Community Calendar

“I’m in the Studio Tonight Because of You” is Delgado’s attempt to take the viewer through her process by breaking down the lines and marks that land on the paper or canvas from beginning to end.

The first mark tends to be towards the right, middle side of the page. Woody sticks, graphite crayons, pigment sticks, stiff brushes and palette knives are her tools of choice.

The woody stick can make really thin lines that ignite each painting’s energy. When water is added it will wash the color out and make light marks that can be seen in small areas under the piles of oil paint. It’s been said that Melanie is a ‘painter’s painter’. When you stand in front of her work, especially the larger oil paintings on canvas you can feel the battle. She is committed to her practice and has a deep love for her students and their work as well.

This show is dedicated to you.

Opening Reception: Sat, Aug 9, 4-6pm
Gallery Hours: Thurs/Sun - 12-5pm, Fri/Sat - 12-6pm

Join us for the opening reception of our exhibit featuring the work of Briony Morrow-Cribbs. A Vermont-based printmaker and illustrator, Morrow-Cribbs draws on over 30 years of etching experience to create intricate, richly detailed creatures—both real and imagined—that explore the boundary between human and animal experience. Her work has been exhibited nationally and featured in bestselling books, including Wicked Plants and Wicked Bugs.

A fine woodwork show and sale featuring designs by professional woodworkers from the Berkshires and neighboring counties in New York and Connecticut.

Silent auction to benefit the Berkshire Woodworkers Guild Scholarship Fund, which supports individuals who aspire to make woodworking their professional goal.

Throughout the weekend, Guild members will demonstrate various woodworking techniques.
Stylin’ Franks will be onsite offering delicious all beef hot dogs, drinks and snacks. Pleasant & Main will be onsite both days as well with their signature coffee drinks, baked treats and savory breakfast crepes.

Saturday, August 30, 2025, 9am to 5pm
Sunday, August 31, 2025, 9am to 5pm

$5 General Admission
$3 for Berkshire Botanical Garden Members

www.berkshirewoodworkers.org

The Berkshire Woodworkers Guild is a is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) of 104 professional and amateur woodworkers who live and work in the Berkshires and neighboring counties in New York and Connecticut.

Guild members share expertise, tools, and business opportunities, and promote awareness of the benefits and availability of custom woodworking. The Guild represents a range of backgrounds and experience. Members include furniture makers, cabinetmakers, boat builders, sculptors, house builders, wood turners, luthiers, and suppliers of wood products. We practice and advocate for fine woodworking on a professional level and encourage woodworking as an enjoyable hobby.

We are interested in the work of others, in exchanging ideas and techniques, in learning more about woodworking, and in helping one another with advice on skills and materials. To encourage this, Guild members meet once a month in a member’s shop for a brief meeting followed by a demonstration of a technique, tool, or project. These meetings are a time for members to share ideas and learn new ways of approaching their craft.
We are a supportive group, welcoming new members to join those who have been part of the Guild for many years.

For 25 years, the Guild has hosted its Fine Woodwork Show at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge MA. This year 32 Guild members will be displaying their work and live demonstrations will be ongoing throughout the weekend highlighting various woodworking techniques. An important highlight of the show is the Silent Auction. Since founding our guild in 1998, members have supported individuals planning to become professional woodworkers. To that end we have established a Scholarship Fund supported by generous financial donations and by the proceeds from our annual Silent Auction to which guild members donate a variety of beautiful wooden objects. 100% of the proceeds from our Silent Auction go to our Scholarship Fund. As our reputation has grown, our recipients have attended some of the best woodworking and wooden boat building schools in the country. Examples include the North Bennet Street School in Boston, the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts in Beverley, the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine, the Krenov School in Fort Bragg, California, the Apprenticeshop in Rockport, ME, and the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, R.I.

To date the Guild has awarded $120,000 in scholarships to 54 recipients with $90,500 awarded in only the last five years. The 2025 show will feature scholarship recipients showcasing work completed during their time at the educational institution supported by the awarded Scholarship funds. $24,000 in scholarship monies was awarded in 2024 to six recipients, and in 2023 the Guild awarded $16,000 to five recipients.

The Norman Rockwell Museum is honored to present a rare series of early twentieth century lighting advertisements by Norman Rockwell and fellow Golden Age illustrators Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell, Stanley Arthurs, Worth Brehm, and Charles Chambers created for Edison Mazda Lamps, a division of the General Electric Company. These luminous, richly painted works were widely circulated in published advertisements through the 1920s and are on loan to the Museum for the first time through the generosity of GE Aerospace.

“Once a Tree: Continuity, Creativity, and Connection” explores the deep-rooted significance of trees in Haudenosaunee culture, tradition, and creative expression. Featuring the work of 42 artists and more than 100 objects—including decorative and utilitarian baskets, cradleboards, snowshoes, ladles, lacrosse sticks, toys, instruments, carvings, and sleds—this exhibition highlights the important relationship between nature and artistry. Selected from the Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition was created with guidance from curatorial consultants Terry Chrisjohn III (Oneida), Preston Jacobs (Mohawk), and Sheila Ransom (Mohawk).

"Separated but Unbroken: The Haudenosaunee Boarding School Experience" explores the lasting impact of the Thomas Indian School, once located on the Cattaraugus Reservation south of Buffalo, NY, and The Mohawk Institute near Branford, Ontario. These institutions, which enrolled a significant number of Haudenosaunee students, were part of a larger system that sought to erase Indigenous identities while deeply shaping the lives of those who endured them. Co-curated by Erin Keaton (Mohawk), the exhibition sheds light on Haudenosaunee resilience.

Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 30 and 31, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Celebrate Haudenosaunee creativity at this vibrant event featuring an all-Iroquois Art Market showcasing both traditional and contemporary arts and fine crafts.
Highlights include:
• Sky Dancers from Six Nations Reserve (Ontario) performing traditional Iroquois social dances, with opportunities for the public to join in.
• Onondaga storyteller Perry Ground, captivating audiences with dramatic tales of daring feats and adventures
• A family activity area with hands-on crafts.
• Wildlife rehabilitator Kelly Martin, discussing regional conservation and presenting native animals, including birds of prey.
• The Museum’s archaeology department, offering artifact identification and demonstrations of early technologies like flintknapping.
Immerse yourself in Haudenosaunee art, culture, and storytelling.
Cost: $8 members/$10 non-members/$5 children ages 5-17/free children under 5

Join us for fun and interactive programming inspired by the art of Norman Rockwell and Walter Wick, creator of the I Spy books for children. Try your hand at making art inspired by these beloved illustrators.  You’ll want to return again and again with a variety of fun and engaging experiences for the whole family; it’s the perfect way to spend some quality time together on your Saturdays this summer!

https://www.nrm.org/events/list/?tribe_eventcategory%5B0%5D=795&hide_subsequent_recurrences=1

A self taught artist, I have always been fascinated with the process of coming into and dissolving out of form and all the stages in between. Using subtle rich materials such as Venetian plaster marble dusts, raw pigments, graphite powders and genuine silver leaf, all lend themselves to depicting the process of life in transition.

Whether it is a photograph or a painting suggesting a forest, a snow storm, or a tangle of light. There’s an invitation to enter into a flow of energy, colour movement, an experience! They go where their imagination takes them.

Exhibition Dates: Aug 9 - Sept 13, 2025
Gallery Hours: Thurs/Sun - 12-5pm, Fri/Sat - 12-6pm

“I’m in the Studio Tonight Because of You” is Delgado’s attempt to take the viewer through her process by breaking down the lines and marks that land on the paper or canvas from beginning to end.

The first mark tends to be towards the right, middle side of the page. Woody sticks, graphite crayons, pigment sticks, stiff brushes and palette knives are her tools of choice.

The woody stick can make really thin lines that ignite each painting’s energy. When water is added it will wash the color out and make light marks that can be seen in small areas under the piles of oil paint. It’s been said that Melanie is a ‘painter’s painter’. When you stand in front of her work, especially the larger oil paintings on canvas you can feel the battle. She is committed to her practice and has a deep love for her students and their work as well.

This show is dedicated to you.

Opening Reception: Sat, Aug 9, 4-6pm
Gallery Hours: Thurs/Sun - 12-5pm, Fri/Sat - 12-6pm

A fine woodwork show and sale featuring designs by professional woodworkers from the Berkshires and neighboring counties in New York and Connecticut.

Silent auction to benefit the Berkshire Woodworkers Guild Scholarship Fund, which supports individuals who aspire to make woodworking their professional goal.

Throughout the weekend, Guild members will demonstrate various woodworking techniques.
Stylin’ Franks will be onsite offering delicious all beef hot dogs, drinks and snacks. Pleasant & Main will be onsite both days as well with their signature coffee drinks, baked treats and savory breakfast crepes.

Saturday, August 30, 2025, 9am to 5pm
Sunday, August 31, 2025, 9am to 5pm

$5 General Admission
$3 for Berkshire Botanical Garden Members

www.berkshirewoodworkers.org

The Berkshire Woodworkers Guild is a is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) of 104 professional and amateur woodworkers who live and work in the Berkshires and neighboring counties in New York and Connecticut.

Guild members share expertise, tools, and business opportunities, and promote awareness of the benefits and availability of custom woodworking. The Guild represents a range of backgrounds and experience. Members include furniture makers, cabinetmakers, boat builders, sculptors, house builders, wood turners, luthiers, and suppliers of wood products. We practice and advocate for fine woodworking on a professional level and encourage woodworking as an enjoyable hobby.

We are interested in the work of others, in exchanging ideas and techniques, in learning more about woodworking, and in helping one another with advice on skills and materials. To encourage this, Guild members meet once a month in a member’s shop for a brief meeting followed by a demonstration of a technique, tool, or project. These meetings are a time for members to share ideas and learn new ways of approaching their craft.
We are a supportive group, welcoming new members to join those who have been part of the Guild for many years.

For 25 years, the Guild has hosted its Fine Woodwork Show at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge MA. This year 32 Guild members will be displaying their work and live demonstrations will be ongoing throughout the weekend highlighting various woodworking techniques. An important highlight of the show is the Silent Auction. Since founding our guild in 1998, members have supported individuals planning to become professional woodworkers. To that end we have established a Scholarship Fund supported by generous financial donations and by the proceeds from our annual Silent Auction to which guild members donate a variety of beautiful wooden objects. 100% of the proceeds from our Silent Auction go to our Scholarship Fund. As our reputation has grown, our recipients have attended some of the best woodworking and wooden boat building schools in the country. Examples include the North Bennet Street School in Boston, the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts in Beverley, the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine, the Krenov School in Fort Bragg, California, the Apprenticeshop in Rockport, ME, and the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, R.I.

To date the Guild has awarded $120,000 in scholarships to 54 recipients with $90,500 awarded in only the last five years. The 2025 show will feature scholarship recipients showcasing work completed during their time at the educational institution supported by the awarded Scholarship funds. $24,000 in scholarship monies was awarded in 2024 to six recipients, and in 2023 the Guild awarded $16,000 to five recipients.