The Becket Arts Center in Becket, MA is hosting their second annual Pride art exhibition “Amplifying Queer Creativity” running through July 5. Becket is a quaint town in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. It is just one of many small communities that make up the famous Berkshire region. These towns are often known to be beacons of history, art, culinary creation, and innovation.
This year, the Arts Center collaborates with other local organizations to present their second official LGBTQ+ Pride exhibition. The center’s exhibit page reads: “as efforts to erase and defund all Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in government, education & the arts escalate, a coalition of local organizations (Becket Arts Center, Q-MoB & Berkshire Queer History Project) are responding in a very creative Berkshire way: they are hosting the second Berkshire LGBTQ+ Pride Art Exhibit celebrating local LGBTQ+ artists.”
Mediums featured in the show span various mediums including a abstract painting, photography and printmaking. And artists hail from all over the world, having honed their skills international and domestically.
Artists include Saemi, a NYC-based Korean photographer whose work in the show explores emotion and the intersection of beauty and destruction, and Jackie Luczynski, whose two-dimensional works utilize mixed media like sketching, watercolor, and oil painting. Luczynski is a local MA artist who graduated from an art university in Taiwan.
This show is on view at the Becket Arts Center until July 5.
Read more about the exhibition’s featured artists here.
