Lots of people you’ve met at MASS MoCA in the press. Tell everyone you knew them when….

Deb Solomon’s interview with Stew (who played in an Alt Cab here on August 14, 2004)

Fritz Haeg profiled in Sunday Styles (who was part of The Believers exhibition in 2007)

Cai Guo Qiang in NY Times and New Yorker (Cai’s Inopportune was originally commissioned by MASS MoCA for Building 5 in 2004.)

We were proud to see this excellent Times review for Slug Bearers. Ben Katchor and Mark Mulchahy created it in residency at MASS MoCA a few years back.

If you’re curious about the color-changing fabric Jenny Holzer used for the bean bags check out the website for Chameleon International in Oak Ridge, NC (click on news to see info about the Holzer installation.)

Read what our Free Day visitors thought about the museum.

There are quite a few MASS MoCA reviews and some interesting discussions about the musuem going on on at Yelp.

Check it out and add your own review.

Do you have photographs from visits to MASS MoCA? We want to see them!

Log onto Flickr and upload your pictures to the new MASS MoCA group.

Don’t have any photos of MASS MoCA? This is still a great place to see photos taken by actual visitors.

And bring your camera on FREE DAY (February 9) then post your pictures to our special MASS MoCA Free Day Group.

Cheers

Terry Clark, an avid illustrated journaler and local writer in California who was born and raised in North Adams has created the North Adams Traveling Journal. The journal will reside at Papyri but can be taken home (”borrowed”) by anyone who wishes to write, paint, draw, collage or otherwise fill the journal. The caveat is that it must be their thoughts and feelings about North Adams. Terry would like to hear from residents - via the journal entries -about what they like, treasure, feel is special about this town - what makes N.A. home for them? It could be a place, a season, a view, a building, a person, a spiritual spot, a memory spot - anything. It could be a hope for some change or a fervent wish that North Adams never changes.

The journal itself is handmade and contains both watercolor and sketch/pastel paper — a beautiful work of art on its own. Terry started the first few pages in the journal to get people going and reminds us that expression is more important than experienced artistic talent or literary skills. The book is available to anyone who wants to participate and is to be borrowed on trust. They are optimistic that everyone will treat it as a special recording of people’s thoughts and feelings and return it to Papyri for the next entry. Journalers can sign their pages or be anonymous.