Leni Fried News Today

The Berkshires is home to many artists, but how many of them do you know? And do you know anything about their artistic practices?

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Eclipse Mill Gallery presents (Not Entirely) "BLACK and WHITE" by artists Leni Fried and Dawn Nelson through May.   Fried chose the black and...

ADAMS, Mass. — Leni Fried and Mike Augspurger have turned the Old Stone Mill Center into a "Zero Waste" maker space.    The two updated the Board of Health last...

ADAMS, Mass. — Leni Fried and Mike Augspurger have turned the Old Stone Mill Center into a "Zero Waste" maker space.    The two updated the Board of Health last...

PITTSFIELD — Generous Berkshire County residents have gifted 26 repurposed bicycles to adults and children in an African village for their own means of personal transportation. The bikes had been donated to the Old Stone Mill Center, where they were retrofitted with wooden racks so residents of Bikie and two neighboring villages in the Republic of Congo can haul 100 pounds or more of crops and goods to market, get children to school or handle passengers. Volunteers on Sunday morning loaded...

ADAMS — In Pauline Dongala’s home village of Bikie, in the Lekoumou region of the Republic of Congo, where the chief mode of transportation is walking, few people own bicycles, so, most schoolchildren have to walk the 4 miles or more to fetch water and produce for the home, and to get to school every day. Last summer, during a visit to Adams, Dongala and her friend, Yolanda Minondo, got to talking with Leni Fried and Mike Augspurger, owners of the Old Stone Mill Center Zero Waste Make...