Clark Art Institute presents final installment in ‘Ground/work 2025: A Close Look’ discussion series with discussion of outdoor sculpture Coata III by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain
Williamstown— On Saturday, August 30th at 1 p.m., the Clark Art Institute presents the final installment in its “Ground/work 2025: A Close Look” discussion series with a discussion of outdoor sculpture Coata III by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain. A Clark educator leads a close examination and in-depth discussion around the outdoor sculpture Coata III by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain.
Javier Senosiain is the leading exponent of Arquitectura Orgánica (organic architecture,) a movement that explores the kinship between buildings and living things. His buildings have a creature-like vitality and are often covered in skins of polychrome glass tile set into reinforced concrete. Similar mosaic techniques have been used to decorate Mexican architecture since the Spanish colonial era. For “Ground/work 2025,” Senosiain has created a giant snake whose coils dip in and out of Schow Pond, seeming to rise from the unseen depths of the water. The sculpture animates the landscape, summoning the spirit of the feathered serpent Quetzalcóatl, the Aztec god that presides over water and wind, agriculture and craft, and embodies the force of creation itself.
The free discussion is on Saturday, August 30th at 1 p.m. at the Clark Art Institute, located at 225 South Street in Williamstown. A moderate hike on uneven and occasionally steep terrain is required. More information can be found online.
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MASS MoCA presents a dance party with MX Oops
North Adams— On Saturday, August 30th at 8 p.m., MASS MoCA presents a sound bath turned dance party with MX Oops.
Join multimedia performance artist MX Oops as they transform Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition “Power Full Because We’re Different” into a lively dance floor that brings art, music, and nightlife together for one unforgettable, evening-length party. Diving into the world of their recent work, “UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL”, MX welcomes you to this party and multimedia performance inside Building 5 that uses the vibrant aesthetics of queer nightlife culture to reveal how cognitive bias connects us all. This is a journey toward wholeness, through bass, bars, and bodies in motion. Come with your dancing shoes on to bounce, groove, and twirl together to the sounds of global bass.
MX Oops is a transmedia performance artist and educator whose work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Through a multisensory approach, their work questions whether consciousness itself is the primary medium. The party is the point of departure, a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining.
The event is on Saturday, August 30th at 8 p.m. at MASS MoCA, located at 1040 MASS MoCA Way in North Adams. More information can be found online.
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New Marlborough Meeting House Gallery presents ‘Black & White and What Lies Between,’ a new art exhibit
New Marlborough— From August 29th through October 5th, the New Marlborough Meeting House Gallery presents “Black & White and What Lies Between,” a new art exhibit.
The exhibit examines the ways in which art forms can convey depth, emotion, and meaning purely through line, contour, and tone. Featuring primarily local artists, the opportunity to create using just black and white presents for some artists a challenge, while for others it is their palette of choice.
The exhibit is on view from August 29th through October 5th at the New Marlborough Meeting House Gallery, located at 154 Hartsville New Marlborough Road in New Marlborough. The opening is on Friday, August 29th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. More information can be found online.
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Shakespeare & Company presents New England premiere of Paula Vogel’s ‘MOTHER PLAY: a play in five evictions’
Lenox— From August 29th through October 5th, Shakespeare & Company presents the New England premiere of Paula Vogel’s “MOTHER PLAY: a play in five evictions,” fresh from its award-winning Broadway debut.
Spanning four decades, “MOTHER PLAY” follows Phyllis, a hard-headed matriarch and her children through five apartments and through many hardships, including cockroach infestations and painful conflicts. Phyllis wants her children to follow a certain path, but they each forge their own way. A sharp-witted, darkly comedic exploration of family, identity, and survival, its Broadway Premiere earned four Tony nominations, two Drama Desk Awards, and an Outer Critics Circle Award.
Directed by Ariel Bock, the play runs from August 29th through October 5th at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, located at 70 Kemble Street in Lenox. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Adams Theater presents comedian Katherine Blanford
Adams— On Saturday, August 30th at 7:30 p.m., Adams Theater presents comedian Katherine Blanford.
After racking up millions of views on her “Don’t Tell Comedy” set, Blanford hit the road sharing confessions of her southern family secrets and awkward adolescent years across the country and internationally.
Originally hailing from Kentucky, Blanford is known for her human Golden Retriever presence on stage. She has appeared twice on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon, Vice TV’s “Super Maximum Retro Show,” and “After Midnight” with Taylor Tomlinson. Most recently, she was featured on Deadline’s “Comedians Ready to Break Out in 2025”. Katherine released her debut special, “Catholic Cowgirl,” with 800LB Gorilla Records in December 2024. (Not bad for a girl whose parents are cousins.)
The show is on Saturday, August 30th at 7:30 p.m. at Adams Theater, located at 27 Park Street in Adams. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Berkshire Woodworkers Guild Fine Woodwork Show and Silent Auction
Stockbridge— On Saturday, August 30th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Berkshire Woodworkers Guild presents its 25th annual Fine Woodwork Show and Silent Auction at Berkshire Botanical Garden.
This fine woodwork show and sale features designs by 32 professional woodworkers from the Berkshires and neighboring counties, including furniture makers, cabinetmakers, boat builders, sculptors, house builders, wood turners, luthiers, and suppliers of wood products. Throughout the weekend, Guild members will demonstrate various woodworking techniques and will share expertise, tools, and business opportunities, and promote awareness of the benefits and availability of custom woodworking. . There will also be a silent auction to benefit the Berkshire Woodworkers Guild Scholarship Fund, which supports individuals who aspire to make woodworking their professional goal.
The event is on Saturday, August 30th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Berkshire Botanical Garden, located at 5 West Stockbridge Road in Stockbridge. Great Cape Baking Co. will be onsite offering a full breakfast and lunch menu, coffee, drinks and their famous handmade donuts. More information can be found online.
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Blue Rider Stables presents Blue Rider Fun Day at French Park
Egremont— On Saturday, August 30th from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Blue Rider Stables presents Blue Rider Fun Day at French Park.
Blue Rider Stables invites you to celebrate their horses and enjoy the community. There will be pony rides, games, bounce house, tractor rides, and a visit from the fire trucks. Roger the Jester will perform at 11 a.m. with live music all day. There will also be a raffle and sale to support the stable’s programming.
The event is on Saturday, August 30th from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at French Park, located at 65 Prospect Lake Road in Egremont. Admission is free. More information can be found online.
