Announcing Berkshire Artist Residency Program 2023 Artists: Kelly Potter & Noah Beauregard
Berkshire Art Center, formerly IS183 Art School, is pleased to announce our two resident artists, Kelly Potter and Noah Beauregard, for the Berkshire Artist Residency 2023. The Red Lion Inn, in their sixth year hosting a resident artist, will be welcoming Noah Beauregard. Chesterwood, the home, studio, and gardens of America’s foremost 20th C. sculptor Daniel Chester French, located in Stockbridge, will be hosting Kelly Potter, their third resident artist.
Since 2012, Berkshire Art Center has coordinated Artist Residencies that pair local visual artists with cultural institutions and historic landmarks across the Berkshires. The heart of the Berkshire Artist Residency is to give local visual artists the opportunity to create new work inspired by their home county. The extended length and flexible hours of the program give artists, who might not have the luxury to attend residencies that pull them away from home for long periods of time, the ability to further their career and create work in a way that compliments their current practice. Berkshire Art Center recognizes the important outlet and invaluable opportunity an artist residency provides. Our tailored program gives visual artists exclusive access to world class cultural facilities and historic landmarks to develop new work that intertwines with the fabric of our county. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Stockbridge Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
The Summer 2023 program will begin at both locations on May 29th and run through September 4th. The two artists will receive access to the buildings and grounds of their site and support for the development, creation, and exhibition of their work. During the summer, both artists are invited to teach classes through Berkshire Art Center and will deliver an Artist Talk to share their experiences, inspiration, and process during their residency. Each residency closes with a reception and exhibition of the artist’s work.
The Artists
Kelly Potter, is a painter and a ceramic sculptor based in the Berkshires, MA. She received her Undergraduate BFA degree in Studio Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Talent Award, George M. Wardlaw Scholarship, and Second Place Juried Junior Senior Show Award. Her visual art is based on preliminary studies of plant and animal activity within semi-natural locations in the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley. Using oil painting and wall mounted ceramic relief sculpture, she investigates a dynamic between the tamed and the untamed. https://www.kellyepotter.com/
Noah Beauregard, is a painter working out of Berkshire County, MA. Drawn to painting and design and as a child, Beauregard’s art focuses on abstracting common images through form and color. Beauregard pushes recognizable scenes into a bright bizarre world of saturated color and mythic design. The human form and unworldly plants are common motifs in his work. https://www.noahbeauregard.com/