BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Love Pittsfield MA - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Love Pittsfield MA
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lovepittsfield.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Love Pittsfield MA
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T190000
DTSTAMP:20260417T201409
CREATED:20251017T151114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T151114Z
UID:11834-1761843600-1761850800@lovepittsfield.com
SUMMARY:HeART/Art Show Celebration and Wine Reception
DESCRIPTION:Dottie’s Coffee Lounge is pleased to exhibit HeART\, curated by artist and educator Laura Dickstein Thompson\, featuring paintings and mixed-media pieces by Laura and her family and longtime creative collaborators—celebrating a shared legacy of artistic expression across generations. An opening celebration and wine reception will be held on October 30 from 5:00–7:00 PM\, marking both the launch of the exhibition and the joyful reopening of Dottie’s under new management. \n“I’m honored to be the featured artist at this beloved Pittsfield gathering place\,” says Thompson.“It feels like the perfect setting to share a show rooted in creativity\, connection\, and community.” Raised in a family of artists\, Thompson inherited her passion for artmaking from her grandfather\, an Ashcan and WPA artist in New York\, and her father\, a writer and painter whose bold abstractions evoke the spirit of Fauvism. Her youngest son continues the lineage\, creating expressive landscapes and cityscapes in oil paint. HeART weaves together the work of these family members with pieces by artists Thompson has collaborated with throughout her career\, including Nick Cave\, Wendy Red Star\, Tsherin Sherpa\, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.\, Wes Bruce\, and Linda Price Sneddon. \nFrom 2002–2023\, Thompson served as MASS MoCA’s founding Director of Education and Curator of Kidspace\, where she curated more than 30 exhibitions and developed community-based public programs. “My artwork reflects a belief in the transformative power of creativity\, mindfulness\, and love. I begin my painting practice with meditation and yoga\, and find that the act of painting itself becomes a form of meditation\,” says Thompson\, who now teaches at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and writes at the intersection of art and mindfulness .Her abstract expressionist paintings explore color\, gesture\, and emotion—revealing a deep connection between inner stillness and artistic expression. “Seeing all this work together\, I’ve realized that while my paintings emerge from my inner world\, they are also shaped by the visual language I’ve absorbed throughout my career—years spent in museums surrounded by thecreativity of others.” \nHeART invites viewers to experience the beauty of interconnection—between family\, art\, and the enduring human impulse to create. \nThe exhibition is up through the end of the year.
URL:https://lovepittsfield.com/event/heart-art-show-celebration-and-wine-reception/
LOCATION:Dottie’s Coffee Lounge\, 444 North Street\, Pittsfield\, MA\, 01201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lovepittsfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/LTArt.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR