MCLA Hosts Celebration of Life for Steve Green

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA and the Green Family will host a celebration of life for professor Stephen A. "Steve" Green at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2, in MCLA's Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium and via Zoom. 
 
 
Green accomplished a 36-year career at the former North Adams State College (now MCLA). Steve served as a sociology professor, department chair, and vice president of academic affairs.
 
According to a press release, his passion for non-traditional students stemmed from his own educational struggles, making him a cherished mentor, friend, and advocate.  
 
Outside academia, Green's commitment to community flourished through the creation of the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, where he served as a board member. Awards recognizing his community contributions adorned his life, but Green, ever humble, preferred their omission from his biography. In retirement, Green dedicated time to the Al Nelson Food Pantry, embodying his belief in the power of community support.  
 
This event is free and open to the public.  Email advancement@mcla.edu for more information or Zoom details. 

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MCLA in Talks With Anonymous Donor for Art Museum, Art Lab

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

Andre Lynch, the new vice provost for institutional equity and belonging, introduces himself to the trustees, some of whom were participating remotely.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts may be in line for up to a $10 million donation that will include a campus art museum. 
 
President Jamie Birge told the board of trustees on Thursday that  the college has been in discussions for the last couple years with a donor who wishes at this point to remain anonymous.
 
"It's a donor that has a history of working with public liberal arts institutions to advance the arts that those institutions," he said.  "This donor would like to talk with us or has been talking with us about creating art museum and an art lab on campus."
 
The Fine and Performing Arts Department will have input, the president continued. "We want to make sure that it's a facility that supports that teaching and learning dynamic as well as responding to what's the interest of donor."
 
The college integrated into the local arts community back in 2005 with the opening of Gallery 51 on Main Street that later expanded with an art lab next door. The gallery under the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center had been the catalyst for the former Downstreet Art initiative; its participation has fallen off dramatically with changes in leadership and the pandemic. 
 
This new initiative, should it come to pass, would create a facility on MCLA Foundation property adjacent to the campus. The donor and the foundation have already split the cost of a study. 
 
"We conducted that study to look at what approximately a 6,500-square-foot facility would look like," said Birge. "How we would staff the gallery and lab, how can we use this lab space for fine and performing arts."
 
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