Eclipse Mill Gallery

Several months ago we met Andrew Klass when he was the youngest exhibitor in the "Berkshire Salon" at the Eclipse Mill Gallery. This is how first one man show at the popular Cup and Saucer in downtown North Adams. It is a short walk from the campus of MCLA where he is enrolled as a fine arts major.

The images rendered by the realist painters Pennie Brantley and Robert Morgan reflect their extensive travel in Europe and South America. Their work remains on view at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams through September 1.

The Eclipse Mill in North Adams includes the Eclipse Mill Gallery which has just opened its second show of the season "Off the Wall: Art of the Eclipse in the Third Dimension." There is also the Ralph Brill Gallery which is about to open "Nude & Naked" and River Hill Pottery which is participating in "Off the Wall." Visitors to the gallery also enjoy browsing through books offered by bookseller Grover Askins. There's a lot to take in with one stop on the way to and from Mass MoCA.

For too many years it has been dead in downtown North Adams in the shadow of Mass MoCA. Visitors to that museum did not spill over to depressed Main Street. But that may change as there is now a map guiding visitors to some dozen or so arts venues. It is creating a real buzz for Northern Berkshire County.

The Memorial Day weekend saw the exuberant launch of the arts season. In the Northern Berkshires Greylock Arts, in Adams opened Being There while the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams hosts the Berkshire Salon.

Some 47 artists from the Berkshires, New York State, Vermont and Cape Cod are participating in the first annual Berkshire Salon at the Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams.

The 2008 season of the artist run Eclipse Mill Gallery in North Adams opens on May 23 with an open invitation for regional artists to participate in the Berkshire Salon.

If all goes according to plan in April gallerist Ralph Brill will light up a section of the Hoosic River between the Eclipse Mill and Mass MoCA in North Adams. He is involved in the development of a World War II Museum that would become the Northern Berkshires' "Fourth Museum."

In the past two years MCLA Gallery 51 on Main Street in North Adams has presented 19 shows including 150 plus artists. The current show Hometown Hits focuses on local artists.

Over the busy Memorial Day weekend the arts were officially launched with overlapping openings all over the Berkshires. We opted to covering the events in North Adams.

There was a lively opening of the new season at the recently refurnished Gallery of the Eclipse Mill in North Adams. Among the guests was Michael Conforti director of the nearby Clark Art Institute.

Twenty-four resident artists in the Eclipse Mill show fiber work, ceramics, painting, collage, paper-making, sculpture, photography,writing,coneptual art

An introduction to the world of antiques in the Northern Berkshires

In addition to leaf peeping visitors to North Adams are invited to attend Open Studios on October 14 through 15 from 11 am through 6 pm. The exhibition "4x4 Artists Invite Artists" will be featured in the Eclipse Mill Gallery.

Works by Diane Sullivan, Lisa Nilsson, Linda Mieko Allen, Margaret Smithglass, Mary Therese Wright, Laura Christinsen, Sarah Amos and Claire Beaulieu

In this first annual city wide event, many venues will be open with works by local artists.