Koussevitzky Art Gallery

Gallery Hours

The Koussevitzky Art Gallery (theatre lobby near the box office) is open to the public and offers exhibits by professional artists from the U.S. and abroad.

Several shows are mounted each semester. In addition, student art work is exhibited in the Koussevitzky lobby throughout the year.

Monday – Friday
9 a.m – 5 p.m.
Theatre lobby

Recent Exhibits

Mollie Kellogg

Mollie Kellogg

"Portraits of Magickal Beings"

About Mollie

"You are magick!"

Creative Sorceress Mollie Kellogg conjures a magickal world through fine art, film, music and theater. Her award-winning Incognito Witch® Project celebrates hidden magick. Magical realism and themes of inner magick and healing run through both her figurative paintings and films.

Mollie grew up in Arizona and attended the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. Mollie returned to Arizona where she worked as an art/creative director and illustrator and co-founded Planet Earth Theater Gallery. After living in Washington and California for a time, Mollie relocated to the Berkshires in 2021 with her husband, writer/photographer/mystic T. Collins Logan, settling in Dalton. Mollie's studio is in the Clocktower Building in Pittsfield, MA where she continues her multidisciplinary practice.

Mollie's fine art has sold internationally, and she has presented her "inner magick" message at artist talks in New York, California, and Arizona. Kellogg's short musical films, with characters inspired by her paintings, have screened at festivals internationally. Her play Incognito Witch the Musical debuted in Becket, MA in 2025.

About the Show

Paintings in this exhibit, "Portraits of Magickal Beings," are a combination of "inner portraits" from Kellogg's long-running Incognito Witch Project, and nudes from the Figurative Magical Realism series. Mollie's Incognito Witch works reveal the subject's hidden psyche, suppressed to meet society's expectations. Mortals become magickal beings adorned with jewels/nature elements, messy lipstick, and a signature flash of color under the eyes. In both series, universal connections are symbolized in stars or sparklies, and dream-like metallics. Figures evoke a Mother Nature archetype of power, strength, attraction, empathy, pain, yearning, and vulnerability.
Autumn Ni Dubhghail

Autumn Ni Dubhghail

"The Winter Portraits" and "London Collexion" Exhibit

Artist Statement

"The works herein are a combination of two collexions composed over the course of 2025. Beginning in January with ‘the Winter Portraits’ and concluding in December with the ‘London Collexion’, a prolific year celebrates a return to painting. Since Covid the length of my werke haes been in expressions through slate and natural materials. Long had I convinced myself that my talents lay not in paint. However, within 2025, I attempted to unlearn what I had been taught that painting should be and came to reclaim it through scrapes of paint and palette knife. Now with newfound confidence and the support of respected artists I am pleased to exhibit the werkes chosen within.

The Self-Portraits in Winter explore expression and identity in a nearly lost art form, now overtaken in this New Modernity by the diminishing ‘selfie’.

The ‘London Collexion’ draws inspirit from adventures in London and photographs there taken. They are inspired by largely unremarkable images re-experienced through oil and canvas.

This exhibition marks an odd and welcome turning point in my werke. It is good to paint agayne, this tyme free from perceived and learned limitations.

—Autumn Ni Dubhghail

Artist Biography

Autumn Ni Dubhghaill is an artist living and working in the beautiful Berkshires. Her works have been exhibited from Pittsfield, MA, to London, UK, mainland Europe, and many places in between. A multi-media artist, Autumn's work encompasses photography, painting, installation, sculpture, sound, performance, and so much more. She is also the mastermind behind her musical expression, Forever Autumn, to which she has performed far and wide, and her music has gained fans and followers the world over.
David Lee

David Lee

"Glass Plates"

I have always been interested in early glass plate photographs for their ability to be so far distant in time and still so immediate in expression. We all have seen those piles of ancient little black-and-white photographs for sale in antique stores; "instant relatives" they are sometimes labeled. They were usually mounted on cards embossed with florid text advertising the photographer's studio, and of a size limited by the plate that would fit in the camera with which it was made.

Until the early 20th century and the invention of faster gelatin emulsion, enlargements were next to impossible. The negatives from which these images were made would not be expected to be viewed larger than their original sizes- mostly 4x5', 5x7' or 8x10'.

By enlarging them, many otherwise invisible photographic details can be seen. But more than that, one can identify so much of the way that negatives would have been manipulated by the photographer for clarity or to enhance their explication of the scene — their Art.

And I figure as long as I am going to this extent to make these negatives do something that was never the original intention, I could photograph their surfaces to see what stories that would reveal about the photographer the sitter and magic image for which there never really was a definitive truth.

The black and white images were made in a darkroom with traditional wet processing. The color images were made with a digital camera which registered the colors of tarnished emulsion and allowed me to reformat the negatives to their original aspect ratios.
Kate Hamilton

Kate Hamilton

"Word/Shelter"

Kate Hamilton is a sculptor based in the mid-Hudson Valley. Her practice explores the architecture, experience and nature of garments. The scale of her work ranges from palm-sized to room-sized.

Hamilton's kinetic sculpture has been installed in museums, galleries and alternative spaces (including aloft at the Albany International Airport and underground in the Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, NY).

In spring 2022, her sculpture installation in Zurich was the backdrop for a concert focused on gender questions and Homer's Odyssey ('He says, She is ....Is she?').

Hamilton's background as a designer, milliner and educator influences her sculptural work. Her costumes, sets and sculptures have been installed in art performances, festivals, operas, and concerts in various places including New York, Berlin, Canada, and Zurich.

A few tangled thoughts.

In this exhibit, I am mixing words with garment sculptures. It is an experiment.

Once I lived in a massive city. One Sunday, the city closed off a busy avenue, preparing for a parade. In the early morning, I went out and walked down this unusually empty street, lined with tall buildings filled with sleeping human beings. As I walked, I had a sudden thought that has been hard to forget: We humans are big as giants and tiny as ants.

Both.

This idea was the germinating seed for the large garment sculptures you see here.

I have learned that garments shelter us and have their own language. They speak of the wearer's identity (age, status, cultural background, etc.) while also protecting (or revealing) the body they cover.
And words ... we use words in many, many ways, but essentially, they clothe human thought and communication.

Earlier this year, I read an odd news report about a mandate from the new administration, that certain words were now 'banned.' Others were to be 'flagged' for concerned attention. There was a long list, over 250 words! A few examples: belong, woman, climate, identity. This list has now grown to about 350 words.

Why were certain words no longer allowed to be used? If they can't be used to communicate ideas, how will thinking survive? How will we solve problems? I decided we needed to try to preserve these endangered words until it was safe for them to return.

And, I've been thinking more and more about the importance of pockets. Pockets in garments give the wearer a place to keep a few things safe. A small place of shelter.
PEN: Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List is Chilling Act of Censorship Original list of 250 words in March has now grown to over 350 words. Note: Also, it really does take a village. Thank you to David, Laura, Lisa, Benigna, Hallie, Nina, Tona and Dennis for your support and encouragement.
Bruce Laird
Bruce Laird

I was born and raised in North Adams, Massachusetts, attended local schools and graduated from Drury High School. I received my associate degree from Berkshire Community College, then earned my bachelor’s degree from The University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Many years later, I earned my MFA Degree from Vermont College in Montpelier, VT. I lived on Long Island for many years where I was with NOHO Gallery in Chelsea and had many one-person shows. Also, I created my own business performing educational/thematic programs for children in schools, libraries and other venues. I primarily use acrylic, but also work with collage and mixed media. My studio is located in the Clocktower building in Pittsfield, MA where I currently work to prepare for local and juried shows. Below is a partial listing of some of the juried art shows I have been in:

Albright-Knox Museum/Buffalo, NY

Discovery Museum/Bridgeport, CT

Fabir Biren national juried Color Show/Louis J. Kuriansky Award/Stamford, CT

Guild Hall Show/ Easthampton, NY

St. Johns University /Chung Cheng Gallery, NY

National Juried Biennial Show/Newport News, VA

Nassau Museum of Art/Roslyn, NY

Lincoln Center, NY

International Juried Show/New Jersey Center for Visual Arts

Berkshire Museum/Pittsfield, MA

Becket art Center/Becket, MA"