We are delighted to host the first BeCreative Bar Camp with the good folks at Berkshire Creative on Friday, May 1 starting at 5:30 PM.

While there will be a cash bar available, the event is focused on creativity not drinking or gymnastics.

The name “BarCamp� is a playful allusion to the event’s origins, with reference to the hacker slang term, foobar which is a common placeholder name for something with an unknown value: BarCamp arose as a spin-off of Foo Camp, an annual invitation-only participant driven conference hosted by open source publishing luminary Tim O’Reilly.

Stay after Bar Camp for the Cuban Dance party in the Hunter Center. Tickets just $13.50 for Bar Camp participants.

Current Marketing Intern (and soon to be Education Coordinator) Cortney wrote the following blog about a special group she gave a tour to earlier this week:

On Monday we had a different kind of student tour in the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Retrospective.  Two fifth grade homeroom classes from Pittsfield’s Stearns Elementary School came for a tour of the galleries, and they brought a video camera with them!  The classes have been studying the mathematical properties of the LeWitt Wall Drawings, and later this week they will be putting up their own drawings inspired by LeWitt; right onto their school’s walls! The whole process—the tour and the execution of their drawings—is being videotaped for Pittsfield Public Access Television.

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Its rare to find a jungle in an art museum and even rarer to find one in North Adams, but as the photo above, (snapped just this morning in the MASS MoCA lobby) shows we are in possession of a stunning collection of jungle foliage and looking to deaccession it all quickly.  Not just plants, these ficus, philodendrons and more are art — they were part of Yutaka Sone’s piece in Badlands. The exhibition has closed and the plants are all in need of good homes so we’re selling them for just $25 each.  They are a real bargain, just try to find a 9′ tall ficus for less than three sawbucks!

Time is limited on this sale so don’t delay, stop in today to pick out your plant and support MASS MoCA at the same time.  We’re open 11 – 5 Wednesday through Monday. Cash and carry.

From time to time  Joe Thompson, MASS MoCA’s Director, let’s you know what’s happening at MASS MoCA. This week Joe (a licensed pilot) shares his recent flying adventure with artist Guy Ben-Ner and a few MASS MoCA staff members.

Last week, Dante Birch (MASS MoCA’s A/V and installation guru), artist Guy Ben-Ner, Gene Rutigliano (MASS MoCA’s Curatorial Assistant and the photographer behind the camera in these shots) and I hopped in a plane to fly to the town of Wyoming, Delaware. Read the rest of this entry »

Director of Good Ol’ Charles Schulz, David Van Taylor, recently made a trip to MASS MoCA  to screen his film and explore the galleries with his family. After his visit he had this to share:

It was great to screen GOOD OL’ CHARLES SCHULZ at MASS MoCA. The screening space is funky and commodious.  The performing arts staff including Sue (Managing Director of Performing Arts), Meghan (Company Manager) and Meredith (Assistant to the Managing Director of PA) treated us like real artists–something documentary filmmakers don’t always get.  The audience was great and diverse (some Linuses, some Snoopies, a Pig Pen and even a Woodstock) and we had a lively discussion after the screening.

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