Pittsfield grew into the city it once was largely on the strength of the General Electric Corporation, which dominated economic and civic life and shaped the very landscape there. Now a greatly diminished presence, and fading by the day, it seems, General Electric's industrial sites and their surroundings are the subject of photographer Susan Mikula's soft-edged, painterly photographs, a group she calls "American Vale." The "creative economy" that shapes Pittsfield today is exemplified by the show of Mikula's photographs that opened at Ferrin Gallery on Saturday, June 26. Above: Artist Colleen Quinn and Ferrin Gallery co-owner Leslie FerrinPhotographs by Ben Glasser/Glasser Photography
Jewelry and Judaica designer Emily Rosenfeld and Lori McLean, owner of the eponymous Greenwich Village jewelry store; David Pakman host of Midweek Politics with David Pakman and Rachel Maddow
Senior Interactive Digital Designer at Kaon Interactive Casey Visco, Christopher Rose, designer Athan Vennell, and photographer Sloan Tomlinson; photographer Keith Emerling and Leslie Ferrin
Director of Operations and Finance for the Alliance to Develop Power Tim Fisk and photographer Matthew Londraville; Ferrin Gallery co-owner Donald Clark and Peter Dudek, sculptor and director of creative residencies at Bascom Lodge
Emily Rosenfeld and poet Jill McDonough; Susan Mikula and painter Terry Rooney
Clothing designer Dre Rawlings and Rachel Maddow; Bill Ravenesi, documentary photographer and director of Healthcare Without Harm and Mary Vogel, Executive Director, Asbestos Victims Special Fund Trust
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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