Clark Art Juried Student Art Show and Reception

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute, Living the Change Berkshires, and Cooler Communities present the student art show, How Shall We Live: Berkshire Youth Artists Explore Their Relationship with the Earth in the Time of Climate Change, on view at the Clark from April 18–26.

Following the closure of the show at the Clark, it will be on view at Pittsfield's City Hall from May 1 (aligning with the May First Fridays Artswalk) through June 8 and Sheffield's Dewey Hall from June 12–21. A free, public reception celebrating the opening of the show and the work of participating artists takes place on April 18 from 2:30–5 pm in the Hunter Studio at the Clark's Lunder Center. 

For the fourth year, Berkshire County high school students were invited to participate in a juried installation of student art about climate change. Submissions could be individual or collaborative and 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional. Students were asked to respond to one or more elements in the following prompt:

In the age of climate change,

Four local artists/art educators were selected to serve on the jury for the show: Anne Legêne, Enaya A. Ogletree, Michelle Raszl, and Stephanie Trotto. 

Advance registration for the April 18 public opening reception is encouraged. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0570. For more information and to register, visit events.clarkart.edu.

This student art show is co-organized by the Clark, Living the Change Berkshires, and Cooler Communities, with financial support from the Feigenbaum Foundation, Lee Bank, and Greylock Federal Credit Union.

Lanesborough Officials Review Schools' Budgets

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:49AM / Thursday, April 09, 2026

Mount Greylock Superintendent Joseph Bergeron, left, addresses the Lanesborough Select Board and Finance Committee as School Committee member Curtis Elfenbein looks at the projection of a slide in the district's budget presentation.

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Town officials Monday appeared generally receptive to the fiscal year 2027 spending plans for the two public school districts that serve the town.

 

Superintendents from the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School District (McCann Technical School) and Mount Greylock Regional School District presented their respective FY27 budgets to a joint meeting of the town's Finance Committee and Select Board.

 

Both districts are sending significantly higher assessments for approval at Lanesborough's annual town meeting in June.

 

McCann Tech, which constituted a $317,109 expenditure for the town in the current fiscal year, is seeking $463,978 for the fiscal year that begins on July 1 even though the school's operating budget is up just 3.2 percent year to year.

 

The 46 percent increase in Lanesborough's share of McCann Tech's budget is is due to two factors: a rise in enrollment of town residents at the vocational school from 20 in 2025 to 29 in this school year and a capital assessment for the first round of payments — for interest only — for a roof and window replacement project on the North Adams campus.

 

The Mount Greylock assessment, a much larger component of Lanesborough's property tax bill, is up 10.99 percent from FY26 to FY27, from $6.8 million to $7.6 million.

 

Mount Greylock Superintendent Joseph Bergeron gave a budget presentation similar to one he has delivered twice to the district's School Committee and again last month to the Williamstown Finance Committee, explaining that while the FY27 budget maintains level services to students with a net reduction of three positions, a series of factors are driving much larger assessments to Mount Greylock's two member towns.