Published January, 2025 Chris Antemann, "A Little Madness", 2023, porcelain, china paint, decals, luster, 25 x 18 x 16". Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Museum purchase, 1981.1 GROWING COLLECTIONS Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin Recent years have given collectors and museums an unprecedented opportunity to build public collections of ceramic art (from 1950 - present) through gifts andContinue reading →

Mara Superior, "Wake Up! America/Save Democracy", 2024, high fired English porcelain, ceramic underglaze and oxides, Cornwall stone glaze, gold leaf, 18 x 13 x 1.75", John Polak Photography “Wake up America !! The house is on fire: A Porcelain Wake Up Call” Notes from Mara Superior, Ferrin Contemporary, & Managing Director Alex Renee Mara SuperiorContinue reading →

Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, (Sampler Jug No:10), Shelburne & Sugar. Transfer print collage on pearlware jug with platinum lustre. Paul Scott 2024. 360mm x 390mm x 290mm. Shelburne Museum Collection. PAUL SCOTT in the US Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin In fall 2012, Leslie Ferrin and Paul Scott met for the first time inContinue reading →

Toshiko Takaezu, "Form Blue #31", 1990, porcelain, 19"H Beatrice Wood, "Men are not to be looked at", 1978, colored pencil, pencil on paper, 10.625 H Elsa Rady, "Four Zig Wings", private collection BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING | Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin GLASS CEILINGS WERE BROKEN   As we emerge from the year spent shelteringContinue reading →

ART IN THE AGE OF INFLUENCE | Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin ART IN THE AGE OF INFLUENCE Art in the Age of Influence is a series of solo exhibitions presented by Ferrin Contemporary during 2020-21 season, considers the impact of artist’s source materials on their artistic process and practice. Good news! Here in the Berkshires,Continue reading →

"Choice Matters." BLACK LIVES MATTER | Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin Due to the extended run of Nature/Nurture, we have the opportunity to reflect on paths taken, connections made and shared experiences in our weekly series of FC News & Stories with each issue focusing on an individual artist in the exhibition. The ON NURTUREContinue reading →

NATURE OF NURTURING | Notes from Director Leslie Ferrin A renewed awareness and galvanizing commitment for change is surging through American cultural and academic institutions, organizations, and businesses of every sort, exposing the crying need for structural change. Specifically, this includes the advancement of equality for artists of all genders, eliminating the sexual harassment, wageContinue reading →

ART & THE CANARY SYNDROME Earth Day 2020 LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID Commemorating Earth Day's 50th Anniversary Today, on Earth Day's 50th Anniversary, while hunkered down in our pods, we are viewing a live stream of powerful images illustrating issues related to the environment and COVID-19. These images are delivered 24/7 via theContinue reading →

LIFE IN TIME OF COVID Stories from the World of MASS MoCA Here in our beloved Berkshires ... the museums are closed, performances are canceled and our friends in hospitality don't know when they can safely welcome visitors again. The people who live and work here are furloughed, their jobs in limbo and exhibitions closed.Continue reading →

LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID | Leslie Ferrin, director     We are thinking of you, our artists, colleagues and friends. Wherever you are, and hopefully safe, we are all experiencing the new reality of living in a profoundly changed world. We've been hearing of so many challenges in day to day life, fearContinue reading →

SOUVENIR OF SELMA | PAUL SCOTT | New American Scenery | MLK | Notes from director, Leslie Ferrin "Let us march on ballot boxes until the salient misdeeds of bloodthirsty mobs will be transformed into the calculated good deeds of orderly citizens." - Martin Luther King, March 25, 1965, Montgomery, Alabama In honor of MartinContinue reading →