“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor the winds of change…”

The Shop HARDWARE Holiday Party is still happening tonight from 5-9 PM. Bring your family and friends for great bargains, products from local artists and craftspeople, and a whole lot of shopping fun (including a cash bar and refreshments)!

See you at the party!

Cheers,

Brittany

It has been several years since MASS MoCA has participated in the annual North Adams Fall Foliage Parade. This year we decided to join in on the community parade lovin’ fun and build a float. If you have ever wondered just what it takes to build giant paper mache popcorn or replicate the box of your favorite snack then this post is for you!

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Our neighbors at Cafe Latino offer fall fun in the form of KARAOKE on Thursday, October 16 starting at 9:30.  They’ve got TNT Productions providing the karaoke machine and they have literally thousands of songs to choose from so you can showcase your musical stylings on everything from the Everly Brothers to the Jonas Brothers. Stop by to perform or just to listen.

Great piece by Jeffrey Brown ran last night. In case you missed it check it online.

Over the past two months a few of my colleagues and myself have spent time in Pittsfield behind the MASS MoCA table as part of the popular 3rd Thursday events. Last month we were located right next to a live band which made communicating with table visitors nearly impossible. Luckily, the band was kind enough give us a few shout-outs over their speaker system, we had some yummy drinks from Dottie’s Coffee Lounge, and some brightly colored paper to help us communicate our message.

Stop by our tables at Downtown Celebration in North Adams TONIGHT and 3rd Thursday tomorrow in Pittsfield for two more chances to win free tickets to an event at MASS MoCA. Don’t forget to pick up gallery information and postcards for upcoming events while you are there.

Cheers,

Brittany

For the better part of my first two weeks as an intern at the museum, I was enlisted to do survey work of some of the yet-to-be renovated buildings on the MASS MoCA campus. At the same time I was getting better acquainted with the current boundaries of the museum space, I was also measuring the extent of the complex at large. Exploring all that real estate reminded me of the first time I was taught the scale of cosmological bodies in elementary school. First, we learned that the Sun is incomprehensibly large compared to the Earth, which already seemed pretty big. Then we learn that the Sun is only a red dwarf, a garnish on the astro-salads of all the supergiants laughin’ large in the sky. As big as MASS MoCA is right now, the complex is still filled with spaces like Building 17: artifacts of the old occupants (Sprague Electric) or at the very most, storage space for materials of older and ongoing exhibits. It’s uncertain if, when, and for what purpose all of the buildings on MASS MoCA’s campus will be reclaimed, but I wanted to make a record of what this one still contains.

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