The Brothership Building Window curated by IS183 Art School of the Berkshires will feature Winter Study by Katherine Finkelstein for the month of November.

ARTIST BIO: Katherine Finkelstein is an artist and the founder and director of Motherbox Gallery, an exhibition space she has run out of her Brooklyn apartment since 2016. She received her BA from the Bard College Photography program and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Low-Residency program. She was an artist-in-residence at Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy, and at Pioneer Works in partnership with Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. She teaches photography at the Buxton School in Williamstown, MA.

ARTIST STATEMENT: These photographs were made over the course of my first year as a teacher. As the new photography teacher at Buxton high school, I took my own class as a means of learning how to teach. I returned to the 35mm camera of my youth. I shot the same bulk-loaded black and white film as my students, printed on the same paper, in the same darkroom, with the same chemicals I (re)learned to mix.

As the school year went by, I returned to my original photographic questions, my earliest longings and desire: a desire for treasure. I am a forager. I am not a capturer- I do not want to shoot, to take. I don’t know what I’m looking for. But it is something like food. Something that nourishes, something essential. Secrets hidden in the landscape. A mushroom missive communicated against the backdrop of a log. Sticks and seeds and the snow just so. Communion.

They say that the best way to become a Buxton teacher is by being a teacher at Buxton. We learn by doing and we meet each other where we are. We’re in it together. This show is dedicated to my students. Thank you for walking the path with me, for showing me what it means to teach.