We have been Awarded a Cultural Sector Recovery Grant from the MassCultural Council
Plein Air Painting Workshop by Workshop 13
Updated August 10, 2022.
Package Deal: A day long Painting Workshop with Overnight stay at Bird Hill Farm Plein Air Painting Workshop by Workshop 13
Loretta Medeiros, Instructor
September 3, 2022
(Overnight stay, September 2)
Raindates September 4, 2022
10:00am-4:00pm
Bird Hill Farm, 145 Church Street, Ware MA 01082
Package deal includes an overnight stay the night before the workshop with breakfast at the Bed and Breakfast at Bird Hill Farm
$269.00 / $259.00 for Workshop 13 members
Workshop only: $100.00 / $90.00 for Workshop 13 members
10am- 4pm
Dress: Appropriately, hat with visor, insect repellant, sunscreen, and as we will be outdoors painting.
Food & Drink: BYO food and drink for the day. We will have coolers that you can use with an extra cold drink.
Happy and Hard-to-Fool
Updated September 9, 2021.
A 3 Day Retreat for Women
With Jac Patrissi
Practicing Power and Discernment in Your Relationships
November 12-14, 2021
Bird Hill Farm
$525.00 inclusive
Jac Patrissi has been crafting creative solutions to relationship trauma and abuse for 29 years. She works as a couples counselor and trauma clinician and is the author of, Should I stay or Should I Go: A Guide to Knowing if Your Relationship Can—And Should—Be Saved.
Timothy Cummings
Artist in Residency at Bird Hill Farm
Updated July 29, 2021. As the country and the world opens up again, Bird Hill Farm is thrilled to restart our residency program. BHF is happy to announce our first residency since the Covid 19 pandemic: Albequerque, New Mexico artist, Timothy Cummings as the Summer 2021 Artist in Residence— Timothy Cummings will be in residence at Bird Hill Farm until the end of August2021, culminating with a lawn party reception at Bird Hill Farm.
During his residency, Cummings will work on a large commission and create life-sized theatre assets inspired by Victorian puppets and theater; a recurring theme in his own history as a “radical puppet maker who’s imagery often explores an array of social issues that include LGBTQ+ identity, adolescence, sexuality, coming of age, psychology, equity, and justice”.
-from MUSE, 2020
“Both playful and startlingly direct, Cummings’s subject project an irreverence and self-assuredness unmarred by gender codes. In other works, Cummings depicts young men in tears as part of what the artist describes as a “proverbial Wailing Wall” that responds to his own overwhelming sadness in light of the violence, disease, and political upheavalsthat have defined our everyday reality in 2020.”—Catherine Clark Gallery
THE WIND BENEATH THEIR WINGS
My Life Photographing Birds.
Artist talk and photo presentation by Rachel Bellenoit
Bird Hill Farm is happy to announce an artist talk and slide presentation with acclaimed photographer, Rachel Bellenoit. Bellenoit, will present her work while telling stories about her subjects, techniques and processes. Whether you are a bird lover, or an aspiring nature photographer, this event is sure to be rich with content and inspiration.
Tuesday August 25, 2020
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (approx 1 hour presentation with Q&A to follow)
via ZOOM Conference - Free
MANDALA: An Artist Retreat with Karen Dolmanisth
March 22, April 26, and May 24, 2020
Bird Hill Farm is happy to offer “MANDALA”, a series of a one day artist retreats facilitated by internationally recognized artist, Karen Dolmanisth. The retreat is open to artists and non-artists alike—anyone interested in learning about and experiencing the meditative qualities of creating
a mandala.
The day-long retreat will be divided into two main sections with the morning being devoted to a survey of mandalas throughout history and across cultures. Following lunch, and an instructional demonstration guided by Dolmanisth, guests will transition into an immersive studio experience, exploring a breath-focused, silent, meditative mandala making practice unique to this retreat.
Please call 413-277-8788 or email us for more information or order your tickets online...
Karen Dolmanisth Takes Up Residency
for a Winter of Retreat, at Bird Hill Farm
Bird Hill Farm is happy to announce internationally recognized artist
Karen Dolmanisth as the invited Winter 2020 Artist in Residence. Dolmanisth’s residency at Bird Hill Farm will create both studio work and site specific multi-media installations. Winter in New England
is a time for retreat and reflection and offers a perfect backdrop for Dolmanisth to focus and manifest new works. Dolmanisth will be in residence at Bird Hill Farm until the end of February 2020.
In the transitional time leading up to her residency, Dolmanisth filled all of the guest rooms and common spaces in the Inn at Bird Hill Farm Bird with some of her recent work, playing a significant role in the experience of the guests and patrons of Bird Hill Farm. Guests and the public alike can view her work and meet the artist on Sunday afternoons beginning mid January, or by appointment.
As her work unfolds, Dolmanisth will replace works displayed with new ones she creates during her residency, so the work on exhibit will change and grow as the residency unfolds.
At the culmination of her residency, Dolmanisth will facilitate 2 separate weekend-long retreats and a talk about her work and her process. Dates, times and details will be announced as the event approaches.
SPECTACLE AND SPRAWL:
SUMMER 2019 ARTIST RESIDENCY PAINTINGS ZANNAH NOE
Brooklyn based artist, Zannah Noe’s “Spectacle and Sprawl”, is an
ongoing examination of architecture and urban development’s impact
on community and culture.
“I found the origin story of Westlake, Daly City the perfect vernacular
expression of American populism mashed up with high design,
manufacturing and a long shadow of social-cultural impacts. These
“little boxes on the hillside” have a fascinating decades long history of
the social and cultural impact of planned communities on our society
as a whole” Zannah Noe.
ARTIST TALK | OPEN HOUSE
SUNDAY OCTOBER 20, 2019
12 PM - 5 PM (TALK AT 2)
BIRD HILL FARM, WARE MA
