Along with world premieres, emerging artist competitions, farm-fresh food, local brews, and pop-up jam sessions, this is three days of festival magic produced in partnership by MASS MoCA, the FreshGrass Foundation, and No Depression.įreshGround camping is SOLD OUT. Questions, please contact more about FreshGrass | North Adams at I feel just the act of doing that is the cure.Set against the foothills of the beautiful Berkshire mountains FreshGrass | North Adams is a family-friendly festival with the best in bluegrass and roots music filling the fields, courtyards, and galleries of MASS MoCA-the largest contemporary art museum in the country (gallery admission included with all tickets!). "When you think of the proliferation of CVS and Walgreens on every corner, to think about the idea of a cultural apothecary where people actually sat down and talked to one another about what ails them is a good way to really actually share our knowledge, but also have a better understanding of one another and realize, we all are more similar than we think we're all suffering from shame, or guilt or some other form (of ailment). She plans to put it out again for people to weigh in questions like: What are your cultural ailments and how are you dealing with them? While traveling, she also surveyed people about Americanitis, and is now working with a statistician on the survey and updating it. In her two-year tour, she took the hand-painted banners to display in various places across the country, including museums, artist-run spaces, and centers on Native American tribal lands. The banners, including the large map, hung on the walls around her. "You could kind of locate where you are by the highway system, but it would place you in whatever native territory you're in," Pebworth said in late January while sitting at a table in her studio space, a storefront on Eagle Street in downtown North Adams. "Dynamical Systems," a banner Alison Pebworth created for her "Beautiful Possibility Project," hangs in her Eagle Street studio. "And an artist who wants to be in dialogue with that, and then find how does a conversation turn into a vessel? How does a person's concern about the world turn into some element inside of a painting? … That authentic interest in finding points of learning together that she then can, I will call it weave into, pieces of pottery or remedies, or an elixir to create a composite portrait of a cultural apothecary at a moment in the 21st century, that we probably need one more than we ever have before." "She has a real, voracious curiosity that is authentic about human beings and different walks of life that are utterly not related to her own walk of life," Edmunds said. When Mass MoCA Director Kristy Edmunds heard about Pebworth's cultural apothecary idea, she thought it was brilliant, she said.
Pebworth - whose work often explores what it means to be American and combines painting, installation and social interaction - moved to North Adams in the fall from San Francisco for the residency. Pebworth opened her Eagle Street studio in February part of North Adams' First Fridays.
Artist Alison Pebworth is here for a yearlong residency project for Mass MoCA.
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