Shaker Museum and Library presents an artist's reception for Gift, a site-responsive work by LÃ©onie

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Old Chatham, NY - The Shaker Museum and Library presents an artist's reception for Gift, a site-responsive work by LÃ©onie Guyer. Gift is informed by the artist's consideration of Shaker gift drawings and architecture and inspired by a natural resonance between these works and her own creative practice. The long-term installation occupies one room of the Brethren's Work Shop (1829), a four story brick building located at the Museum's recently acquired North Family property in Mount Lebanon Shaker Village. Guyer's paintings and installations explore idiosyncratic shapes and the spaces they inhabit. By working directly on the surfaces of the extant plaster walls and one window, Guyer has applied traces of her internalized experience onto the architecture itself. Intimate in scale and discretely sited, the paintings have become a temporary layer in the history and life of the building. Leonie Guyer's painting-centered practice extends from studio-based works to site responsive installations. It investigates the interconnection between idiosyncratic shapes and the spaces they inhabit. The shapes elude naming while they embody fragments of possible meanings. Guyer's interest in Shaker gift drawings was sparked by an encounter with a single work in a San Francisco gallery in the 1990s. Comprised of cryptic script in linear and geometric configurations, it seemed to hover between writing and drawing. The Shaker Museum and Library's decision to work with Guyer continues a long tradition of supporting artists who have drawn inspiration from the Shakers - from their art, artifacts, music, and dance. A limited edition catalog to accompany the exhibition is being published by the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon. The reception will be held in the Brethren's Work Shop, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, on Saturday, September 16, from 2:00 until 4:00 pm. Guyer will present an illustrated public lecture about her work on Monday, September 18, at 7:00 pm, in the living room of The Forge at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village. For more information call The Shaker Museum and Library at 518-794-9100 ext. 211 or visit www.shakermuseumandlibrary.org

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Pittsfield Council to See Borrow Request for Water Treatment Upgrades

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
05:59PM / Monday, February 23, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city plans to complete upgrades to the Cleveland and Ashley Water Treatment Plants by 2033.

On the agenda is a request to borrow up to $15 million for upgrades to the city's two water treatment plants, the Cleveland and Ashley Water Treatment Plants. This would fund the final design and permitting for Phases 1-3, phase 1 of interim updates, allowances, and contingency.

The total water treatment plant program is estimated to be $165 million over the next 8 years, with $150 million for long-term construction and $15 million for near-term needs "to keep the plants operational and
advance the program through design and permitting," the project's cover letter explains.

The city does not anticipate water rate increases outside of the established new system based on the Consumer Price Index Factor (CPIF) and the Operational Stability Factor (OSF).

"This borrowing, and subsequent authorizations anticipated over the multi-year WTP program, has
been integrated into the Water Enterprise Fund's rate structure so that future debt service is absorbed
within the Council's established formula," the cover letter reads.

The $15,000,000 borrowing would support:

Final Design & Permitting (Phases 1–3): $9.2M
Phase 1 Construction (incl. bidding & engineering during construction): $2.4M
Land Acquisition/Misc. Engineering/Legal/Contingency: $1.4M
WTP Equipment Replacement/Maintenance to Plant Operations: $2.0M

Starting this year, two finished water storage tanks would be designed and constructed, chemical improvements would be made at the Cleveland WTP, and the East New Lenox Road flow control station would receive a new pump station to allow the Ashley WTP to be offline during the third phase.

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