New Arrival in North Adams: TOURISTS Hosts Inaugural Art Fair

“Arrival is a mission-driven engagement with a focus on curatorial and institutional acquisitions. It will harness the brain trusts of Williams College, New York and Boston, and beyond. Watch this space!” Elizabeth Dee

An art fair held at quirky, quaint, and seemingly handpicked locations in a nook of the northwestern corner of Massachusetts. Tourists were the main hosts along State Road in North Adams, Massachusetts. It seems like a beautiful yet extended tiny home that your friend’s obscure coworker invited you to for the dinner party you never expected.

Hitting many sensory points with a curated menu from Chef and Writer of Cooking for Artists Mina Stone, a fine tuned auditory experience with in house DJ April Hunt, and a plethora of Artists booths and discussions named LODGE Talks from Brooke Davis Anderson, Executive Director, VIA Art Fund; Kate Chertavian, art advisor; Elizabeth Dee, Founder, Independent and Independent 20th Century; Dina Deitsch, Tufts University Art Galleries; Kristy Edmunds, Director, MASS MoCA; Pamela Franks, Williams College Museum of Art; Louisa Gloger, Executive Director, Headlands Center for the Arts; Paul Ha, MIT List Visual Art Center; Harry Gould Harvey IV and Brittni Ann Harvey, Co-Founders, Fall River MoCA. The inaugural edition features exhibitors from across the United States, nominated by an esteemed team of Curatorial Ambassadors. “Arrival was founded as an antidote to the big box art fair experience, and our robust public programming addresses that by opening doors to spaces throughout North Adams and Williamstown, from the hotel lodge, to artists studios, to the gorgeous landscape of the Berkshires,” say co-founders Yng-Ru Chen, Sarah Galender Meyer, and Crystalle Lacouture.

The exhibit was offered to the public with free admission thanks to two generous donors. Something of this nature at a more remote location with such artwork and VIP attendees, is kind of unheard of.