Call For Art: Eyes on Art Town 2025 Williamstown Cultural District Banner Exhibition

11:04AM / Friday, June 27, 2025Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Town of Williamstown, the Williamstown Cultural District, and the Williamstown Chamber of Commerce are partnering in an opportunity to showcase local artwork right in downtown Williamstown.

From Labor Day to November 2025, selected art will be reproduced on vertical banners on utility poles along Spring and Latham Streets.

Artists and community members are encouraged to submit designs for the Eyes on Art Town banner call.

Installed: around September 13 – November 1, 2025 (weather dependent) For those selected, original artworks can be included in an exhibit in the Spring Street Market in October.

Deadline for submissions: midnight on July 6, 2025

Banner Specifications

Banner image size: 24” wide x 32” tall. Banner size: 24” wide x 48” tall. Includes Williamstown Cultural District header and footer. See example above.

Note: Modifications may be made to accommodate banner manufacturing process.

Artwork Submission Information

Online submissions only, via submission form: https://forms.gle/W93ufBn1fg6eHhp57
Those submitting work must reside and/or produce work in Williamstown.
All work submitted must be high-quality images of original work, in any medium including 3-D and digital processes.
Artists may submit only one image of original artwork.
Work must have been produced in the last 5 years.

The quality of images will affect the strength of submissions. Carefully consider composition, focus, color accuracy etc. "Crisp, clean, and simple" images read better from a distance or as people drive by.

Artists are responsible for any costs related to providing high-quality images, including but are not limited to, photographing, scanning, or graphic design. If you need assistance to produce the images, please refer to this great guide created by committee member Sarah Pike.

More technical information on submissions:

Our designer will place your image in a template- no need to add any content or design yourself.
Image format: JPG, TIF, or PDF. Resolution: 150 – 300 pixels/in at 100%.Size:300 pixel/in on longest size (minimum) or no less than 20 MB. CMYK, not RGB
Vertical images or cropped horizontal images. Aspect ratio: 8:10 (vertical)
No advertising, branding, or stock/commercial images allowed. Avoid text.
If images include recognizable people, the artist must obtain a release from these people for the images to be displayed publicly.

Jurors and Selection Process

Exhibition will be juried by a Williamstown Cultural District representative and the following art professionals with very different perspectives and preferences:

Valerie Carrigan, North Adams, Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Bryant University and artist specializing in printmaking and artist books featured in national and international collections.
Megan Mazza, Bennington, VT. Director of Studio Art Operations for Williams College and professional photographer, running Megan Cross Photograph.
Jesse Tobin McCauley, Pittsfield, MA. Painter and graphic designer who sits on the board of the Berkshire Art Association and is the creator of the Drive.Walk.Bike by City ArtShow in Pittsfield. She is a partner on the Let it Shine! Public Art Project Committee stewarding murals throughout the city of Pittsfield.

Selection criteria. Works will be evaluated based on whether they:

Represent range and depth of local talent
Display excellence in elements of design and/or public art
Engage the viewer's interest conceptually and/or visually
Enhance community identity and place
Contribute to community vitality
Involve a broad range of people/communities
Expand perception and understanding of our region and community

In past years jurors have tended not to select work which represents recognizable, distant content (for example: the Eiffel Tower in Paris, surfers on a California beach, Times Square). Keep this in mind as you choose what to submit.

The Banner Selection Committee will review all proposals received by the deadline and make a final decision by August 5, 2024. The Committee reserves the right to reject any and all submissions.

Complete form: https://forms.gle/W93ufBn1fg6eHhp57

Williamstown Cultural District Responsibilities

Contract with a vendor to print the banners on high quality vinyl and be professionally installed.
Final printed banners are the property of the Williamstown Cultural District.

Questions? Contact Ellen Joffe-Halpern at ellenjoffe@gmail.com

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Mount Greylock School Committee Hears Budget Requests, Pressures

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:32AM / Wednesday, February 18, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee Thursday heard the final rounds of fiscal year 2027 budget requests and heard why those — or any — discretionary increases in spending will be difficult in the year that begins July 1.

Williamstown Elementary Principal Benjamin Torres and middle-high school Principal Jake Schutz each presented the spending priorities formulated by their respective school councils. The requests followed a presentation by Lanesborough Elementary Principal Nolan Pratt at the January meeting.

Superintendent Joseph Bergeron then told the School Committee that state and federal aid to the district is going to be slightly lower than FY26 and reminded the panel that the district spent the last two years spending down its reserve accounts, as requested by the member towns, to the point where those reserves — School Choice, tuition and excess and deficiency — cannot be applied to the operating budget.

"Spending the exact same amount of money from this year to next year — that alone will mean a 4 percent increase [in appropriations] to each of our towns," Bergeron said. "That's the baseline on top of which everything else will happen.

"We know we're seeing an 8.75 percent increase in health insurance, but we also have an increasing number of employees who are taking our health insurance, so that health insurance line is increasing substantially. When it comes to out-of-district tuition as well as transportation, both of those are seeing marked increases as well."

District staff and the School Committee will further refine its FY27 budget over the next five weeks, with a budget workshop scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, and a public hearing and final budget vote on March 19.

The district's appropriations to Williamstown and Lanesborough, which each pay a proportional share of the prekindergarten-Grade 12 district's operating expenses, will face an up-or-down vote at each town's annual meeting, in May and June, respectively.

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