ON VIEW | October 3-November 2, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION | Friday, October 3, 5-7 PM
MOSAIC EventSpace | 49 Main Street, North Adams, MA
Scenes from The Center for Resourceful Living is an exhibition of photographs that highlight the 50-year anniversary of the founding of The Center for Resourceful Living. Curated by Sharon Wyrrick, this exhibition offers a peek inside this adventurous program at the then North Adams State College from 1975-1980. The exhibition features photographs from the Randy Trabold Collection, donated to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts by Ida Trabold, images from MCLA’s Freel Library archives, and additional photographs from participants in the Center’s programs in the 1970s.
Coupled with the exhibition, a documentary film also by Wyrrick, Did You Put Milk in the Bucket?: A Tribute to The Center for Resourceful Living, will be shown on October 11 at 7 PM in Murdoch Hall 218 at MCLA. Both the exhibition and the film screening are free and open to the public.
ON VIEW | October 17, 2025-January 4, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION | Friday, October 17, 5-7 PM
Gallery 51 | 51 Main Street, North Adams, MA
"end of the world how did you get in my imagination" -CAConrad
This exhibition is an invitation to the in\between—a proximal zone of time and space that holds the tensions and potentialities between what was, what is, and what can be. A littoral contact site of relationality where our feelings and capacities shore up against perceived limits, the in\between toggles us in modes of estrangement as capacious as they are disorienting. Texturing what it means to be “living in the end times,” the in\between is moved by minor gestures, prompting us to otherly inhabit the late hours of modernity when structures of dominance are simultaneously being reinforced and dismantled. Distancing itself from apocalyptic rhetoric, the in\between reminds us that ends and beginnings coexist, ecologically.
How might we feel, care, create, think, love, teach, act, learn, and relate otherwise if we loosen our attachments to the end? Ecologies of the In\between brings together four artists—Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Báyò Akómoláfé—whose work collectively moves across and between forms—drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, sound—in an embrace of plurality, thresholds, and portals. Here doom exists alongside possibility, resistance moves with surrender, and affinity brushes up against antipathy.
Ecologies of the In\between is curated by Dr. Victoria Papa, Associate Professor of English & Visual Culture at MCLA.
Click HERE for the Ecologies of the In\between Resource Guide
