Visual Artists

<3 Neener
I scribble on scraps, and doodle on the down low.
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Amanda Jones, Inc.
Amanda Jones is a commercial photography studio which specializes in photographic portraits of animals. She travels the country doing portrait sessions in various cities but comes back to the Berkshires to do the production side of her work.
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Andrea Scott Watercolors
In her paintings, ANDREA SCOTT looks for the edge of abstraction, where image dissolves into formal patterns of color and light. Her approach to the watercolor medium often makes plain the intersections of water and pigment. She applies that approach and vision to a variety of subjects, from the Arcadian landscape of New England to [...]
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Andrew Davis, Davis Art Services
Currently operating Grass Gallery at 107 Main Street, North Adams, MA 01247. Featuring “End of an Empire”, a survey of anti-war art from June 23 through August 21. Featuring “Art of Dissent” and “The Little People from Here”, both running August 25 through October 16. Check davisartservices.com for more info and images.
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Anna Kronick, Kronick Art Studio
Anna Kronick Papercutter’s profile Anna Kronick is an award winning artist whose work is in private collections around the world. Her medium is cut paper and collage. Born and raised in the former Soviet Union, Anna began her artistic training at an early age. She has attended Kropotkin Art School and Polygraph Art Institute in [...]
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Barry Goldstein
Barry Goldstein is a photographer specializing in portraiture and social documentary themes.  Originally trained as a physician and biophysicist, he is Associate Professors or Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and Adjunct Professor of Humanism in Medicine at the NYU Medical School.  He was the first Artist-in-Residence at the New York University [...]
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Berkshire Woodchimes and Crafts
I make wind chimes that are tuned to pleasing scales using aluminum, wood and copper. I buy almost all of the raw materials locally. Chimes are named after local points of interest such as Cascade Falls; Natural Bridge and Tannery Falls and include directions to the place the chime is named after. I also make [...]
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Brian Jewett
Non traditional basketry/sculpture with a focus on re-purposed or recycled materials.
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C. Alfred Burke
Having grown up in the area, I have been in the arts and entertainment industry in one form or another since I was a child. I have acted on stage, toured with a band, and have had my art work and photographs shown in gallery exhibits on more than one occasion. Currently I’m working on [...]
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Carroll D. Sugg
Poor, unestablished, afraid and clinically cynical.
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Cathy Gray
Cathy received a BA with honors from Mount Holyoke College, and attended graduate school at Utah State University. She works as a costume designer and fiber artist. She is also a costumer for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. She has developed and taught educational programs for Strawbery Banke, Hancock Shaker Village, and Ventfort Hall [...]
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Chelsea Piazza
The Clark. Acrylic on canvas, 12x12 inches. 2011. Zen Buddhist painters believed that enlightenment can be achieved spontaneously, and their paintings should be created only when inspired in as few movements as possible. rnMy work is based on impulse. Like Zen Buddhist painters, I only paint when I feel the time is right; and whatever comes to my mind when I first look [...]
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Chris Warren
These days my primary art focus is functional and sculptural ceramics, though I still do the occasional pencil drawing or watercolor. I’ve been working with clay off and on since 1998. I do web programming as my day job.
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Christian Phiffer, Inspirations Artist Collective AND 413 Poetry SLAM!
My name’s Christian(Dangerous Negro) otherwise known as ILL KNOLEDGE or NOMAD. I’m a nocturnal stencilin’ mad man. I’m a member of the “strugglin’ artist” income level known as dirt poor. I’m the owner of a booking/ promoting company(still searching for a name); once a show space, now a free-floating booking entity responsible for D.I.Y. shows [...]
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David Lachman, Internationally Unknown Artist
I work in a video, drawing, painting, animation, and installation. I teach classes and collaborate with other artists, as well as produce and edit video projects for individuals and organizations.
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David Lane
David almost always works directly from life, and is concerned with creating work with atmosphere that evokes a mood, depicts a visual impression, or captures a fleeting moment in time. David teaches regularly at Northern Berkshire Creative Arts, the Clark Art Institute, and will be offering ongoing painting and drawing classes, Monday evenings in his [...]
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Debi Pendell
Currently working primarily in mixed media collage; exhibiting frequently throughout New England, including several one person shows. Works evolve through a conversation between the accidental and the intentional. Chance materials (accidental): letters, photos, rusty washers, found papers, are mixed with intentional materials: painted papers, original drawings, image transfers and text. Through several and various processes [...]
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Don Orcutt
Painter/ illustrator currently working in Pittsfield Massachusetts.  I work as a freelance artist and am currently working towards a degree in fine arts. My work consists of surrealism,absract, as well as contemporary.  My medium consists of oil, acrylic and mixed media as well as sculpture.
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Ed Carson
Paints still life and landscape in oil and acrylic. Travels U.S., Canada, and Europe, painting and teaching. Conducts workshops, classes, lectures, painting demonstrations for art groups, juries art shows. Holds professional membership in several art organizations. Represented by galleries in New York and Massachusetts. Published in American Artist Magazine.
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Edward Pelkey
The quintessential 21st century artist, he works under many guises, including, but not limited to : El Producto, Dick Iceberg, and Unknown Artist. After studying under the Master of the Flying Guillotine for three years, he moved to NYC where he was employed as a Sentry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For three months [...]
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Ellen Joffe-Halpern
Ellen Joffe-Halpern is an artist, teacher, and art therapist living in Williamstown, MA. Painting under the signature of Joffe, Ellen works with mixed media on paper combining acrylic, oil, watercolor and pastel. She currently teaches studio art at The Miss Hall’s School, Pittsfield. She received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts and M.Ed in [...]
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Emily Betti
A jewelry artisan designing original pieces made with high quality gemstones, glass, crystal, pearls and precious metals.  Work is primarily sold at arts and crafts shows but also will work with galleries/retail. A selection is currently available at Hancock Shaker Village museum gift shop.
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Emily Daunis
A jewelry artisan designing original pieces made with high quality gemstones, glass, crystal, pearls and precious metals. Work is primarily sold at arts and crafts shows but also will work with galleries/retail. A selection is currently available at Hancock Shaker Village museum gift shop
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Gregory Scheckler
Gregory Scheckler serves as associate professor of visual art at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Teaches college-level studio art courses; emphases on historical painting and drawing methods, techniques, and imaginations. Classically trained, contemporary-minded art with eyes towards nature, science, and biology.
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H. David Stein
As a former professor of surgery, photography has always interested me, but since my retirement from medicine, I have focused seriously on photography’s technical and visual aspects. I studied at the International Center for Photography and with several professional photographers in the New York area. My award winning photographs have been exhibited widely throughout the [...]
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Helena Fruscio
I am a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology. I have a degree in Ceramic Sculpture and my work most often deals with the consciousness of women. I am presently the Director of Operations for Berkshire Creative Economy Council: www.berkshirecreative.org.
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Howard Cruse
I am a cartoonist and comics creator who moved to North Adams in 2004. I drew underground comix in the 1970s while drawing illustrations for mainstream publications. I have published seven books including the international awardwinning graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby. My web site is packed with comics, words, and animation and I update my [...]
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Icecream House
ceramic artist from Boston: clay as art for walls; shrines, maps, history. Our new home is 3 floor with rentals on Rte 2/8. A gallery will allow art visitors to live work short-term with a crafts studio behind home; all in process.
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J. Richards, Jr.
I am an oil painter doing oils in the traditions of the Hudson River Landscape School and the Dutch Still Life painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. I have recently become a member of Oil Painters of America and Landscape Artists International.
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Jana Christy
Illustrator for a number of publications, books.
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Jane Hudson
I am a photographer and video artist, and am also partnered with my husband Jeff Hudson in North Adams Antiques (49 Main St., NAMA), a shop for fine and decorative arts. The space includes a gallery in which we show contemporary art in periodic exhibitions. In addition I am teaching part-time in the English Dept. [...]
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Jennifer Huberdeau
coming soon
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Jennifer K. Mulcahy
Award winning, internationally selling artist. Fine Art Photography, Digital Photomontage, Oils and other works. Online ordering available.
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jFox Studio
Settling, Oil on Panel, 2008 Fox is a representational artist, primarily painting in oils, but not wishing to give short-shrift to the immediacy of drawing. She uses traditional image-making methods in order to explore contemporary resonances and sensibilities. Her current bodies of work include “the emotional life of objects”, where she transposes the narrative content of figurative painting into still [...]
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Joan Kiley
CD Blues Artist Statement What interests me is the erratic mixture and circus-like quality of multimedia images influencing our visual language today. We are assaulted daily with opposing images that creates a blurred tension within us. Visual media can become an emotionally detached and surreal experience. How do we process all of this information in our lives? [...]
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Joanna Gabler
painter photographer art /meditation workshops
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John A. Lisee
I’m an artist and a photographer specializing in digital imaging and printing.
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John MacDonald
I am a freelance illustrator and landscape painter. Freelance assignments have come from “big name” clients as well as mom and pop shops. My paintings are available at the Harrison Gallery in Williamstown. I offer classes or workshops in painting and/or drawing through NBCA, as well as group or individual creativity coaching.  (Creativity Coaching website: [...]
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John Townes
Traditional and digital art
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Jordan Pagan
I am a visual artist specializing in drawing and painting, and collage. I currently work for Kolok Gallery, and am the Assisant Gallery Manager for Gallery 51. I have also worked for Eric Rudd, as his studio assistant. I also was the Marketing & Outreach Coordinator for the new Arts Management Program at MCLA.
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Joshua Field
Contemporary narrative painter working in a diverse variety of media including charcoal, gold leaf, oil, and gouache. Field holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD and a degree from the Pinellas County Center for the Arts in St. Petersburg, FL. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2007 The Most Curatorial Biennial of the [...]
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Karin Stack
Visual artist working with photography, prints, and drawing. I teach at Mt Holyoke now, Wellesley and Amherst in the past. In my most recent work I build sets and models then photograph them to communicate vastness, grandeur, immensity. Please see website for more information.
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Karylee Doubiago, KAD Studio
Published Quilter, Photographer and Artist. Currently working on Art Quilts and Assemblage pieces. Classes and lectures available.
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Kay Canavino
Kay Canavino is an award-winning photographer whose original images have been widely exhibited. She moved to the Berkshires from the Boston area in 2002 and established her studio in Adams, MA where she provides high quality photography for businesses throughout the region. In addition, Kay’s fine art photographs have been exhibited in national and regional [...]
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Kent Mikalsen
Kent Mikalsen is a visual artist, born in NYC and now living and working in the Berkshires. He has a MFA from the University of Florida in sculpture. In recent years he has been painting. He is on the fine art faculty of Sage College where he teaches design. He has had a professional career [...]
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Kevin Kennefick Photography
Commercial Photography studio. Digital. Experienced.
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Klein Studio
Klein is a landscape painter and a sculptor. He creates beautiful Berkshire landscapes on-site. He has shown in the Berkshire Museum and is currently represented by three area art galleries in Williamstown and Great Barrington, MA and in Hudson, NY. The Springfield Museum will have an exhibition of his work in February. He is available [...]
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Larry Lorusso

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Laura Christensen
Please go see my new work in Kidspace at MASS MoCA this summer! The exhibition, “Boxed Sets,” features work by Lisa Nilsson, Debora Coombs, and myself. Kidspace is free and open 12pm-4pm daily through Labor Day.
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Leo Mazzeo
Leo Mazzeo is a self-taught artist and a full-time resident of Berkshire County, MA. He is a board member of the Housatonic Valley Art League, an elected member of the Kent Art Association, and a member of the Columbia County Council on the Arts. Having worked in various mediums, he has received awards for both [...]
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Linda Kaye-Moses
Repositore-Form: Neckpiece, Fibula Brooch, Ring, Earrings, Nesting Case I am a studio jeweler, working not exclusively with precious materials to make art jewelry. My jewels concern themselves not simply with function, but also with the implicit and explicit narrative capacity of adornment and, additionally, with adornment enclosure as sculptural form. They are an extension of my intention to build fully realized objects by [...]
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Lisa Dachinger, River Valley Farm
Lisa Dachinger of River Valley Farm has been shepherding and playing with natural fibers for over 9 years. Lisa offers private lessons and group workshops on topics related to the Fiber Arts. Learn how-to or follow along as we shear a sheep, wash and dye the fleece, and process it to create a beautiful and [...]
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Margaret Smithglass

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Meghan Zaremba
Currently a student at MCLA majoring in theatre and minoring in Arts Management. I am interested in scenic painting, illustration, acting, costume design.
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Melanie Jolicoeur, Jolicoeur Design
I have over 10 years of design experience, including the design and art direction of book covers and interiors, magazines, marketing collateral, packaging and stationary. I am also a digital illustrator. I invite you to visit my blog for examples of my design and illustration work, and to email me if you have a design [...]
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Melanie Mowinski
Melanie Mowinski explores patterns in time and nature through documentation and collaborations. Inspired by Henry David Thoreau, she strives to find a balance between nature and civilization, by bringing the wilderness and wildness to inside spaces.
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Melissa Lillie
Melissa Lillie is known for paintings that reference natural forms using a personal visual language of vibrant colors and complex layers to reflect on the macroscopic and microscopic world. Her paintings evoke a sense of space that has been flattened and layered, revealing strands and structures of line and color interacting fluidly with hidden landscapes. [...]
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Merritt Kraft Fletcher
Merritt is a multimedia artist who specializes in painting, woodcut printmaking, and sculpture/sculptural painting in order to create singular narrative pieces as well as entire environments where fantasy and reality merge. Her work investigates issues surrounding the animal/human divide, and issues concerning man-made realities VS. natural realities unfiltered through man-made systems or tweaked. She also [...]
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Michael J. Castronova
I hold an MFA in Sculpture. Currently, I’m Painting and working on Bas-Relief’s. I’ve exhibited my work since the early 1980′s. My work is based on the Human form, although greatly abstracted. I draw influences from Japanese and Islamic calligraphy. I start with a free-flowing style of sketching. Similar in many respects to Jackson Pollack’s [...]
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Michael Miller
Writer, editor, and photographer Michael Miller specializes in architecture, landscape, and the urban environment, using large-format black and white traditional media as well as digital color. He tries above all to create a subjective vision of the his encounter with a place, a building, or some unusual but telling found object—an insight which encompasses the [...]
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Nancy Goldberger
Artist working in oils, pastels, watercolor, and mixed media. President of Housatonic Valley Art League, 2002-2007; Co-Director of Housatonic River Summer 2004; co-editor of “Art and the River: Views and Visions of the Housatonic.” Studio visits by appointment.
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Nicholas Whitman
For over 30 years I have been making photographs. My work pattern can best be described as multiple, parallel series. Some series begin and end in the course of a day or two; such as my coverage of the Concordia Yawl’s 50th anniversary, or the A.K. Miller antique auto stash. Others, such as my Berkshire [...]
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Norm Thomas
Music, theatre, and media inspire my work.  My love of jazz and blues is instrumental in finding a rhythmic way of composing. Working backstage in live theater helped me with the concept of illusion.  Scenes and props built of pipes; ropes, lumber and assorted materials, all contribute to a play of trompe l’oeil. Years spent [...]
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Pamela Buchanan
MCLA Undergraduate majoring in Art, freelance graphic designer, sculptor, amateur animator, multimedia artist, mandala maker… I’m still evolving as an artist!
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Peggy Braun
I create monoprints, usually from gelatin plates–also collage. I have been a photographer since the 80′s and usually have my photographs in the Quality Printing calendar. I have exhibited at a number of galleries in the Berkshires, currently at Naoussa in Tyringham.
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Peggy Reeves
See web site for portfolios of alternate process, pinhole and documentary photo work.
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Peter Dudek
Information about Peter Dudek sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs as well as writing by and/or about Peter Dudek can be found at www.peterdudek.com or www.archicule.com or www.storefrontartist.org or peterdudek.blogspot.com
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Rachel Porter Ceramics & Design
Workshop in all aspects of ceramics given, see web site & resume for different types of workshops given.
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Rebecca Nebesar
I am interested in commissions for portrait/landscape paintings, preferably working from a combination of photographs and site visits or sketch sessions.
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Robert Castagna
Robert is a wedding and event photograper serving New England; specializing in the candid moment, full of life and emotion. Robert is also a fine art photographer represented by the prestigious Rolly-Michaux Galleries of Boston.
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Robert Markey
I work in painting and sculpture. My painting varies between large abstract and small representational work. My sculpture is mostly medium to large outdoor pieces or installations. Much of my work over the years has been political.
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Robin Brickman
Robin Brickman is an award-winning picturebook artist. Visit her website for information about her books, exhibits, and school programs.
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Roman Iwasiwka
“Commercial photography includes corporate, portraits, annual reports, sports, CD covers, stock photography and social events such as private parties, receptions, weddings, mitzvahs and funerals. Discretion always used. Work has been published in Newsweek, Money, People, TV Guide, Der Spiegel, Scholastic, CBS, HBO, I Love NY Travel Guide, Williams College and more.”
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RS Nover
I’ve been a fine artist for the past 33 years. For the past 14 years I’ve specialized in creating art from photos. The five tools that I use to create this art are: 35mm camera, digital camera, Mac computer, Photoshop and the ways of Zen.
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Sally Sussman
I am a visual artist and have a broad base of experience working in the Northern Berkshire community as an arts advocate and instructor. I feel comfortable working with all age groups and am interested in promoting “art for everyone”. Art IS good therapy! I was one of the organizers of Northwest Corner Artists Collective, [...]
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Shannon Toye
* Kripalu Center For Yoga and Health …Children’s Program *Kidspace @ Mass MoCA …Art Teacher * Clarksburg Elementary School…Computer Teacher / Theater Program Coordinator * Women’s House of Peace… Ophelia Project Co-coordinator
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Steve Levin
I work in painting and drawing; mainly small scale paintings in oil on copper- pictures of curiosities. I also teach drawing at Williams College.
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Sunny D’Amore
I have had many shows at area galleries including one at the present time at the Stockbridge Library. I have taught alternative process techniques in conjunction with area High Schools, MCLA, Southern Vermont College and IS 183.
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Susan Unsworth Robinson
Freelance illustrator and graphic designer specializing in children’s book illustration.
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Terry Wise
Painter. My imagery is realism set loose, and mostly still life and interiors. Oil on canvas or panel is my favorite medium, and my interest in repeated patterns and printmaking has combined with my painting in recent years, both on the canvas and in collage work. I believe that, among the many messages of the [...]
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Thor Wickstrom Studio
I paint from imagination and from life.  You can view my work on my website or at my studio. Please call to arrange a visit.
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Tony Costello
Photojournalist and Fine art Photographer. Specializing in Archival Doucumentation and Fine Art Photography. Teaches Photography and Adobe Photoshop through the Pittsfield School Adult Education Dept
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Tracy Baker White
Tracy Baker-White is a contemporary landscape painter working in oil. Since 2004, her work has been exhibited nationally in juried exhibitions in Missouri, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, North Carolina and New Jersey. She is represented by The Harrison Gallery in Williamstown, MA, and The Art at 18 in Milford, NJ.
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William Oberst, Stony Brook University Professor
Oil painter and watercolorist; teaches drawing and painting at Stony Brook University, where he received MFA in painting in 1997; Ph.D. in philosophy from Claremont Graduate University
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Zalud Saddlery
Our leather accessories are a combination of the centuries-old craft of English saddlery and unconventional design. Applying techniques acquired through four years of apprenticeship and schooling in Prague, Czech Republic, each piece is hand-sewn without the use of a machine, using only an awl and needles. We enjoy offering real craftsmanship and taking risks with [...]
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{call for art} 6x6x2011
6x6x2011: Global June 4 – July 10, 2011 Submissions Due: May 1 Preview Hours: June 1, 2 & 3, 1-10pm Opening Party & Artwork Sale: June 4, 6-10pm 7:30pm raffle for buyer positions 1-20 8:00pm all other buyers Global Online Purchasing Begins: June 6 at 10am Sold Out Artist Names Revealed to Public: July 1 [...]
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{Call for Designers} The Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum
DESIGN INTERNS WANTED The Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum in historicLenox, Massachusetts, is seeking design interns to help facilitate its firstannual Designers Showcase, a cutting-edge exhibition featuring the skill,style, and artistic flair of some of the Berkshires’ top interior designers,antique dealers, artists, and artisans. Among other duties, interns will betrained to describe rooms [...]
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{Job} Final Call for Market Place Applications
Take the exciting opportunity to actively profile your work at Showcase 2011; an event that attracts over 400 arts industry professionals, including venue programmers, promoters, funders and directors. Following a trade fair format Market Place provides a vibrant setting for artists, on up to 65 stalls, to meet and talk with a wide range of [...]
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{job} Skissernas Museum – the Museum of Public Art
Skissernas Museum – the Museum of Public Art, which was founded in 1934, is a leading international Museum for public art. The aim of the Museum is to collect and display sketches and models to art in public spaces and sites, and to convey knowledge within the sphere where the creative process or the genesis [...]
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{job}ASSISTANT PROFESSOR – FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS – ARTS MANAGEMENT
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR – FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS – ARTS MANAGEMENT This unique program is one of the few in the nation and one of the only public programs in New England, and is jointly sponsored by the FPA, Business, and English/Communications departments. The curriculum is multidisciplinary: students gain exposure to visual art, music, and theatre, [...]
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{Open Call} TransCultural Exchange
February 15th Deadline Approaching Join the international conversation. Exhibit your work. Find Grants, Residencies, and Funding. Start networking. Attend TransCultural Exchange’s 3rd Biennale Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World April 7-11, 2011 at Boston’s Omni Parker House Hotel 150 speakers. Artists, Curators, Critics, and Cultural Administrators all in one place. Portfolio [...]
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{Visual Artists} Ann Getsinger
Passing Through oil on linen 18 This long-time Berkshire realist artist\’s work can be seen at the Lauren Clark Gallery in Housatonic, MA or at the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland Maine.Her oil paintings blend the real with a touch of the surreal as she incorporates the seen object into a context drawn from memory or imagination. Her home and studio [...]
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