Artist Directory
Explore the Artist Directory to discover the many Artist Members that enrich and inspire our Berkshire arts community.
BAA’s Artist Directory is comprised of Artist Members within our Berkshire community. Listings are included in annual Berkshire Art Association Artist Membership. Once you join, we invite you to submit a BAA Artist Directory Form.
We look forward to welcoming you to into the Berkshire artist community!
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If you’re already a BAA Artist Member, we invite you to submit a new BAA Artist Directory Form so all information is current and accurate.
Brent Ridge
Brent Ridge is a Berkshires-based artist whose work delves into themes of industrial decay, natural beauty, and human resilience. With an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art and a decade of the vibrant art scenes of Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA, Ridge brings a unique perspective to his art- local, global, rustic and urban.
Melanie Mowinski
Melanie Mowinski likes paper and what goes ON paper. She likes the visceral and paper becomes a vessel on which she prints, collages, constructs, and more. She draws inspiration from the landscape of her Berkshire Hills home and residencies/travels to places like Iceland, Morocco, Tasmania, Venice, and most recently, from along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Mowinski embraces measurement and precision in the letterpress process as well as going rogue and making crazy lock-ups with super powerful magnets.
Diane Firtell
Not a photographer…. but an artist who uses a camera, almost all of Diane's work has originated from the photograph. Making art; a mystery to some, a mandate to others. While she clearly fall into the latter category, the “why” often remains a mystery. "What is there for me to do that is different?”.
Maja Parker
Maja Parker is a documentary photographer and multi media artist based out of Massachusetts, pursuing work concerned with social and economic justice. She recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Judy McNutt
Judy lives in Pittsfield, and is driven by a love of all the arts. She is an actress, singer, playwright, Director, seamstress, acrylic painter, & also does: watercolors, mixed media/collage/recycling, printmaking, photography, & jewelry making.
Crystal Howcroft
Crystal of FishScale Creations creates mixed media artworks utilizing resins with various inclusions, wire, and found objects. By emphasizing aesthetics, Crystal touches on various overlapping themes and strategies.
Kristin Graves
Kristin Graves is interested in maps of various media, and using them as ways to illustrate various messages. Kristin's greatest art influences are Nancy Holt and Joseph Cornell.
Marion Grant
Marion H. Grant works out of her studio barn in Richmond, MA. There she paints a range of subjects in oil, acrylic, and mixed media with a concentration on still-life imagery. She is opening a small gallery attached to the studio in spring 2018.
Margo Serina
Margo is a Berkshire native and life long artist who works with many different media in creating her art. Often using mixed media and elements of nature in her creations, she gravitates towards collage and watercolor, which are her favorite forms of expression.
Jessilyn Dearborn
Jessilyn Dearborn is a mixed media artist making work that exists somewhere between 2D and 3D. She uses cut paper or clay to make layers built upon a substrate to create a tangible relief. Her work is inspired by nature, texture, art history, and stories.
Elizabeth Cassidy
Elizabeth Cassidy is a lover of colors and movement, but she so appreciates the crispness of black & white and stillness. Whether Elizabeth paints in acrylics, or draws in ink and colored pencils, or cuts up papers, her personal success comes from drawing people into her art and her world.
Natalia Bystrianyk
Natalia is best known for her powerful use of color in deeply layered intuitive paintings which bubble up from years of life experience. Her instinct of where to go with it and when to stop is informed by her spirituality - a regular practice of mindfulness, yoga, and meditation.
Lori Bradley
The decorative arts, photography, landscapes, and plants are all integral to Lori Bradley's paintings and ceramics. She views the language of decoration as a pathway to memories, cultural habits, family, friends, and community rituals.
Mark Mellinger
In the '60s, I studied at Cooper Union Art School. I worked in commercial art, biology research and psychology. While continuing my practice of psychoanalysis in New York City, I relish my return to, and immersion in the nonverbal realm of painting, collage and construction, half the week in the Berkshires.
Jesse Tobin McCauley
Jesse Tobin McCauley is a painter and graphic designer working in the Berkshires. Her paintings are acrylic on canvas — bursts of bold, bright, saturated color — that evoke a feeling of happiness through the flood of interacting abstract color, finding the beauty in the chaos of color and shape.
Muriel Angelil
Inspired by the ebb and flow of nature, the colors of the trees, the sky and the ocean, Muriel Aneglil’s abstract art is inspired by music, poetry, and dance.
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