Happy first day of fall! We`re looking forward to a season of changing leaves and slow gallery wanders to take in the scenery alongside our exhibitions. Enjoy these photos from falls past and we`ll see you all season long 🍂

For “Rhapsody” — on view beginning October 18 — Jimena Sarno engages craft traditions to imagine a future built on values of collectivity, reconfiguration, and repair, in collaboration with artists, teachers, and makers, most of whom are from the Global South, and combines filmmaking, sound, and sculpture with contemporary and traditional craft practices.

Within a global context of extreme violence, fragmentation, and destruction, the artists share time, space, and resources to deepen solidarity through making, repairing, and the collective production of alternative forms of knowledge, emphasizing our shared responsibility for repairing a broken-down present as we defend our future.

In exactly one month, families with children of all ages are invited to MASS MoCA`s free after hours Family Night!

Featuring a quest throughout the museum, live jazz music by BAAMS, face painting, and two different art-making stations, this year`s Family Night is a chance to spend a night at the museum and inspire the young artists in your life! See the link in our bio to RSVP for free 🎨

It`s New York Fashion Week — that means it`s time to highlight MASS MoCA`s very own "Supermodel."

Since its beginnings, photography has been thought of in contradictory terms. Initially, people believed that a photograph was a real document of the world, a mirror image captured on paper. However, photography is also the product of human imagination. The nine artists in the 2000 exhibition "Supermodel" used this contradiction in a very specific way, photographing architectural models and fake buildings.

These pictures not only documented the “fake” structures that existed before the camera’s lens, but also convinced us that we were looking at “real” buildings. They were truthful about the object’s existence, but deceitful about the size, material, or place in which it appears — reminding us of the tenuous and often superficial line between the factual and the imagined.

Thanks for joining us on Joe’s Field last Saturday for an evening with @lakestreetdive and @lawrencetheband under the Berkshire stars — we sang, swayed, and grooved together, and couldn’t have imagined a better way to close out summer!

📸: Ryan Harper (@magicharps)

An avid foodie, soul music icon Swamp Dogg once proclaimed in 1972 that he would write a cookbook so transformative that the legacies of culinary giants such as Julia Child, Betty Crocker, and even Colonel Sanders would pale in comparison. Now, more than 50 years later, that work is finally here.

“If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It” (Pioneer Works) is a book for those who appreciate recipes seasoned with personality and history, and stories to go with dinner. This is more than a cookbook: it’s a biographical artifact and a journey into the mind of a chef who’ll teach you how to make “Baked Beans Bo Diddley,” “James Brown In Flight Chicken,” and “Willie Nelson Potatoes Platter.” It’s also a glimpse into the savory life of a musical genius, richly illustrated with tales and photos of family, food, music, and business.

Pre-oder the book at the link in our bio, and join Swamp Dogg in the Research & Development Store to get it signed after his rocking FreshGrass set on September 20 at 5pm!

This #ThrowbackThursday we’re taking a closer look at Jimena Sarno’s work entitled "taracatá trabaja" that was included in the 2020 exhibition "Kissing Through a Curtain."

The ten contemporary artists in this exhibition addressed boundaries, and attempted to communicate across them: not just between different languages, but also between nations, cultures, media, bodies, and individual minds.

For Jimena Sarno, that concept culminated in the sculpture and sound installation "taracatá trabaja" created in collaboration with Argentinian musician Axel Krygier and was comprised of a custom steel structure holding 34 hand-thrown porcelain plates inscribed with a musical score and drawings of the hornero bird.

We`re looking forward to Sarno`s upcoming exhibition "Rhapsody" — on view October 18 — in which craft traditions are used to imagine a future built on values of collectivity, reconfiguration, and repair.

📷 : Kaelan Burkett

Get ready for three days of roots, bluegrass, dancing, and dumplings right in your backyard! We`re taking a look back at last year`s booming FreshGrass | North Adams to get excited for this year`s fest, starting September 19!