Clark Art Announces Call for Art From Berkshire County High School Students

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —The Clark Art Institute, Living the Change Berkshires, and Cooler Communities invite Berkshire County high school students to participate in a juried installation of student art about climate change.

Submissions are due March 6, 2026.

The exhibition, "How Shall We Live: Berkshire Youth Artists Explore Their Relationship with the Earth in the Time of Climate Change," is on view April 18–25 at the Clark. In its fourth year, the initiative encourages local youth to pair art with the environment as they consider ways to appreciate and protect the natural world. Following the closure of the show at the Clark, it will be on view at Pittsfield's City Hall and Sheffield's Dewey Hall from late April through June.

Submissions can be 2-D or 3-D but must express students' ideas on climate change and inspire others to care for the environment. Both individual and collaborative submissions are accepted. Students are asked to respond to one or more elements in the following prompt:

In the age of climate change,

• What does nature provide?
• What are the earth's needs?
• What matters most?
• What is resilience?
• Where do you find guidance and inspiration?

For further submission information, visit clarkart.edu/education or call 413 458 0429.

The Clark hosts a free, public reception to celebrate the opening of the show and the work of participating student artists on April 18 from 2:30–5 pm in the Lunder Center's Hunter Studio. Advance registration is encouraged. Register at events.clarkart.edu.

This student art show is co-organized by the Clark, Living the Change Berkshires, and Cooler Communities.

Reminder to Lanesborough, Williamstown Voters: Mount Greylock School Committee a 'Write-In' Election

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:03AM / Friday, October 30, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Politicians and pundits in recent years have been preaching patience when it comes to getting election night results.

 

That usually means places like California, where vote-counting can be complicated or Michigan, where razor thin margins are anticipated.

 

Add Williamstown and Lanesborough to that list.

 

It is not a matter of pre-election polling suggesting particularly tight races; there is no such polling. Rather, it is a question of how voters will be making their selections in the race for the Mount Greylock Regional School District Committee.

 

None of the six candidates who qualified for four seats up for grabs on the panel appear on the ballots that have been mailed out, used in early voting or will be distributed at the polls on Nov. 3.

 

That means that all votes will be cast as write-ins, and that means it will take significantly longer for election workers to tally up votes in the local election once the polls close at 8 p.m. at Lanesborough Town Hall and Williamstown Elementary School.

 

As always, voters in both towns vote for all four seats on the ballot: two seats for Lanesborough residents and two for Williamstown residents in this year’s balloting.