Mya Terry 9/4/25 Mya Terry 9/4/25

Melissa Scheid Frantz

Melissa Scheid Frantz is an abstract realism artist based in Western Massachusetts. While living in Brattleboro, Vermont, she received guidance and mentorship through painting classes at the River Gallery

Mya Terry 8/31/25 Mya Terry 8/31/25

Jill McLean

Jill McLean is an artist from Pittsfield. After earning a degree in Interior Design at Endicott College, she returned to Berkshire County in 2008 and soon shifted her career back to art. Working full time as an Art Director with local company Lymphedivas since 2011, she does illustration, surface pattern design, and product photography by day and develops her own work as an artist on the side.

Mya Terry 8/31/25 Mya Terry 8/31/25

Karen Khan

Karen Khan is currently working on a Reflection Series of drawings and paintings that explore expanding the thinking of Contemporary Realism. She juxtaposes every day objects abstractly into compositions.

Karen was born in Pittsburgh, PA and obtained a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been shown in The Goforth Rittenhouse Gallery, Philadelphia and The Mendelshon Gallery in Pittsburgh.

Mya Terry 8/30/25 Mya Terry 8/30/25

Ellen Joffe-Halpern

I have lived and worked in the Berkshires for over fifty years as an artist, expressive arts therapist, and teacher. I began painting with Wallace Bassford, an American Impressionist, while managing the North Truro School of Art. I received a BFA from UMass Amherst and a M.Ed in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley College.

Mya Terry 8/30/25 Mya Terry 8/30/25

Diane Firtell

Not a photographer….but an artist who uses a camera, almost all of Diane's work, over the years, has originated from the photograph. Making art; a mystery to some, a mandate to others. And while she clearly fall into the latter category, the why still, often times, remains a mystery. Easily bored and not terrifically skilled technologically but, she enjoys being ever engaged in the "what is there for me to do that is different” experience…not necessarily to be different from other artists, but mostly to have a new creative experience for herself. While she continues to do what she enjoys doing, it is exciting for her to know that a year from now something she currently has no conscious awareness of will become part of a fresh and new body of work.

Mya Terry 8/29/25 Mya Terry 8/29/25

Peg Dotchin

I work in oils and pastels. A deep love of nature and the added benefit of living in the Berkshires helps fuels my painting experience.

Mya Terry 8/11/24 Mya Terry 8/11/24

Terry Wise

Terry Wise has evolved into being a painter by way of a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Textile Design from Indiana University, studies in printmaking and painting, and lots of experimentation in various forms of design and illustration.

Mya Terry 8/11/24 Mya Terry 8/11/24

Aiden White

Aidan White was born in Princeton, NJ and moved to the Berkshires when he was 8. He has always enjoyed visiting museums -- Princeton University Art Museum, The Clark, MASS MoCA, and the Rockwell.

Mya Terry 8/6/24 Mya Terry 8/6/24

Robert Markey

Robert Markey is an artist who has worked in many media over the years including painting, sculpture, installation, video and mosaics. He has done public art projects in cities around the country including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Houston and Minneapolis. His first video was aired on PBS, and he received national media coverage for his public performance work on domestic violence. He has done mosaic murals in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Israel, India, Afghanistan and the U.S. to do mosaic murals with youth in vulnerable situations. He has done painted murals with refugees in the U.S. and Greece, and with tribal painters in India.

His sculptures have been featured in various locations around the country, including The Norman Rockwell Museum and Chesterwood in Stockbridge MA, 3 Sisters Sanctuary in Goshen MA, and Sculpture Fest in Woodstock VT.

Mya Terry 8/5/24 Mya Terry 8/5/24

David Lane

Dave Lane is a painter, performer, puppet & mask maker, and one of the original members of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop in Calgary, Alberta. He is the Co-director of the New England Puppet Intensive, a 15-day residential workshop, and Co-producer of the annual Berkshire Lantern Walk in collaboration with the Clark Art Museum.

Mya Terry 8/5/24 Mya Terry 8/5/24

Karen Kane

Karen Kane's art is primarily generated through a visual and tactile discussion with internal and external forces -- emotion, memory, color, nature, structure, light, language, poetry. This discussion becomes the process and the expression itself. Her paintings and drawings begin in a place -- an image, an idea, a color, a feeling -- and evolve into form and color that are derived from that origin. Her work, however, quickly transfers to activity in a spatial environment that relates primarily to itself. The energy she feels when interacting with a point of inspiration and her materials moves her to create a visual that is an improvisation of color and form, thus evolving beyond representation of visible life to a place where new relationship is created, where energy develops beyond reasoning.

Karen Kane has studied art, beginning in her post-college years, as an independent student at various institutions including UMass Amherst and Hampshire College, and with independent teachers in Massachusetts, Vermont and California.

Mya Terry 8/5/24 Mya Terry 8/5/24

Nicole Irene

Curious and determined Nicole’ recent work is a quest through life about life itself; bridging the visual link between microcosm and macrocosm.

Mya Terry 7/30/24 Mya Terry 7/30/24

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.

Mya Terry 7/30/24 Mya Terry 7/30/24

Marita Glodt

Born in Pittsfield, Hinsdale, Ma native. Author of the "Cartoon Bridge" featured the Eagle, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Public TV among others.