There’s a great new website for Joseph Smolinski’s Tree Turbine which is a new site specific work commissioned as part of Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape. Badlands opens May 25, 2008 but you can come see the turbine getting installed in our Courtyard C over the next few weeks.

Sue Killam gave birth as the sun rose on Sunday, April 27 at 5:53am to a bouncing red haired baby boy (9 lb, 6 oz, 22 inches!) Heartiest congratulations to Sue and Kevin!

 Eclipse Mill artist Ralph Brill along with nine RPI undergraduate and graduate students have created a light display titled River Revival that will embellish the Hoosac River chute between the Holden and Marshall Street bridges with 200 feet of fiber optic cables and a color-changing LED luminary. This Saturday, April 26 from dusk to 11 PM.

Downstream, across from the Porches Inn, more artists will install light displays to highlight the river.

Stop by Cafe Latino in the MASS MoCA complex for dinner (seating until 9 PM) or a drink (bar open until 11 PM) before or after taking in the light show.

Drummer Kenny Wollesen and his band Himalayas have been at MASS MoCA since Tuesday making instruments out of discarded objects, parading through the community, and sharing their music with anyone and everyone. Here are a few photos from the past two days.

You can still join in on the fun! Wollesen and crew will offer one more workshop on Friday, April 25, at 11 AM, and a blow-out jamboree will take place in the Hunter Center on Saturday at 4 PM! For more information call the MASS MoCA Box Office 413-662-2111.

  

 For more photos of the Kenny Wollesen workshops visit the MASS MoCA Flickr group. Also check out the MASS MoCA You Tube page to hear and see the workshop bands in action.  

MASS MoCA, MCLA’s Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, and Pittsfield’s Office of Cultural Development – partnering under the umbrella of Berkshire Creative – are launching Assets for Artists, a pilot initiative aimed at helping artists throughout Berkshire County who wish to become home owners and/or receive small business training and assistance.

Pre-application forms for the “Assets for Artists� program are due Friday, April 25, 2008, and can be downloaded at www.mcla.edu/bcrc (where you can also find more information about the program). The brief pre-application form must be accompanied by a resume or bio detailing your artistic and other career experience and accomplishments.

Artists in all disciplines living in Berkshire County are welcome to apply. For more information on eligibility for the Assets for Artists program and the services to be offered, contact Blair Benjamin at MASS MoCA (413-664-4481 x8104 or blair@massmoca.org).

Jeremy Goodwin proffers his thoughts on Friday’s show in the Berkshire Eagle. Thanks for the shout out to our future potentially legendary shows.  We aim to please!