Stroke Support

STROKE SUPPORT GROUP If you, a family member, or friend have had a stroke, you are invited to a Monthly Support Group on Tuesday, February 4 at 3:00 PM in the Medical Arts Complex, 6th Floor at Berkshire Medical Center, 777 North Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Stroke is the number 5 cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of disability. Stroke changes your life and the lives of those you love. At this monthly meeting, you can lean on others who have had experience with stroke. Your shared experiences can lift you up, inspire, give you hope, and help rehabilitate mind, body, and spirit. Upcoming meetings are scheduled on March 4, April 1,, May 6, and June3. For additional information, you may contact Peter F, a stroke survivor and peer recovery advocate at 203-914-6272 (Text First) or email broccolisoupllc@gmail.com.

Mariel Capaana at The Clark

CLARK ART INSTITUTE PRESENTS OPENING LECTURE BY ARTIST MARIEL CAPANNA Williamstown, Massachusetts—On Saturday, February 15 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a talk by artist Mariel Capanna marking the opening of Mariel Capanna: Giornata, the newest public spaces installation at the Clark. This free lecture takes place in the Clark’s Manton Research Center auditorium. Mariel Capanna (b. 1988, Philadelphia, where she lives and works) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions that are at once jubilant and wistful. For the Clark, Capanna presents two new, site-specific oil paintings as well as a monumental, two-sided fresco. The fresco process is also defined by time constraints: the term giornata has referred, since the Italian Renaissance, to the area of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day. Mariel Capanna: Giornata marks the artist’s first museum solo exhibition. This year-long installation, free and open to the public, is organized by the Clark Art Institute and curated by Robert Wiesenberger, curator of contemporary projects. Generous support for Mariel Capanna: Giornata is provided by Margaret and Richard Kronenberg. Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. Admission to the Clark is free January through March 2025.