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Published by the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main St., Catskill, NY 12414 • Issue 120 • January/February 2018 GCCA Launches 2018 with Ginnie Gardiner & Martin Katzoff CONVERSATIONS IN COLOR

A TWO- PERSON EXHIBITION

Left: Venice Beach, 1999, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 60 inches by Ginnie Gardiner

Right: Untitled Exploration #2, 2016, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 72 inches by Martin Katzoff

Greene County Council on the Conversations in Color are from her “Talking http://ginniegardiner.com/visual-thinking/. anxieties with the objective of moving Arts (GCCA) launches its 2018 season with Tiepolo” series that she created in the Ginnie Gardiner graduated from through time, some fi gural elements repre- with “Ginnie Gardiner & Martin Katzoff: late 1990’s. Inspired by Baroque master Cornell University with a Bachelor of Fine sent interpreted personal experiences, Conversations in Color.” The concept of the Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), this Arts in 1974. In 2005, Ginnie and her but the main objective of the series was to exhibition came from a pairing of the two series resulted in two solo exhibitions in husband moved to Catskill, where they loosen up and go along for the ride.” artists works at the Patricia Field ArtFashion New York and Minneapolis in 2000, and purchased, renovated and restored the Katzoff is originally from Providence, show in October 2017 by production depicts images fusing Baroque references Catskill Lyceum, a Federal era building, Rhode Island, and has been living in Catskill designer Geoff Howell. GCCA’s Visual Arts with a range of contemporary images in where Thomas Cole gave his lectures on for the past few years as he studies for his Director, Niva Dorell, was struck by the layered pictorial spaces, producing paint- American Scenery in 1836. Gardiner’s recent Bachelor of Fine Arts at Bard College. He similarities in gesture and fl ow between ings rich in color and dramatic fi guration. paintings will be featured in a solo exhi- cites the beautiful nature of the Hudson the two artists’ vibrant paintings. The paint- Gardiner cites a passage from ‘Tiepolo and bition titled “The Color Prophecies” at the Valley as a major infl uence on his recent ings seemed to be talking to each other the Pictorial Intelligence,’ written by Svetlana Woodstock Artists Association and Museum artwork. He is currently involved in a project from across time and canvases. Gardiner Alpers and Michael Baxandall, as a perfect from October 20– November 25, 2018. with Freehand Hotels, painting murals at their and Katzoff, both Catskill residents, will summation of her personal approach to Martin Katzoff’s paintings in soon-to-open location in Gramercy Park. participate in an Artist Talk about painting creating these images: “The mind plays Conversations in Color, from his Untitled The Greene County Council on the and color during the exhibition. They will with images, and they can take different Exploration series, are more abstract than Arts Gallery is located at 398 Main Street also be present at the opening reception, forms: fi gures can drift between two and Gardiner’s, but no less vibrant or rich in in Catskill,b NY.b Gallery hours are Monday which will be held on Saturday, January 27, three dimensions before full recognition; texture. A printmaker as well as painter, through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 2018 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the GCCA’s they are curiously medium-free; they can Katzoff primarily creates from a place of p.m. and Saturdays from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 Catskill Gallery immediately following the move in slow motion…the array displays a intuition. With this series, he says he was p.m. GCCA is closed on Sundays. For more GCCA Annual Membership Meeting. The coherence, but is strange or bizarre; time attempting to access a roadmap to a information on upcoming exhibits, events, GCCA Catskill Gallery is located at 398 Main is not an issue.” Tiepolo’s amazing frescos, subconscious perception of experience of artist and grant opportunities, visit www. Street,bCatskill,bNY.bBoth events will be free and Gardiner’s connection with them, can reality, and conveying a sense of freedom greenearts.org or callb518-943-3400. and open to the public. be explored further on her website’s ‘Visual and openness in how they are interpreted. Gardiner’s large-scale oil paintings in Thinking’ blog ‘Time Traveling With Tiepolo’: “Each painting represents the release of

GCCA Annual Membership SSAVEAVE THETHE DATE!DATE! Meeting AAprilpril 77,, 22018018 GCCA’s 30th Annual Beaux Art Ball January 27, 2018 Masked Ball & Black Tie Bistro Fine Dining, Live Music & Dancing Copper Tree Restaurant, Hunter Resort, Hunter, NY Above: GCCA Board Member Nancey Rosenswieg and Dan Arshack. Please join GCCA Staff and Members Please visit page 16 for more information! Below: GCCA Artist members Dan and Jill Burkholder. on the Board of Directors on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at our Catskill Gallery in Catskill, NY for the Annual Membership Meeting of the Greene County Council on the Arts, now in its 42nd year of service to the communities in Greene, Columbia and Schoharie counties. The offi cial meeting will take place at 4 pm just before the opening reception (5-7 pm) for the fi rst of the 2018 exhibits "Ginnie Gardiner & Martin Katzoff: Conversations in Color" whose works will be on display through March 10, 2018.b Meet the artists and join your fellow GCCA members in viewing the inaugural 2018 exhibit, too. All current members possessing a valid GCCA membership are urged to attend. If your membership has lapsed, come and renew it by calling GCCA at 518-943-3400 or online atb www. greenearts.org/membership/. For those interested in becoming a member for the fi rst time, this meeting will introduce you to the Council’s work, so please plan to attend and watch for updates, too. All of us at the GCCA look forward to seeing you at the 42nd Annual JEAN AND DAVID SLUTZKY Membership Meeting Saturday, January 27, 2018, 4PM, at our Catskill Gallery will host GCCA’s 30th ANNUAL located at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. BEAUX ARTS BALL Happy New Year! Photo by fotopic.com

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GREENE COUNTY Editor’s Note: COUNCIL ON THE ARTS The image of model Eve in a Suzan Pitt design that appeared on the cover of the 2017 November/December Arts Alive issue was inad- vertently credited to Chuck Pierce Photography. In fact this image was BOARD OF DIRECTORS taken by Emily Haliotis whose photographs at GCCA’s Patricia Field ART Fashion event were also outstanding and impressive. I apologize for the David Slutzky, President Bill Deane, 1st Vice President mistake and will take this opportunity to show our readers another great Jeff Friedman, Treasurer moment captured by Emily Haliotis during the event; model Matel in Paul Poplock, Assistant Treasurer Jodi Morlock design. Lawrence Krajeski, Secretary Sharon Shepherd, Editor. Kico Govantes Liz Kirkhus Nancey Rosensweig Laura Segall Left: Eve in Suzan Pitt. Right: Matel in Jodi Morlock. Images by Emily Haliotis. Thomas Silvious Sheila Trautman BOARD OF ADVISORS Karl T. Anis Ava Barbour Meet Dick Brooks Frank Cuthbert Dennis Michel Goldberg Ronnie McCue Kim McLean Shaw Patrick D. Milbourn Patti Morrow Coordinator Ruth Sachs Robert Sheridan Community John Sowle Arts Grants, STAFF Kay Stamer Schoharie Executive Director Sharon Shepherd Assistant Director; You may have noticed the shock of Renee moving wore off Membership Coordinator; picture is not of Renee Nied, and the notices for the Coordinator Arts Alive Editor please meet Dennis Shaw, GCCA’s Community Arts Grants, Schoharie Margaret Uhalde new Coordinator Community Arts were posted I realized this might Community Arts Grants Grants for Schoharie County. not only be a position I would Coordinator Dennis writes, “Renee, my enjoy and be challenged by, but Dennis Shaw good friend and associate in the arts, one that I have experience in and Coordinator Community stepped down from her position as am qualifi ed. So here I am, much Arts Grants, Schoharie Community Arts Grants Coordinator to learn, but determined that I Niva Dorell for Schoharie County to move will make the same commitment Visual Arts Director to Vermont. My fi rst reaction those who came before me. I when I heard the announcement will continue to assist the many Ruth Leonard, Tara Van Roy was shock. I worked with Renee Schoharie County artists seeking and Erika Russo through the Greene County support through the Community “Sprouts” Program Co-Directors Council on the Arts and before that Arts Grant Program so they will Patricia Britton the Schoharie County Council on receive the promotion and recog- Bookkeeper the Arts for many years. In addition nition they deserve.” Will Barnds I was the recipient of two Individual Dennis and his wife, Posie, Catskill Gallery Reception, Artist Grants and three Community reside in Richmondville, NY where What Has The Sprouts Program Been Up To courtesy Associates for Training Project Support Grants, so I had he is the owner/operator of Shaw Since the End of Our Summer Session? and Development the opportunity to work closely Video Productions. He currently with Renee. is on the Board of Directors of CONSULTANTS For the past nine years I Theater Project of Schoharie CREATING A TREE WITH Anthony Rago wrote the grant application for the County, Richmondville Historical Apogee Webmaster Richmondville Historical Society’s Society and serves on the Village THOUGHTS ABOUT PEACE! YAMA Industrials, Inc. Music at the Mill Summer Concert of Richmondville Planning Board. Computer Technology Series, which I also produced, and As the new Schoharie through all that time Renee was County Community Arts Grants The Sprouts program was like to become a sponsor or would Kate Boyer - Heron and Earth always there to encourage, correct Coordinator working for the excited to once again participate like more information about Design & Layout – Arts Alive and push when necessary to get Greene County Council on the in the annual Fortnightly Festival the program, please contact Ruby Silvious me and many others to meet the Arts through their NYSCA (New of Trees in late November. The the GCCA at 518-943-3400. We 40th Anniversary Logo Design grant deadlines on time. I can’t York State Council on the Arts) theme of the tree was “Peace” and appreciate your support that all the ornaments were created or leads to opportunity for children Colette Lemmon express how much respect and Decentralization Grants Program, inspired by the budding young to work with professional artists Grants Consultant appreciation I have for all she has Dennis Shaw can be reached at done for the artists residing in [email protected] or at Sprouts artists who attended the and experience the arts in our own VOLUNTEER GALLERY Schoharie County.” 518-294-3265. 2017 Sprouts Program. Cutouts communities. & OFFICE Dennis continues, “After the of many of the Sprouts students’ Registration for the summer Andrea Porrazzo-Nangle handprints were strung “hand Sprouts Program, now entering Editor, Calendar & Opportunities in hand” to make a whimsical its 31st year, will begin in May & Volunteer Coordinator garland of friendship and support, 2018. Please keep a look out for William Carbone children crafted doves and peace more information about this year’s Donna Christensen signs from clay symbolizing hope Sprouts Program in the coming David Hopkins and Popsicle sticks, painted in an months. Updates on Sprouts Chuck Pierce array of bright colors, interpretive workshop session dates and loca- of the stars-after all we share our tions will be posted online at www. ARTS ALIVE CONTRIBUTORS inspirations on this earth beneath greenearts.org and on Facebook Jeanne Heiberg & the stars day and night! Sprouts GCCA Sprouts-so please like us Wayne Sheridan Co-directors Ruth Leonard, Tara and follow us! Van Roy and Erika Russo would The Greene County Council CATSKILL GALLERY like to thank the Fortnightly Club on the Arts Sprouts Program is COMMITTEE & VOLUNTEERS for their continuous support to the a free summer arts program for Deborah Artman, Kirsten Bates, Sprouts Program. children ages 3 to 7 in Greene Fundraising and monetary County, NY with week-long work- Ashley Hopkins-Benton, donations are very important and shop sites in Windham, Coxsackie, Ben Borbely, Jill Burkholder, help keep Greene County Council Cairo, Greenville, Hunter and Kico Govantes, Erika M. Klein, on the Arts’ Sprouts Program Catskill throughout July and Marisela LaGrave, Michele Saunders, strong in our communities each August. The program serves an Robert Tomlinson, Ruby Silvious, year. GCCA could not continue average of 60 children per week Dara Trahan, Sheila Trautman, OPEN CERAMIC STUDIO • KNIT A SCARF WITH WOOL • SPIN A YARN to bring this free art program to and more than 360 children • MAKE A SQUARE BASKET • THE ART OF BOXWOOD TREE MAKING the children of Greene County throughout the summer. Sprouts Will Barnds, Natalie Charles, • STUDIO PAINTING • BEGINNER’S DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY • COL- OR PHOTOGRAPHY IN NEW YORK CITY • INTRODUCTION TO DIG- without the support of the many participants experience two alter- Donna Christensen, ITAL PHOTOGRAPHY • BEGINNER’S DRAWING • INTERMEDIATE businesses, corporate sponsors, nating 45-mintue morning work- David Hopkins DRAWING • EXPRESSIONS IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY • ADVANCED municipalities, civic associa- shops, either in Art and Music or DRAWING • BASIC PAINTING • WATERCOLORS IN NATURE • STONE . . . and a host of people like you! PIGMENT WORKSHOP • CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITION- tions and individuals. The need in Theater and Dance and Sprouts AL QUILTS • RENAISSANCE PORTRAIT PAINTING • CONVERSING for donations for the summer students always have fun, fun, fun! IN SPANISH • INTRODUCTION TO BALLROOM DANCE • INTRODUC- program is ongoing. If you would TION TO BALLROOM DANCE • THE FUNDAMENTALS OF GOLF • IN- TRODUCTION TO FENCING • KEELBOAT SAILING CERTIFICATION • HOME BASED BUSINESS IDEAS • BECOME A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT • START YOUR OWN BUSINESS • GETTING PAID TO TALK • IDENTI- FYING CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT • INFECTION CONTROL AND Use your to see their GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON BARRIER PRECAUTIONSGO • PRE-ASSIGNMENT SECURITY GUARD COURSE • SECURITY GUARD RECERTIFICATION COURSE • NEW THE ARTS, INC. (GCCA) is a tax YORK STATE BUILDING SAFETYNOW INSPECTION • CUSTOMER SERVICE exempt, not-for-profi t, arts service STRATEGIES • BUYING AND SELLING REAL ESTATE • MYTHS AND organization whose purpose is to TRUTHS OF BUSINESS TAXES • NOTARY PUBLIC SEMINAR • ADO- broaden and enrich the quality BE PHOTOSHOP LEVEL 1 • COMPUTER BASICS FOR SENIORS • MS of life in Greene County and our EXCEL 2013 • CREATING A WEBSITE IN WORDPRESS • ADOBE PHO- surrounding region through the TOSHOP LEVEL II • CREATING A WEBSITE IN WORDPRESS II • GET development and strengthening STARTED WITH MS WORD • GET STARTED WITH POWERPOINT • of all the arts.b GCCA also serves AN INTRODUCTION TO QUICKBOOKS • ADOBE PREMIERE I • ADULT Appreciate the Arts to the fullest...call for your appointment today as the Decentralization regrant STUDENTS RETURNING TO COLLEGE • BEGINNER’S DOG OBEDI- agency for Greene, Columbia ENCE • HOW TO LOCATE ANYONE • YOUNG ADULTS EDUCATION • Dr. Christine M. Scrodanus - Optometrist and Schoharie Counties. Since DEVELOPING YOUR INTUITIVE SKILLS • HORSEBACK RIDING • TAR- 1975, the GCCA has provided OT IN YOUR LIFE • INTRODUCTION TO DRESSAGE • CHILDREN’S 518-943-3691 - 383 Main St., Catskill, NY information and essential services HORSEBACK RIDING • SAVE MONEY WITH EXTREME COUPONING to artists, arts organizations, cultural and educational institutions, civic Community Courses at CoGreene groups, community agencies and New, non-credit programs are offered each month at Columbia- the general public. The GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE Greene Community College – designed to enrich your career, feed ARTS, INC. is supported in part your dreams, and offer plenty of words of wisdom. 398 Main Street, PO Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414 • 518-943-3400 with public funds from the New Visit the Community Services page at sunycgcc.edu for more Arts Alive is published by the Greene County Council on the Arts for members and others interested in the arts. 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2018 GCCA COMMUNITY ARTS GRANT NEWS Winds in the Wilderness Concerts 2018 Community Art Grants News Winds in the Wilderness Winds in the Wilderness COLUMBIA COUNTY PROJECT SUPPORT ANNOUNCED! Concerts presents musicians Concerts, an award-winning Sharon Powers on fl ute, Judith concert series program, has Dansker on oboe and English horn, presented world-class music to the Greene County Council on use both words and image-based of Lend Me A Tenor & Sweeney Ronald Gorevic on violin and viola, small hamlet of Copake Falls, NY the Arts (GCCA) is pleased to learning paths so that students Todd, as well as multiple music announce the 2018 recipients from grades K-12 are inspired to & murder mystery performances John Myers on guitar and sitar and since 2009. They are recognized for of the Community Arts Grants in experience reading and art in an throughout Columbia County; Pete Toigo on bass who will perform innovative programming and thier Columbia County. The Community entirely new way; Chatham Public Bend the Knotted Oak: Russia: a winter concert featuring Classical, joyful connection with audiences in Arts Grants program is funded Library: Chatham Public Library The Revolution and its Composers. jazz and world music appropriate the splendid and peaceful setting of by the New York State Council Weekly Ukulele Jam. A weekly A chamber music program for for all ages. This concert will feature Church of St. John in the Wilderness. on the Arts (NYSCA) through its 1.5 hour ukulele jam open to all piano, violin, viola, and cello at the an Indian-inspired piece written for Winds in the Wilderness Concerts Decentralization program. Greene ages and ability levels, with special Spencertown Academy, featuring the group with sitar by John Myers, appeal to a broad spectrum of County Council on the Arts admin- guidance for novices; Jazz in music by Russian composers who a Bach violin solo, a trio sonata and listeners. Their eclectic programs isters this program in all three coun- GTown: Jazz in GTown community lived through the October, 1917 much more. The concert on Sunday, include compositions newly ties. This program provides support concert series 2018. A series of Revolution; Valatie Community February 11, 2018 begins at 3:00 written by local composers and for local not-for-profi t organizations three compelling community jazz Theatre: Valatie Youth Theatre and artists working with community concerts featuring gifted jazz artists Program. Two youth theater produc- pm and will be held at the Church of audience participation is strongly partners. These funds are intended who have performed globally; tions, one for youth grades three St. John in the Wilderness located encouraged in their fi nales. to reward and bring growth to local Classics on Hudson: Iva Bittova to eight, the other for high school at 261 Route 344 in Copake Falls, For more information on this programming with strong artistic - Lively Arts for Young Audiences. age; Winds in the Wilderness: NY. There is a $15 recommended concert and future programs, follow merit directly benefi ting Greene, Iva Bittova, a renowned composer, Winds in the Wilderness Concerts. donation at the door and as always, Facebook: Winds in the Wilderness Columbia and Schoharie, residents. singer, and violinist brings the A series of innovative ensemble children are free. The audience Concerts or call 518-329-1577. The Decentralization Program, magic of her unique art form of performances given throughout is invited to attend a reception (As of the time of press) funded by NYSCA, provided GCCA folk and classics music to a diverse the year of classical, jazz and world following the concert. Winds in the Wilderness Concerts with $126,000 of re-grant monies audience of Hudson children; music performed on fl ute, oboe, was under panel review for 2018 for the entire program in the three Columbia County Youth Bureau: violin, guitar, bass, with guest artists Community Arts Project Support counties. The Undercover Playground- 8-10 at the Church of St. John in the Funding is determined summer recreation sites chosen Wilderness in Copake Falls, NY funding. Many of Winds in the by panels of regional artists, by the Youth Bureau to host Applications for both Greene Wilderness Concerts’ past seasons non-profi t professionals and “Undercover Dance Performances” County and Schoharie County have been made possible, in community members comprising provided by the Ellen Sinopoli Project Support Grants are part, with public funds provided a well-rounded roster of invested, Dance Company; Concerts in the currently under review and were by the New York State Council creative persons. Applications for Village: Beethoven & Mendelssohn not available at the time for press. on the Arts Decentralization the 2019 cycle will be available - Second Symphonies from the Announcements will be made very Program, administered through the later this year, with deadlines, to Romantic Age. Two contrasting, soon, please visit www.greenearts. Community Arts Grants Program in be determined, in the Fall of 2018. splendid symphonies from major org for updated announcements. Columbia County and administered Greene, Columbia and Schoharie composers of the Romantic era; Please see Schoharie Spotlight by the Greene County Council on residents are encouraged to apply, Hudson Area Association Library: section for the Community Arts and serve as panelists. Please send Hack The Library: A Tween and Grants Arts Education programs the Arts. your inquiries to Margaret Uhalde, Teen Media Arts Program. Hack funded by the New York State GCCA Community Arts Grants The Library is a free week of media Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Coordinator, at margaret@greene- labs for teens and tweens centered through its Decentralization SCHOHARIE JANUARY & FEBRUARY arts.org. around learning how to create program in Schoharie County. The review processes were digital art work; Hudson River The intent of these awards is SPOTLIGHT EVENTS extremely thorough. The panel Classics: HRC Showcase Theatre. to foster high quality, accessible was composed of individuals Staged readings of fi ve new plays cultural programs in our own back- from various geographic areas, submitted annually to a national yard. b Please congratulate these ages, genders, backgrounds and playwriting contest; Hudson Valley organizations and individuals on SCHOHARIE COUNTY ARTS EDUCATION artistic expertise. Panelists received Choral Society: Hudson Valley their dedication to excellence and applications by means of mail and Choral Society (HVCS). Classical show them you appreciate their 2018 FUNDING ANNOUNCED email when applicable, and in and contemporary choral music in efforts by participating in their advance of the panel meetings to four Winter and Spring concerts exciting medley of 2018 offerings. Before her move to Vermont, Magpie, also a new applicant, allow thorough readings before at venues in Columbia County; If you, your friends or family former Schoharie Grant Coordinator, was awarded $1598 in support our panel review. Panel spent Kite’s Nest: School Break Camps have participated in or enjoyed any Renee Nied, met with a panel on for Living Planet-In My Backyard. hours discussing and reviewing for Hudson Youth: Cardboard of these programs, you know their October 22, 2017 and reviewed Offering a blend of songwriting, applications (and supporting docu- City + We Make Noise. Two week- immeasurable value. To help ensure three applications for funding quilt making, science, plants and mentation) before arriving at their long camps for youth during the future funding for these programs, fi nal recommendations for funding. school district’s Winter and Spring please take a moment to write or through the Arts Education tier of the storytelling, this program brings GCCA extends grateful thanks to breaks, based in visual arts, music, call your State Representatives NYSCA Decentralization Community prominent musicians into a school our panelists for their vital role in sculpture, and play; Melissa Sarris: (listed on page 4) and give them a Arts Grants Program in Schoharie library setting in support of Earth this process. Bittersweet: Translating Emotion hearty thank you for their support County administered by Greene and Human Activity curriculum. Final recommendations for the from Clay to Chocolate. Socially for the arts in New York State during County Council on the Arts. Panel The project will also include four Columbia County Project Support engaged art workshops combining this diffi cult economic climate members included Anne Schwed, “hands-on” sessions. portion were reached through clay, abstraction, human emotion, and encourage them to continue visual artist and the former DEC Returning applicant West clear consensus on December 3, and chocolate; North Chatham their efforts. For information on Coordinator for Roxbury Arts Group, Fulton Arts was awarded $1500 in 2017. Panels for the Greene and Free Library: Literature and the the DEC grants program, please Jennifer Stinson, a potter who is support for Portraits of Schoharie. Columbia County Arts Education, Arts. A fi ve-part series based on contact our Community Arts and active in school and community Offering tremendous oppor- Individual Artist, and Greene the theme “Community Resilience”; Arts Education Grant Coordinator County Project Support categories Pamela Badila: Spirit of the River - Margaret Uhalde at- 943-3400 and Julia Walter, a thespian and tunity to an age demographic rarely have not yet been held at the date captivating folktale of West Africa, or atb [email protected], profession mime. seen in applications, this project is of press. retold and adapted for theatre, or, for the Schoharie County Grant New applicant Cobleskill- an after-school residency that offers featuring humble appreciation for Coordinator contact Dennis Shaw Richmondville Central School high school students an opportunity 2018 COLUMBIA COUNTY the mystical power of this universal at [email protected]. Friends of Music was awarded to create short fi lms via stop motion PROJECT SUPPORT AWARDEES life source; Philmont Public The 2019 Guidelines and appli- $2700 in support for the Schoharie animation, still photography and Library: Junk Band - Creating cations will be made available in County Summer Student String fi lm through six “hands on sessions.” Columbia County received 21 harmony in unexpected places. the near future on GCCA’s website Performance Project. With only one Film is a Schoharie County, funding applications with requests totaling Aspiring musicians of all ages at www.greenearts.org where public school in Schoharie County priority-please note image above! $74,473 – almost $34,000 more and abilities will build their own you will fi nd “Funds & Grants” listed offering string instruction as part of As the new Schoharie Grant than the amount of monies avail- instruments of recycled materials, on the top menu. Greene County able to redistribute. The 18 funded collaborate on the writing of music, Council on the Arts is located at the music curriculum, this proposal Coordinator working for the Greene proposals shared $40,486 for improve musical techniques, and 398 Main Street in Catskill, NY with offered more advanced student County Council on the Arts through Project Support. Columbia County perform for the community; Roving offi ce hours Monday-Friday 10AM string players the opportunity to the NYSCA (New York State Council received two new applicants. Actors Repertory Ensemble: to 5PM. Please call to let Margaret receive professional instruction, on the Arts) Decentralization Grants Recipients are: Art School Sweeney Todd, Lend Me A Tenor, know you are coming in! meet and play with other advanced Program, Dennis Shaw can be of Columbia County for Art in and multiple live performance players which culminates in a reached at schohariegrants@gmail. the Library: A Pop-up Program events focused on underserved rehearsal and performance with a com or at 518-294-3265. connecting words, art, children, Eastern Columbia County. Fully- professional orchestra. The project and their families, these programs staged, full orchestra productions will include four “hands-on” sessions.

Theater Project of Schoharie County presented Meredith Willson’s The Music Man this past November 17, 18 and 19. An estimated 500 audience members fi lled Golding Middle School Auditorium for the The Music Man three nights. The show was directed by veteran community theater director Cherie Stevens and produced by Dennis Shaw. The role of Harold Hill was performed by Sean Jordan, Marion the Librarian by Recently Came To Jamie Crewell, Mayor Shinn by Dennis Shaw, Eulalie Maekecknie Shinn by Libby Hammecker, Mrs. Paroo by Sue Peter, Winthrop Paroo by Rock Cobleskill Lasky, Marcellus by Josh Shuart, Charlie Cowell by Matthew Worchester and the School Board/Quartet was performed by Ron Cleeve, Wayne Regels, Brian Smith and Jack Gosselink. Theater Project of Schoharie County produces three or four shows yearly. In April Cherie Stevens will direct the Jones Hope Wooten comedy The Hallelujah Girls. Auditions will be February 26 and 27 from 6-7:30pm at Golding Middle School in Cobleskill, NY. The Music Man was made possible, in part, with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the NYS Council on the Arts through the Community Arts Grants program, administered in Schoharie County by Greene County Council on the Arts.

Clockwise from top left: Dennis Shaw, GCCA’s new Schoharie County Community Arts Grants Coordinator played Mayor Shinn!; Local celebrity Libby Hammacker as Eulalie Mackeckie Shinn along with Chicken Ladies Julia Walters, Kate Elder, Posie Shaw, Jeanne Christiansen, Liz Hackney, Sarah Worcester and Grace Vogel; Quartet Brian Smith, Wayne Regels, Ron Cleeve and Jack Gosselink; Young Rock Lasky played Winthrop Paroo with Sean Jordan as Harold Hill; Music Man Photos by Dennis Shaw and Cherie Stevens.

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2018 GCCA COMMUNITY ARTS GRANT NEWS How to Contact Your Lawmakers For Columbia, Greene and Schoharie Counties GCCA’S ANNUAL VOLUNTEER Governor Andrew Cuomo Executive Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, NY 12224 APPRECIATION POTLUCK Tel: (518) 474-8390 Volunteer Bill Carbone stooped by GCCA’s annual Volunteer Senator John J. Flanagan, Majority Leader Appreciation Potluck during the afternoon on December 13, 2017. Legislative Offi ce Building, Rm. 805, Albany, NY 12247 Bill has served as a volunteer for many, many years with GCCA as a Tel: (518) 455-2071 gallery assistant, at the reception desk and as an ambassador! Most email: fl [email protected] Wednesdays Bill can be found just up the hill at the Washing Irving Assemblyman Carl E. Heastie, Speaker Senior Center in Catskill and on Fridays at the Hudson Area Library 932 Legislative Offi ce Building, Albany, NY 12248 leading a group of watercolorists and lending instruction. Thank Tel: (518) 455-3791 Fax: (518) 455-4812 you to Bill and our many other volunteers-GCCA could not fulfi ll its email: [email protected] mission and host programs without volunteers like you! Senator Rich Funke Chair Cultural Aff airs, Tourism, Parks & Recreation Those interested in volunteering may call Sharon Shepherd at 188 State St., Room 905, Legislative Offi ce Bldg, Albany, NY 12247 GCCA at 518-943-3400 or [email protected] Tel: (518) 455-2215 Fax: (518) 426-6745 District Offi ce: 230 Packe 's Landing, Fairport, NY 14450 Tel: (585) 223-1800 Fax: (585) 223-3157 email: [email protected] 49 SPRING STREET Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell Chair Tourism, Parks Arts and Sports Development POP UP EXHIBIT 712 Legislative Offi ce Building, Albany, NY 12248 Tel: (518) 455-5603 email: [email protected] PROCEEDS GREENE COUNTY BENEFITED THE Senator George A. Amedore, Jr. (District 46 – Greene) GCCA VISUAL 802 Legislative Offi ce Building, Albany, NY 12247 Tel: (518) 455-2350 Fax: (518) 426-6751 email: [email protected] ARTS PROGRAM

Assemblyman to be Announced Over the weekend of December 2 and 3, 2017 (District 102: all of Greene + Stuyvesant + Stockport GCCA’s former Visual Arts Director and fi ne arts in Columbia County; Rensselaerville, Westerlo & photographer, Fawn Potash and her husband Paul Coeymans in Albany County; Saugerties in Smart and son Milo, opened their magnifi cent Catskill Ulster County & all of Schoharie ) Spring Street home (that is now for sale-they have moved to Albany, NY!) for an Open House & Pop Up COLUMBIA COUNTY Art Exhibit. Not only was it an outstanding art show featuring original artwork by their Hudson Valley Senator Kathleen Marchione artist friends, but it was also a successful fundraiser (District 43 – Columbia) for the Greene County Council on the Arts Visual Arts 188 State Street Legislative Offi ce Building - Room 918 program. Funds were raised from donations at the Albany, NY 12247 door and commissions from art sales. Over 75 people Tel: (518) 455-2381 email: [email protected] room while others shared both grand and intimate attended this special “pop up” event that included the spaces. The second fl oor kitchen was of particular Assemblymember Didi BarreĴ participation of 25 artists. Proceeds will add general interest with an 8 x 9-foot painting by Claudia (District 106: Ghent, Claverack, Greenport, Germantown, support GCCA’s gallery programs including year McNulty of an elephant balancing on its front legs. Livingston, Tachkanic, Copake, Clermont, Gallatin & round exhibits and associated events, plus Student McNulty’s work was juxtaposed with a series of Ancram in Columbia County) Gallery Visits Program, newly established by GCCA delicate glazed ceramic plates by Asia Sosnowski. LOB 553, Albany, NY 12248 Visual Arts Director Niva Dorell. Both artists portrayed an uncommon grace in their Tel: (518) 455-5177 Fax: (518) 455-5418 Imagine viewing contemporary art in a spacious respective work. District Offi ce: 751 Warren Street Victorian village home built in 1861 as a parsonage for The GCCA Members on the Board of Directors Hudson, NY 12534 the only church designed by artist Thomas Cole, who and Staff thank Fawn, Paul and Milo for opening their Tel: (518) 828-5329 Fax: (518) 828-5329 lived and worked only steps down the street? Fawn home for the benefi t of the GCCA Visual Arts Program email: barre [email protected] and Paul’s Hudson Valley artist friends mounted their and offering an extraordinary exhibit opportunity to Assemblyman to be announced through Special Election works throughout their three story home designed local and regional artists. We also wish to thank the (District 107: Kinderhook, Chatham, New Lebanon, with high ceilings, wood fl oors, three fi replaces, visitors and aritsts. Canaan, Austerli & Hillsdale in Columbia County) dormers, window seats, and period details. Views More information about the house located of neighboring rooftops and steeples, the majestic at 49 Spring Street in Catskill, NY may be found Catskills and awe-inspiring sunsets from porches on atbwww.houlihanlawrence.com. For more information SCHOHARIE COUNTY all three fl oors added to the fundraiser’s ambience. on the GCCA Visual Arts program and exhibit The two day Pop Up Exhibit featured original Senator James L. Seward opportunities, visit page 5 and watch for updates at artwork by Hudson Valley artists Joann Alvis, Andrew www.greenearts.org. (51st District - Schoharie) Amelinckx, Nancy Azara, Darla Bjork, Matt Bua, Dan 430 State Capitol Building, Albany, NY 12247 Burkholder, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Mollie Dash, Tasha Tel: (518) 455-3131 Depp, Barry Gerson, Alon Koppel, Paula Lalala, Harry District Offi ce: Matthews, Paul Matthews, Claudia McNulty, Eva Melas, 41 South Main Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 607-432-5524 Portia Munson, Fawn Potash, Val Shaff, Beth Schneck, [email protected] Milo Smart, Asia Sosnowski, Melinda Stickney-Gibson, Kara Thurmond and Robert Tomlinson. FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES Like the artists, no two gallery rooms were alike! Some artists showed their work exclusively in one U.S. Congressman John Faso (19th District: Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer) 2 Hudson Street, PO Box 775, Kinderhook, NY 12106 Tel: (518) 610-8133 Fax: (518) 610-8135 U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer Leo O’Brien Federal Offi ce Building, Room 420, Albany, NY 12207 Tel: (518) 431-4070 Fax: (518) 431-4076 U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand 478 Russell Senate Offi ce Building,Washington, DC 20510 Top: The second fl oor kitchen gallery featured ECHOS Tel: (202) 224-4451 Fax: (202) 228-0882 EOMBOS by Claudia McNulty, 8 X 9’latex on canvas with gold-leaf and hand thrown ceramic plates by Asia Sosnowski. Above: Robert Tomlinson displayed a series of his mixed media silver gelatin collage prints in the upstairs parlor.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR 2018 Save the Dates! GCCA Exhibit and Special Events

Through January 13, 2018 GCCA GALLERY EXHIBITS Exhibit: Salon 2017 & Handmade Holidays: Affordable Fine Art & Crafts Exhibition andbSale. The Salon 2017 offers a wide variety of artworks: original drawings, paintings, prints, photographs Exhibition committee members are interested in local artists’ work, and sculptures measuring 24 inches or less. Come back often! We replace the sold items with new subjects of interest to local audiences, partnerships with other arts, work promptly. culture and community organizations, daring, fun, high quality work. January 27, 2018 Exhibition Proposals wanted for GCCA Catskill Gallery GCCA Annual Membership Meeting: Join GCCA Members at our Catskill Gallery in Catskill, 2018/2019 Schedule. Send a paragraph describing a general show, a NY for the Annual Membership Meeting of the Greene County Council on the Arts, now in its 42nd solo show, curated group exhibit, brainstorm for future programs with year of service to the community. The offi cial meeting will take place at 4 p.m. just before the contact information, an image list, short bio or resume and up to 10 opening reception (5-7 p.m.) for the fi rst of the 2018 exhibits at the GCCA Catskill Gallery. images (72 dpi, 5” jpeg or up to 8 x 10” photographs).

Email to Niva Dorell, [email protected] or [email protected], January 27, 2018 through March 10, 2018 with subject line: 2018 VAP Review. Exhibit: ‘Conversations in Color: Ginnie Gardiner & Martin Katzoff’ A Two-Person Exhibition. Meet the artists at the Opening Receptionon Saturday, January 27, from 5-7 p.m. immediately Postal Mail hard copy to Visual Arts Director, GCCA Catskill Gallery, following the GCCA Annual Membership Meeting. FREE and open to the public. GCCA Catskill P.O. Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414. Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY.b Hand Deliver proposals to the GCCA Catskill Gallery located at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Save the Date!!! This is how to make a proposal: April 7, 2018 GCCA Annual Beaux Arts Ball GCCA fabulous black tie bistro and masked ball, now in its 30th year and billed “The Party of General Show Proposal: Brief description for a gallery show the Year!” Watch for updates at www.greenearts.org. Call GCCA at 518-943-3400 for Benefactor you would like to see at Greene County Council on the Arts. If possible please name any artists (and contact information) you Reservations, Sponsorship and Ball Program advertising opportunities. feel would contribute to this show and provide images of works. Solo Show Proposal: If you would like to be considered for a solo exhibition. (Second Floor Gallery). Please send up to 10 images which GCCA Catskill Gallery is located at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY.bOffi ce and Gallery hours are can be Photos/CD/.jpg digital images (300 dpi) of work that will be Monday-Friday from 10 am to 5 pm. The Gallery remains open on Saturday Noon to 5 pm. included, an image list (indicating title of work, dimensions, medium, Visit www.greenearts.org or call 518-943-3400. date), a brief artist’s statement, resume, and any supporting information which may be relevant. Follow GCCA at Curatorial Proposal: Please submit a brief description of your www.facebook.com/greenearts Twitter.com/greenearts Instagram.com/greenearts proposal, up to10 images which can be Photos/CD/.jpg digital images (300 dpi) of work that will be included, and participating curator/artist resumes. We will also accept proposals for exhibitions that will solicit work through an open call. GREENE GREENE COUNTY Please label photos and CDs clearly (with artist name, title of work, COUNTY size and date completed). YOU MUST INCLUDE A SELF-ADDRESSED. COUNCIL ON THE ARTS STAMPED ENVELOPE (SASE) OR YOUR MATERIALSWILL NOT BE COUNCIL RETURNED (Please ensure proper postage). MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION ON THE MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Questions: Call Greene County Council on the Arts at 518-943-3400 I/We wish to become members of the Greene County Council on the Arts (GCCA) in the following category. or email Niva Dorell at [email protected] or [email protected]. ARTS Please Check one: New R Renewing R Member GCCA Catskills Gallery is located at 398 Main Street in Catskill, NY. Visit MEMBERSHIP www.greenearts.org for more information about the GCCA Visual Arts R Senior/Student $ 0. Program and current exhibitions. BENEFITS: R Individual 5. Members at all levels receive R Family 0. the following: R Friend/Business/Organization . R Sponsor 100. • Newspaper, "Arts Alive", with R Supporting 250. arts information for Greene and R Patron 500. Columbia Counties, grants & R Benefactor 1,000. opportunities listings, and a 4Reciprocal CCCA 10. R cultural events calendar. TOTAL MEMBERSHIP $ ______• Advance program announcements Building Fund Contribution $ ______& invitations to special events. J. Ruben Garcia Memorial Fund $ ______Endowment Fund $ ______All members can take TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ______advantage of the following: Payment: Check R Cash R • Technical Assistance MasterCard R VISA R Amex R • Referrals Card #: ______• Networking Expiration Date: ______• Information Services GCCA Visual Arts Director, Niva Dorell, pictured far left during a Student “Thank you!” Gallery Visit, seeks interns to help with preparing gallery exhibits and Visual • Access to Media & Publicity Make your tax-deductible contribution payable to Arts special events. Photo by Chuck Pierce Photography. Recources GCCA and return to the address listed below. • Artist's and Arts Organizations' links on GCCA website. GCCA Seeking Visual Arts Interns Please fill out completely Discounts: Name: ______GCCA is seeking interns to assist the visual arts director with • Gallery & Artful Hand Boutique Address:______preparing for the 2018 gallery exhibiƟ ons and associated purchases. City: ______special events. Candidates must be dependable, eager to • Discounted Fees on Classes at learn, and comfortable handling a variety of tasks including Rivertide Aikido State: ______graphic design, exhibit installaƟ on, social media, and liaising • Artist members may submit free-of Day Phone: ______with arƟ sts. Experience in Photoshop & In-Design, mounƟ ng charge for group and curated Eve Phone: ______artwork, packaging art for shipments and plastering and exhibitions at the Catskill gallery painƟ ng walls a plus! Interested parƟ es should send a cover and may become part of our E-mail: ______leƩ er and resume to Niva Dorell at [email protected] or artists-resource fi le. Website: [email protected]. • Arts Organization Members are Are you an artist? Yes R No R eligible to receive privileges with GCCA Constant Contact e-mail If yes, what is your discipline? ______service. Brief description of your work ______• Members at the $250 level and ______above receive a gift certifi cate valid for a basic one-year member- ______ship for a friend or family member. Artists/Arts Organizations, do you wish to have • NEW! On-screen advertising at your website linked to the GCCA website? the Greenville Drive-In. Yes R No R • New! Join the Columbia-Greene Menberships are for one year. Federal Credit Union Membership & Memberships are for one year. receive a myriad of fi nancial services. You may be able to double your contribution if you work for, or are retired from, a company which has a matching gift program. To make your match, simply obtain a form from your company’s Matching Gift Coordinator and send it along with your contribution to: Greene County Council on the Arts P.O. Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414 (518 ) 943-3400

The Artful Hand Boutique Needs More Inventory!! Be inspired Bring Us Your Newly Created Goods!! with what NBC GCCA’s second fl oor boutique is seeking to replenish its inventory with a new batch of locally made crafts by GCCA member artists. Seeking fi ne crafts, ceramics, wearable art, jewelry, toys, can do for you. prints, watercolors, pastels, and holiday cards made by GCCA member artists as well as books, CDs and fi lms by area authors and musicians. Please call and make an appointment to deliver your goods. b GCCA Catskill Gallery is located at 398 Main Street, Catskill,b NY. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10AM to 5PM and Saturdays from noon to 5PM. For more information www.nbcoxsackie.com on upcoming exhibits and events, artists’opportunities, grants and funds visit www.greenearts.org or callb518-943-3400. Page 6 2018 Janurary/February ALIVE

County Initiative Program (CIP) News 23Arts Initiative’s

Events and programs listed on this page are currently under panel review to receive support, in part, from public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund, administered in Greene JAZZ IN County by the Greene County. 23Arts Initiative is excited to announce the second annual experience with its own orig- THE SNOW JAZZ IN THE SNOW collaborative winter concert series with inal love story, following two the Catskill Jazz Factory will kick off this month, presenting people grappling with the Comes to a total of fi ve premiere performances on Friday nights at idea of love, discovering each the Mountain Top Library in Tannersville from January 19 other but also themselves. Tannersville’s through March 23, 2018. Performances take place at 7pm Repertoire to include the at the Mountain Top Library located at 6093 Main Street in songs of Bernstein, Korngold, Mountain Tannersville, NY. Admission is by donation with a suggested Ellington, Gershwin and minimum of $10 per person and all ages are encouraged. others. Top Library Each performance will be accompanied by an artist visit to One Love, led by soul and local music classrooms on the mountaintop! For more infor- jazz vocalist Shenel Johns, is January through mation visit www.23Arts.org. an exploration of the sounds of Jazz in the Snow kicks off on Friday, January 19, 2018 Johns’ Jamaican roots inspired March 2018 with Puccini Meets Bechet led by multi-instrumentalist Aaron by the old-school roots of Johnson, where the worlds of opera and jazz collide in reggae singer-songwriters. condensed chamber group featuring operatic vocals, piano, Johns is joined by an acoustic The 23Arts Initiative is a 501c3 non-profi t organization and clarinet and soprano saxophone. Johnson will defi ne, duo in this unique premiere connecting African rhythms to dedicated to sponsoring programs for the betterment of examine and explore the paral- Jazz by way of the Islands. Repertoire to include rare Bob the human spirit, bringing world-class performing arts to the lels between Italian composer Marley cuts, Desmond Decker, Bitty McLean and gospel from mountaintop community of Tannersville, NY through artistic Giacomo Puccini’s Bel Canto the islands. residencies, community outreach, and educational opportu- Operatic tradition and the Jazz in the Snow will continue through March with The nities with internationally-recognized artists. sublime sounds of Sidney Lost Women of Song led by Israeli-born guitarist and vocalist 23Arts’ 2017 programming was made possible, in part, Bechet’s New Orleans. Dida Pelled on March 2, 2018 and a Porgy & Bess Suite led by with public funds from the Greene County Legislature through Next month, Jazz in the “virtuosos on the saxophone and clarinet” (New York Times) the County Initiative Program (CIP), administered in Greene Snow presents Cupid Painted twin brothers Peter and Will Anderson on March 23, 2018. County by the Greene County Council on the Arts. 23Arts is Blind on Friday, February 2, 23Arts’ Jazz in the Snow series features premiere works currently under panel review for 2018 CIP funding. 2018 and One Love: Jazz specially commissioned by the Catskill Jazz Factory, a program Through the Islands on of the 23Arts Initiative with a mission to support jazz through Friday, February 23, 2018. cross-generational dialogue, community building, and artistic Above: 23Arts presents The Lost Women of Song led by Cupid Painted Blind draws excellence. Catskill Jazz Factory offers annual artist residen- Israeli-born guitarist and vocalist Dida Pelled on March 2, 2018. from Shakespeare’s timeless cies, performances and educational programs throughout the Left: Porgy & Bess Suite led by “virtuosos on the saxophone anthology and presents an Hudson Valley, NYC and beyond. For further information, visit and clarinet” (New York Times) twin brothers Peter and Will all-new theatrical and musical www.catskilljazzfactory.org. Anderson perform on March 23, 2018.

CATSKILL’S BRIDGE STREET THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS 2018 SEASON Season Tickets now available for Bridge Street Theatre’s 2018 Mainstage Theatre Series.

After an amazing, transfor- OLYMPIA) confronts her younger In the event that we’re unable to and two-time MAC Award winner, an unshakeable bond of mutual mative 2017, Catskill’s “Bridge to self and the moral and artistic secure the rights, there are several Charles Busch, returns to BST love and respect. Anywhere” is preparing to launch choices she made as the two potential replacements waiting in accompanied by long-time musical TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR- into the new year with even more attempt to create one fi nal fi lm to the wings, including a revival of director (and Catskill resident) ROOM-Flo Hayle brings a staged of the high quality, wildly eclectic rationalize her life’s work and the one of our most successful pre-BST Tom Judson. In this thrilling new reading of a musical version of this programming audiences have uses to which it was put by a fascist productions, a shattering neo-noir show Charles weaves tales of his classic melodrama to BST in June, come to expect when they walk regime. A searing and probing by another major name in the Manhattan childhood and adoles- with Lex Gray starring in a role through our doors. Since its incep- examination of narcissism, denial, contemporary theatre pantheon, cence during the tumultuous ‘60s written originally for Flo herself! tion, Bridge Street Theatre has and artistic responsibility starring and a collaboration with the team with music from the decade by BRIDGE STREET BELLY taken enormous pride in delighting Bridge Street Theatre favorite that recently brought us THE Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, the DANCE-Host Francesca Avani and entertaining crowds from Roxanne Fay. FRIDGE PLAYS. Beatles, Henry Mancini, Bob Dylan, returns in June with another edition around the region (and beyond) THE REVENGE OF THE CASSE NOISETTE by Michael Stephen Sondheim and Kander of one of our most successful with the fi nest in theatre, music, and SPACE PANDAS or BINKY RUDICH Whistler-For the holidays, the world and Ebb, among others. Some endeavors to date – a spectacular more. Here’s some of what we have AND THE TWO-SPEED CLOCK premiere of a play by Philadelphia- of the songs will include “Two for celebration of Fusion Belly Dance. in store for you in 2018: by David Mamet-What we hope based playwright Michael Whistler the Road”, “Anyone Who Had a PERFORMATHON!-In April, will be a major community effort, (with whom we collaborated on Heart”, and “The Times They Are we present the second edition of The 2018 Theatre Sub- mixing students, local artists, and QUIMPER over at Stageworks/ A-Changin’”. A nostalgic but clear- our wildly popular Performathon. scription Series Line Up (Dates to professional performers. A play for Hudson several years back). CASSE eyed look back from a consummate Everyone gets a chance to strut be announced.) children (and their adults) written, NOISETTE (The Nutcracker) juxta- entertainer. their stuff on our stage! FRANKIE & JOHNNY IN THE unexpectedly, by an American poses the fi nal years of the life of LUMBERYARD And much, much more to CLAIRE DE LUNE by Terrence playwright far better known for his composer Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING come. McNally-A contemporary Amer- searing (and frequently profane) with a contemporary story about a ARTS – ADI. During June and Don’t miss out on any of the ican classic and (with the possible dramas. A boy scientist, his female closeted midwestern high school July Lumberyard will present two amazing programming Bridge exception of Lanford Wilson’s sidekick, and a sheep named Bob teacher in love with Tchaikovsky’s weekends of performances at BST Street has to offer. For the latest TALLEY’S FOLLY) probably the fi nd themselves transported to music. Sugar Plum fairies and as construction progresses on their program details, information about greatest romantic comedy of the the planet Crestview, patrolled phone sex workers collide in this new space on Water Street, slated subscriptions, individual ticketing, latter half of the 20th Century. by an army of Space Pandas and tale of discovering the strength to to open in 2019. and how you can donate, volunteer, A love story about two ordi- ruled over by a preening narcissist be true to one’s self, no matter what THE “FLO” SERIES: EN- or otherwise support the theatre’s nary people. What begins as a named George Topax who’ll stop the cost. CORES! In April, Flo Hayle pres- work visit the theatre’s Facebook one-night-stand between a short- at nothing to become the only man Subscriptions to the full ents an all-new cabaret show with page or our website at BridgeSt.org. order cook and a waitress becomes in the Goose Nebula to possess a fi ve-play season – only $100 Musical Director Jay Kerr. We’re located at 44 West Bridge a tug-of-war between one who wool letterman’s sweater. Can a for all fi ve – can be purchased DRIVING MISS DAISY by Alfred Street in the Village of Catskill, just sees a future of endless love and nearly-forgotten fi lm star rescue at BrownPaperTickets.com. A Uhry. Directed by Flo Hayle. It’s a block west of the creek. We’ll see adventure between them and one the earthlings from being whacked Season Subscription also gets 1948 in Atlanta, Georgia. Boolie’s you out front! who is terrifi ed of being hurt again, out with a giant pumpkin? The you discounts on many other BST aging mother, Daisy, has crashed Bridge Street Theatre’s 2017 with a soundtrack of some of the suspense may kill you! events, as well as benefi ts from her car, and he insists that it’s time programming was made possible, most beautiful music ever written We’re currently in negotia- quite a few local merchants. she get herself a driver. He hires a in part, with public funds from the supplied by a classical music radio tions for our fourth slot. Should BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! 60-year-old unemployed black man Greene County Legislature through station playing in the background. we be successful in obtaining the Imported events also scheduled for named Hoke Coleburn who spends the County Initiative Program (CIP), LENI by Sarah Greenman- performance rights, this could 2018 are: the next 25 years driving “Miss administered in Greene County by In a limbo somewhere between wind up being the world premiere MY KINDA 60’S, a Gala Benefi t Daisy”. While the two are initially the Greene County Council on the life and death, Hitler’s chosen of an amazing new drama with a for BST takes place on February 24, wary of one another, and though Arts. BST is currently under panel fi lmmaker Leni Riefenstahl (director wonderfully diverse cast by a major 2018. Tony nominee, Drama Desk they come from utterly different review for 2018 CIP funding. of TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and American playwright. Stay tuned. Lifetime Achievement honoree backgrounds, they wind up forging

Grammy-nominated Professor Louie & The Crowmatix with the Common Woodstock Horns will be joined by other musicians celebrating Ground on CMF’s 20th Anniversary.

The Mountain Singer/songwriter Greg Dayton, whose performances span Music Festival electric and acoustic blues, funk, and rock, will also be among Celebrates Catskill the featured acts on January 13, Mountain Foundation 2018 at the Orpheum. Anniversary Milestone

As the Catskill Mountain Foundation music, headlines the stellar lineup which has lent her voice, literally and fi gu- Hall of Fame this past summer. (CMF) readies to celebrate its 20th has been assembled for this special perfor- ratively, to advocacy for the underserved Tickets to COMMON GROUND on the Anniversary, Woodstock Music has created a mance. The group has been performing of the world will also grace the stage along Mountain Music Festival at the Orpheum special show on Saturday, January 13, 2018 since 2001 approximately 150 shows a with The Greene Room Players Choir, under Film and Performing Arts Center Orpheum featuring Grammy-nominated Professor year and has 12 CD’s on The Woodstock the direction of Artistic Director, Linda in Tannersville, NY on January 13, 2018 are Louie & The Crowmatix with the Woodstock Records label. Their latest 2017 recording Nicholls. The choir has performed for the available at www.catskillmtn.org. Tickets Horns, world renowned Gospel singer Lea Crowin’ The Blues has been on The National Hunter-Tannersville-Windham Mountaintop purchased in advance are $30 and at the Gilmore, singer Greg Dayton with vocalist, Contemporary Blues Music chart in the top communities and surrounding towns door are $35. Towera Smith, and the Greene Room Players 20 for the fi rst quarter. Their CD Music From throughout Greene County. Catskill Mountain Foundations’s 2017 Choir. The variety show comprising a mix of Hurley Mountain was voted Best Concept Singer/songwriter Greg Dayton, whose programming was made possible, in part, Blues, Gospel, Rock and Acoustic Music will Record & Group by Radio Crystal Blue in performances span electric and acoustic with public funds from the Greene County begin at 8:00 pm at the Orpheum Film and 2016. The group has been inducted into blues, funk, and rock, will also be among Legislature through the County Initiative Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, NY. the Blues Hall of Fame, New York Chapter the featured acts. He will be joined by the Program (CIP), administered in Greene The Grammy-nominated Woodstock, and holds a permanent place in the Canada soulful vocalist, Towera Smith (New Zealand/ County by the Greene County Council NY group, Professor Louie & The Crowmatix, South Blues Museum. East Africa), formerly of the Australian rock on the Arts. CMF is currently under panel with a solid repertoire steeped in Rock ‘n’ The talented blues, gospel and jazz group, Silverchair. Dayton was inducted as review for 2018 CIP funding. Roll, Blues, Gospel and American Roots singing civic activist Lea A. Gilmore who a Great Blues Artist into the New York Blues ALIVE 2018 January/February Page 7

County Initiative Program Catskill Mountain Foundation (CIP) News Returns to CMF For Three-Week ZVIDANCE Events and programs listed on this page are currently under panel review to receive support, in part, from public funds from the Greene County Legislature through the Greene County Cultural Fund, administered in Greene Residency Special Performance on January 27 County by the Greene County.

The Catskill Mountain 1960’s generation and the Beat designs, with edgy multi-media and New York venues such as the Foundation (CMF) will host the generation’s startling notions of video projections. The ZviDance Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), world-renowned dance company social rebellion. Inspired by the renowned creative team includes Joyce Theater, New York Live ZviDance, led by Israeli-born 1957 Jack Kerouac novel of the composers Scott Killian and Jukka Arts and Lincoln Center Out-of- Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner, for same title, ON THE ROAD entwines Rintamak; visual designers Josh Doors. ZviDance has toured across a three-week residency beginning the thrills of freedom, the sounds of Higgason and Herzog Nadler; and North America to festivals such as January 8, 2018. Following the jazz, and the perplexity of youthful lighting designer Mark London. His Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and culmination of the residency where American voices discovering their collaborative approach extends The American Dance Festival, and the company will be working on a closeted and social selves. to the dancers and is infused with internationally to Germany, Poland, new piece, “Sacred,” ZviDance will Under the guidance of Israeli- a deep regard for the individual Russia, Israel, Colombia, Brazil, Catskill Mountain Foundation’s stage a special performance on born Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner, and their creative aesthetics role Ecuador and Japan. 2017 programming was made Saturday, January 27 at 7:30 pm at the world-class dance company within the ensemble. ZviDance Tickets purchased in advance possible, in part, with public funds the Orpheum Film and Performing ZviDance brings a passionate is revered worldwide for its are: $25; $20 seniors; and $7 from the Greene County Legislature Arts Center in Tannersville, NY. vision of community in a modern elasticity, athleticism and emotional students while those purchased through the County Initiative Patrons attending the special age. Timeless and prescient, the expressivity. at the door are: b$30; $25 seniors; Program (CIP), administered in performance will be treated to an company creates stirring works that Over the past 25 years, and $7 students. For more Greene County by the Greene enthralling presentation of ON THE draw their energy from the dynamic ZviDance has received critical information on the Foundation, or County Council on the Arts. CMF ROAD, an evening-length, multi- waves of change across civilizations. praise and stable funding for its to purchase tickets for the January is currently under panel review for media piece that contemplates Zvi integrates exciting original artistic projects. The company 27 performance, please visit www. 2018 CIP funding. the general upheaval of the musical scores, evocative lighting performs frequently at home in catskillmtn.org or call 518-263-2063.

Thomas Cole Historic Site Sunday Salon & Winter Tours 2018 Bicentennial Anniversary Thomas Cole’s Arrival in America from England in 1818

The Thomas Cole Site is through April 2018. This season will History of Art, Yale thrilled to announce the 200th feature American art scholars and University at 2 year anniversary of Thomas Cole’s professors from The Metropolitan pm. Thomas Cole arrival in America. Thomas Cole Museum of Art and Yale University left behind a vast (1801-1848) emigrated from exploring new scholarship on the archive – draw- Northern England in 1818 with his Hudson River School and Thomas ings, journals, family at the age of 17. Cole went Cole. The 2018 Sunday Salons letters, writings on to found America’s fi rst major are sponsored by James & Diane – that together art movement, the Hudson River Lewis and David & Laura Grey. attest to the central, formative role Tickets for the Sunday Salons Educational programs School of landscape painting, The Thomas Cole Site will that paper played in his artistic and the Winter Tours are purchased supported by New York State which profoundly shaped this present the second season of development. Cole’s earliest separately at thomascole.org/ Council on the Arts with the nation’s identity and addressed Winter Tours on the same days works, completed before he events. Tickets for the Sunday Salons support of Governor Andrew M. theb prescient issues of preserva- as the Sunday Salons, allowing began painting in 1825, include are $12 for general admission and Cuomo and the New York State tion vs. development head on. audiences to visit Thomas Cole’s complex studies from nature, $10 for members, and tickets for Legislature. The Thomas Cole The bicentennial coincides historic home during the run of notebooks that recorded his read- Winter Tours are $10 for general National Historic Site’s 2017 with a major Thomas Cole the Thomas Cole exhibition at the ings in aesthetic theory, and short admission and free for members. programming was made possible, exhibition at The Metropolitan Met. Winter Tours invite guests stories published in journals. Seen Please note that both members and in part, with public funds from Museum of Art entitled Thomas into the historic Main House where together, these more private forms non-members must reserve a ticket the Greene County Legislature Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings Thomas Cole lived and worked of thinking on paper capture in advance online for Winter Tours. through the County Initiative opening in January and traveling with his family, and include the Cole’s development as an artist The hours for Thomas Cole’s home, Program (CIP), administered in to the National Gallery, London, in immersive multimedia installation and intellectual. Winter Tours take studios, special exhibitions, and Greene County by the Greene June of 2018. A complementary The Parlors and the exhibition place at 1:00 and 3:30 pm. grounds vary by month. For details County Council on the Arts. exhibition exploring the interna- Mind Upon Nature: Thomas Cole’s Shannon Vittoria, Ph.D., visit: www.thomascole.org and TCNHS is currently under panel tional context of Thomas Cole’s Creative Process, featuring original Research Assistant, American follow us on Instagram, Facebook review for 2018 CIP funding. work will be presented at the works by the artist. Guided tours Wing, The Metropolitan Museum and Twitter. Thomas Cole Site in May 2018 in will be offered at 1 & 3:30 pm of Art presents In the Footsteps partnership with the Yale University on the same days as the Sunday of Thomas Cole on Sunday, Department of Art History and the Salons from January through February 4, 2018 at 2pm. This talk Yale Center for British Art. March 2018. Stay tuned for the will explore the behind-the-scenes To kick off this momentous April touring schedule which will research conducted by the curato- occasion, the Thomas Cole Site be announced soon. rial team for the exhibition Thomas will present the 15th annual Sunday Thomas Cole: On Paper Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings Salons lecture series in Thomas opens the Lecture Series on as they followed in Cole’s foot- Cole’s New Studio at the historic Sunday, January 7, 2018 with steps traveling to England and site once a month from January Nicholas Robbins, Ph.D. Candidate, Italy to research his youth in Bolton and his return journey to London, Florence, Rome, Tivoli and Naples from 1829-32.b Winter Tours take place at 1:00 and 3:30 pm. Following on Sunday, March 4, 2018 is Frederic Church in Thomas Cole’s Catskills with Jennifer Raab, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History of Art, Yale University at 2 pm. Frederic Church spent two formative years studying with Thomas Cole. This lecture will explore both Cole’s infl uence on Church, from drawing practices to sketching trips, and the ways in which the younger artist departed from his mentor. bWinter Tours take place at 1:00 and 3:30 pm. On Sunday, April 8, 2018 Sophie Lynford, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, Yale University will lecture on Idyllic and Industrial Visions: Thomas Cole, William Guy Wall, and the Hudson River at 2 pm. Sophie Lynford will tell the story of the relationship between Thomas Cole and another British- born artist who painted the Hudson Valley in the 1820s, William Guy Wall. Immigrating to the United States in 1818, the same year Cole arrived, Wall provided the water- colors for the popular volume The Hudson River Portfolio. The book’s release coincided with the trans- formation of the Hudson Valley into a destination for landscape tourism, likely encouraging Cole to visit the region. But the Portfolio showcased the industrialization springing up in the Hudson Valley, while Cole purposely omitted signs of such commercial activity in his early canvases. Toward the end of the 1820s, however, the two artists enjoyed a relation- ship characterized by reciprocal infl uence. While the Portfolio may have drawn Cole to the Hudson Valley, Cole’s fi rst canvases of the area encouraged Wall revisit the region, to try his hand at painting 845 - 246 - 7875 in oil, and to experiment with more idiosyncratic compositions similar 2 Village Drive, Saugerties, NY 12477 41 Five Mile Woods Road, Suite 2, Catskill, NY 12414 to those he saw in Cole’s work. Facial • Waxing • Make Up • Pedicures • Manicures www.lenorafreeselmt.com Page 8 2018 Janurary/February ALIVE

Jennie Allen and David McDonald each received woman battling lung cancer that participates in and the people involved in the history,” as well as Artist’s funding in the amount of $2500 through the 2017 an experimental study that uses hallucinogenic “very brave in what we’re facing right now.” NYSCA/Community Arts Grants-Individual Artist drugs to combat end-of-life anxiety. The For more information about GCCA’s Community  Profile tier re-grant program administered by Green panel felt this project was very accessible and Arts Grants program serving Greene, Columbia County Council on the Arts. The Individual Artist addressed an important subject. and Schoharie counties visit www.greenearts. Review Panel was comprised of seven panel David McDonald of Columbia County for funding org/grants. Contact Community Arts Grants members from Columbia and Greene Counties for his project involving getting the city of Coordinator for Greene and Columbia counties, who reviewed nine applicants for this award. Hudson behind a day honoring one of America’s Margaret Uhalde at [email protected] The panel recommended Jennie Allen of Greene great civil rights heroes, Harry Belafonte. The and Schoharie Grants Coordinator Dennis Shaw County for her project, The Mystical Clinic, which panel mentioned that McDonald’s fi lms are very at [email protected]. is a pilot for a web series and will also function well done, and felt that this project is “interesting as a Standalone short fi lm about a practical and timely, considering Hudson’s race relations

Left: Writer, fi lmmaker, and teacher Jennie Allen. From top: Still from The Clinic - Marsha Stefanie Blake-Smoke photography was completed in Still from The Clinic - Ellen Parker Jennie Allen the summer she continues to shoot and Marsha Stefanie Blake as she edits the fi lm. She is collab- Still from The Clinic - Marsha Stefanie Blake - Detail Jennie Allen is a writer, fi lm- orating with local sculptor and maker, and teacher living in Catskill. photographer Anthony Masina; in Still from The Clinic - Cheri Murray Before landing in fi lm a decade recent weeks they have spent quite Still from the Clinic - Crow a few afternoons standing knee- ago, she worked for Unity House in Still from The Clinic - Xariana Walton Troy, NY as a mental health coun- deep in a creek with DSLRs and selor. macro lenses, discovering shots Jennie’s current short fi lm, that “feel like” something, laughing, The Clinic, is about a woman with talking about myth, symbols, fear, a terminal cancer diagnosis who faith, doubt, mystical experiences, Relics screened worldwide and was participates in an experimental and the character’s journey. distributed by Shorts International research study, taking a high dose Shooting and editing will be and Egoist. The fi lm received a of psilocybin to face her fears complete by the end of the year, Sound Lounge Development about dying. This is a narrative and then the process of outreach, Grant, a Columbia University fi lm based on rigorous research press, and festival submissions will Finishing Funds grant, and was studies at Johns Hopkins and New begin. A local screening will be sponsored, in part, by the Greater York University that have tested the announced early next year. New York Arts Development Fund use of entheogenic agents to help “The Clinic” was made of the New York City Department patients suffering from emotional possible, in part, with public funds of Cultural Affairs, administered distress at the end of life (as well from the Decentralization Program by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). as from addictions and PTSD). of the NYS Council on the Arts, Failing Better Now, a feature fi lm These studies have shown strong administered in Greene County by Jennie co-wrote, is available in the evidence that the careful use of the Greene County Council on the U.S. on the Starz network. Other entheogens such as psilocybin Arts through the Community Arts short fi lms have screened at festi- can have long lasting therapeutic Grants Fund. Jennie partnered with vals including Brussels Short Film effects for people facing a terminal Catwalk Institute, a local artist resi- Festival, CineKink, Brooklyn Arts illness. dency which provided time, space, Council’s Scene: Brooklyn, and on As a fi lmmaker and a Com- stunning locations, and untold NYC-TV. munity Hospice volunteer, Jennie support. Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu Jennie received her M.F.A. is interested in how we approach at Johns Hopkins is an advisor in Film from Columbia University, dying and death. The fi lm is rooted for The Clinic. Local musician and along with the Lewis Cole Award in the real practices and fi rsthand engineer Tyler Wood will do sound for Excellence in Screenwriting. accounts of research subjects design and mixing, and Iva Bittova She has taught Screenwriting at outlined by Dr. William Richards is providing the indelible score. Columbia and Filmmaking at Pratt at Johns Hopkins University Jennie’s other current projects Institute and the City University of School of Medicine. Reading these include the feature fi lm Culebra New York, and is a current faculty accounts had a profound effect on – a dark comedy about grief, member at SUNY Stony Brook/ Jennie; they illustrate the power addiction, and the spirituality of Killer Films new M.F.A. program of addressing deep psychological imperfection - in development with in Manhattan, where she teaches and spiritual concerns into our care Fidelio Films, and the television alongside Killer Films’ luminaries for the dying, and illuminate the pilot Sunshine, about a depressed Christine Vachon and Pam Koffl er. way we live our lives – often cut off teenage girl who joins an upstate from the truth of our mortality, our farm commune/collective. Recent shared future, and our connected- work includes co-writing the short ness. The fi lm attempts to be both fi lmb Dear Chickensb (directed by an inquiry and a model for this kind Mauro Mueller) starring Philip of work. Baker Hall and Kerris Dorsey, which Jennie’s artistic goal for The screened in October at the Zurich Clinic is to create a visceral experi- Film Festival. ence – to have the fi lm lead an audi- Jennie’s prior short fi lm ence through the journey of this Relics won an Adrienne Shelly character as she faces her darkest Foundation Award for Best Female fears about dying, “meeting” her Director, a jury award at Palm cancer, and leaving her husband Springs International ShortFest, and daughter behind. Creating and placed for awards at the USA this inner journey using live action Film Festival, Woodstock Film rather than visual effects has proved Festival, The Forum on Law, Culture, to be as challenging as Jennie and Society, and the Columbus anticipated, and while principal International Film + Video Festival.

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David McDonald

A few years ago, I was serving as a sort of Jack-Of-All-Trades for The Register Star and The Catskill Daily Mail – weekend editor, social media maven, staff videog- rapher – when I kept on running into people who wanted to go on camera wanting to talk about some old movie they had been in 1959. Martin-Hamilton, and she totally The fi lm was called “Odds Against went for it. Hudson had recently Tomorrow,” and briefl y put, it was declared itself a sanctuary city, and about two men – one black and what could be more inspiring than one white – who were brought having Harry Belafonte, one of the together to rob a bank in a small greatest heroes of the civil rights town Upstate. The movie was shot movement, come and pay the town in Hudson and starred two of the a very well publicized visit during biggest stars in America at the these very dark times? It would be time: Harry Belafonte and Robert a particularly good for the kids of Ryan. For whatever reason (perhaps the area, to meet one of the great because of its extremely dark world icons of American culture. view), the fi lm never really took off Tiffany and I drafted a letter with the public. for the Belafontes. I applied for the Apparently, tons of people in individual artist’s grant. And voila, the town of Hudson had served a few months later, to my glee, I as extras in the movie or played a won! To be honest, I wasn’t all that part in the production, and many surprised – every artist dreams of of them served as a main demo- projects like this that can empower graphic at the papers, so I got it into and benefi t their own communities my head to do a short video about – I just had happened to come up peoples’ memories of the event. To with a doozy! do so, I thought I should sit through What I hadn’t planned for was the old movie, and when I did so, the actual logistical complications I was gobsmacked. That movie, all of transporting a 90 year-old civil about the price of intolerance, was rights icon and his rather large as relevant for today’s world as it family from one side of the country had been in 1959. I was hooked. to another; creating events; So, I started fi lming people. fi nding hotels; arranging for trans- People like Bonnie Huber. And their portation. stories were, by and large hilarious, None of which is insurmount- interesting, poignant, or powerful. able, by any means. But there’s I thought to myself, “Hmm…this making movies, and there’s would make a very pertinent docu- moving mountains. Let’s see, in mentary for 2017.” In a professional capacity, 2018, if we can do both. Thus, the idea for my own fi lm- McDonald is co-principal of David David McDonald is a long-time about-a-fi lm was formed. McDonald/Don Downey Films, journalist who became a fi lmmaker A word about my art: I have which produces cinema-quality about 15 years ago, after moving realized through years of fi lm- promotional videos for socially Upstate. He is the director of the making that my work can have and environmentally responsible fi lms “Woodstock Can’t Get There extreme power in galvanizing and organizations and companies From Here” and “Woodstock promoting community conscious- throughout the Hudson Valley. Revisited,” which chart the rise ness – thus, consciousness as a Recent projects have been for The of the American counterculture whole. A video I did for The NY Cary Institute in Millbrook, Milea through events that transpired over Times about Hudson fi ve years Estate Vineyards in Staatsburg, and the course of the last century in ago was one of the contributors Glynwood in Cold Spring, among Woodstock, New York. towards the hype that led to the others. His contact email address is His palette is the Hudson town’s revitalization. Same goes [email protected]. Valley. Over the past ten years, his for a video I did for Chronogram a short fi lms have appeared in The few years ago on Kingston and the LINKS: NY Times, CNN, Good Morning then-nascent O Positive Festival. America, and Time Magazine, My work is designed to inspire the Odds Against Tomorrow 2017 among others. public and increase our sense of Trailer: Subjects have included Marc human community. So I thought: https://www.youtube.com/ Chagall’s time spent as a refugee “Wouldn’t it be cool if we could watch?v=CQuen6SDBkI in High Falls in Upstate, NY, in involve the public with this new the mid-1940s, Ella Fitzgerald’s project, just as Belafonte had done Chagall In Flight Trailer: incarceration at The New York with the city of Hudson in 1959?” https://vimeo.com/189449951 Training School For Girls in Hudson So I broached the idea of as a 16 year-old in 1933, and a TV having a Harry Belafonte Day in pilot about The Chanler Family of Hudson with our mayor, Tiffany Rhinebeck.

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Winter brings a quieter pace around you. Let this darkness be a see.” Santana Thornton holds a BFA to our region: longer hours indoors bell tower and you the bell.” Murphy from Florida International University and often limited travel. Snow seems holds a MFA from the Pratt Institute, in Miami, and has studied at New York to muffl e sound as our landscape and lives and works in both Brooklyn University and the Art Students League is blanketed in white. Yet quiet can and Columbia County. She has shown of New York. Her extensive travels promote listening, deep refl ection, widely in New York City and at Carrie have informed her work, and her has and creativity. Refl ecting on listening Haddad Gallery (Hudson NY). She was exhibited her work in museums and and quiet as a process and a space awarded residencies to the Vermont galleries in Europe and America. She both external and inner, the Art School Studio Center and Yaddo, and shows now lives in Kinderhook NY. Visit www. of Columbia County explores “Quiet” her work internationally through the arlenesantana.com to learn more in an upcoming exhibit. Featuring the US Department of State’s Art in the information on her work of ASCC faculty members Eileen Embassy program. More information Entering its sixth year of offering Murphy and Arlene Santana Thornton, is on her website at www.eileen- high-quality art classes and outreach the exhibit is on view in ASCC’s gallery murphy.net. programs to the community, ASCC, a spaces from January 18-March 8, Arlene Santana Thornton engages non-profi t organization with a vision 2018.b An opening reception to meet with abstraction in her work, often of “imagining art for everyone,” serves the artists is Saturday, February 3, 2018 choosing monochromatic color over 1200 community members each from 5- 7 pm (snow date February schemes. Her work often engages year, from pre-K to those in their 90s 10).b The reception isb free and open with water: rivers, tides, and rain, and and above. The exhibit and recep- to the public and refreshments are elemental physical forms: bridges, tion are at ASCC, 1198 Route 21c in served. paths, and islands which suggest the Harlemville, NY, at the intersection Refl ecting on the role of quiet in interconnections between the beauty of Harlemville Road and Route 21C.b Arlene Santana Thornton “Rain”b oil and graphite on canvas her work, Eileen Murphy shares lines of the natural world and the human For more information on ASCC visit 2017. Image courtesy of the artist. from Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem: “Quiet experience. She shares a quote from www.artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org friend who has come so far, feel how Henry David Thoreau: “It’s not what or email info@artschoolofcolumbi- your breathing makes more space you look at that matters, it’s what you acounty.org or call 518-672-7140.

Columbia-Greene Community Work exhibited in the The Blue Columbia – Greene College will display a variety of artists Hill Gallery include January-Students in the Kaaterskill and Blue Hill galleries of Regine Petrosky, February- Community College throughout the spring and summer Washington Irving Senior Center 2018 – each located in the Main Watercolor Workshop Participants, Building on campus. In addition, the March-Rosalind Tobias, April-Hudson SPRING AND SUMMER college’s permanent collections are City Schools, May-Columbia County displayed in the Robert J. Belknap Photography Club, June – July-Richard GALLERY EXHIBITS Memorial Gallery, also in the Main Robinson and August – September- Building, and in the Alumni Gallery in Susan Nicolini. ANNOUNCED the Professional Academic Center. All galleries are open to the The Kaaterskill Gallery will host public without charge during regular the following art shows. January-Diane college hours. For more information, Reutter, February-Connie Horton, call 518-828-4181. Columbia-Greene March-Germantown Central Schools, Community College is located at Students in Regine Petrosky’s Drawing course, seen here working April-Hudson City Schools, May – July- 4400 Route 23 in Hudson, NY just on their projects, will have their work displayed in the Blue Hill Sadeek Been and August – September- one mile east of the Rip Van Winkle Gallery on the C-GCC campus during the month of January. Richard Bazelow. Bridge connecting Columbia County to Greene County!

New Baltimore Conservancy WRITER’S BLOCK Concerts At Home REMEMBERING AN INFLUENTIAL TEACHER Image courtesy www.facebook. com/TheDangitBobbys/ WILLIAM BAILEY:b A PARING DOWN TO THE ESSENTIAL By Sandra Dutton The New Baltimore Conservancy presents All concerts begin at 4pm. The venue is the beau- Concerts at Home, a Sunday afternoon music series tiful, historic Old Gray Church located atb 380 Main Portland Harbor by Sandra DuƩ on, Acrylic with The Dang-It Bobbys…“Besides having an Streetbin the hamlet of New Baltimore, NY. For accessi- on Canvas, 24 x 30. endearing moniker, the Dang-it Bobbys make mighty bility, contact us prior to the concert atb518-756-2763. fi ne music; imagine regular ol’ twangy bluegrass Tickets are $15 for members and $20 for non-mem- At Indiana University, I took writing teacher, I run critiques of imbued with the melancholic sweetness of a Paul bers. Tickets are available at the door or online atbwww. “Life Drawing” from William Bailey, papers the same way, fi rst asking Simon ditty, and you’re getting there.”…Time Out New newbaltimoreconservancy.org as of January 15, 2018. who spent only seven years at our students to fi nd what they like, and York on Sunday, February 4, 2018. Later in the month, Memberships are also available at the door at the school, then accepted a position at then moving on to what can be Petito and Ritter…b“A little folk, a little pop and more very reasonable rate of $15 for an Individual, $10 for Yale and a decade later had one of improved.) than a little magic!”…Keyboard Magazine paly on Student and $25 for Family memberships. his paintings featured on the cover Also unique to Bailey was Sunday, February 25, 2018 Local favorites Scott Petito of Newsweek.bHe was known, while taking attendance.b Most of the and Leslie Ritter are not to be missed. he was at I.U., as the best artist in professors in the 60s found it the department, but I also found uncool to care about attendance, him to be the best teacher I had in but Bailey began the class by college. At that time, in the 1960s, calling the roll.bOn snowy days in Take a (Winter) Hike! New Outdoor Events it was the custom of the painting February, when we might other- and drawing faculty to meet briefl y wise have cut class, we were all Offered by the MTHS with the class, set up the model, there for Bailey. then escape to their studios.b Not To this day, when I draw, I feel New York State Licensed Guide Moe Lemire will be here we will retrace our path, following the South Lake Road Bailey.b He stayed with his classes William Bailey coming up behind leading a series of outdoor events this winter through The to the horse trail back to the KRT and fi nally ending at The for the entire three hours, running me, reaching down, tapping the Mountain Top Historical Society located at 5132 Route 23A Mountain Top Historical Site. Folks who join can make this drills like a coach.bWe would begin paper. I think I learned more from in Haines Falls, NY. These fundraising events will include a as short or as long of a cross-country ski and I am allotting with 10 second gesture drawings, him than from any other teacher I hike, a snowshoe walk and a cross country skiing excursion. 4 hours.b Folks wishing to participate on this cross-country move up to 30 second, then grad- had in college.b But it wasn’t just A $10 donation is requested for each event and will benefi t ski need to bring their own skis. At this time MTHS does not uate, eventually, to a two-hour drawing I learned:b I learned a the Mountain Top Historical Society. have the ability to rent cross-country skis but if this proves to drawing.b We used the HB pencil method of working and critiquing Snowshoe Hike to Kaaterskill Falls Viewing be popular we can look into rentals in the future. on high quality white paper (he that forms the basis of my Platform takes on Saturday January 13, 2018, from 12 pm - Bring water, snacks or a lite lunch, Wear warm clothes loathed newsprint and wouldn’t teaching:b a paring down of form 3 pm (End time based on speed of snowshoeing). Roughly and dress in layers with a hat and gloves. Bring a backpack, allow it in the drawing room), but to the essential. 3 miles round trip this hike is rated “Easy to Moderate.” hand and foot warmers, second pair of dry socks along with he also favored ink because it was Sandra Dutton is a writer and Come see Kaaterskill Falls in all her glory from the winter tissues and Chapstick. diffi cult, getting the line right the artist. Her most recent novel, Mary perspective. See how the waterfall and surrounding land MTHS does not require membership for hike participa- fi rst time, or learning to deal with Mae and the Gospel Truth, was become a winter spectacular. This snowshoe will depart tion. We do however request that you register for each hike. mistakes.b All the while we were published by Houghton Miffl in from the MTHS campus and proceed along the KRT 1.5 Participants can register on ourbcontacts pagebor by calling drawing, he would circle the room, Harcourt, as was her picture book, miles to the Laurel House Road parking area. From there, 518-589-6657. Please leave your name, phone number, coming up behind us, pointing to a Dear Miss Perfect: A Beast’s Guide we will follow the path down to the Kaaterskill Falls viewing and # in your party. Schedule subject to change. The latest particular line, “What’s that doing? to Proper Behavior, which she platform. Once folks are ready to depart we will retrace our information is available at www.mths.org. Notifi cation of How is it working?”bEvery line, he wrote and illustrated. She also footsteps back up the trail to the parking area. Then we will changes, including cancellations due to weather will be taught, had to have a purpose. If it publishes essays (Commonweal follow the KRT back to the Mountain Top Historical Society.b made on the web site up to the day of any given hike. didn’t, it shouldn’t be there.b(It was Magazine and The New York Times Hikers wishing to participate on this walk need to bring their a lot like writing, I realized later.b Book Review). own snowshoes. At this time we do not have the ability to Every word should be pulling its Her paintings and drawings rent snowshoes but if this proves to be a popular walk we own weight.) have been shown at the Maine Art can look into snowshoe rental.b If folks wish to come on His critiques were tough Gallery (Wiscasset, Me.) the River this walk without snowshoes a pair of microspikes would be butbnever sarcastic, as were many Arts Gallery (Damariscotta, Me.), highly recommended for possibility of ice on trail. of the other professors’. He would The Belfast Poetry Festival (Belfast, Bring water, snacks or a lite lunch, wear warm clothes fi rst ask, after we’d tacked our Me.) University of New England, and dress in layers, Hat and gloves, backpack, hand and drawings to the wall, “What do you and University of Southern Maine, foot warmers, Yaktrax or micro-spikes in case of patches of see that you like?” We’d mention among other venues. ice, boots if snow cover is on the ground and a second pair the curve of a hip or a long, She lives in Earlton, New York, of dry socks. Tissues and Chapstick are recommended, too. sinuous line that had captured a at Dancing Lamb Farm, with her Cross-Country Ski the KRT to South Lake Road on certain pose, and then we’d go on husband, Wayne Sheridan. Saturday, February 10, 2018 from 10 am - 2 pm (End time to what could be improved.b(As a based on speed of cross country skiers). Roughly 5 miles this adventure is rated Moderate. Come explore the beauty of the forest during winter time. Come cross-country Writer’s Block Guidelines: Open to current GCCA members only. 600 ski the KRT from The Mountain Top Historical Society. We Word Limit. Subject matter: literature, short-shorts and poetry, parody, will meet at the parking area at The Mountain Top Historical fi ction, tales, folklore, fantasy and humor. Racism, Bigotry, Commentaries Society and cross-country ski the KRT. We will then cross over the new bridge over the creek and continue on the on Religion or Politically In-Correct writings will NOT be accepted. horse trail to the South Lake Road. We will follow South Publishing the work is the sole right of Arts Alive editor Sharon Shepherd. Lake road to the beach parking area and then if folks want Join Moe Lemire for some winter great outdoor Catskill Please email to [email protected]. to continue on to the Catskill Mountain House Site. From Mountain adventures through MTHS. ALIVE 2018 January/February Page 11

Ninth Annual Washington Irving Senior Citizen Center Watercolor Workshop Art Exhibit Columbia Greene Community Citizens’ Watercolor Workshop is Cooperative Extension, Columbia- College will once again present The a diverse group of artists, mostly Greene Community College as well Ninth Annual Washington Irving seniors, who meeting each week as local businesses and libraries. Senior Citizen Center Watercolor with watercolor instructor, Bill For gallery hours call Workshop Art Exhibit in its Blue Hill Carbone, at the Senior Center 518-828-4181. Columbia-Greene Gallery. The exhibit is on display located on Academy Street in Community College is located at February 1-28, 2018. Catskill. As artists, they have many 4400 Route 23 in Hudson, NY just Meet the Artists reception on different interests, levels of exper- one mile east of the mighty Rip Van Thursday, February 8 form 1-3 pm. tise and styles of painting. Winkle Bridge. Blue Hill Gallery and get a chance to Over the years, the watercol- see the incredible bond they share orists have exhibited at as a group in both their creative process and while others have presented their painting together each week. Every work in solo shows at Greene Wednesday morning from 10am County Council on the Arts Catskill to noon, the watercolorists set up Gallery, the former Columbia shop, exchange ideas and critiques County Council on the Arts Gallery, and paint, paint, paint. It is truly an the Twilight Park Annual Show, impressive gathering of artists. during Arts Walk in Hudson, The Washington Irving Senior Agroforestry Center at Cornell

Clock-wise from top right: Narvik Midnight Sun by MaryAnn Bagnall, Watercolor; Artist Catherine Rooney; Artist Barbara McGeachen; Instructor Bill Carbone and student.

January and February pm on Mondays, February 26 and All winter classes have a snow ART CLASSES at ASCC March 5, 2018. date. Please see ASCC’s website for Explore the stark beauty of the details and snow date policy. Full found materials to meld narrative ASCC faculty member Eileen landscape this winter. Join us in class descriptions, plus information into your own unique artist’s books Murphy, Landscape, oil on “Winter Greens” as we investigate about ASCC’s scholarship program with ASCC faculty member Nancy canvas. Image courtesy of the rich colors and textures of which funds up to 90% of class the artist. Kohler in “Book & Narrative “, 6- 9 evergreen trees using mixed media tuition, are on the school’s website.b pm Monday, January 22, 2018. Try with ASCC faculty member Sara Classes are held at the Old a freeing approach to drawing with Pruiksma on Saturday, January 27, Schoolhouse, located at 1198 ASCC faculty member Tim Ebneth 2018 from 10 am – 2 pm. Embrace Route 21c in Harlemville, NY at the in “Think BIG: Oversized Drawing” Start the New Year and sessions – you may enroll in one the shorter days in “Twilight: intersection of Harlemville Road on three Thursdays from 10 am – 1 brighten your winter days by or all. Thursday evenings from Winter Landscapes” with ASCC and Route 21C.b To register for pm, starting January 25, 2018. attending a class at the Art School 6–9 pm, starting February 1, 2018 faculty member Tim Ebneth two classes online, go to artschoolof- Combine textiles with mixed-media of Columbia County. Entering its with ASCC faculty member Sayzie Mondays, January 29 and February columbiacounty.org. ASCC serves techniques to explore fi ber art with sixth year, ASCC is a non-profi t Carr. Try a different approach 5, 2018 from 6 pm - 9 pm. Learn over 1200 members of our commu- ASCC faculty member Sayzie Carr community-based organization to creativity: “Into Abstraction: how to capture the dynamic colors nity each year with programming in “Textile Collage” on Saturday, with a vision of “imagining art for Watercolor & More” taught by and textures of clouds and water in libraries, schools, senior centers, February 10, 2018 from 10 am – 3 everyone.” ASCC offers high quality ASCC faculty member Arlene with “Sea & Sky: Oil or Acrylic” on and at its historic schoolhouse.b pm. Learn about low-relief sculpture art classes and programs to the Santana Thornton from 10 am – 4 Saturday, February 3, 2018 from For more information, email info@ and mixed media techniques with community. pm on Saturday, January 20, 2018. 10 am – 3 pm with ASCC faculty artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or ASCC faculty member Tim Ebneth Always wanted to create art Students will try new ways of member Eileen Murphy. call 518-672-7140.b and looking for where to start? “Art expressing abstraction using water- during “Bas Relief Assemblage for Everyone” is offered in three based media. Up-cycle and reclaim & Mixed Media” class, from 6 - 9

which is very powerful. In this cello sonata you may be forgiven if you BEND IN THE KNOTTED OAK Presents hear elements of those composers he offi cially denounced, especially A Salon Concert of Russian Music their fondness for march rhythms and sardonic humor. Alexander Tcherepnin (1899- 1977) fl ed St. Petersburg to Georgia Bend the Knotted Oak three greatest Russian and Soviet in 1949, its style is solidly in the late after the October Revolution, where Chamber Music (BKO) will present composers, along with Prokofi ev Romantic lyrical tradition, and is a he lived for three years. He devel- a salon concert of Russian music and Shostakovich. At Moscow beautifully crafted, attractive piece. oped an enthusiasm for Georgian for cello and piano, featuring Conservatory Miaskovsky taught Tikhon Khrennikov (1913- music but left Russia permanently Robert Reed and Uel Wade. Most Kkatchaturian and Kabalevsky. 2007) rose quickly through the after that region was Sovietized. Robert Reed, cello andbUel Wade, of the music on the program Unfortunately, his contribu- ranks of leading Soviet composers, piano. He spent time in Paris, China, and was composed since the Russian tion to the celebrations of the partly through compositional excel- Japan before moving permanently Revolution, the world-shaking event 30thb anniversary of the October lence, and partly because he saw to the US, where he became a 100 blocks daily to study at the of one-hundred-and-one years ago. Revolution was considered too the value of ingratiating himself citizen. In 1967 was invited by Manhattan School of Music (she The concert is at 40 Church Street in dark and pessimistic, and he was with Soviet leaders by adopting the Soviet government to return had no money for the subway!). Chatham, NY on Sunday, February denounced in 1948. This blotted the optimistic, dramatic, and lyrical to Russia on a concert tour.b BKO Eventually she earned degrees in 11, 2018, at 3 pm. Admission is $20, out his career. His music was style favored by those leaders. will play his “Songs and Dances,” piano and composition at Juilliard. free for 18-and-under. Contact Uel expelled from the concert halls of He became a favorite of Stalin composed in the US in 1953, in Since then, she has been Wade at 518-392-4697 for more the Soviet Union.b by denouncing the “formalism” of which he recalls Russian, Georgian, given many commissions, and is information. Miaskovsky’s father, a general Shostakovich and Prokofi ev, and Kazakh, and Tatar folklore. now a major composer. Out of 24 True to BKO’s tradition of in the tsar’s army, was shot by was chosen to be the secretary of Leah Auerbach (1973- ) was Preludes she wrote for cello and presenting music and composers revolutionary forces in1919. The the composers’ union. However, born to a Jewish musical family piano, you will hear fi ve. In them that are fascinating and deserving composer-son served in WWI; there is no clear consensus on the in a city near Siberia. A brilliant will be found examples of her love but lesser known, the program and, being of the old order, had composer’s ideological stance. pianist, she was given a permit as for old forms (like Baroque dance), will include music by Miaskovsky, to hide his feelings and stay out (In spite of his position and the a teenager to visit the US in 1991 extreme registers, a stunning Khrennikov, Tcherepnin, and of political intrigues. His second ugly politicization of music during on a concert tour, during which she variety of colors, and a mischievous Auerbach. Sonata, played on this program, is this period, Khrennikov quietly defected. Although she spoke no sense of humor. Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881- often mournful in the Russian way, provided money for the disgraced English, she was so determined to 1950) was awarded the 1941 Stalin but defi nitely not pessimistic, and Prokofi ev to buy food!) In any case, pursue a musical career she walked Prize. He is considered one of the often rhapsodic. Although written his he must be judged by his music,

NEW LOCALES For Better or AND CLASSES HIGHLIGHT For Worse C-GCC’S SPRING and COMMUNITY Everything COURSE LIST In Between… The Mountain Top Library in Tannersville; photo courtesy of the library. The Ghent Playhouse Columbia-Greene Community At the same time, Greene Presents College offers a selection commu- County residents will fi nd classes nity courses so wide they stretch conveniently located at the from the hills to the mountains. This Mountain Top Library in Tannersville. CLEVER semester, that’s more than a boast; Get to Know PowerPoint and the it’s a point of fact. Magic and Glory of Mail Merge LITTLE More than 75 courses will be are two hands-on software courses Clever Little Lies Erin Harwood, Will Murphy, Meg Dooley & Rob Weber. offered during the spring semester, that introduce Microsoft’s ubiqui- Photo credit: Matt Sikora both on campus and off, beginning tous slide presentation creating in mid-January with starting dates program and Microsoft Word’s continuing through February, time saving mass-mailing feature. Join us at the Ghent Playhouse as we present Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies, a contemporary March, and April 2018. Integrated Fitness and Nutrition, adult play that sheds a comedic light on the secret corners of marriage, relationships and family.bThis Adding to its community which explores positive combina- production runs January 19, 2018 through February 4. classes this semester, the college tions of workouts and nutritional A mother (Meg Dooley) always knows when something is wrong, and this mother is determined has partnered with the Roeliff information, rounds out the to dig deep for the truth, when her husband (Rob Weber) returns home, a bit on edge, from a tennis Jansen Community Library in Mountain Top roster. match with his son (Will Murphy).bHell-bent on getting to the bottom of things - Determined to get to Columbia County for the fi rst C-GCC, a campus of thebState the bottom of things, she invites her son and daughter-in-law (Erin Harwood) for drinks and dessert, time, to offer the Basics of Digital University of New York, was recently causing uproarious chaos.b Photography – an opportunity for ranked in the top four percent of anyone with a digital camera or community colleges in the U.S. Clever Little Lies is directed by the Ghent Playhouse’s Artistic Director, Cathy Lee-Visscher, who even a smartphone to learn how by WalletHub.com, using data also designed the set.bMatt Sikora is Assistant Director and Stage Manager and lighting is by Max to take better photos – and Poetry: collected from the National Center Lagonia The Art of the Marvelous, which will for Education Statistics, Council Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 pm and Sunday matinees are at 2 pm.b Tickets are $22 include examination of poetry in for Community and Economic each, $17 for Members of the Playhouse and $10 for Students with ID.bTickets may be reserved by its various forms and styles as well Research, and College Measures. calling 1-800-838-3006 or at www.ghentplayhouse.org. as writing instruction. The library For more information or to register The Ghent Playhouse, an all-volunteer community theater located in beautiful Columbia County is chartered to serve residents of for both non-credit (community) at 6 Town Hall Place, just off Route 66, in Ghent, NY. the towns of Ancram, Copake, and and credit courses, visit SUNYcgcc. Hillsdale. edu. Page 12 2018 Janurary/February ALIVE

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ASCC Announces part of an interactive program on Saturday, April 14, “Slow Art Day,” an international day held to promote Call for Art mindfulness and deep engagement with art in museums and educa- for Juried Show tional institutions, and the reception is the same day from 5- 7 pm. The Exploring Memory, reception isb free and open to the public and refreshments are served. Entering its sixth year of Movement, and Migration offering high-quality art classes and outreach programs to the commu- nity, ASCC, a non-profi t organiza- Rachel Fainter, Gallery Manager tion with a vision of “imagining art at Jack Shainman Gallery | The for everyone,” serves over 1200 The Art School of Columbia School (Kinderhook NY), Kathryn community members each year, County ASCC announces a call Kosto, Executive Director of ASCC, from pre-K to those in their 90s and for artwork exploring its 2018 and Anna Thompson, Curator, above. The exhibit and reception programming theme: “Migration, Columbia County Historical Society are at ASCC located at 1198 Route Movement, and Memory.” (Kinderhook NY). 21c in Harlemville, NY, at the inter- Artists living in New York State, More information on how to section of Harlemville Road and Southern Vermont and Western apply is on ASCC’s website and the Route 21C in Columbia County NY.b Massachusetts are invited to submit deadline for entries is February 15, For more information visit www. artwork for consideration by a panel 2018. Application is free to ASCC artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or of jurors. Works will be selected for members and $8 for non-members. email info@artschoolofcolumbi- artistic merit and how they relate to Work in the exhibit will be used as acounty.org or call 518-672-7140. the theme. The jury panel includes

Thomas Cole Site in Art History, George Washington Announces University. Submissions are due by Saturday, February 24, 2018 and the Essay Contest winning entries will be announced on Monday, March 26, 2018 and will for Publication be published by The Thomas Cole Deadline: Saturday, National Historic Site. February 24, 2018 The prompt: How is the American landscape changing? How do you feel about it? Is there something you see, do, or experience now that you hope will be around for future generations?

To read Thomas Cole’s Essay on Amer-ican Scenery visit www.thomascole.org.

Parameters: Essays should be between 1,500- 5,000 words. Exceptions to word Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, After minimum will be made for poetry. A Thunderstorm (The Oxbow), 1836, oil on canvas, 51 ½ x 76 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908, 8.228. Submissions may be nonfi ction, fi ction, or poetry. While the prompt can be homas Cole National Historic become a published author or add interpreted broadly, essays must TSite is accepting submissions to your oeuvre. Submissions will be address in some way a change to the for the fi rst Essay on American judged by an expert panel consisting American landscape (environmental, Scenery Essay Contest. Many are of leading scholars & curators and physical, societal, cultural) and how familiar with Thomas Cole’s majestic land conservationists. The panel the author feels about it. landscape paintings, but the artist was includes J. Jeffrey Anzevino, Land Use also a prolifi c writer and published Advocacy Director, Scenic Hudson; Eligibility: Open to all. author. We invite audiences to draw W. Douglas McCombs, Chief Curator, inspiration from Cole’s Essay on Albany Institute of History and Art; Questions? American Scenery, 1836, and share Nancy Siegel, Professor of Art History, Call Madeline Conley at 518.943.7465 their own views on how the American Towson University; and Allan Wallach, ext 108. landscape is changing today. This is Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Email submissions to: an open call to writers of all ages and Art History and Professor of American [email protected] backgrounds and an opportunity to Studies Emeritus, Professorial Lecturer

grams, including Bindlestiff’s THE Cirkus After School at the Hudson Department of Youth, the Hudson BINDLESTIFF Juggling Club, and Bindlestiff’s Summer Cirkus August intensive, FAMILY have received support in the amount of $2,500 from the Berkshire Taconic CIRKUS Community Foundation’s Hud- outcomes in youth development, Bindlestiff’s Columbia County son Schools Arts & Humanities therapeutic or community partners include: The City of Hudson Endowment Fund. development settings.b Department of Youth, Hudson Annual Cure for This means that, as always, Come and see Cirkus After Hall, Hudson City School District’s youth from the Hudson City School in action at 4 pm on Monday, afterschool Program, Operation Unite, The Winter Blahs… School district have free access January 22, 2018 at the Hudson the Morris Memorial, and Greater Its Cabin Fever to high quality out-of-school time Department of Youth, as students Hudson Promise Neighborhood’s programming.b Bindlestiff’s Cirkus from Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School Hudson Out of School Time Cabaret Series After School uses skills like juggling, show their individual skills and Collaborative. Our funders also Photograph by Zach Neven Creative. by Zach Photograph stilt walking, tumbling, partner group creativity. A free, 30-minute include The Galvan Community acrobatics, prop manipulation and show will feature group acrobatics, Foundation, The Stewart’s Foundation, physical comedy to help youth juggling, unicycling, stilt walking, and The Rhinestrom Hill Community to become stronger learners, more surprises from the Big Top- as Foundation, and the Hudson River The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, And visit www.helsinkihudson.com community members, and leaders well as showcasing participants’ Bank & Trust Foundation. based in Hudson and Brooklyn, offers for tickets. by encouraging them to express commitment, goal setting, and For more information about an annual cure for the winter blahs… Bindlestiff is a non-profi t per- themselves creatively, challenge collaborative achievements. In Bindlestiff’s performances, youth its Cabin Fever Cabaret series, for forming arts organization. It’s themselves physically, and work March, Cirkus After School students programs, artist development grown-ups only, will resume on the missionb is to bring joy and wonder inventively with others. Our projected will also present a pre-show for programs, or volunteering, please third Saturdays of January, February, into the world. It cultivates, develops, outcomes are aligned with Social the professional cast of Bindlestiff visit www.bindlestiff.org and March 2018 at Helsinki Hudson. and sustains the circus and variety Circus theory, as recognized by the Family Cirkus’ matinee performance A special matinee on Sunday, March arts. The Cirkus celebrates tradition American Youth Circus Organization, at Helsinki Hudson on March 18, 18 is for all ages and will feature a while maintaining an irreverent which proposes application of 2018. For more information about pre-show by Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After spirit, keeping the circus arts current, instructional and cooperative youth circus opportunities, email School students. For up-to-the-minute accessible, and relevant. techniques from the world of circus [email protected] or call details on acts and artists, check in Bindlestiff Family Cirkus’ arts to help accelerate desired 518-828-7470. at facebook.com/Bindlestiff.Cirkus. Columbia County youth pro-

image is an expression of a best self ONLY club for girls in Hudson age immersion with “the Picasso of Jazz HUDSON - or a dreamed of self. 8-18. The Club inspires the courage piano” (Marian McPartland) Joanne The girls demonstrate enor- to aspire... teaches the skills neces- Brackeen, hitting the keys ahead HALL AT mous courage in sharing their vision sary form each girl to achieve their of critically acclaimed NYC jazz with others. Perfect Ten rewards that goals. They believe that independent scene favorite, Aaron Goldberg and courage through their collective self-supporting women are the future young lion James Francies at 3pm. THE affi rmation of their vision. See Me of our community and the future of Festival audiences can then catch a Like This is not an end point; it is the world. They believe education is free screening of director Stephanie HUDSON a moment of a life in process.b The our gateway to make dreams a reality. Castillo’s award-winning portrait of safety and opportunity to pursue the life and premature loss of a great OPERA dreams is what Perfect Ten is all American jazz talent, Thomas Chapin, about. “I am unstoppable.”, “I am a HUDSON JAZZ Night Bird Song (2016) at 5pm. dreamer.” and “I am a Muslim girl.” “I Taught by Donelian and HOUSE am athletic and loyal.” FESTIVAL, saxophonist Marc Mommaas, Valerie Shaffbis renowned for her FEBRUARY 16, 17 & 18, 2018 co-founders of Hudson Jazzworks, A CULTURAL portraiture, which refl ects her deep students are invited to experience appreciation for the authentic beauty Hudson Hall is proud to hands-on instruction in an immersive of her subjects, animal and human announce the inaugural Hudson Jazz jazz improvisation and composition BEACON alike.bAfter a successful career span- Festival (HJF), Friday February 16, workshop on Sunday morning at ning several decades in the worlds Saturday February 17 and Sunday 11am. The festival then comes to a of commercial photography and February 18, 2018 at Hudson Hall’s fi ery close at 3pm with the wild and publishing, Valerie resides full time historic 1855 theater. Curated spontaneous Quarteto Moderno. An extraordinary exhibit, See Me in the Hudson Valley. From her home by notable Hudson-based jazz Infusing Brazilian samba with Like This, is on view through January Quianna. Photograph by Valerie base in Germantown, she focuses her pianist and co-founder of Hudson contemporary jazz and chamber 21, 2018 at Hudson Hall at the historic Shaff. attentions on creatively expressing Jazzworks, Armen Donelian, the music, the quartet is led by guitarist Hudson Opera House located at 327 the issues that she’s passionate festival highlights talent with a melo- and musicologist, Richard Boukas, Warren Street in Hudson, NY. for the quartet with a solo set of about, which include animal rescue dious reach that spans the globe. and features clarinetist Lucas Pino, Perfect Ten is Hudson’s only Armenian-inspired romances from and fostering self-esteem and bassist Gustavo Amarante, and place, just for girls. Every day the after his EP, Sayat-Nova: Songs Of My empowerment for young women.b The festival kicks off with drummer Muricio Zottarelli. school and out of school program Ancestors. Perfect Ten is an after school international fl air on February 16, Hudson Hall is located at 327 helps girls fi nd a path to excellence, and out of school program for girls in 2018 with the entrancing sounds Warren Street, Hudson, NY. Tickets however they defi ne it. See Me Like On February 17 at 7pm, one of Hudson, New York. The program was of Theb Arab Dinkjian Quartet, an start at $25, with festival weekend This was created by photographer a kind jazz matriarch Sheila Jordan started in 2010 to provide academic, instrumental collaboration rooted in passes available for $90, which Valerie Shaff to aid them in the girls and vocalist, composer, lyricist and social and emotional support to girls Turkish, Armenian and Macedonian includes priority entry and seating self-discovery. Each portrait is an instrumental arranger Dominique from fi fth grade through to high Roma music headed by world-re- to every performance. Online ticket invitation into a journey. Some are Eade bring their world-class talent school graduation. Their goal is a nowned oud player Ara Dinkjian and purchases can be made at hudson- abstract, some vocational, some to the Hudson Hall stage, following post-secondary education for every featuring award-winning clarinetist hall.org, or by calling 518-822 1438. fantasy, but all are aspirational. Each an afternoon of jazz solo piano one of the girls.b Perfect Ten is the Ismail Lumanovski. Donelian opens ALIVE 2018 January/February Page 13

Music Grants…International Voice Competition in Canada, USA. Financial Assistance... For artists in need of emergency aid to Workshops, Seminars Altamura/Caruso Study Grants Audition. $30,000 cash grant avoid eviction, cover medical expenses, unpaid utility bills, other. Jurying for all media... For new members. Application, guidelines. prizes. Performances with orchestra. Requirements: 5 (fi ve) arias Submit description, copies of bills or eviction notice, resume, two SASE: The National Association of Women Artists, 80 Fifth Avenue, Opportunities in the original key and language. One aria will be chosen by letters of recommendation: Change Inc., PO Box 705, Cooper Ste. 14045, New York, NY 10011. 212-675-1616 www.nawanet.org . the contestant and a second aria by the jury. Aria with cabaletta Station, NY 10276. 212-473-3742. innercity.org/columbiaheights/ Deadlines, Sept. 15, March 15 yearly. 02/16 must be presented in its entirety. One chamber literature work agencys/change.html Ongoing. 02/16 for Artists of contestant’s choice. Contestant must be ready to sing a full recital upon 24-hour notice. Information and application www. Internships CALL FOR ENTRIES, ETC. altocanto.org. Sponsored by Inter-Cities Performing Arts, Inc. New! Internships…Greene County Council on the Arts is looking 4000 Bergenline Ave, Union City, NJ 07087. Info. (201) 863-8724 for an intern to assist with design, social media and exhibitions.b Arts & Crafts/Folk Arts CALL FOR FINE CRAFTS: Fax (201)866-3566 [email protected] 02/16 The ideal candidate has experience in graphic design, writing, and Arts & Crafts… Columbia County Chamber of Commerce is The GCCA is looking for fi ne crafts to be sold at the GCCA’s Artful Music Grants… Fostering of musical ideas, new projects promoting social media. An ability to work both independently and closely establishing a rack of post cards and/or note cards by artists Hand Gallery Gift Shop. Those interested should submit 4” X 6” original programming & new performers, rather than supporting with the Visual Arts Director on creating graphics and posters and photographers of images of Columbia County points of color photos or jpgs of items they want to sell to the GCCA Visual performances, tickets or tuition.. www.sparkplugfoundation.org. for exhibitions, managing media deadlines and installing shows interest and historic sites.b Artist is responsible for production of Arts Director, 398 Main St., Catskill, NY 12414. 518-943-3400. Sparkplug, 877-866-8285. Spring & Fall deadlines. Updated 02/16 is highly valued.b Please email Niva Dorell, Visual Arts Director at cards.bPricing between $2 and $5 each with artist receiving 70% of [email protected] with a resume and cover letter outlining skills Music Grant… DeLucia Award for Innovation in Music Education the proceeds.bPut contact information (i.e. web address) on back There’s a need for your special talents and skills on the volunteer and interests.bGo to www.greenearts.org for more information on in genres, instruments, methods, other aspects of music education of card for purchaser to access and view more work for possible roster at the Greene County Council on the Arts galleries and Greene County Council on the Arts. Ongoing 02/16 offi ces in Catskill. There are immediate openings on the front desk that can be duplicated. The Mockingbird Foundation, c/o Lemery sale directly from the artist. Call (518) 828-4417 or visit www. and exhibit installation staffs, but many other opportunities exist Greiser, LLC, Attn: Jack Leibowitz, Esq., 10 Railroad Place, Ste.1502, New! Internships…Freehold Art Exchange is looking for an intern columbiachamber-ny.com 02/16 - gallery maintenance, information distribution, and much, much Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-3033. Ongoing 02/16 to assist with fundraising, web development, organic gardening Arts & Crafts... Greene County, NY craftspeople: Marketing Crafts and barn renovations.b The ideal candidate has experience with more. What are you interested in? Chances are... we need you! Music Grant... Supporting young composers of classical or and Other Products to Tourists, North Central Regional Extension web design, social media campaigns, fundraising, gardening Volunteers can exchange time and efforts for a GCCA membership, chamber music. The BMI Foundation, Inc., Carlos Surinach Fund Publications brochure #445, $1.50. 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Two days a week 6 hours per day. $10-15 per residencies with professional youth orchestras. Short Term Center for the Arts or Harris House of Atlantic Center for the Arts, artwork, both two and three dimensional and American antiques. hour depending on experience. Email [email protected]. Residencies 2-8 weeks, one season; Extended Residencies multi- Internship Form: Program Dept., Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Catskill Fine Art and Antiques welcomes both traditional and year, full-season-3 years. Available: composer fees, travel, musician Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168. (386) 423-1753 Volunteers...Greene County Community College, Elderhostel "cutting edge" artwork for shows. Please contact Steve Blendell fees, some related activities. $7,000-$28,000, Short Term, $30,000- www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org. Ongoing 02/16 Institute Network affi liate programs: local art scene, artist slide at info@catskillfi neart.com or 518-943-4530 or stop by the gallery $100,000 year. www.meetthecomposer.org/musicalive/ 02/16 lectures, instruction. Class leadership is voluntary, offers wide Internships... High school seniors, college students; Flex-time. space at 410 Main Street, Catskill Thursday –Sunday from 12 to 5 exposure to interested audience. Adult Learning Institute, Box Music Grant…Global Connections Program with Meet the Programs in publishing and literary presenting business. Marketing, PM. Please include a small group of representative images of your 1000, Hudson, NY 12453. 518-828-4181 x3431. Composer supports living composers in sharing their work database maintenance, Literary Curators website, writing, sending work. 7/2016 ongoing with a global community. For US based composers to travel to press releases, Workshops for Kids program, poetry for radio Volunteers… To help spread the news about Thomas Cole, father of performance venues or to bring international artists to the US. shorts, video production. Bertha Rogers, Ex. Dir., Bright Hill Press, Literary, Folklore, Storytelling American landscape painting and founder of the Hudson River School Grants range from $500 - $5,000. www.meetthecomposer.org POB 193, Treadwell, NY 13846. 607-746-7306. wordthur@catskill. at his newly restored home, Cedar Grove, a National Historic Site in Poets... Seeking teen works for book. Love and affection, 02/16 net www.brighthillpress.org Ongoing. Updated 02/16 Catskill, NY. Call 518-943-7465. [email protected] friendship, heartache, pressure, etc. as themes. SASE: June Cotner, Performing Arts Production Fund… Program of Creative Capital, Speakers, Professional Services, Mentoring Poems by Teens, Box 2765, Poulsbo, WA 98370. june@junecotner. Volunteers…Docents to lead tours of exhibitions & other museum for original new work, all disciplines, traditions in live performing com, www.junecotner.com 02/16 volunteer opportunities. Amy Morrison, Development Assistant, Speakers... Speakers in the Humanities, a program of New York arts, to assist artist exploring, challenging dynamics. Special focus (518) 463-4478, ext. 408 or [email protected] for more State Council for the Humanities: for a nominal fee, non-profi t Writers… nth position is a free online magazine/e-zine with politics on projects bringing insight, critique to cultural difference in class, information. Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., NYS organizations may book distinguished scholars to lecture on & opinion, travel writing, fi ction & poetry, reviews & interviews, and gender, generation, ethnicity or tradition. Awards range from Albany, NY 12210 www.albanyinstitute.org 2/16 a variety of topics. Applications eight weeks prior to proposed some high weirdness. http://www.nthposition.com/links.php offers $10,000-$40,000. www.creative-capital.org. Updated 02/16 lecture. For catalog, application contact: New York Council for the listings for calls for submissions to writers. Free to subscribe. 02/15 Grants Performing Arts Grants for developing and producing work in the Humanities, 150 Broadway, Ste. 1700, New York, NY 10038. 212- Books... Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Village Square Bookstore musical theatre. Cheryl Kemper, Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre 233-1131, [email protected]; www.nyhumanities.org 02/16 Local Grants…Support for family friendly, soundly managed & Literary Arts Center has over 10,000 titles in stock including Foundation, Inc., 109 E. 64th St., NY, NY 10021. www.ggftheater.org organizations that enhance the communities where the funder books on the visual arts, crafts, fi lm, poetry, drama, children’s 02/16 has a presence. Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation. PO Box 1074, Scholarships & Residencies storybooks, cooking, gardening and fi ction and non-fi ction. Visit Schenectady, NY 12301. Does not fund fi lm & video projects or Performing Arts Grants… To individuals in theater arts, opera, New! - Residency… Byrdcliffe Art Colony Artist in Residence them online at http://www.catskillmtn.org/retail/bookstore.html to individuals. No deadline. updated 02/16 theater stage, set and costume design projects are eligible. Tobin Program (AiR). Application deadline: March 15. $40 application fee. see their Schedule of Literary Events. Updated 02/16 Foundation, PO Box 91019, San Antonio, TX, 78209. 21-828-9736 Uninterrupted time and creative space for visual artists, writers and Ceramic Grants…awards from $200 -$5,000 for original research Writers... Seeking entries for Very Short Fiction Award. $1,200 [email protected] www.manta.com/c/mmcqn8p/tobin- composers at Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock. Fee schedule and in ceramics history, be based on primary source materials. Susan and publication of work less than 3,000 words. Award granted foundation-for-theatre Updated 02/16 more info, including fellowships, available on line at byrdcliffe.org/ Detweiler, ACC Grants Chairman. Suite 12, 8200 Flourtwon twice a year with submission deadlines in January and July. Online artist-in-residence. Residents chosen by committee of professionals. Avenue, Wundmoor, PA 19038 [email protected] www. Photography Grant…Alexia Foundation award for individual submission page: Glimmer Train Press, 4763 SW Maplewood, 02/16 amercercir.org updated 02/16 professional photographer to produce a substantial picture story PO Box 80430, Portland, OR 97280-1430. 503-221-0837. Online that furthers the foundation’s goals of promoting world peace & Scholarships, apprenticeships & fellowships. Support for emerging submission page: https://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/ Dance Grants…Administers a variety of grantmaking programs. cultural understanding. Alexia Foundation, 116 Oceanport Ave., artists in theater, dance, fi lm in performing arts, playwriting & fi lm. index2.asp 02/16 The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Inc. 145 E. 48th St, Ste. 26C, Little Silver, NJ 07739. www.alexiafoundation.org Updated 02/16 Deadlines vary depending on program. Princess Grace Awards. NY, NY 10017-1259. Contact: Theodore S. Bartwick, Treas. 212-755- Writers... Lists of contests, grants, fellowships for fi ction, poetry, 150 East 58h Street, 25 fl . NY, NY 10155 (212) 317-1470 grants@ 5540 02/16 Photography Grant... Given annually to a U.S. photographer who drama/fi lm, non-fi ction, published bi-monthly. Awards for Writers, pgfusa.org www.pgfusa.org Updated 02/16 aspires to perpetuate the spirit and dedication that characterized PO Box 437, Ithaca, NY 14851. www.ithaca.edu 02/16 Grants… Offering fi nancial, administrative assistance to individual Smith’s work. Grants for specifi c project. Add’l grants awarded. W. New! Fellowships… The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) artists’ special projects, help develop collaborative projects, assist Poets & Writers... Literary Horizons, new program is dedicated to Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, International Center of Photography, online application for 2015 Artist Fellowships is now open. Please locating venues for presentation, sponsor for public presentations. professional development of writers at all stages of their careers. 1130 5th Ave., NY, NY 10028. www.smithfund.org Updated 02/15 go to nyfa.org to apply and review application guidelines. The Carol Parkinson, Dir., Harvestworks, 596 Broadway, Ste 602, New Poets & Writers, 72 Spring St., New York, NY 10012. 212-226-3586, following categories will be reviewed: Choreography, Music/ York, NY 10012 . 212-431-1130 www.harvestworks.org . Ongoing Textile Grants...Awards for research, education, documentation fax 212-226-3963, www.pw.org. 02/16 Sound, Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design, Playwriting/ Updated 02/16 & experimentation in the fi eld of quilt making. National Quilting Screenwriting and Photography. See the website for important Association, PO Box 12190, Columbus, OH 43212. www.nqaquilts. Music Grants…Communities, small mid-sized, culturally- deadlines and fellowship details. Updated 02/16 org [email protected] 02/16 specifi c, community-based arts institutions. Programs showing New! Open Audition for Young Singers 8-18. St. Luke’s Episcopal Residencies.... One month for writers, visual artists and composers issues, experiences of underrepresented social justice *Youth Grants… Focusing on arts and education. Strives to Church at 50 William Street in Catskill, NY announces the formation creating original work at country estate of poet Edna Vincent issues, community concerns of national or multi-state impact: contribute to the ability of young people to explore their own of a Treble Choir for young people, male and female in the English Millay. April-November program. Fee, $30/10 slides, tape or residencies; new performing art, or visual art, cross cultural, multi identity, their relationship to creative process, with high-impact, cathedral tradition. This is an audition only choir under the direction DVD for video artists/fi lmmakers; $50. Submit: project proposal; state collaborations, dissemination of existing works affecting long-term experience with accomplished professionals. Surdna of Ann Carter-Cox, M.F.A. In addition to weekly group instruction relevant supporting materials etc. The Millay Colony for the Arts, communities. Nathan Cummings Foundation, 475 Tenth Ave., Foundation, 330 Madison Ave, 3rd fl ., New York, NY 10017. 212- and practice, every young person accepted into the program will Box 3, Austerlitz, NY 12017 518-392-3103. apply@millaycolony. 14th Fl., New York, NY 10018, 212-787-7300, 787-7377. arts@ 557-0010, www.surdna.org [email protected] Application receive an additional half hour individualized voice lesson each org., www.milllaycolony.org. Deadline, October 1 each year for nathancummings.org www.nathancummings.org 02/16 deadlines vary by program. 02/16 week. The entire program is offered at no charge. Prior musical following year. 02/16 training or experience is not necessary in order to audition. Call Grants…Municipalities, non profi ts -$15,000. Public *Youth Grants… Creative residencies for teens from writers, artist’s Residencies…. No application needed. Organization to preserve 518-943-4180 or use the contact form on the church website www. buildings; historic landscape or municipal parks, cultural colonies, communities working with young people. For developing land, create space to recognized, emerging artists. 104 acres in stlukescatskill.org. 02/16 resource of downtowns, residential neighborhoods. Emily Curtis, summer retreat teens residing communities, be mentored by high Cazenovia. Sculpture strives to show relationship between humans Program Coordinator, Preservation League of New York State, 44 standard professionals. Artist colony must be operating 5 years to New! Music…Music instructor needed for youth ages 7-18 years. and nature. Workspace, stipend, housing for professional sculptors. Central Ave., Albany, NY 12206. 518-462-5658, 462-5684, info@ be eligible. The Surdna Foundation 330 Madison Ave., 3rd fl , New 3-6 students per week. Must teach piano, other instruments Artistic resume, 20 slides, proposal of intent. SASE to return slides. preservenys.org, www.preservenys.org 02/16 York, NY 10017. (212) 557-0010 www.surdna.org questions@ welcome. Call:b Elena Mosley 518b-828-3612. 3/2016 Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, 3883 Stone Quarry Road, Box 251, surdna.org 02/16 Grants... $500 for age under 30 creating new project, continue Cazenovia, NY 13035. [email protected]. 315-655-5742. Ongoing. New! Music…Wanted Male Singers, Tenors, Basses for Male existing project. Specifi c issue, show concrete action plan, budget, Visual Artist Grants… Virginia A. Groot Found- 02/16 Chorus Volunteer Group. Call 518-943-2914. 3/2016 adequate supervision, accountability. Give weekly grants to young ation to ceramic and/or sculpture artists to devote a substantial Residencies... For photographers or related media. One month, Music… International Voice Competition in Canada, USA. people in US, Canada. Do Something, 24-32 Union Square East, period of time to the development of their work. Three grants up $2,000 stipend, apartment, private darkroom, 24-hour facility access. Altamura/Caruso Study Grants Audition. $30,000 cash grant 4th Fl. South, New York, NY 10003 [email protected]. www. to $35,000, $10,000, $5,000. Virginia A. Groot Foundation, P.O. Box Send resume, artist statement, letter of intent, slides, proofs or prints prizes. Performances with orchestra. Requirements: 5 (fi ve) arias dosomething.org Updated 02/16 1050, Evanston, IL 60204-1050. Postmarked by March 1 each year. of recent work. Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program, 316 Waverly in the original key and language. One aria will be chosen by www.virginiagrootfoundation.org 02/16 Grant… Newman’s Own Charitable Giving Program. Areas of giving Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244. [email protected], www.lightwork.org the contestant and a second aria by the jury. Aria with cabaletta include: arts, education, children, elderly groups, environmental Visual Artist Grants… based on artistic merit, fi nancial need for Ongoing. 02/16 must be presented in its entirety. One chamber literature work of causes, affordable housing, disaster relief, hunger relief. Newman’s painters, sculptors, print-makers, and artists who work on paper contestant’s choice. Contestant must be ready to sing a full recital Residencies... Self-directed for research, experimentation and Own Charitable Giving Program, 246 Post Road East, Westport, CT are eligible. The Pollack-Krasner Foundation 863 Park Avenue, upon 24-hour notice. Information & application: www.altocanto. production of visual, television, new media arts. Banff Centre 06880. www.newmansown.com 02/16 New York, NY 10021. (212) 517-5400 [email protected] www.pkf. org. Sponsored by Inter-Cities Performing Arts, Inc. 4000 for the Arts, Offi ce of Registrar, Box 1020, Stn. 28, 107 Tunnel org 02/16 Bergenline Ave, Union City, NJ 07087. Info. (201) 863-8724 Fax Film/Video & Theater Grants… Free updated bimonthly Funding Mtn. Dr., Banff, Alberta, Canada TOL OCO. 403-762-6114/6302. (201)866-3566 [email protected] 02/16 Newsletters distributed via email by The Fund for Women Artists. [email protected], jennifer_woodbury@banffcenter. WomenArts 3739 Balboa Street #181 San Francisco, CA 94121 (415) Relief Funds, Financial Assistance ab.ca., www.banffcentre.ca Ongoing. 02/16 Music…Capital Area Flute Club for fl utists of all abilities, wide variety 751-2202 [email protected] www.WomenArts.org 02/16 New! - Emergency Resources… Superstorm Sandy. NYFA has a list of music played to expand opportunities for ensemble playing. Residencies... Ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months for screenwriters of art specifi c resources available for artists affected by Sandy and Monthly meetings, Delmar NY. 518-383-6480, 518-580-1206. www. Film, Video Grants... Average $25,000 to support international and fi lm/video makers October to May. Yaddo, Box 395, Saratoga needing recovery assistance. See: http://www.nyfa.org/source/ facebook.com/pages/Capital-Area-Flute-Club 02/16 documentary fi lms and videos: current, signifi cant issues in human Springs, NY 12866-0395. www.yaddo.org 518-584-0746. content/content/disasterresources/disasterresources.aspx? rights, expression, liberties, social justice. Diane Weyermann, Dir. of Deadlines, August 1 and January 15 each year. 02/16 Music... Programming sought by Society for New Music, professional Soros Documentary Fund, Open Society Institute, 400 W. 59th St., Relief Fund... To help professional craft artists sustain their organization in Upstate New York dedicated to performing and Residencies... Year-round, in photography, painting, ceramics, New York NY, 10019 Info. 212-548-0657, Fax 212-548-4679 sdf@ livelihood. Services include access to information, resources, commissioning the music of today’s composers. Fees range textiles, etc. Contact: Nantucket Island School of Design and Arts. sundance.org www.soros.org/sdf. Ongoing Updated 02/16 business development support and emergency relief with loans, from $1000 to $4000 depending on the concert and number of 508-228-9248. [email protected], www.nisda.org 02/16 grants, and in-kind services. Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Box performers. Society for New Music, 438 Brookford Rd., Syracuse, NY Film, Video Grants... Seeking projects on contemporary issues of 838, Montpelier, VT 05601. 802-229-2306. www.craftemergency. Residencies... Two-month residencies year round for professional 13224. 315-446-5733, [email protected] www.societyfornewmusic. human rights, civil liberties, freedom of expression, social justice. org 02/16 sculpture artists. Stipends available. SASE: Gina Murtagh, Sculpture org Ongoing. 02/16 Up to $15,000 production funds of up to $50,000. Sundance Space, 12 Gates St., Utica, NY 13502. 315-724-8381. sculptur@borg. Documentary Fund, Sundance Institute, 8857 West Olympic Financial Assistance…to help pay medical or dental costs for artists Music... Information Hotline for grants, auditions, competitions, com. www.sculpturespace.org Ongoing. 02/16 seminars, health, tax info and more. Contact: The American Guild of Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. www.sundance.org . Ongoing nationwide. Prescriptions, eyeglasses, wheelchairs, surgery, cancer th 02/16 treatments, etc. Funds paid directly to your medical providers. The Residencies...Cooperative residencies/retreats for emerging or Musical Artists, 1430 Broadway, 14 Fl., New York, NY 10018, 212- Artists Charitable Fund. Judy Archibald 970-577-0509. cnysprt@ established artists in drawing, painting, sculpture, writing, poetry. 247-0247 [email protected], www.musicalartists.org 02/16 Film Grants… Eight grants yearly in many categories except ao.com or www.artistcharitablefund.org. 02/16 Year-round. Private living space, modern art studio, reasonable fee commercial projects. Send a SASE to Bill Creston, with description, New! Catskill Glee Club, Male Chorus Founded 1927.Join Us in includes some mentoring assistance. SASE #10 to High Studios, RR1 inspiration, source material, resume, approx. dates of use, Financial Assistance... Relief, fi ne artists grant for professional Song! Sing men’s 4-part harmony, stimulate your mind, improve Box 108N, Bolton Landing, NY 12814. 02/16 experience, and media to eMediaLoft, 55 Bethune St., A-628, New painters, graphic artists, sculptors and their families in times of aerobic capacity, lower stress, relieve anxiety, make new friends, York, NY 10014. 212-924-4893, email [email protected] website: emergency, disability, or bereavement. Artist Fellowship, Inc., 47 Residencies… Retreat, stipend $1,250 for writers in their work; $25 enjoy camaraderie. Join CGC for rehearsal Monday evenings 7:00 www.emedialoft.org/ Ongoing 02/16 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY 10003 212-255-7740 (Salmagundi Club) per diem, $500 travel. Gell Writers Center of the Finger Lakes, Writers – 9:15 starting September 12, 2016 at the Community Life Church, dial ext. #216. www.artistsfellowship.com/ 02/16 & Books, 740 University Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. 585-473-2590 20 West Main Street, Catskill. Visit catskillgleeclub.org or call Marty Film Grant... Independent documentary fi lmmakers may apply. www.wab.org. Gell Center Director of Operations [email protected] Wallace at (518) 943-2719 for more information. We produce, distribute and promote quality ethnographic, Financial Assistance… Emergency grants to visual artists of color. Ongoing. 02/16 documentary and non-fi ction fi lms from around the world. Send Eligible are Native American, African American, Asian American, Performing Arts brief description, one page budget. Cynthia Close, Exec. Dir., Latino 21+, living in tri-state greater New York City area to help meet Residencies… Established and emerging artists of all disciplines Performing Arts… Dance classes for children, teens, adults. The Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse St., Watertown, urgent fi nancial needs. The Wheeler Foundation, P.O. Box 300507, may create, present, and exhibit experimental work involving sound Hudson Valley Academy of Performing Arts features a distinguished MA 02472. Fax - 617-926-9519, email [email protected] web site Brooklyn, NY 11230. 718-951-0581. www.nyfa.org Updated 02/16 and technology, with the option of integrating any combination of other disciplines including visual and/or performance art. Artists faculty of professionally and academically accomplished www.der.org/ 800-569-6621. Ongoing 02/16 Financial Assistance... To provide artist emergency assistance work with staff audio engineer. Jack Straw Media Gallery, www. instructors. 957 Route 82, West Taghkanic, NY 12502. Call 518- *International Artists…Trust for Mutual Understanding funds to qualifi ed artists whose needs are unforeseen, catastrophic jackstraw.org., Steve Peters, [email protected]. Updated 02/16 851-5501. www.HVAPA.com. 02/16 travel & per diem expenses of professional exchanges, visual & incident, who lack resources to meet situation. One time for specifi c Performing Arts... Always seeking new actors for future performances performing arts. Collaborations, curatorial research, performances, emergency: fi re, fl ood, medical. Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Residencies… The Platte Clove program provides a retreat for and volunteers to help each production, throughout year in Columbia lectures. Exchanges relating to Russia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Foundation, 380 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013. www. artists from June through October. Painters, sculptors, writers, County. Watch for audition notices: Ghent Playhouse, Town Hall Rd, Poland, Slovak Republic & Ukraine, limited funds for others. Funds gottliebfoundation.org Ongoing. 02/16 and composers are invited to apply for residency. Artist interested in applying should download the application from the Catskill POB 64, Ghent, NY 12075. 518-392-6264, [email protected], individuals. www.tmuny.org. Deadlines, August 1, Feb 1. 02/16 Financial Assistance... Up to $5,000 grants for writers and Center website,www.catskillcenter.org Inverna Lockpez, Director, www.ghentplayhouse.org. 02/16 Literary Grants... Contemporary Literature and Non-Fiction. Black playwrights with AIDS. Candidates must be published. Fund [email protected]. 02/16 Performing Arts... Private classes available in Dance and Music. Lawrence Press seeks to publish intriguing books of literature and for Writers and Editors with AIDS, PEN American Center, 568 Dance studio available for rent, 518-851-5150, amble12544@aol. creative non-fi ction: novels, memoirs, short story collections, poetry, Broadway, New York, NY 10012. 212-255-7740 info@salmagundi. Residencies… The National Park Service offers residency com, www.abblappen.com. 02/16 biographies, cultural studies, and translations from the German and org www.salmagundi.org 02/16 programs to artists working in various disciplines. Contact the specifi c site for further info: Amistad National Recreation Area in French. The St. Lawrence Book Award is open to any writer who has Relief Fund... Funding artists experiencing serious illness, crisis, Performing and Visual Arts… Deep listening programs, and in Texas, Badlands National Park in South Dakota, Bearlodge Writers’ not yet published a full-length collection of short stories or poems. or bereavement. SASE: Artists Fellowship Inc., Emergency Aid, the gallery, painting, sculpture and workshops. For schedule: The Devils Tower Residencies in Wyoming, Joshua Tree National, The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $1,000 c/o Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10003. 212-255-7740 Pauline Oliveros Foundation, POB 1958, Kingston, NY 12402, Klondike Gold Rush National Park in Alaska, Mammoth Cave National cash award, and 10 copies of the book. Annual Deadline: August 31. [email protected] www.salmagundi.org 02/16 845-338-5984. Fax: 845-338-5958. www.artwire.org/pof, poof@ [email protected] 02/16 Park, Peters Valley Craft Education Center’s Delaware Water Gap deeplistening.org. 02/16 Financial and Management Services... NYFA’s new Works and Residencies in New Jersey, Saint Gaudens National Historic Site in Literary Grants… Children’s Books. General Work-In-Progress Management Services offer assistance to individual artists and New, Sapelo Barrier Island in Georgia, Sleeping Bear Dunes National grant. $1,500 through Society of Children’s Book Writers & Visual Arts small arts groups. New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Lakeshore, Weir Farm National Historic Site. www.nps.gov/archive/ Illustrators. All genres. SCBWI, 8271 Beverly Boulevard, Los Visual Arts…Art Instructors Needed. ThebArt School of Columbia Brooklyn, NY 11201. (212) 366-6900 x 225 or 230.FAX (212) 366- volunteer/air.htm 02/16 County, centrally located in Columbia County in Harlemville Angeles, CA 90048. www.scbwi.org 02/16 1778 www.nyfa.org Updated 02/16 Page 14 2018 Janurary/February ALIVE

NY (a 20 minute drive from Hudson), is a not-for-profi t [501(c) free for HCSD families. Hudson Youth Center, 18 S. 3rd Street, State Street, Hudson, NY. [email protected]. (3)] art school dedicated to “art for everyone.”bbASCC is seeking Hudson, NY. Visit www.bindlestiff.org or call 917-744-6844 applications for the developing and teaching art programs for 2018 Cultural Saturdays children or seniors, art therapy and teaching art to adults. Send your Mondays- February 5-May 21 resume/CV with educational background, exhibitions (if applicable), Calendar of Events Adult Ballet: ATHENS PRESQUE BALLET:Ballet and other and teaching experience with your contact information to Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School Hudson: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm smooth moves for women of a certain age and confi dent men. [email protected] Subject Line: application. GCCA Gallery Boutique - The Greene County Council on the (No sessions on district holidays or snow days) Ages 8 and up, 10:30 -12 noon. Improve balance and fl exibility and transform Please mention in the body of the email in which position(s) you are Arts invites you to visit our gallery boutique, The Artful Hand, free for HCSD families. Hudson Youth Center, 18 S. 3rd Street, your body awareness using techniques from ballet, modern th interested.b (Ongoing) in Catskill. Open year-round, we offer fi ne arts and high quality Hudson, NY. Visit www.bindlestiff.org or call 917-744-6844. dance, jazz, soft shoe, and 4 grade Physical Education class. VA… Life Drawing... weekly sessions of life drawing with model at crafts by local and regional artists, and books by area authors. Mondays (January – mid-May) Taught by Bobby Lupone. FREE Drop-ins welcome. Athens the Hudson Opera House.b Artists work independently in a disciplined Send boutique inquiries to [email protected]. The GCCA Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens, NY. Email to be environment; No instructor or specifi c method is followed. $15 per Rehearsal: CATSKILL GLEE CLUB REHEARSAL at the session.b Offered throughout the year on Sundays from 10am to 1pm, Catskill Gallery, located at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Open notifi ed of class cancellations or changes. Monday through Saturday, 10AM-5PM. For more information, Community Life Church in Catskill, every Monday, 7-9:15PM, check hudsonoperahouse.org for current session dates.b Hudson Fourth Sunday Opera House, 327 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534. 518-822-1438. contact [email protected] or 518-943-3400. starting September 11. Men of the community are welcome hudsonoperahouse.org, [email protected] 02/16 to join the group. Visit CatskillGleeClub.org or email Chorus: ATHENS COMMUNITY CHORUS. Anyone who loves Museum: CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION PIANO [email protected] for more information. to sing is welcome to join the Athens Community Chorus. VA… Looking for sculptors, painters ad photographers who MUSEUM. 18 beautiful examples of piano making from would like to exhibit their work year round in Palenville, NY. Very There are no auditions or membership dues. All that we require 1783 to the present, plus fascinating related ephemera, Mondays - During School Year reasonable commission. Contact Al or Kathy at 58-678-3110 or is a little bit of talent and a big appreciation for good music. includes pianos from Liberace, Sir Roland Hanna’s and a rare www.catskillmtlodge.com 02/16 Classes: LUMBERYARD YOUNG PERFORMERS, free We will get together once a month to share our talents and to Clementi that was played by the Maestro himself.b Besides VA… Indoor and Outdoor Art… Unison Arts Center in New Paltz performing arts class for kids at the Catskill Community Center. sing a rich and diverse selection of vocal works, from classical the Museum, the Doctorow Center includes 3 movie theaters seeks proposals from artists to exhibit their wall-hung artwork in our 4-4:50pm for ages 13-16, 5-5:50pm for ages 9-12. Come join to jazz standards, and Broadway to madrigals. FREE Drop-ins gallery at Unisonband also from artists to exhibit their sculpture in and a performance space. Across the street is a newly revised nd LUMBERYARD’s Melanie George and a roster of professional welcome. Athens Cultural Center, 24 2 Street, Athens, NY. our outdoor sculpture garden. Call Unison at 845-255-1559. www. restaurant, a fi ne Art and Craft gift gallery and an excellent unisonarts.org or the Exec. Dir. Christine Crawfi s at christine@ performing artists from NYC to try everything from hip hop Email to be notifi ed of class cancellations or changes. unisonarts.org. 02/16 Bookstore. Doctorow Center, Main Street, Hunter, NY. 518-263- to puppetry, acting, modern dance, and clown! Sign up at 2036.b Hours: 12-4, Friday and Saturday, or by appointment. Third and Fourth Saturdays VA… Columbia County Chamber of Commerce is establishing a www.thelumberyard.org/youngperformers/signup/ or Catskill rack of post cards and/or note cards by artists and photographers Groups welcome. 518-263-4908. www.catskillmtn.org Community Center. Art: ART CLUB FOR KIDS. Free and open to children of all of images of Columbia County points of interest and historic Ongoing Last Monday ages. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Come, have fun, and be creative! sites.bArtist is responsible for production of cards.bPricing between Palenville Branch Library, 3335 Route 23A, Palenville, NY. Prattsville Art Center and Residency. EXHIBITS, CONCERTS, $2 and $5 each with artist receiving 70% of the proceeds.b Put Event: POETRY READINGS moderated by visual artist and For more info: [email protected] http:// contact information (i.e. web address) on back of card for purchaser LECTURES, ALL AGES MUSIC CLUB AND MUSIC FESTIVALS, poet, Robert Tomlinson. 394 Main Café, 394 Main Street, to access and view more work for possible sale directly from the catskillpubliclibrary.org/ (518) 678-3357. NEXT GENERATION ART CLUB, WEEKLY DISCUSSIONS & Catskill, NY artist. Call (518) 828-4417 or visit www.columbiachamber-ny.com Exhibits, cinema: TIME AND SPACE. Exhibits, classical movies 02/16 LECTURES, E(ART)H Club for Young Artists. www.prattsvilleart. org, or facebook: Prattsville Art Center and Residency. Mondays and Thursdays on weekends. Time and Space Warehouse Cultural Center. 434 VA… On-line art gallery NARtisticCreations.com. Funded by NAR Columbia St., Hudson, NY. 518-822-8448. www.timeandspace.org Productions. Showcases work of Nick Roes and local artists. Will Summer Programs at Sugar Maples Center for Creative Workshop:b HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON, The feature a Visiting Artist each quarter in separate room at no charge. Arts. CERAMICS, PAINTING, PAPERMAKING AND MORE! 518- Harmony Project gives all children from walks of life Events noted (DEC) have been supported through a Contact [email protected]. 263-2001 or visit www.sugarmaples.org. Various locations in the opportunity to learn and thrive through the gift of Decentralization grant from the NYS Council on the Arts VA… Seeking member artists, a few openings available for visual Tannersville & Hunter, NY. music. Open to HCSD and homeschool students.b 2:30- through the Community Arts Program in Greene, Columbia or artists. Members staff the gallery, perform administrative duties. 3:15pmb Visitb harmonyprojecthudson.org. John L. Edwards Schoharie County. Art in all media welcome. Established mailing list of 1,300 asking Year Round Activities & Education Programs: WORKSHOPS, Primary School, 360 State Street, Hudson, NY.www. to receive show notices. Interested? Susan Kotulak, New Member CLASSES, OUTDOOR HIKES & ADVENTURES, SPECIAL henryhudsonhall.org Events noted (CIP) have been supported through a grant from Coordinator, Tivoli Artists’ Co-op Gallery, 518-537-5888. kotulak@ EXHIBIT AND EVENTS. Visit www.olana.org. Olana State the County Initiative Program of the Greene County Council hotmail.com. Historic Site. 5270 Route 9G, Hudson, NY.b Tuesdays on the Arts with public funding from the Greene County VA… Publications: The Artist Workspace: A Guide for Artists; and Club: LEGO CLUB FOR ALL AGES, 4:00 PM every Tuesday. Legislature. The Artist Workspace Residency: A Guide for Organizations. (845) Reading: TINY TOTS PROGRAM. bFree and open to children 658-9133, [email protected], www.nysawc.org. Updated 02/16 ages birth to pre-K, along with their caregivers, Tuesdays, 1030- Come, explore the world of building with legos, and meet new friends at your library! Catskill Public Library, 1 Franklin VA... Seeking proposals for exhibitions at Greenville Branch, The 1130AM.bSongs, fi ngerplays and rhymes, books, a simple craft, 2018 EVENTS Bank of Greene County. All Arts Matter, POB 513, Greenville NY and free-play time.bCome, have fun, and meet neighbors and St, Catskill NY. For more info: www.catskillpubliclibrary.org OR 12083. 518-966-4038. friends, old and new!b Palenville Branch Library, 3335 Route call (518) 943-4230. VA… Seeking art work for exhibitions at the Agroforestry Resource 23A, Palenville, NY.b For more info: cplpalenville@mhcable. First Tuesday Thru March 9 Center (ARC) in Acra, NY. Original art work only. This will be a juried com bhttp://catskillpubliclibrary.org/b (518) 678-3357. process. For more information, please contact Marilyn Wyman at Radio: WGXC, PURPLE HOUSE: A MONTHLY FORUM Exhibit: ON THE FARM Artwork depicting farms in the the ARC and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County at Classes: BANNER HILL SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS AND FOR THE ARTS, hosted by visual artist and poet, Robert Northern Catskills. Frisbee Agency Gallery. Opening 518-622-9820 ext/36. www.agroforestrycenter.org 02/16 WOODWORKING classes in woodworking, ceramics (wheel Tomlinson who frequently explores the intersection Reception September 9, 2017 from 5-7 pm. Hours Monday- VA... Paint outdoors in nature with state organization, New York throwing, hand building), painting and more. For info, visit between images and words. 2-3 pm. 90.7 FM. Friday 8:30 am- 4:30 pm. Frisbee Agency 384B Main Street, Plein Air Painters Society. Will sponsor paint-outs, exhibitions our website: BannerHillLLC.com; email: BannerHillWindham@ Wednesdays Catskill, NY. around NYS. NYPAP, J.Baldini, P.O. Box 2332, Niagara Falls, NY mac.com, or call (518) 929-7821. 14302-2332. [email protected], http://ipap.homestead.com/ Classes: RIVERTIDE AIKIKAI, Aiki Movement Drop-in Class, Thru January 21 02/16 Classes: ART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. Arts open to public for $10. Wear clothing appropriate for Exhibit: SEE ME LIKE THIS, created by photographer VA…NEW! CALL FOR ENTRIES - The Catskill Mountain Foundation program for adults and children. Classes are held at the Old movement or exercise. 3198 Old Kings Rd. just off of Rt. 23A in Valerie Shaff to aid the girls in the Perfect Ten Club in their - Kaaterskill Fine Arts and Crafts Gallery and Bookstore in Hunter, Schoolhouse, 1198 Route 21c in Harlemville, at Harlemville Catskill. Call 518-943-4000 or [email protected] or visit self-discovery. Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera NY seeks local & regional authors, fi ne artists, and crafters in all Road & County Route 21, next to the Hawthorne Valley Farm www.rivertideaikiai.org. House, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. media. Send link to work or 5-7 JPEG images plus artist statement Store, one mile from the Taconic Parkway, at the Harlemville/ to - Fine Art & authors: [email protected] - Crafts: keatore@ Workshop: WATERCOLOR WORKSHOPS for adults with January 13-Mid March 2018 catskillmtn.org Updated 02/17 Philmont/217/21c Exit. Call 518-672-7140 or visit www. painter William A. Carbone, Washington Irving Senior Center, artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org. VA...NEW! CALL FOR ENTRIES - The Catskill Mountain Foundation Catskill, NY, 10AM to Noon. Free. Bring own supplies or Exhibit: ROMANTIC REALITIES make the heart race. - Kaaterskill Fine Arts and Crafts Gallery and Bookstore in Hunter, Performance and more! PS21: PERFORMANCE SPACES purchase through instructor. Windham Fine Arts, 5380 Main Street, Windham, NY. NY seeks local & regional authors, fi ne artists, and crafters in all Gallery Hours: Friday & Saturday 12-7pm, Sunday 12-4. FOR THE 21ST CENTURY presents a full summer season of Wednesdays- February 7 - March 28 media. Send link to work or 5-7 JPEG images plus artist statement performances for people of all ages, concerts, movies and Scheduled Gallery events posted on the website and social to - Fine Art & authors: [email protected] - Crafts: keatore@ Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School Chatham. 3pm – 4pm ages media: www.windhamfi nearts.com catskillmtn.org fi lm, staged readings, dance and dance workshops and much more. Call 518-392-6121 or [email protected] for 6-9; 4pm – 5pm ages 10 – up. Free for CCSD families. Morris January 1 All Media information. Visit www.ps21chatham.org. PS21, 2980 Route Memorial, 21 Park Row. Chatham, NY. Visit www.bindlestiff.org First Day Hike at Olana: Start a new family tradition of All Media... Seeking admissions to slide viewing program. Possible 66, Chatham, NY or call 917-744-6844. starting the New Year out with a winter walk around Olana’s inclusion in group exhibitions. Applications for membership Thursdays and curated shows also considered. Slides, CV cover letter. The Exhibition: FUNCTIONAL ART FOR THE HOME By local and landscape with Olana’s Historic Site Manager. Visit at www. Painting Center, 51 Greene St., New York, NY 10013. 212-343-1060. regional Fine Crafts Artists. Custom orders, shopping services, Gathering: AFTER-HOURS TEEN TIME, 5-7 PM every olana.org. Ongoing. gift-wrapping. Mon/Thurs/Fri 10-5, Sat 10-7, Sun 11-5, Closed Thursday. Ages 12-17 welcome. Spend an hour on Academic January 7 All Media… The Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Education. Tues/Wed. Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery at Hunter Village and/or Creative pursuits followed by an hour of relaxed Historic church for gatherings, readings, small musical Square, 7950 Main St., Hunter, NY. 518-263-2060, www. socializing, games, music, etc. Catskill Public Library, 1 Franklin Sunday Salons and the Winter Tours: THOMAS COLE: performances, art studio. Art study vacation, stay in hotel room, catskillmtn.org. St. Catskill NY. For more info: www.catskillpubliclibrary.org OR ON PAPER with Nicholas Robbins, Ph.D. Candidate, dorms on property. Two to four week residencies include retreat History of Art, Yale University, 2 pm. Winter Tours, 1 pm for performing arts groups. Ellie Cashman, Dir., Catskill Mountain Omi International Arts Center. PROGRAMS AND PUBLIC speak to Jesse at (518) 943-4230. & 3:30 pm. Tickets at thomascole.org/events. Tickets Foundation, 7967 Main St., Rte. 23A, POB 924, Hunter, NY, 12442. EVENTS. Outdoor Sculpture Park, Summer Camps. The Fields Second Thursday 518-263-4908. www.catskillmtn.org. [email protected]. 02/16 Sculpture Park, Architecture Omi, and Education Omi - Omi for the Sunday Salons are $12 for general admission All Media... Art Licensing 101: Selling Reproduction Rights for contributes to a vibrant arts culture locally, regionally, and The Greene County Camera Club is a friendly group of and $10 for members, and tickets for Winter Tours Profi t. 224-page book de-mystifi es industry. Action plan in easy to internationally. For more information visit: www.omiartscenter. intermediate and advanced photographers who meet twice are $10 for general admission and free for members. read form. Author Michael Woodward has worked in industry for org 1405 County Route 20, Ghent NY 12075 monthly at the Greenville Library Art Gallery located at the Please note that both members and non-members 25 years. Art Network, POB 1360, Nevada City, CA 95959. 800-383- intersection of routes 81 and 32 in Greenville.b On the second must reserve a ticket in advance online for Winter Tours. 0677. [email protected] , www.artmarketing.com . Updated Exhibits, Concerts, Talks, Youth Programs & Art Residencies. Thursday, we hold a “digital critique” in which members January 13 02/16 Many programs are FREE! Prattsville Arts Center, Main Street, submitting images in advance receive constructive feedback (CIP) Concert: COMMON GROUND on the Mountain All Media... Info hotline sponsored by American Council for the Prattsville, NY www.prattsvilleart.org on their work.bFriendship and networking, occasional fi eld trips, Arts has referral service, provides information on a wide variety of Music Festival with Louie & The Crowmatix with the programs and services. Call Mon.-Fri, 2-5PM EST: 1-800-232-2789 Exhibit: SCULPTURE. More than 40 contemporary sculptures an e-Newsletter, member shows and exhibition opportunities Woodstock Horns, world renowned Gospel singer Lea in landscape. Daylight hours all year, guided tours, children’s and social gatherings are all benefi ts of membership. For more Gilmore, singer Greg Dayton with vocalist, Towera Smith, Photography workshops. The Fields, Sculpture Park Art Omi International information: Eileen Camuto [email protected] or and the Greene Room Players Choir. Tickets at www. Photography…Nueva Luz, photographic journal of En Foco, Inc. Arts Center, 1405 County Route 20, Ghent, NY 12075. 518- Nora Adelman [email protected]. catskillmtn.org. Tickets purchased in advance are $30 and ($45 membership) produces exhibitions, publications and events 392-7656/392-2848. which support photographers of Latin/Am, African/Am, Asian, Fourth Thursday at the door are $35. Orpheum Film and Performing Arts Pacifi c Islander and Native American heritage. View current issue Film Program: SELECTED FILMS. Popular Hollywood, The Greene County Camera Club is a friendly group of Center Orpheum in Tannersville, NY. Visit catskillmtn.org. before submitting portfolios of 20 unmounted prints or slides independent; foreign screenings. Lobby café: espresso, January 18-March 8 for consideration in future Nueva Luz. Subscription $30 USA. intermediate and advanced photographers who meet Membership, subscriptions, donations, all tax deductible. En Foco, cappuccino, tea, desserts; light suppers Saturday, open 1/2 twice monthly at the Greenville Library Art Gallery located Exhibit: QUIET-Winter Faculty Exhibit at ASCC. Opening Inc., 1738 Hone Ave, Bronx, NY 10461. 718-931-9311 FAX 718-409- hour before show. Catskill Mountain Foundation Film and at the intersection of routes 81 and 32 in Greenville.b On reception February 3 from 5- 7 pm (snow date February 6445 www.enfoco.org 02/16 Performing Arts Center, Rt. 23A, Hunter, NY 12442. 518-263- the fourth Thursday, a competition and critique take place.b 10).b The reception isbfree and open to public. Art School Photography… Salons monthly, preceded by a potluck meal, bring 4702. www.catskillmtn.org. Friendship and networking, occasional fi eld trips, an of Columbia County, 1198 Route 21c in Harlemville, something to share. Conversations, sharing, seeing, discussions on Exhibits, Concerts & Events: HUDSON HALL AT THE e-Newsletter, member shows and exhibition opportunities NY.b For more information, see ASCC’s website: www. photography. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker and social gatherings are all benefi ts of membership. For more artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or call 518-672-7140. St., Woodstock, NY 12498. 845-679-9957. [email protected] www.cpw. HISTORIC HUDSON OPERA HOUSE. Classes, Workshops, org Updated 02/16 Exhibits, Concerts, Music, Programs and Special Events. Year information: Eileen Camuto [email protected] or January 19 through February 4 round roster of activities for people of all ages. 327 Warren Nora Adelman [email protected]. Photography… Seeking contemporary and traditional work by Theater: Joe DiPietro’s CLEVER LITTLE LIES, a contemporary Native artists. American Indian Community House Gallery, 708 Street, Hudson, NY.b518- 822-1438. www.hudsonhall.org Third Fridays Broadway, New York, NY 10003. 212-598-0100. www.aich.org. adult play that sheds a comedic light on the secret corners 02/16 Tours, lectures, programs: A living museum. Arts, local history, Artist Community Potluck. POTLUCK DINNER AND SHARE of marriage, relationships and family. Friday and Saturday horticulture, botany, environment. Individual, group tours, Photography… Seeking curators to present exhibition/publication ARTWORK. All are welcome! Just bring artwork or a dish to performances are at 8 pm and Sunday matinees are at 2 pm.b programs focusing on aesthetic issues. Proposals should include plant sale. Change of landscape in four seasons. Photogenic share; each artist has fi ve minutes to project a PowerPoint of Tickets are $22 each, $17 for Members of the Playhouse names of possible artists, program summary, curator’s resume. woodland walk, native trees, plants. Call for calendar. The 20 slides the artist has prepared. Free. The Hudson Library. 400 and $10 for Students with ID.b 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, Kathleen Kenyon, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY 12498. 914-679- Mountain Top Arboretum, Maude Adams Road, POB 379, 9957. [email protected]. Tannersville, NY 12485. 518-589-3903. www.mtarbor.org Photography… Offer of workshops with speakers, competitions, Class: FOLLIES WITH BOBBY: Ballet and other smooth moves discounts on supplies and processing, newsletter. Greene County Camera Club, POB 711, Greenville, NY 12083. 518-797-3466, 518- for women of a certain age and confi dent men. Saturdays, 966-4411. 10:30-11:30 AM and Mondaysb 6- 7 PM. Improve balance Photography... Critical Needs Fund for Photographers with AIDS. and fl exibility and transform your body awareness using Initial requests by phone: 212-929-7190. Ongoing. techniques from ballet, modern dance, jazz, soft shoe, and 4th grade Physical Education class. Taught by Bobby Lupone. Sculpture Drop-ins welcome. Athens Cultural Center, 24 2nd Street, Sculpture… Call for sculptors living within 150-mile radius of Athens, NY. [email protected] Albany for large-scale works appropriate for high traffi c terminal. Prospectus, info: Sharon Bates, Director, Art& Culture Program, Classes: RIVERTIDE AIKIKAI, Martial Arts Instruction For All Administration Building Ste. 200, Albany International Airport, Ages. 3198 Old Kings Rd. just off of Rt. 23A in Catskill.b Call Albany, NY 12211-1057. 518-242-2241 [email protected] 518-943-4000, emailb [email protected] or visitb www. 02/16 rivertideaikikai.org. Miscellaneous Mondays New Website... The Whitney Museum of American Art has portal Hudson Juggling Club: OPEN TO ANY AND ALL YOUTH to Internet art and digital arts worldwide as an online gallery space. Details, scope: www.artport.whitney.org 02/16 AND ADULTS WITH AN INTEREST IN THE MANIPULATIVE ARTS OF JUGGLING, FLOW, AND OTHER CIRCUS SKILLS. Weekly Electronic Digest... New York Foundation for the Arts features news updates on social, economic, philosophical, political Juggling clubs, balls, scarves, spinning plates, diabolos, and issues affecting arts and culture, job listings and opportunities for unicycles are just some of the items we share. FREE. 6-8pm, artists and organizations. Free on-line subscription: www.artswire. Montgomery Smith Intermediate School, 102 Harry Howard org Updated 02/16 Avenue, Hudson NY. Email [email protected], or call 518- Rentals... Lighting and audio system packages. LSL Productions, 828-7470. Box 63 Windham, NY 12496-0063. 518-734-5117. Mondays-thru January 22 Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School Hudson: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm (No sessions on district holidays or snow days) Ages 8 and up, NY. Tickets at www.ghentplayhouse.org or 800-838-3006. free for members. Please note that both members and Bridge Street, Catskill, NY. Tickets at 800-838-3006 or Catskill, NY. Visit beattiepowersplace.blogspot.com. For January 19 non-members must reserve a ticket in advance online for BrownPaperTickets.com. Tickets also at the door. Visit reservations, [email protected]. Winter Tours. BridgeSt.org. (CIP) Concert: JAZZ IN THE SNOW: PUCCINI MEETS April 7 BECHET. Led by Aaron Johnson presented by 23Arts Concert: THE DANG-IT BOBBYS. Presented by New February 24 Concert: BARD STRING QUARTET, 5pm, Free Admission. Initiative. 7pm. Admission by donation $10. Mountain Top Baltimore Conservancy. 4pm. For accessibility, contact Live Broadcast: FEATURING A PRODUCTION OF MAGIC Beattie-Powers Place, Bridge St. & Prospect Ave., Library, 6093 Main Street, Tannersville, NY. www.23Arts.org 518.756.2763.Tickets at www.newbaltimoreconservancy. ON RADIO. Celebrating WGXC seven years on radio. Catskill, NY. Visit beattiepowersplace.blogspot.com. For for tickets and info. org or Door. $15/ members, $20/non-members. 90.7 FM or wgxc.org. Hilo at 365 Main Street, Catskill, NY. reservations, [email protected]. Memberships are available at the door $15/person, $10 February 25 January 27 for students and $25/family. Old Gray Church atb380 Main April 8 GCCA ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING. Join GCCA Street in the hamlet of New Baltimore. Concert: PETITO AND RITTER. Presented by New Baltimore Sunday Salons and the Winter Tours: IDYLLIC AND Conservancy. 4pm. For accessibility, contact 518.756.2763. Members on the Board of Directors, Staff and Members. 4 February 11 INDUSTRIAL VISIONS: THOMAS COLE, WILLIAM GUY pm-just before opening reception for GINNIE GARDINER & Tickets at www.newbaltimoreconservancy.org or Door. WALL, AND THE HUDSON RIVER with Sophie Lynford, MARTIN KATZOFF: CONVERSATIONS IN COLOR, the fi rst (DEC) Concert: WINDS IN THE WILDERNESS CONCERTS $15/ members, $20/non-members. Memberships are Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, Yale University, 2 pm. of the 2018 GCCA Exhibition Season. Open to all current with Sharon Powers, fl utes; Judith Dansker, oboe, English available at the door $15/person, $10 for students and Winter Tours, 1 pm & 3:30 pm. Tickets at thomascole.org/ and new GCCA Members. GCCA Gallery, 398 Main Street, horn; Ronald Gorevic, violin, viola; John Myers, guitar, $25/family. Old Gray Church atb 380 Main Street in the events. Tickets for the Sunday Salons are $12 for general Catskill, NY. FREE.b www.greenearts.org or 518-943-3400. sitar; Pete Toigo, bass. Classical, jazz and world music hamlet of New Baltimore. admission and $10 for members, and tickets for Winter appropriate for all ages. Recommended donation, $15, March 2 Tours are $10 for general admission and free for members. January 27 through March 10 children free. A reception follows concert. 3:00 PM. Church (CIP) Concert: JAZZ IN THE SNOW: THE LOST Please note that both members and non-members must GCCA Exhibit: GINNIE GARDINER & MARTIN KATZOFF: of St. John in the Wilderness, 261 Route 344, Copake Falls, reserve a ticket in advance online for Winter Tours. CONVERSATIONS IN COLOR. Opening Reception: NY. Contact: facebook: Winds in the Wilderness Concerts WOMEN OF SONG. Led by Dida Pelled presented Saturday, January 27, 5-7 p.m. GCCA Gallery, 398 Main or 518-329-1577. by 23Arts Initiative.7pm. Admission by donation April 14 $10. Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main Street, Street, Catskill, NY.b Gallery Hours: M-F 10-5, Sat. 12-5. (DEC) Concert: RUSSIAN MUSIC FOR CELLO & PIANO. Lecture: VEGETABLE GARDENING with Jackie Burstall, FREE.b www.greenearts.org or 518-943-3400 Tannersville, NY. www.23Arts.org for tickets and info. 2pm.b Free Admission. Beattie-Powers Place, Bridge St. Bend the Knotted Oak Chamber Music (BKO). 3 pm. March 4 January 27 Admission is $20, free for 18-and-under. 40 Church Street, & Prospect Ave., Catskill, NY. Visit beattiepowersplace. Chatham, NY. Contact Uel Wade at 518-392-4697 for more Sunday Salons and the Winter Tours: FREDERIC CHURCH blogspot.com. (CIP) Dance: Sacred performed by ZviDance. information. IN THOMAS COLE’S CATSKILLS with Jennifer Raab, Ph.D., Presented by Catskill Mountain foundation. 7:30 pm (DEC) Theater: TRUST ME by Paula Fell. John has everyone, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Yale University, 2 pm. including his wife, in the dark about his nefarious business at the Orpheum Film and Performing Arts Center in February 16, 17 & 18 Winter Tours, 1 pm & 3:30 pm. Tickets at thomascole.org/ Tannersville, NY. Advance Tickets: $25; $20 seniors; activities, until a mysterious stranger arrives at his door. Concerts, fi lm, workshop: HUDSON JAZZ FESTIVAL. events. Tickets for the Sunday Salons are $12 for general HRC Showcase Theatre. 7:30 pm followed by reception and $7 students. At the Door: b$30; $25 seniors; and $7 Curated by Armen Donelian, headliners include Sheila admission and $10 for members, and tickets for Winter students. Visit www.catskillmtn.org for tickets and info. & talkback. First Reformed Church, 52 Green Street in Jordan and Dominique Eade, The Ara Dinkjian Quartet, Tours are $10 for general admission and free for members. Hudson, NY. Contact Sandra Gill at 518-851-2061. February 1- 28 Quarterto Moderno and more. Tickets start at $25, with Please note that both members and non-members Exhibit: Ninth Annual Washington Irving Senior Citizen festival weekend passes available for $90, which includes must reserve a ticket in advance online for Winter Tours. Exhibit & Event: SLOW ART DAY, an international day held Center Watercolor Workshop Art Exhibit. Meet the Artists priority entry and seating to every performance. Ticket March 10 to promote mindfulness and deep engagement with art in reception February 8 from 1-3 pm. Blue Hill Gallery purchases can be made at hudsonhall.org or 518-822 museums and educational institutions. Reception from 5- 7 Lecture: THE NATURALISTIC PLANTING MOVEMENT, pm. Free and open to the public. Art School of Columbia at Columbia-Greene Community College. For gallery 1438. Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. AN INTRODUCTION with Robert Anderson, hours call 518-828-4181. Columbia-Greene Community County, 1198 Route 21c in Harlemville, NY. Visit www. February 23 Landscape Architect, 2pm, Free Admission. Beattie- artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or call 518-672-7140. College is located at 4400 Route 23 in Hudson, NY. Powers Place, Bridge St. & Prospect Ave., Catskill, February 2 (CIP) Concert: JAZZ IN THE SNOW: ONE LOVE. Led April 28 by Shenel Johns presented by 23Arts Initiative.7pm. NY. Visit beattiepowersplace.blogspot.com. (CIP) Concert: JAZZ IN THE SNOW: CUPID PAINTED Admission by donation $10. Mountain Top Library, 6093 March 17 Lecture: READING THE LANDSCAPE: CREATING BLIND. Led by Meredith Lustig and Michael Axtell Main Street, Tannersville, NY. www.23Arts.org for tickets and Theater: PLASTIC CITY by Matthew Kelly. When PURPOSEFUL GARDENS BY OBSERVING NATURAL presented by 23Arts Initiative.7pm. Admission by info. Cordelia sets out to prove that her daughter’s ENVIRONMENTS with Heather Grimes, Landscape donation $10. Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main Street, Designer,b 2pm, Free Admission. b Beattie-Powers February 24 Asperger’s Syndrome is linked to the history of plastic Tannersville, NY. www.23Arts.org for tickets and info. manufacturing in Leominster, Massachusetts in the Place, Bridge St. & Prospect Ave., Catskill, NY. Visit February 3-Mid April Concert: THE FLORESTAN QUARTET 5pm, Admissionb$10. 1990s, she tests the bonds of community and family. beattiepowersplace.blogspot.com. Exhibit Opening: PARTNERS IN CRIME, a look at dynamic Beattie-Powers Place, Bridge St. & Prospect Ave., HRC Showcase Theatre. 7:30 pm followed by reception May 19 Catskill, NY. Visit beattiepowersplace.blogspot.com. For & talkback. First Reformed Church, 52 Green Street art duos to take inspiration from. Windham Fine Arts, 5380 (DEC) Theater: SO YOU CAN LOOK AHEAD by Edward Main Street, Windham,NY.Gallery Hours: Friday & Saturday reservations, [email protected]. in Hudson, NY. Contact Sandra Gill at 518-851-2061 March 23 Morgan. New York City, 1932. A marriage is thrown into 12-7pm, Sunday 12-4. Visit www.windhamfi nearts.com (CIP) Music: MY KINDA ‘60s. JoinbTony nominee, Drama turmoil over a pregnant immigrant girl, a prestigious job, February 4 Desk Lifetime Achievement honoree and two-time MAC (CIP) Jazz in the Snow: PORGY & BESS SUITE. Led by and the powerful eugenics movement. Winner of the W Award winner Charles Busch and his long-time musical Peter & Will Anderson presented by 23Arts Initiative.7pm. Sunday Salons and the Winter Tours: IN THE FOOTSTEPS Keith Hedrick Playwriting Contest. HRC Showcase Theatre. director (and Catskill resident) Tom Judson for a Gala Admission by donation $10. Mountain Top Library, 6093 7:30 pm followed by reception & talkback. First Reformed OF THOMAS COLE with Shannon Vittoria, Ph.D., Research Benefi t performance for Bridge Street Theatre. For this Main Street, Tannersville, NY. www.23Arts.org for tickets Assistant, American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum Church, 52 Green Street in Hudson, NY. Contact Sandra Gill afternoon soiree, Charles weaves stories of his Manhattan and info. at 518-851-2061. of Art, 2pm. Winter Tours, 1 pm & 3:30 pm. Tickets at childhood and adolescence with great tunes from the thomascole.org/events. Tickets for the Sunday Salons are 1960’s by Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, the Beatles, Henry March 24 $12 for general admission and $10 for members, and Mancini, Bob Dylan, Stephen Sondheim and Kander and Concert: SEBASTIEN CORNUT, Piano, 5pm, Admission tickets for Winter Tours are $10 for general admission and Ebb, among others. 4pm, Bridge Street Theatre, 44 West $10. Beattie-Powers Place, Bridge St. & Prospect Ave.,

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Stapley, Paul & Sheila Trautman, Gallagher, Reidunn Fraas, Lorrie Fredette, Erica Freick, David Fried, going support of our members to help us maintain our core Lumber; Pollace’s Brooklyn House inc.; Pro Ski Shop; Poncho Villa; Guy Loughran & Donna Trunzo, Nancy Ursprung, Patrick & Stuart Friedman, Suzanne Gardner, Jack C. & Lyla Garfi eld, Laura Port of Call Restaurant; Pro Ski & Ride; Radio 810 WGY; Jonathan Stephanie Walsh, Sullivan Walsh, Barbara L. Walter and Mary C. Garramone, Page C. Ginns, Daniela Marino Goldberg, Mildred programs through which we provide a variety of services. Struthers & Mary Racine; Rip Van Winkle Realty; Robert Hoven Inc.; & Sheldon Warshow Goldberg, Harry Gottlieb, Donna Gould, Enrique Govantes, Judith A continually growing membership is crucial to our efforts Roshkowska Galleries, Rotary Club of Cairo; Rotary Club of Catskill; Graham, Martin & Carolyn Gresack, Martin & Carolyn Gresack, Lisa to deliver these services so that we may better serve our Rotary Club of Coxsackie; Rotary Club of Greenville; Rotary Club of Grob, Nancy Groff, Paul W. Gromadzki, Jane Guterman, Marilyn H. communities through all the arts. Windham; Ruby’s Hotel & Restaurant; Ruder-Finn; S.P. 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We are proud of our accomplishments and support to the arts over the past 42 years.

Please consider purchasing a benefactor ticket or table of 10. Remember, this is the Arts Council’s major fund- raiser of the year. By generously supporting us at a benefactor level, you are supporting the indispensable educational and community resource programs offered by the Greene County Council on the Arts. In these changing times, we need your support more than ever to keep the arts alive and growing in Greene County.

Please let us hear from you by As a benefactor, you will also be prominentlyJanuary 26, recognized 2018 in all our promotional materials including our bi monthly newspaper, Arts Alive. In addition, we will provide guaranteed to be listed preferredin the invitation seating as forwell you as inand the your evening’s guests. program. Should 1. 1999-Poster Image by Patrick Milbourn you have any questions, please contact Kay Stamer, Executive Director of the Greene County Council on the Arts at 518-943-3400 or via email at [email protected]. 2. 2005-Masked Robert Small & Phyllis Lamhut Thank you for your support. We look forward to greeting you on Saturday, April 7 3. 2006-David Slutzky on bike donated to Silent Auction GCCA’s commitment to the arts.

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ARTSR ALIVE ANGEL Contributions from the following donor is helping to underwrite the cost of producing our bi-monthly newspaper Arts Alive. As production costs escalate, we owe our continued ability to publish to the advertisers you see on these pages and to the generous support of our Angels. To become an Arts Alive Angel contact Kay Stamer at 518-943-3400 or email: [email protected]. THANK YOU - Marshall & Sterling Upstate