Photography Exhibition on View at BCC

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College (BCC) presents "Spaces Between," an exhibition of photography by Dana Willette, on view in Koussevitzky Art Gallery through Dec. 4, 2026.

The gallery is open Monday–Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Admission is free.

An opening reception will be held Friday, Nov. 6 from 4-7 pm in the Koussevitzky Gallery. The reception is free and open to the public.

Willette is a multimedia artist who, for the past three years, has focused on photography and its processes while studying, working and living in Massachusetts. Her practice utilizes 35mm film and aerial photography, lighting, sculpture and alternative methods of printing. She has also worked with photogrammetry in conjunction with a spatial analysis lab.

The artist started her higher education journey at Berkshire Community College in 2018 as an engineering major, eventually switching to a studio art major. After graduating from Berkshire Community College, she was awarded a scholarship at Smith College. Film photography was her primary medium throughout her studies at Smith.

According to the artist, one reason photography has been her primary medium is because of its unique ability to depict contrast and texture in a two-dimensional format.

"The practice also brings to the foreground process over continuity, treating the photographic act as an event of becoming and un-becoming rather than a fixed outcome," said Willette, who adds that "the material vulnerability allows me to embrace the impermanence and fragility of the process and the end product. I am able to witness the transformation of materials developing, fading and evolving in dialogue with their environment."

Willette has been producing works that situate photographic materials within cycles of growth, decay, erosion, and transformation, acknowledging the image as matter in flux and as an active participant in broader ecological systems and temporal processes.

"My work often focuses on bringing meaning to the mundane, bioregionalism, and our connections with our environments," she said.

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DA Provides Updates on 4 Pittsfield Summer Shootings

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
05:11PM / Thursday, November 05, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass.— District Attorney Timothy Shugrue delivered updates on a string of gun violence incidents over the summer and said even one is too much.

"This summer was extremely upsetting to people living in Pittsfield and our entire Berkshire community. While we live in a safe community, it is always disheartening to hear these gunshots. In the past four years, there has been a remarkable reduction in gun violence," he said during a press conference at the Berkshire DA's office on Thursday.

"Since January 2023, there has been a 62 percent reduction of validated shootings in the City of Pittsfield."

There were four separate incidents involving gunfire in Pittsfield this past summer. Some suspects were charged, and some are still being sought by police.

On June 18, a person died after being shot in the area of Tyler Street and Pleasure Avenue, and another person was injured. Following an extensive investigation, the Pittsfield Police Department applied for and was granted an arrest warrant for Terry Martizna, wanted for murder.

Shugrue reported that his office is working with various authorities, including federal, to secure Martizna's return to the Berkshires. He said he was involved the whole weekend of the incident after being "immediately" contacted by the PPD.

"My office was on notice, and we continued to work with them throughout the night. I can tell you that they worked all night long; they never stopped working. I was really pleased with the amount of effort that was going into it, and by the next day, we had a pretty good clue of where we were going. But the amount of surveillance that they had to go through was incredible, and it was just commendable," he added.

"The amount of support we got from the community, from the Pittsfield residents, and from the work that these officers put in all weekend long, they were able to identify certain locations where this individual was, and that continued all the way in through Monday morning. By that Saturday, I was informed that we had a suspect that we were just producing the probable cause reports, and that was all which led to the warrant coming out."

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