image description — Cosmetic tattoo artist Ashley Ciepiela and licensed esthetician Rebecca Moore stand beside the separate signs of their cosmetic tattoo and facial treatment businesses that share a location in the Union Block in Dalton.

Arch and Rose Quartz SPAtique Opens in Dalton

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
04:57AM / Tuesday, September 20, 2022Print Story | Email Story

Ciepiela and Moore said they have been working on the space since first seeing it in March. They opened for business on Saturday.

DALTON, Mass. — The Arch and Rose Quartz SPAtique, located at 395 Main St., opened its doors this weekend.

Cosmetic tattoo artist Ashley Ciepiela and licensed esthetician Rebecca Moore have worked together on this dual business venture to create an inviting space where people feel comfortable sharing their insecurities.

"Being a cosmetic tattoo artist, I'm asking people to come in and let me stare at their insecurities. I'm asking them to come in and talk about something that they probably don't like about themselves. That's why they're coming in," Ciepiela said.

"So to have that safe space where people can come as they are, and leave even better is probably everything that we've ever dreamed of. Because we want people to feel comfortable, and we want them to come in and feel safe in the skin that they might not feel is theirs."

Rose Quartz SPAtique provides services such as facial treatments, eyelash extensions, facial waxing, reiki services, and more.

In the next month or so, Moore plans to have her favorite professional-grade skincare lines available for purchase which includes HydroPeptide, Sorella Apothecary, Green Envy, and SkinCareRx.

"They're all clean, nontoxic, beautiful products that are results driven. I have all sorts of price ranges so it is affordable, and I want people to feel comfortable knowing that they can come here instead of a big box store and playing the guessing game," Moore said.

"So many people use drugstore quality products but they don't realize how many toxic ingredients and hormone disruptors and nasty stuff is in there because the FDA is not the best, so to be able to offer beautiful clean beauty products is huge for me."

Moore was inspired by her grandmother, who would always wear makeup — even just to get mail.

"My passion for the most part is facials. I love being able to help people feel comfortable in their skin ... my Nanny was actually the one that got me into skincare and makeup," she said. "She inspired me because she's like, if your skin is good your makeup is gonna look good."

Book an appointment with Rose Quartz SPAtique to receive facials and skin care treatments here.

The Arch provides microblading and faux freckles services but is looking to expand to include paramedical aspects, such as scar camouflage.

Ciepiela's ultimate goal with paramedical would be to provide breast and areola tattoos for breast cancer survivors.

Each category for paramedical services has separate training courses. She hopes to have scar camouflage by spring and a few other services by summer.

Book an appointment with The Arch to receive microblading or faux freckles services here.

In an effort to collaborate with smaller local businesses, they decorate their storefront with homemade goods.

"We just want to lift people up by giving them that space to do their thing. I mean, we love the look of everything that is handmade by them so why not decorate our space with them," Ciepiela said.

"Like we don't want to sell people's things. We want them to sell their own things. But in a space where people will see them a little bit more."

Berkshire County has a lot of small businesses and they want to be able to lift each other, which is different from the competitive business rivalry mindset that existed when they were growing up, Moore said.

"I'm in competition with myself every day to better myself. So to be able to offer space for other small businesses to come and sell their products that they make with love and passion it really makes our hearts happy to offer that to the public," Moore said.

The duo leased the space in March and since then have worked often into the night to make it their own.

"We signed the lease for this space, when we saw it in March, immediately. The character that this place has feels like home to us," Ciepiela said.

"We've put so much work into this since then. It is absolutely our baby, for sure. This is a place we want to be when we're done working. And we don't even want to go home."

Ciepiela and Moore put their "blood, sweat, and tears" into renovating the space to suit their needs and create an accepting environment for their patrons.

The duo painted over the once green walls to white. They received help from New Moon Gifts owner Robert Bourdon, who sprayed the ceiling black.

They hired a licensed contractor to build another room so that they were able to house both their businesses under one roof.

Both businesses will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 until 5:30 by appointment only but people are welcome to request an appointment later in the day or on a day that they are closed if it works better for them.

Ciepiela and Moore noted that serving the community is important to them and that making their services as accessible as possible is a way they can do that.

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PCTV Turns 40, Anniversary Celebration This Friday

By Breanna SteeleiBekshires Staff
03:30PM / Monday, September 14, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Pittsfield Community Television is turning 40 this week, and it's celebrating with its viewers and listeners.

This Friday, Sept. 18, PCTV will celebrate at the Berkshire Hills Country Club. Ryan Peterson, WTEN News10 ABC anchor and Pittsfield High School graduate, will give the keynote address.

Executive Director Shawn Serre, who has been with the station for over 32 years, said it's their chance to celebrate all they have been able to bring to the community.

"It's a chance to reflect on everything that the organization has done over those years, all the people that have been involved. From board members to volunteers to producers to crew people to staff members, and all the different programs that we've produced," he said. "Everything from public programming to education, sports, graduations, parades, government meetings and forums, and election night coverage, and all kinds of other things that just year upon year of history that we've been able to create and document here for the Pittsfield community over those years."

Serre took over as executive director about nine years ago. Originally a volunteer fresh out of college.

The original board included former mayor Edward Reilly, Dan Dillon, Diane Morgenstern, Bernard Avalle, and John Fukes of the Berkshire Athenaeum. The operation was all-volunteer until PCTV hired the first executive director in January 1989.

PCTV has operated out of its station on Federico Drive since 1999. But originally they worked out of a basement.

"The first location that we ever had, we had all of our equipment stored in cardboard boxes in the basement of the Berkshire Athenaeum, because the Berkshire Athenaeum at the time was very gracious and allowed us to have some space while we sort of got our feet on the ground and sort of got things organized," he said. "But we had no location. We had no studio. We just had this equipment that was ordered with the money that we had from the original cable franchise grant."

"So that lasted a couple of years, and then we signed and got a lease over in our first studio location, which was over on Fourth Street in Pittsfield," Serre continued. "That was around the time that I first got involved, just before we moved to Fourth Street. So I was there in the basement of the library, opening those boxes up and seeing what we had for equipment. So we stayed there at Fourth Street for about 10 years, and then this building that we're currently in now, over on Federico Drive, was constructed in 1998. It was built kind of custom-made for the cable company and for us and for one other company."

Serre said one of their proudest moments was saving the radio station WTBR-FM back in 2018. PCTV made space for them so they could continue operation.

"We carved out some space here in our facility for that, and we've been operating that radio station ever since. So those are some of the big milestones of growth of the organization over the years, and the things that we've done," he said.

They have also invested in advanced technology to keep their programming accessible to all.

"Technologically, there's another whole series of things that we've gone through," he said. "We've started out with a single cable TV channel. We grew to three cable TV channels. We started out as standard definition on videotape, and we grew to digital, and then to high definition, and then everything went to the internet. So we're able to offer video on demand and live streams and video on social media. And then with the radio station, we also have a live stream there and podcasting. So we've seen a lot of technological change and tried to roll with that over the years."

Serre said that PCTV strives to keep people informed while also allowing space for people to create their own media.

"The whole idea behind PEG [Public Education and Government Access]...the whole idea behind that back in the 70s and 80s was that people could be left behind with the technology that's available to the big corporations," he said. "So, if you had a cable system at the time, ordinary people maybe they had camcorders at home, but they didn't have access to a TV studio; they didn't have access to the kind of technology that we had to allow them to create programs and share it with the community. So we filled that gap, and that was one of the main things that we did. And then also to be able to create programming for viewers and for the city, so that the municipal meetings can be shown, and so school committee meetings can be shown, and it really brings people in and involved."

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