The City of Pittsfield and the Artscape Public Art Committee invite artists to send in proposals for the annual yearlong Artscape public art exhibition in Pittsfield, the largest city in culturally-rich Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The 2012 exhibit will be held in conjunction with a citywide celebration of the author Herman Melville and his masterpiece MOBY DICK, which was written in Pittsfield, through contemporary arts. Please forward to other artists who may be interested in submitting work. For performing arts and other exhibition opportunities on this theme, please contact Megan Whilden, Director of Cultural Development for the City of Pittsfield at mwhilden@pittsfieldch.com

Location: South Street, by the Colonial Theatre Marisa Dipaola Artscape 2011 Fascinated by the story Jack and the Beanstalk, Marisa Dipaola created Jack’s Beanstalk as a vibrantly, glowing, climbing soft-sculptural beanstalk, handmade from discarded industrial foam and L.E.D. rope lights with a basketry woven surface of found fabrics, yarns, and string lights. The piece is [...]

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Location: Dunham Mall June Bisantz Artscape 2011 Art Here! Art There! Art Everywhere! celebrates Pittsfield’s strong commitment to the arts – a commitment that has come to define the city itself. Pittsfield’s visionary in its understanding of the arts as an agent of transformation and revitalization. June’s work consists of three street signs, one of [...]

Photo by Darren Vanden Berge of The Berkshire Eagle.

Come and check out the newly installed Artscape sculpture on the First Street Commons! Karl Saliter of Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut designed this piece, entitled “Making Money.” The artist describes it as a glimpse into the efforts and energy put into the physical creation of paper money. Saliter writes, “the hundred of welds which hold this [...]