MAC Treasures Aims to Re-Open in North Adams
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — After four years at 600 Main St. in Williamstown, MAC Treasures has found a new home at the site of West End Auto at 362 State Road in North Adams.
MAC Treasures is a donation-based tag sale that helps support the Minerva Arts Center, which provides performing arts opportunities to students in Northern Berkshire County.
MAC Treasures provides an unique shopping experience, where you can find “treasures” including men’s, women’s and children’s clothing and accessories, books, children’s toys, music, housewares, furniture and seasonal items at reasonable prices. In addition to these “treasures” customers and donors alike enjoy the fact that everything donated to MAC Treasures is recycled, repurposed or reused: Items that can’t be sold due to condition are re-donated to other organizations that can use them, such as stained blankets going to a shelter, torn denim being turned into paper, or rubber being melted off of shoes with holes.
MAC Treasures will be open for donations only beginning Thursday, May 12, at 362 State Road. Donation hours will be 2 to 6 p.m. during the week and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends. Everyone who makes a donation during the month of May will receive a 10 percent coupon, which will be valid when the store opens officially on June 14th, pending approval by the North Adams Planning Board. Gearing up for the grand re-opening, MAC Treasures will have a series of tag sales May 21-22, May 28-29, June 4-5 and June 11-12.
The mission of the Minerva Arts Center is to promote the importance of an arts-based education by providing high quality arts programming, to inspire creativity in our community, and to offer opportunities for students and adults of all ages to realize their true artistic potential.
In 1996, Kathleen O’Mara founded Minerva Stage in Williamstown, Massachusetts to introduce students of all ages to performing and visual art experiences. Since then, Minerva Stage has worked with thousands of students in myriad artistic, expressive, and academic projects. The Minerva Arts Center was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation in 2011 and is operated under the artistic direction of Minerva Stage, “where students’ art forms are celebrated, and hidden talents are discovered”.
All proceeds from MAC Treasures go to the Minerva Arts Center, and has provided dozens of scholarships for students in the past four years.
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