ALBANY, NY PERMPERMIT #486

Published by the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main St., Catskill, NY 12414 • Issue 107 • November/December 2015

40 Years 40 Artists Launches Opportunities throughout GCCA’s 40th Year!

The “40 Years/40 Artists” and Chase Gallery in Boston. collection generated quite a buzz She has curated and organized this fall as GCCA launched its 40th numerous exhibitions including anniversary year, attracting new “The Detours of the Possible” artist members and art collectors at Les Territoires, Montreal, to the Arts Council. All GCCA Canada, “Dangerous Women” at members were invited to submit DFN Gallery and “Anomalistic one small work of art for consid- Revolution” at A.I.R. Gallery. eration for the juried series of Tony Iadicicco has been opportunities, including a group a central, dynamic part of the show, a solo show, high quality Capital Region arts community for reproduction and circulation of over half a decade. As Executive art work and made available for Director of Albany Center Gallery, purchase at a silent auction held an active board member of Albany at our recent 40th Anniversary Barn, and an award-winning Party on October 3rd. The 40 artist and community volunteer, original works were selected by Tony works tirelessly to connect jurors Julie Lohnes, the Curator of people with the arts and promote Art Collections and Exhibitions the creative development of our at Union College, and Tony next generation of leaders. His Iadicicco, the Executive Director awards most recently include of Albany Center Gallery, who are the 2014 Norman S. Rice Arts, both artists and arts leaders in the Culture and Education Award, Capital Region. one of “Tomorrow’s Masters Julie Lohnes is currently the Today” by the Albany Institute of Curator of Art Collections and History & Art and Arts, Metroland Exhibitions at Union College in Readers Poll “Local Art Hero” Schenectady, NY. Lohnes earned the Arts Ambassador Volunteer her Masters of Fine Arts from the of The Year Award from The School of the Museum of Fine Stakeholders Inc., 2013, 2011 Arts in Boston with a focus on Best Local Artist by Capital video, sculpture and installation Region Living Magazine and the and her Bachelor of Fine Arts Metroland Readers Poll “Best from Boston University in painting Local Artist”. with a minor in art history. She 40 Years/40 Artists received has more than 15 years of expe- over eighty submissions of land- rience working in contemporary scapes, contemporary abstrac- art galleries, most recently as tions, photographs, portraits, and The 40 Years/40 Artists boxed postcard set, limited to an edition of 250, is available for purchase in advance for $20 Executive Director of the not-for- whimsical illustrations. Lohnes and at $30 on the day of the Salon 2015 opening reception on November 21, 2015. Look for more images featured in profi t, A.I.R. Gallery, the fi rst artist and Iadicicco chose a cross- the collection throughout Arts Alive. collective for women in the United section of pieces they found most Clockwise from Upper Left: Water Tower by K. Velis Turan, 2015, Mixed Media Fiber; Untitled: from the Pond Series States. She also held the director deserving from each of the genres by Gwenn Mayers, 2015, Handpainted iPhone photograph printed on Arches paper; Aura of a Fox by Elin Menzies, position at DFN Gallery in NYC that were submitted. “The jurying 2015, Oil; Revisiting the Spirit of the Kaaterskill by Terrance DePietro, 2015, Distemper on Rag Board. Continued on page 2

Aff or dable Fine Art & Crafts Exhibition and Sale Salon 22015 0 1 5 & Handmade Holidays Featuring Original Work by GCCA Artist Members

Untitled #1 Hear ye, Hear ye: Come one, These one of a kind gifts drawings and prints by Greene by Dot Chast, come all! Purchase your holiday will be treasured for years to County art legend Dot Chast and watercolor gifts AND support local artists come—including photographs colorful canvases and cards by and ink while you shop! The Greene and cards by Tom Sardo, etchings Kay Levine. County Council on the Arts annual of animals by Joan Blazis Levitt, Continued on page 10 members’ exhibition, Salon 2015, features reasonably-priced fi ne art and craft collectibles. The walls of GCCA’s Catskill Gallery showcase original artworks from fl oor to ceiling—all priced under $300. Clever crafts abound upstairs in the Artful Hand Gallery. Give someone you fancy the gift of a unique work of art, or start your own art collection. Salon 2015 & Handmade Holidays: Aff ordable Fine Art & Crafts Exhibition and Sale runs from November 14, 2015 through January 2, 2016. The public is invited to celebrate the season and meet the artists at the opening reception on Saturday, November 21 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the GCCA Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Salon 2015 off ers a wide variety of artworks: original drawings, paintings, prints, photo- graphs and sculptures measuring 24 inches or less. Shop early! The GCCA turned the big “40” and celebrated with a 40th best treasures disappear from Anniversary Party on October 3rd held at the Beattie- the walls as they are purchased. Powers Place. Read the complete story on pages Come back often! We replace 8 & 9. All event photographs by W.R. Manchester Photography. the sold items with new work promptly. Floral Still Life by Kay Levine, oil.

Presenting Cultural Events & Opportunities for the Twin Counties. www.greenearts.org 4 Page 2 November/December 2015 ALIVE

GREENE COUNTY 2016 County Initiative Program (CIP) COUNCIL ON THE ARTS Grant Applications Now Available

Guideline booklets and appli- growth and viability of major private individuals and have an County; Planet Arts, Thomas BOARD OF DIRECTORS cations for the Greene County Greene County organizations. active Board of Directors. Cole National Historic Site, David Slutzky, President Initiative Program for 2016 are With invaluable support from Organizations must have Wave Farm, Windham Chamber Bill Deane, 1st Vice President now available. Deadline for the Greene County Legislature, been resident in Greene County Music Festival and Zadock Pratt Jeff Friedman, Treasurer submission of applications is these goals continue to be met, for at least two years. Museum. Paul Poplock, Assistant Treasurer Saturday, December 5, 2015. producing a positive impact on Organizations must provide Returning applicants will Lawrence Krajeski, Secretary The purpose of the County the state of the arts and quality of regularly scheduled or full season receive CIP Guidelines/Applica- Kico Govantes Initiative Program (CIP) is to life in Greene County. cultural programs and/or services tions via email from the GCCA. Liz Kirkhus provide general operating or Greene County organizations in Greene County. Organizations interested in Nancey Rosensweig Laura Segall programmatic support from the receiving funds from state and The annual operating budget applying for 2016 CIP funding John Sowle Greene County Legislature to federal agencies, including the is generally in excess of $20,000, and returning applicants who Brenda Taylor major Greene County arts and New York State Council on the including in-kind contributed have not received their Sheila Trautman cultural institutions that off er Arts, should apply to this fund. services and goods. Guidelines/Applications by the quality professional services Organizations applying through Previously funded organi- end of October should contact BOARD OF ADVISORS and programs of benefi t to the the Decentralization Program zations include: The Altamura Kay Stamer at the Greene County Casey Biggs, Chairman residents of Greene County. The may not apply to this program. Center for the Arts, Bronck Council on the Arts, 398 Main Karl T. Anis Greene County Council on the Additional requirements are Museum, Catskill Mountain Street, P.O. Box 463, Catskill, NY Jared Aswegan June Battisti Arts (GCCA) has administered as follows: Foundation; MJQuill Irish 12414; (518) 943-3400; gcca@ Susan Beecher this fund since its establishment Organizations must be a Cultural & Sports Centre, greenearts.org. For more infor- Dick Brooks in 1983. CIP funding is intended legally established not-for-profi t Mountaintop Historical Society, mation, see Funds & Grants at Andrea Cunliffe to promote the development, whose assets do not benefi t Music & Art Centre of Greene www.greenearts.org Frank Cuthbert Louise Hughes Ronnie McCue Kim McLean Patrick D. Milbourn Patti Morrow 2015-2016 James Parrish Ruth Sachs Robert Sheridan Arts Education Michael Smith Reginald Willcocks Grants Awarded! STAFF Kay Stamer An Important GCCA Executive Director Funds & Grant Program Sharon Shepherd Assistant to the Director; Cheryl Jean accepts a 2016 Arts Education Award from Community Art Membership Coordinator; Grant Coordinator Sara Pruiksma-Rizzo on behalf of Jazz in GTown for their Arts Alive Editor Greene County Council on Artist Babara Reeley with support Jazz workshops in Germantown Central School. This project is sponsored Sara Pruiksma-Rizzo the Arts is pleased to announce of Laura Cannamela as the certi- with the support of the Germantown Library. Community Arts Grant the 2015-2016 Arts Education fi ed School Teacher. Coordinator Grant recipients providing invalu- Well known Storyteller Tom 40 Years/40 Artists Continued from page 1 Renee Nied able art programming to our Lee, also sponsored by the Valatie Coordinator Community local youth. Funding for the Art Free Library, receives a grant to process was very competitive,” said GCCA’s Visual Arts Director, Molly Arts Grants, Schoharie Education Grants is provided by support his Storytelling program Stinchfi eld. “We are so lucky to have such generous artist members Molly Stinchfi eld the New York State Council on at the Ichabod Crane Primary who are willing to donate their work to benefi t other artists and the Visual Arts Director the Arts (NYSCA) administered School, also in Chatham, NY, Greene County community. We were blown away by the volume of Fawn Potash by Greene County Council on the working with multiple classes of high-quality submissions.” Masters on Main Coordinator Arts, and with $1,000 of corpo- second graders. The resulting collection is a unifi ed encapsulation of where GCCA rate sponsorship from Stewarts Ruth Leonard receives an has been for the past 40 years and where it is going over the next 40, Dale Loughran & Donna Trunzo “Sprouts” Program Co-Directors Shops. Arts Education Grant for her with work by Richard Armstrong, Nancy Azara, Lauren Simkin Berke, Arts Education Grants are program with Catskill Elementary Darla Bjork, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Dot Chast, Terrance DePietro, Patricia Britton made available annually, and School “Farms, Fields and Forest Piper Dorrance, Richard Edelman, Patti Ferrara, Kristina Gibson, Bookkeeper community artist members are Murals - Plant Growth in Our Allen Grindle, Kate Hamilton, Scott Keidong, Jenny Kemp, Maria Carrie Dashow encouraged to apply! This year’s Community and Their Uses” a Kolodziej-Zincio, Jim Krewson, Susan Kukle, Polly M. Law, Harriet Grants Consultant recipients span Greene and program which includes fi eld Livathinos, Gwenn Mayers, Anne-Marie McIntyre, Claudia McNulty, Will Barnds Columbia Counties, funding fi ve trips, observational drawing, and Eva Melas, Elin Menzies, Susan Miiller, Slink Moss, Ken Polinskie, Catskill Gallery Reception, (5) programs for a total of $9,705. the integration of Art and Science. Fawn Potash, Giselle Potter, Karen Rhodes, Leah Rhodes, Tom Sardo, courtesy of Experience Works Operation Unite located Each program off ers students Amy Silberkleit, Ruby Silvious, Carol Swierzowski, Richard Talcott, K. CONSULTANTS in Hudson, sponsored The a rich, in depth, hands on creative Velis Turan, Jersey Walz and Wendy Ide Williams. Ruth Leonard, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company experience unique to program- Artists among the selection include long-time GCCA members, “Sprouts” Program to provide their program ming currently off ered within such as Dot Chast, Terrence DePietro and Susan Kukle, as well as Anthony Rago “ChoreoPhysics: Demonstrating the school systems. If you would brand new members who joined specifi cally to apply for the show, such Apogee Webmaster Concepts Through Dance” at like to learn more about these as Eva Melas, Jersey Walz and Scott Keidong. The call-for-submissions YAMA Industrials, Inc. Taconic Hills High School in programs, and grants available attracted new members from across the Hudson Valley and as far south Computer Technology Craryville, NY. please contact Sara Pruiksma- as New York City. Each of the 40 selected works were displayed and Kate Boyer Jazz in GTown is providing a Rizzo at the Greene County auctioned at the 40th Anniversary Party at the Beattie-Powers House. Design & Layout – Arts Alive series of Improvisational Music Council on the Arts located at 398 The works will be reproduced as a set of postcards to commemorate Ruby Silvious Workshops for the Student Band Main Street in Catskill, NY, or by GCCA’s 40th year. The set is available for purchase at the holiday Salon 40th Anniversary Logo Design at Germantown Central School calling (518) 943-3400, or by 2015 show. District, working closely with email [email protected]. View At the 40th Anniversary Party, guests cast votes for one of the 40/40 VOLUNTEER GALLERY Band Director Daniel Galliher to more information on available artists to have a website consultation with juror Julie Lohnes and a solo & OFFICE STAFF continue improvisational lessons grant programs, guidelines and show at GCCA in January 2016. The winner is Ruby Silvious, a visual Dara Young following workshops. application forms on the GCCA artist and graphic designer. Silvious’ graphic and bold entry is remi- Editor, Calendar & Opportunities The Valatie Free Library has website at www.greenearts.org/ niscent of a Futurist collage. The piece is from her series “365 Days Jeanne Heiberg & sponsored a Pit and Raku Fired funds & grants. of Tea” where she draws, paints and collages moody, evocative and Wayne Sheridan Ceramics workshop for Ichabod cheerful daily scenes in a diarist, tea-stained travel journal on dried, Arts Alive Contributors Crane High School, located in used teabag paper. Silvious was born in Tacloban City, Philippines and William Carbone, Flo Hayle, Chatham, NY, led by Ceramicist currently lives in Greene County. Her award winning work has been Erika Klein, Pat Lemmon, exhibited internationally and is included in institutional and private Dara Trahan th collections. (Silvious also created the GCCA’s 40 Anniversary logo CATSKILL GALLERY designs which will be used throughout the year.) COMMITTEE & VOLUNTEERS The ten artists chosen by the jury for a group show at GCCA in Deborah Artman, Will Barnds, January 2016 include Richard Armstrong, Lauren Simkin Berke, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Dot Chast, Allen Grindle, Eva Melas, Giselle Potter, Kate Hamilton, Kico Govantes, Jim Krewson, Amy Siberkleit, and Jersey Walz . GCCA will produce a Ashley Hopkins-Benton, small edition of fi ne art archival prints, one by each of the ten selected Carol Swierzowski, Richard Talcott artists. The prints are diff erent from the winning post card image, and Interns are available for purchase at Salon 2015. Proceeds from the postcard Anne Christman set and the prints will benefi t GCCA’s Visual Art Program. Valerie Ohm A vibrant school of art Five artists, Richard Armstrong, Lauren Simkin Berke, Allen . . . and a host of people like you! Grindle, Eva Melas and Giselle Potter, were selected by the jury to be here at home. featured in our 40th anniversary advertisement campaign. A profes- sional photographer will photograph each of them in their studios for a multi-platform print and social media campaign. For updates on the 40 Years/40 Artists collection, please visit www. greenearts.org/40-40/. The 40/40 boxed postcard set, limited to an edition of 250, is available for purchase in advance for $20 and at $30 COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL on the day of the Salon 2015 opening reception on Saturday, November ON THE ARTS 21, 2015 from 5-7 PM at the GCCA Catskill Gallery located at 398 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Main Street in Catskill, NY. To purchase a boxed set or prints, please Frances Heaney, President contact 518-943-3400 or [email protected]. John Cooley, Vice President Jeff Levin, Treasurer PROGRAMS IN... In fact, there’s a whole world Arlene Boehm, Secretary to discover at C-GCC, with Fine Arts more than 41 dynamic 398 Main Street, PO Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414 • 518-943-3400 Deborah Davis, Gerald Cooley, Daniel Region Computer Design programs, including teacher Arts Alive is published by the Greene County Council on education, environmental the Arts for members and others interested in the arts. STAFF And classes in studies, and classes in Deadline for submission of materials for arƟ cles, arƟ st Cynthia Mulvaney, 3D graphics writing, literature, local Executive Director opportuniƟ es and calendar lisƟ ngs is December 6, 2015 for publicaƟ on and animation. history, and much more. Renee Schermerhorn, Bookkeeper in the January/February 2016 issue. Please email submissions to: Indian Ridge Accounting/ Call us today to learn more. [email protected], AƩ : Arts Alive. Barbara Beers, CCCA Certifi ed Route 23 | Hudson, NY Public Accountants Business and individuals interested in adverƟ sing in Arts Alive should 518-828-4181 call 518-943-3400, or email: [email protected]. Mark Greenberg, Greenberg & MyCommunityCollege.com Greenberg, CCCA Counselor at Law /ColumbiaGreeneCC AD DEADLINE for the January/February 2016 issue is: December 6, 2015 @ColGreeneCC Sharon Shepherd, Editor Kate Boyer, Heron & Earth Design, Layout TOMORROW, TODAY. ALIVE 2015 November/December Page 3

icent actor and a terrifi c human being, and as soon as he told BRIDGE STREET THEATRE me he was considering putting his experiences into play form, I knew we had to bring it here” says Steven Patterson, Bridge Street’s Associate Director. “These perfor- BOND: mances will mark the East Coast the story of a soldier and his dog premiere of a play that’s sure to tour extensively and to warm A pair of very special events and then their service in Operation hearts all over the country.” are coming to Bridge Street Iraqi Freedom. Both developed In conjunction with the run Theatre for Veteran’s Day. PTSD and were separated when of BOND, Bridge Street Theatre Weekends from November 6-15, they returned to the United also plans a special fundraiser 2015 former Army Sergeant States. Diego was sent off to aid – a “Stars & Stripes” Dinner Logan Black will perform “BOND: in the training of other Specialized to honor all our Veterans. The the story of a soldier and his dog”, Search dogs and Black moved evening will feature a mouth-wa- inspired by his experiences as a to Kansas City where he started tering Italian feast catered by Specialized Search Dog Handler, graduate studies and began a year- Tatiana’s Restaurant, All-American the year he spent in the Al Anbar long campaign to locate his dog USO-style entertainment, a raffl e Former Army Sergeant Logan Black will perform “BOND: the story of a province of Iraq with Diego, the and “Bring Diego Home”. BOND for 3 great prizes, and an opportu- soldier and his dog”, about the incredible bond he and his partner, Diego, bomb-sniffi ng yellow Labrador premiered at this year’s Kansas nity to meet Logan Black and his formed during their initial training and then their service in Operation Iraqi Retriever who served beside City Fringe Festival, where it was dog Diego personally. Freedom at the Bridge Street Theatre weekends November 6 -15, 2015. him, and what happened to them performed to rave reviews, packed BOND will be performed both when they returned to the houses, a “Best of Fringe” award, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 prior to each performance. The at BrownPaperTickets.com or by States. Then on Thursday evening and a subsequent sold-out engage- PM and Sunday afternoons at 2 “Stars & Stripes” Dinner will be calling them at 1-800-838-3006. November 12, you can meet Logan ment at The Fishtank in Kansas PM from November 6-15, 2015. held at the theater on Thursday Bridge Street Theatre is located and Diego personally at a “Stars City. “I worked with Logan at the Tickets are $15, $10 for Students evening November 12th, the day at 44 West Bridge Street in the & Stripes” Fundraising Dinner Colorado Shakespeare Festival & Seniors. Seating is extremely after Veteran’s Day, from 6 - 9 Village of Catskill. And, as always, honoring our troops and veterans. in Boulder shortly after his return limited and Advance Purchase is PM. Tickets are $45 and Advance further information on these and In BOND, Black tells the story from Iraq and just prior to the time highly recommended to guarantee Purchase is required. Advance other events at BST can be found of the incredible bond he and Diego when he began his campaign to be seating. Any remaining available tickets for both the play and the at BridgeSt.org or by calling formed during their initial training reunited with Diego. He’s a magnif- seats will be sold at the door dinner are available exclusively 518-943-3818.

“Scrooge & Son” plays when ballet, a European art form So come and join us for one of Friday, December 4 and Saturday, principally developed in France the season’s most beloved and heart- December, 2015 at 7PM and Sunday, SCROOGE & SON and Russia, crossed the Atlantic to ening rituals: the transformation December 6, 2015 at 2PM at the become wildly popular in America. of Ebenezer Scrooge. Witness his Catskill Mountain Foundation’s A Catskill Christmas Carol Ballet dancers and companies journey from cheap to charitable, Orpheum Film and Performing toured the United States to great from covetous to compassionate. It Submitted by Jim Milton writer/director of “Scrooge & Son” Arts Center, located on Main Street acclaim, although they most often is a journey that we all, in our own in Tannersville, NY. Tickets are the inevitable Zombie Scrooge. and so, with the help of his cohorts, appeared as attractions in vaudeville way, need to make for ourselves $10 for Adults, $5 for children But it seems there needs to be “A Mr. Snavely and Mrs. Vulch, he takes theaters. Americans were eager to during this sacred season. (cash only at the door). For more Christmas Carol” for everyone (even over the county and makes a huge learn this new art form and, to give And may God bless us, every information and reservations visit Dr. Who has one), and so, I have fortune treating leather, thereby the orphan workers a bit of bright- one. Jim Milton “Scrooge & Son” www.scroogeandson.com. to ask, why not the Catskills? If destroying the forests and the ness in their lives, Mrs. Cratchit production is made possible in Do you remember the fi rst the “Trekkies” can have their own streams around him. teaches them ballet, a welcome part with public funds from the De- time you experienced “A Christmas Scrooge, why not a Scrooge for our In “A Christmas Carol,” as he contrast to their days of drudgery in centralization Program of NYSCA, Carol”? For me, it was the classic very own Mountaintop? did in so many of his works, Dickens the tannery. And we are blessed with administered through the Com- British black-and-white movie with When I started to write decries the horrors that were visited the dancers of Petite Productions munity Arts Grants Fund in Greene Alastair Sim as Scrooge, and it had a “Scrooge & Son,” I had just directed upon children during the early Studio in Catskill, whose wonderful County by the Greene County tremendous eff ect on me. The story “Amelia – A Play of the Civil War,” Industrial Revolution. He had seen “Nutcracker” routines have been Council on the Arts. Dickens wove is a masterful mix of and the post-Civil War era in upstate the child laborers in the tin mines in choreographed by Tara VanRoy. airy fantasy and brutal real life, a New York fascinated me because of the north of England, and he himself So “Scrooge & Son” asks this tale which conjures spirits and time the huge social changes taking place had worked as a child in an ink question: Can a handful of orphan travel as easily as it shows us the there. There were three elements I factory while his parents languished dancers, armed only with “The Teddi’s Flower harshness of poverty and ignorance knew I wanted to use in the show to in debtors’ prison. Nutcracker,” bring down the rich in Victorian England. Every era and give it an historical context: the rise America, too, had its child and powerful Ebenezer Scrooge and Shoppe locality seems to need its very own of the Catskills tanning industry, workers. When New York City, the his evil helpers? You will have to see All Occasion Florist “Christmas Carol,” from the original the advent of the Orphan Train entry point for so many immigrants, the show to fi nd out. Weddings & Funerals novel to a hilarious modern take like This is “A Christmas Carol” movement and the arrival of ballet found itself overwhelmed by parent- 410 Main Street Bill Murray’s “Scrooged.” Indeed, in America. less children, either orphaned or by, of and for the Catskills. It takes it has just been announced that Ice The tanning industry took the abandoned, the Children’s Aid place in Big Hollow, a real Greene Catskill, NY 12414 Cube will play the miser as a real Catskills by storm because the bark Society was formed to deal with County town that was re-named 518-943-0654 estate mogul in a yet-to-be fi lmed of the hemlock tree was an essen- the problem. Their solution was to “Maplecrest” in the early 20th movie entitled “Humbug.” tial component of making leather remove these children from New century. The show is performed Perhaps it is so popular durable and pliant, and the Catskills York’s slums and send them in by local actors who have joined because the root of its appeal is so had hemlocks in abundance. During trains (called “Orphan” or “Mercy” together to form the Kaaterskill simple: it holds out the promise that, the mid-1800’s, tanners destroyed trains) to destinations throughout Actors Theater and who have given if we but look at our lives clearly and more than 70 million trees in these the country. Many of these children Greene County productions of both acknowledge our fl aws, we have a mountains and used the streams were adopted by good families, but “Amelia” and this summer’s “On the chance for redemption. as dumping grounds for their fur, others were treated as a source of Rocks.” The production’s music is But do we really need another fat, lye, vinegar and other harsh cheap labor and basically enslaved, “old-fashioned,” with a Christmas “Christmas Carol”? This country has chemicals. To this day, hemlocks are working 10-to-12 hour days in facto- score played on guitars, penny whis- hundreds of traditional productions few and far between in the Catskills, ries, farms, mills and mines. Once tles, banjos, dulcimers and fi ddles. Floral Arrangements at the every year, and there are decidedly and you would be hard pressed to again, this is a perfect opportunity Even “The Nutcracker” is played on GCCA 40th Anniversary non-traditional versions aplenty: a fi nd a single one in the aptly-named for Scrooge and his minions to a mandolin. The show references Party Compliments of Teddi’s Star Trek version, with Scrooge as Tannersville. exploit for their profi t. important events in our local history, Flower Shoppe a Klingon, “Scrooge in Rouge,” an This seemed a perfect industry On the happier side, the and is also wildly entertaining and, all-female production and, of course, for the wicked Ebenezer Scrooge, mid-19th Century was an era yes, very funny.

Catskill Mountain Foundation 40 Years / 40 Artists Author Stephen Silverman POSTCARD COLLECTION Brings the History of The Catskills to Life

To fully experience the this absorbing browse through Catskills region, Stephen a multifaceted regional history Silverman will also curate a special that’s deeper than its surface glitz itinerary for that weekend based might suggest.” on experiences and locations Join the renowned author referenced in his book. Offi cially at the Catskill Mountain Found- available for purchase on October ation’s Doctorow Center for the 27, Silverman’s book brings to life Arts on Saturday, November 7 The Catskill Mountain foun- the beauty, vastness and turning from 1 - 3 PM for an exciting dation hosts a reading and signing points of the Catskills history, event. Silverman will be on hand Bird Lips by Scott Keidong, 2015, Digital collage, is one of the of Stephen Silverman’s new book, sharing stimulating stories of the to present a slide show of his original artworks of the 40 Years/40 Artists exhibit reproduced in to “The Catskills: Its History and region’s infl uential entrepreneurs, book while telling stories of the a postcard collection and limited to an edition of 250. The boxed How It Changed America” at artists, gangsters, politicians, Catskills and engaging in a lively set of 5 x 7 inch postcards is available for purchase in advance for the Doctorow Center for the musicians and outcasts. Vital to question-and-answer session. $20 and at $30 on the day of the Salon 2015 opening reception on Arts on November 7th. The the development of America, the Immediately following the show November 21, 2015. To purchase a boxed set or prints, please history of the Catskills is pivotal Catskills region was the birthplace is a book signing and reception. contact 518-943-3400, [email protected] or visit greenearts.org. in the history of our country and of New York’s own Declaration The event is free and open to the state, vividly described in Stephen of Independence, a central public, but it is recommended to Silverman’s engrossing new book, location for America’s industrial call 518-263-2063 for a reserva- “The Catskills: Its History and revolution, a rising resort town tion. How It Changed America”. The with hundreds of hotels and an The Doctorow Center for Catskill Mountain Foundation is artistic muse for the 19th century the Arts is located at 7971 Main an important piece of Catskills Hudson River School of Art and Street in Hunter, NY. For more history, fostering a community of 20th century entertainers like Mel information on the Catskill Moun- thriving dancers, visual artists and Brooks, Woody Allen, and Joan tain Foundation and its upcoming musicians for nearly 20 years. To Rivers. performances, please visit www. share the region’s vibrant past, the See what Publishers Weekly catskillmtn.org. Catskill Mountain Foundation is had to say about the book: Catskill Mountain Found-ation welcoming Stephen Silverman “Lively . . . Stuff ed with interesting programming is made possible, in to the Doctorow Center for the sidebars and biographical part, with funds from the Greene Arts in Hunter for a reading sketches, the authors’ loose- County Legislature through the and signing of this new book on limbed text meanders along many Greene County Cultural Fund Saturday, November 7, 2015 from an intriguing byway of quaint and administered by the GCCA. 1 PM - 3 PM. forgotten lore. Readers will enjoy Page 4 November/December 2015 ALIVE

How to Contact Your Lawmakers (For Columbia/Greene Counties)

Governor Andrew Cuomo Executive Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, NY 12224 Tel: (518) 474-8390

Senator John J. Flanagan, Majority Leader Legislative Offi ce Building, Rm. 805 Albany, NY 12247 Tel: (518) 455-2071 Athens Presque Ballet, under the direction of Bobby LuPone, will present dance email: fl [email protected] works for the Athens community to enjoy during the upcoming Victorian Stroll. Senator BeĴ y LiĴ le Chair Cultural Aff airs, Tourism, Parks & Recreation 188 State St., Room 310, Legislative Offi ce Bldg Athens Victorian Stroll 2015 Albany, NY 12247 Tel: (518) 455-2811 email: li [email protected] Features ACC Members Small Works Holiday Show & Sale, Live Music and Dance Performances and Much More! Senator Kathleen Marchione (District 43 – Columbia) The streets in the Village of from Robert Lahm’s drawing and their annual Holiday Concert 188 State Street Legislative Offi ce Building - Room 918 Athens will come alive with neigh- painting workshops will add to at the First Reformed Church Albany, NY 12247 bors and visitors on Saturday, the magic of Athen’s Victorian of Athens from 2-3 PM. The Tel: (518) 455-2381 email: [email protected] December 12, 2015 during the Stroll. Athens Community Chorus will Athens Victorian Stroll. This free Athens Presque Ballet, under be performing holiday classics at Senator George A. Amedore, Jr. event off ers fun for the entire the direction of Bobby LuPone, the Athens Cultural Center. This (District 46 – Greene) 802 Legislative Offi ce Building family. There will be contem- will present dance works for the is a group of dedicated singers Albany, NY 12247 porary art and performances Athens community to enjoy. This who meet monthly to share their Tel: (518) 455-2350 Fax: (518) 426-6751 galore interspersed with nods to year the troupe will be performing talents and sing a rich and diverse email: [email protected] our Victorian past. While there a new piece of original chore- selection of vocal works. will be roving carolers dressed ography by Todd Whitley and a Throughout the Village there Assemblyman Carl E. Heastie in Victorian garb, a resplendent revival of a piece choreographed will be live music performances, Speaker Victorian Santa and horse drawn by Todd created from a song arts and craft vendors, a children’s 932 Legislative Offi ce Building, trolleys harkening back to our from the band Pentatonix. The holiday cottage contest, historic Albany, NY 12248 19th century roots, there will also Presque Ballet is a volunteer open houses, ice sculpture Tel: (518) 455-4800 Fax: (518) 455-5103 be many contemporary perfor- group of dancers, comprised carving, cookies, hot chocolate, email: [email protected] mances scheduled throughout the of “women of a certain age and wine tasting, food specials at local day at the Athens Cultural Center, confi dent men” who meet three restaurants, house decorating Assemblywoman Margaret Markey Athens Municipal Building, times a week at the Athens contest, a caricaturist to capture Chair Tourism, Parks Arts and Sports Development First Reformed Church and the Cultural Center for classes and to your inner cartoon, face painting, 712 Legislative Offi ce Building Rivertown Senior Center. learn new dance works. There is the chocolate fountain (a perennial Albany, NY 12248 The Athens Cultural no charge for these classes and all favorite) and much, much more. Tel: (518) 455-4755 Center will be exhibiting its levels of experience are welcome. The evening will conclude with a email: [email protected] Members Small Works Holiday For details on the Presque Ballet bonfi re, caroling and tree lighting Show and Sale featuring works schedule, see the Athens Cultural in the Riverfront Park at 5 PM. Assemblyman Peter Lopez in watercolor, oils, acrylics and Center’s website. For a complete schedule (District 102: all of Greene + Stuyvesant + Stockport photography and just perfect Hudson River Bells, a group of activities check the Athens in Columbia County; Rensselaerville, for gift giving. Buyers may take of handbell ringers from the Cultural Center’s website www. Westerlo & Coeymans in Albany County; their purchases home the same First Reformed Church, annually athensculturalcenter.org or pick Saugerties in Ulster County & all of Schoharie ) day. The exhibition will open delight audiences with their up a map and schedule at the LOB 402, Albany, NY 12248 Tel: (518) 455-5363 Fax: (518) 455-5856 Saturday, November 21, 2015 beautiful melodies. They will Cultural Center, 24 Second St., and runs weekends through be performing at the Rivertown starting at 1 PM on the day of the 45 Five Mile Woods Road, Catskill, NY 12414 the day of the Stroll. Storefront Senior Center. A perennial Stroll, Saturday, December 12. Tel: (518) 943-1371 email: [email protected] windows painted with seasonal favorite, the Coxsackie-Athens scenes by local children and teens Community Band, performs Assemblymember Didi BarreĴ (District 106: Ghent, Claverack, Greenport, Germantown, Livingston, Tachkanic, Copake, Clermont, Gallatin & Ancram in Columbia County) G T S HAT IME OF EAR LOB 553, Albany, NY 12248 I I T T Y ! Tel: (518) 455-5177 Fax: (518) 455-5418 G District Offi ce: 751 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 Chilly Willy Tel: (518) 828-5329 Fax: (518) 828-5329 G email: barre [email protected] Winter’s Eve Tours Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (District 107: Kinderhook, Chatham, New Lebanon, at the BRONCK Canaan, Austerli & Hillsdale in Columbia County) LOB 533, Albany, NY 12248 MUSEUM Tel: (518) 455-5777 (518) 455-5576 Interpreters lend insight during the Chilly Willy Winter’s Eve District Offi ce: 258 Hoosick Street, Suite 109 Tours at the Bronck Museum on November 14 and 15, 2015. Troy, NY 12180 Tel: (518) 272-6149 Fax: (518) 272-6313 email: [email protected]

U.S. Congressman Chris Gibson By November it was obvious. of winter. Soon it would be cold and pass through rooms which (19th District: Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer) There had already been more enough to butcher. These busy approximate the temperatures 2 Hudson Street, PO Box 775 than a few frosty mornings. The late autumn days would provide and light levels present during Kinderhook, NY 12106 welcome hours of extra light the last opportunity to prepare for winters in the 1700s, warm attire Tel: (518) 610-8133 Fax: (518) 610-8135 provided by the harvest and the uncertainties and diffi culties of is strongly suggested. Swedish hunter’s moons had already the winter ahead. and Dutch refreshments will U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer come and gone. The snow moon As November progressed be served. Tours leave from the Leo O’Brien Federal Offi ce Building, would arrive too soon. The brisk welcome diversion would come Bronck Museum Visitor Center at Room 420, Albany, NY 12207 northwest wind that rattled the with the celebration of a series of 11 AM, 1 PM and 3PM each day. Tel: (518) 431-4070 Fax: (518) 431-4076 dry brown oak leaves was another ancient but now mostly forgotten Adult admission for this event is unavoidable reminder that winter celebrations beginning with $8, GCHS members and chil- U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand would soon be here. Each after- Martinmas and ending with the dren $4. The Bronck Museum is 478 Russell Senate Offi ce Building, noon as the retreating sun sank Twelfth Night in early January. located just off US 9W 1.5 miles Washington, DC 20510 in the west, deep shadows crept On the weekend of November south of the intersection of routes Tel: (202) 224-4451 Fax: (202) 228-0882 from corners to envelope the 14th and 15th the Bronck 9W, 385 and 81 near Coxsackie, whole house in a dim chill. Earlier Museum near Coxsackie will N.Y., and is easily reached via and earlier each evening the hold its Chilly Willy Winter’s Eve Thruway Exit 21B. family sought the relative warmth tours. The Bronck houses will be This event is made possible of beds piled high with blankets. decorated for the celebrations in part by public funds provided The mice had already made their of Martinmas, St. Nicholas Day by the Greene County Legislature nests in the attics and cellars to and St. Lucia Day. The clanking thru the Greene County Cultural be close by the bags of yellow corn of chains will accompany the Fund administered by the Greene and piles of fat pumpkins. The retelling of ancient legends. A corn County Council on the Arts. cider was made and stored in the dolly hangs on the front door, the For more information about the barrel cellar. Sweet and savory klompen are ready, the Lucy Kator Bronck Museum or this event pies had been piled in the attic will watch patiently from her post visit gchistory.org or call (518) chests to await the arrival of the on the parlor stairs. Visitors will 731-6490. permanent freezing temperatures be led by a costumed guide CatskillCatskill Mountain FoundationFoundation www.catskillmtn.orgwww.catskillmtn.org Heron & Earth GreeneGGrrreene CountyCounty CouncilCouncil on thethe Arts www.greenearts.orgwww.greenearts.oorgg GRAPHIC DESIGN TThehe PrattsviPrattsvillelle Art Center andand ResidencyResidency wwwwww.Prattsvilleart.org.Prattsvilleart.org TThe ZadockZadock Pratt Museum www.Prattmuseum.comwww.Prattmuseum.com 845 - 246 - 7875 ComeCComomme Experience tthehe Art AlongAlong thethe Rip Van WinkleWinkle Trail!Traail! 2 Village Drive, Saugerties, NY 12477 VisitVisVsitt wwwwww.mainlygreene.org.mainllygreene.org Facial • Waxing • Make Up • Pedicures • Manicures www.heronandearth.com ALIVE 2015 November/December Page 5

CALL FOR ENTRIES Mark Your Calendar for These Salon 2015 GCCA Special Events Happening in November & December 2015 THROUGH NOVEMBER 7, 2015 BEYOND THE BARS. Art exhibition at GCCA reveals the powerful and transformative role of creative expression in the lives of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their advocates. NOVEMBER 14, 2015- JANUARY 2, 2016 GCCA SALON 2015 & HANDMADE HOLIDAYS Handmade Holidays featuring small original showcases many one-of-a-kind artworks & exquisite crafts. All works prices under $300-perfect for gift giving! items crafted by GCCA Artist Small Works Members. Miniature hand Join GCCA Members and meet fellow artists on- built books by Sharon Quinn & Handmade NOVEMBER 21, 2015 for Opening Reception of GCCA SALON 2015 & and designer earrings by Patti HANDMADE HOLIDAYS Ferrara are just of a few of the from 5-7 pm at the GCCA Catskill Gallery. exquisite “gems” available for Holidays, purchase. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2015 Fine Crafts DEADLINE FOR 2016 COUNTY INITIATIVE PROGRAM (CIP) APPLICATION. Must be hand delivered by 5PM or postmarked not later GCCA Annual than December 5, 2015. Please see page 2 for details and eligibility or visit Members Exhibition www.greenearts.org/funds. and Sale GCCA Catskill Gallery is located at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 10-5, Saturday Noon to 5 PM. CALLING ALL ARTISTS! Visit www.greenearts.org or call 518-943-3400. The Greene County Council on the Arts invites all fi ne and craft artists to deck the halls with your work! The exhibit will be on display November 14, 2015 through January 2, 2016 with an opening reception on Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 5-7 pm.

Fine art members may submit up to three framed works in any GREENE COUNTY medium, smaller than 24” for this holiday exhibit and sale. In our expe- COUNCIL ON THE A RTS rience, works priced under $300 sell best. Buyers take their purchases home the same day, and the Catskill Gallery will contact artists to bring additional work keeping our holiday inventory full. MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION I/We wish to become members of the Greene County I/We wish to become members of the Columbia County Member craft artists submit a small inventory of your work to be Council on the Arts (GCCA) in the following category. Council on the Arts (CCCA) in the following category. displayed in our Main Street window and second fl oor Artful Hand Please Check one: New R Renewing R Member Please Check one: New R Renewing R Member Holiday Gift Gallery. We’re looking for handmade toys, cards, orna- ❏ R Senior/Student $ 0. R Student/SeniorStudent $ $20 20. ments, ceramics, books, jewelry, wearable’s and new ideas for gift ❏ Senior $30 giving. We love to carry books, DVDs and CDs by area authors and R Individual 5. ❏R IndividualIndividual $45. R Family 0. Dual/Family 0. musicians. If your work is already on display, please update your inven- ❏R Dual/ Family $60 R Friend/Business/Organization . ❏R Not-for-Profit-OrganizationNot-for Profi t Organization $50 50. tory for the holidays. Not a member? No problem! Memberships are R Sponsor 100. ❏R CorporationCorporation $100100. available for as little as $20. Join online at greenearts.org R Supporting 250. ❏R PatronPatron $100 100. R Patron 500. ❏R CuratorCurator $250 250. Open to: Current and New Members. Artists, crafters, authors and musicians. ❏ R Benefactor 1,000. R BenefactorBenefactor $500500. Exhibit Dates: November 14, 2015 - January 2, 2016. ❏ Medici $1000 R Reciprocal CCCA 10. ❏R OtherOther _____ . _____. Opening Reception: Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 5-7 pm. R Reciprocal GCCA 10. TOTAL MEMBERSHIP $ ______❏ Reciprocal to GCCA $10 Drop Off Dates: Thursday, November 5 & Friday, November 6, 2015 from 10 Building Fund Contribution $ ______TOTAL MEMBERSHIP $ ______AM to 5 PM and Saturday, November 7, 2015 from noon to 5 PM. Sorry, no J. Ruben Garcia Memorial Fund $ ______Additional Donation $ ______works can be received by shipping. Endowment Fund $ ______TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ______All work will be on view and must be for sale. TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ______Payment: Check R Cash R Pick Up Dates: Monday, January 4 and Tuesday 5, 2016. Payment: Check R Cash R MasterCard R VISA R The Greene County Council on the Arts Catskill Gallery is located at 398 MasterCard R VISA R Amex R Card #: ______Main Street in Catskill. Call 518-943-3400, [email protected], www.greene- Card #: ______Expiration Date: ______Expiration Date: ______arts.org for online entry and membership forms. “Thank you!” “Thank you!” Make your tax-deductible contribution payable to Make your tax-deductible contribution payable to CCCA and return to the address listed below. GCCA Catskill Gallery GCCA and return to the address listed below. Please fill out completely Please fill out completely Call for Exhibit Proposals Name: ______Name: ______& Artist Opportunities Address:______Address:______City: ______GCCA GALLERY: City: ______Exhibition Proposals wanted for GCCA Catskill Gallery 2016 State: ______State: ______Schedules. Send a paragraph describing your solo show, curated group Day Phone: ______exhibit, brainstorm for future programs with contact information, an image Day Phone: ______list, short bio or resume and up to 10 images (72 dpi, 5” jpeg or up to 8x10” Eve Phone: ______Eve Phone: ______photographs) to Molly Stinchfi eld, [email protected] with subject E-mail: ______line: 2016 VAP Review. Mail hard copy to Visual Arts Director, GCCA E-mail: ______Catskill Gallery, PO Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414. Hand deliver proposals Are you an artist? Yes R No R Website: ______to the GCCA Catskill Gallery located at 398 Main Street, Catskill. If yes, what is your discipline? ______Are you an artist? Yes R No R Exhibition committee members are interested in local artists’ work, Brief description of your work ______subjects of interest to local audiences, partnerships with other arts, culture If yes, what is your discipline? ______and community organizations, daring, fun, high quality work. ______Brief description of your work ______GCCA ARTFUL HAND BOUTIQUE: ______Fine crafts and art under $100 wanted for the GCCA’s Artful Hand ______Gallery Gift Shop. Send contact information, an image list, short bio ______and up to 10 images (72 dpi, 5” jpeg or up to 8x10” photographs) to Molly Artists/Arts Organizations, do you wish to have ______Stinchfi eld, [email protected] with subject line: Artful Hand New your website linked to the GCCA website? Inventory. Send hard copy to Visual Arts Director, GCCA Catskill Gallery, Yes R No R ______PO Box 463, Catskill NY 12414. Hand deliver to GCCA at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414. You must be a GCCA current member MenbershipsMemberships are arefor onefor year.one year. MenbershipsMemberships are arefor one for year.one year. to participate in the Artful Hand Boutique. You may be able to double your contribution if you You may be able to double your contribution if you For questions, please call Molly Stinchfi eld, GCCA Visual Arts Director, at work for, or are retired from, a company which has a work for, or are retired from, a company which has a 518-943-3400. Molly is a part-time employer, so please call in advance to matching gift program. To make your match, simply matching gift program. To make your match, simply check on her availability. Thank you. obtain a form from your company’s Matching Gift obtain a form from your company’s Matching Gift Coordinator and send it along with your Coordinator and send it along with your contribution to: contribution to: www.nbcoxsackie.com Greene County Council on the Arts Columbia County Council on the Arts P.O. Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414 209 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 Be inspired (518 ) 943-3400 (518 ) 671-6213 with what NBC NEW FEATURE: Add only $10 to any level of GCCA NEW FEATURE: Add only $10 to any level of CCCA can do for you. membership chosen and receive a basic membership membership chosen and receive a basic membership in the Columbia County Council on the Arts. in the Greene County Council on the Arts. Councils on the Arts Membership Benefits Your independent, local bank since 1852 Greene County Columbia County Members at all levels receive the •• Discounts: Discounts: Gallery & Gift Boutiques •• GroupAdvance health Program and Announcements disability insurance & Invites following: Artfully♦ Gallery Yours,& Artful Summit Hand Boutique Hill Health • Member Updates, calendars and • Newspaper, “Arts Alive”, containing Club, purchases Hudson Valley Magazine, The • Artistopportunities Members submit listings free of charge Neuromuscular Massage information for Greene and Spotty Dog Books & Ale. • Discountsfor 6 annual atthemed CCCA exhibits performances, at CCCA Licensed Columbia counties, grants & • Artist♦ Two members for One Membership may submit with free-of- Warrenevents, Street workshops, Gallery and businesses. Massage Deep Tissue • Hot Rocks opportunities listings, cultural charge Rivertide for Aikidogroup and curated •• Invitations Eligible for Participation to CCCA inevents Juried Art events calendar. exhibitions at both the Catskill and • ArtistsShow at andHudson arts Opera organizations House, Olana receive Therapist Swedish • Spors • Thai • Advance program announcements & • ArtistMountaintop♦ The members Spotty may Dog gallerues submit Books free-of-charge & and Ale may Paintadditional Out, ArtsWalk, benefits, Solo including & Group job invitations to special events. becomefor group partand curated of our exhibitions artists-resource at the Showsopportunities, at Chamber ofreferrals Commerce, through the Catskill gallery and may become part of Seasonal Outdoor Tent Shows/Sales All members can take advantage of file.our artists-resource fi le. Artists’ Registry, promotion of the following: • Arts organizations are eliible to • Membershipevents, grants Rewards and Program, funding Grants • Technical assistance, referrals, receive bulk mail privileges &assistance Networking andResources, lists exchange. Publicity, • Arts Organization Members are eligible Eblast Service & Artist Registry at networking and information through membership. • NEW!www.artscolumbia.org Artist registry page on Lenora Freese services; access to media & • Members to receive who privileges function with GCCAas a business, Constant www.artscolumbia.org publicity resources; artist’s & arts mayContact apply e-mail for service. group purchasing • Workshops & Classes in conjunction 11 William St., Ste. 2 • Catskill, NY 12414 • Members at the $250 level and above receive with Art School of Columbia County organizations’ links to GCCA plansa gift certi andfi cateHealth valid Insurance.for a basic one-year website. membership for a friend or family member. • GCCA Arts Alive newsletter is delivered • to CCCA. Grants, opportunities, cultural 518 - 821- 6341 518 - 943 - 9520 events listed. Page 6 November/December 2015 ALIVE

Catskill Mountain Foundation presents The Nutcracker on THE NUTCRACKER - December 12 and 13, 2015 at the Orpheum Film and Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, NY. the Ultimate Holiday Gift Photo Credit Boz Swope. Catskill Mountain Foundation

This year, the Catskill on Saturday, December 12 at Drosselmeyer, at a Christmas Sappington, and Victoria Rinaldi In this production, Kozlova are long-time friends and dance will stage the snow scene and colleagues whose illustrious second act, inspired by the careers both as solo dancers and Bolshoi Ballet production of her collaborators have taken them youth. Sappington will play the around the world and garnered role of Auntie Drosselmeyer and accolades from near and far. Rinaldi will stage the party scene, Valentina Kozlova defected to the the battle, the second act angels United States in 1979, while on and Mother Ginger cast from tour as a young principal dancer local talented children. The major with the Bolshoi Ballet. She dance scenes will be performed became a principal dancer with the week before at Symphony New York City Ballet, opened her Space in New York City, before the own ballet school, and founded the company travels to Tannersville. Valentina Kozlova International Several of the major roles— Ballet Competition. Margo including Clara, Nutcracker Sappington joined the Joff rey Prince, Arabian Dance and the Ballet in 1965 and in 2005 she Sugar Plum Fairy’s Cavalier— received a Lifetime Achievement will actually be danced by local Award for choreography from children who study with Victoria the Joff rey Ballet. Over the years, Rinaldi on the mountain top. Margo also won a Tony Award for For more information about Mountain Foundation, with 7:30 pm and Sunday, December party. During the night, Clara’s Best Choreographer and a Drama the audition process, please esteemed dancers and instruc- 13, 2015 at 2 PM at the Catskill Nutcracker, along with all of her Desk Award for Outstanding contact Cara Dantzig at 518 263 tors Valentina Kozlova, Margo Mountain Foundation’s Orpheum other toys, comes to life. In Act I, Choreography. Victoria Rinaldi 2001 or dantzigc@catskillmtn. Sappington, and Victoria Rinaldi, Film and Performing Arts Center, the Nutcracker is a Mouse King launched her career with the org. Tickets for the performances form an exciting new partnership 6050 Main Street, Village of leading an army of mice; while in Washington Ballet and later on Saturday, December 12 and to give the mountaintop the ulti- Tannersville, NY. Act II, the Nutcracker becomes danced for a decade with the New Sunday, December 13, 2015 are mate holiday gift: the opportunity The Nutcracker tells the story a handsome prince dancing a York City Opera. She joined the available at www.catskillmtn.org to participate in a professionally of little Clara, who receives the magical pas de deux with the Metropolitan Opera in 1989 and or by calling 518 263 2063. staged version of The Nutcracker. gift of a Nutcracker soldier from Sugar Plum Fairy. remained with the company for The performances will be held her godfather, the magician Herr Valentina Kozlova, Margo 13 years.

Windham Chamber Music Festival Announces 2016 Season

The stage is set for the 2016 Manno performing Tchaikovsky’s for Seniors (65+) and $20 for Season of Windham Chamber lush Souvenir de Florence. Contributors. Music concerts at the Historic August 13, 2016 brings the Tickets for the July 16th Windham Civic Centre Concert return to Windham of Trio Solisti Orchestra Concert are $35, $32 Hall on Main Street at 5379 with Maria Bachmann, Alexis Pia for Seniors (65+) and $30 for Route 23 in Windham, NY. The Gerlach and Adam Neiman in Contributors. 2016 season opens on February music of Jennifer Higdon, Ravel Student Prices (6-23) for all 13th with a Special Winter Jazz and Arensky. On August 20, concerts are $5 each. Concert featuring the brilliant 2016 we are delighted to present Tickets for all concerts will duo of pianist Renee Rosnes and Divas Unleashed an evening of be available beginning December The stage is set for the Windham Chamber Music Festival 2015 season at the st bassist George Mraz. On July 16, opera and comedy with soprano 1 by sending a check to WCMF Historic Windham Civic Centre Concert Hall. 2016 the popular Gala Orchestra Michelle Jennings and mezzo-so- 740 CR32C Windham, NY 12496 Concert features pianist Tanya prano Maria Todaro. The Season or in person at the following The 2016 Season is made Whitcomb Foundation and with Gabrielian in her Windham debut comes to a close on September 3, Main Street Windham locations: possible in part with foundation Public Funds from the Greene performing Bach, Saint-Saens 2016 with the return of the Lark Carole’s Gift Emporium, the support from the Willow Springs County Legislature through the and Finzi, along with the return of String Quartet with the great Catskill Mountain Country Store Charitable Trust Foundation, the Greene County Cultural Fund the great violinist Elmar Oliveira string quartet of Claude Debussy or the Windham Public Library. Peter R. & Cynthia K. Kellogg administered in Greene County performing a Bach Concerto and as the featured work. Reservations can be made by Foundation, the Windham by the Greene County Council on the Windham Festival Chamber Tickets prices for all chamber calling 518-734-3868 or by E Mail Foundation, the David G. the Arts. Orchestra conducted by Robert music concerts are $25, $22 at [email protected].

Publication Studio Hudson Releases An image from Catskill Artist Dina we admire. They use any means Bursztyn’s newly released book possible to help writers and artists “When I Was a Tree.” “When I Was a Tree” reach a public: physical books; a A New Book by Catskill Artist digital commons (where anyone Público Press, is a Junior Library can read and annotate our books Dina Bursztyn Guild selection and was named for free); eBooks; and unique one of the ten best of the year by social events with our writers and Bank Street College of Education. Publication Studio Hudson artists in many cities. Publication Copies of her small edition books recently released When I Was a If I may I would Studio Hudson attends to the are in collections such as the Tree by Dina Bursztyn. A compi- come back as basil social life of the book. Publication New York City Central Library’s Studio is a laboratory for publica- lation of poems and images, to pollinate nostrils Department of Prints and Artist’s tion in its fullest sense—not just gathering together the elements linger on fi ngertips Books and El Museo del Barrio. the production of books, but the of delight, the transformative, be fondled, tasted She currently divides her time production of a public. and the strangely fantastic that and ingested with lust public art commissions in NYC between NYC and Catskill, NY. When I Was a Tree is avail- characterize Dina Bursztyn’s and tomatoes. and her work has been shown She and her partner, Julie Chase, long and varied career. Published extensively in the US and abroad. own and operate a gallery and able from Publication Studio at in full color, When I Was a Tree Dina Bursztyn is a visual She graduated from Universidad studio, Open Studio, located at publicationstudio.biz/books/307 is a 93 page hand-bound volume artist and writer, whose work Nacional de Cordoba, in her 400 Main Street in Catskill. for $15.00. Publication Studio is measuring 3.75’ x 5.5 x 0.375 encompasses a wide variety of native Argentina with a degree Publication Studio Hudson located next door to Open Studio, inches. The following poem media: sculpture, public art, in Literature. Her children’s book prints and binds books one at a making it another good reason to accompanies the illustration mixed media, artist’s books. The Land of Lost Things/ El time on-demand, creating orig- spend time and do business on pictured on right. She has been awarded several pais de las cosas perdidas, Arte inal work with artists and writers Catskill’s Main Street.

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POET SERIES Your Art Your Art Can Be Here! Can Be Here! in Tannersville in the Making HUDSON- Maggie Uhalde of the Catskill Mountain Association is organizing a fund- raiser for a poetry series on Saturday, November 7, 2015. The event takes CHATHAM place at the Spinning Room in Tannersville and there will be a cover charge. WINERY Interested poets, musicians, and artists are encouraged to call Maggie at TANNERSVILLE 518-263-2030. TASTING ROOM SEEKS LOCAL a blade of grass ARTISTS Carlo and Dominique artists. Interested? Call David Invites Letters of DeVito, proprietors of Hudson- Jackson directly at 518-589-4193 Chatham Winery in Ghent, NY, or [email protected] Interest for crossed over the Rip Van Winkle TANNERSVILLE or Carlo at [email protected]. Bridge and discovered Main If you a ended the recent GCCA 40th Anniversary Party you Street Tannersville as the perfect GCCA to help put the word out Fellowship for may have been served a glass or place to open a tasting room. they are looking for local artists two of their fi ne wines. Hudson- Makers of award winning hand to show their works at their new Chatham Winery was a Patron Socially Engaged Art made wines from their vineyard Tannersville Tasting Room. Sponsor of the event. GCCA in Columbia County, Carlo and If you are interested in acting hopes artists in our community Letters of Interest Deadline: November 20, 2015 Dominique found the mountain as a curator for this fi ne gallery will take advantage of this excel- top town off ered not only an space Carlo and David Jackson lent opportunity to show your excellent location, just a few can use your help. They are A Blade of Grass provides resources to artists original artwork. Visit www. doors from the Orpeum Theater, seeking artists to display themed hudson-chatham.com for more who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve but a grand audience for their exhibits throughout the four information on the Tannersville as innovative conduits for social change. To that wines, too. However their walls seasons and are open to group are bare and they have asked location. end, ABOG is inviting Letters of Interest for its and solo exhibits featuring local Fellowship for Engaged Art. Visit www.abladeof- grass.org. Wave Farm - The Media Arts The $20,000 ABOG fellowship supports socially engaged projects that promote art as a catalyst for social change; that feature artists in leadership roles; that emphasize active and sustainable partnerships Assistance Fund with communities; and/or in which artists engage community members Application Deadline Reminder: January 1, 2016 as equal partners on locally relevant issues (or globally relevant issues as they apply to the local context). Projects in which co-creation with for Works Completed in Calendar Year 2015 non-artists is part of the process are encouraged. For individual artists, the The Media Arts Important Note: Fellows become active participants in a program that features a Assistance Fund provides support for the distribu- Wave Farm is now using “Submittable” for range of services, including a two-day orientation that explores ABOG’s tion and exhibition of works in all genres of time- the MAAF Artists application submission process. documentation and assessment models and includes workshops based and moving image media, including emergent Applicants are strongly encouraged to carefully and on strategies for community engagement; quarterly co-assessment technology. Grant awards assist artists in making comprehensively read the information below before meetings with other fellows to share progress and off er feedback to recently completed works available to public audi- submitting an application. Please contact mag@ one another; support and feedback for ongoing self-assessment in the ences, and advance artistic exploration and public wavefarm.org with questions. form of collaborative action research; and assessment by an outside engagement in the media arts. Applications for Visit https://wavefarm.org/mag/artists to evaluator. support are due on January 1, annually. submit application. Eligible applicants include individual artists or artist collectives A regrant program for the New York State Wave Farm, located in Acra, NY is a with projects that directly engage a specifi c community or commu- Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, non-profi t arts organization that celebrates nities. Artists may not currently be enrolled as students, must be grant awards assist artists in meeting expenses creative and community use of media and the legal residents or citizens of the U.S., and be at least 25 years of age. including, but not limited to: duplication of airwaves. Their programs provide access to Applicants must not have received a full ABOG Socially Engaged Art preview, screening, and exhibition copies; promo- transmission technologies and support artists Fellowship as an individual or as part of an artist collective in the last tional materials including documentation and and organizations that engage with media as three years. In addition, applicants must have a website with contextu- schematics of media-installation and new-media an art form. (Wave Farm is incorporated as free alized examples of past work that a selection panel can review. works. Other distribution/exhibition requests will 103point9 Inc.) For more information visit www. Letters of Interest must be received no later than November 20, be considered on a case by case basis. Applicants wavefarm.org. 2015. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit full are encouraged to contact [email protected] Many of Wave Farms’ past seasons were applications by January 15, 2016. For complete program guidelines, prior to submitting an application to confi rm made possible, in part, with Public Funds from the information about previous fellows, and application procedures, visit eligibility. Artists may request funding support up to Greene County Legislature through the Cultural the ABOG website. www.abladeofgrass.org/application/guidelines/ a maximum amount of $10,000. Fund administered in Greene County by the Greene Applications Must Be Submitted Online. County Council on the Arts.

Detail of Christmas Cactus by Regine Petrosky, watercolor, 2008.

FRISBEE AGENCY GALLERY – Call for Entries – "GIFTS OF THE SEASON" Exhibit DECEMBER 7, 2015 - JANUARY, 2016

Drop Off Dates: December 7 - December 11, 2015 Monday-Friday 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

The Opening Reception will be on Saturday, December 12 from 3-5 PM.

Frisbee Farm & Family Agency, 384B Main Street Catskill, NY. For more information call Jill Lamanec at 943-3333 or [email protected] Page 8 November/December 2015 ALIVE

Thank you!

You made the GCCA’s 40th Anniversary Party Possible!

The recent 40th Anniversary businesses and is extremely Arshack, Dan Kirkhus Bread Party, held on October 3rd, was grateful for their sponsorship and Fernwood’s with Emil. Van chilly and grey, but the energy of support. Benefactors Big Top Tent Winkle’s at Hunter Mountain kept all our friends was electric and Rentals and Patrons Nina & Alan the grill volunteers busy with their heartwarming. One would have Gosule, Enrico & Elaine Scull, donations of Wursts, Hamburgers thought the sun was actually Van Winkles at Hunter Mountain & Veggie Burgers. Dan Arshack shining! We had a wonderful and Windham Mountain Resort. received the most votes for his time and the event rose close Sponsors Mary Ann & Gilbert really tasty “wow” chili recipe and to $12,000! Thanks to all of Bagnell, Broadway Cares-Equity Elisabeth Stamer/EJS Creations our fabulous musicians and Fights Aids, Cave Mountain was runner up with her vegetarian performers and our steadfast Brewery, Christman’s Windham chili. volunteers - all friends who gave House, Columbia Memorial Savory seasonal salads were up the early October day to make Health, William L. Deane, Fingar prepared by La Casa Latina, La it happen! (Vinny Seeley’s cart was Insurance, Sara & Peter Finn Conca D’Oro, Maggie’s Krooked a godsend to many of us - thank on behalf of Catskill Mountain Cafe, Millrock Restaurant, Port of you!) And, of course, our local Foundation, Fortnightly Club, Call, Tatiana’s, Jordan Baker and culinary contributors and drink Hudson-Chatham Winery, Price Patricia Britton. purveyors who kept everyone Chopper’s Golub Foundation, Bavarian Manor Country Inn well fed and happy. Our raffl e Rip Van Winkle Brewery, Nancey & Restaurant, Catskill Mountain donors and 40 Years/40 Artists Rosensweig & Dan Arshack, W.R. Country Store, Christman’s silent auction artists contributed Manchester Photography and Windham House, Circle W, greatly to the excitement and our Yama Industrials, Inc. Friends Hartmann’s Kaff e House, Last coff ers. And the “People’s Mural” Doubles II, HRC Showcase Chance Cheese, Maggie’s Krooked was quite a hit. We have a fabu- Theatre, Kaaterskill Farm Natural Café and Piper Dorrance baked lous team - beginning with our Foodstore, Pamela King-Belfor, an array of delightful desserts. dedicated, brilliant, and creative Julia J. Rothenberg, Story’s Farm, Cave Mountain Brewing staff , “backed up” (literally) by Teddi’s Flower Shoppe, Trustco Company and Rip Van Winkle our Board of Directors, and a Bank and Wave Farm-WGXC Brewing Company were there fabulous core of volunteers. 90.7 Other supporters including to off er their signature brew GCCA has so many people to Catskill Golf Resort, Crossroads tastings and Crossroads Brewing, thank, including everyone who Brewing Company, Thomas Culp, celebrating its own anniversary, attended and helped us celebrate Frisbee Agency, Ronnie McCue, sent growlers along to the our 40th Anniversary promoting Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Party. Hudson-Chatham Winery the arts and culture abundant in Home, Swamp Angels Antiques, donated some of their award our region. Special thanks to our Owl’s Hoot Barn, Pollaces winning hand made wines. EJS sponsors and donors who set the Brooklyn House, Paul Poplock Creations donated “Sweet Tea”, pace and help make these events and Shinglekill Falls Bed & fresh farm pressed cider and possible. Thank you everyone! Breakfast. lemonade. Let’s go for the Gold and then add another 40 or more. After all we Thank you to our Community of Thank You to our Community believe “Art Builds Community” Food Purveyors and Some Very of Musicians, Drummers and and our community proved us Good Cooks! Dancers correct once again! Guests dined on gourmet Not even the heavy mist could chili and hearty fare provided dampen the fervor generated Thank You to Our Community by Chicken Run, EJS Creations, from the live music, Kuumba Partners Who Made the 40th Freehold Country Pub, Gavin’s Drum and Dance and Belly Dance Anniversary Party Possible Irish Country Inn, Karen’s Country performances! Bluesy rockers GCCA acknowledges the Kitchen, Maggie’s Krooked Cafe, Lex Grey & The Urban Pioneers generosity of the Friends of Van Winkle’s at Hunter Mountain with special guests kicked off Beattie-Powers and the following along with special recipes by Dan the celebration followed by ALIVE 2015 November/December Page 9

Kuumba Dance & Drum. Elena Jenny Kemp, Maria Kolodziej- Thank You to Others Who Made Mosley led the celebration of Zincio, Jim Krewson, Susan GCCA Look Good African American contributions Kukle, Polly M. Law, Harriet A special thank you to to American culture in which Livathinos, Gwenn Mayers, Anne- People’s Mural and 40th Collage members of the audience were Marie McIntyre, Claudia McNulty, designer Sara Pruiksma-Rizzo, invited to participate. This select Eva Melas, Elin Menzies, 40th Anniversary graphic design- group of local drummers refl ected Susan Miiller, Slink Moss, er Ruby Silvious and event the meaning behind the Swahili Ken Polinskie, Fawn Potash, photographer W.R. Manchester word Kuumba, translated as Giselle Potter, Karen Rhodes, Photography, fl oral arrangements creativity, with their rhythmic Leah Rhodes, Tom Sardo, Amy by Teddi’s Flower Shoppe and beats on beautiful wooden drums Silberkleit, Ruby Silvious, Carol Tom Bellino/Planet Arts for the and percussion instruments. Next Swierzowski, Richard Talcott, scores of great jazz cd’s used as on “stage” was Wild Roses Belly K. Velis Turan, Jersey Walz and parting gifts for our guests! Dancers led by GCCA longtime Wendy Ide Williams. Many of friend and former GCCA Visual these artists donated the entire Thank you to our generous and Arts Director, Donna Barrett, portion of the winning bids back extraordinary volunteers! providing more proof that the to GCCA. These 5 x 7 inch works Volunteers worked tirelessly cultural arts thrive in our region. will be reproduced and available to make this a very special day Galen Jospeh-Hunter and Echo for purchase as a boxed postcard for GCCA members and friends. Roe were there from 3:30 to 4:00 set just in time for the holidays! Their devoted energy behind PM connecting the community 40th Anniversary Party the scenes, set up, during and art scene with a Live Broadcast guests cast their ballots and after made the 40th Anniversary on WGXC 90.7 FM. The grand Coxsackie artist and designer Party a great day to remember. fi nale with Enrico Scull “The Big Ruby Silvious received the Dan Arshack, Susan Beecher, Caboose”, Scott Berwick, Frank “People’s Choice” award. Ruby Kate Boyer, Helen Deane, Piper Cuthbert, Michael DeBenedictus, also created the logos and Dorrance, Patti Ferrara, Lenora Joel Lahey, Mike and Cymon branding specifi c to GCCA’s 40th Freese, Pam Jones, Erika M. Pagani and Jonathan B. Woodin Anniversary which will be used Klein, Dan Kirkhus, Michael ended a very entertaining after- throughout the year. Krajeski, Stepan Kubicek, Joel noon. Lahey, Peter Segall, Elaine Scull, Thank you to our Business Paul Trautman and Ron Zounds. Thank You to the Artists – 40 Years / Partners and Individuals Who 40 Artists – An Extraordinary Donated Raffl e Prizes Best Wishes and Thanks to All Exhibit and Silent Auction Body Be Well/Pilates Center, The Board of Directors and This special exhibit featured Catskill Country Store, Frank staff of the GCCA extend their original artwork by GCCA Artists Giorgini, Lenora Freese LMT, very best wishes and sincere Members Richard Armstrong, New York Zip Line for numerous appreciation to everyone involved Nancy Azara, Lauren Simkin passes for three separate moun- in this year’s 40th Anniversary Berke, Darla Bjork, Jill Skupin tain adventures, Susan Beecher Party – our wonderful guests, Burkholder, Dot Chast, Terrance Pottery, Washington Irving Inn, business partners, artists, musi- DePietro, Piper Dorrance, W.R. Manchester Photography, cians, performers and volunteers. Richard Edelman, Patti Ferrara, Millrock Restaurant for the two THANK YOU! Kristina Gibson, Allen Grindle, hot pair of skis, and The Painted Kate Hamilton, Scott Keidong, Piece.

PHOTO CAPTIONS FROM PAGE 8 TOP LEFT “BIG 40” AND CLOCKWISE. All Photographs by W.R. Manchester Photography.

GCCA is 40!, GCCA Visual Arts Director Molly Stinchfi eld & Executive Director Kay Stamer, Young artist at work on Peoples Mural, Member and friend Enrico Scull lined up the 40th Anniversary Party music and performance, Lex Grey & The Urban Pioneers kicked off the celebration!, What would a party be without Hartmann’s Kaff e House Black Forest cake?, Ashley Hopkins-Benton and daughter Katherine with Karen A. Hopkins, Members and friends celebrate GCCA’s 40 years of service to the arts, (Pg 8 bottom- top row l to r) Lex Grey belts out the Blues, GCCA Board Member Laura Segall, ED Kay Stamer, Board President David Slutzky & MaryEllen Gallagher share time with one another, (bottom row- r to l) Guests participate in Kuumba Drum, GCCA Executive Director Kay Stamer with Greene County Legislator and friend Linda Overbaugh, A special guest musician friend on the violin played along with Lex Grey & Urban Pioneers, Wild Roses Belly Dancers, Singer songwriter Jonathan B. Woodin returned to play at the 40th to an appreciative audience. Page 10 November/December 2015 ALIVE Will Barnds Solo Show ECLECTIC MIX: Painting the “Spice of Life” Many of you know Will Barnds Island where his passion for art as the really friendly man who was nurtured through visits to commands the GCCA reception The Museum of Modern Art, The desk or the hard working guy who Metropolitan Museum of Art, The helps GCCA Director of Visual Museum of Natural History and the Arts, Molly Stinchfi eld, mount and Planetarium. William would spend dismount shows at Catskill Gallery… days at the 42nd Street library but did you know William Barnds looking up artists and studying is an artist and paints a variety of diff erent genres of art. subject matter? His very fi rst solo As a self-taught artist exhibition, “ECLECTIC MIX”, will William has painted freely with be on display through November no preconceived notions of what 29, 2015 in the Kaaterskill Gallery is in vogue. When asked about at Columbia Greene Community his work, William replied “I love College. Please join Will at his pushing paint on canvas!” His opening reception on Thursday, love for painting has landed him November 5, from 5-7 PM. shows from East Hampton, NY to Born in Staten Island, NY in the Hudson Valley in NY. William 1950 when the island was mostly currently resides in Catskill, NY farmland, William recalls the where he works part time at the great road builder Robert Moses Greene County Council of the Arts paving the way for families like courtesy of the Experience Works William Barnds’ Beach Buggy, mixed media oil painting, will be just one of his many paintings on display at his fi rst solo his to explore the Tri State area. Program. show at the C-GCC Kaaterskill Gallery in Hudson. Eventually landing in Brooklyn NY, See more Will’s work on www. William attended Fort Hamilton williambarnds.format.com. High School where his art teacher Kaaterskill Gallery hours are Mr. MacHower encouraged his Monday through Thursday from The “Not So Quiet art exploration and artist develop- 8AM to 8PM, Friday 8AM to 5 PM SCHOHARIE ment. Most days William would and Saturday 1 to 5 PM. Columbia SPOTLIGHT take his lunch money and hop Greene Community College located Music Series” the subway over to Manhattan at 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY.

One of the highlights from our Rufus (pictured), Horowitz & 2015 funding cycle was the “Not Malkine, Roy Zimmerman and So Quiet Music Series.” Funded Ken Whiteley to residents of for the fi rst time in 2015, these Schoharie County. The quality of National act Betheny & Rufus were weeknight performances continue these performances is unsurpassed part of the Middleburg Library to grow in popularity and reputa- and the concerts are a wonderful “Not So Quiet Music Series.” tion. Founded by local legend and addition to a growing music scene Middleburgh resident, Sonny Ochs, in Schoharie County. Because Arts. To preview upcoming “Not the series is an opportunity to hear this is still a library, however, the So Quiet” acts, visit middleburghli- talented (mostly folk) performers concerts start promptly at 7PM brary.info. from all parts of the world. With and end at 8:30PM (and the audi- For more information on the the goal of presenting one concert ences still have to behave quietly NYSC Decentralization Community per month (all year round, even in in the hall). The decision on how Arts Grant Program contact Renee winter) in the community room of to spend an early, weekday evening Nied, Schoharie County Grant the Middleburgh Library, this series has been made easier thanks to the Coordinator at schohariearts- has brought well-known, national combined eff ort of Sonny Ochs, the [email protected]. acts like Magpie, Ron MacDonald, Middleburgh Library Board and Dom Flemmons, Betheny & the New York State Council on the

Fine Art & Crafts Exhibition and Sale Continued from page 1

Upstairs, the Artful Hand Handmade Holidays Gift Gallery will be laden with locally made crafts in GCCA’s second fl oor boutique: ceramics, wearable art, jewelry, toys and holiday cards made by GCCA member artists as well as books, CDs and fi lms by area authors and musicians. Visitors will also be able to purchase reproduc- tions from the 40 Years/40 Artists juried collection, a set of artworks by GCCA members to commemorate the 40th anniversary. The boxed set of postcards includes all 40 works, and is priced at $20 for advanced orders and $30 starting the date of the Salon 2015 reception, November 21st. Ten of the Lucinda Abra in Dreamland by Richard Edelman, 2015, pigmented inkjet print is one of the original artworks of the 40 Years/40 Artists exhibit 40/40 artists were chosen to produce a small edition reproduced in to a postcard collection and limited to an edition of 250. The of fi ne art archival prints. The prints are diff erent from boxed set of 5 x 7 inch postcards is available for purchase in advance for $20 and the winning post card image, and are of works by at $30 on the day of the Salon 2015 opening reception on November 21, 2015. Richard Armstrong, Lauren Simkin Berke, Dot Chast, To purchase a boxed set or prints, please contact 518-943-3400, email gcca@ Allen Grindle, Eva Melas, Giselle Potter, Kate Hamilton, greenearts.org or visit www.greenearts.org/40-40/. Jim Krewson, Amy Siberkleit, and Jersey Walz. Please visit the GCCA Catskill Gallery located at 398 Main Street in Catskill, NY. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10AM to 5PM and Saturdays from noon to 5PM. GCCA will be closed on Christmas Day and New Years Day. For more informa- tion on upcoming exhibits and events, artists’ opportu- nities, grants and funds visit www.greenearts.org or call 518-943-3400. Cyber Security Division United Threat Management - NGFW - Legacy Services Eugene DeVillamil ~ Director

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dradance.org Visit www.catskillmtn.org ALIVE 2015 November/December Page 11 November Art Classes at the ART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY The last few weeks of fall are gesture. Kalfus, who has a back- and story. This popular series a perfect time to explore art. In its ground in the fashion industry, is will explore themes of landscape third year of off ering high-quality known for her fl uid, life-fi lled work and environment, identity, and art classes to the community, the which captures the landscape, narrative in art, featuring noted Art School of Columbia County, people, and animals of Columbia regional artists in a guided panel a non-profi t organization with County and the surrounding discussion with the ASCC’s a vision of “imagining art for region. Executive Director. everyone” presents the following Beth Thielen off ers Classes are held at the Old classes this November. Full Monoprinting as a two or three Schoolhouse, 1198 Route 21c in class descriptions and informa- day workshop, on Saturday and Harlemville, at the intersection of tion about ASCC’s scholarship Sunday November 7 & 8, 2015 Harlemville Road and Route 21C. program are on the school’s with the option of adding the Next to the Hawthorne Valley Farm Gesture drawing by Maj Kalfus, courtesy of the artist: website, plus newly updated list- preceding Friday, November 6, Store, the building is centrally www.kalfus-studios.com ings for ASCC’s winter semester. from 10 am-4 pm each day. A located within Columbia County, Gift certifi cates are available and popular, on-going class, this work- a ten minute drive from Chatham, an art class makes a great holiday shop off ers an encouraging way and one mile from the Taconic gift. to develop creative ideas, using Parkway, at the Route 21c exit. Maj Kalfus off ers Gesture painting, collage and drawing in a To register for classes online, go NEWS FROM ACROSS THE BRIDGE! Drawing on Thursday evening, direct and spontaneous process. to artschoolofcolumbiacounty. Columbia County Council on November 5, 2015 from 6-9 pm. The Art School’s also org. For more information, email Using a costumed dancer as a live announces the theme of its 2016 info@artschoolofcolumbiacounty. the Arts’ Celebrates its model, students will learn how to lecture and pop-up exhibit series org or call 518-672-7140. 50th Anniversary! capture motion, movement, and ARTalks: surroundings, self,

GCCA Congratulates FARMLAND: Paintings by Arlene Boehm CCCA on their Great Work!

TWO EXHIBITS NOT TO MISS! “STITCH IN TIME” On View through November 14, 2015 at the White Barn by Arlene Boehm. Warren Street Gallery in Hudson, NY. FARMLAND… a solo works in support of the cause of exhibition of the paintings of sustainable agriculture and in FARMLAND will be on display Arlene Boehm will be on display service to the preservation of the December 12-20, 2015 at the Selected by juror Marlene Vidibor whose own artwork constitutes Spencertown Academy Arts Center. multi-media art objects, organic in composition and design, inspired from December 12-20, 2015 at rural character of our beautiful by nature to wear or display. Vidibor is known for “Wildbraidart” bead the Spencertown Academy Arts county. jewelry, fi ber art, accessories, and watercolor/collage handmade poetry Center. Following the seasons with On a singular basis, a major Please join Arlene and her books. Visit marlenevidibor.com to see her work. her brush, this plein air painter factor of support in her eff orts many friends for the opening has drawn inspiration from was the receipt of the Linda reception on Saturday, December Stitch in Time features the work of Undine Brod, Janet Cooper, Tess the quiet, natural beauty of her Arnaud Grant, administered by 12, 2015, from 3 to 5 PM at the Daley, Mary Ann Davis, Nancy Demetriades, Karyn Dornemann, surroundings in Columbia County. the Columbia County Council Spencertown Academy Arts Valerie Hoff mann, Ellen Jouret-Epstein, Zoe Keidong, Lori Lawrence, As a 2013 co-founder, along with on the Arts, which allowed her Center, located at 790 Route 203, Vilma Mare, (CCCA’s own!) Cynthia Mulvaney, Wendy Robinowitz, Bill Fran Heaney, of the Columbia the freedom to create sketches Spencertown, NY 12165. Gallery Shaughnasey, Michelle Shaw, Arlene Sibley, Amy Silberkleit, Stina County Plein Air Artists, the and studies in the fi eld, to larger hours are Saturdays & Sundays Soderstrom, Nancy Winegard, Lauren Wolff . Juror Marlene Vidibor group visited and painted all the studio works. Rolling fi elds and 1 -5 PM or by appointment by also has work included in the exhibit. Columbia Land Conservancies meadows, ramshackle sheds calling 518-392-3693 or email in the county. In 2014, in and barns, replete with a cast The CCCA Gallery is located at 209 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. info@spencertownacademy. conjunction with the Chatham of animal characters - chickens, org. For additional information Agricultural Partnership, Arlene guinea hens, boisterous turkeys, about plein air painting with the organized season-long painting rescue horses and donkeys, angus group, contact Arlene Boehm outings for artists at several and alpacas - form the basis of The “THANK YOU!” Show at 518-822-9848 or arlene@ participating farms on the long subject matter for Arlene’s iconic Through November 14, 2015 mhcable.com. standing Chatham Farm Tour, images presented to the public in The Columbia County Council On The Arts says THANK YOU! to our culminating in an exhibition of this exhibit. many volunteers by showing off their works. Volunteers from board, staff , membership, gallery and ArtsWalk committees, jurors, and a host of others, have all been giving their time throughout the year. Now they are getting something back! CCCA invites you to see their volun- teers’ work displayed in the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Conference Room Gallery at 1 North Front Street in Hudson, NY. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM.

Artists Arlene Boehm, Brenda Bertin, Gerry Cooley, Fran Haney, Valerie Hoff mann, Karen Hummel, Daniel Marcus, Kathie Mock, Dan Region and Judy Reynolds works will be on display through November 14th. Thank you! Delivers Care for Your Entire Family www.columbiamemorialhealth.org Call for Submissions! Holiday Small The Key by Polly Law, 2015, bricolage, is Works Show one of the original artworks of the 40 Years/40 Artists exhibit reproduced in to a postcard On exhibit November 21, 2015 collection and limited to an edition of 250. The through January 9, 2016. boxed set of 5 x 7 inch postcards is available Two Tasting Rooms for purchase in advance for $20 and at $30 Design and Illustration above by on the day of the Salon 2015 opening recep- 1900 Route 66 © Arlene Boehm. tion on November 21, 2015. To purchase a Ghent, NY boxed set or prints, please contact 518-943- 3400, email [email protected] or visit www. hudsonchathamwinery.com Meet the artists at the opening reception on Saturday, November greenearts.org/40-40/. & 21, 2015, from 5 to7 PM! This non-juried collection of 6036 Main Street, works will be displayed in the CCCA 209 Warren Street Gallery, www.marlenevidibor.com Tannersville, NY Hudson, prior to and during the holiday season! Artists are hudsonchathamtannersville.com invited to register via email of their intention to display artworks. just google “wildbraidart” Please note guidelines listed below. Award Winning Hand Made Wines Please simply email to CCCA at [email protected]: bead art, jewelry, Artist’s Name & Contact Info, Title(s) of Work(s). (Maximum of 2 works.) fi ber art, accessories, Size of Work(s) (15 inches max. in any direction.) Price (Not to exceed $250.) watercolor/collage handmade poetry Don’t delay. Non-Juried Artworks will be accepted on a “fi rst regis- books tered, fi rst served basis.” Due to a limited amount of wall space we can only accept approximately 50 artists’ works. We can also WOOD-FIRED accept a small number of pieces for the glass display case--please send a .jpg image and dimensions and you will be contacted. STONEWARE POTTERY Please see our submission guidelines for more information. Works www.susanbeecherpottery.com for this show are subject to a hanging fee of ONLY $5 per work. Perfect gifts for all occasions, Drop off of works at 2019 Warren Street on November 11, 12 and 13, in all price ranges 2015 from 11 AM to 3 PM. The CCCA Gallery Hours are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 AM-3 PM and Saturday 1 to 5 PM. Open weekends by appointment or by chance For more information on these exhibits and other special events, CCCA membership and its benefi ts, call 518-671-6213, email Call Susan at (917) 658-5288 [email protected] or visit artscolumbia.org. 2070 Route 23C, East Jewitt, NY 12424 Page 12 November/December 2015 ALIVE

Ancram artist Lynne Perrella’s mixed media collages are on display at the Roe Jan Library in Hillsdale, NY through November 29, 2015. Stephen Lang’s Collage Artist Lynne Perrella ‘Beyond Glory’ Showing at Roe Jan Library Coming to C-GCC

New Tales and Untold Secrets Are Illuminated Actor Stephen Lang whose one-man show “Beyond Glory” will An exhibit of mixed media of Bath to The Pardoner, each in Masters: Collage: Major be performed on the evening of Thursday, November 12, 2015 at collages by Lynne Perrella persona is re-interpreted and Works by Leading Artists, an Columbia-Greene Community College. entitled “Travels & Talismans: decoded via lavish layers of paint, international overview of the art Canterbury Tales Re-imagined” mark-making, and collected form. The artist’s website is www. Columbia-Greene Community Daniel Inouye of Hawaii in atten- is on view at Roeliff Jansen papers and ephemera – as new LKPerrella.com. College will present “Beyond dance. Community Library. The show tales and untold secrets are The Roeliff Jansen Glory,” starring actor Stephen The oral histories of these will run through November 29, illuminated. The vast variety Community Library, which is Lang in his acclaimed one-man eight men are brought to life 2015. of Chaucer’s characters, from chartered to serve Ancram, show about eight Medal of through Lang’s commanding This new body of work by curious to coarse, provide a visual Copake and Hillsdale, is located Honor recipients, on Thursday, performance, with a backdrop of Perrella provides a renewed feast of possibilities; newly-re- at 9091 Route 22, approximately November 12, 2015 at 7 PM, in video screens, which occasionally appreciation for a classic medi- visited in this literary-inspired one mile south of the light at the the Arts Center Theater at the evoke the turmoil of combat. In eval narrative poem. Inspired exhibit. intersection of State Routes 22 Greenport campus. portraying eight distinct person- by descriptive passages from Ancram artist Lynne Perrella and 23 in Hillsdale. For infor- Admission to the play is alities, Lang moves through each Chaucer’s rich portrait of is a mixed media artist, author of mation on hours and events, call $18 for the general public and man’s story with subtle alterations humanity, Perrella has created a fi ve books on collage, and hosts 518-325-4101 or visit the library’s $12 for students and senior of posture and vocal coloring. series of mixed media portraits creativity events throughout the website at www.roejanlibrary. citizens. Tickets are available at “Mr. Lang’s one-man play is off ering new insights into these United States and abroad. A org. the Greenport campus, Chatham no simple-minded piece of fl ag- storied travelers. From the Wife portfolio of her work is featured Bookstore and the Greene County waving,” wrote Terry Teachout in Council on the Arts in Catskill. the Wall Street Journal. “It is an The play is the capstone to unsparingly direct portrait of men Veterans Education Day at C-GCC, at war, pushed into narrow corners HRC Showcase Theatre Presents a day that will also feature an and faced with hard choices. It afternoon workshop for veterans is also one of the richest, most The Ding Dongs that begins at 4 PM. complex pieces of acting I’ve seen “We are celebrating Veterans in my theatergoing life.” HRC Showcase Theatre, the “The Ding Dongs” will Day,” said admissions coun- “Its sobriety, simplicity and premier theatre company in the be performed on Saturday, selor and Veterans Task Force lack of histrionics are the show’s Hudson River Valley, dedicated to November 14, at 7:30 pm. in Committee Chair Kevin Kropp, signal strengths,” wrote Charles staged readings of new plays, will the auditorium of the First “with a comprehensive program Isherwood in The New York present its second staged reading Reformed Church, located at 52 for veterans and those who Times. of their 25th anniversary season, Green Street in Hudson, NY. The currently serve.” An award-winning playwright, “The Ding Dongs”, by playwright performance will be followed by The 90-minute workshop, led Lang penned “Beyond Glory.” and actress Brenda Withers. a reception, featuring delicious by college personnel, is aimed at Commended for fi lm portrayals The play revolves around a snacks and beverages, and a talk- helping veterans take their fi rst of Babe Ruth, Stonewall Jackson sweet-faced couple who show back session with the playwright, step toward a college education. and “Avatar’s” Col. Quaritch, he up on a suburban doorstep. At actors, and director. Admission is Participants will receive up to two began his career on Broadway and the hands of these two uninvited $15.00. For reservations, please tickets to the evening performance maintained a managing role at the guests, the unsuspecting home- phone 518-851-2061. of “Beyond Glory.” Interested Actor’s Theatre. “The Ding Dongs” playwright and actress Brenda Withers has owner fi nds himself the victim of This program is made veterans can call (518) 828-4181, “Beyond Glory” enjoyed a appeared as an actress on the a surreal home invasion. possible (in part) with public extension 3342, or email christine. celebrated run on Broadway and funds from the Decentralization [email protected]. in Chicago’s Goodman Theater. Program of the New York State Adapted from Larry Smith’s Lang is currently taking the play Council on the Arts with the sup- stirring book by the same name, coast to coast. The play is part of port of Governor Andrew Cuomo “Beyond Glory” presents the the Gemini Series at C-GCC. and the New York State Leg- stories of eight veterans from C-GCC is located on state islature, administered through World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, Route 23 in Greenport, one mile the Community Arts Grants rendering fi rst hand accounts of east of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. Fund in Columbia County by valor, which resulted in the nation’s Route 23 can be reached from Exit the Greene County Council on highest military award, the Medal 21 of the New York State Thruway Main Street, Tannersville, NY the Arts. Additional funding is of Honor. As a tribute to fallen or the Hudson exit of the Taconic 518.589.6101 provided by a grant from the soldiers, Lang has performed the Parkway. For more information, Open 7 am - 7 pm Hudson River Bank and Trust show on military bases, as well call the college weekdays at (518) Foundation. as on the fl oor of Congress, with 828-4181 ext. 3344. www.krookedcafe.com Medal of Honor recipient Sen.

Platte Clove #15 by Susan Miiller, 2014, oil on canvas board, is one of the original artworks of the 40 Years/40 Artists exhibit reproduced in to a postcard collection and limited to an edition of 250. The boxed set of 5 x 7 inch postcards is avail- able for purchase in advance A Year Round Resort for $20 and at $30 on the day of Ski Mountain Lodging & Dining the Salon 2015 opening recep- Summer & Winter Adventure Park tion on November 21, 2015. 18-Hole Public Golf Course and More! To purchase a boxed set or Book Your Adventure Now! prints, please contact 518-943- 800-754-9463 3400, email gcca@greenearts. www.windhammountain.com org or visit www.greenearts.org/ 40-40/.

ART SCHOOL www.ruthsachs.us OF COLUMBIA COUNTY 630 County Rt 17, Jewett, NY 12442 www.artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org 1 Treeview Drive, Melville, NY 11747 imagining art for everyone ONE OF A KIND CERAMICS drawing • painting • photography • printing sculpture • bookbinding 516-443-2847 Fax 631-659-3174 classes year-round • programs for adults & children ALIVE 2015 November/December Page 13 Catskill Jazz Factory Brings ‘Origin Of Adjustable Things’ To Tannersville

Following their recently sold Chinen of the New York Times. songwriting has been out Tribute to Louis Armstrong, Hailed by the esteemed described as “clear-eyed the Catskill Jazz Factory with the pianist Fred Hersch as “a real poetry” (Boston Globe), 23Arts Initiative are pleased to discovery — a fi rst-rate musician while Downbeat claimed welcome vocalist Joanna Wallfi sch in every way,” singer-song- that her “crystalline and renowned jazz pianist Dan writer Joanna Wallfi sch has built delivery would melt any Tepfer for an intimate duo night an impressive profi le since her purist’s heart”. at the Deer Mountain Inn in move to New York from London The duo has toured Tannersville, NY on Saturday, in 2012. Earlier this year she globally for the past 9 December 5, 2015. The concert released “The Origin of Adjustable months and is very happy will include a 3-course dinner Things” — an intimate duo album to return to Tannersville beginning at 6 pm followed by of original compositions and with this unique and the performance at 8 pm, $60 per arrangements with the “excep- beautifully intimate project. The Deer Mountain Inn Vocalist Joanna Wallfi sch and person. Reservations are required tional” (NY Times) pianist Dan Both Wallfi sch and Tepfer are is located at 790 Co Rd 25, renowned jazz pianist Dan Tannersville, NY. For more infor- Tepfer will perform an intimate and can be made by calling Deer Tepfer. “When Joanna Wallfi sch no strangers to the Catskill Jazz th mation and upcoming events, visit duo on December 5 at the Deer Mountain Inn at 518-589-6268. and Dan Tepfer join forces Factory and recently spent time Mountain Inn in Tannersville, NY. “[Wallfi sch and Tepfer’s] the results are sublime” (Jazz in the village of Tannersville while www.catskilljazzfactory.org. For interplay, on original songs as Times), their presence on stage recording an original short fi lm to information and reservations, call well as on a few choice covers, is “stylish, rapturous and orig- accompany their music. the Deer Mountain Inn, 518-589- is sensitive and deep,” said Nate inal” (Jazz in London). Joanna’s 6268.

The Glass Menagerie Slated at C-GCC

Classics @ the Point Theatre whose action is drawn from the to Tom inviting an acquaintance Eileen Roehm, who will portray Ensemble will perform “The memories of the narrator, Tom from work home for dinner. Amanda, in Classics at the Point Glass Menagerie” on Friday, Wingfi eld. Set in St. Louis in Joseph Capone, artistic Theatre Ensemble’s production of “The Glass Menagerie” coming December 4, at 7 PM and on 1937, Wingfi eld is an aspiring director for Classics at the Point to Columbia-Greene Community Sunday, December 6, at 2 PM poet who works in a shoe ware- Theatre Ensemble, said he chose College. in the Arts Center Theater at house to support his mother, to direct Tennessee Williams’ Columbia-Greene Community Amanda, and his sister, Laura. award-winning masterpiece in College. Laura’s crippling shyness causes celebration of his group’s 14th The Glass Menagerie is Amanda to become obsessed anniversary. Classics at the Point a four-character memory play with fi nding her a suitor, leading Theatre Ensemble’s lifelong member and local theatre artist, Eileen Roehm, will portray Amanda. Admission is $10 for the The Ghent Playhouse general public and $8 for students and senior citizens. Tickets Announces Its 16th are available at the Greenport campus, Chatham Bookstore and Annual Panto the Greene County Council on the Arts in Catskill. Snow White – For more information, call WWW.ANGELASPIZZERIABREWERY.COM the college weekdays at (518) 828-4181 ext. 3344. House of Dwarfs (518) 678-9275 4545 ROUTE 32, CATSKILL, NY 12414 The “Loons” return to the Ghent Playhouse stage on November 27, 2015 with this year’s Panto, Snow White: House Of Dwarfs. Join them for the fun and mayhem as they present the familiar tale of Snow White... or will they? Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of those dwarfs when the Loons retell it! This year’s Panto will be directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher. Snow White – House of Dwarfs will open on Friday, November 27 and run through Sunday, December 13, 2013. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM. and Sunday afternoons at 2 PM. Tickets are $20 each, $17 for Friends of the Playhouse and $10 for Students with ID. Tickets may be reserved by calling 1-800-838- 3006 or going to the website at www.ghentplayhouse.org. Mark your calendars and get your tickets early to be sure you don’t miss this! The Ghent Playhouse 518 392-6264 is located at in Columbia County at 6 Town Hall Place in Ghent, NY. FromȱBackyardȱBarbequesȱ ToȱElegantȱAffairsȱ TrustedȱProviderȱofȱEventȱȱ RentalȱEquipmentȱ 88ȱGroveȱStreet,ȱCairo,ȱNewȱYorkȱ Contact Us & Get a Quote 518-622-3353 or 866-783-8100 www.bigtoptentrental.com

943-7465. [email protected] Grants… Municipalities, non profi ts -$15,000. Public Volunteers…Docents to lead tours of exhibitions & other buildings; historic landscape or municipal parks, cultural Opportunities museum volunteer opportunities. Amy Morrison, Develop- resource of downtowns, residential neighborhoods. Emily ment Assistant, (518) 463-4478, ext. 408 or morrisona@ Curtis, Program Coordinator, Preservation League of New for Artists albanyinstitute.org for more information. Albany Institute York State, 44 Central Ave., Albany, NY 12206. 518-462- of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12210 5658, 462-5684, [email protected], www.preservenys. Cathy Lee-Visscher, Nellie Rustick and Paul Murphy in the Ghent Playhouse org 02/15 CALL FOR FINE CRAFTS: www.albanyinstit ute.org 02/15 2014-15 Panto Ali Baba & the 4 Tea Thieves. Photo Credit: Dan Region Grants... $500 for age under 30 creating new project, The GCCA is looking for fi ne crafts to be sold at the Grants continue existing project. Specifi c issue, show concrete GCCA’s Artful Hand Gallery Gift Shop. Those interested Local Grants…Support for family friendly, soundly man- action plan, budget, adequate supervision, accountabil- should submit 4” X 6” color photos or jpgs of items they aged organizations that enhance the communities where ity. Give weekly grants to young people in US, Canada. want to sell to the GCCA Visual Arts Director, 398 Main St., the funder has a presence. Price Chopper’s Golub Founda- Do Something, 24-32 Union Square East, 4th Fl. Catskill, NY 12414. 518-943-3400. tion. PO Box 1074, Schenectady, NY 12301. Does not fund South, New York, NY 10003 [email protected]. There’s a need for your special talents and skills on the fi lm & video projects or individuals. No deadline. 02/15 www.dosomething.org Updated 02/15 volunteer roster at the Greene County Council on the Ceramic Grants…awards from $200 -$5,000 for original Grant… Newman’s Own Charitable Giving Program. Arts galleries and offi ces in Catskill. There are immediate research in ceramics history, be based on primary source Areas of giving include: arts, education, children, elderly openings on the front desk and exhibit installation staff s, materials. Susan Detweiler, ACC Grants Chairman. Suite groups, environmental causes, aff ordable housing, di- but many other opportunities exist - gallery maintenance, 12, 8200 Flourtwon Avenue, Wundmoor, PA 19038 sdet- saster relief, hunger relief. Newman’s Own Charitable information distribution, and much, much more. What are [email protected] www.amercercir.org 02/15 Giving Program, 246 Post Road East, Westport, CT 06880. you interested in? Chances are... we need you! Volunteers www.newmansown.com 02/15 can exchange time and eff orts for a GCCA membership, Dance Grants…Administers a variety of grantmaking pro- network within the arts community, learn and teach grams. The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Inc. 145 E. Film/Video/Radio Grants…for pre-production & distribu- valuable skills... and volunteering can be a lot of fun! Call 48th St, Ste. 26C, NY, NY 10017-1259. Contact: Theodore tion of media focusing on political & social issues. Paul GCCA Catskill Offi ce, 518-943-3400. S. Bartwick, Treas. 212-755-5540 3/14 Robeson Fund for Independent Media, administered by the Funding Exchange. Through our innovative, activist-led NEW! The Art School of Columbia County, centrally locat- Grants… Off ering fi nancial, administrative assistance to in- grantmaking strategies, we support the systemic change ed in Columbia County in Harlemville NY is a not-for-profi t dividual artists’ special projects, help develop collaborative work of both experienced and developing grassroots [501(c)3] art school dedicated to “art for everyone.” ASCC projects, assist locating venues for presentation, sponsor organizations within the broad movement for social justice. is seeking applications for the following positions: devel- for public presentations. Carol Parkinson, Dir., Harvest- 212-529-5300, [email protected] www.fex.org 02/15 oping and teaching art programs for children, art therapy works, 596 Broadway, Ste 602, New York, NY 10012 . and teaching art to adults. Please send your resume/CV 212-431-1130 www.harvestworks.org Ongoing 02/15 Film/Video & Theater Grants… Free updated bimonthly with educational background, exhibitions (if applicable), Grant… $1,000 to $2,500 for emerging artists: art, music, Funding Newsletters distributed via email by The Fund for and teaching experience with your contact information theater, dance, photography, literature, works, due to Women Artists. WomenArts 3739 Balboa Street #181 San to: [email protected] Subject Line: their genre and/or social philosophy, might be diffi cult Francisco, CA 94121 (415) 751-2202 info@womenarts. application. Please mention in the body of the email in being aired. For an application send a SASE to Gladys org www.WomenArts.org 02/15 which position(s) you are interested. 8/15 Miller-Rosenstein, Executive Director, Puffi n Foundation, Film, Video Grants... Average $25,000 to support interna- Other Opportunities 20 Puffi n Way, Teaneck, NJ 07666-4111. 201-836-8923 tional documentary fi lms and videos: current, signifi cant www.puffi nfoundation.org 02/15 issues in human rights, expression, liberties, social justice. Volunteers...Greene County Community College, Grants… Communities, small/mid-sized, culturally-specif- Diane Weyermann, Dir. of Soros Documentary Fund, Open Elderhostel Institute Network affi liate programs: local art Society Institute, 400 W. 59th St., New York NY, 10019 scene, artist slide lectures, instruction. Class leadership ic, community-based arts institutions. Programs showing issues, experiences of underrepresented social justice Info. 212-548-0657, Fax 212-548-4679 [email protected] is voluntary, off ers wide exposure to interested audience. www.soros.org/sdf. Ongoing 02/15 Adult Learning Institute, Box 1000, Hudson, NY 12453. issues, community concerns of national or multi-state 518-828-4181 x3431. impact: residencies; new performing art, or visual art, Film, Video Grants... Seeking projects on contemporary cross cultural, multi state collaborations, dissemination of issues of human rights, civil liberties, freedom of expres- Volunteers… To help spread the news about Thomas Cole, existing works aff ecting communities. Nathan Cummings sion, social justice. Up to $15,000 production funds of father of American landscape painting and founder of the Foundation, 475 Tenth Ave., 14th Fl., New York, NY 10018, up to $50,000. Sundance Documentary Fund, Sundance Hudson River School at his newly restored home, Cedar 212-787-7300, 787-7377. [email protected] Institute, 8857 West Olympic Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA Grove, a National Historic Site in Catskill, NY. Call 518- www.nathancummings.org 02/15 90211. www.sundance.org . Ongoing 02/15 Film, Video and Electronic Grants… provides fees for independent ment Services off er assistance to individual artists and small arts groups. Arts & Crafts… hive, owned and operated by Theresa Spinelli at 321 Main Michael Woodward has worked in industry for 25 years. Art Network, POB media artists (fi lm, video, new media, sonic arts) to appear in-person to New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. (212) Street in Schoharie, is looking for artists (of all mediums) who wish to 1360, Nevada City, CA 95959. 800-383-0677. [email protected], exhibit work. The Experimental Television Center, 109 Lower Fairfi eld 366-6900 x 225 or 230.FAX (212) 366-1778 www.nyfa.org 02/15 show and sell at this unique shop: a bit out of the ordinary, this up and com- www.artmarketing.com . Updated 02/15 Road, Oswego, NY 13811. 607-687-4341. www.experimentaltvcenter.org . Financial Assistance... For artists in need of emergency aid to avoid evic- ing venue off ers an unusual mix of antiques, vintage, modern, industrial, All Media... Info hotline sponsored by American Council for the Arts has Applications reviewed monthly. 02/15 tion, cover medical expenses, unpaid utility bills, other. Submit description, organic, hand-crafted and local. hive supports local businesses and artists referral service, provides information on a wide variety of programs and Film Grants… Eight grants yearly in many categories except commercial copies of bills or eviction notice, resume, two letters of recommendation: and strives to fi nd American-made items and use recycled products. hive services. Call Mon.-Fri, 2-5PM EST: 1-800-232-2789. projects. Send a SASE to Bill Creston, with description, inspiration, Change Inc., PO Box 705, Cooper Station, NY 10276. 212-473-3742. inner- is a continuing work in progress and will begin a regular concert series source material, resume, approx. dates of use, experience, and media to city.org/columbiaheights/agencys/change.html Ongoing. Updated 02/15 in conjunction with their ongoing “Meet the Artist” events. hive off ers Photography eMediaLoft, 55 Bethune St., A-628, New York, NY 10014. 212-924-4893, opportunities to display, lecture and more. Contact Theresa Spinelli at Photography…Nueva Luz, photographic journal of En Foco, Inc. ($45 Photography... Critical Needs Fund for Photographers with AIDS. Initial www.hive321.com or email theresa@hive 321.com for details. 02/15 email [email protected] website: www.emedialoft.org/ Ongoing 02/15 requests by phone: 212-929-7190. Ongoing. membership) produces exhibitions, publications and events which support Film Grant... Independent documentary fi lmmakers may apply. We Literary, Folklore, Storytelling photographers of Latin/Am, African/Am, Asian, Pacifi c Islander and produce, distribute and promote quality ethnographic, documentary and Internships Native American heritage. View current issue before submitting portfolios Poets... Seeking teen works for book. Love and aff ection, friendship, of 20 unmounted prints or slides for consideration in future Nueva Luz. non-fi ction fi lms from around the world. Send brief description, one page GCCA Internships…Greene County Council on the Arts is looking for heartache, pressure, etc. as themes. SASE: June Cotner, Poems by Teens, budget. Cynthia Close, Exec. Dir., Documentary Educational Resources, an intern to assist with design, social media and exhibitions. The ideal Subscription $30 USA. Membership, subscriptions, donations, all tax Box 2765, Poulsbo, WA 98370. [email protected], www.junecotner. deductible. En Foco, Inc., 1738 Hone Ave, Bronx, NY 10461. 718-931-9311 101 Morse St., Watertown, MA 02472. Fax - 617-926-9519, email docued@ candidate has experience in graphic design, writing, and social media. An com 02/15 der.org web site www.der.org/ 800-569-6621. Ongoing 02/15 ability to work both independently and closely with the Visual Arts Director FAX 718-409-6445 www.enfoco.org Updated 02/15 on creating graphics and posters for exhibitions, managing media dead- Writers… nth position is a free online magazine/e-zine with politics & Photography… Salons monthly, preceded by a potluck meal, bring some- *International Artists…Trust for Mutual Understanding funds travel & opinion, travel writing, fi ction & poetry, reviews & interviews, and some per diem expenses of professional exchanges, visual & performing arts. lines and installing shows is highly valued. Please email Molly Stinchfi eld, thing to share. Conversations, sharing, seeing, discussions on photography. Visual Arts Director at [email protected] with a resume and cover high weirdness. http://www.nthposition.com/links.php off ers listings for The Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY Collaborations, curatorial research, performances, lectures. Exchanges calls for submissions to writers. Free to subscribe. 02/15 relating to Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic letter outlining skills and interests. Go to www.greenearts.org for more 12498. 845-679-9957. [email protected] www.cpw.org Updated 02/15 & Ukraine, limited funds for others. Funds individuals. www.tmuny.org. information on Greene County Council on the Arts. ongoing Books... Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Village Square Bookstore & Liter- Photography… Seeking contemporary and traditional work by Native Deadlines, August 1, Feb 1. Updated 02/15 Internships…Freehold Art Exchange is looking for an intern to assist with ary Arts Center has over 10,000 titles in stock including books on the visual artists. American Indian Community House Gallery, 708 Broadway, New arts, crafts, fi lm, poetry, drama, children’s storybooks, cooking, gardening Literary Grants...Contemporary Literature and Non-Fiction. Black fundraising, web development, organic gardening and barn renovations. York, NY 10003. 212-598-0100. www.aich.org. 02/15 The ideal candidate has experience with web design, social media cam- and fi ction and non-fi ction. Visit them online at http://www.catskillmtn.org/ Lawrence Press seeks to publish intriguing books of literature and creative retail/bookstore.html to see their Schedule of Literary Events. 02/15 Photography… Seeking curators to present exhibition/publication non-fi ction: novels, memoirs, short story collections, poetry, biographies, paigns, fundraising, gardening and/or carpentry. Freehold Art Exchange programs focusing on aesthetic issues. Proposals should include names cultural studies, and translations from the German and French. The St. is an artist residency program for visual and interdisciplinary artists Writers... Seeking entries for Very Short Fiction Award. $1,200 and of possible artists, program summary, curator’s resume. Kathleen Kenyon, Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has not yet published a invested in social justice, environmental sustainability, and community publication of work less than 3,000 words. Award granted twice a year 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY 12498. 914-679-9957. [email protected]. engagement. Our facility is on 57 acres of land in the Catskill Mountains with submission deadlines in January and July. Online submission page: full-length collection of short stories or poems. The winner of this contest Photography… The Greene County Camera Club off ers three opportuni- will receive book publication, a $1,000 cash award, and 10 copies of the of NY, including a vegetable garden and hiking trails. We are looking for Glimmer Train Press, 4763 SW Maplewood, PO Box 80430, Portland, someone dependable, able to work alone and collaborate, and not afraid OR 97280-1430. 503-221-0837. Online submission page: https://www. ties each month for intermediate and advanced photographers: member book. Annual Deadline: August 31. submissions@blacklawrencepress. competition, 6:30PM second Thursday of the month at Greenville Public com Updated 02/15 to get dirty! Please email Molly Stinchfi eld, Co-Founder and Director, at glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp Updated 02/15 [email protected] with a resume and cover letter outlining Library Art Gallery; “Show and Tell” session, fourth Thursday in Greenville Literary Grants… Children’s Books. General Work-In-Progress grant. Writers... Lists of contests, grants, fellowships for fi ction, poetry, drama/ at 7PM; speakers, presentations and fi lms, third Wednesday at 7PM, Ath- skills and interest. Go to www.freeholdartexchange.org for more informa- fi lm, non-fi ction, published bi-monthly. Awards for Writers, PO Box 437, $1,500 through Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. All tion on Freehold Art Exchange. Updated 02/15 ens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. More info, Eileen Camuto genres. SCBWI, 8271 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048. www. Ithaca, NY 14851. www.ithaca.edu 02/15 at (518) 678-9044 or [email protected]; Nora Adelman (518) scbwi.org 02/15 Internships... Women’s Studio Workshop, a visual arts organization with Poets & Writers... 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Library Fellows Program, Library and Research Center, Nation- Music al Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave., N.W., Washington, complex four miles from beaches of central Florida. Award-winning Sculpture D.C. 20005. www.nmwa.org 202-783-7365 Deadline: Annual Recurring studios: resource library, painting, sculpture, music, dance, writer’s studios, New! Open Audition for Young Singers 8-18. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Sculpture… Call for sculptors living within 150-mile radius of Albany for January 31 Updated 02/15 black box theater, digital computer lab. Atlantic Center for the Arts or at 50 William Street in Catskill, NY announces the formation of a Treble large-scale works appropriate for high traffi c terminal. Prospectus, info: Harris House of Atlantic Center for the Arts, Internship Form: Program Choir for young people, male and female in the English cathedral tradition. Sharon Bates, Director, Art& Culture Program, Administration Building Music Grants…International Voice Competition in Canada, USA. Dept., Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna This is an audition only choir under the direction of Ann Carter-Cox, M.F.A. Altamura/Caruso Study Grants Audition. $30,000 cash grant prizes. Ste. 200, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY 12211-1057. 518-242- Beach, FL 32168. (386) 423-1753 www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org. In addition to weekly group instruction and practice, every young person 2241 [email protected] Updated 02/15 Performances with orchestra. Requirements: 5 (fi ve) arias in the original Ongoing 02/15 accepted into the program will receive an additional half hour individual- key and language. One aria will be chosen by the contestant and a second Internships... High school seniors, college students; Flex-time. Programs ized voice lesson each week. The entire program is off ered at no charge. Miscellaneous aria by the jury. Aria with cabaletta must be presented in its entirety. One Prior musical training or experience is not necessary in order to audition. chamber literature work of contestant’s choice. Contestant must be ready in publishing and literary presenting business. Marketing, database New Website... The Whitney Museum of American Art has portal to Inter- maintenance, Literary Curators website, writing, sending press releases, Call 518-943-4180 or use the contact form on the church website www. net art and digital arts worldwide as an online gallery space. Details, scope: to sing a full recital upon 24-hour notice. Information and application stlukescatskill.org. Updated 02/15 www.altocanto.org. Sponsored by Inter-Cities Performing Arts, Inc. 4000 Workshops for Kids program, poetry for radio shorts, video production. www.artport.whitney.org Updated 02/15 Bertha Rogers, Ex. Dir., Bright Hill Press, POB 193, Treadwell, NY 13846. Bergenline Ave, Union City, NJ 07087. 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Speakers in the Humanities, a program of New York State Rentals... Lighting and audio system packages. LSL Productions, Box 63 8285. Spring & Fall deadlines. Updated 02/15 Council for the Humanities: for a nominal fee, non-profi t NYS organiza- Music… International Voice Competition in Canada, USA. Altamura/ Windham, NY 12496-0063. 518-734-5117. Music Grant… DeLucia Award for Innovation in Music Education in tions may book distinguished scholars to lecture on a variety of topics. Caruso Study Grants Audition. $30,000 cash grant prizes. Performances genres, instruments, methods, other aspects of music education that can be Applications eight weeks prior to proposed lecture. For catalog, application with orchestra. Requirements: 5 (fi ve) arias in the original key and lan- duplicated. The Mockingbird Foundation, c/o Lemery Greiser, LLC, Attn: contact: New York Council for the Humanities, 150 Broadway, Ste. 1700, guage. One aria will be chosen by the contestant and a second aria by the Jack Leibowitz, Esq., 10 Railroad Place, Ste.1502, Saratoga Springs, NY New York, NY 10038. 212-233-1131, [email protected]; www. jury. Aria with cabaletta must be presented in its entirety. One chamber 12866-3033. Ongoing nyhumanities.org 02/15 literature work of contestant’s choice. Contestant must be ready to sing a CIP Programs & Events full recital upon 24-hour notice. Information & application: www.altocanto. Music Grant... Supporting young composers of classical or chamber Scholarships & Residencies org. Sponsored by Inter-Cities Performing Arts, Inc. 4000 Bergenline Ave, music. The BMI Foundation, Inc., Carlos Surinach Fund and Boudleaux Union City, NJ 07087. Info. (201) 863-8724 Fax (201)866-3566 icpainc@ GCCA GALLERY BOUTIQUE - The Greene County Council Bryant Fund. 212-830-2520. [email protected] Ongoing. 02/15 New! - Residency… Byrdcliff e Art Colony Artist in Residence Program (AiR). Application deadline: March 15. $40 application fee. Uninterrupted optonline.net on the Arts invites you to visit our gallery boutique, The Artful Music Grant… Meet the Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA Program time and creative space for visual artists, writers and composers at Music…Capital Area Flute Club for fl utists of all abilities, wide variety Hand, in Catskill. Open year-round, we off er fi ne arts and for not-for-profi t performing and presenting organizations commissioning Byrdcliff e Art Colony in Woodstock. Fee schedule and more info, including of music played to expand opportunities for ensemble playing. Monthly high quality crafts by local and regional artists, and books by new works. Support composer, librettist fees, copying, range, support fellowships, available on line at byrdcliff e.org/artist-in-residence. Residents meetings, Delmar NY. 518-383-6480, 518-580-1206. www.facebook.com/ area authors. Send boutique inquiries to: artfulhand.greene@ services. Rotating basis. www.randallgiles.org/commissioning.html Eddie chosen by committee of professionals. 02/15 pages/Capital-Area-Flute-Club Updated 02/15 gmail.com. The GCCA Catskill Gallery, located at 398 Main Fiklin, Senior program Manager. 212-645-6949 x102. 75 Ninth Ave., 3R Suite C, New York, NY 10011. Updated 02/15 Scholarships, apprenticeships & fellowships. Support for emerging art- Music... Programming sought by Society for New Music, professional Street, Catskill, NY. , is open Monday through Saturday, ists in theater, dance, fi lm in performing arts, playwriting & fi lm. Deadlines organization in Upstate New York dedicated to performing and commis- 10AM-5PM. For more information, contact 518-943-3400 or Music Grant…Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ New York State Music vary depending on program. Princess Grace Awards. 150 East 58h Street, sioning the music of today’s composers. Fees range from $1000 to $4000 [email protected]. Fund supports exemplary contemporary music, all genres created by 25 fl . NY, NY 10155 (212) 317-1470 [email protected] www.pgfusa. depending on the concert and number of performers. Society for New today’s composer, musicians in written compositions, jazz, around world org Updated 02/15 Music, 438 Brookford Rd., Syracuse, NY 13224. 315-446-5733, Npilgrim@ Museum: CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION PIANO based living classical, folk, experimental, noncommercial popular music: MUSEUM. 18 beautiful examples of piano making from New! Fellowships… The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) online aol.com www.societyfornewmusic.org Ongoing. Updated 02/15 alternative rock, country, hip hop, others. Supports school, community 1783 to the present, plus fascinating related ephemera, application for 2015 Artist Fellowships is now open. Please go to nyfa.org Music... Information Hotline for grants, auditions, competitions, seminars, educational programs. RPA to hold meets to explain process. www.rockpa. includes pianos from Liberace, Sir Roland Hanna’s and org/music. (212) 812-4337 [email protected]. Updated 02/15 to apply and review application guidelines. The following categories will health, tax info and more. Contact: The American Guild of Musical Artists, be reviewed: Choreography, Music/Sound, Architecture/Environmental 1430 Broadway, 14th Fl., New York, NY 10018, 212-247-0247 agma@ a rare Clementi that was played by the Maestro himself. *Music Grant…Music Alive with Meet the Composer supports residencies Structures/Design, Playwriting/Screenwriting and Photography. See the musicalartists.org, www.musicalartists.org Updated 02/15 Besides the Museum, the Doctorow Center includes 3 with professional youth orchestras. Short Term Residencies 2-8 weeks, one website for important deadlines and fellowship details. Updated 02/15 movie theaters and a performance space. Across the street season; Extended Residencies multi-year, full-season-3 years. Available: Performing Arts is a newly revised restaurant, a fi ne Art and Craft gift gallery composer fees, travel, musician fees, some related activities. $7,000- Residencies.... One month for writers, visual artists and composers creating original work at country estate of poet Edna Vincent Millay. Performing Arts… Dance classes for children, teens, adults. The Hudson and an excellent Bookstore. Doctorow Center, Main Street, $28,000, Short Term, $30,000-$100,000 year. www.meetthecomposer. Valley Academy of Performing Arts features a distinguished faculty of org/musicalive/ Updated 02/15 April-November program. Fee, $30/10 slides, tape or DVD for video artists/ Hunter, NY. 518-263-2036. Hours: 12-4, Friday and Saturday, fi lmmakers; $50. Submit: project proposal; relevant supporting materials professionally and academically accomplished instructors. HVAPA, 957 or by appointment. Groups welcome. 518-263-4908. www. Music Grant…Global Connections Program with Meet the Composer Route 82, West Taghkanic, NY 12502. Call 518-851-5501. www.HVAPA. etc. The Millay Colony for the Arts, Box 3, Austerlitz, NY 12017 518-392- catskillmtn.org supports living composers in sharing their work with a global community. 3103. [email protected]., www.milllaycolony.org. Deadline, October com. Updated 02/15 For US based composers to travel to performance venues or to bring 1 each year for following year. 02/15 Performing Arts... Always seeking new actors for future performances Workshops: CERAMIC CLASSES. Hand building techniques international artists to the US. Grants range from $500 - $5,000. www. and volunteers to help each production, throughout year in Columbia at the Open Studio, 402 Main St., Catskill. All levels welcome. meetthecomposer.org 02/15 Residencies…. No application needed. Organization to preserve land, create space to recognized, emerging artists. 104 acres in Cazenovia. County. Watch for audition notices: Ghent Playhouse, Town Hall Rd, POB Instructor: Dina Bursztyn, ceramic artist and arts educator. Performing Arts Production Fund… Program of Creative Capital, for Sculpture strives to show relationship between humans and nature. 64, Ghent, NY 12075. 518-392-6264, [email protected], www. For schedule information and fees, call 518-943-9531 or original new work, all disciplines, traditions in live performing arts, to assist Workspace, stipend, housing for professional sculptors. Artistic resume, 20 ghentplayhouse.org . Ongoing. 02/15 e-mail: [email protected]. artist exploring, challenging dynamics. Special focus on projects bringing slides, proposal of intent. SASE to return slides. Stone Quarry Hill Art Performing Arts... Private classes available in Dance and Music. Dance Ongoing insight, critique to cultural diff erence in class, gender, generation, ethnicity Park, 3883 Stone Quarry Road, Box 251, Cazenovia, NY 13035. SQHAP@ studio available for rent, 518-851-5150, [email protected], www. or tradition. Awards range from $10,000-$40,000. www.creative-capital. aol.com. 315-655-5742. Ongoing. Updated 02/15 abblappen.com. Updated 02/15 Reading: TINY TOTS PROGRAM. Free and open to org. Updated 02/15 Residencies... For photographers or related media. One month, $2,000 sti- Performing and Visual Arts… Deep listening programs, and in the gallery, children ages birth to pre-K, along with their caregivers, Performing Arts Grants for developing and producing work in the musical pend, apartment, private darkroom, 24-hour facility access. Send resume, painting, sculpture and workshops. For schedule: The Pauline Oliveros Tuesdays, 1030-1130AM. Songs, fi ngerplays and rhymes, theatre. Cheryl Kemper, Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation, artist statement, letter of intent, slides, proofs or prints of recent work. Foundation, POB 1958, Kingston, NY 12402, 845-338-5984. Fax: 845- books, a simple craft, and free-play time. Come, have fun, and Inc., 109 E. 64th St., NY, NY 10021. www.ggftheater.org 02/15 Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program, 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 338-5958. www.artwire.org/pof, [email protected]. Updated 02/15 meet neighbors and friends, old and new! Palenville Branch Performing Arts Grants… To individuals in theater arts, opera, theater 13244. [email protected], www.lightwork.org Ongoing. 02/15 Visual Arts Library, 3335 Route 23A, Palenville, NY. For more info: stage, set and costume design projects are eligible. Tobin Foundation, PO Residencies... Self-directed for research, experimentation and production [email protected] http://catskillpubliclibrary.org/ Box 91019, San Antonio, TX, 78209. 21-828-9736 tobinart@mindspring. Visual Arts…Art Instructors Needed. The Art School of Columbia County, of visual, television, new media arts. Banff Centre for the Arts, Offi ce of (518) 678-3357. com www.manta.com/c/mmcqn8p/tobin-foundation-for-theatre 02/15 Registrar, Box 1020, Stn. 28, 107 Tunnel Mtn. Dr., Banff , Alberta, Canada centrally located in Columbia County in Harlemville NY (a 20 minute Photography Grant…Alexia Foundation award for individual professional TOL OCO. 403-762-6114/6302. jon_tupper@banff centre.ab.ca , jenni- drive from Hudson), is a not-for-profi t [501(c)(3)] art school dedicated to Classes: BANNER HILL SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS AND photographer to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the fer_woodbury@banff center.ab.ca . www.banff centre.ca Ongoing. 02/15 “art for everyone.” ASCC is seeking applications for the developing and WOODWORKING classes in woodworking, ceramics (wheel foundation’s goals of promoting world peace & cultural understanding. teaching art programs for children or seniors, art therapy and teaching art throwing, hand building), painting and more. For info, visit our Residencies... Ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months for screenwriters and to adults. Send your resume/CV with educational background, exhibitions Alexia Foundation, 116 Oceanport Ave., Little Silver, NJ 07739. www. fi lm/video makers October to May. Yaddo, Box 395, Saratoga Springs, website: BannerHillLLC.com; email: BannerHillWindham@ alexiafoundation.org Updated 02/15 (if applicable), and teaching experience with your contact information to NY 12866-0395. www.yaddo.org 518-584-0746. Deadlines, August 1 and [email protected] Subject Line: application. Please mac.com, or call (518) 929-7821. January 15 each year. 02/15 Photography Grant... Given annually to a U.S. photographer who aspires mention in the body of the email in which position(s) you are interested. Classes: ART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. Arts to perpetuate the spirit and dedication that characterized Smith’s work. Residencies... Year-round, in photography, painting, ceramics, textiles, (Ongoing) Grants for specifi c project. Add’l grants awarded. W. Eugene Smith Me- program for adults and children. Classes are held at the Old etc. Contact: Nantucket Island School of Design and Arts. 508-228-9248. VA… Life Drawing... weekly sessions of life drawing with model at the Schoolhouse, 1198 Route 21c in Harlemville, at Harlemville morial Fund, International Center of Photography, 1130 5th Ave., NY, NY [email protected], www.nisda.org 02/15 10028. www.smithfund.org Updated 02/15 Hudson Opera House. Artists work independently in a disciplined envi- Road & County Route 21, next to the Hawthorne Valley Farm Residencies... Two-month residencies year round for professional sculp- ronment; No instructor or specifi c method is followed. $15 per session. Textile Grants...Awards for research, education, documentation & Store, one mile from the Taconic Parkway, at the Harlemville/ ture artists. Stipends available. SASE: Gina Murtagh, Sculpture Space, Off ered throughout the year on Sundays from 10am to 1pm, check Philmont/217/21c Exit. Call 518-672-7140 or visit www. experimentation in the fi eld of quilt making. National Quilting Association, 12 Gates St., Utica, NY 13502. 315-724-8381. [email protected]. www. hudsonoperahouse.org for current session dates. Hudson Opera House, PO Box 12190, Columbus, OH 43212. www.nqaquilts.org grants@ sculpturespace.org Ongoing. Updated 02/15 327 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534. 518-822-1438. hudsonoperahouse. artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org. nqaquilts.org 02/15 Residencies...Cooperative residencies/retreats for emerging or established org, [email protected] . Updated 02/15 Exhibition: FUNCTIONAL ART FOR THE HOME By local *Youth Grants… Focusing on arts and education. Strives to contribute to artists in drawing, painting, sculpture, writing, poetry. Year-round. Private VA… Looking for sculptors, painters and photographers who would like and regional Fine Crafts Artists. Custom orders, shopping the ability of young people to explore their own identity, their relationship living space, modern art studio, reasonable fee includes some mentoring to exhibit their work year round in Palenville, NY. Very reasonable com- services, gift-wrapping. Mon/Thurs/Fri 10-5, Sat 10-7, Sun to creative process, with high-impact, long-term experience with accom- assistance. SASE #10 to High Studios, RR1 Box 108N, Bolton Landing, mission. Contact Al or Kathy at 518-678-3110 or www.catskillmtlodge. 11-5, Closed Tues/Wed. Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery at plished professionals. Surdna Foundation, 330 Madison Ave, 3rd fl ., New NY 12814. Ongoing. Updated 02/15 com 02/15 York, NY 10017. 212-557-0010, www.surdna.org [email protected] Hunter Village Square, 7950 Main St., Hunter, NY. 518-263- Application deadlines vary by program. 02/15 Residencies… Retreat, stipend $1,250 for writers in their work; $25 per VA… Indoor and Outdoor Art… Unison Arts Center in New Paltz seeks 2060, www.catskillmtn.org. diem, $500 travel. Gell Writers Center of the Finger Lakes, Writers & proposals from artists to exhibit their wall-hung artwork in our gallery *Youth Grants… Creative residencies for teens from writers, artist’s Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. 585-473-2590 www. at Unison and also from artists to exhibit their sculpture in our outdoor Omi International Arts Center. PROGRAMS AND PUBLIC colonies, communities working with young people. For developing wab.org. Gell Center Director of Operations [email protected] Ongoing. sculpture garden. Call Unison at 845-255-1559. www.unisonarts.org or the EVENTS. Outdoor Sculpture Park, Summer Camps. The summer retreat teens residing communities, be mentored by high standard 02/15 Exec. Dir. Christine Crawfi s at [email protected]. Updated 02/15 Fields Sculpture Park, Architecture Omi, and Education Omi professionals. Artist colony must be operating 5 years to be eligible. The Residencies… Established and emerging artists of all disciplines may VA… Columbia County Chamber of Commerce is establishing a rack of - Omi contributes to a vibrant arts culture locally, regionally, Surdna Foundation 330 Madison Ave., 3rd fl , New York, NY 10017. (212) and internationally. For more information visit:www. 557-0010 www.surdna.org [email protected] 02/15 create, present, and exhibit experimental work involving sound and tech- post cards and/or note cards by artists and photographers of images of Co- nology, with the option of integrating any combination of other disciplines lumbia County points of interest and historic sites. Artist is responsible for omiartscenter.org 1405 County Route 20, Ghent NY 12075 Visual Artist Grants…Virginia A.Groot Foundation to ceramic and/or including visual and/or performance art. Artists work with staff audio production of cards. Pricing between $2 and $5 each with artist receiving Exhibit: SCULPTURE. More than 40 contemporary sculpture artists to devote a substantial period of time to the development engineer. Jack Straw Media Gallery, www.jackstraw.org., Steve Peters, 70% of the proceeds. Put contact information (i.e. web address) on back of of their work. Three grants up to $35,000, $10,000, $5,000. Virginia A. [email protected]. Updated 02/15 card for purchaser to access and view more work for possible sale directly sculptures in landscape. Daylight hours all year, guided tours, Groot Foundation, P.O. Box 1050, Evanston, IL 60204-1050. Postmarked from the artist. Call (518) 828-4417 or visit www.columbiachamber-ny.com children’s workshops. The Fields, Sculpture Park Art Omi by March 1 each year. www.virginiagrootfoundation.org Updated 02/15 Residencies… The Platte Clove program provides a retreat for artists from International Arts Center, 1405 County Route 20, Ghent, NY June through October. Painters, sculptors, writers, and composers are Updated 02/15 Visual Artist Grants… based on artistic merit, fi nancial need for painters, invited to apply for residency. Artist interested in applying should download VA… Sunday Salons, Learn something new about Thomas Cole and the 12075. 518-392-7656/392-2848. sculptors, print-makers, and artists who work on paper are eligible. The the application from the Catskill Center website,www.catskillcenter.org Hudson River School of art. Informal discussions once a month, $8. 2PM Film Program: SELECTED FILMS. Popular Hollywood, Pollack-Krasner Foundation 863 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021. (212) Inverna Lockpez, Director, [email protected]. Updated 02/15 at Cedar Grove, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring Street, 517-5400 [email protected] www.pkf.org Ongoing. 02/15 independent; foreign screenings. Lobby café: espresso, Residencies… The National Park Service off ers residency programs to POB 426, Catskill, NY 12414. 518-943-7465. [email protected], www. cappuccino, tea, desserts; light suppers Saturday, open 1/2 Relief Funds, Financial Assistance artists working in various disciplines. Contact the specifi c site for further thomascole.org. 02/15 hour before show. Catskill Mountain Foundation Film and New! - Emergency Resources… Superstorm Sandy. NYFA has a list of info: Amistad National Recreation Area in Texas, Badlands National VA… On-line art gallery NARtisticCreations.com. Funded by NAR Produc- Performing Arts Center, Rt. 23A, Hunter, NY 12442. 518-263- art specifi c resources available for artists aff ected by Sandy and needing Park in South Dakota, Bearlodge Writers’ Devils Tower Residencies in tions. Showcases work of Nick Roes and local artists. Will feature a Visiting 4702 www.catskillmtn.org. recovery assistance. See: http://www.nyfa.org/source/content/content/ Wyoming, Joshua Tree National, Klondike Gold Rush National Park in Artist each quarter in separate room at no charge. Contact NancyBenett@ disasterresources/disasterresources.aspx? Alaska, Mammoth Cave National Park, Peters Valley Craft Education NARtisicCreations.com. Tours, lectures, programs: A living museum. Arts, local Center’s Delaware Water Gap Residencies in New Jersey, Saint Gaudens VA… Seeking member artists, a few openings available for visual artists. history, horticulture, botany, environment. Individual, group Relief Fund... To help professional craft artists sustain their livelihood. National Historic Site in New, Sapelo Barrier Island in Georgia, Sleeping tours, plant sale. Change of landscape in four seasons. Services include access to information, resources, business development Members staff the gallery, perform administrative duties. Art in all media Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Weir Farm National Historic Site. www. welcome. Established mailing list of 1,300 asking to receive show notices. Photogenic woodland walk, native trees, plants. Call for support and emergency relief with loans, grants, and in-kind services. Craft nps.gov/archive/volunteer/air.htm Updated 02/15 Emergency Relief Fund, Box 838, Montpelier, VT 05601. 802-229-2306. Interested? Susan Kotulak, New Member Coordinator, Tivoli Artists’ Co-op calendar. The Mountain Top Arboretum, Maude Adams Road, www.craftemergency.org 02/15 Workshops, Seminars Gallery, 518-537-5888. [email protected]. POB 379, Tannersville, NY 12485. 518-589-3903. www. Financial Assistance…to help pay medical or dental costs for artists Jurying for all media... For new members. Application, guidelines. SASE: VA… Publications: The Artist Workspace: A Guide for Artists; and The mtarbor.org nationwide. Prescriptions, eyeglasses, wheelchairs, surgery, cancer The National Association of Women Artists, 80 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 14045, Artist Workspace Residency: A Guide for Organizations. (845) 658-9133, Class: FOLLIES WITH BOBBY: Ballet and other smooth [email protected], www.nysawc.org. Updated 02/15 treatments, etc. Funds paid directly to your medical providers. The Artists New York, NY 10011. 212-675-1616 www.nawanet.org . Deadlines, Sept. moves for women of a certain age and confi dent men. Charitable Fund. Judy Archibald 970-577-0509. [email protected] or www. 15, March 15 yearly. Updated 02/15 VA... Seeking proposals for exhibitions at Greenville Branch, The Bank of Saturdays, 10:30-11:30 AM and Mondays 6- 7 PM. Improve artistcharitablefund.org. 02/15 Greene County. All Arts Matter, POB 513, Greenville NY 12083. 518-966- balance and fl exibility and transform your body awareness CALL FOR ENTRIES, ETC. 4038. Financial Assistance... Relief, fi ne artists grant for professional painters, using techniques from ballet, modern dance, jazz, soft shoe, graphic artists, sculptors and their families in times of emergency, Arts & Crafts/Folk Arts VA… Seeking art work for exhibitions at the Agroforestry Resource Center and 4th grade Physical Education class. Taught by Bobby disability, or bereavement. Artist Fellowship, Inc., 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, (ARC) in Acra, NY. Original art work only. This will be a juried process. For Lupone. Drop-ins welcome. Athens Cultural Center, 24 2nd NY 10003 212-255-7740 (Salmagundi Club) dial ext. #216. www. Arts & Crafts… Art Instructors Needed. The Art School of Columbia more information, please contact Marilyn Wyman at the ARC and Cornell artistsfellowship.com/ 02/15 County, centrally located in Columbia County in Harlemville NY (a 20 min- Cooperative Extension of Greene County at 518-622-9820 ext/36. www. Street, Athens, NY. [email protected] ute drive from Hudson), is a not-for-profi t [501(c)(3)] art school dedicated agroforestrycenter.org Updated 02/15 Financial Assistance… Emergency grants to visual artists of color. Eligible to “art for everyone.” ASCC is seeking applications for the developing and Classes: RIVERTIDE AIKIKAI, Martial Arts Instruction are Native American, African American, Asian American, Latino 21+, living teaching art programs for children or seniors, art therapy and teaching art VA... Paint outdoors in nature with state organization, New York Plein Air For All Ages. 3198 Old Kings Rd. just off of Rt. 23A in in tri-state greater New York City area to help meet urgent fi nancial needs. to adults. Send your resume/CV with educational background, exhibitions Painters Society. Will sponsor paint-outs, exhibitions around NYS. NYPAP, Catskill. Sunday: Adults: 5:00 – 6:00pm, Jo Class: 6:15 – The Wheeler Foundation, P.O. Box 300507, Brooklyn, NY 11230. 718-951- (if applicable), and teaching experience with your contact information to J.Baldini, P.O. Box 2332, Niagara Falls, NY 14302-2332. ipapmail@yahoo. 7:00pm, Monday: Teens: 13 -17 years old: 3:45 -4:45, Kids 4 0581. www.nyfa.org Updated 02/15 [email protected] Subject Line: application. Please com, http://ipap.homestead.com/ Updated 02/15 -7 years old: 4:45 – 5:30pm, Adults: 6:00 – 7:15pm, Tuesday: Financial Assistance... To provide artist emergency assistance to qualifi ed mention in the body of the email in which position(s) you are interested. All Media Adults: 6 -7:15pm, Wednesday: Kids 8-12 years old: 4:45 – artists whose needs are unforeseen, catastrophic incident, who lack (Ongoing) All Media... Seeking admissions to slide viewing program. Possible inclu- 5:30pm, Adults: 6:00 – 7:15pm, Thursday: Bokken Class: resources to meet situation. One time for specifi c emergency: fi re, fl ood, Arts & Crafts… Columbia County Chamber of Commerce is establishing sion in group exhibitions. Applications for membership and curated shows 6:00 – 6:45pm, Adults: 7:00 – 8:00pm, Friday: Adults: 7:30am medical. Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 380 West Broadway, New a rack of post cards and/or note cards by artists and photographers of also considered. Slides, CV cover letter. The Painting Center, 51 Greene - 8:30am, Rivertide Aikikai welcomes all visitors to the dojo York, NY 10013. www.gottliebfoundation.org Ongoing. Updated 02/15 images of Columbia County points of interest and historic sites. Artist is St., New York, NY 10013. 212-343-1060. Ongoing. to watch a class and ask questions. For membership info call Financial Assistance... Up to $5,000 grants for writers and playwrights responsible for production of cards. Pricing between $2 and $5 each with 518-943-4000, email [email protected] or visit www. artist receiving 70% of the proceeds. Put contact information (i.e. web All Media… The Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education. Historic with AIDS. Candidates must be published. Fund for Writers and Editors rivertideaikikai.org. with AIDS, PEN American Center, 568 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. address) on back of card for purchaser to access and view more work for church for gatherings, readings, small musical performances, art studio. 212-255-7740 [email protected] www.salmagundi.org 02/15 possible sale directly from the artist. Call (518) 828-4417 or visit www. Art study vacation, stay in hotel room, dorms on property. Two to four week Tuesdays columbiachamber-ny.com Updated 02/15 residencies include retreat for performing arts groups. Ellie Cashman, Relief Fund... Funding artists experiencing serious illness, crisis, or be- Dir., Catskill Mountain Foundation, 7967 Main St., Rte. 23A, POB 924, Club: LEGO CLUB FOR ALL AGES, 4:00 PM every Tuesday. Arts & Crafts... Greene County, NY craftspeople: Marketing Crafts and reavement. SASE: Artists Fellowship Inc., Emergency Aid, c/o Salmagundi Hunter, NY, 12442. 518-263-4908. www.catskillmtn.org. cmf@catskillmtn. Other Products to Tourists, North Central Regional Extension Publications Come, explore the world of building with legos, and meet new Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10003. 212-255-7740 [email protected] org. 02/15 friends at your library! Catskill Public Library, 1 Franklin St, www.salmagundi.org 02/15 brochure #445, $1.50. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene Co., Greene County offi ce building, Mountain Ave., Cairo, NY 12413. 518-622- All Media... Art Licensing 101: Selling Reproduction Rights for Profi t. 224- Catskill NY. For more info: www.catskillpubliclibrary.org OR Financial and Management Services... NYFA’s new Works and Manage- 9820. [email protected], http://arc.cce.cornell.edu/ Query sent 02/15 page book de-mystifi es industry. Action plan in easy to read form. Author call (518) 943-4230. Workshop: KUUMBA LATIN FEVER FOR WOMEN: 6 to com. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens, New BrownPaperTickets.com or call 800-838-3006. Bridge Street December 2 7:45PM. A Latin dance fi tness class for women with Elena York, 12015 or visit www.athensculturalcenter.org Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill. www.BridgeSt.org Workshop: 19TH CENTURY WREATH MAKING. 6-8pm, Mosely of Kuumba Dance & Drum. Adults: $2. Hudson Opera Movies: SUBJECTS VARY. $8/6/4. Spencertown Academy, Workshop: VETERANS EDUCATION DAY AT C-GCC. $20/person, Ages 12 and up. Mary Hughes, Olana’s Master House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. Call 828-3612 for Rt. 203, POB 80, Spencertown, NY 12165. 518-392-3693. The 90-minute workshop, led by college personnel, is aimed Gardener, will teach the art of creating seasonal evergreen more info. Exhibits, cinema: TIME AND SPACE. Exhibits, classical at helping veterans take their fi rst step toward a college and boxwood wreaths in this hands-on workshop. Please Wednesdays movies on weekends. Time and Space Warehouse Cultural education. Participants will receive up to two tickets to the bring a pair of pruning shears. All other supplies will be Classes: RIVERTIDE AIKIKAI, Aiki Movement Drop-in Center. 434 Columbia St., Hudson, NY. 518-822-8448. www. evening performance of “Beyond Glory.” Interested veterans provided! Pre-registration required by 11/30. www.olana.org Class, open to public for $10. Wear clothing appropriate for timeandspace.org can call (518) 828-4181, extension 3342, or email christine. December 4, 5, 6 (DEC) [email protected]. Columbia-Greene Community College movement or exercise. 3198 Old Kings Rd. just off of Rt. 23A Performance: SCROOGE AND SON: A CHRISTMAS in Catskill. We welcome all visitors to the dojo to watch a class campus. 4400 State Route, Greenport, NY one mile east of EVENTS 2015 the Rip Van Winkle Bridge. CAROL. Kaaterskill Actors Theater/Petite Productions and ask questions. For info call 518-943-4000, email: info@ Academy performs at Catskill Mountain Foundation’s rivertideaikikai.org or visit www.rivertideaikiai.org. Events noted (DEC) have been supported through a Theater: BEYOND GLORY STARRING ACTOR STEPHEN Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, NY. Dec Classes: SKETCH. Drop in Figure Drawing. SKETCH is Decentralization grant from the NYS Council on the Arts LANG. 7 PM. $18 for the general public and $12 for students 4th & 5th at 7PM, and Dec 6th at 2PM. Adults $10. Children hosting fi gure drawing sessions with instructor Amy Lavine. through the Community Arts Program in Greene County or and senior citizens. Tickets are available at the Greenport $5. No Reservations required. For more information call $15 per session. 7:30 – 9:30 PM. Hudson Opera House 327 Columbia County. campus, Chatham Bookstore and the Greene County Council 518.263.2030. or visit www.scroogeandson.com Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 518-822-1438 on the Arts in Catskill. in the Arts Center Theater at the Events noted (CIP) have been supported through a grant from Greenport Columbia-Greene Community College campus. December 4 & 6 the County Initiative Program of the Greene County Council Workshop: Watercolor workshops for adults with painter 4400 State Route, Greenport, NY one mile east of the Rip Van Theater: THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Classics @ the Point William A. Carbone, Washington Irving Senior Center, on the Arts with public funding from the Greene County Winkle Bridge. Call weekdays at (518) 828-4181 ext. 3344. Legislature. Theatre Ensemble. Friday at 7 PM and Sunday at 2 PM. Arts Catskill, NY, 10AM to Noon. Free. Bring own supplies or Center Theater at Columbia-Greene Community College. purchase through instructor. Class: DIGITAL CRITIQUE-SELECTIVE FOCUS Thru November 7 TECHNIQUE. Greene County Camera Club, 6:30, Greenville Admission is $10 for the general public and $8 for students Event: CREATIVE MUSIC & MOVEMENT FOR Exhibit: BEYOND THE BARS. Art exhibition at GCCA reveals Public Library Art Gallery. Call 518 945-286 and senior citizens. Tickets are available at the Greenport TODDLERS. Join local artist Abby Lappen for weekly fun campus, Chatham Bookstore and the Greene County Council the powerful and transformative role of creative expression November 14 for toddlers to explore creative arts including music and in the lives of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people on the Arts in Catskill. Call weekdays at 518-828-4181 ext. movement! Parent participation is encouraged. Ages 18 and their advocates Opening Reception September 26, 5-7 Stage Reading: THE DING DONGS by playwright and 3344. months and up. 10 AM. Free. Hudson Opera House 327 pm, GCCA Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. actress Brenda Withers. 7:30 pm. in the auditorium of the December 5 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 518-822-1438 Gallery Hours: M-F 10-5, Sat. 12-5. FREE, www.greenearts. First Reformed Church, 52 Green Street in Hudson, NY. $15. org, 518-943-3400. Performance followed by a reception and a talkback session Dinner & Concert: VOCALIST JOANNA WALLFISCH Workshop: HIP HOP DANCE. A dance workshop taught by AND RENOWNED JAZZ PIANIST DAN TEPFER for an Anthony Molina in collaboration with Operation Unite. An with the playwright, actors, and director. For reservations call Thru November 14 518-851-2061. intimate duo night at the Deer Mountain Inn. The concert emerging artist, Anthony’s credits include 106 & Park, Bad will include a 3-course dinner beginning at 6 pm followed Boys Comedy Show, he’s taken 1st place at the Apollo Theater, Exhibit: A STITCH IN TIME: FIBER ARTS. Opening Kids Workshop: FANCY WRITING: REVIVING THE ART Reception October10 from 5-7 pm. CCCA Gallery. Hours by the performance at 8 pm, $60 per person. Reservations Senior Hip Hop Arnold Classic and Wildout Wednesday on OF CURSIVE. 3-5 PM, Ages 8 and up, $30/person (includes are required. The Deer Mountain Inn is located at 790 Co Rd BET. He was a semi-fi nalist on So You Think You Can Dance, Wednesday-Friday, 11 am-3 pm and Saturday and Sunday1-5 pen & ink set, paper, and snacks) Join calligraphy artist Leslie pm. CCCA is located at 209 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. Visit 25, Tannersville, NY. www.catskilljazzfactory.org and Deer and has performed with Vanaver Caravan and is a seasoned Roccario to see 2 of Frederic Church’s handwritten letters, Mountain Inn 518-589-6268. choreographer and dancer of Energy Dance Company of www.artscolumbia.org. and discuss why script is a skill worthy of practice even in Kingston. Open to ages 6 & up. 5:15 – 6:15 PM. Hudson Thru November 14 the computer age. Participants will write and practice. Each December 8 (DEC) Opera House 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 518- Exhibit: THE “THANK YOU!” SHOW. The COLUMBIA participant receives pens and paper. www.olana.org Concert: WINTER CONCERT, The Glee Club with Jazz artist 822-1438 COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS says THANK YOU! Concert: OPERA TO BROADWAY: MUSIC FOR THE Chris Pasin and the Cats. Located at the Community Life Event: HUDSON COMMUNITY BOOK GROUP. In CCCA ArtsWalk volunteers show off their works. Mon-Fri STAGE. Kristina Bachrach - Soprano. 5 pm Roeliff Jansen Church at 20W Main Street Catskill. FREE with Donation. collaboration with Hudson City School District. students and -9 AM to 5 PM. Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Community Library, 9091 Rt. 22, Hillsdale, NY. www. No reservations required. 943-2719. their parents participate in a facilitated conversation about Conference Room Gallery at 1 North Front Street in Hudson, NY. roejanlibrary.org or 518-325-4101. December 12 literature. Free. 6-7:30 PM. Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Thru November 29 November 14- January 2, 2016 Street, Hudson, NY 12534 518-822-1438 Event: ATHENS VICTORIAN STROLL 2015. For a complete Exhibit: OUR BEST BLACK AND WHITE. Greene County Exhibit: GCCA SALON 2015. SMALL WORKS & schedule of activities visit www.athensculturalcenter.org or Thursdays Camera Club Member Show. Opening Reception November HANDMADE HOLIDAYS. Fine Crafts. GCCA Annual pick up a map and schedule at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Gathering: AFTER-HOURS TEEN TIME, 5-7 PM every 5, 5-7pm. Blue Hill Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community Members Exhibition and Sale. Opening reception on Second Street, starting at 1 PM. Thursday. Ages 12-17 welcome. Spend an hour on College. 4400 Rt. 23, Greenport, NY. Call 518 945-2866. November 21 from 5-7 pm. Hours Mon-Fri 10 am – 5 pm, December 12 & 13 (CIP) Academic and/or Creative pursuits followed by an hour Thru November 29 Saturday Noon-5 pm. Greene County Council on the Arts of relaxed socializing, games, music, etc. Catskill Public Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Street in Catskill. Call 518-943- Dance & Theater: THE NUTCRACKER. Saturday at 7:30 Library, 1 Franklin St. Catskill NY. For more info: www. Exhibit: Travels & Talismans: Canterbury Tales Re- 3400, [email protected], www.greenearts.org pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm. Catskill Mountain Foundation’s catskillpubliclibrary.org OR speak to Jesse at (518) 943-4230. Imagined. An exhibit of mixed media collage by Lynne Orpheum Film and Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Perrella, off ering new insight into the these storied November 14 & 15 Street, Village of Tannersville. www.catskillmtn.org. Class: QI GONG FOR ADULTS. 11:30 AM. Free and open travelers. Roeliff Jansen Community Library, 9091 Rt. 22, Event: CHILLY WILLY WINTER’S EVE TOURS, cold season December 12-20 to the public. Palenville Branch Library, 3335 Route 23A, Hillsdale, NY. www.roejanlibrary.org or 518-325-4101. tour with costumed guide, Tours begins at 11am, 1pm & 3pm Palenville, NY. For more info: www.catskillpubliclibrary.org Exhibit: FARMLAND: Paintings by Arlene Boehm. Opening Thru November 29 each day, Adults $8, GCHS Members & Children $4. Bronck OR call (518) 678-3357. Museum, 90 County Route 42, Coxsackie. www.gchistory.org reception: Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015, 3-5pm. Spencertown Third Fridays Exhibit: ECLECTIC MIX, William Barnds Solo Show. Academy Arts Center. Saturdays & Sundays 1pm-5pm, or Opening reception November 5, 5-7pm, Kaaterskill Gallery. November 15 (DEC) by appointment. [email protected] or 518-392- Artist Community Potluck. Potluck Dinner and share Columbia Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Performance: Ruth Pelham, Singer/ Songwriter shares 3693. 790 Route 203, New York, NY 12165. artwork. Each artist has fi ve minutes to project a Hudson, NY 12534 stories from her life with the Music Mobile at 3:00PM at the PowerPoint of 20 slides the artist has prepared. Free. First December 15 Thru December 31 North Chatham Library located at 4287 Route 203. For more Presbyterian Church, 369 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. information call 518.766.3211. Print Competition: ASSIGNED TOPIC “SELF-PORTRAIT.” Email [email protected] Exhibit: NATURALIST ARTIST STANLEY MALTZMAN Greene County Camera Club. 6:30 PM. Greenville Public November 21 Saturdays SOLO SHOW. Opening reception November 7, 3-5 pm. Library Art Gallery General submissions accepted. Call 518 The Agroforestry Resource Center, located at 6055 Route Author Talk: Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans 945-2866. Adult Ballet: ATHENS PRESQUE BALLET: Ballet and 23 in Acra is an educational facility for Cornell Cooperative and the End of Slavery. 4 pm Barbara Krauthamer. Free. December 19 (DEC) other smooth moves for women of a certain age and Extension. Call ahead to ensure accessibility 518-622-9820 Roeliff Jansen Community Library, 9091 Rt. 22, Hillsdale, NY. confi dent men. 10:30 -12 noon. Improve balance and fl exibility x 0. www.roejanlibrary.org or 518-325-4101 Concert: JAZZ IN GTOWN: ALEX WEISS HILLS QUARTET: and transform your body awareness using techniques from SONGS FOR LATE DECEMBER. Germantown library @ 7 ballet, modern dance, jazz, soft shoe, and 4th grade Physical Thru January 9, 2016 November 25 p.m. $15 per person. Tickets available by November 20th at Education class. Taught by Bobby Lupone. FREE Drop-ins Exhibit: SMALL GEMS EXHIBIT. TEENY TINY WONDERS Hike: BEAVER MOON HIKE: 7pm, $5/person, members www.jazzingtown.wordpress.com or 518-537-5668. welcome. Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens, ALL! Opening reception on October 10 from 5-7 pm.CCCA free, All Ages Join environmental educator Fran Martino for December 26 NY. Email to be notifi ed of class cancellations or changes. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Friday, 11 am-3 pm and a night sharing her 19th-century stories, Native American Saturday and Sunday1-5 pm. CCA is located at 209 Warren lore, and colonial folklore about the Beaver Moon and winter Event: JINGLE JANGLE: A WINTER CELEBRATION. Teens & Adults: KUUMBA AFRICAN DANCE & DRUM. 1-5pm, $25/carload or $10/person, Free to visitors who 10:30 am adult & teen drum, 11:30 am dance ages 7 - adult. Street, Hudson, NY. Visit www.artscolumbia.org. preparation. No pre-registration required, walk-ins welcome. Rain or shine. www.olana.org become Members of The Olana Partnership that day, All Ages. Bring a drum or share one of ours. Adults, $5 each class; Nov 1 (DEC) The Farm Complex and Museum Shop will be bustling with youth are free. For more information call 518-828-3612. November 27 - December 13 a range of 19th Century activities. Live music, craft making, Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street in Hudson, NY. Concert: WINDS IN THE WILDERNESS. Concert will be held at the Church of St. John in the Wilderness located Performance: SNOW WHITE – HOUSE OF DWARFS. food projects, ice carving, hikes, and horse and carriage rides Call 518-822-1438 for more information or visit www. in multiple locations onsite. No pre-registration required. hudsonoperahouse.org. 3/2014 at 261 Route 344 Copake Falls, NY. 3:00PM. Suggested Annual Panto performed by the “Pantoloons” at the Ghent donation of $15 at door, children Free. For more information Playhouse. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 www.olana.org. Fourth Sunday call (518) 329-1577 PM Tickets are $20 each, $17 for Friends of the Playhouse and $10 for Students with ID. Call 800-838-3006 or www. Chorus: ATHENS COMMUNITY CHORUS. Anyone who November 6-15 EVENTS 2016 loves to sing is welcome to join the Athens Community ghentplayhouse.org or tickets. Chorus. There are no auditions or membership dues. All that Theater: BOND: the story of a soldier and his dog written and performed by Logan Black. Friday & Saturday 7:30 November 28 we require is a little bit of talent and a big appreciation for Thru January 2, 2016 good music. We will get together once a month to share our PM. Sunday 2:00 PM. Tickets $15, $10 for Students/ Workshop: THE ART OF DOODLING. 10am-12pm, $10/ talents and to sing a rich and diverse selection of vocal works, Seniors. Advance purchase is recommended to guarantee person (includes pen, paper and pouch), Ages 6 and up. Exhibit: GCCA SALON 2015. SMALL WORKS & from classical to jazz standards, and Broadway to madrigals. seating. Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.com or 800-838-3006. Hike Olana’s carriage roads while making Zentangles with a HANDMADE HOLIDAYS. Fine Crafts. GCCA Annual FREE Drop-ins welcome. Athens Cultural Center, 24 2nd Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West Bridge Street, Catskill. www. certifi ed teacher of this unique art and meditation practice. Members Exhibition and Sale. Opening reception on Street, Athens, NY. Email to be notifi ed of class cancellations BridgeSt.org. Each participant will receive a little pouch with pens and paper. November 21 from 5-7 pm. Hours Mon-Fri 10 am – 5 pm, or changes. November 7 (CIP) Refreshments will be served; pre-registration encouraged, Saturday Noon-5 pm. Greene County Council on the Arts walk-ins welcome as space permits. www.olana.org Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Street in Catskill. Call 518-943- Third and Fourth Saturdays Reading and Book Signing. STEPHEN SILVERMAN’S Talk: ARMCHAIR TRAVEL SERIES: THE 3400, [email protected], www.greenearts.org Art: ART CLUB FOR KIDS. Free and open to children of all “THE CATSKILLS: ITS HISTORY AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA”. 1-3 PM. Doctorow Center for the Arts on the Arts. PHILOSOPHER’S LODGE. Olana’s Visitor Center, next to January 22-24, 29-31 and February 5-7, 2016 ages. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Come, have fun, and be creative! the Museum Shop, 3-5pm, $10/person; $5/member, Ages Palenville Branch Library, 3335 Route 23A, Palenville, NY. 7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY. www.catskillmtn.org Theater: THE WEIR. Written by Conor McPherson, Directed 12 and up. Author and historian James Schlett explores by Aaron Holbritter. The Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Place, For more info: [email protected] http:// November 12 the historic gathering of 19th Century America’s leading catskillpubliclibrary.org/ (518) 678-3357. Ghent NY. Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2 Fundraising Dinner: STARS & STRIPES- fundraising intellectuals including transcendentalist Ralph Waldo pm. Tickets are $20 each, $17 for Friends of the Playhouse Third Wednesday dinner to benefi t bridge street theatre and honor our Emerson, Harvard scientist Louis Agassiz, and Cambridge, and $10 for Students with ID. Tickets 800-838-3006 or www. MA poet James Russell Lowell, all led into the Adirondack Activity: GREENE COUNTY CAMERA CLUB. Meets at Veterans. Italian dinner catered by Tatiana’s Restaurant, USO ghentplayhouse.org. show, raffl e for 3 great prizes, and a personal appearance by wilderness by Church’s fi rst pupil William James Stillman. the ACC the third Wednesday of every month for speakers, www.olana.org presentations and fi lms. Free and open to the general public. the stars of BOND: the story of a soldier and his dog. 6-9 pm. Call Nora Adelman at (518) 945-2866 or brphoto@mhcable. Tickets $45 and advance reservations are required. Tickets at

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With dance performances in Catskill, Haines Falls and Prattsville, not to mention hours of rehearsal at Catskill’s Empowered Body studio, the Athens Cultural Center, the Mountain Top Historical Society in Haines Falls and at the Prattsville Art Center, 2015 really was the summer of the Calico Indian Dance Showdown! Weaving dance into a historical celebra- tion of our area’s association with the Anti- Rent Wars was the brainchild of Fawn Potash, who secured a project grant with county-wide partners for American Masquerade. Fawn turned to former dancer Todd Whitley, who helped develop The Hudson Valley Dance of several hundred, basking in the day’s good great part to the support of the MudFest orga- Pratt Museum, Greene County Council on Festival, to choreograph a piece that would weather around the Gazebo at Dutchman’s nizers and Nancy Barton at the Prattsville Art the Arts/Masters On Main Street and the include both trained dancers from the area Landing. Participants ran the gamut in ages Center. Prattsville Art Center; to Evan Pritchard, and interested non-dancers. The end result and included Catskill’s very own President, Costumes were made by a talented Native American Historian for giving this involved more than 50 performers before Vincent Seeley in a featured role. Thanks to team of artists and professional costum- project context; to Mountaintop performance summer’s end and brought the anti-rent wars the Heart of Catskill for inviting us to open the ers. Angelo Vizcarrondo’s fabulous leather manager Draga Susanj; and especially to all to life to a collective audience of nearly 1,000. Independence Day celebrations. and feather design for the lead Indian’s mask the community partners and dancers who Whitley said in regard to his work, “I A blazing hot afternoon in August was inspired the rest of the masks created by by stepped into the historical shoes of these revo- wanted to focus on the celebratory aspect of the scene of the second Showdown during Dara Trahan who also incorporated refer- lutionary heroes. Standing ovation to dancer, the event...the fact that our community came the Mountain Top Historical Society’s History ences from historical photographs. Wealthy organizer, publicist and choreographer Todd together to fi ght a social injustice all those Day. Special kudos to all of the dancers who landowners’ costumes were created by Whitley!!! years ago is a legacy to be proud of! Ironically, participated in this event! And special thanks Deliana Simeonova; Villagers’ skirts, aprons The Calico Indian Showdown and the experience left me just as proud of Elizabeth Henry for mountaintop community and bandanas were sewn by dear friend, American Masquerade were made possible everyone who contributed to the Showdown outreach and to Cyndi LaPierre for hosting Nancy, with leftover calico transformed into through a grant from the New York State experience -- from the sponsoring organiza- our troupe. the Indians’ arm, leg, ankle and neck bands Council on the Arts REDC Initiative with tions to the dancers. The community support The third and fi nal performance of the by Sara Pruiksma-Rizzo based on a drawing support from Governor Cuomo and the New this project received was impressive!” Calico Indian Dance Showdown was held in by Broadway costume designer Jared Aswegan. York State Legislature. The fi rst Showdown was held in Catskill Prattsville, as part of their annual MudFest! Thanks to the behind-the scenes folks, All Calico Indian Dance Showdown on none other than the anniversary of our The Prattsville event had the largest and American Masquerade grant/project part- photos by Draga Susanj. country’s founding, July 4th, to an audience most welcoming audience, thanks in ners: Catskill Mountain Foundation, Zadock Toward a Greater Sense of Place

Catskill Middle students visited the GCCA Gallery and talked with Visual Arts GCCA Takes Part in Place-Based Education Director, Molly Stinchfi eld, about the current exhibition. Later, the students visited the Longtime member and a dear friend to pieces are made in protest for those who may Open Studio and personalized their hand bound journals with their artwork. GCCA, the late Barry Hopkins, taught art at be suspect because of their color or economic Catskill Middle School for 37 years and had standing. During the morning and afternoon the vision to use the area’s rich environment gallery visits led by Sharon Shepherd and - from its untamed topography and abounding Molly Stinchfi eld, respectively, students were Agroforestry Resource history to its attraction as a destination for arts asked to think about how they would imagine and culture - to frame student learning. In the time spent in jail – as an inmate or as someone October 2014 issue of Teaching the Hudson who works in a jail - could be used to learn a Center Exhibit Valley his daughter Ashley Hopkins-Benton new skill, how one would prefer to express submitted an article and wrote it was “her themselves – with verbal defi ance or with art. Stanley Maltzman dad’s response to a common student refrain: Students saw artwork in many forms-fi lm, “I can’t wait to get out of Catskill.” Like their music, painting, photography and listened Perhaps the profuse beauty in the counterparts in many small towns, high school to readings, saw fi lms, learned about former Hudson Valley region is partially responsible and even middle school students, often see inmates who chose to learn dance or young for Stanley Maltzman’s love of nature and little value in their communities, and are wayward teenage boys to make fi lm. Other his passion for drawing, but it is his work eager leave. Not just out for college or to travel, artworks documented projects made to help rendered directly in the landscape that has but out of Catskill and out of the Hudson Valley connect family to inmates. Perhaps the most made him a master. Considered one of the for good”. striking reaction was to Claudia McNulty’s best naturalistic painters in our region, it According to Ashley, after Barry Hopkins recreation of a “studio” space used by incar- is no wonder he is admired by so many. shared his idea to introduce students to the cerated young boys at the Otisville Training Stanley has been around for a lot of years. natural, cultural, and human resources found School where fi lmmaker DeeDee Halleck He possesses talent and is a keen teacher. in Catskill with his colleagues, Carl Carozza taught an experimental fi lm class in the 1970’s Drawing inspiration from nature and sharing and Wayne Fisher, he did not receive a single reform school. Juxtaposed to the reenacted his talent with others led him to write the argument. After all the Catskill Middle School “creative space” is McNulty’s solitary confi ne- book, “Drawing Nature”, pictured on right, sits on the western bank of the majestic ment space - a bed and a light. Sounds from in 1995 which features his pencil drawings Catskill Creek. the metronome made students consider time. as the foundation to his paintings and larger Ashley continued “The trio carried this Is there too much time with no stimulation or works. Stanley’s true work…the devotion and philosophy through the school year, creating not enough time to create and express? They love of drawing is evident on every page. experiences within class and after school. chose the studio space. Students were asked Maltzman’s works have been included in For example, art and science classes went to think about expression and how they can the America Academy of the Arts and Letters, out to the creek and into the woods. Through create art and statements about their own the National Academy of Design and the the years, they acquired a fl eet of canoes and beliefs. Carnegie Museum of Natural History as well Stanley Matlzman, renowned naturalist artist kayaks, a small outdoor classroom, and a The students then visited Christin Ripley as numerous museums and galleries around will have a an exhibition on view November 1- range of supplies to aid in these eff orts.” in her studio, Objects ‘N the Round, located the country. He has lectured and participated December 31, 2015 at the Agroforestry Center The program is designed to get students at the top of Catskill’s Main Street. Ripley is a in plein air seminars and workshops for adults in Acra, NY. Photo credit: Cover image of his out into the community and to bring other paper maker and builds colorful and textured and high school students. He was featured book “Drawing Nature”. Copyright Stanley community members into the school. objects out of handmade papers. Her skills in the 1986 April issue of the respected Maltzman 1995. Students choose one full-day or two half-day as book binder are outstanding as well. She magazine American Artist and is listed in workshops on and off of the school’s campus. demonstrated papermaking and book binding Who’s Who in American Art. Maltzman also Many students choose to visit cultural sites and gave each of the students a hand bound holds the esteemed membership with the in the area while others prefer to spend time journal for their keeping. American Pastel Society. Closer to home, friends invite all to the opening reception on outdoors focusing on the immediacy of the The last stop was back down Main Street Matlzman is a member of the Hudson Valley Saturday, November 7, 2015 from 3-5 pm. natural environment. A Greater Sense of Place with a stop next door to the GCCA at the Open Art Association and taught over the decade at The Agroforestry Resource Center, located fosters a wonderful relationship between iden- Studio. Artists Julie Chase and Dina Bursztyn the Hudson River Workshops in Greenville. at 6055 Route 23 in Acra is an educational tifying one’s self to one’s place in a community. welcomed the students to their gallery show- Renowned artist and long time GCCA facility for Cornell Cooperative Extension so Often students get to meet leaders and experts casing their whimsical collection of original artist member Stanley Maltzman, is also when planning to visit the exhibit, please call outside of school while discovering some artwork. Dina, who is also and author and the curator of the Agroforestry Center art ahead to ensure accessibility to the confer- of interests and passions held by their own poet, led the students in a collage workshop exhibits. Maltzman and his family and ence room 518-622-9820 x 0. teachers. allowing students to personalize their journals. Barry Hopkins passed away in 2007, The staff at Greene County Council on but Toward a Greater Sense of Place is cele- the Arts was very proud to host “Towards brated to this day and GCCA was most proud a Greater Sense of Place” and believe the to recently host two groups of Middle School students gained an insight to art, the creative ARTSR ALIVE ANGEL students on Friday, October 2, 2015. Our goal process and the talent found in every corner Contributions from the following donor is helping to underwrite the cost was to off er a “gallery experience” and guide of our community. We thank Christin Ripley, of producing our bi-monthly newspaper Arts Alive. As production costs the students through the current exhibition Dina Bursztyn and Julie Chase for their “Beyond the Bars.” Not easy. The exhibit may involvment and the Catskill Middle School for escalate, we owe our continued ability to publish to the advertisers you see seem a bit hard for young people to explore their invitation to participate. As mentioned on these pages and to the generous support of our Angels. visually and the demands fi ltering work on earlier, the late Barry Hopkins had a vision To become an ARTS ALIVE ANGEL, the concept of the jail and the criminal justice and it meant so much for us on that rainy early system daunting. The work currently on October Friday to be a part of our “greater contact Kay Stamer at 518-943-3400 or email: display is made by artists who were once incar- sense of place.” [email protected]. cerated, people who taught art and worked as advocates in detention centers, while other