MASS MoCA and Kidspace offer extended holiday hours

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North Adams – MASS MoCA and Kidspace have announced a special holiday gift to families -- extended opening hours and extra tours during the weeks of school vacation. MASS MoCA has added free (with admission) tours of the galleries at noon and 3 PM every open day from Thursday, December 26 through Sunday, January 4. Tours are free with admission. MASS MoCA galleries are open from 11 A.M. until 5 P.M. on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, but closed on Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Tuesday, December 28.) Kidspace at MASS MoCA will feature extended hours during the holiday season with hands-on activities for children and their parents. Kidspace will be open from 12 to 4 P.M. on Monday, December 22; Tuesday, December 23 (though MASS MoCA’s galleries will not be open); Saturday, December 27; Sunday, December 28; Monday, December 29; Tuesday, December 30 (though MASS MoCA’s galleries will be closed); Friday, January 2; Saturday, January 3; and Sunday, January 4. Kidspace will be closed December 24 through December 26, December 31, and January 1. MASS MoCA galleries are also open on holiday Mondays including upcoming Martin Luther King Day and President’s Day. Additional tours will be offered on those Monday holidays. Patrons should call 413 662 2111 for exact tour times. On Saturday, December 13, MASS MoCA opened a new work commissioned from one of the world’s foremost installation artists for one of its most dramatic spaces. Rather than fill the football field-sized Building 5 gallery with objects as previous artists have done within the same space Ann Hamilton’s corups animates the volume of the space with sound, light, and millions of sheets of paper that fall gently from the rafters over the course of the ten-month installation. Hamilton’s corpus will be on view through October 2004. MASS MoCA’s other major exhibits include Fantastic and Yankee Remix. An exciting – if unlikely – collaborative venture with the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA),Yankee Remix: Artists Take On New England features brand new works by nine artists who were given the freedom to work with any of the more than one million objects and archival documents breathing fresh life into a variety of antiques including a stained glass window, Victorian trunks, dressmaker forms, and a tea pot which relates to the Boston Massacre. Fantastic showcases five contemporary artists who embrace a world of visionary, utopian, hallucinatory, and otherwise “fantastic” ideas. These artists’ works which range from visionary social design to sleeping bags filled with helium to plans for a combination ecotopia/town archive in an abandoned K-mart in North Adams. Astroturf, rubber, grass, and moss have transformed Kidspace at MASS MoCA into a lush, landscaped park for its newest exhibition, Nature Park, part one of the two-part series of exhibitions in Kidspace collectively titled Earth, Wind, and Desire. An Astroturf path leads visitors through an exhibit of sculpture by Victoria Palermo and Rob de Mar, who share an interest in the relationship between the built and natural environments. Kidspace is a joint program of the Williams College Museum of Art, the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, and MASS MoCA and is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (a state agency). Additional funding for the Utterback exhibit has been provided by the James and Robert Hardman Fund for North Adams of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant to Williams College, and, at Williams College, the Center for Technology in the Arts and Humanities and the English department. MASS MoCA is located off Marshall Street in downtown North Adams, Massachusetts. The largest center for contemporary visual and performing arts in the United States, MASS MoCA opened on May 30, 1999, with a far-ranging collection of programs, including exhibitions, site-specific commissions, sound art installations, multimedia theatrical performances, dance and music concerts, and digital media, animation, and film presentations. These programs capitalize on the unparalleled capabilities of MASS MoCA’s galleries and performance spaces, which are housed on a 13-acre campus of renovated 19th-century factory buildings. For additional information contact MASS MoCA at 413 664 4481.
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Lanesborough Fifth-Graders Win Snowplow Name Contest

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — One of the snowplows for Highway District 1 has a new name: "The Blizzard Boss."
 
The name comes from teacher Gina Wagner's fifth-grade class at Lanesborough Elementary School. 
 
The state Department of Transportation announced the winners of the fourth annual "Name A Snowplow" contest on Monday. 
 
The department received entries from public elementary and middle school classrooms across the commonwealth to name the 12 MassDOT snowplows that will be in service during the 2025/2026 winter season. 
 
The purpose of the contest is to celebrate the snow and ice season and to recognize the hard work and dedication shown by public works employees and contractors during winter operations. 
 
"Thank you to all of the students who participated. Your creativity allows us to highlight to all, the importance of the work performed by our workforce," said  interim MassDOT Secretary Phil Eng.  
 
"Our workforce takes pride as they clear snow and ice, keeping our roads safe during adverse weather events for all that need to travel. ?To our contest winners and participants, know that you have added some fun to the serious take of operating plows. ?I'm proud of the skill and dedication from our crews and thank the public of the shared responsibility to slow down, give plows space and put safety first every time there is a winter weather event."
 
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