MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center

MCLA Berkshire Cultural Resource Center BCRC brings the best of performance and art to the Berkshires and showcases the best of the Berkshires to the world.

MCLA's Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) provides professional development training, resources, and support to the artists, art managers, and creative workers of Berkshire County. Through its multiple programs and presentations, BCRC brings the best of performance and art to the Berkshires and showcases the best of the Berkshires to the world. BCRC is a collaborative project of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, MASS MoCA, and the City of North Adams.

05/13/2026

Join us tomorrow! Be ready for a different kind of experience driven by art, food and community ✨

05/12/2026

All 51 spots have been claimed for this Thursday’s The Thread Between Us. Our team is working hard behind the scenes to bring forth an immersive communal experience dinner experience. We cannot wait!✨

03/07/2026

Amazing day at the Western Mass Zinefest!
Happening till 2:00 today. Come on down! Congratulations Ciarra, Carolina and Joey! And thanks to all the vendors and zine lovers for coming out!

03/05/2026

First Friday performance tomorrow night! Join Junli Song and MOSAIC at Gallery 51. North Adams First Friday reception 5:00-7:00. Performances scheduled for 6:30 and 7:00.

10/03/2025

OPENING OCTOBER 17TH: Ecologies of the In\between

Featuring Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Báyò Akómoláfé

Join us for an opening celebration on Friday, October 17th, 5-7pm at Gallery 51, 51 Main St. North Adams, MA.

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"end of the world how did you get in my imagination" -CAConrad

This exhibition is an invitation to the in\between — a proximal zone of time and space that holds the tensions and potentialities between what was, what is, and what can be. A littoral contact site of relationality where our feelings and capacities shore up against perceived limits, the in\between toggles us in modes of estrangement as capacious as they are disorienting. Texturing what it means to be “living in the end times,” the in\between is moved by minor gestures, prompting us to otherly inhabit the late hours of modernity when structures of dominance are simultaneously being reinforced and dismantled. Distancing itself from apocalyptic rhetoric, the in\between reminds us that ends and beginnings coexist, ecologically.

How might we feel, care, create, think, love, teach, act, learn, and relate otherwise if we loosen our attachments to the end? Ecologies of the In\between brings together four artists — Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Báyò Akómoláfé — whose work collectively moves across and between forms — drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, sound — in an embrace of pluralities, thresholds, and portals. Here, doom exists alongside possibility, resistance moves with surrender, and affinity brushes up against antipathy.

Ecologies of the In\between is curated by Dr. Victoria Papa, Associate Professor of English & Visual Culture at MCLA.

Link in bio for more information.

Collage slide featuring artworks by Johanna Hedva, Kelsey Shultis, and CAConrad.

Original audio from Báyò Akómoláfé’s forthcoming sound installation, “Vestigial Scripts," produced by Alex Miller.




Báyò Akómoláfé of the

Address

51 Main Street
North Adams, MA
01247

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 4:45pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4:45pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4:45pm
Thursday 8:30am - 4:45pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:45pm

Telephone

(413) 662-5327

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