MCLA FPA

09/17/2024

Dizzy Spellz offers an Afro futuristic lens at the intersecting cultural and spiritual dilemmas through the music of Dizzy Gillespie.

10/20/2023

Rachel Valliere ‘17 stopped in for a visit ❤️Mcla Trailblazers MCLA FPA MCLA

04/18/2023

The annual Senior Art Project is opening this Thursday, April 20 from 5-7pm at Gallery 51, 51 Main Street, North Adams. Don't miss the talent and beauty of their work.

Exhibit catalog from the MCLA Gallery 51 show "Liminal Spaces: the Overlooked and Otherworldly" featuring artworks by MCLA graduating art major seniors Eloise Baker, Tiffany Ferreira, Delano Mills, Joe Vigiard, Dei Seamans, and Rachel Zemsky. Spring 2023.

01/02/2023

Getting ready for Spring ‘23 with great art, music and theatre! Join us, classes begin January 18. MCLA

11/03/2021

Free and open to the public. Don't miss this event!

09/10/2020

Some students in Intro to Music along with Professor Michael Dilthey. Thank you Pablo Calderon, Emily Downing, Franklin Lane and Breanna St. Pierre!

07/23/2020

Wednesday July 29: Genevieve Gaignard Discussion with Special Guest, Diedrick Brackens from 5 - 6:30 p.m. EST

MCLA Artist-in-Residence Genevieve Gaignard will host a virtual discussion with artist Diedrick Brackens from 5-6:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, July 29. Gaignard and Brackens will discuss the multifaceted relationship they have as artists, friends, studio mates, and colleagues. They will discuss how they navigate the art world while supporting themselves and advancing their individual practices. Use this link to register for free https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArf-qtrjgiG9PNJa-dNwBvJSuZljPma25X.

About Diedrick Brackens

Brackens is best known for his woven tapestries that explore allegory and narrative through the artist’s autobiography, broader themes of African American and q***r identity, as well as American history. Brackens employs techniques from West African weaving, quilting from the American South and European tapestry-making to create both abstract and figurative works. Often depicting moments of male tenderness, Brackens culls from African and African American literature, poetry and folklore as source. Beginning his process through the hand-dyeing of cotton, a material he deliberately uses in acknowledgement of its brutal history, Brackens’ oeuvre presents rich, nuanced visions of African American life and identity, while also alluding to the complicated histories of labor and migration.

07/22/2020

Don't miss MCLA Artist-in-Residence Genevieve Gaignard

06/22/2020

New 1 credit course available for Fall 2020! If you’d like to register for this course, please email Diane Scott at [email protected]

06/22/2020

Join G51 this Wednesday, 6/24/20.

The artist painted the portrait that appears on this week’s cover