art exhibits, and workshops.
The artists listed here live and/or work in the northern Berkshires. Their presence reveals the rich artistic atmosphere inspired by our community.
The Mount is the historic home of the Pulitzer prizewinning and internationally beloved American novelist Edith Wharton.
An art gallery project co-founded by Izzy Lee and Laurel Brown.
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.
NBOSS is an annual community event of new outdoor sculptures and celebration.
Bike and walk to discover over 30 outdoor artworks.
One of the longest running professional theatre companies in America.
Artist John MacDonald shares his favorite places to paint outdoors in and around Williamstown, MA.
One of the finest, most significant, and best preserved Victorian Mansions with beautiful grounds for walking and hiking.
Frank and Amy have been creating art, living, and teaching in the northern Berkshires for decades.
Two large rooms filled with art and gift items made by regional artists.
The Robert Frost Stone House Museum is a literary landmark located only minutes away from Frost’s gravesite in Old Bennington.
Shaker Museum holds the world’s most comprehensive collection of Shaker objects, archives, and books.
Embracing the classical ideals and visceral experience of Shakespeare’s work.
Wilco takes over MASS MoCA with this festival curated by the band and showcasing bandmembers new work, emerging bands, art, and comedy.
South Mountain Concert Hall presents chamber music concerts each year during early fall.
A converted industrial building that housed the former Crane & Co. stationery division and now serves as a performance and rental venue.
A photographer who composes some of the most beautiful and always changing scenes of Williamstown and the Northern Berkshires.
SVAC offers exhibits, music performances, workshops and summer camps.
Studio9 is an intimate state of the art recording studio and performance venue on the campus of Porches Inn.
Based in the MASS MoCA campus and publishing books that teach people to be more self-reliant and engage with the natural world.
Susan B. Anthony’s birthplace and museum.
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.
Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery is the art gallery at Bennington College.
The history of the Thunderbolt trail features exhibitions and memorabilia.
An independent literary press fostering the literary arts since 1999.
Strengthening Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE) has been engaging community through creativity since 1994.