On Saturday, July 18, the Center for Peace Through Culture in Housatonic will kick off its summer season with a special gallery exhibition featuring the work of beloved local artist Deb Koffman (1956–2021). Alongside a collection of her inspiring creations, the event aims to rekindle the feeling so many associate with the gallery’s 137 Front Street location: that rare sense of entering a space with more than enough room for curiosity, uncertainty, grief, joy, and everything in between.
A Room of Her Own
I first visited Deb Koffman’s Art Space more than a decade ago. As we sat upstairs in mismatched chairs, surrounded by painted cardboard cutouts in various stages of completion, Deb traced her journey to the hamlet of Housatonic: She moved during a period of great inner darkness, arrived feeling hopeless and depressed, and connected with a community of healers who introduced her to mindfulness and spirituality.
“I wasn’t an artist,” Deb told me during a 2016 interview for The Berkshire Ed…
