ALBALBANYY, NY PERMIT #486 Published by the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main St., Catskill, NY 12414 • Issue 109 • March/April 2016 GCCA’s Annual Youth & Student Arts Exhibition OUTSIDE the Showcases LINES Greene County’s Rising Stars Top right: Birch Trees by anonymous Greenville student artwork. 2nd row, Left: Artwork by J.Dyjak; Windham-Ashland-Jewett in Dan Yolen art class. Middle: “Story Nursery” Mural sketch by 4th grade Catskill Elementary School artists taught by Ruth Leonard. Right:“Warhol Horse”, magic marker by Lauren Hallenbeck, Greenville Middle School, Grade 8 in Wendy Doney’s art class. 3rd row: “Surrealist Eye”, colored pencil by Colleen Weiman; Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School, Grade 11 in Dan Yolen’s art class. Bottom Page Left: “Starry Night”, oil pastel by Richard Sanchez; Greenville Middle School, Grade 8 in Wendy Doney’s art class. The Greene County Council on During the exhibit, the gallery bursts and Lillian McCabe’s Cairo-Durham the Arts is proud to present their 36th with a kaleidoscope of colors and artists worked in a wide variety annual youth arts exhibit “Outside designs found in students’ paintings, of mediums, including ceramics, the Lines,” featuring artwork by drawings, collages, photographs industrial design, media arts, pre-K through Grade 12 students and mixed media works displayed graphic design and fi ne arts. “We from Greene County public, private “salon style” from fl oor to ceiling. always have kids going off to art and home schools. This annual This year promises to be school,” Mark Criswell says proudly. exhibit at the GCCA Catskill Gallery a “tour de force” exhibit with Judy Spring’s students at Scott runs March 5 through April 16, youth art pouring in from over a M. Ellis Elementary School in 2016. An opening reception will be dozen Greene County schools, Greenville, NY worked on a series of held Saturday, March 5 from 2 to 4 including Coxsackie-Athens High self-portrait, family portrait, Vincent p.m., 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY School, Greenville High School, Van Gogh and Claude Monet- and is free and open to the public. Cairo-Durham High School and inspired projects, while Wendy For a bit more family fun, join the Middle School, Windham-Ashland- Doney’s Greenville Middle School fi rst ever Sprouts Jamboree fund- Jewett Middle/HighSchool, Greenville artists participated in a program raiser ($10 per family) taking place Middle School, Catskill Elementary called “The Artist Study Project.” on the same afternoon from 3-6 p.m. School, Scott M. Ellis Elementary In addition to researching an artist at the Petite Productions just up the School, and Art and Soul Preschool. of their choice and exploring that hill at 491 Main Street in Catskill. At Windham-Ashland-Jewett artist’s impact on the art world, “Outside the Lines” gives Middle/High School, Dan Yolen’s “they choose a piece of art that the Greene County students the unique young artists worked on a “surre- artist did and either replicate it or opportunity to exhibit their artwork alistic eye” and “multiple hands” draw (something original) in the in a professional gallery and allows project. “It’s exciting to see what style of the work,” explains Doney. visitors to see a wide cross-section they come up with,” says Yolen, an The young artists at Art and Soul, of the diversity and promise of art teacher for sixteen years. an art and emergent curriculum our county’s young creative talent. Mark Criswell, Jessica Little Continued on page 13 INsIDE: HELLO from GCCA’s New Artists’ New Visual Opportunities Arts Director Meet Niva NEAR AND FAR Dorell .........................................See Page 9 ......................................See Page 8 WORDS & GCCA Call to Artists IMAGES: 2016 Season See Page 8 THE ART OF ........................ STORYTELLING Exhibition ........ See Page 8 Presenting Cultural Events & Opportunities for Greene, Columbia & Schoharie Counties. www.greenearts.org 4 ALIVE Page 2 March/April 2016 professional artists and teachers Registration for Sprouts in a safe and welcoming environ- 2016 begins May 2. To register GREENE COUNTY ment. Program hours are 10:00 call the Greene County Council on COUNCIL ON to 11:45 in each of the locations. the Arts at (518) 943-3400. A letter THE ARTS Sprouts participants will confi rming your registration will be experience two alternating 45 mailed. Call early since Sprouts Sprouts workshops, either Art & Music or registration often fi lls quickly! Theater & Dance. 2016 Program Update Sprouts has a Facebook page! BOARD OF DIRECTORS Often teachers, volunteers and Like us on Facebook at David Slutzky, President students work collaboratively to SproutsGCCA and watch for Bill Deane, 1st Vice President MARK YOUR produce a joyful end of the week Sprouts news and important Jeff Friedman, Treasurer performance. A healthy snack will updates or at www.greenearts.org/ Paul Poplock, Assistant Treasurer CALENDAR! be served between each session. youth-arts. Lawrence Krajeski, Secretary Sprouts outstanding teen volun- Maggie Fine teers serve as role models, many Sprouts students fi nd Kico Govantes GCCA Sprouts Begins whom our former Sprouts attendee, creativity in art and play Liz Kirkhus very rewarding! Gretchen Binder Mallory Registration on May 2 resulting in a program that serves Nancey Rosensweig many age groups in the community. Laura Segall GCCA Sprouts is a FREE Sheila Trautman summer arts program for children Greene County teens, 2016 schedule for Sprouts workshops ages 3 to 7 and off ers workshops Sprouts needs you! Are you inter- (building locations to be announced) BOARD OF ADVISORS in Windham, Coxsackie, Cairo, ested in working with professional Karl T. Anis Greenville, Hunter and Catskill. artists, helping teach young chil- July 11 – 15, 2016 -Windham Ashland Jewett Elementary School Jared Aswegan The program uses the arts as an dren dance, theater, music or art? July 18 – 22, 2016 -Coxsackie-location to be announced June Battisti avenue to develop creativity and Sprouts invites any Greene County Susan Beecher July 25 -29, 2016 -Cairo-location to be announced problem solving skills. Through teen or pre-teen interested in volun- Dick Brooks August 1- 5, 2016 -Greenville-location to be announced Frank Cuthbert creative play, cooperative learning, teering for our summer workshops Louise Hughes and an atmosphere that is fun to call Program Co-Director Ruth August 8 – 12, 2016 -Hunter-location to be announced Ronnie McCue and encouraging, children have Leonard at 634-2289 or GCCA at August 15 – 19, 2016 -Catskill-location to be announced Kim McLean the opportunity to work with 943-3400. Patrick D. Milbourn Patti Morrow James Parrish From the Director: Ruth Sachs Potential NYSCA Contracting Woes Robert Sheridan Michael Smith From the Director: Potential of us, this translates to a very signif- directives, at this writing, we are funding we will lose! For GCCA, this John Sowle NYSCA Contracting Woes icant amount. In addition, for those unsure where the chips may fall. amounts to a loss of over $100,000 Reginald Willcocks When it comes to NYSCA (NYS of us who run the Decentralization This is a serious issue and which we do not have and cannot Council on the Arts) funding, approx- regrant programs, we will be as soon as we know the outcome aff ord! This loss of funding will also STAFF imately 50% of grant recipients have expected to pay staff and overhead of NYSCA’s negotiations with the greatly aff ect our ability to provide Kay Stamer fi scal years beginning July – June for six months without remuneration, Executive Chamber and others, we signifi cant funds to our numerous Executive Director or other dates that do not coincide or lay off staff during that period and will let you know via email and/or community grant recipients, since the Sharon Shepherd with a calendar year. For the past wreak havoc on our regrant program telephone. Let’s hope this doesn’t turn process for determining these grants Assistant to the Director; two years, we have been hearing and its recipients. into, or become too late for, a “call for takes place during the six month cycle Membership Coordinator; from NYSCA that they must move all How has this come about? action”! between July and December. Arts Alive Editor non-calendar year folks to a calendar NYSCA staff has been cut by We have no choice at this point. Sara Pruiksma-Rizzo year contract to be in compliance with 50% since 2007-08, so they don’t STOP THE PRESS! We will extend our contracts and Community Arts Grant the state’s Prompt Contracting Law. have the capacity to process our work diligently for the next year to Coordinator While folks at NYSCA are negotiating contracts quickly. In addition, Council It has happened! fi gure out how we will survive. This is On February 19 we received Renee Nied with the Executive Chamber and the members, who give fi nal approval the Governor’s mandate, so we will be notice that all contracts will be moved Coordinator Community Comptroller’s offi ce, those of us with for our funding, do not meet in the contacting the Governor’s offi ce, the to a calendar year (Jan-Dec) in order Arts Grants, Schoharie July – June or other non-calendar year summer, compounding the issue of Comptroller, and our elected offi cials to comply with NYS Procurement Niva Dorell fi scal years have been put on alert. Prompt Contracting as required by for help. The state will be saving 6 Guidelines. We have the option to Visual Arts Director Our contract year may be moved the Governor. months of funding from a lot of folks, extend our current contracts for to Jan - Dec, eff ectively leaving a While there appear to be so there should be money for “gap” Lex Grey, Ruth Leonard another year (eff ectively a “stay of & Tara Van Roy six-month gap in funding during provisions in the State’s Prompt funding somewhere! execution”) and re-apply in the spring “Sprouts” Program Co-Directors which we will be expected to pay staff Contracting Law that should protect of 2017 for a new contract beginning Patricia Britton and run programs without fi nancial successful non-profi t applicants – - Kay Stamer, Executive Director, January 1, 2018.There will be no Bookkeeper consideration from NYSCA.