“North Adams is a constant artistic experience. I don’t even have to go to a museum to see artwork in a frame. It’s right out there, and it’s every place I look. We have traveled to many places in Europe. I remember when we were in Venice. We were trying to find a spot that wasn’t artistic, and we couldn’t. Here, everything is a painting. North Adams is full of paintings. It isn’t conventional, and it isn’t squared off like a box. It’s hilly, and the streets aren’t perpendicular. They curve.” -Patrice Bolgen, from Steeples: Sketches of North Adams
