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.
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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.
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.
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. Her work has been shown in The Goforth Rittenhouse Gallery, Philadelphia and The Mendelshon Gallery in Pittsburgh.
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.
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?”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nicole Irene
Curious and determined Nicole’ recent work is a quest through life about life itself; bridging the visual link between microcosm and macrocosm.
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.
Marita Glodt
Marita Glodt is a contemporary American Landscape Painter. Born in Pittsfield, Hinsdale, Massachusetts native, she is the author of the "Cartoon Bridge" featuredThe Berkshire Eagle, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Public TV, among others. Marita is an Associate Artist with Distinction of American Women Artists and a member of Oil Painters of America and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society.
Allen Freshler
Born in Pittsfield, Hinsdale, Ma native. Author of the "Cartoon Bridge" featured the Eagle, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Public TV among others.
Michael Coyne
Michael Coyne is a retired emergency physician whose artistic pursuits are inspired by mountain biking, hiking, travel, music and nature. He specializes in watercolor and ink paintings, upcycled metalwork sculptures, and pottery.
Stephanie Cohen
Stephanie Cohen is an attorney who no longer practices law. Now she paints. She recently organized and curated three group exhibitions which were exhibited at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA- “Berkshire Nasty Women Art Exhibition,” “Art for Education,” and “Art in Harmony.”
Joan Ciolfi
Berkshire native artist Joanie Ciolfi’s paintings are expressive oils infused with emotion, saturated color, and texture. Her brilliant use of simple imagery and powerful interplay of light convey stillness and breathtaking beauty.
Karen Carmean
Karen Camean uses a limited palette which enables her to explore the world of color. She use a portable system of painting which allows her to get outside and paint in different locations with minimal set up time.
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