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other local businesses to continue hosting events that will support local artists and musicians.
This year, the business sponsored The Foundry, a venue in West Stockbridge, not far from its Lee storefront, which hosted LGBTQ+ and BIPOC-focused performances over the summer. Canna Provisions was also the only cannabis partner for the Berkshire International Film Festival and for the first time, partnered with Tanglewood in Lenox, the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra during the summer. The partnership was fairly cutting-edge news, since the BSO had never partnered with a cannabis business before.
“Doing well by doing good is part of our ethos as a company at Canna Provisions,” Williams said. “We take this responsibility seriously, and strive every day to practice what we preach while working to continually engage with and support the entire local community.”
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Artist Profile: Nate Duval
HOMETOWN: Wilbraham CURRENTLY LIVES IN: Longmeadow
EDUCATION:
Graduated from Syracuse in 2004 with a B.A. in Advertising Design
HOW DID YOU BECOME AN ARTIST?
Once I graduated, I decided that art was what I reallywanted to do so I worked at Blue Q, [a product design and manufacturing business based in Pittsfield.] I started making rock posters for local bands and products for myself and the rest was history. I have worked for myself for the last 15 years and have no plans to ever change that.
WHAT IS YOUR USUAL MEDIUM? DO YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE?
It varies, [but] mostly depends on what the finished product or outcome needs to be or look like. One way or another, it inevitably [becomes] digital and [is put] into a computer at some point. Sometimes it’s drawn by hand, sometimes drawn on my iPad Pro, or sometimes created entirely on the counter using collage and or typography.
HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH CANNA PROVISIONS?
They reached out. I believe Greg “ChemDog” was familiar with my rock poster work for bands like Phish.
ARE YOU ALSO A DEADHEAD? For sure!
WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT FOR CANNABIS, ARTS AND MUSIC TO BE WORKING IN TANDEM?
[The Smash Hits project was a] perfect fit for me to combine all my talents and interests in creating this very cool, unique, music-themed packaging system for one of the leaders in the local cannabis scene. Greg is a legend and the folks at Canna [Provisions] have been so nice and easy to work with, that it just felt like the perfect fit for me as I dipped my toe into the cannabis industry, lending my images and ideas to build the visual side of the brand they are building. I just think the three things [cannabis, arts and music] kind of tend to “blur each other” in various ways and naturally make for a perfect overlapping “Venn diagram.”
