See an exhibit of Destin’s work at Becket Arts Center July 13 to July 31, as well as his talk on night sky photography as part of BAC's Speaker Series, on July 16, 4pm.

For families of Becket Washington School students, we are excited to let you know that with grant funding from the Arts Build Community project of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, we have hired Li Liu to perform for all grades the last week of school.  So, you can look forward to the kids come home talking about her acrobatic skills, as well as bringing home a fun informational handout!

We have additional funding for two cultural performances for the BWS students and staff in the next school year, as well.

Other Upcoming Events:
Saturdays, 10:30am: Storytime & Craft
Tuesday, June 6, 1:30: Book Club - This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Saturday, June 10, 10:30am: Creative Movement & Storytime with Laurel Lenski
Monday, June 12, 6pm: Cookbook Club - Colombiana by Mariana Velasquez
Tuesday, June 13, 6:30pm: Movie Night for Adults
Saturday, June 17, 11am-12pm: Buildwave | A hands-on building game!
Thursday, July 13, 6pm: “The Most Active Man in the City”: Early Black Abolitionist David Ruggles. Presentation by Tom Goldscheider of The David Ruggles Center (Florence, MA).
Wednesday, August 9, 7pm: A Conversation on the Value of Community Journalism, with local journalists

Community Info Share:

Literacy on the Lawn & Touch a Truck (Rain or Shine): Friday, June 23, 10 to 12pm at Kittredge Elementary School Parking lot (80 Maple St, Hinsdale) presented by Central Berkshire Coordinated Family and Community Engagement Grant

Celebrate our Watershed with Housatonic Valley Association May 26-July 4

2023 Slate Roof Press Poetry Chapbook Contest & Elyse Wolf Prize: Submit 28 pages of poetry by June 15

Protecting Older Americans from Financial Fraud virtual program presented by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Click this link to join virtually: June 5 at 2pm

Join by phone: +1-929-251-9612 USA Toll 2
+1-415-527-5035 US Toll
Access code: 276 097 54376
Please submit questions for speakers in advance to [email protected]

Guild of Berkshire Artists Presents:

The daughter of two social activists, Jaye Alison Moscariello has seldom been just about painting a pretty picture, although that’s often the end result. - She executes works in varied media including watercolor, acrylic, gouache, latex and graphite. An active, constantly questioning/observing mind is evidenced in her rapid brushstrokes. “I feel as if I must paint quickly to beat time and to bear witness to the fragility of a rapidly vanishing landscape. I’m in a race to honor and interpret the world around me before it’s all gone!”

Moscariello’s artistic training began at Paier College of Art and continued at the Art Students League, UCLA, Santa Monica College, and Mendocino College. She earned her Masters of Fine Art at TransArt Institute/Plymouth University.

Her art has appeared in print, on television and in film and been exhibited here in the States and abroad. An artistic home she helped create was a popular destination on the Open House New York tour (NYC) for a decade. Her film “From the Ashes” received a number of awards and was shown last year at the Sandisfield Arts Center.

“When I first came to West Stockbridge in the late sixties, I felt welcomed by the warm people and the open landscape. I always hoped I’d be able to return one day, and plant roots.” And now she has. She and her husband, composer/farmer Bill Taylor, who is the pianist for the West Stockbridge Village Congregational Church, live close by on their Floodgate Farm in Sandisfield, MA. The couple take their seasonal produce to the West Stockbridge Farmers Market on Thursdays.

She is happy to be a new member of the Berkshire Artists Guild and to exhibit work at Art on Main Gallery in West Stockbridge.

Zoom link to attend "Meet the Artist: Jaye Alison Moscariello" on June 27 (click link no earlier than 2:55pm on June 27)
Meeting ID: 821 5810 9871
Passcode: 810261