Crane & Berkshire Creative Seek Local Talent
Crane & Co., a Dalton, MA firm that has been the premier maker of fine stationery since its founding in 1801, will be participating in the Berkshire Creative Challenge. It’s goal: to identify local talent that could be added to their freelance creative resource team.
The challenge is open to artists, illustrators, designers and copywriters who can create sophisticated art and copy for the company’s stationery collections. Crane is known for its classic designs, but also creates updated, fresh, modern designs targeted at consumers who are young, design-savvy, artistic and stylish.
Interested creatives should have an understanding of the stationery category and how art translates to stationery products. Art for stationery would include, but not be limited to, motif illustrations, illustrative design, pattern creations, type-driven design (type layout and type as art), and copywriting as art/voice/layout. Working knowledge of printing and production processes is helpful. Printing and production processes used by Crane & Co. include engraving, letterpress, thermography, lithography, foiling and die cutting.
Artists, illustrators, graphic designers, and copywriters interested in being considered for the Crane & Co. Creative Challenge are invited to submit an application to include examples of their work using the guidelines provided. These preliminary examples should help with the assessment of each artist’‘s style as it applies to stationery. Concepts for stationery collections or brand appropriate product lines are also welcome. From these submissions finalists will be chosen to participate in the Crane & Co. Creative Challenge.
For application guidelines, visit Berkshire Creative Crane Challenge.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 03/17/10 at 11:31 AM • Permalink
Deja Vu: Sam Pratt’s All Over It Again
Five years after victory, heavy industry still threatens the South Bay.
Back in 2005, when Hudson community activists Sam Pratt and Peter Jung celebrated their hard-won victory over St. Lawrence Cement, they believed that seven intense years of battle had ended in triumph. New York Secretary of State Randy Daniels’ unequivocal ruling had instructed the town authorities in Hudson to “immediately” rezone the waterfront, removing all threat of future intrusion by heavy industry and pointing it in a greener, more recreational direction. Now the town’s waterfront committee, headed by Linda Mussmann of Time and Space Limited, has drafted a Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan that, in addition to establishing public parks, opens the way, according to Pratt and Jung, for heavy industry. Rural Intelligence spoke to Pratt about the situation.
RI: From 1998 to 2005, you led and ultimately won the battle to prevent St. Lawrence Cement from building a new plant on the riverfront in Hudson’s South Bay, effectively (or so everyone believed) wresting the riverfront from industry and putting it into the people’s hands, so it might be used for enjoyable things like parks and riverfront restaurants. Now the city has finally presented its plan for public review, and you and Peter Jung claim that it complies with neither the spirit nor the letter of that 2005 ruling.
SP: The victory we all won back in 2005 sent a strong message. Randy Daniel’s ruling was far more sweeping than we expected. He went beyond saying, you are not going to build your giant cement plant here, he gave specific recommendations for how Hudson should rezone its waterfront. He recognized that compromise—a mix of recreation and heavy industry— would not work. And he had fourteen thousand signatures to convince him that the public favored conservation and recreation. He stated clearly that the waterfront should be for the people’s enjoyment, for ecological rebirth, and for sensible economic development.
RI: And how does the proposed Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan fall short?
SP: What planners like to call “use conflicts” have prevented this waterfront from being properly developed for generations now. Who is going to open a restaurant or a store that sells boating supplies if you have a Titanic-size barge next door running its deisel engine and loading huge quantities of dusty gravel? There is an inherent incompatibility between people trying to enjoy the river and heavy industry.
RI: But St. Lawrence is already there.
SP: A waterfront plan is not supposed to be driven by short-term demands; it should be a guide for the next 50 years. At the start of this process, we were told by City and State not to assume that SLC will always own waterfront property here and that we have local tools to shape any and all parcels, regardless of who’s currently there. Somewhere along the line, the authors of this plan cast aside those instructions. There have been repeated attempts to trash this waterfront. In the 80s, they tried to put an oil refinery on the waterfront; in the 90s, it was a dry cleaning toxic waste processing plant—all the dry cleaning waste from the northeast. And the town was going to give the fly-by-night company who proposed it a $600,000 incentive to build it! Then came the cement controversy, with SLC spending $60 million to divide our community, and progress on the waterfront was again put on hold. In the current LWRP, public input has been effectively erased. The state has the power to direct the city. and it has done so. Yet the committee has chosen to go in the exact same direction as before, trying to meld two incompatible visions.
RI: What specifically do you object to in the plan?
SP: The current plan would permanently ensconce heavy industry at the waterfront. It permits the extension of the Holcim [St. Lawrence cement’s parent company] dock by 400 feet to accommodate massive barges that will be used to ship hundreds of thousands of tons of gravel, all right next to a public park. It calls for a heavy haul road to be built through the wetlands for the transit of giant dump trucks as often as every 4-5 minutes during daylight hours. And this plan exposes future generations to the anxiety and expense of having to fight with another major industrial polluter like St. Lawrence Cement, subjecting future generations to all of that controversy again. We can’t possibly anticipate what the next mind-bogglingly foolish idea for the waterfront might be—say, shipping all of New York City’s garbage up the river, offloading onto a conveyor belt at the Hudson Waterfront, and landfilling it in the quarries up on Becraft Mountain. But we can prevent the next unthinkable thing, by generally zoning out destructive uses.”
RI: So what’s to be done?
SP: On March 15th, New York State and the City of Hudson will stop taking public comments on this plan. Before that deadline, the public needs to make its views known, that the wetlands of South Bay should not be further industrialized; that the public’s access to the Hudson River should not be compromised by harsh, incompatible neighboring activities. Future generations will thank those citizens and officials who ensure that this plan is one based in long-term benefits for the many, not the narrow, short-term concerns of a single corporation. People can sign a Save the Bay on-line petition, send an e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at the New York State Department of State, Office of Coastal Resources. Subject line: HUDSON LWRP and/or call the State directly at 518.473.2479.
RI: And, once again, you and Peter Jung are spearheading this fight. Tell us a little bit about yourselves.
SP: Peter is a gallery owner on Warren Street, specializing mostly in 19th-century paintings. He was my main cohort in the St. Lawrence cement fight. He’s done a lot of digging through the minutia of the new proposal and finds that the opposition is trying to get through piecemeal the very things they couldn’t get through wholesale in the plan that was rejected by the state in 2005.
RI: And what about yourself? Where are you from? Where did you go to school? What did you do before you moved to Hudson?
SP: I grew up in West Stockbridge, in Williamsville, to be exact, where my family had lived for a couple of hundred years. Local politics were in the air at home. My father was head of the finance committee for the town and my mother was a reporter for the Berkshire Eagle back when it was a family-owned paper. I spent a lot of time as a kid being dragged to Select Board meetings. After getting degree in literature and fine arts at Yale, I lived in New York, where I wrote for a bunch of magazines, then moved back up here in 1998 to try to slow down. As soon as I got here, I felt I had to get involved—it was fight or flight. Some of the people who’ve come up against me assume I grew up on the Upper East Side. In fact, I’m local to this area, and I spend a lot of time just over the border in East Chatham, playing in the hayloft of my best friend’s barn. One of my Spencer ancestors even used to come to Hudson’s South Bay to buy quahogs [clams] that he would then peddle along the road to the Berkshires. This is my home.”
You can follow the controversy at SamPratt.com
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 02/23/10 at 09:21 AM • Permalink
Sale of Handmades to Benefit Hands-On Radio
Greene County across the river and somewhat less so Columbia County have long been renowned for their cutting-edge music scene, yet their airwaves don’t reflect that fact. With the help of community support, this lack is about to be remedied. WGXC volunteers are working hard to launch a 3,300-watt community radio station. Once up and running, more than 78,000 people throughout Greene and Columbia Counties will be able to receive the signal on 90.7-FM. WGXC received its license from the FCC and a grant from the US Commerce Dept that will cover 50 percent of its equipment needs. To get on the air, they need to raise the rest.
To that end, this Saturday, just in time for Valentines Day gift shopping, I (heart) WGXC, a sale in Hudson, will feature goods made by local artisans, including ceramics (Michele O’hana and Paula Shalan), photography (Karen Keats and Carlos Loret de Mola), books (Rebecca Wolff), textiles (Minc House), jewelry (Stephanie Iverson, whose necklace is above and on the home page), beeswax candles (Susan Reisen), leather accessories (Elizabeth Powell, who also organized the event) knitted hats (Gundula Brattke), tabletop objects, and other many other one-of-a-kind objects. The artists will donate 20% pf their sales to WGXC. Sound artist Hans Tammen will perform his “Endangered Guitar” throughout the day, culminating in a performance at 6 p.m.
I (heart) WGXC
Saturday, February 6, 11 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
347 Warren Street, Hudson
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 02/03/10 at 06:11 PM • Permalink
Coming Together for Haiti at the Mahaiwe
With mixed emotions, the lucky ticketholders filed into the Mahawie theater in Great Barrington on Friday, January 22, for the first of James Taylor’s two benefit concerts for Partners in Health which does important relief work around the world. These die-hard JT fans—who made the concert a sell-out in 90 minutes—were quite aware that they were there only because the people of Haiti are suffering after a devastating earthquake. The legendary musician, who lives in Lenox, was introduced by Governor Deval Patrick who, judging from the thunderous applause he received, is a rock star himself. But you could hear a pin drop when author Tracy Kidder, who wrote the book Mountains Beyond Mountain about Partners in Health founder Paul Farmer, explained why PIH is such worthy organization and how it needs financial support to save lives in Haiti and around the world. So far, the concerts have raised $580,000 for PIH.
Eric & Sarah Aasheim with their daughter, Sabrina; Donna & Gene Messenger from North Adams who were second row center and confided that they went online at 8:53 a.m. to buy thier tickets even though they did not officially go on sale until 9 a.m.
WAMC scion Jonas Chartock, executive director of the SUNY Charter Schools Insitute, with his mother, professor Roselle Chartock.
Realtor Nancy Kalodner with Doug Shufelt; Blythe McGowan and Stephen Koshland.
Tom Levin of Tom’s Toys and his wife, Susan Engel, a senior lecturer in psychology at Williams College.
Gina Hyams and Karin Watkins who were part of the team who organized the benefit concerts in only five days; long-time Mahaiwe volunteer ushers Dot Schellhammer and Paula Schutzmann got the plum assignment of handing out programs and got to watch the concert from the back of the theater.
Vicki Bonnington & David Schecker.
Leslie Myers, Anna Winters and Brian Schwab; Hilary Somers Deely, who’s appearing in the Berkshire Fringe’s production of The Waypoint at MASS MoCA on February 6, and Philip Deely.
James Taylor & Company played before a giant flag of Haiti, which was produced by GHI Sign of Canaan, CT.
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 01/24/10 at 08:06 AM • Permalink
James Taylor: For Haiti, More Than Just His Heart Goes Out
They billed this spur-of-the-moment booking as An Intimate Evening with James Taylor. Ticket sales began Tuesday, January 19th, at 9 a.m., on-line or in person at the Mahaiwe Box office, and the prices were steep. The occasion, of course, is a benefit concert for Haiti at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Proceeds from “Help for Haiti: An Intimate Evening with James Taylor” will benefit Partners in Health. The event will be simulcast on WAMC Northeast Public Radio. Ticket prices are steep: $100 (balcony), $200 (orchestra and mezzanine), and $1,000 (Golden Circle, which includes a private post-show reception with the artists). Kim and James Taylor promised to match proceeds from all ticket sales. The concert was a sell-out 90 minutes after the box office opened, so Taylor volunteered to perform again the next night.
“Our hearts go out to everyone in Haiti,” said Mr. Taylor. “We need to do everything we can to help the country recover after this tragic earthquake. I’m grateful to do my part and hope my neighbors here in the Berkshires will join me and be as generous as possible.”
Taylor will be joined on stage by his longtime singers Kate Markowitz, Arnold McCuller, his wife Kim, and Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist Owen Young.
Also present on Friday night will be the author Tracy Kidder, whose book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World is about Partners In Health’s founder and his organization, which brings modern medical care to poor communities in nine countries around the world, including Haiti, where they have worked for over 20 years. Based in Boston, PIH employs more than 11,000 people worldwide, including doctors, nurses, and community health workers. The vast majority of PIH staff are local nationals based in the communities they serve.
Mahaiwe Box Office
14 Castle Street
Great Barrington, MA
No phone sales are available for this concert. Limit four tickets per person.
Friday, January 22, 8 p.m SOLD OUT
Saturday, January 23, 8 p.m.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 01/18/10 at 10:01 PM • Permalink
It’s Finally Show Time at the Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield
Photographs by Jay Elling
Richard Stanley knows first hand how a movie theater can be a tipping point for a community. After all, fourteen years ago, he opened The Triplex, a brand new independent movie house in Great Barrington. By all accounts, The Triplex was the catalyst for Great Barrington’s metamorphosis, attracting new restaurants, shops and tourists. “Nobody expected that to happen,” says Stanley. “It took a while.”
But Pittsfield is a different story, and there are high hopes that the opening of the Beacon Cinema in a renovated department store on North Street will have a transformational effect on the downtown immediately. “There is much more anticipation,” says Stanley, who admits that the name was chosen for its symbolism. “The theater will be like a beacon lighting the way for ships in the ocean —that’s how esoteric the name is,” he says, chuckling. “People have been waiting for this for a long time. There hasn’t been a first-run movie theater in Pittsfield for at least 15 years.” Just up the block from the rotary, the Beacon Cinema is not a Triplex redux. The theater will have stadium seating and a digital projection system that will allow it to show the same film on all six screens at once as it will do on Thursday, November 19, at midnight with a special showing of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which has already sold out. Amazingly, the theater complex, which was designed by the Great Barrington architecture firm of Clark & Green and built by Allegrone Construction, was finished ahead of schedule.
While many Pittsfield boosters are most excited by how the theater will effect the city’s nightlife—Cultural Pittsfield is hosting a block party beginning at 8 p.m. on November 19 to commemorate the opening—the Beacon Cinema has the potential to change the city’s daytime complexion too. “We are going to be able to show children’s movies which we really can’t do at the Triplex because the distributors often want a six week commitment,” says Stanley, who notes that most films will have a first show around noon and a late show beginning after 9 p.m. “We’ll offer movies with a broader appeal than what we show at The Triplex.”
Located in the old Kinnell-Kresge building (the red-and-gold Beacon Cinema logo is based an old Kresge 5 & 10 sign that was unearthed in the renovation), the theater already has its first independent tenant: The Marketplace Kitchen, which supplies all the prepared food at Guido’s in Great Barrington. “They will have a cafe just like the one they have in Sheffield,” says Stanley (although you won’t be able to bring your coffee and sandwich into the theater with you.) 
The economic ripple effect is already happening with Shiro, the Great Barrington Japanese sushi-and-hibachi place, opening soon across the street. Kelley Vickery, the founder of the Berkshire International Film Festival, is so excited about the Beacon Cinema that she offered to lend a hand to get the theater ready for opening night. “I’m wiping down counters and vacuuming,” she said by cellphone from the lobby on November 18. “It’s absolutely beautiful. It’s the best movie theater in the Berkshires—everything is state of the art. It’s great for everyone who loves movies, but it’s especially great for the city of Pittsfield. I wish I owned a business right next door!”
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 11/18/09 at 12:28 PM • Permalink
Live & Let’s Give: Shopping for A Good Cause
Community art sales are as common in our region as Subaru wagons and chamber-music concerts, so what makes the Live and Let’s Give Sale this weekend at the Lichtensten Center for the Arts different? Of course, it’s for the worthiest cause: Charley’s Fund, the not-for-profit organization started by the Seckler family of Egremont to fund research for a cure for Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, the fatal disease that afflicts their son, Charley [photo left.] But it’s also bringing together artists and craftspeople whose work you would normally find in galleries or big city boutiques, and organizer Michele O’Hana promises a chic shopping experience. “I’m basically going into the retail business for the weekend,” she says. “We are not setting this up like a typical crafts fair. We are going to mix all the merchandise and create vignettes as if you were shopping at a really beautiful, high-style store.”
O’Hana—a ceramicist who is part of the Berkshire/Columbia County Mommy Yoga Mafia that sends their children to Sinai Academy and Berkshire Country Day School—got the idea for the sale when she realized she wished she could donate more money to Charley’s Fund. “I looked around my studio and saw all these porcelain pieces [photo right] that could be donated and sold.” She started calling friends and neighbors who make beautiful things—paintings, photographs, candles, jewelry, bedding, furniture—to see if they would donate for a benefit sale. “Everyone I asked said ‘yes’,” she says, naming just a few of the 38 artists, craftspeople and companies who are participating such as Anki Spets of Area linens, Crispina Ffrench, Odessa’s Herbals, Karen Crumley Keats, Joan Palano Ciolfi, Dai Ban, and O’Hana’s husband, the photographer John Dolan. “It’s a group of people whose work I really like,” she says.
Live and Let’s Give for Charley’s Fund
Lichtenstein Center for The Arts
28 Renne Avenue, Pittsfield
November 6; 4 - 9 p.m.
Opening Reception & Cocktail Party; $25
November 7 & 8; 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Free admission
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 11/03/09 at 07:09 AM • Permalink
The Pastures: A Spa for Wellness Down on the Farm
A “spa day” does not mean what it once did for Bridget Ford Hughes. A massage therapist who worked at Canyon Ranch for many years and travelled the globe as part of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger’s entourage (which is how she ended up massaging Mick Jagger on the island of Mustique), Hughes and her husband, sculptor Jonathan Prince, settled five years ago into a beautifully renovated dairy barn in Southfield, MA, where he could make his large-scale stone sculpture and she would run a personal training-and-massage studio. But before she could launch her business, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and the massage tables were turned upside down. “The surgeries made me very weak,” says Hughes, who had lumpectomies, a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgeries. “For a long time I could not raise my hands over my head.”
Now that she is finally healed and has regained her strength, Hughes’s luxuriously minimal spa-in-the-barn (below) is open to men and women who want her full attention with a one-on-one yoga or Pilates class ($50) perhaps followed by an hour-long Swedish massage ($85) in her vast vaulted-ceiling studio that overlooks an indoor gallery of John’s art. Just driving to her rural studio (about 10 minutes from Route 7 in Sheffield), you begin to de-stress and her gentle, earthy demeanor makes you feel like you’re working out with your new best friend.
But if you are a woman with breast cancer, you can come for a wellness weekend at The Pastures, as the farm is called. “I want to create a sacred space where women with breast cancer can heal,” says Hughes, who will offer meditation, nutrition and cooking classes, as well as Pilates, yoga, dance and massage. “And I will offer Aruyvedic treamtents.” Hughes is currently enrolled in Kripalu’s Ayurvedic program, making an intensive study of the ancient Indian holistic approach to health.
Although Hughes is deeply empathic, it is her thorough understanding of the mind-body connection that makes her a healer. From her own experience, Hughes believes women with breast cancer are not adequately prepared for the physical challenges they will face. “Basically, surgeons don’t tell you anything,” she says. “They don’t want to freak you out.” Hughes wants to help women get ready so they’ll recover faster. “Before surgery, you should prepare like a prize fighter getting ready for a bout,” she says.
While there are scores of organizations and support groups for women with breast cancer, Hughes felt isolated battling her illness in the Berkshires, even though she had a devoted partner. “It seemed like I did everything alone,” she says. “Girlfriends who haven’t had cancer can only understand to a degree.” So one weekend a month (beginning December 11 - 13), she will send John and the dogs away for two nights so The Pastures can be a retreat for women like herself. “Cancer is the club you never thought you’d join, but you become a member for life,” she says. “I am happy that I can use my home as a clubhouse.”
The Pastures
1100 Clayton Mill River Road, Southfield, MA
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 10/21/09 at 05:28 PM • Permalink
Holy Smoke! The Berkshire Hosemen’s Calendar
Photographer Sarah Edwards has an eye for hunky guys. Last year, she photographed the Treemen Calendar (which included a picture of her boyfriend, Cord Kenyon, aka Mr. January), which raised $25,000 for the daughter of an arborist named Rafe Kozaka who died in a logging accident in 2008. This year, to help the Sheffield Hose Company #1 raise money for its firehouse, she recruited firefighters from South Lee, Stockbridge, Barrington, Egremont, Sheffield, Canaan, and Sandisfield (who often respond to one another’s calls) to pose playfully for the 2010 Hosemen Calendar, which goes on sale this Saturday at the Sheffield Beer and Cheese Benefit at the Town Park. “For $20, you get the calendar, two beer tickets and all the local cheese you can eat, and dance to two great bands” Dan Jimmerson, the creative director of the Marketplace Kitchen, who is helping to organize Saturday’s party.
While Edwards, who specializes in weddings, cajoled the the tree guys (most of whom she knew as friends) out of their clothes to pose for A Full Monty centerfold with their private parts hidden by a single log, she could not persuade the firefighters to be as risqué. “They’re a little more serious,” she says. “Their work is really about life and death.” Nevertheless, she wanted the calendar to have a sense of humor and for the cover she got eight members of the Sheffield Hose Company to have a tug of war with a fire hose—one team was bare-chested and the other team wore jackets and boots but no pants. The most daring model was Wayne Wilkinson, who agreed to pose on bearskin rug in front of an outdoor fireplace. “He was hilarious,” says Edwards. “He was the perfect Mr. December.”
2010 Hosemen Calendar Release Party
Sheffield Town Park
October 17, 3 - 8 p.m.
Photographs by Sarah Edwards
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 10/13/09 at 03:45 PM • Permalink
“Out” and About in Pittsfield
Everyone knows that the city of Hudson is the unofficial gay capital of our region, and now the city of Pittsfield wants to be a contender. This weekend, in an unintended harmonic convergence, Pittsfield is hosting a de facto GLBT festival in three acts (which was dubbed the Out in the Berkshires Weekend after the three events were separately planned.) It could be just the thing to spur a new wave of visitors, businesses, and homesteaders to gentrifying, artist-friendly Pittsfield.
Act I, October 10 @ 3:30 p.m. For the first time in its 28-year history, the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus will gives a recital in the Berkshires at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church as a fundraiser for the Gay/Straight Alliances at Taconic and Pittsfield High Schools. The chorus will perform songs from its hit show Boys Just Wanna Have Fun: Totally 80s. Advance tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults, and are being sold at the high schools, the church, and the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Tickets will be $15 at the door.
Act II: October 10 @ 6 p.m - 12:30 a.m. Quite Queer on 10/10 is both a concert and dance party conceived by 25-year-old Pittsfield native Timothy Kushi, who has rented out the Elk’s Lodge for the evening (which is across the street from Barrington Stage Company.) “Gay people in the Berkshires complain that they have to go Albany or Northampton for nightlife so I decided to make something happen here,” says Kushi, who works for the Moscow Ballet‘s office in Pittsfield. “I want to make this city a better place for me to live and, hopefully, a better place for other people to live too.” Kushi has trolled for bands that are unequivocally queer, though his only agenda is about having a good time. “Quite Queer is a social event, not a political one,” he says. He expects the four acts he’s booked—MKNG FRNDZ, Jen Urban and the Box, The G-Spots from Worcester, and Max Steele and the Party Ice from Brooklyn (video clip above)—to play from 6 - 10 p.m. with dancing to follow until 1 a.m. with “last call” at 12:30 a.m. There will be a cash bar. Tickets are available in advance for $10 at Rebel Sound Records, Dottie’s Coffee Lounge, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. Tickets will be $12 at the door.
Act III, October 12 @ 3 and 7 p.m. Along with more than 100 other theater companies across the country on October 12, Barrington Stage Company will present two readings of the The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (An Epilogue), which is a follow-up to the powerful 2000 play about the hate-crime murder of a gay college student named Matthew Shepherd in Laramie, Wyoming. The cast includes BSC stalwarts such as Tandy Cronyn, Mark H. Dold, Christopher Innvar and Debra Jo Rupp, as well as Pittsfield’s cultural development director Megan Whilden and Enrico Spada of Shakespeare & Company. Tickets are $15 and $10 for students.
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