MASS MoCA Announces Curatorial Appointment

12:00AM / Thursday, March 29, 2007Print Story | Email Story

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), has appointed Denise Markonish to the position of curator. Markonish comes to MASS MoCA from New Havenâ€™s Artspace where she has been Director and Curator since 2002. Together with MASS MoCA Director Joseph Thompson and Curator Susan Cross, Markonish will program approximately six exhibitions per year which fill the institution's 120,000 square feet of gallery space. In 2006 the New Haven Register lauded Markonish saying, â€œThe prize for the most innovative gallery curator undoubtedly goes to Denise Markonish of Artspace in New Haven, whose consistently curious mind appears to keep coming up with one after another provocative, edgy and original theme-based exhibits. â€œWe are delighted to have Denise join us in the Berkshires,â€ said Thompson. â€œWe have admired her curatorial acumen and adventuresome programming over the years and found her exhibitions at Artspace to be consistently lively, thought-provoking and remarkably ambitious. Sheâ€™s a prodigious exhibition maker, and is an artistâ€™s curator: her work starts and stops with art, though in between she has a wonderfully light-handed way of engaging neighbors, critics, and gallery visitors, both those dressed in black, and otherwise. Denise will join Susan Cross and our larger creative, fabrication, and production team that includes Sue Killam, Rachel Chanoff, Laurie Cearley, Richard Criddle, Dante Birch and Eric Nottke â€“ a stunningly effective and inventive group of souls who together have made MASS MoCA among the most fertile sites in the nation for the creation of new work in all media. I join them and all my co-workers at MASS MoCA in welcoming Denise to North Adams.â€ â€MASS MoCA is a dream institution for any curator, from its amazing gallery spaces to the fantastic artists that it draws to North Adams,â€ said Markonish. â€œ I have always respected the institutionâ€™s willingness to take risks and to be a large institution with a true renegade spirit. I very much look forward to returning to Massachusetts and joining this dedicated team.â€ A graduate of Brandeis University and Bard Collegeâ€™s Center for Curatorial Studies, Markonish has been the recipient of the Ramapo College Curatorial Prize, given annually to a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies, and the Rosalind W. Levine Prize in Fine Arts for excellence in the field of art history. She has been a visiting critic/lecturer at the University of Connecticut, Storrs; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.; Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA; List Center for Visual Arts, MIT, Cambridge, MA; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Yale University, New Haven, CT; and Galerie fur Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany. She also served as a panelist for the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Organizational Support Grants. Her recent exhibitions include: Why Look at Animals?, Donâ€™t Know Much About History, Jean Shin: Ensemble, The New English, and Brandon Ballengee: Love Motels for Insects at Artspace as well as Hypervision at Westport Art Center and 19th Annual Boston Drawings Show at Boston Center for the Arts. Markonish will relocate to North Adams and begin work full time in August 2007. MASS MoCA is located on Marshall Street in North Adams on a 13-acre campus of renovated 19th -century factory buildings. MASS MoCA is open from 11 â€“ 5, closed Tuesdays, with extended hours in the summer. For more information call 413 662 2111.

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McCann Recognizes Superintendent Award Recipient

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:32PM / Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Landon LeClair and Superintendent James Brosnan with Landon's parents Eric and Susan LeClair, who is a teacher at McCann.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Superintendent's Award has been presented to Landon LeClair, a senior in McCann Technical School's advanced manufacturing course.

The presentation was made last Thursday by Superintendent Jame Brosnan after Principal Justin Kratz read from teachers' letters extolling LeClair's school work, leadership and dedication.

"He's become somewhat legendary at the Fall State Leadership Conference for trying to be a leader at his dinner table, getting an entire plate of cookies for him and all his friends," read Kratz to chuckles from the School Committee. "Landon was always a dedicated student and a quiet leader who cared about mastering the content."

LeClair was also recognized for his participation on the school's golf team and for mentoring younger teammates.

"Landon jumped in tutoring the student so thoroughly that the freshman was able to demonstrate proficiency on an assessment despite the missed class time for golf matches," read Kratz.

The principal noted that the school also received feedback from LeClair's co-op employer, who rated him with all fours.

"This week, we sent Landon to our other machine shop to help load and run parts in the CNC mill," his employer wrote to the school. LeClair was so competent the supervisor advised the central shop might not get him back.

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