Celebrate Local LGBTQ Artists at Pride Exhibit Opening @ Becket Arts Center

In thIs Opening Reception on 6/13, 5-8pm, you’ll be able to meet the diverse group of local LGBTQ+ artists, see and learn about their works, and learn about the past, present, & future of queer artists and art in the Berkshires.

As Presidential Executive Orders try to erase and defund all Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts in government, education, & the arts, a coalition of local organizations (Becket Arts Center, Q-MoB, Berkshire Queer History Project, & the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation) is responding in a very creative Berkshire way: they are hosting a Pride Exhibit featuring local LGBTQ artists at the Becket Arts Center, 6/12-7/6/25 and calling on local LGBTQ artists to submit work for the exhibit by 4/15/25.

LGBTQ artists have been integrally involved in building and sustaining all of the arts institutions in the Berkshires for more than 200 years, and have been woven into the fabric of the creative economy that makes the Berkshires famous all over the world. So of course in 2025 a coalition of local organizations want to celebrate their contributions by showing their works at a special Pride Exhibit at the Becket Arts Center. Many people know the famous LGBTQ artists who have created world-famous works in the Berkshires like Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, & Ted Shawn, but fewer people know the many local queer artists who make the works we see in our homes, businesses, local stages, galleries, & museums. This Pride Exhibit is for those artists who are your neighbors, colleagues, & friends.

The Berkshire Queer History Project (BQHP) will be on hand filming stories from both artists and their patrons about the local LGBTQ+ artists who have made our lives better by making, exhibiting or performing in the Berkshires. This exhibit is a chance for BQHP to capture stories about past, present, and emerging LGBTQ artists and hear their stories in their own words -- about the importance of local art, about their process of making art, and the ways their queerness does and does not affect their work.

: After 5/15, click this Exhibit Link to learn more about the exhibit and the artists who are featured in it.

ARTISTS PLEASE CLICK TO FOR THE EXHIBIT BY 4/15/25

Also check out other Arts events in Becket, Performances in Becket.