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Opie O’Brien, Oh My!, recycled and found materials, 13 x 4 in.
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Dawn Nelson, Layers of Emotion, water soluble oil and interference acrylics, 60 x 41 in.
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Sarah Sutro, Gathering, acrylic, 12 x 16 in.
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Linda O’Brien, Long Way Home, oil and cold wax, 12 x 12 in.

IMPROMPTU: Six Artists in the Time of COVID

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass.— For the first time in its history, the Eclipse Mill Gallery is presenting an online-only exhibition featuring six artists working with diverse mediums.


Artists Dawn Nelson, Linda O'Brien, Opie O'Brien, Diane Sawyer, Sarah Sutro, and Betty Vera are featured in Impromptu that not only reflects the artists' impulse to show their work together, but also their individual responses to materials and techniques, modes of artistic expression, and the challenges of making art while coping with dramatic, unpredictable events amid a rapidly expanding global pandemic and widespread social unrest.


Pursuing new directions in her large abstract paintings, Dawn Nelson is presenting works that are embedded with a sense of hope emerging from darkness. Sarah Sutro's intimate acrylic paintings on canvas focus on human encounters she describes as "connections and confrontations between cultures." 


Linda O'Brien's small-format paintings in oil and cold wax are a result of her impromptu decision to depart from her usual 3-D work and use new materials to explore themes of home and memory. 


Diane Sawyer's luminous abstract works in oil and cold wax reference moments in the trajectory of the pandemic. Opie O'Brien sees his expressive doll creations as "impromptu extensions" of his imagination. Betty Vera's spontaneous, offbeat snapshots are the source material for her large, meticulously rendered Jacquard tapestries.


Impromptu is viewable online.

 
 

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Clarksburg Sees Race for Select Board Seat

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town will see a three-way race for a seat on the Select Board in May. 
 
Colton Andrews, Seth Alexander and Bryana Malloy returned papers by Wednesday's deadline to run for the three-year term vacated by Jeffrey Levanos. 
 
Andrews ran unsuccessfully for School Committee and is former chairman of the North Adams Housing Authority, on which he was a union representative. He is also president of the Pioneer Valley Building Trades Council.
 
Malloy and Alexander are both newcomers to campaigning. Malloy is manager of industrial relations for the Berkshire Workforce Board and Alexander is a resident of Gates Avenue. 
 
Alexander also returned papers for several other offices, including School Committee, moderator, library trustee and the five-year seat on the Planning Board. He took out papers for War Memorial trustee and tree warden but did not return them and withdrew a run for Board of Health. 
 
He will face off in the three-year School Committee seat against incumbent Cynthia Brule, who is running for her third term, and fellow newcomer Bonnie Cunningham for library trustee. 
 
Incumbent Ronald Boucher took out papers for a one-year term as moderator but did not return them. He was appointed by affirmation in 2021 when no won ran and accepted the post again last year as a write-in.
 
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