Clark Art Announces Call for Art From Berkshire County High School Students

02:10PM / Thursday, February 19, 2026Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —The Clark Art Institute, Living the Change Berkshires, and Cooler Communities invite Berkshire County high school students to participate in a juried installation of student art about climate change.

Submissions are due March 6, 2026.

The exhibition, "How Shall We Live: Berkshire Youth Artists Explore Their Relationship with the Earth in the Time of Climate Change," is on view April 18–25 at the Clark. In its fourth year, the initiative encourages local youth to pair art with the environment as they consider ways to appreciate and protect the natural world. Following the closure of the show at the Clark, it will be on view at Pittsfield's City Hall and Sheffield's Dewey Hall from late April through June.

Submissions can be 2-D or 3-D but must express students' ideas on climate change and inspire others to care for the environment. Both individual and collaborative submissions are accepted. Students are asked to respond to one or more elements in the following prompt:

In the age of climate change,

What does nature provide?
What are the earth's needs?
What matters most?
What is resilience?
Where do you find guidance and inspiration?

For further submission information, visit clarkart.edu/education or call 413 458 0429.

The Clark hosts a free, public reception to celebrate the opening of the show and the work of participating student artists on April 18 from 2:30–5 pm in the Lunder Center's Hunter Studio. Advance registration is encouraged. Register at events.clarkart.edu.

This student art show is co-organized by the Clark, Living the Change Berkshires, and Cooler Communities.

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Williamstown Select Board Plans Off-Camera Evaluation of Town Manager

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:24AM / Friday, October 09, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board plans to take extraordinary measures to avoid having its discussion of the town manager's performance recorded by the town's Public, Educational and Government cameras.

At its Sept. 28 meeting, the board decided to hold a special meeting in a room not covered by WilliNet cameras to complete its annual evaluation process of Town Manager Robert Menicocci.

Chair Peter Beck said that while the evaluation is "absolutely" to be conducted in an open meeting, the board could follow a process similar to the off site, unrecorded meetings that past Select Boards have characterized as "retreats," a term not contemplated by or included in the commonwealth's Open Meeting Law.

The current board met on June 29 for what it characterized as a "planning session" where no formal votes were taken. That meeting was held outside of Town Hall, at the new fire station on Main Street, in a room equipped with audio and video recording equipment that the Select Board chose not to use.

At the Sept. 28 meeting, one board member indicated that an unrecorded meeting was preferable to discuss the annual evaluation of the one town employee supervised by the board.

"I'd like to do it without all the Willinet stuff," Stephanie Boyd said in a discussion toward the end of a two-hour meeting. "I think it's more conducive to conversation."

With the board expected to meet just once in October — its "regular" meeting date coincides with Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 12 — Beck suggested that the panel could find a date for a special meeting, suggesting the third Monday of the month, Oct. 19.

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