Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) and Northern Berkshire Creative Arts (NBCA) will continue their series of talks and seminars for working artists on Wednesday, Dec. 5, from 6 to 8 p.m., with “Legal Issues for Artists.â€
Attorney Paul Rapp of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts will speak on how legal issues affect artistic and creative endeavors at the BCRC at MCLA Gallery 51, at 51 Main St., as part of the “Tricks of the Trade: Talks for Artists†series.
The event is free and open to the public with pre-registration. The Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts are advocates on behalf of the arts community in different ways, ranging from participation in litigation, making public statements about matters of interest to the arts community and making recommendations about pending legislation.
Rapp is an intellectual property lawyer who lives and works in Housatonic. Rapp represents a wide variety of artists and businesses involved in the creative sphere in matters including copyrights, trademarks and contract matters. He teaches art and entertainment law at Albany Law School and copyright law at Western New England College School of Law, writes about music, art, and the law for The Artful Mind, Metroland, and Berkshire Living magazines and appears regularly on WAMC's VoxPop program as a copyright expert.
The series will continue with “Become a Creative Teaching Artist†with David Marshall, education programs manager at the Massachusetts Cultural Council, at NBCA on Jan. 24, 2008; “The Business of Art†on Feb. 7, 2008, at MCLA Gallery 51; “The Creative Process†with John MacDonald on March 6, 2008, at NBCA; “Sol LeWitt Comes to North Adams†on April 3, 2008, at MCLA Gallery 51; and “What do Galleries Want?†with area gallery owners on May 1, 2008, at MCLA Gallery 51.
The artist talks generally will be held the first Thursday of every month, 6-8 p.m., at either NBCA – at 115 State Street, Bldg. 1, Heritage State Park, or at the BCRC – in MCLA Gallery 51, 51 Main St.
To pre-register, call Veronica Bosley, program coordinator of the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, 413-663-5253. For more information about the BCRC, go to www.mcla.edu/bcrc . For more information about the NBCA, go to www.nbcreativearts.org .
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Sanford, Maine, Edges SteepleCats in Season Opener
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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The SteepleCats Sunday started their 2026 season the way they ended their 2025 campaign: with a narrow loss to the Sanford Mainers.
Sanford, which won a best-of-three playoff series against North Adams last August, scored four runs on 14 hits to earn a 4-2 win at Joe Wolfe Field.
The Mainers broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run rally in the third inning, and four Sanford pitchers combined to collect 11 strikeouts as the visitors improved to 2-1 this summer.
North Adams, which saw its planned road opener rained out on Saturday, got to open the season in front of its home fans.
And those fans saw a strong performance from the North Adams pitching staff, which, despite allowing 14 hits, including five doubles, gave up just three earned runs.
“I like the grit,” SteepleCats coach Mike Gladu said of his team’s Game 1 performance. “I thought the pitchers performed pretty well. We had a couple of situations where we definitely should have gotten some runs in and didn’t get that hit.
“And there were a couple of plays with a little rust. Certainly, the ball that was hit over [Evan] Meier’s in left field, he just mistracked that one. And the extra run they scored in the eighth, the kid wasn’t going to go [from third on a fly ball], we made a throw and nobody could stop it.
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