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Photos: Iwan Baan
We founded The Mastheads, a public arts and humanities program focused on the literary heritage of Pittsfield, MA, in order to experiment with how a low-cost and physically movable architectural project could revive cultural history.
The five Mastheads studios each represent a fragment of a historic author’s home that once stood in or near Pittsfield, including Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The structures move throughout the city to activate forgotten landscapes and support present-day writers of all ages through residencies and public access.
