Lloyd Burlingame
1. Art Exhibition “Summer Energy: Works 1962 — 1987 — Featuring the works of Lloyd Burlingame” — July 9 — August 26, 2024, at the former Shantz Gallery — 3 Elm Street, Stockbridge, MA
Lloyd Burlingame (b. 1934) began his career as a designer for theater legends including Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Brook, and David Merrick, then joining New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as Chair of Design and Master Teacher for twenty-six years — eighteen of them legally blind. Facing irreversible vision loss in his 40s, Burlingame turned his attention to large-scale abstract paintings and multimedia fabric collages. This period of “making art while the sun shines” resulted in 72 major paintings and multimedia works, many of which are displayed in this exhibition.
Stockbridge Farmers’ Market
2. The Stockbridge Farmers’ Market is coming! Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 3pm — 6pm.
There will be a wide variety of organic produce — from Berkshire Mountain Bakery, Adobe Farm, Gaetanos Farm, and Millbrook Sugar House. There will be Medicinals and much more. SNAP recipients can obtain Market double-match tokens at the Market desk. The tokens can be used at all vendors.
Tanglewood Music Fellows at Chesterwood
3. Chesterwood to host the Tanglewood Music Fellows in the historic Studio on Wednesday, July 17 at 5:30 p.m. The program will be “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight.” The concert is free.
Margaret Cherin, Senior Site Manager, Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announces a first time ever partnership with the Tanglewood Learning Institute. The program will be “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight: A Cantata of Lamentation for Mezzo-Soprano, Violin, Cello and Piano,” a chamber piece based on a 1914 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It portrays Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Springfield, Illinois, stirred from his eternal sleep, a man, who even in death, is burdened by the tragedies of the modern world. The poem was set to music in 1953 by American composer Roy Ellsworth Harris (1898 — 1979) who wrote music on many American subjects and is best known for his Symphony No. 3. “Being the place where the iconic seated Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial was created, it is very fitting to present a Lincoln related musical program under the gaze of the six-foot Lincoln model in the historic Studio,” said interim director Michael Lynch, “we have discovered that the acoustics are excellent in the Studio so this partnership with Tanglewood is a very exciting step up in our public programming.”
Seating is limited and reservations are required at www.chesterwood.org/arts-alive-2024
Austen Riggs Exhibition
4. Exhibition presented by Austen Riggs, Thursdays — Saturdays June 29 — October 14, 2024 10am. — 4pm. 48 Main Street, Stockbridge
“Painting Belonging: Community Art in the Berkshires” features art by community groups, this exhibition reflects the ideas of belonging and community while looking at the impact of art and mental health throughout people’s lives.
