ALBANY, NY < PERMIT #486 Published by the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main St., Catskill, NY 12414 • Issue 104 • May/June 2015 El Primer Abrazo: Kico Govantes Solo Show Searches for Meaning and Connection

Above: Esperando la Primavera (Waiting for Spring II) Enrique “Kico” Govantes. 11” x 14” Oil on canvas Left: Kico Govantes in his Catskill, NY Studio. Photo credit: Molly Stinchfi eld, 2015 Right: City of Men: Health Crisis, Kico Govantes. Oil on Canvas, 1982

Greene County Council on their hands to quench their one day gift it as a memorial to It’s the greatest feeling in the and San Francisco. Pulse the Arts presents “El Primer thirst; now some are privileged the history of HIV/AIDS. world.” Magazine, Ulster Publishing, Abrazo: Kico Govantes Solo enough to draw clean water Govantes’ work tells a Govantes was born in Register Star, Independent Show” featuring Govantes’ from a tap thousands of miles lifetime of stories, bleak and Havana, Cuba surrounded Bay Area Reporter and Bay vibrant and dynamic stick from its source while others die celebratory alike. The images by art. His grandfather was Area Guardian and others have fi gure paintings. His remark- from a lack of it. are layered, scraped away the Minister of Public Works, reviewed his work. able exhibit runs from April Kico transforms the vessel and repainted over time. Like his father an architect. Paul “El Priner Abrazo” runs 25 through June 6, 2015. Meet into a human torso: a symbol of a great tale, it takes years Smart wrote in his article through June 6. Gallery hours the artist at the reception on our emptiness, a void waiting to to fi nish one canvas so he on Govantes, “Ace of Cups,” are Monday through Friday Saturday, May 2 from 5 to 7pm. be fi lled by knowledge, culture, develops them simultaneously, (Ulster Publishing. April 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and The GCCA Catskill is located at spirituality, and community. In his attic studio in Catskill a tidy 2005) that although they did Saturday’s noon to 5 p.m. In 398 Main Street in Catskill. an early series of paintings, he homage to organized chaos. It not support the Batista regime, conjunction with the show, Enrique “Kico” Govantes’ depicts the gay male response is a human-sized scrapbook of the Govantes were exiled from there will be a fundraising paintings stem from a deep to the unfolding AIDS epidemic a lifetime of experiences. Castro’s Cuba with only the event, “between the lines” on reverence for the cup-vessel in San Francisco. The energy Amidst the bustling art they could carry in their Saturday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. to carry water from the river of the fi rst colorful paintings constellation of human vessels suitcases. at the Catskill Mill located at to the home, which he views is electric with stick fi gures yearning to be fi lled, another He has presented solo 361 Main Street, Catskill, NY. as a crucial development dancing, holding each other, painting stands out in its shows at Rensselaer Poly- You won’t want to miss this of civilization. In Govantes’ and enjoying life. The show simplicity and whimsy. Two technic Institute in Troy; very special event featuring live visual language, the cup is sold out completely, except for fi gures stand in el primer Nicole Fiacco/MODO Gallery music and movement based on the root of every story. It one painting. The stark painting abrazo, the fi rst embrace, with in Hudson; Hunter’s Point sketches by renowned artist symbolizes our ability to that remains in his collection pink houses tumbling open in Naval Shipyard; Terrain; Kiki Smith, a live auction and move away from the source, shows fi gures standing stiffl y the background. This painting Carlson Gallery; Zuni and dance party. Proceeds go to our dependence on clean without touching one another. is homage to Govantes’ late the Art in Transit Program in GCCA’s Visual Arts Program. water, and our cultural sepa- Govantes has received dozens partner. “He turned my world San Francisco. He contrib- For schedule and ticket options, ration from nature. Without of off ers for this painting, but he upside down,” Govantes said. uted to group exhibitions in please visit www.greenearts. a vessel, humans must cup is saving it in hopes that he can “All people should fall in love. the Catskills, New York City org or call 518-943-3400. GCCA’s Living Linear Language: and Dancing More is More “between Group Drawing Exhibit the Leaps off the Page lines” Linear Language: More is More, an elec- for trifying group exhibit that revels in the energy of horror vacui (the need to fi ll the space) that will be a fundraising event on Saturday May 16 GCCA runs through June 6, 2015 at the Greene County at 7:00 pm at the Catskill Mill located a few steps Council on the Arts Catskill Gallery located away at 361 Main Street, Catskill, NY. You won’t Submitted by at 398 Main Street in Catskill, NY. Meet the want to miss this very special event featuring selected artists and view their works at the live music and movement based on sketches by Nancey Rosensweig opening reception on Saturday, May 2 from 5 to renowned artist Kiki Smith, a live auction and and Todd Whitley 7 p.m. In conjunction with this exhibit and the El dance party. Proceeds go to GCCA’s Visual Arts Primer Abrazo: Kico Govantes Solo Show, there Program. For schedule and tickets, please visit www.greenearts.org. Choreographer Judith Moss (pictured with Dan Wagaoner) Photo Credit: Lois Greenfi eld. Linear Language: More is More, showcases detailed, obsessive and repetitive drawings by “To me, art, like life, happens in its truest form between the Hudson Valley contemporary artists, including lines....between what we’re told to do or be, taking into consid- Henrietta Mantooth, Ken Polinskie, Ruth eration our passions, and our joys and disappointments, which Leonard, Wendy Ide Williams, Matt Bua, and sometimes exist in contrast to the reality of our daily lives,” notes Sara Pruiksma, among others. The exhibit Greene County Council on the Arts (GCCA) Board member, explores drawing as a way of developing and Nancey Rosensweig. What happens in that liminal space has recording a language, mapping one’s personal been the motivation behind Nancey’s concept for the aptly titled history and evolution of thoughts. fundraiser. Henrietta Mantooth, recipient of Pollack Set for Saturday, May 16, 2015 ‘between the lines’ will be Krasner, NYFA, and Joan Mitchell Foundation held at the newly renovated Catskill Mill at 361 Main Street, grants, as well as a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Catskill, NY. A spring fundraiser for GCCA, this event was Painting Grant and a Dryfus Fellowship from designed to attract GCCA supporters who missed the Beaux the MacDowell Colony, uses her multimedia Arts Ball in March, as well as create an opportunity for younger art to witness and give voice to the nameless members of our community to contribute in a way that accommo- dates all income levels. people reported on in the media: “refugees, The evening will be presented in three parts: an auction, rebels, farmers, men and women who tend and a dance performance and a dance party. A reception defend their land, homes, children, animals and preceding the performance, featuring delectable Vietnamese ideas.” This social responsibility is rooted in her appetizers donated by the Catskill Mill Food Truck, a cash Missouri childhood, where she witnessed the bar and a silent auction preview will begin at 7 p.m. eff ects of segregation, inequality and poverty The performance will begin at 8 p.m., followed by the Live on her family and neighbors during the Great Auction at 8:45. The dance party starts at 9:30 p.m. Above: Pistachios by Ruby Silvious. Depression. GCCA off ers several options for tickets for the evening. Painted pistachio shells. Artist Ken Polinskie will unveil a group of VIP Tickets at $50 include entry to the entire evening, two Above Right: Threading by ink and gouache panel drawings of cross-hatched drink tickets and a chance to win two tickets to the Hudson Wendy Ide Williams, mixed media. continued on page 14 continued on page 2

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Registration will begin on May 5, 2015 for Sprouts, the GREENE Greene County Council on the Arts long awaited and highly COUNTY GCCA ‘Sprouts’ anticipated summer arts program throughout Greene County. Best COUNCIL ON of all and thanks to corporate, municipal and private donations THE ARTS the Sprouts Program is free for children ages 3 to 7 who live in Registration Greene County! Week-long sessions of Sprouts will take place on the following dates and locations. BOARD OF DIRECTORS David Slutzky, President Begins May 5! Windham-Ashland-Jewett Elementary School Bill Deane, 1st Vice President July 6-10, 2015 Paul Poplock, Treasurer Lawrence Krajeski, Secretary Coxsackie Athens School Campus Jeff Friedman (Exact location to be determined) Kico Govantes July 13 –17, 2015 Liz Kirkhus Nancey Rosensweig Cairo-Durham Middle-High School (Rt 145 in Cairo) Laura Segall July 20-24, 2015 John Sowle Brenda Taylor Greenville –St. John’s Catholic Church (Rt. 81) July 27-31, 2015 Sheila Trautman BOARD OF ADVISORS Hunter Mountain Learning Center August 3-7, 2015 Casey Biggs, Chairman Karl T. Anis Catskill Elementary School, 77 Embought Road Jared Aswegan August 10-14, 2015 June Battisti Ava Barbour Young Sprouts students begin their Susan Beecher The Sprouts program takes a bit of a twist this year and off ers four week-long project constructing and painting “Alien” separate workshops to choose from, focusing on Art, Music, Theater Dick Brooks objects of art for the end of the week theater production Andrea Cunliffe in one of the 2014 Sprouts workshops. and Dance. Children get to choose two out of the four workshops (in Frank Cuthbert any combination!) to attend. All week-long workshops are limited to 15 Louise Hughes children and are divided into two 45-minute periods. Donna Trunzo and Ronnie McCue Dale Loughran, Sprouts Directors, are delighted to announce there Kim McLean Greene County Chamber will be another variation to the arts programming with a collaborative Patrick D. Milbourn of Commerce Announces Patti Morrow emphasis on literacy through the creative process of art. A healthy James Parrish snack is served during the break between periods. All sessions run Ruth Sachs Kay Stamer Monday thru Friday from 10:00 to 11:45 A.M. To register on or after Robert Sheridan as Recipient of Inaugural 2015 May 5, call the Greene County Council on the Arts at 518-943-3400 Michael Smith Distinguished Service Award or download a registration form and simply mail it in. Registration Reginald Willcocks forms are available online at www.greenearts.org. Sprouts directors The Greene County Chamber of Commerce is pleased Donna Trunzo and Dale Loughran will follow up each registration STAFF to announce that our recipient of our inaugural 2015 with a personal phone call to confi rm the dates and locations. Hurry… Kay Stamer Distinguished Service Award is Kay Stamer, Executive Sprouts enrollment fi lls quickly…so mark your calendar! Executive Director Director of the Greene County Council on the Arts. This Sprouts teachers are professional artists who have talent Sharon Shepherd award will be presented at the 15th Annual Greene County and experience in working with children and who understand the Assistant to the Director; Chamber of Commerce Recognition Gala on the evening importance of positive early learning. Children and their parents in Membership Coordinator; of June 11, 2015 at the Villa Vosilla Boutique Resort in advanced registration choose between music and art, or theater and Arts Alive Editor Tannersville, New York. dance, and continue with the same two artist/teachers for the entire Colette Lemmon The Distinguished Service Award is bestowed by week. In an environment where there is no “wrong answer” or “wrong Director Community Arts Grants the Chamber Board of Directors upon an individual who way,” each child is encouraged to invent, persevere and enjoy success & Arts Education has made a signifi cant contribution to the Greene County through experimentation, problem solving and setting reasonable Renee Nied economy, business community and the greater Greene goals. Coordinator Community County community. With this honor the Chamber strives Our outstanding teen volunteers serve as role models, and many Arts Grants, Schoharie to recognize those that go above and beyond their job or of our former Sprouts kids volunteer to assist in Sprouts, resulting Molly Stinchfi eld duties and make a diff erence in Greene County’s way of life. in a program that serves many age groups in the community. Greene Visual Arts Director Along with the night’s other honorees a t the Gala, Kay County teens, Sprouts needs you! Are you interested in working with Fawn Potash will be honored for her ongoing work for the betterment of professional artists, helping teach young children dance, theater, music Masters on Main Coordinator the arts, children’s programs, community involvement and or art? Sprouts invites any Greene County teen or pre-teen interested Dale Loughran & Donna Trunzo her nurturing of Greene County’s creative economy. For more in volunteering for our summer workshops to call Program Directors “Sprouts” Program Co-Directors information visit www.greenecountychamber.com. Donna Trunzo at 518-291-6984 or Dale Loughran at 518-610-2468. Patricia Britton, Bookkeeper Will Barnds a collection of seasoned pros community of craftspeople Catskill Gallery Reception, "between the lines" continued from page 1 courtesy of Experience Works from the area including Jean working in clay, wood, metal, Valley Dance Festival, scheduled the 7 p.m. reception, allowing Churchill, Bryan Fox, Peggy leather, electronics, textiles and CONSULTANTS for October 10th, 2015 at the guests to bid in advance of the Gould, Sondra Loring, Judith natural fi bers & dyes. Started Ruth Leonard, Historic Catskill Point! General live auction scheduled for 8:45 Moss, Donald Mouton, Nancey in 2014, the Mill occupies a “Sprouts” Program Admission includes entry to pm. Simultaneously, the GCCA Rosensweig, Maria Simpson and collection of once shuttered 19th entire evening and is set on a Catskill Gallery will remain Anthony Rago Todd Whitley, will be creating century brick factory buildings Apogee Webmaster sliding scale with tickets ranging open until 8 p.m. on during the and performing the piece. in the Village of Catskill, in New from $15-$35, with a suggested fundraiser for those who wish to Catskill Mill’s own DJ York’s Hudson River Valley. Smart Systems donation of $25. Dance Party Computer Technology cross the street and view more SuperBoom will spin eclectic Additional space is currently Tickets are only $5 and include “linear” works by Kico Govantes beats starting at 9:30, turning being renovated to house a small Kate Boyer entry to live auction and dance from his solo exhibit “El Primer Design & Layout – Arts Alive the Mill entrance on Main Street hotel and farm-to-table restau- party. Abrazo” and the group exhibit into a dance club like no other! rant, which will be furnished with Ava Barbour A juried selection of dance Graphic Design “Linear Language-More is More.” Folks are encouraged come out objects made in the workshops and line-drawing themed The highlight of the evening and bust a move! For tickets of the Mill. Eventually, visitors VOLUNTEER GALLERY artworks by Hudson Valley artists is a collaborative dance perfor- and information on sponsor- will be able to stay and work & OFFICE STAFF will be available for bidding, mance inspired by sketches ship opportunities, please visit among craftspeople, purchase Dara Young including drawings by GCCA’s drawn especially for the event www.greenearts.org/between raw materials, learn how to Editor, Calendar & Opportunities spring season solo artists, Kico by Kiki Smith, and featuring thelines. make things with their own Jeanne Heiberg & Govantes and Sarah Barker. The live music by Michael Moss About the Catskill Mill: hands, or commission fi nished Wayne Sheridan pieces will be on view during and Billy Stein. Nine dancers, The Catskill Mill is a goods made by a master. Arts Alive Contributors William Carbone, Flo Hayle, Erika Klein, Pat Lemmon, Andi Porazzo-Nangle, Dara Trahan

CATSKILL GALLERY COMMITTEE & VOLUNTEERS Deborah Artman, Will Barnds, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Kico Govantes, Ashley Hopkins-Benton, Carol Swierzowski, Richard Talcott A vibrant school of art . . . and a host of people like you! here at home.

COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Frances Heaney, President John Cooley, Vice President PROGRAMS IN... In fact, there’s a whole world Jeff Levin, Treasurer to discover at C-GCC, with Arlene Boehm, Secretary Fine Arts more than 41 dynamic 398 Main Street, PO Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414 • 518-943-3400 programs, including teacher Deborah Davis, Gerald Cooley, Computer Design Arts Alive is published by the Greene County Council on Daniel Region education, environmental the Arts for members and others interested in the arts. And classes in studies, and classes in STAFF 3D graphics writing, literature, local Deadline for submission of materials for arƟ cles, arƟ st Cynthia Mulvaney, and animation. history, and much more. opportuniƟ es and calendar lisƟ ngs is June 5, 2015 for publicaƟ on Executive Director in the July/August 2015 issue. Please email submissions to: Renee Schermerhorn, Bookkeeper Call us today to learn more. [email protected], AƩ : Arts Alive. Indian Ridge Accounting/ Route 23 | Hudson, NY 518-828-4181 Business and individuals interested in adverƟ sing in Arts Alive should Barbara Beers, CCCA Certifi ed call 518-943-3400, or email: [email protected]. Public Accountants MyCommunityCollege.com Mark Greenberg, Greenberg & /ColumbiaGreeneCC AD DEADLINE for the July/August 2015 issue is: June 5, 2015 Greenberg, CCCA Counselor at Law @ColGreeneCC Sharon Shepherd, Editor Kate Boyer, Heron & Earth Design, Layout TOMORROW, TODAY. ALIVE 2015 May/June Page 3

From Top Right, Clockwise: 1. Anna Schroeder, 2nd Grade, Catskill Area Home Schooler, viewed her artwork displayed next Greene County Council on the Arts to her two brother’s work. 2. Zachary Marmey, Age 3, Art & Soul Pre-School rendered a blue bird in fl ight. 2015 3. Grandmother, Mentor and Art Teacher, Joan Starr, stands proud with her grandchildren and home schoolers, Noah, Anna and Drew Schroeder. Joan is an Artist Member with GCCA. 4. Jesse Purdy, Age 3, Art & Soul Pre-School, along with his dad traveled from Coxsackie to see HONOR ROLL the “Outside the Lines” Youth Art Exhibit. 5. Peyton Demsey’s work was featured on the cover of the Windham Journal. The young artist brought his family to see the original work. WAJ Art Teacher Sharon Quinn is his mentor! The Greene County Council on the Arts celebrates the talents 6. Ronnie Young, Jr., lent some insight on son’s piece titled “Winter landscape.” Cody Young, and educational eff orts of local art instructors and mentors Catskill Elementary 5th grader rendered a paining depicting his dad’s recent deer hunting trip through our annual Teacher Recognition Honor Roll. In support of to Illinois last fall. Cody even drew the deer tracks! our educational and cultural programs, we asked you to recognize 7. Ruby Glennon and her delightful piece “Ononatopoeia”. Ruby raved about how much she a teacher or mentor who made a diff erence in your life or that of enjoys art class with her art teacher Sharon Quinn at WAJ. your child by making a donation to GCCA in honor or in memory 8. Ryan Arp, 4th Grader at Scott M. Ellis Elementary School in Greenville, and his pastel work of this gifted and infl uential teacher. “Mushroom Madness”. Ryan’s aunt, Marie Findlay, was a well known artist in Wisconsin. This spring’s youth art show, titled “Outside the Lines Multi talented he also plays the trumpet and holds the positions of 1st base and left fi elder in 2015,” exhibited artworks from the creative imaginations of baseball. Greene County children and youth, grades pre-K through 12. 9. Seamus Gavin, Art & Soul Pre-School brought sister Shannon and parents in to see his The Greene County Council on the Arts also funds and operates rendering of a phoebe. other important programs to develop young artists, including our 10. Center Image: Kindergartner Noah Shroeder, age 5, and his masterful chicken! ‘Sprouts’ Youth Arts Reach summer workshops and our Arts-in- Education grants program for schools in Greene and Columbia Counties. Through the generosity of our donors, Greene County Those pessimists who Taras Chubay, one of the most Council on the Arts has delivered 39 years of leadership in the say that classical music is Music at notable performers of popular arts in the Hudson Valley. In a time of arts education funding dying, should visit Grazhda music in current Ukraine. cuts, your contributions helped support our continuing eff orts to Concert Hall located in Jewett, Grazhda Music and Art Center promote artistic and cultural opportunities that serve thousands N.Y. this summer. There, six also organizes fi ve courses of young people. concerts featuring world-class Magnifi cent in Ukrainian folk arts. performers will dispel any such Music, This year, for the fi rst time, Sincerely, notion! Music and Art Center Natalia Nazarenko will conduct of Greene County, the fi rst and Radiant Nature fi ve sessions of traditional Kay Stamer oldest classical music concert and Evocative Petrykivka painting from July Executive Director series in the region, is entering 27 through 31. The popular its 33rd consecutive year. In Ukrainian Pysanky course, Ukrainian VALEDICTORIAN HALL MONITOR March 2015, The Greene Easter Eggs painted in the Christos N. Apostle Lisa and Shawn Beers In County Council on the Arts Arts traditional batik method, will Charitable Trust Memory of Carol Hetherington bestowed the Distinguished take place from July 27 to July Deborah and Chuck Royce Service Award on the organiza- the National Academy of Music 30. Lubov Wolynets, curator of Ruth and Chuck Sachs tion and it’s President Natalia in Kyiv; she will sing arias by Ukrainian Ethnography at the SALUTATORIAN Joan Starr Sonevytsky for its “commit- Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti and Ukrainian Museum will teach Stewart’s Shops ment and contributions to the art songs by Shamo, Bilash, fi ve sessions of Ukrainian Brent D. and cultural life of Greene County”. Kos-Anatolsky and others. embroidery from August 3 to 7; TOP OF CLASS Donna C. Wheat Known as “Music at Volodymyr Vynnytsky will be at and a course in traditional neck- Anonymous Todd Whitley Grazhda”, the series begins the piano. lace bead-stringing (gerdany) Mark and Carin DeNat on July 11, 2015 with a concert A second United States will be taught by Lesia Lasii GOLD STARS dedicated to the memory In Honor of Mary Finneran debut at Grazhda will take beginning August 3 through 7. of pianist Tatiana Chekina Karen Hopkins and Family Elizabeth and place on August 1st. A soloist Instructors Anna Bachynsky who died in an automobile Timothy Albright with the Lviv Philharmonic and and Melasia Serbay will lead In Memory of Barry Hopkins accident in December 2013. the winner of Prokofi ef Inter- the popular and well known Kate Farrell, Sandra Dutton The renowned violinist and In Honor of Marie Hurst husband of Ms. Chekina, Oleh national Competition (1994), two-week course in folk Superintendent, CCSD Krysa, will be the featured pianist Oleh Rudnytsky will singing for children ages 4-10 In Honor of Catskill Central Florence Hayle artist. Also participating in perform works by Albeniz, in the Grazhda from July 27 to School District Student Chopin, Lysenko and Liszt. August 7. Beverly Prest the program will be the artistic The Fortnightly Club director of Music and Art The children’s concert – one Music and Art Center Ruth Robbins of the favorites of the audi- invites all music, folk arts and of Catskill Center Volodymyr Vynnytsky In Memory of Carol Willard G. Ulmer and cellist Natalia Khoma. ence- will be held on August nature lovers to the beautiful Hetherington A piano trio with violinist 8th. Traditional Ukrainian Catskill region in Hunter, N.Y. Anna Rabinova, cellist Natalia folk songs and recitations will for magnifi cent music, radiant TEACHER’S PET Valedictorian: $1000 or more fi ll Grazhda hall. Music at nature and evocative Ukrainian Khoma and pianist Volodymyr Anonymous Salutatorian: $500 or more Vynnytsky will play music by Grazhda Fund-raising Concert arts. Music and Art Center Mozart and Brahms on July will take place on August 22nd. is a non-profi t organization, Mary Pesez-Kames Top of Class: $100 or more and Joe Kames 18. Grazhda will welcome It will feature four chamber funded partly by the Cultural Teacher’s Pet: $50-$99 the young opera soprano musicians—violinist Marta fund of Greene County Council In Memory of Jean Kames Hall Monitor: $30-$49 from Ukraine Zoia Rozhko Krechkovsky, violist Randolph on the Arts, the Self Reliance Kashman Family in her debut concert in the Kelly, cellist Natalia Khoma and Federal Credit Union of New Gold Stars: Up to $29 U.S. on July 25. Ms. Rozhko pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky. York, private contributions and Anna and Doug Maguire is a laureate of several inter- The season will end on August memberships. Please go to Ronnie McCue national competitions and 29 with a performance of rock www.Grazhdamusicandart.org soloist of the Opera Studio of singer, musician and poet for more information. John and Sharon Quinn Page 4 May/June 2015 ALIVE Community Arts Grants Bring the Sounds of Jazz, Blues and Soul CHOHARIE S Following the successful MacDonald (via grant recip- Historical Society’s week- STRAIGHT- Vancouver, BC). opening of the FY15 ient Sonny Ochs), summer in end-long “Richmondville Day” Both performances are SPOTLIGHT Community Arts Grant funding Schoharie County revs into festivities and will also off er free and have been funded, in season with concerts at the high gear with two outstanding a pig roast at the same time part, by taxpayer monies via Middleburgh Library by Mist concerts held at the Bunn and location. Surely there is the Community Arts Grant Covered Mountains and Rod Mill located on High Street in something for everyone at this program. A new granting Richmondville. historic water-powered feed funding cycle (for FY16) begins On Sunday, June 7 from mill! in July/August 2015. If you noon to 3 p.m., the On Sunday, June 28 at are interested in learning Richmondville Historical 6:30 p.m., and also at the more about the grant program, Society will host local jazz Bunn Mill in Richmondville, contact the Schoharie County and blues legend Larry Karen Savoca, winner of seven grant coordinator, Renee Mazza who brings his mix of SAMMY awards performs Nied at schoharieartsgrants “funky, eclectic music” to his acoustic soul music with “[a] @gmail.com. hometown area. This event is rare combination of grit and See you there! held as part of Richmondville sensitivity” (THE GEORGIA

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Tickets: Livingston, Tachkanic, Copake, General: $25, Seniors (65+): Clermont, Gallatin & Ancram in Columbia County) $22, Contributors: $20, LOB 553, Albany, NY 12248 Students (6-23): $5. Tel: (518) 455-5177 Fax: (518) 455-5418 The Windham Festival is District Offi ce: 751 Warren Street www.nbcoxsackie.com honored to off er these world- Hudson, NY 12534 Be inspired class concerts at the acousti- Tel: (518) 828-5329 Fax: (518) 828-5329 cally magnifi cent Windham email: barre [email protected] with what NBC Civic Center Concert Hall can do for . located at 5379 State Route 23 Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin you in the heart of Windham, New (District 107: Kinderhook, Chatham, New Lebanon, York. For more information Canaan, Austerli & Hillsdale in Columbia County) on the Windham Chamber LOB 533, Albany, NY 12248 Music Festival, to join their Tel: (518) 455-5777 (518) 455-5576 Your independent, local bank since 1852 mailing list, or to purchase District Offi ce: 258 Hoosick Street, Suite 109 tickets in advance, please visit Troy, NY 12180 www.windhammusic.com or Tel: (518) 272-6149 Fax: (518) 272-6313 contact the artistic directors, email: [email protected] Robert Manno and Magdalena U.S. Congressman Chris Gibson Golczewski at 518-734-3868. (19th District: Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer) The 2015 Season is made 2 Hudson Street, PO Box 775 possible in part with founda- Kinderhook, NY 12106 tion support from the Willow Tel: (518) 610-8133 Fax: (518) 610-8135 Springs Charitable Trust CatskillCCatskill MountainMountain FoundationFoundation www.catswww.catskillmtn.orgkillmtn.org Foundation, the Peter R. & U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation, GreeneGGreeene CountyCounty CouncilCouncil on thethe Arts www.www.greenearts.orggreenearts.oorgg Leo O’Brien Federal Offi ce Building, the Windham Foundation, Room 420, Albany, NY 12207 TheThe PrattsviPrattsvillelle Art Center andand ResidencyResidency the David G. Whitcomb Tel: (518) 431-4070 Fax: (518) 431-4076 www.Prattsvilleart.orgwww.Prattsvilleart.org Foundation, and with Public Funds from the Greene TheT ZadockZadock Pratt Museum www.www.Prattmuseum.comPrattmuseum.comm U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand County Legislature through 478 Russell Senate Offi ce Building, ComeCComme Experience tthehe Art AlongAlong thethe Rip Van WinkleWinkle Trail!Trraia l! the Greene County Cultural Washington, DC 20510 Fund administered in Greene Tel: (202) 224-4451 Fax: (202) 228-0882 VisitVisit www.mainlygreene.orgwww.mainlygryg eene.orgg County by the Greene County Council on the Arts. ALIVE 2015 May/June Page 5 Coxsackie Earth Day 2015 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Meet at the Coxsackie Riverside Park in downtown Coxsackie on Saturday May 16, 2015 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and celebrate the earth and its bounty. Photo: A view of the Hudson River. Mark Your Calendar for These GCCA Special Events

Happening in May & June 2015! GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE A RTS April 25-June 6 Exhibits “El Primer Abrazo: Kico Govantes Solo Show” and “Linear Language: More is More” Group Exhibition. Opening MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Reception on Saturday, May 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the GCCA I/We wish to become members of the Greene County I/We wish to become members of the Columbia County Catskill Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10 Council on the Arts (GCCA) in the following category. Council on the Arts (CCCA) in the following category. a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday noon to 5 p.m. Please Check one: New R Renewing R Member Please Check one: New R Renewing R Member ❏ R Senior/Student $ 0. R Student/SeniorStudent $ $20 20. May 2 ❏ Senior $30 R Individual 5. ❏R IndividualIndividual $45. Opening Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. for “El Primer Abrazo: R Family 0. ❏R Dual/FamilyDual/ Family $600. Kico Govantes Solo Show” and “Linear Language: More is R Friend/Business/Organization . ❏R Not-for-Profit-OrganizationNot-for Profi t Organization $50 50. More” Group Exhibition. GCCA Catskill Gallery. R Sponsor 100. ❏R CorporationCorporation $100100. R Supporting 250. ❏R PatronPatron $100 100. R Patron 500. ❏R CuratorCurator $250 250. SAVE THE DATE!! May 16 ❏ R Benefactor 1,000. R BenefactorBenefactor $500 500. Fundraiser and Dance Party at the Catskill Mill! ❏ Medici $1000 R Reciprocal CCCA 10. R Other _____. “between the lines” Live Music/Movement Event, Live ❏ Other _____ . ❏R ReciprocalReciprocal GCCA to GCCA $10 10. Auction and Dance Party inspired by Kiki Smith sketches. The TOTAL MEMBERSHIP $ ______evening fundraiser will be presented in three parts: an auction, a Building Fund Contribution $ ______TOTAL MEMBERSHIP $ ______dance performance and a dance party. A reception preceding the J. Ruben Garcia Memorial Fund $ ______Additional Donation $ ______Endowment Fund $ ______TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ______performance, featuring appetizers donated by local restaurants, TOTAL ENCLOSED $ ______a cash bar and a silent auction preview will begin at 7:00 p.m. Payment: Check R Cash R The performance will begin at 8:00 p.m., followed by the Live Payment: Check R Cash R MasterCard R VISA R Auction at 8:45. The dance party starts at 9:30 p.m. All proceeds MasterCard R VISA R Amex R Card #: ______benefi t the GCCA Visual Arts Program. Catskill Mill is located Card #: ______Expiration Date: ______Expiration Date: ______at 361 Main Street in Catskill. For schedule and ticket options, “Thank you!” visit www.greenearts.org or call 518-943-3400. “Thank you!” Make your tax-deductible contribution payable to Make your tax-deductible contribution payable to CCCA and return to the address listed below. June 13-July 25, 2015 Exhibits GCCA and return to the address listed below. Sarah Barker’s Solo Show “Plant Spirit Series” and the Please fill out completely Please fill out completely “Microcosm” Group Exhibition. Opening Reception, Saturday, Name: ______June 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the GCCA Catskill Gallery. Gallery Name: ______hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday Address:______Address:______noon to 5 p.m. City: ______City: ______State: ______June 20 State: ______Opening Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. for the Sarah Barker’s Day Phone: ______Day Phone: ______Solo Show “Plant Spirit Series” and “Microcosm” Group Eve Phone: ______Exhibition. GCCA Catskill Gallery. Eve Phone: ______E-mail: ______E-mail: ______The GCCA Catskill Gallery is located at 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Are you an artist? Yes R No R Website: ______Visit www.greenearts.org or call 518-943-3400. If yes, what is your discipline? ______Are you an artist? Yes R No R Brief description of your work ______If yes, what is your discipline? ______Brief description of your work ______GCCA Catskill Gallery ______CALL FOR ENTRIES ______Artists/Arts Organizations, do you wish to have ______& Artist Opportunities your website linked to the GCCA website? GCCA GALLERY: Yes R No R ______Exhibition Proposals wanted for GCCA Catskill Menberships are for one year. Gallery 2015 Schedules. Send a paragraph describing Memberships are for one year. MenbershipsMemberships are arefor one for year.one year. your soloshow, curated group exhibit, brainstorm for You may be able to double your contribution if you You may be able to double your contribution if you future programs with contact information, an image work for, or are retired from, a company which has a work for, or are retired from, a company which has a list, short bio or resume and up to 10 images (72 dpi, matching gift program. To make your match, simply matching gift program. To make your match, simply 5” jpeg or up to 8 x 10” photographs) to Molly obtain a form from your company’s Matching Gift obtain a form from your company’s Matching Gift Stinchfi eld, [email protected] with subject line: Coordinator and send it along with your Coordinator and send it along with your 2014-2015 VAP Review. Mail hard copy to Visual contribution to: contribution to: Arts Director, GCCA Catskill Gallery, PO Box 463, Greene County Council on the Arts Columbia County Council on the Arts Catskill, NY 12414. Hand deliver proposals to the P.O. Box 463, Catskill, NY 12414 209 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 GCCA Catskill Gallery located at 398 Main Street, (518 ) 943-3400 (518 ) 671-6213 Catskill.

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Imagine it is 1665. The place is the wilderness of ownership. The title: “Taking Root,” is meant to exhibitions at the Athens Cultural Center most notably along the banks of the river that “waters fl ow both refl ect those divergent views: “Taking,” for what was the popular “ICE” show in 2013. ways.” The native inhabitants are the Mohicans; the taken from the Mohicans, “Taking Root,” for the eff ort The Athens Cultural Center is a private not-for- newcomers wishing to settle and trade are the Dutch. to establish “roots” by the Dutch. As well as contem- profi t arts organization and off ers free year round Exactly 350 years ago a deed was signed for the land porary artwork, displays of vernacular objects such art workshops for children and teens, exhibitions of the Mohicans called Caniskek, a place that would as pottery and graphics serve to comment on visual works by contemporary artists, performances, music, change forever and evolve into the present day town manifestations of history in popular culture. seasonal craft workshops for families, dance, art and called Athens, New York. “Taking Root: Caniskek, The A partial list of artists included in the show are: writing workshops for adults and the Annual Athens Meeting of Two Worlds” is the exhibit which takes this Bob Braine, Matt Bua, Tina Chaden, Dikko Faust: Victorian Stroll. To learn more about the workshops local historical event and uses it as a jumping off point Purgatory Pie Press, Geoff rey Feder, Jeanette Fintz, and classes sponsored by the Athens Cultural Center to envision and contemplate the past as well as reassess Jim Holl, Kahn & Selesnick, Cynthia Karasek, Pat please visit www.athensculturalcenter.org or like us the immediate world around us. Neither a traditional Kaufman, Michael McKay, Julie Ann Mann, Claudia on Facebook. historical nor a contemporary art exhibition, “Taking McNulty, Terri O’Connor, Leslie Reed, Christy Rupp, This exhibition is supported in part with public Root” employs an unexpected and interdisciplinary Liza Todd Tivey and Susan Wides. Several associated funds from the Decentral-ization Program of the New approach to the subject matter. Juxtaposing historical programs including panel discussions on related York State Council on the Arts administered through artifacts with contemporary art, the exhibit tells the topics are being planned and will be announced. the Community Arts Grants Program by the Greene tale of colliding worlds, investigating what the world Ms. Feder has a BA in Art and Art History from County Council on the Arts, the New York Council for was like here in 1665 as well as the powerful ideas of Brown University, studied printmaking in the graduate the Humanities, Peckham Family Foundation and the exploration, settlement, ownership, loss, culture and program at the San Francisco Art Institute, exhib- Athens Community Foundation. destiny…the very concepts which are so much a part of ited her work in NYC for many years and worked at our American journey. the Whitney and Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Illustrations are samples of the type of imagery that “Taking Root”, curated by Carrie Feder, opens at partner in Athens Architectural Workshop she works will appear in the exhibition. the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street on June in architectural design and historic preservation. She Top Left: Etow Oh Koam, King of the River Nation, 6, 2015 with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. is a Trustee of the Historic Eastfi eld Foundation and Jan Verlest 1710 The exhibition will run through July 26 with gallery the Thomas Cole National Historic Site where she Top Right: “Voyage of the Greenman,” archival digital hours Saturday and Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. has spearheaded the eff ort to recreate the original print by Kahn & Selesnick The show examines how two cultures viewed 19th century interiors and is working with the team the world and dealt with their environments in very planning the reinterpretation of the house tour. She Above Right: “Over Jordan” Watercolor by Cynthia Karasek diff erent ways. Of particular interest is the concept has curated, co-curated and installed several art Pound It, Twist It, Taste It, Live It! The Bronck Museum Special Events In 2015

Have you noticed we have was three-in-one oil and WD-40 to gather, water to carry, bu er a new tag line, The Greene there was??? to make and hay to be raked. By County Historical Society Early Americans worked July 31 the spring has ripened Where History Lives? You’ll hard and played hard too. The into summer and the full Hay see it everywhere we use our Bronck Museum special event Moon dusts the landscape with The Bronck Museum off ers visitors the experience of name. Bronck Museum is calendar also off ers visitors quicksilver. Candles twinkle “living history” from May through November 2015. pleased to off er visitor’s to its the chance to experience the in the windows as visitors deceased family member. By spring to winter’s eve, three 2015 special events programs sort of community events and are invited to visit the Bronck mid November the fi rst serious seasons worth of special event the opportunity to pound, twist, private family celebrations that farmstead “By the Light of the chill of the coming winter has programming at the Bronck taste and experience some off ered a welcome respite from Silvery Moon” for an evening arrived, the heavy work of Museum where we make “living history”. labor. of live traditional music and agricultural season is over and history live. For a complete Each of this season’s The stone house of Pieter homemade refreshment on families are preparing to party. schedule of events visit our Bronck Family at Home Bronck was well over a century August 29. The Chilly Willy Winter’s Eve website at www.gchistory. programs off ers visitors the old in May of 1775 when the As the harvest season is celebration on the weekend of org. The Bronck is located at 90 chance to try for themselves Coxsackie Association was coming to a close it’s time for November 14 and 15 recreates County Route 42 in Coxsackie, some of the tasks necessary being circulated for signature. the Bronck Museum Heritage the Dutch holiday observances NY. to “get things done”. On July On May 17 the words of the Craft Fair on October 4. Join us of Martinmas and Saint Many of the Bronck 12 we’ll tackle “Making your Association expressing the to celebrate the bounty of the Nicholas Day and the Swedish Museum’s past seasons were Bed and Sleeping in it”. On grievances of New Yorkers autumn season in the Hudson celebration of Saint Lucia Day. made possible in part with August 9 as the fi eld crops against British colonial admin- Valley, purchase traditional The venerable Bronck home Public Funds from the Greene begin to ripen it will be time to istration will be read. Visitors handcrafted goods, take a horse will be decorated with the County Legislature through convert corn from Cob to Cake. can take up the quill and sign. drawn wagon ride and enjoy simple bounty of fi eld and the Cultural Fund adminis- On September 13 visitors will Visit the Bronck home, and the live country music and good forest. Ancient legends will be tered in Greene County by the be “Busy with the Bees” as barns, enjoy live Revolutionary food. On October 24 the family told. There will be traditional Greene County Council on the we consider the importance war military music, and don’t will be dealing with “A Great Dutch and Swedish cookies to Arts. The Bronck Museum is of domestic bee keeping in forget to stop for a cup of tea. Sorrow” as they come together taste and steamy mulled cider currently in review to receive providing a variety of essential For young patriots there is with neighbors and friends to warm you. funds for their 2015 season. household goods. Before there plenty of work to be done, eggs for the funeral of a recently There you have it, from Keigwin + Company Dance That Hits Your Pleasure Receptor Catskill Mountain Found- long-term dance residency Council for the Arts. For more ation is pleased to host a partially funded by New York information on this and other special performance of Keigwin State Council for the Arts. performances and all Catskill + Company choreographed by During their residency, they Mountain Foundation program- Larry Keigwin on Saturday, will create new work, outreach ming visit www.catskillmtn. June 6, 2015 at the Orpheum to the local community, and org. Film & Performing Arts Center perform an evening of dance in Many of the Catskill located at 6050 Main Street, the last days at the Orpheum. Mountain Foundation’s past Village of Tannersville, New Larry Keigwin is a native seasons were made possible in York. The evening of dance New Yorker and graduated part with Public Funds from begins at 7:30 p.m. from Hofstra University, where the Greene County Legislature “It’s rare that a modern- he received a BA in Dance. through the Cultural Fund dance concert hits all the He founded KEIGWIN + administered in Greene right notes: a good length COMPANY in 2003 and as County by the Greene County (leaving you wanting more Artistic Director, Keigwin has Council on the Arts. The but still feeling that you’ve got lead the company as it has Catskill Mountain Foundation your money’s worth); well- performed at theaters and is currently in review to receive crafted pieces presented in a dance festivals throughout funds for their 2015 season. sensible order; alert, engaging New York City and across the performers with great technical country. skill; dances that show humor This performance is Heron & Earth Licensed Neuromuscular Massage and drama in equal measure; part of the Catskill Mountain Massage Deep Tissue • Hot Rocks and accessibility”. Andrew Foundation presenting season. GRAPHIC DESIGN Therapist Swedish • Spors • Thai Boynton, The New Yorker Keigwin + Company’s 3-week Keigwin + Company will long-term residency at the be in residence at the Orpheum Orpheum is made possible with Lenora Freese for three weeks as part of a funding from New York State • 11 William St., Ste. 2 Catskill, NY 12414 The Catskill Moutian Foundation hosts an evening of dance with Keigwin + Company, choreographed by Larry Keigwin, June 6, 2015 www.heronandearth.com • 518 - 821- 6341 518 - 943 - 9520 at the Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, NY. ALIVE 2015 May/June Page 7 With the Advent of Spring, Things Shift into High Gear at Catskill’s NEW Bridge Street Theatre “Even as things were just OBSCURA, which was a huge on June 6. beginning to thaw out, we hit in BST’s Speakeasy back in Kaliyuga Arts, Bridge were already presenting some June of 2014. Street’s resident theatre pretty fabulous, and incred- On June 5 a special benefi t company, has committed to ibly diverse, evenings,” says performance of three seldom producing or presenting at John Sowle, BST’s Managing performed one-act plays by least one production each Director. We’d like to think Tennessee Williams called month during the rest of this audiences will NEVER know THREE BY TENNESSEE, season,” says Steven Patterson, what to expect when they walk presented by the Blue Horse the theater’s Associate through our doors, but that Repertory Company. Director. “And with the addi- they’ll know it will always be BST’s fi rst production in tion of our fi rst employee, “Driveway Studio” by Guy Chirico, Sr., oil on canvas, 18” x 24” top quality. Our aim, always, is the raw space which will even- Development Director Alison to make everything we present tually house their mainstage Davy, we’ve made a giant step a real adventure for both our theater: Kaliyuga Arts’ world toward fi nancing conversion Guy Chirico, Sr. patrons and our artists.” Here premiere of THE EPIC OF of the remainder of our are a few of the adventures GILGAMESH, a new one-man building, which will make so Major Retrospective in store for Bridge Street stage adaptation of the world’s many more of the plans and Theatre’s audiences during oldest known work of litera- dreams we have for the theater His Family Off ers May and June 2015. ture, featuring actor Steven possible. We’re hugely grateful Kaliyuga Arts’ presen- Patterson and funded in part to everyone both here and a Long Look at His Work tation of Florida-based by a Decentralization Grant far away for the tremendous playwright/performer from GCCA. THE EPIC OF support we’ve received thus Named after his artist as well as the United States. Roxanne Fay’s HOME FIRES GILGAMESH runs June 12-14 far. Of course,” he adds, “the father, Guy Chirico, Jr., His work was the subject of a BURNING in which she and June 19-21. best way for people to show announces a major retrospec- major retrospective in 1997 at plays two unforgettable and A special performance by their support is to attend our tive of his late father, Guy the Galerie Etienne De’Causans very diff erent characters – an Advance Placement students shows and spread the word Chirico, Sr., a very established in Paris, France and his land- almost feral orphaned child from Catskill High School of about what we’re doing here and beloved artist in the Catskill scapes were exhibited at the and a disfi gured old woman – traditional and re-conceived in Catskill to everybody they Mountain area. For the fi rst Musee Fleury in Lodve, France. both trying desperately to cling scenes from Shakespeare’s know.” time ever over 100 pieces of In 1966 Guy Chirico to a place they can call home. OTHELLO, developed in You can always fi nd more artwork, many available for sale founded the Scribner Hollow HOME FIRES BURNING conjunction with artists from information on what’s going for the fi rst time, will be exhib- Lodge and became a master runs May 15 through 17 and BST and funded in part by on at Bridge Street Theatre ited in one place since his death of hospitality. Maintaining a May 22 through 24. an Arts Education Grant by visiting their website at in 2005. Much of Chirico’s studio and residence in the From May 28 through from GCCA takes place on BridgeSt.org or by checking career was devoted to interior town of Hunter, he turned his 31, a special four-perfor- June 13, as well as musical out the theater’s page on design and signifi cant pieces fi ne eye to capturing the beauty mance return engagement performances from singer/ Facebook. from his incredible collection of of the landscape in the Catskill of San Francisco Bay area songwriters John DeRosalia Mid-Century modern furniture Mountain Region. Much of magician Christian Cagigal’s on May 9 and and Jon Woodin and other ephemera will be his work was inspired by the available for purchase. The views out his studio window weekend retrospective will take on the play of light on ancient place on May 30 and 31, 2015 rocks. Using delicate, vibrating at the Scribner Hollow Lodge colors and a masterful tech- located across from Hunter nique, the paintings show a Mountain on Route 23A in strong contrast of approaches Hunter, New York. to the landscape. Chirico was Born in New York in 1933 constantly experimenting and and raised in Brooklyn the late growing as a painter, and this Guy Chirico attended Pratt retrospective is the culmination Institute, the Phoenix School of a life of art. of Art and the Art Students In addition to his career in League. After graduating from art, Chirico served as President Pratt, he worked as a freelance of the Greene County Council on artist/illustrator and graphic the Arts, as a Board Member of designer in the 1950’s and the Friends of Olana and was a 60’s for hotels and restaurants, Director Emeritus of Columbia- Windham Arts Alliance including the Russian Tea Greene Community College Room and Tavern on the Green. Foundation. He died in 2005. He also created mural works His son, Guy Chirico, Jr. Art Fest 2015 for Pam American Airlines. on behalf of the entire family Much of his work throughout invites friends and the public See You Under the Tent! his career was in the Hudson to view the work of a modern River School style with his oil master at Scribner Hollow paintings capturing the drama Lodge on Saturday, May 30 Imagine a balmy summer solo show at the Greene County will be identifi ed for a special of nature and the landscape. He from 1- 8 p.m. and on Sunday, morning strolling on a lawn Council on the Arts Gallery, drawing as well. You need not continued to paint refl ective of May 31 from noon to 6 p.m. under majestic sugar maples Peter Liman, Naomi Blum, be present to win. the Ashcan School movement, Refreshments will be provided with beautiful mountain views Iris Kaplan, Stuart Friedman, Enjoy the rest of the day and rendering European city- by the Prospect Restaurant and all around with displays of and newcomer Nancy Orr, all and evening in Windham with scapes, and later trompe l’oeil the hospitality will be guided the work of many artists in of whose paintings have been its fi ne restaurants, shops, and and portraits. Chirico was an by the artistic spirit. For more a variety of media, with the enjoyed by many. We will 4th of July celebration including internationally known painter information Call Guy Chirico at sounds of David Peskin at also have a selection of noted music, games for children, and muralist whose works are 518-331-6510, email gchirico@ the piano or Scott Berwick’s photographers displaying their and a parade all culminating on display in private collections hotmail.com or visit www. guitar or banjo playing in the work including Larry Gambon, with fi reworks at Windham in England, France and Spain scribnerhollow.com. background. Include sitting on well known for his images of Mountain Resort. the front porch of an historic wildlife, Francis X. Driscoll, The Windham Arts inn watching the world go by, Nancy DeFlon and Bill Deane, Alliance Mission is to develop or enjoying a lunch on a deck landscape photographers, the Windham, New York area overlooking a golf course and Tom Sardo, whose work as a cultural center and artistic with beautiful views, and you is a wonderful cross between destination for residents have ART FEST 2015 at paintings and photography. and visitors by coordinating Christman’s Windham House Additional talented artists and promoting the visual, located on Route 23 a mile include Emily Weiss, Elaine performing, and literary arts as west of the center of Windham, Warfi eld, Laurie Hornick, and well as other cultural activities. New York. Olivia Lago-Pedrick. We will Please plan to join the Art Fest, sponsored by also have Christine Wade, a artist members and friends of the Windham Arts Alliance, noted author available to talk WAA for this noteworthy event will be open from 10 a.m. to about her latest book. WAA and help support the arts on 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 4, anticipates other artists will the Mountaintop. 2015. WAA will be showing join Art Fest as we get closer to the works of over 20 Artists the event. all of whom will be present to There will be an oppor- The WAA Annual Art Fest, now under one tent, off ers visitors the talk about their eff orts. Some tunity to buy chances on art opportunity more time to meet the participating artists at leisurely pace. of the Artists showing include donated by each artist with Annie Christman, who recently the winners drawn at the end Above: “Catskills” by Tom Sardo, mixed media photography. completed a very successful of the event. Several pieces Below: “Highland Cows” in Love by Stuart Friedman. Far Left: Untitled” by abstract painter Naomi Blum. Left: “St. Charles Bridge, Prague” by Peter Liman.

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516-443-2847 Fax 631-659-3174 Page 8 May/June 2015 ALIVE 23Arts Initiative Announces 2015 Summer Season The 23Arts Initiative is of regional organizations and “We are delighted pleased to announce its second educational facilities. and looking forward to the annual summer season of “We plan to continue inte- upcoming community events performing arts events. This grating key artists like Tanya sponsored by 23Arts in year’s program will include Gabrielian into the community, Tannersville,” said Tannersville over fi fteen events in collabora- but also opening up new venues Mayor Lee McGunnigle. “The tion with other Hudson Valley- to music like the Kaaterskill eff ort of 23Arts is another big based arts and community United Methodist Church, step forward for the arts revival groups, including world-class which hasn’t hosted the arts for in the Village. The integration jazz and classical music, chil- decades,” said 23Arts Initiative of the well-renowned artists dren’s concerts, educational founder Piers Playfair. “This will enhance the culture of workshops and free community program is key in maintaining Tannersville, while thoughtfully arts programs. For full event our village’s energy and attracting new visitors. Visitors details and regular updates, creativity for years to come.” and residents alike will benefi t visit www.23Arts.org. Throughout the summer, from the experiences of these This year’s lineup features 23Arts and its program, the local events. We invite everyone free community concerts at Catskill Jazz Factory, will to enjoy the Independence Day All Souls Church, Kaaterskill co-present the Harlem on the Parade and the series of free United Methodist Church, Hudson series at the Bard lectures at the Mountain Top Mountain Top Arboretum, Spiegeltent. Featured jazz Library.” and Doctorow Center for the artists will include trumpeter The 23Arts Initiative is a Arts. Featured artists include Etienne Charles, trombonist program dedicated to bringing 23Arts Initiative is pleased to announce its inaugural Artist-in- the Attacca Quartet, the New Chris Washburne and his world-class performing arts to Residence program with acclaimed classical pianist Tanya Gabrielian Baroque Soloists, the Bard band SYOTOS, and the Steven the community of Tannersville, and integrating key artists like Gabrielian into the community. Conservatory String Orchestra, Feifk e Big Band. Musicians NY by developing artist resi- Professor Louie and more. will also bring their bands to dencies, community outreach, Also featured will be the Tannersville for performances and education opportunities inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Villa Vosilla and the with internationally recognized Altamura Center program with acclaimed clas- historic Hathaway House. artists. 23Arts is funded by for the Arts sical pianist Tanya Gabrielian Between 23Arts’ Tannersville- the Friends of Tannersville as well as year-round educa- based program and Catskill Organization. For event tional workshops, several Jazz Factory’s year-round details, updates, and upcoming Two Upcoming concert series at venues regional outreach, the organi- program announcements, visit around the mountaintop, and zations will facilitate over forty www.23Arts.org. Concerts collaborations with a variety events in 2015. Not to be Missed! Scenes from the 2013 Catskill The Altamura Center for performers as actress Celeste Irish Arts Week. Generations the Arts, located on Winter Holm, Director and Conductor come together and share a lesson Clove Road, in Round Top, NY, at The Metropolitan Opera in playing traditional Irish music. has two upcoming concerts Roger Malouf, Co-founder not to be missed! On May 3, New Rochelle Opera Camille 2015 the Altamura Center Coppola, Bass-Baritone Kwang Catskills will showcase Mandolins Kyu Lee and many more. & Celebrated Melodies Alla For more information Irish Arts Napoletana followed by ALL about the Center, please visit THAT JAZZ on June 28 with www.altocanto.org or like us Week jazz performances by variety of on Facebook. For information performers. Both Performance about attending these perfor- July dates include a 1 p.m. buff et mance and the entire summer lunch provided by Brandywine season, to purchase tickets, or 13-18 Restaurant before the 2 p.m. to book the Center for an event Irish Music, Song, Dance, Story, Art and Crafts performance. Tickets are $45 contact M.A. Tarpinian, Event The MJQ Irish Centre’s Ireland each year. ronment. The program has per person. Groups of 10 or Director at 518-610-33332. mission is to promote and A special concert series been expanded to include more receive 10% discount Many of the Altamura preserve the cultural and each evening off ers the public a youth program for older and as always-bus trips are Center for the Arts’ past artistic heritage of the Irish and a unique and aff ordable oppor- children and beginner adults. welcome!! seasons were made possible you can easily be a participant. tunity to enjoy these masters at Many parents are now joining The Center was founded in part with Public Funds from The 38th Annual East Durham their work. Workshops aff ord their children in this unique by world renowned opera the Greene County Legislature Irish Festival featuring over students the valuable experi- approach to learning all about soprano Carmela Altamura through the Cultural Fund 20 bands, vendors, dance, a ence of how the music, song, the Irish culture. It is open to and her husband, Leonard administered in Greene County Beer Garden and Irish Cottage dance, story, arts and crafts of people of all cultures and could Altamura, in 2000 with the by the Greene County Council Tours takes place May 23 and Irelands were handed down in hopefully prompt an interest in purpose of promoting under- on the Arts. Altamura Center May 24, 2015 in the bucolic the age old Irish Oral Tradition. them to explore and enjoy the standing among world people for the Arts is currently in town of East Durham, NY. Call The businesses are alive Traditional culture of others. through the study of music. review to receive funds for their 518-634-2286 or visit www. all week with the sound of Cairo Durham School District Throughout the years the 2015 season. eastdurhanirishfestival.org music, song and dance fi lling has generously off ered a school Center has played host to such for the full schedule of the their halls, restaurants and for this program. festival events, performers and pubs in the now famous nightly The week closes with a locations about the town. Sessions. In addition they host Grand Finale festival. The Next on their calendar the our very popular Listening East Durham Trad Fest, is MJQ Irish Cultural and Sports Rooms. These are perfor- highly impactful in that a Centre is proud to present the mances by our master faculty large number of these grand 21st Catskills Irish Arts Week in an intimate and informative masters take to the stage in an this year from July 13 through setting. all day feast of Traditional Irish July 18, 2015. This exciting This year dancers will entertainment and hospitality annual event celebrates the enjoy all forms of Irish Dance painting a true picture of the Traditional Culture and hospi- at the new Grand Barn land of Ireland and it’s people. tality of Ireland with music, Dance. Classes are available For Information visit us song, dance, story, art and beforehand. This is a golden online at www.catskillsirish- crafts performed at various opportunity for any and all who artsweek.org or call 518-634- venues throughout the village. have always longed to take to 2286 for a chat. Many of the Employing many of the most the fl oor but for one reason or CIAW’s past seasons were prominent fi gures in these arts another never took the time to made possible in part with from both sides of the Atlantic do so. Public Funds from the Greene Ocean, the Catskills Irish Arts Special attention is given County Legislature through Week is widely recognized to children in the Tir na nOg the Cultural Fund adminis- around Ireland and indeed (land of the Young) Children’s tered in Greene County by throughout the world as one Program. They enjoy the the Greene County Council of the leading Summer Camps same level of teaching off ered on the Arts. CIAW is currently Paul Taylor Dance Company performing “Promethean Fire” at Hudson of its kind that take place in the adult programs, in an in review to receive funds for Valley Dance Festival last fall in Catskill, NY. Photo by Whitney Browne. throughout America and in appropriate fun fi lled envi- their 2015 season. Hudson Valley Dance Festival Returning for its Third Year One performance only on October 10, 2015 Hudson Valley Dance 115-year-old wooden ware- only, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Hudson Valley Dance Festival pre-performance cocktail recep- Festival, a world-class dance house at Catskill Point into Historic Catskill Point, 1 Main will help DRA and Broadway tion, recognition on printed experience in the heart of a modern-day dance venue, Street in Catskill, NY. Cares provide grants to more and online materials along Catskill, NY, returns for its third complete with a stage and The program for this year’s than 450 AIDS and family with an intimate VIP reception year on Saturday, October 10, raised seating for 350. In just festival will be announced this service organizations in all following the performance. 2015, at the Historic Catskill two years, Hudson Valley Dance summer. In previous years, 50 states as well as the social Hudson Valley Dance Point. This one-night-only event, Festival (#hvdance) has raised Hudson Valley Dance Festival service programs of The Actors Festival is sponsored by The produced by and benefi ting an impressive $198,075 for included performances by Fund. Those grants help ensure New York Times, United Dancers Responding to AIDS, those most vulnerable among Paul Taylor Dance Company, that those in need have access Airlines, City National Bank and features some of the most us. Stephen Petronio Company, to lifesaving medications, Catskill Mountain Foundation. intriguing dance companies in Tickets for Hudson Valley Monica Bill Barnes & Company, counseling, healthy meals and For more information, please the country all on one program. Dance Festival are on sale now Keigwin+Company, Dorrance emergency fi nancial assistance. visit Dancers Responding to Dancers Responding to at dradance.org or by calling Dance and featured choreog- Ticket prices range from AIDS at dradance.org, at AIDS, a program of Broadway 212.840.0770, ext. 229. Hudson raphy by Marcelo Gomes and $40-$250. Sponsorship oppor- facebook.com/DRAdance, at Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Valley Dance Festival will take Andrea Miller. tunities also are available. twitter.com/DRAdance and at will once again transform the the stage for one performance The money raised at Sponsor benefi ts include a youtube.com/DRAdance. ALIVE 2015 May/June Page 9

Guy Chirico, Sr. MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE Left: Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn perform Friday, July 17. Right: Greensky Bluegrass performs Saturday, July 18. May30&31,2015 ScribnerHollowLodge,Route23A, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival Hunter,NewYork  Over 40 Extraordinary Bands Perform OriginalArtwork[MidͲCentury on Walsh Farm in Oak Hill, NY ModernFurniture[Ephemera

Plans are already in Compton & Joe Newberry; and musical surprises. There place for this summer’s world The HillBenders and the west will be no tickets sold on famous Grey Fox Bluegrass coast’s favorite multi-instru- Sunday. Instead, admission Festival held each year in the mentalist, Joe Craven. Still for A Taste of Grey Fox will be Catskill Mountains. This event more bands will be announced a donation of non-perishable is widely known as a Who’s as they are confi rmed, including pantry items that will be Who of Bluegrass Music. several Grey Fox Emerging collected at the gate. Grey Fox ȱ Farber’sFarmbyGuyChirico,Sr. Music seekers come from all Artist Showcase bands from is pleased to be partnering with  over the United States and around the country. Community Action of Greene  Forthefirsttimeeverover100piecesofartwork, several countries to experience There is more than County, Inc., the anti-poverty manyavailableforsale, the annual gathering of music, enough fi ne entertainment to agency that distributes food willbeexhibitedinoneplacesincehisdeathin2005.  learning, family & friends. Many keep festival-goers satisfi ed and supplies to food banks in personal reunions for artists, all weekend, along with plenty several communities. Grey Fox Saturday,May30from1Ͳ8p.m.&Sunday, fans and pickers happen at the of educational opportuni- invites residents and visitors May31fromnoonto6p.m. beloved and historic event. This ties. Grey Fox is very much alike to enjoy Sunday’s musical RefreshmentswillbeprovidedbytheProspectRestaurant. year’s four-day festival takes about learning: learning to performances and help feed ScribnerHollowLodgeislocated place July 16 through 19, 2015 play better, learning to sing needy families. Suggested acrossfromHunterMountainonRoute23AinHunter, on the picturesque Walsh Farm harmony, learning to jam, non-perishable pantry items NewYork. in Oak Hill, New York. Early learning to dance, and learning are listed at http://cagcny.org/  camping opens on Wednesday, yoga and meditation. The Grey food-donations/ FormoreinformationcallGuyChirico,Jr.at July 15, with special events for Fox Bluegrass Academy for Kimber Ludiker, founder of 518Ͳ331Ͳ6510, those with full festival camping Kids is a free music camp of Grammy-nominated all-female emailat[email protected]orvisit tickets. about 120 youth who learn to Della Mae says, “Although the www.scribnerhollow.com. When Grey Fox is fully play, sing and perform blue- lineup alone would be enough booked, more than 40 extraor- grass during the festival. The to make it a favorite festival for dinary bands will perform academy culminates in a main any music seeker, Grey Fox is at this year’s festival. Artists stage performance on Sunday more than that. It is the ulti- scheduled to appear include afternoon. Enriching learning mate festival experience—the multi-Grammy recipients, activities abound from opening bluegrass heaven of a camp- the Del McCoury Band; Sam day through the weekend ground, the all-night pickin’, the Bush; Hot Rize; Béla Fleck at multiple tents and stages inspiring staff , the special and Abigail Washburn; The around the grounds. Music, musical collaborations, and the Infamous Stringdusters; hands-on workshops, dance general magical atmosphere Greensky Bluegrass; Steep classes, jamming lessons, kids’ that is a result of all of these Canyon Rangers; reigning activities, and more can be things. For Della Mae, it’s like IBMA Entertainers of the enjoyed all weekend long at the coming home to a family. You Year, Balsam Range; The festival’s many venues. have to experience it to know, SteelDrivers; two-time IBMA and once you know, you won’t Entertainers of the Year, the A Taste of Grey Fox want to miss it.” Gibson Brothers; and many Donate Food and Receive Full festival and day more. Free Admission on Sunday, tickets, artist bios and videos, Attendees will also get July 19 what to bring, directions, and to experience current IBMA New this year on Sunday, more are available at offi ce@ Emerging Artists of the Year, July 19 will be a special benefi t GreyFoxBluegrass.com; www. the all-female Della Mae; concert to help feed hungry GreyFoxBluegrass.com; Peter Rowan’s Bluegrass families in Greene County. 888-946-8495, 315-404-5738 Band; 2014 Grammy nominee The benefi t, called A Taste of or visit www.facebook.com/ Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen; Grey Fox, will feature several greyfoxbluegrass. Chatham County Line; Mike artists, many collaborations

PALENVILLE’S 3rd ANNUAL GALLERY WALK JUNE 27 & 28

Join us the weekend of iPhone to capture stunning was once known as the “First June 27 & 28, 2015, for the landscapes in the tradition of Art Colony in America” with third annual “Hidden Gallery the early Hudson River School Hudson River School painters Walk of Palenville.” The walk painters who lived and created Thomas Cole, Frederic will include “pop-up” art in Palenville. Church, and others working galleries in unique locations “This year we are adding and living in the hamlet during across the hamlet, including a a fun event on Saturday; the the 19th century. scenic barn, a Catskill boarding Mobile Phone Shootout. Information and maps house, and a former speakeasy. Participants are given a list will be distributed from the Galleries will be open of topics to creatively photo- Welcome Tent at the intersec- from noon to 6 p.m. both days. graph using mobile phones. tion of Routes 32A and 23A Visitors can enjoy artist talks Images will be uploaded and in Palenville, NY. Free event and demonstrations in the prizes will be awarded by parking will be available. For Art Tent, as well as food from guest judge, Sandra Carrion, more information, visit www. the Circle W General Store former director of Soho Photo PalenvilleNY.com, call Jill and Pippy’s Hot Dogs. The and creator of the annual Burkholder at 518-67-7186 Fernwood Restaurant will Krappy Kamera Competition or email hiddengallerywalk@ feature a Bier Garten with live in Manhattan.” states Jill gmail.com. Volunteers are music. Burkholder, Director of the needed! Local, regional, and event. There is a registration national artists are partic- fee of $10 for the Mobile Phone ipating, all celebrating Shootout. All other events are Above Right: Prints by Allen Palenville’s historic role as free. Bryan decorate the rustic walls of an authentic barn behind The one of the key birthplaces of The Gallery Walk will Clark House B&B in Palenville. American Art. Volunteers from also feature a day long, live the Thomas Cole National “Paint Out” on Saturday and ART SCHOOL Middle Right: Late Afternoon, Historic Site will present a Sunday. Artists will set up in OF Kent Narrows by Karen fi lm about the early artists who various locations across the Klinedinst, iPhoneography, COLUMBIA COUNTY came to capture the beauty hamlet, and create original archival pigment print on of Kaaterskill Clove and the paintings for sale during the bamboo-fi ber paper www.artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org Catskills. walk. A portion of the proceeds The 2015 Gallery Walk supports the Hidden Gallery imagining art for everyone Bottom Right: Prints by Ward drawing • painting • photography • printing includes a show by Karen Walk. Fleming on display during last Klinedinst, a Baltimore-based Nestled at the base of the summer’s Hidden Gallery Walk. sculpture • bookbinding photographer, who uses the Catskill Mountains, Palenville classes year-round • programs for adults & children Page 10 May/June 2015 ALIVE

GCCA’s Microcosm” Evokes Nature’s Abstract Beauty and Chaos Submitted by Dakota Kim

Above Left: Alveoli, AP 8, Pamela W. Wallace. Above Right: Onset of the Codes, Alicia Doebler. Right: Koi, Markieken Cochius. Below Left: Dust by Markieken Cochius. Below Right: Untitled (Staircase), Rob van Erve.

Nature’s presence in art is often of Art MFA program and has exhib- physicality, as in Untitled (Staircase), symbol for decay and deviation inside markedly obvious, from Andrew Wyeth’s ited at Sideshow Nation and Holland 2011, where a tunnel of light entices the the body. Her tense, energetic shapes fi eld in Christina’s World to Van Gogh’s Tunnel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, PS curious viewer to walk into the photo- mimic molecular structures, creating haystacks. In Greene County Council Hudson Correspondence II in Catskill, graph. Van Erve has shown internation- a conversation around the dark side of on the Arts’ new exhibit, “Microcosm,” the Athens Cultural Center in Athens, ally at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the genetics, including abnormalities and nature is insinuated more abstractly, the Hidden Art Walk in Palenville, and Kao Yuan Art Center as well as Avant- disease. Doebler obtained her BFA in unfolding in complex patterns, over- Energy Fields in Beacon. Garde Documenta II in Taiwan, Gallerie printmaking with a minor in art history lapping shapes and glorious color. You may not intuit from fi rst glance De Verschijning and Nederlands from The College of Saint Rose in Microcosm features the vibrant, intri- that Pamela W. Wallace’s beautifully Textielmuseum in the Netherlands, and Albany and an MFA in printmaking from cate work of Sarah Barker, Marieken jewel-toned, saturated prints evoke at Accola Griefen Gallery, Staff Gallery, SUNY Albany. Cochius, Alicia Doebler, Rob van Erve nature – not only thematically, but also the Islip Art Museum, The American The GCCA Catskill Gallery is and Pamela W. Wallace at a time when in their very materials. Look longer Academy of Arts and Letters, Gallery located at 398 Main Street in Catskill, summer too unfolds its vivid, chaotic however, and you’ll see a microscopic 128, Trans Hudson Gallery and the NY. Gallery hours are Monday color across Greene County. The work cellular environment emerge from the Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York. through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. will be on view June 13 through July 25, artist’s abstraction in the intensely vivid Dutch native and Hudson Valley and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. 2015 at the GCCA Catskill Gallery on oranges and yellows of Sacred Places transplant Marieken Cochius uses Admission is always free. Visit www. 398 Main Street in Catskill, NY. Please III. Lean closer and you may smell the pencil, graphite and pastel on paper to greenearts.org call 518-943-3400 for join us for a reception with the artists on faint scent of beeswax, to which she present minimalist yet chaotic states of more information on GCCA programs, Saturday, June 20 from 5 to 7 p.m. adds saturated pigments in a stunning nature, allowing the viewer to imagine special events, exhibits and artists “Plant Spirit Series,” the solo show array of colors. Wallace also uses gold bare branches of trees in winter, fl ight opportunities. by Sarah Barker that inspired this and silver leaf to create a rich yet natu- patterns of swallows, or light glim- intimate group exhibition, will occupy ralistic environment in her prints. With mering on schools of fi sh. A meditative, the upstairs gallery. Barker’s work a background in human physiology and intuitive artist who employs impro- places a strong emphasis on geometry psychiatry, Wallace’s pieces are deeply visation, Cochius’ work is strikingly and nature’s inherent balance. Framed conscious and meditative. Wallace visceral, bravely stark, and vibrates with like circular mandalas, Barker’s plant has been awarded a fellowship to the the tensions between organization and paintings document the physical Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, disarray. Cochius has been honored with appearance of the plants and reference the Purchase Prize at the Roanoke residencies at Vermont Studio Center, a their energetic and medicinal qualities. College Biennial, and has presented at Best in Show award at Jacklight Gallery From the powerful central burst of the International Encaustic Conference. in New York, a 2nd Place Best in Show Echinacea to the seemingly ever-ex- Featuring intense fl oral eruptions, at Art Association of Harrisburg, and panding starburst buds of Clove, Barker hovering stars and eerie arboreal land- 1st Prize at the Dutch National Video infuses her paintings with a reverence scapes, photographer Rob van Erve Award for up and coming artists. toward and knowledge of each plant, goes beyond traditional photography Alicia Doebler is a printmaker researching each academically and to incorporate mixed media and an whose process of combining digital translating its innate characteristics to abstraction on nature that weaves art and drawing touches on the irregu- a wood surface. Barker seeks to empha- together absurdism, humor, ethereality, larities present in nature and genetics. size the healing properties of her plant nostalgia and iconography. Wreaking Colorful, large-scale and patterned, subjects and bridge the gap between havoc on the eye and the brain’s desire Doebler’s prints are often drawn, then western concepts of advancement to work in concert, van Erve creates digitally manipulated, then screen and plant based medicine. Barker is a organic universes of imagination, printed or spray painted. She uses this graduate of the Otis/Parsons College whimsy and at times, an eerie meta- digital layering and scrambling as a

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Untitled, Sienna Sheilds, 2010, Acrylic paint, paper on “River Crossings” canvas, 72 x 60 in., Courtesy The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase made Exhibition possible by gifts from Carol Sutton Lewis and Will Bring Contemporary Art by World Amelia Ogunlesi. Renowned Artists Back To the Homes Where Distinctly American Art Was Born context – within the continuum The Thomas Cole practitioner. The properties of contemporary art,” said National Historic Site and lie two miles apart, directly Betsy Jacks, Director of the across the Hudson River from Thomas Cole National Historic The Olana Partnership/ each other and connected by a Site. “In doing so, it creates Olana State Historic Site bridge. a new understanding of how will co-host a landmark exhi- The artists whose work essential the work of Cole and bition of contemporary art to is included in the exhibition Church has been to the contem- highlight the pivotal role that are Romare Bearden, Elijah porary art that we enjoy today.” the two historic properties Burgher, Chuck Close, Will “Our sites seek to expand the – and the artists who lived Cotton, Gregory Crewdson, dialogue between past and and worked there – played Lynn Davis, Jerry Gretzinger, continuing conversation. “This exhibition provides present,” said Rena Zurofsky, in shaping America’s culture Don Gummer, Duncan Contemporary art is not a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Interim President of The Olana of contemporary art. The Hannah, Stephen Hannock, new to the homes of Thomas to see these magnifi cent recent Partnership. “It enables us to exhibition “River Crossings: Valerie Hegarty, Angie Cole and Frederic Church. works in a unique visual conver- consider new ideas about the Contemporary Art Comes Keefer with Kara Hamilton Cole placed his own work, sation with Cole, Church, meaning of the art and history Home” will open on May 3, 2015 and Kianja Strobert, likely still wet from the studio, and the sites that inspired so of the mid-19th century and its and run through November 1, Charles LeDray, Maya Lin, onto the walls of his west much early American art,” resonance today.” 2015. It will provide an unprec- Frank Moore, Elizabeth parlor, and Church frequently said Stephen Hannock. “It’s a Many of the TCNHS past edented opportunity for visitors Murray, Rashaad Newsome, displayed his work and that of conversation that I’ve wanted exhibitions were made possible to consider these historic Thomas Nozkowski, Stephen friends on the walls at Olana to experience and extend to in part with Public Funds from spaces from a completely new Petegorsky, Martin Puryear, in curated arrangements. Both other artists for some time the Greene County Legislature vantage point; that of experi- Cindy Sherman, Sienna homes were alive with visitors now.” through the Cultural Fund encing contemporary art in Shields, Kiki Smith, Joel coming to see the artists and “The show aims to high- administered in Greene County these iconic settings. Sternfeld, Letha Wilson, and the latest in contemporary light the continued vitality of by the Greene County Council The exhibition is co-cu- Elyn Zimmerman, in addition painting. But this is the fi rst the Hudson River Valley as an on the Arts. The TCNHS is rated by Stephen Hannock, the to selected complementary time since the 19th century important site of contemporary currently in review to receive celebrated painter, and Jason work by Thomas Cole and that contemporary artists have artistic production,” said Jason funds for their 2015 season. Rosenfeld, the art historian Frederic Church from the been invited to present work Rosenfeld. “Hudson, NY, for The Thomas Cole National who recently curated two permanent collections. in the context of the historic example, has become a hotbed Historic Site is located at 218 enormously popular exhibi- In describing the show, rooms and the landscapes of for artists both established and Spring Street in Catskill, NY tions at Tate Britain in London Stephen Hannock explains the two properties. It is also the new, all of whom, like Cole on the west side of the Hudson and the National Gallery in that artists have visual conver- fi rst time that these two sites and Church, sought a place River and Olana sits high Washington, DC. A fully-illus- sations with their predeces- have formally collaborated on to practice their craft within on the hill top to the east at trated companion book will be sors across time, and that he such a major scale to present easy striking distance of New 5720 Route 9 in Hudson, NY. published by The Artist Book in particular has long been a two-venue exhibition that York City, the metropolis that The Rip Van Winkle Bridge Foundation and will include infl uenced by Thomas Cole crosses the Hudson River. sustains and supports their connects the two communities entries by Rosenfeld on all and Frederic Church and The exhibition’s hard- work. Cole came up by ferry, and AMTRAK off ers frequent the artists and works, and in conversation with them cover companion book – also Church by railway, and now train service to Hudson from refl ections by such preemi- through his art. This exhibition titled “River Crossings: artists come by car, but this New York City and Albany. nent writers and historians as continues that dialogue by Contemporary Art Comes region has remained an incu- For more information on the Maurice Berger, Ken Burns, bringing outstanding work of Home” will include a foreword bator for the new in American exhibit and the sites visit www. Adam Gopnik, and Marvin contemporary artists into the by historian Ken Burns on art since 1833.” thomascole.org, www.olana. Heiferman. homes of these two historic the Hudson River Valley as an “This groundbreaking org or www.rivercrossings. The exhibition will take fi gures. The works in the exhi- ongoing inspiration to artists, exhibition puts these historic org. place in the residences and bition represent a wide range essays on the exhibition by both properties in an entirely new surrounding landscapes of of styles and a broad diversity curators as well as cultural the Thomas Cole Historic of artists, but the artists all historian Maurice Berger Site,the home of Thomas Cole have a connection to the region and cultural writer Marvin WOOD-FIRED (1801-1848), founder of the that Cole and Church helped Heiferman, and an afterword Hudson River School of art, ignite as a hot-bed of innovative by essayist Adam Gopnik. STONEWARE POTTERY the fi rst distinctly American contemporary American art: Together the exhibition and the art movement and Olana, the from Greater New York City to book explore the relationship Perfect gifts for all occasions, 250-acre home and landscape Lake George and from Niagara between past and present and in all price ranges created by Frederic Edwin Falls to Massachusetts. The consider new ideas about the Open weekends by appointment or by chance Church (1826-1900), Cole’s exhibition refl ects the co- meaning of the art and history student, who became world-re- curators’ choice of art and of the mid-19th century and its Call Susan at (917) 658-5288 nowned as the School’s leading artists to participate in that resonance today. Page 12 May/June 2015 ALIVE Found Moments A Photography Show about Getting Lost and What was Found Now showing through Columbia County. A photo- enjoy these found moments, May 23, 2015 at the Columbia graph is only a millisecond of and hope they inspire you to County Chamber of Commerce/ life and sometimes a moment explore the natural and urban CCCA gallery, is “Found that may never happen again. surroundings of Columbia Moments”, a show of photog- Life’s great adventure is about County. You can do this as a raphy by Bill Shaughnasey. the journey not the destination. family or with a buddy, but all This show is about getting lost Photographer William it takes is one step forward. and what was found. This is not Shaughnasey has been This show is dedicated to about being lost, since the best exploring the natural surround- Bill’s parents, Daniel and Rose adventures have a great escape ings of Columbia County Shaughnasey, “who gave me plan and a friend. Getting lost is for many years. A Hudson the tools to be safe and inspired about letting Mother Nature be resident who graduated from me to explore the world,” says your escape from life, job, and Taconic Hills High School and Shaughnasey. everyday problems. This allows Columbia-Greene Community The Chamber of us to explore places where we College, he is a Past Exalted Commerce Gallery is located at have never been before and Ruler of Hudson Elks Lodge 1 North Front Street, Hudson. fi nd things we never expected #787; and a member of For more information contact along the way. Columbia County Council on the CCCA at 518-671-6213 or The photos are the little the Arts and Columbia County [email protected]. unexpected found moments Photo Club. while travelling around You are welcome to

the Wagon House Education acceptance.) Plein Air Center by noon where artwork Thirty plein air artists will will be installed for the evening capture one of the most famous at Olana: event guests to view during a sites in America and the 19th Creating special cocktail hour followed century home, studio and by a live auction beginning designed landscape of Hudson Landscapes at 5 p.m. Plein Air at Olana River School artist, Frederic within the continues on Sunday, July 12 Edwin Church. The 250-acre when artists are invited to set historic estate features a Landscape up a sales station under the Persian-inspired mansion and View landscape painters working tent near the Wagon House fi ve miles of carriage drives, en plein air at Olana Historic Education Center from 10 a.m. many of which traverse the Site during the Fourth Annual to 2 p.m. Artists choosing to property developed in much The Olana Partnership enjoying the beautiful grounds En Plein Air Paint Out beginning participate are responsible the way that Church created and the CCCA are of Olana Historic Site, the home July 9 through July 12, 2015. Photo Credit: Dan Region for bringing their own equip- his canvases, with strategical- proud to announce the of Frederic Edwin Church, ment for display unless other ly-revealed vistas of one of the Fourth Annual “En Plein one of the major fi gures in the art from the amazing views arrangements are made previ- most strikingly beautiful places Air Paint-Out, Exhibit & Hudson River School of land- surrounding them. On the next ously through the Columbia in the Hudson Valley. Visit Auction” at Olana Historic scape painting. Thirty of the day Friday, July 10, the painting County Council on the Arts. Olana at www.olana.org and Site, located at 5720 Route country’s fi nest artists will be continues! Artist may be viewed Participating artists must man CCCA at www.artscolumbia. 9G in Hudson, NY. Visitors are painting ‘en plein air’ (outdoors) painting on site throughout the their booth throughout the sale org. All photography on this welcome to see the painters beginning on Thursday, July day from 7 a.m. to dusk. On of which artists retain 70% of website courtesy of Daniel creating landscapes within the 9. Visitors have the opportu- Saturday, July 11, the third and all sales. Proceeds from sales Region at www.regionsphotos. landscape. nity to watch the artists as fi nal day of painting artists will will benefi t artists, Olana and com. Spend the fi rst day they create original works of deliver their ‘wet canvases’ to CCCA. (Details to follow upon

CCCA Call for Entries Roosters and Pears

Who doesn’t love roosters and pears? The Columbia Institute of History and Art; many shows at the Columbia County Council on the Arts will present “Roosters and County Council on the Arts; Kinderhook Memorial Pears” from August 1 to September 26, 2015 at the Library; Columbia Greene Community College; National CCCA Gallery located at 209 Warren Street in Hudson. Upholstering Gallery in Albany; The Living Room Gallery Roosters and pears in all mediums will be judged by at Historic St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands (where her Karen Hummel. Meet the artists at the opening reception photography received an award; JK Bloom Jewelers, Troy; on August 1. The entry deadline is June 26, 2015. Classic Country, East Chatham; Old Chatham Country Karen Hummel is a former art educator and Art Store. Her work is in many private collections. She will Department Chair. After 33 years, she stepped away to be exhibiting at the Kaaterskill Gallery, Columbia Greene pursue her own artistic journey. She also served as Gallery Community College, this coming November. Karen has Director, Vice President, and President of the Columbia participated in the Olana Plein Air event for the last three County Council on the Arts. Karen has embraced and is years and is a member of the Columbia County Plein Air inspired by the Hudson Valley, having grown up in the painters. southern part of this beautiful region. She works in a wide Besides drawing, painting, mixed media, and digital variety of media and subject matter, mostly focusing on photography, Karen is collaborating on a drawing book and inspired by the natural world, particularly the regional at this time, co-president of the Kinderhook Education landscape, botanicals and livestock. She maintains a Foundation, an Ellsworth Kelly Endowment through studio in her Columbia County home. Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and teaching privately. Karen mounted a large one woman show in 2012 at She also teaches some workshops at the Art School of Painting of a rooster by Karen Hummel who will be the East Greenbush Library and has been in numerous Columbia County and The Living Room Gallery at Historic the judge for the upcoming exhibit “Roosters and group shows in the region including the old Malden St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands. Pears” at Columbia County Council on the Arts Bridge School of Art where she won select recognition for For more information on this exhibit and application August 1-September 26. her work by Norman Rice, former director of the Albany guidelines please call the CCCA at (518) 671-6213 or visit

Community Arts Grand Fund Clarion Concerts Spring Benefi t Features NPR Host Christopher O’Riley

Clarion Concerts in the performances. The was founded in 1982 by musi- Columbia County, Inc., is event is open to the public. cologist Newell Jenkins and proud to announce that pianist Reservations are required, and his partner Jack Hurley. The Christopher O’Riley, host of seating is limited, so act now. non-profi t organization recently NPR’s “From the Top,” will Tickets are $75 and can be was awarded a grant of $1,310 be one of the featured artists purchased online at www.leaf- by the Decentralized Program at a special Chamber Music peeperconcerts.org. Address of the NYS Council on the Arts, Benefi t Concert to support the and directions to the concert administered in Columbia Leaf Peepers Concert Series. will be sent to those who make County by the Greene County Adding even more riches to reservations. Council on the Arts through the mix will be Clarion’s Music Clarion Concerts is the Community Arts Grant. Director Eugenia Zukerman, embarking on its 36th season The grant will partially support fl utist; Edward Arron, cellist; of presenting chamber the performers’ fees for the Columbia County Council on the Arts is revving up for a fast- Paul Green, clarinetist; and music concerts in Columbia September 12 concert to be paced show and you are invited to attend! Plans are speeding Tessa Lark, violinist and one of County with world-renowned held in Copake, NY. along for a fun and interesting show at the CCCA Gallery located at 209 Warren Street in Hudson, NY on exhibit May 30 - July the young alumni of “From the musicians. The dates for this For more information 25, 2015, ‘”Bodyworks: Cars, Trucks, Bikes & Tattoos’”, will Top.” fall’s Leaf Peeper series are on the 2015 season visit www. feature the work of area artists in all mediums showing off their The Benefi t Concert September 12, September 26, leafpeeperconcerts.org, phone “bodies of work” relating to the bodies of vehicles or with fi gures will be held Saturday, May October 10 and October 24. 518-329-5613 or email leaf- through tattoo art! Meet the artists at the opening reception 30, at 3 p.m., at a private Clarion Concerts is the peeper.clarionconcerts@gmail. on Saturday, May 30, from 5 to 7 p.m.! Call 518-671-6213 for more information or visit www.artscolumbia.org. Show logo hilltop home in Hillsdale, NY, longest continually operating com. designed by Arlene Boehm. and includes a glass of wine performing arts organization and refreshments following in Columbia County, NY, and ALIVE 2015 May/June Page 13 Art School of Columbia County May and June Art Classes The Art School of will explore line quality, and they will print their blocks Columbia County off ers classes balance, contrast, value, move- on archival paper using a press. this May and June during the ment, and positive and negative Jeff rey Neumann will off er day and evening. Full class space in abstract drawing in Introduction to Realism in Oil descriptions, with additional Pop Art Design, May 9 from Painting, starting Wednesday, summer off erings can be 1-4 p.m. Kalfus also off ers June 24 from 6-9 p.m., viewed on artschoolofcolumbi- another short class, About continuing July 1, 8, and 15, acounty.org. Face: Drawing the Head, Face, with an optional Session II July Beth Thielen off ers and Features on Saturday June 22 and 29 (Session I as prereq- Monoprinting as a weekend 13 from 9 a.m. to noon; open uisite). Students will learn Jeff rey Neumann, Sea Shell Motel, oil on canvas, 24 x 36”, courtesy of workshop May 2-3 (with an to all levels, this class draws both traditional and modern the artist. www.neumannfi neart.com optional third day May 4) from on art history, incorporating methods, and will create paint- cifi c sculpture, and will install within Columbia County, a ten 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. both classic and contemporary ings from direct observation or and photograph their outdoor minute drive from Chatham, Students have found this class artists, and students will learn their own photographic source gallery upon completing the and one mile from the Taconic to be an encouraging way to how to identify the unique material in order to develop willow and paper sculptural Parkway, at the Harlemville/ develop creative ideas, using characteristics of a subject’s skills of perception, discrimina- forms they have designed and Philmont/217/21c Exit. painting, collage and drawing features. tion and memory of detail. constructed. To register for classes in a direct and spontaneous E. S. DeSanna will teach Draga Susanj’s weekend Classes are held at the online, go to artschoolofco- process. Seeing in Black and White workshop, Sculpture: Art Old Schoolhouse, 1198 Route lumbiacounty.org. For more Students wishing short Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. on & Environment, is held 21c in Harlemville, at the inter- information, email info@ but intensive courses will enjoy June 13 and 20. Students will Saturday and Sunday, June section of Harlemville Road artschoolofcolumbiacounty. Maj Kalfus’s Exploring Color, learn, using just a few cutting 27-28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Route 21C. Next to the org or call 518-672-7140. Saturday May 9 from 9 a.m . to tools, how to create a dynamic each day. Students will gain Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, noon. Gary Finelli’s students design in a block of linoleum experience in making site-spe- the building is centrally located

Leon A. Comstock Jr. Solo Exhibition at Neumann Fine Art

The public is invited to an l’oeil painting “Thank You Mr. as awards in the Association’s Corporation. After a 29-year personal reality,” said gallery artist’s reception on Saturday Rockwell” was exhibited at 31st and 33rd National career as a graphic artist, owner Jeff rey Neumann. Leon May 2, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. the original Norman Rockwell Exhibitions. These honors, and Comstock returned to painting Comstock Jr. paintings will featuring Leon A. Comstock Museum in Stockbridge, MA in fi rst place prizes in regional in 2010, winning awards at The be on display May 2 - July Jr. paintings at Neumann Fine 1983 and 1984. exhibitions, brought his work to Monson, Massachusetts Arts 11, 2015. Gallery hours are Art located at 65 Cold Water Comstock received the attention of Presley Blake, Council’s Annual Exhibitions in Thursday - Sunday 11 - 4. Visit Street, just off Route 23 in numerous awards in the 1970s founder of Friendly’s Ice Cream, 2011 and 2014. www.neumannfi neart.com. the heart of Hillsdale, NY. and ‘80s, including the Harriet who added Comstock’s work “Leon Comstock’s The Springfi eld, MA based Lumis Memorial Award at the to his private collection and compelling work goes beyond artist has not shown his work Academic Artists Association’s commissioned him to do paint- mere virtuosity; opening a in this area since his trompe 30th National Exhibition as well ings for Friendly’s Ice Cream door to the artist’s intensely

Still Leaf by Leon A. Comstock Jr., acrylic on panel 9”x16” 2010

“Trees And Skies” at CCCA Over 50 Artists Capture the Essence of the Landscape

CCCA opened it’s Trees and Skies exhibit to a sell-out crowd of members, artists and friends.

It looked as if spring had less formal manner typical of Mahoney, Dan Marcus, her fun and creative cuisine th www.marlenevidibor.com offi cially sprung during the 19 -Century Paris. Patrick Milbourn, James from caviar and egg salad recent late March opening There were many spectac- Molloy, Cynthia Mulvaney, stuff ed cucumbers to venison just google reception for the Columbia ular examples of photography Nick Nickerson, Daniel bites braised in rum along with “wildbraidart” County Council on the Arts that captured the essence of Region, Monica Restaino, her handcrafted cucumber bead art, jewelry, exhibit Trees and Skies by the subjects, from sunsets to Judy Reynolds, Karen Rhodes, infused vodka! (Visit her at: fi ber art, accessories, bringing out winter-weary folks snowy fi elds or just a solitary Herb Rogoff , Stephen Rose, www.thesassylasscook.com) watercolor/collage looking forward to seeing some tree. A wide range of paintings, Susan Roth, Julia Johnson Guests mingled with the many handmade poetry lush landscapes again. The ranging from the traditional to Rothenberg, Lori Rothstein, artists present and enjoyed this books exhibit runs through May 23, the abstract, captured the spirit Susan Sabino, Tom Sardo, wonderful show. 2015. The 50+ pieces in the of the landscape. Exhibiting Bart Schoenfeld, Cecelia Trees and Skies Trees show were representative of the artists are: Kirsten Bates, Keith Sinclair, Sarah Sterling, Rose remains on exhibit through many fi ne artists in the region in Batten, Debra Bilow, Arlene Tannenbaum, John Townes, May 23. The CCCA Gallery at all types of mediums and sizes. Boehm, Ken Bovat, Denise B. Karl J. Volk, Valerie White, 209 Warren Street in Hudson “We are honored to have as our Chandler, Susan Elias, Gary Steve Wildermuth and Leonard is open Wednesday thru Friday juror, Gretchen Kelly, a well Finelli, Dona Mara Friedman, Wise. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday known and respected fi gurative Laura Garramone, Gail Giles, J. To round out this event, and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. There and landscape artist in the area Pierre Gontier, Christine Hales, we were fortunate to have the are still plenty of opportunities to select the exhibiting artists,” Fran Heaney, Valerie Hoff mann, terrifi c CJ Colt as our culinary to purchase some wonderful said Fran Heaney, CCCA Peter Keitel, Maria Kolodziej- guest. CJ, “The Sassy Lass pieces at aff ordable prices! Board President. The pieces Zincio, Susan Levine, Myra Cook”, a singer- entertainer were displayed salon style, a Lobel, Sally Lyon, Katharine and gourmet chef, supplied Page 14 May/June 2015 ALIVE how to use a viewfi nder speak of the generations for composition, develop of farming families that Art Wokshops at shapes and colors, refi ne lived out their daily lives detail, and allow for the here. Gnarly black locust Scenic Hudson’s changing light as the day trees stand in groves, progresses. The fee for planted long ago for their this weekend painting utility add to the scenic Long View Park workshop is $100. beauty. Cramer states The 75-acre property Two Local Artists Help “painting on location is managed by the New strives for a synthesis of Baltimore Conservancy, (seeing), internalization which is developing Raise Funds for One (contemplation), and the park for public use. application (brushes, Proceeds from the work- Scenic Park paint, canvas). I “paint shops go toward the James Cramer paints at Long View Park. the day” as I see it, and installation of interpre- Photo by Leigh Ann Smith suggest to the viewer a tive signage. Leigh Ann Smith one-on-one attention for mediate levels and has years to the art of plein sense of place via paint- The property is and James Cramer, student work. Students a 12 student maximum. air painting, will lead a erly brush strokes.” located on Route 61 both artists of local and are required to bring all Learn the fundamentals two-day outdoor painting Scenic Hudson’s (River Road), 1/2 mile regional fame will off er items on the materials of drawing that create workshop on Saturday, Long View Park is south of the hamlet of painting workshops to list at newbaltimorecon- the illusion of distance June 6 and Sunday, June a historic farmstead New Baltimore, NY. help raise funds for the servancy.org. In case and three-dimensional 7, taking place from located just south of the Google map lists as development of one of the of rain; classes will be objects on paper, receive 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The New Baltimore Hamlet the Bronk/Armstrong region’s most pristine and conducted in the historic tips for starting a drawing workshop is limited to 15 on Route 61. Views from Farmstead, with address beautiful parks; the New barn. and remaining focused, students and is catered height of land to the east of Ma hew Point Road, Baltimore Conservancy On Saturday, May and enjoy drawing the for beginner to inter- overlook Houghtaling West Coxsackie, NY Long View Park. Both 30, Leigh Ann Smith will interesting and beautiful mediate level students. Island in the Hudson 12192. artists teach using a lead a one-day drawing views in the park. The fee Discover the steps for and encompass both For more informa- combination of instruc- workshop from 9 a.m. to for the workshop is $35. creating fresh, direct the Taconics and the tion, materials list, and tion in the barn, demon- 2 p.m. This workshop Jim Cramer, who paintings, using a limited Berkshires. A splendid payment please visit strations in the fi eld, and is for beginner to inter- has devoted over 30 palette. Students learn circa 1850 barn, pig newbaltimoreconser- house, and granary vancy.org.

sion arts. The group will spend (Coney Island, NY), and Wave Wave Farm Announces time at Wave Farm researching Farm (Acra, NY). and developing this exhibition. Sarah Washington and 2015 Artists-in-Residence Gambletron - Montreal, Knut Aufermann out of Uerzig, Canada. Theremin Drone Germany. Introducing the Oscillator with Transmission “Repro” enables the immor- Wave Farm, located in August Black hails from interactive gallery installation is a large-scale outdoor radio talization of memorable radio Acra, NY, announces the Oakland, CA. Hearhere My in which 13 theremins are sited Theremin. Using AM radio moments. By way of homage, ten artists selected for the Fellow Peer is a user-centric to represent the towers at the transmitters and receivers, excerpts from various existing 2015 Wave Farm Residency radio application that allows Radio Canada International Gambletron pushes the bound- sources will be selected and Program. Applications were multiple users to input short (RCI) shortwave site in aries of this interactive installa- framed using contrasting received from 12 countries and segments of sound to an Sackville, which after 67 years tion-instrument incorporating and complimentary sounds, 15 states in the United States. FM station live from their of transmission closed in 2012 transmission into its oscillating creating surprising new The Wave Farm Residency browsers or cell phones. An due to budget cuts. chords. contexts, which can stand program provides artists evocation of Bertolt Brecht’s Damian Catera and Bernd Klug from alone as monuments to the with a valuable opportunity utopian two-way radio, Black’s Patricia Kositzky out of Jersey Brooklyn, NY. Transmissions glory of the medium. to concentrate on new trans- application is an experiment City, NJ. Strategies Against and Frequency Spectra of a Artist Biographies and mission works and conduct in building a democratic and Communication: NIGHT is a Radio Station is a site-specifi c more information are avail- research about the genre using interactive environment where four episode interactive radio sound work and installation able at transmissionarts.org/ the Wave Farm Study Center users can connect to all partic- performance series, incorpo- centered around the electro- residencies. Wave Farm’s resource library. In conjunction ipants, as well as the main FM rating original composition, magnetic residue that occurs Residency Program is made with their residencies, artists radio output. The app makes theatre and spoken word. It is when making radio. Conceived possible, in part, by the perform, are interviewed, and use of new HTML5 capabilities also the latest in a twenty-year for an outdoor exhibition National Endowment for the create playlists for broadcast such as WebRTC and web body of work utilizing chance space, a large-scale network of Arts; and the New York State on Wave Farm’ s WGXC 90.7- sockets, and will provide each and semiotics based composi- musical strings that carry elec- Council on the Arts, with the FM, a creative community radio user with visual feedback so tional approaches for working tromagnetic information will support of Governor Andrew station serving over 78,000 that they can “see” and hear with the written and spoken be installed so that the signals Cuomo and the New York potential listeners in New York’ the other participants in the word. For this incarnation, they carry are picked up and State Legislature. Many of s Upper Hudson Valley, and experiment. the theatrical poem NIGHT, amplifi ed by adjacent coils to Wave Farm’s past seasons were international listeners online. Linda Aubry Bullock written by Patricia Kositzky create a live generative broad- made possible in part with 2015 Wave Farm and Mike Bullock from with GE Schwartz will serve as cast environment in which “the Public Funds from the Greene Residency Program Selected Philadelphia, PA. Lanalog is source material for the experi- radio” plays itself. County Legislature through the Artists and Projects are as a six-hour durational perfor- mental text processing. Simon Ripoll-Hurier from Cultural Fund administered in follows: mance using wireless radio Collectif Radiophonique Patin, France. In his non-narra- Greene County by the Greene Ed Bear of Brooklyn, and TV transmitters to connect Oboro Radio Collective - tive experimental fi lm, Project County Council on the Arts. NY. Radio Organ is an experi- six performers located around Montreal, Canada. The Wave Diana, Simon Ripoll-Hurier Wave Farm is currently in mental array of 60 microradio the Wave Farm buildings and Farm Residency Program is creates a fi ctional zone where review to receive funds for their transmitters is a massive property. The piece explores pleased to welcome Collectif radio hams and artists intersect 2015 season. multichannel synthesizer with interference, feedback, and Radiophonique Oboro Radio to explore Earth-Moon-Earth Wave Farm is a non-profi t 180 voices, transmitting to any contingency of site; confronts Collective consisting of communication (EME). The arts organization that cele- and every station across the the uneasy relationship of members of Oboro’s board of project is rooted in a two-year brates creative and community commercial FM spectrum. The signal to noise in the rural directors, artistic committee collaboration with ARP use of media and the airwaves. “organ” will create a large phys- airwaves; and addresses our and executive staff , the Collectif - Paris Radio Hams Society Our programs provide access ical space, where every station fading memories of analog tele- Radiophonique Oboro was and the use of an abandoned to transmission technologies on ‘your FM dial’ is composed. vision and the uncertain future formed in late 2014 for the radio telescope in the Parc de and support artists and organi- During his residency, Bear will of analog radio. purposes of researching, orga- la Villette. Project Diana will zations that engage with media research the conceptual and Amanda Dawn Christie of nizing, and mounting a major feature night scenes shot in as an art form. (Wave Farm is technical precedence for this Moncton, Canada. Requiem for exhibition at Oboro on the signifi cant transmission loca- incorporated as free103point9 new instrument and installa- Radio is a body of interactive broad theme of radio in Fall of tions across the United States Inc.) For more information visit tion. He will also compose, works based on the disap- 2016. Each of the group is a including HAARP (Alaska), www.wavefarm.org. record, and begin mixing a set pearance of shortwave radio practicing artist and/or curator Huntsville (Alabama), Camp of long and short form pieces transmissions. Requiem for whose work has intersected Evans (New Jersey), Luna Park for the radio organ. Radio: New Dead Zones is an with sound and the transmis-

Linear Language: More is More continued from page 1 curios, fl ora and fauna. In an and Fischbach Galleries secreted amidst the region’s essay on drawing, he states in New York, NY and the woodlands. that “Figuration is to some the Centro Colombo Americano, Wendy Ide Williams’ most controversial and misun- Colombia. multi-layered drawings take derstood language of art.” He Words and images swirl advantage of every square uses this language to explore around the page in a cyclone centimeter of her paper, the the chasm between fabrication of associative thought in Matt patterns and textures over- and truth, punctuating with Bua’s drawings. His two-di- lapping in fl orescent, self-con- humor and emotion. Polinskie mensional works are formally tained worlds. Ruth Leonard has been granted solo shows similar to his found-wood and Sara Pruiksma invite the at the Carrie Haddad and sculptures, including the viewer into a lush botanical Nicole Fiacco Galleries in Catamount People’s Museum domain rendered with exqui- Hudson, The Art Center in in Catskill and a number of site attention to detail. Troy, the Dieu Donne Papermill small tree houses and shelters Pistachio shells adorned with bright scales, zigzags Kale by Ruth Leonard, mixed media. Ruth Leonard’s powerful drawing and polka dots by Ruby invites the viewer into a lush botanical domain rendered with exquisite Use your to see their Silvious and additional work attention to detail. by Keith Batten, Mollie Dash, Terrance DePietro, Tasha Solomon, Amy Talluto and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Depp, Reidunn Fraas, Robin M. others round out this opulent Saturday noon to 5 p.m. Glassman, Peter Keitel, Denise and ornate exhibit. For further information on Kelty, Charles Koegel, Maria The Linear Language: this exhibit, contact Molly Kolodziej-Zinco, Nicole Lemelin, More is More exhibit runs Stinchfi eld, Visual Arts Appreciate the Arts to the fullest...call for your appointment today Harriet Livathinos, Jeanette through June 6. The Greene Director at 518-943-3400 or Dr. Christine M. Scrodanus - Optometrist O’Callaghan, Christina Paljusaj, County Council on the visit greenearts.org. 518-943-3691 - 383 Main St., Catskill, NY Andrea Porrazzo-Nangle, Carol Arts’ Catskill Gallery hours Slutzky-Tenerowicz, D. Jack are Monday though Friday ALIVE 2015 May/June Page 15 Timeless Tale Gets a New Twist by The Two of Us Productions

The Two Of Us Productions in collaboration Stephen & Constance, working with their talented trademarks is presenting musicals with full orches- with RARE, Inc., the award winning non-profi t vocal director Daniel Galliher, are in the midst of tras, a rarity that is a great treat for their audiences. theater company based in Copake NY, is bringing an rehearsing their 23-person cast and 18-piece orchestra, They have performed at a variety of venues throughout exciting new production of Jesus Christ Superstar to and are looking forward to opening this exciting show the area including: Les Miserables, Into The Woods the Performing Arts Center at Taconic Hills Central on June 5, 2015. & Spamalot at the Performing Arts Center at Taconic Schools. The show opens June 5, 2015 and runs for six Jesus Christ Superstar was fi rst heard as a concept Hills in Craryville, NY; the NE regional premieres of performances. Jesus Christ Superstar is the ground- album before being staged on Broadway and later in next to normal and Tale of Two Cities in Hudson, NY. breaking rock opera created by Tim Rice and Andrew London’s West End. King Herod’s Song, Superstar and Chicago at the BCC Boland Theater in Pittsfi eld, MA; Lloyd Webber. It highlights political and interpersonal I Don’t Know How to Love Him became big popular Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass at the Valatie Community struggles between Jesus, Judas, the Zealots and the hits. The original album’s rock feel is very diff erent Theatre in Valatie, NY; The Owl and the Pussycat at Priests while suff ocating under the Roman occupation. from Webber’s later works. The show opened on the Cuneen-Hackett Theater in Poughkeepsie, NY; The opera follows Jesus during the last few weeks of Broadway on October 12, 1971 at the Mark Hellinger Cabare t and Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy at his life, beginning with the preparation for his arrival Theatre, running for 711 performances. The cast Stageworks/Hudson; John Pielmeier’s Agnes of God in Jerusalem and ending with his crucifi xion. included Yvonne Elliman (the original Mary from the at The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts in Pittsfi eld, Director & co-producer Stephen Sanborn says concept album) and Ted Neely who was understudy MA; and They’re Playing Our Song at the Rhinebeck the story is as current now as it was over two thou- for Christ. A fi lm adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar Center for Performing Arts. sand years ago, “That is why our production sets was released in 1973. The fi lm was shot in Israel Jesus Christ Superstar is being presented at the story in current times. It will have an urban feel, and other Middle Eastern locations. Ted Neeley and The Performing Arts Center at Taconic Hills Schools, as will be seen by our casting, set, costuming and Carl Anderson were both nominated for 1974 Golden located at 73 County Route 11A in Craryville, NY. choreography.” Sanborn set out to use non-traditional Globe Awards for their portrayals of Jesus and Judas, Performances are two weekends only, June 5, 6 and casting for all roles with the exception of Jesus and respectively. Yvonne Elliman reprised her role as Mary 7, and the following weekend of June 12, 13, and Mary, commenting, “I considered both women and Magdalene. 14, 2015. Friday and Saturday performances are at men for all the other roles and was lucky enough to In 2000 the show was revived on Broadway, star- 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees are at 3 p.m. Tickets fi nd a great group of incredibly talented local actors. ring Glenn Carter as Jesus and Tony Vincent as Judas. are $20 for adults, $14 for students & seniors, and We’ll also be using modern choreography in this A second fi lm adaptation was released in 2000, star- $12 for groups & families. For tickets visit www. production to convey the gritty personal struggle in ring Glenn Carter, Jerome Pradon and Renee Castle. TheTwoOfUsProductions.org or call 518-758- this show. Constance Lopez, our usual choreographer The fi lm won an Emmy in 2001 for Best Performing 1648. For directions and parking please visit www. has been studying with some wonderful dancer/ Arts fi lm. TheTwoOfUsProductions.org and click on the page choreographers and is very excited to have them The Two of Us Productions is well known for Jesus Christ Superstar. Make your reservations involved in this production.” Choreographer Lopez throughout the Hudson Valley for presenting quality early to make sure you get the performance date went on to say that she is thrilled to have Marcus theater, both musicals and dramas. Their recent you want! This event is made possible (in part) with McGregor & Debra Jo Hughes from Hudson Valley production of Les Miserables was recognized by the public funds from the Decentralization Program of the Academy of Performing Arts (HVAPA) contributing Theatre Association of New York with eight awards, New York State Council on the Arts, administered in choreography for this production. Lopez says “it is including outstanding work by the company and Columbia County through the Community Arts Grants an honor to be working with dancers of this caliber.” outstanding performance by the orchestra. One of their Program by Greene County Council on the Arts.

American Masquerade continued from back page (20) masks. Even the Jewish Purim Museum Exhibit will tell the story and Algonquin tribe member story of the 1840’s Catskill history leaves on our current festivities make use of carni- of the Catskill Mountain farmers Evan Pritchard will join Exhibit Mountain farmers’ revolution. No environment. Robert Cepale, valesque masks. The Iroquois who disguised themselves in Curator Fawn Potash in chroni- experience is necessary to partic- a mature Catskills’ artist, uses Confederacy of North America their wives’ calico dresses and cling this as-yet hidden but essen- ipate in this living history project his canvases to highlight the used masks to heal. Himalayan sheepskin masks to intimidate tial part of the American story. with three surprise community potential for history to lend a masks acted as go-betweens the rent collectors on whose As part of American performances plus mask and romantic glow to our percep- with supernatural forces. Native land the farmers were tenants. Masquerade, the Catskill costume workshops. CALICO tions. His vibrant scenes of daily Alaskan Yup’ik masks vary in size In 1839, the grandsons of the Mountain Foundation in Hunter, INDIAN FLASHMOBSTERS life show a bright picture of the from three-inch fi nger masks to soldiers who fought for American NY will present a performance will embody our ancestors’ past which masks the travails of twenty pound masks that need independence found themselves of the Baroque Pastoral Opera, dream, taking the fate of their contemporary life. Michael Adno several people to carry them. paying rent to rich land owners, “Acis and Galatea” by Handel, families and this land into their analyzes the intersection of the Whatever their use, masks on farmland their families had performed by Andrew Appel, own hands and moving America past and present, presenting have played an important part cleared and worked for genera- harpsichordist and Four Nations into an era of greater individual beautifully detailed photos that history and in helping us to tions. Long after feudalism had Ensemble with masks created rights. Their struggle led directly nevertheless make room for the understand what it means to ended in Europe, the old-world by artist Joyce Kozloff , at the into the Civil War and 150 years ravages of time and the intrusion be human by masquerading as manor system was revived in Foundation’s Orpheum Center of social and economic justice of banality in modern signage something other than ourselves. the Hudson Valley and Catskill for Film and the Performing progress. These fl ashmobs will and fi xtures. Together these two The masquerade motif even Mountains, granting millions of Arts in Tannersville, summer, be held in Catskill, Tannersville artists’ works show us the mask appears in the Bible as an acres to transplanted European 2015. The opera will include up and Prattsville in June, July of history from both sides: the attempt to fool people and an aristocrats to manage a land to seven musicians, fi ve singers and August, respectively. Find reverence for a past we can only attempt to fool God. Judaic ritual settlement scheme designed to and four dancers. “Acis and specifi c dates and learn more at imagine and the transformation forbids the “fashioning [of] a transform the wilderness into Galatea” is a musical work by http://www.mainlygreene.org. and interpretation of this history statue or a mask”, as marked by agricultural communities. George Frideric Handel with an Mainly Greene partner, The through the passage of time. the Second Commandment. The tenant farmers’ fl ag put English text by John Gay. This Prattsville Art Center will host Both interpretations contain the This spring, Mainly it simply “DOWN WITH THE “little” opera was the pinnacle two exhibitions and a series mix of truth and illusions which Greene, a partnership of four RENT”. Some Anti-Renters of pastoral opera in England of workshops in connection allow us to fi nd our place in the Greene County, New York based contested the idea that the and is considered by some to with this county wide project. masquerade of everyday life. non-profi ts, will explore the Livingstons, Van Rensselaers and be the greatest pastoral opera The fi rst Art Center exhibi- American Masquerade is a masquerade motif in a joint other Patroons had legal title to ever composed. It was written tion American Masquerade I, partnership project administered exhibit, “American Masquerade.” the land. Some wanted to apply as a courtly entertainment about looks into the way we relate to by the Greene County Council Using as its core, the Anti-Rent the rent paid toward ownership. the simplicity of rural life and the past of this historic region. on the Arts, supported in part by War of New York State, 1839- Some just wanted the opportu- contains a signifi cant amount of The two person show combines the New York State Council on 1845. The so-called “war” was nity to buy the land where their wit and self-parody. The opera colorful paintings by Robert the Arts REDC initiative with the actually a tenants’ revolt in families had lived since arriving will add a European histor- Cepale, depicting idyllic scenes support of Governor Cuomo and upstate New York during the in the new world. There were ical context to the “American of country life in the rural the New York State Legislature. early 19th century, beginning Anti- Rent fl ags, rallies, drinking Masquerade” project, demon- Hudson Valley, with photographs in 1839 with the death of songs, newspapers and political strating a connection between and fi lms by Michael Adno, exam- wealthy landlord, Stephen Van candidates. They organized into U.S. festivals (New Orleans’ ining the traces that regional Rensselaer III. regional groups, with younger Mardi Gras, which began in Beginning on Saturday, May men joining a Calico Indian 1703 and Colonial masquerade 23 through Sunday, October “tribe”, pledging a secret oath dances) and European Baroque 11, 2015 at the Zadock Pratt to never reveal the members’ operas and festivals. First noted Museum in Prattsville, NY, the identities. in Italy during the 15th century, Mainly Greene Arts Partnership Underneath this story is a Renaissance Masquerade 845 - 246 - 7875 will begin a six month examina- deeper, as yet untold story, of Balls became popular both tion of American Masquerade, the Native American claim on in England and then Colonial 2 Village Drive, Saugerties, NY 12477 the historical and cultural uses the land and their view of the America. In the U.S. a signifi cant Facial • Waxing • Make Up • Pedicures • Manicures of the mask in America and its Anti-Rent Wars, as yet un-ex- anti-masquerade movement roots in European culture. The plored. Noted author, teacher grew alongside the balls them- selves, promoted by the Puritan infl uence in early America. The anti-masquerade writers (among them such notables as Samuel Richardson) held that the events encouraged immorality and “foreign infl uence” perhaps because of their early Venetian reputation for decadence, gluttony and a large amount of lust and later even as locations for murderous intent. These Colonial American masked celebrations which drew on European traditions set the stage for later events like the Catskill’s anti-rent wars and “Calico Indians” protests by every-day Americans. Thanks to the contribution of Mainly Greene partner, the Greene County Council on the Arts, anyone interested in the subject can step into the shoes of the rebel farmers who ended feudalism in America. The Calico Indian Flash mob will appear in a dramatically choreographed Page 16 May/June 2015 ALIVE

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[email protected]. 315-655-5742. meetthecomposer.org/musicalive/ Updated 02/15 org 02/15 to individual artists and small arts groups. New York Ongoing. Updated 02/15 Music Grant…Global Connections Program with Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY Film, Video Grants... Average $25,000 to support Residencies... For photographers or related media. Meet the Composer supports living composers in 11201. (212) 366-6900 x 225 or 230.FAX (212) 366- international documentary fi lms and videos: current, One month, $2,000 stipend, apartment, private sharing their work with a global community. For US 1778 www.nyfa.org Updated 02/15 signifi cant issues in human rights, expression, darkroom, 24-hour facility access. Send resume, artist based composers to travel to performance venues liberties, social justice. Diane Weyermann, Dir. of Financial Assistance... For artists in need of statement, letter of intent, slides, proofs or prints of or to bring international artists to the US. Grants Soros Documentary Fund, Open Society Institute, emergency aid to avoid eviction, cover medical recent work. Light Work Artist-in-Residence Program, th range from $500 - $5,000. www.meetthecomposer. 400 W. 59 St., New York NY, 10019 Info. 212-548- expenses, unpaid utility bills, other. Submit 316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244. info@ 0657, Fax 212-548-4679 [email protected] www. org 02/15 lightwork.org, www.lightwork.org Ongoing. 02/15 vintage, modern, industrial, organic, hand-crafted and Performing Arts features a distinguished faculty Updated 02/15 local. hive supports local businesses and artists and of professionally and academically accomplished Residencies... Self-directed for research, strives to fi nd American-made items and use recycled instructors. 957 Route 82, West Taghkanic, NY experimentation and production of visual, television, All Media products. hive is a continuing work in progress and 12502. Call 518-851-5501. www.HVAPA.com. new media arts. Banff Centre for the Arts, Offi ce All Media... Seeking admissions to slide viewing will begin a regular concert series in conjunction with Updated 02/15 of Registrar, Box 1020, Stn. 28, 107 Tunnel Mtn. program. Possible inclusion in group exhibitions. their ongoing “Meet the Artist” events. hive off ers Dr., Banff , Alberta, Canada TOL OCO. 403-762- Performing Arts... Always seeking new actors for Applications for membership and curated shows opportunities to display, lecture and more. Contact 6114/6302. jon_tupper@banff centre.ab.ca , jennifer_ future performances and volunteers to help each also considered. Slides, CV cover letter. The Painting Theresa Spinelli at www.hive321.com or email woodbury@banff center.ab.ca . www.banff centre.ca production, throughout year in Columbia County. Center, 51 Greene St., New York, NY 10013. 212-343- theresa@hive 321.com for details. 02/15 Ongoing. Updated 02/15 Watch for audition notices: Ghent Playhouse, Town 1060. Ongoing. Hall Rd, POB 64, Ghent, NY 12075. 518-392-6264, Residencies... Ranging from 2 weeks to 2 months for All Media… The Sugar Maples Center for Arts and Literary, Folklore, Storytelling [email protected], www.ghentplayhouse.org. screenwriters and fi lm/video makers October to May. Education. Historic church for gatherings, readings, Poets... Seeking teen works for book. Love and Ongoing. 02/15 Yaddo, Box 395, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-0395. small musical performances, art studio. Art study aff ection, friendship, heartache, pressure, etc. as www.yaddo.org 518-584-0746. Deadlines, August 1 Performing Arts... Private classes available in Dance vacation, stay in hotel room, dorms on property. Two to themes. SASE: June Cotner, Poems by Teens, Box and January 15 each year. 02/15 and Music. Dance studio available for rent, 518-851- four week residencies include retreat for performing 2765, Poulsbo, WA 98370. [email protected], 5150, [email protected], www.abblappen.com. arts groups. Ellie Cashman, Dir., Catskill Mountain Residencies... Year-round, in photography, painting, www.junecotner.com 02/15 Updated 02/15 Foundation, 7967 Main St., Rte. 23A, POB 924, ceramics, textiles, etc. Contact: Nantucket Island Writers… nth position is a free online magazine/e-zine Hunter, NY, 12442. 518-263-4908. www.catskillmtn. School of Design and Arts. 508-228-9248. nisda@ Performing and Visual Arts… Deep listening with politics & opinion, travel writing, fi ction & poetry, org. [email protected]. 02/15 nantucket.net, www.nisda.org 02/15 programs, and in the gallery, painting, sculpture reviews & interviews, and some high weirdness. http:// and workshops. For schedule: The Pauline Oliveros All Media... Art Licensing 101: Selling Reproduction Residencies... Two-month residencies year round www.nthposition.com/links.php off ers listings for calls Foundation, POB 1958, Kingston, NY 12402, 845- Rights for Profi t. 224-page book de-mystifi es industry. for professional sculpture artists. Stipends available. for submissions to writers. Free to subscribe. 02/15 338-5984. Fax: 845-338-5958. www.artwire.org/pof, Action plan in easy to read form. Author Michael SASE: Gina Murtagh, Sculpture Space, 12 Gates St., Books... Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Village [email protected]. Updated 02/15 Woodward has worked in industry for 25 years. Art Utica, NY 13502. 315-724-8381. [email protected]. Square Bookstore & Literary Arts Center has over Network, POB 1360, Nevada City, CA 95959. 800-383- www.sculpturespace.org Ongoing. Updated 02/15 10,000 titles in stock including books on the visual Visual Arts 0677. [email protected] , www.artmarketing. Residencies... Off ering 3-6 month residencies in arts, crafts, fi lm, poetry, drama, children’s storybooks, com . Updated 02/15 Visual Arts…Art Instructors Needed. The Art Taos, NM to writers, painters, sculptors, composers cooking, gardening and fi ction and non-fi ction. Visit School of Columbia County, centrally located in All Media... Info hotline sponsored by American and choreographers. Contact: Helene Wurlitzer them online at http://www.catskillmtn.org/retail/ Columbia County in Harlemville NY (a 20 minute Council for the Arts has referral service, provides Foundation, PO Box 545, Taos, NM 87571. 505-758- bookstore.html to see their Schedule of Literary drive from Hudson), is a not-for-profi t [501(c)(3)] information on a wide variety of programs and 2413. email hwf@taosnet www.wurlitzerfoundation. Events. Updated 02/15 art school dedicated to “art for everyone.” ASCC is services. Call Mon.-Fri, 2-5PM EST: 1-800-232-2789. org Ongoing. Updated 02/15 Writers... Seeking entries for Very Short Fiction seeking applications for the developing and teaching Residencies...Cooperative residencies/retreats for Award. $1,200 and publication of work less than art programs for children or seniors, art therapy and Photography emerging or established artists in drawing, painting, 3,000 words. Award granted twice a year with teaching art to adults. Send your resume/CV with Photography…Nueva Luz, photographic journal of En sculpture, writing, poetry. Year-round. Private living submission deadlines in January and July. Online educational background, exhibitions (if applicable), Foco, Inc. ($45 membership) produces exhibitions, space, modern art studio, reasonable fee includes submission page: Glimmer Train Press, 4763 SW and teaching experience with your contact information publications and events which support photographers some mentoring assistance. SASE #10 to High Maplewood, PO Box 80430, Portland, OR 97280- to [email protected] Subject of Latin/Am, African/Am, Asian, Pacifi c Islander and Studios, RR1 Box 108N, Bolton Landing, NY 12814. 1430. 503-221-0837. Online submission page: https:// Line: application. Please mention in the body of Native American heritage. View current issue before Ongoing. Updated 02/15 www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp the email in which position(s) you are interested. submitting portfolios of 20 unmounted prints or slides Updated 02/15 (Ongoing) Residencies… Retreat, stipend $1,250 for writers in for consideration in future Nueva Luz. Subscription their work; $25 per diem, $500 travel. Gell Writers Writers... Lists of contests, grants, fellowships for VA… Life Drawing... weekly sessions of life drawing $30 USA. Membership, subscriptions, donations, all Center of the Finger Lakes, Writers & Books, 740 fi ction, poetry, drama/fi lm, non-fi ction, published bi- with model at the Hudson Opera House. Artists tax deductible. En Foco, Inc., 1738 Hone Ave, Bronx, University Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. 585-473-2590 monthly. Awards for Writers, PO Box 437, Ithaca, NY work independently in a disciplined environment; NY 10461. 718-931-9311 FAX 718-409-6445 www. www.wab.org. Gell Center Director of Operations 14851. www.ithaca.edu 02/15 No instructor or specifi c method is followed. $15 per enfoco.org Updated 02/15 [email protected] Ongoing. 02/15 session. Off ered throughout the year on Sundays Poets & Writers... Literary Horizons, new program Photography… Salons monthly, preceded by a potluck from 10am to 1pm, check hudsonoperahouse.org Residencies… Established and emerging artists is dedicated to professional development of writers at meal, bring something to share. Conversations, for current session dates. Hudson Opera House, of all disciplines may create, present, and exhibit all stages of their careers. Poets & Writers, 72 Spring sharing, seeing, discussions on photography. The 327 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534. 518-822-1438. experimental work involving sound and technology, St., New York, NY 10012. 212-226-3586, fax 212-226- Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker St., hudsonoperahouse.org, [email protected] with the option of integrating any combination of 3963, www.pw.org. Updated 02/15 Woodstock, NY 12498. 845-679-9957. [email protected] . Updated 02/15 other disciplines including visual and/or performance www.cpw.org Updated 02/15 art. Artists work with staff audio engineer. Jack Straw VA… Looking for sculptors, painters ad photographers Music Photography… Seeking contemporary and traditional Media Gallery, www.jackstraw.org., Steve Peters, who would like to exhibit their work year round in New! Open Audition for Young Singers 8-18. St. work by Native artists. American Indian Community [email protected]. Updated 02/15 Palenville, NY. Very reasonable commission. Contact Luke’s Episcopal Church at 50 William Street in House Gallery, 708 Broadway, New York, NY 10003. Al or Kathy at 58-678-3110 or www.catskillmtlodge. Residencies… The Platte Clove program provides a Catskill, NY announces the formation of a Treble 212-598-0100. www.aich.org. 02/15 com 02/15 retreat for artists from June through October. Painters, Choir for young people, male and female in the Photography… Seeking curators to present sculptors, writers, and composers are invited to apply English cathedral tradition. This is an audition only VA… Indoor and Outdoor Art… Unison Arts Center exhibition/publication programs focusing on aesthetic for residency. Artist interested in applying should choir under the direction of Ann Carter-Cox, M.F.A. in New Paltz seeks proposals from artists to exhibit issues. Proposals should include names of possible download the application from the Catskill Center In addition to weekly group instruction and practice, their wall-hung artwork in our gallery at Unison and artists, program summary, curator’s resume. Kathleen website,www.catskillcenter.org Inverna Lockpez, every young person accepted into the program will also from artists to exhibit their sculpture in our Kenyon, 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY 12498. 914- Director, [email protected]. Updated 02/15 receive an additional half hour individualized voice outdoor sculpture garden. Call Unison at 845-255- 679-9957. [email protected]. lesson each week. The entire program is off ered at 1559. www.unisonarts.org or the Exec. Dir. Christine Residencies… The National Park Service off ers no charge. Prior musical training or experience is not Crawfi s at [email protected]. Updated 02/15 Photography… The Greene County Camera residency programs to artists working in various necessary in order to audition. Call 518-943-4180 Club off ers three opportunities each month for disciplines. Contact the specifi c site for further info: VA… Columbia County Chamber of Commerce is or use the contact form on the church website www. intermediate and advanced photographers: member Amistad National Recreation Area in Texas, Badlands establishing a rack of post cards and/or note cards stlukescatskill.org. Updated 02/15 competition, 6:30PM second Thursday of the month National Park in South Dakota, Bearlodge Writers’ by artists and photographers of images of Columbia at Greenville Public Library Art Gallery; “Show and Devils Tower Residencies in Wyoming, Joshua Tree New! Music…Music instructor needed for youth ages County points of interest and historic sites. Artist is Tell” session, fourth Thursday in Greenville at 7PM; National, Klondike Gold Rush National Park in Alaska, 7-18 years. 3-6 students per week. Must teach piano, responsible for production of cards. Pricing between speakers, presentations and fi lms, third Wednesday Mammoth Cave National Park, Peters Valley Craft other instruments welcome. Call: Elena Mosley $2 and $5 each with artist receiving 70% of the at 7PM, Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Education Center’s Delaware Water Gap Residencies 518 -828-3612. Updated 3/2014 proceeds. Put contact information (i.e. web address) Athens. More info, Eileen Camuto at (518) 678- in New Jersey, Saint Gaudens National Historic Site on back of card for purchaser to access and view more New! Music…Wanted Male Singers, Tenors, Basses 9044 or [email protected]; Nora Adelman in New, Sapelo Barrier Island in Georgia, Sleeping work for possible sale directly from the artist. Call for Male Chorus Volunteer Group. Call 518-943-2914. (518) 945-2866 or [email protected] or www. Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Weir Farm National (518) 828-4417 or visit www.columbiachamber-ny. Updated 3/2014 gccameraclub.com. Updated 02/15 Historic Site. www.nps.gov/archive/volunteer/air.htm com Updated 02/15 Updated 02/15 Music… International Voice Competition in Canada, Photography… Off er of workshops with speakers, VA… Sunday Salons, Learn something new about USA. Altamura/Caruso Study Grants Audition. competitions, discounts on supplies and processing, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School of art. $30,000 cash grant prizes. Performances with newsletter. Greene County Camera Club, POB 711, Workshops, Seminars Informal discussions once a month, $8. 2PM at Cedar orchestra. Requirements: 5 (fi ve) arias in the original Greenville, NY 12083. 518-797-3466, 518-966-4411. Jurying for all media... For new members. Application, Grove, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 key and language. One aria will be chosen by the guidelines. SASE: The National Association of Women Spring Street, POB 426, Catskill, NY 12414. 518- contestant and a second aria by the jury. Aria with Artists, 80 Fifth Avenue, Ste. 14045, New York, NY 943-7465. [email protected], www.thomascole. Sculpture cabaletta must be presented in its entirety. One 10011. 212-675-1616 www.nawanet.org . Deadlines, org. 02/15 New!!!! 8th Annual Governors Island Art Fair - New chamber literature work of contestant’s choice. Sept. 15, March 15 yearly. Updated 02/15 York’s Largest Independent Exhibition. Seeking visual Contestant must be ready to sing a full recital upon VA… On-line art gallery NARtisticCreations.com. artists in all media. 4heads awards one hundred 24-hour notice. Information & application: www. Funded by NAR Productions. Showcases work of Nick artists each an exhibition room in a historic building. altocanto.org. Sponsored by Inter-Cities Performing Roes and local artists. Will feature a Visiting Artist CALL FOR ENTRIES, ETC. Once selected, exhibition space is free. GIAF is free Arts, Inc. 4000 Bergenline Ave, Union City, NJ 07087. each quarter in separate room at no charge. Contact to the public. Gallery scouts, journalists and collectors Info. (201) 863-8724 Fax (201)866-3566 icpainc@ [email protected]. Arts & Crafts/Folk Arts know this is where to fi nd new talent. Deadline for optonline.net Arts & Crafts… Art Instructors Needed. The Art VA… Seeking member artists, a few openings Submission June 1, 2015. Application Fee: $35. No School of Columbia County, centrally located in Music…Capital Area Flute Club for fl utists of all available for visual artists. Members staff the gallery, Additional Charges. Fair Dates: Every Weekend in Columbia County in Harlemville NY (a 20 minute abilities, wide variety of music played to expand perform administrative duties. Art in all media September 2015. Apply at http://www.4heads.org end drive from Hudson), is a not-for-profi t [501(c)(3)] opportunities for ensemble playing. Monthly meetings, welcome. Established mailing list of 1,300 asking to 6/2015 art school dedicated to “art for everyone.” ASCC is Delmar NY. 518-383-6480, 518-580-1206. www. receive show notices. Interested? Susan Kotulak, New Sculpture… Call for sculptors living within 150-mile seeking applications for the developing and teaching facebook.com/pages/Capital-Area-Flute-Club Updated Member Coordinator, Tivoli Artists’ Co-op Gallery, radius of Albany for large-scale works appropriate for art programs for children or seniors, art therapy and 02/15 518-537-5888. [email protected]. teaching art to adults. Send your resume/CV with high traffi c terminal. Prospectus, info: Sharon Bates, educational background, exhibitions (if applicable), Music... Programming sought by Society for New VA… Publications: The Artist Workspace: A Guide for Director, Art& Culture Program, Administration and teaching experience with your contact information Music, professional organization in Upstate New Artists; and The Artist Workspace Residency: A Guide Building Ste. 200, Albany International Airport, to [email protected] Subject York dedicated to performing and commissioning the for Organizations. (845) 658-9133, [email protected], Albany, NY 12211-1057. 518-242-2241 arts@ Line: application. Please mention in the body of music of today’s composers. Fees range from $1000 www.nysawc.org. Updated 02/15 albanyairport.com Updated 02/15 to $4000 depending on the concert and number of the email in which position(s) you are interested. VA... Seeking proposals for exhibitions at Greenville performers. Society for New Music, 438 Brookford (Ongoing) Branch, The Bank of Greene County. All Arts Matter, Miscellaneous Rd., Syracuse, NY 13224. 315-446-5733, Npilgrim@ POB 513, Greenville NY 12083. 518-966-4038. New Website... The Whitney Museum of American Art Arts & Crafts… Columbia County Chamber of aol.com www.societyfornewmusic.org Ongoing. has portal to Internet art and digital arts worldwide as Commerce is establishing a rack of post cards Updated 02/15 VA… Seeking art work for exhibitions at the an online gallery space. Details, scope: www.artport. and/or note cards by artists and photographers of Agroforestry Resource Center (ARC) in Acra, NY. Music... Information Hotline for grants, auditions, whitney.org Updated 02/15 images of Columbia County points of interest and Original art work only. This will be a juried process. competitions, seminars, health, tax info and more. historic sites. Artist is responsible for production For more information, please contact Marilyn Wyman Weekly Electronic Digest... New York Foundation for Contact: The American Guild of Musical Artists, 1430 of cards. Pricing between $2 and $5 each with at the ARC and Cornell Cooperative Extension of the Arts features news updates on social, economic, Broadway, 14th Fl., New York, NY 10018, 212-247- artist receiving 70% of the proceeds. Put contact Greene County at 518-622-9820 ext/36. www. philosophical, political issues aff ecting arts and 0247 [email protected], www.musicalartists. information (i.e. web address) on back of card for agroforestrycenter.org Updated 02/15 culture, job listings and opportunities for artists org Updated 02/15 purchaser to access and view more work for possible and organizations. Free on-line subscription: www. VA... Paint outdoors in nature with state organization, sale directly from the artist. Call (518) 828-4417 or artswire.org Updated 02/15 visit www.columbiachamber-ny.com Updated 02/15 Performing Arts New York Plein Air Painters Society. Will sponsor paint-outs, exhibitions around NYS. NYPAP, J.Baldini, Rentals... Lighting and audio system packages. LSL Performing Arts… Dance classes for children, Arts & Crafts... Greene County, NY craftspeople: P.O. Box 2332, Niagara Falls, NY 14302-2332. Productions, Box 63 Windham, NY 12496-0063. 518- teens, adults. The Hudson Valley Academy of Marketing Crafts and Other Products to Tourists, North [email protected], http://ipap.homestead.com/ 734-5117. Central Regional Extension Publications brochure #445, $1.50. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene Co., Greene County offi ce building, Mountain Ave., Cairo, NY 12413. 518-622-9820. [email protected], http://arc.cce.cornell.edu/ Query sent 02/15 Arts & Crafts... Seeking glass objects for resale in store. Wholesale price list, resume, photos. The Bookstore, National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive, Station A., Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4, Canada.1-800-319-2787 [email protected] www.gallery. ca Ongoing. Updated 02/15 Arts & Crafts... Craftsmen and Artists Events Directory, CHOICES, The Yellow pages of Show Information, covers art and craft shows in CT, MA, NJ, NY & PA: fees, amenities, reviews, more, quarterly. Subscriptions only. Contact: Betty Chypre, Editor, Choices, POB 484, Rhinebeck, NY 12572-0484 845-876-2995; 1-888-918-1313; fax: 914-876-0900, [email protected], www.smartfrogs.com. 02/15 Arts & Crafts… hive, owned and operated by Theresa Spinelli at 321 Main Street in Schoharie, is looking for artists (of all mediums) who wish to show and sell at this unique shop: a bit out of the ordinary, this up Michael Moss and Billy Stein will play live music during “between the lines” as part of a fundraiser for the GCCA Visual and coming venue off ers an unusual mix of antiques, Arts Program. The Live Music/Movement Event, Live Auction and Dance Party, inspired by Kiki Smith sketches, takes place on Saturday, May 16. Photo Credit: Scott Friedlander 828-7470. HUDSON DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH EVENTS 2015 May 15 CONTACT: 518-828-0017. Calendar of Events noted (DEC) have been supported through a Concert:BARD CONSERVATORY STRING Mondays and Wednesdays through May 2015 Decentralization grant from the NYS Council on the ORCHESTRA featuring pianist Tanya Gabrielian and Events Arts through the Community Arts Program in Greene conductor Robert Manno. Doctorow Center for the Bindlestiff ’s Cirkus After School Programs. County or Columbia County. Arts. Hunter, NY. www.23Arts.org Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. The Morris Memorial 21 GCCA Gallery Boutique - The Greene County Park Row, Chatham NY [email protected] 518- Events noted (CIP) have in the past been supported May 15-17 & 22-24 392-4622and Hudson Department of Youth, 18 through a grant from the County Initiative Program Council on the Arts invites you to visit our gallery Theater: HOME FIRES BURNING. Bridge Street South 3rd street Hudson. 518-828-0017. More info at of the Greene County Council on the Arts with boutique, The Artful Hand, in Catskill. Open year- Theatre Speakeasy, 44 W. Bridge Street, Catskill, Stephanie@bindlestiff .org or 518-828-7470. public funding from the Greene County Legislature. round, we off er fi ne arts and high quality crafts by NY. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at local and regional artists, and books by area authors. At the time of press, these organizations have Tuesdays applications in review for the CIP funding in 2015. 2:00pm May 15-17 & 22-24. Tickets are $15 General Send boutique inquiries to: artfulhand.greene@ Admission, $10 for Students with ID. Reservations: Club: LEGO CLUB FOR ALL AGES, 4:00 PM every gmail.com. The GCCA Catskill Gallery, located at 398 Thru May 23 (518) 943-3818 or visit BridgeSt.org. Main Street, Catskill, NY. , is open Monday through Tuesday. Come, explore the world of building with Saturday, 10AM-5PM. For more information, contact legos, and meet new friends at your library! Catskill Exhibit: FOUND MOMENTS a show of photography May 16 SAVE THE DATE! Public Library, 1 Franklin St, Catskill NY. For more by Bill Shaughnasey. Columbia County Chamber of 518-943-3400 or [email protected]. GCCA Fundraiser Event: between the lines: LIVE info: www.catskillpubliclibrary.org OR call (518) 943- Commerce Gallery. 1 North Front Street, Hudson. MUSIC/MOVEMENT EVENT, LIVE AUCTION AND Museum: CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION 4230. [email protected] or call CCCA at 518-671- PIANO MUSEUM. 18 beautiful examples of piano 6213. DANCE PARTY inspired by Kiki Smith sketches, 7 making from 1783 to the present, plus fascinating Workshop: KUUMBA LATIN FEVER FOR WOMEN: pm. Catskill Mill, 361 Main Street, Catskill New York. related ephemera, includes pianos from Liberace, 6 to 7:45PM. A Latin dance fi tness class for women Thru June 6 For schedule and various ticket options visit www. Sir Roland Hanna’s and a rare Clementi that was with Elena Mosely of Kuumba Dance & Drum. Exhibit: EL PRIMER ABRAZO: KICO GOVANTES greenearts.org. Adults: $2. Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street, played by the Maestro himself. Besides the Museum, SOLO SHOW. Opening Reception, Saturday May May 16 the Doctorow Center includes 3 movie theaters and Hudson, NY. Call 828-3612 for more info. , 5-7pm. GCCA Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Street, Event: COXSACKIE EARTH DAY. Coxsackie a performance space. Across the street is a newly Wednesdays Catskill, NY. Gallery Hours: M-F 10-5, Sat. 12-5. revised restaurant, a fi ne Art and Craft gift gallery FREE, www.greenearts.org, 518-943-3400. Riverside Park. Food, music, vendors, talks and and an excellent Bookstore. Doctorow Center, Main Classes: RIVERTIDE AIKIKAI, Aiki Movement garden clean up. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Coxsackie. NY. Free Street, Hunter, NY. 518-263-2036. Hours: 12-4, Friday Drop-in Class, open to public for $10. Wear clothing Thru June 6 & Open to Public. appropriate for movement or exercise. 3198 Old and Saturday, or by appointment. Groups welcome. Exhibit: LINEAR LANGUAGE: MORE IS May 17: (CIP) 518-263-4908. www.catskillmtn.org Kings Rd. just off of Rt. 23A in Catskill. We welcome MORE” GROUP EXHIBITION. Opening Reception, all visitors to the dojo to watch a class and ask May 2, 5-7pm. GCCA Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Event: MTHS ANNUAL SPRING FLING. Wildfl ower Workshops: CERAMIC CLASSES. Hand building questions. For info call 518-943-4000, email: info@ Walk at the Mt. Top Arboretum at 10:00 a.m. Lunch techniques at the Open Studio, 402 Main St., Catskill. Street, Catskill, NY. Gallery Hours: M-F 10-5, Sat. 12- rivertideaikikai.org or visit www.rivertideaikiai.org. 5. FREE, www.greenearts.org, 518-943-3400 at the MTHS train station at 12:30 p.m. along with All levels welcome. Instructor: Dina Bursztyn, ceramic presentations by Beverly Dezan and Fran Driscoll. Classes: SKETCH. Drop in Figure Drawing. artist and arts educator. For schedule information and Thru June 12 lunch is $10 per person. Mountain Top Historical SKETCH is hosting fi gure drawing sessions with fees, call 518-943-9531 or e-mail: catskillstudio@ Society. Haines Falls, NY. Register at director@mths. instructor Amy Lavine. $15 per session. 7:30 – Exhibit: WILDLIFE OF THE CATSKILLS. Group gmail.com. org or 518-589-6657. 9:30 PM. Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Street, exhibition featuring paintings, drawings, photographs, Ongoing Hudson, NY 12534 518-822-1438 collages, framed art, small sculpture based on the May 17 (CIP) Reading: TINY TOTS PROGRAM. Free and theme of Wildlife of The Catskills. Opening Reception Workshop: WATERCOLOR WORKSHOPS for March 14, 4-7 pm at Frisbee Agency, Frisbee Farm & Event: ASSOCIATION DAY, Free Admission for all open to children ages birth to pre-K, along with adults with painter William A. Carbone, Washington Patriots, 12:30-4pm. Bronck Museum, 90 County. their caregivers, Tuesdays, 1030-1130AM. Songs, Family Agency, 384B Main Street, Catskill, NY. Call Irving Senior Center, Catskill, NY, 10AM to Noon. 518-943-3333 Route 42, Coxsackie. www.gchistory.org fi ngerplays and rhymes, books, a simple craft, Free. Bring own supplies or purchase through May 22 (CIP) and free-play time. Come, have fun, and meet instructor. May 3 – November 1 (CIP-TCNHS) neighbors and friends, old and new! Palenville Book Signing: DAVID AND WANDA DORPFELD, Event: CREATIVE MUSIC & MOVEMENT FOR Exhibit: RIVER CROSSINGS: CONTEMPORARY Branch Library, 3335 Route 23A, Palenville, NY. AUTHORS OF LEGENDARY LOCALS OF GREENE TODDLERS. Join local artist Abby Lappen for ART COMES HOME . Olana State Historic Site For more info: [email protected] http:// COUNTy, will present an illustrated program and weekly fun for toddlers to explore creative arts & Thomas Cole National Historic Site. This catskillpubliclibrary.org/ (518) 678-3357. book-signing at the MTHS train station, Haines Falls, including music and movement! Parent participation groundbreaking exhibition featuring 30 contemporary NY. 7:30 p.m. Reception will follow. A $3 donation Classes: BANNER HILL SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS is encouraged. Ages 18 months and up. 10 AM. Free. artists at two historic settings is a joint exhibition is recommended. Mountain Top Historical Society. AND WOODWORKING classes in woodworking, Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Street, Hudson, between The Olana Partnership (Hudson, NY) and Haines Falls, NY. Register at [email protected] or ceramics (wheel throwing, hand building), painting NY 518-822-1438 the Thomas Cole National Historic Site (Catskill, NY). and more. For info, visit our website: BannerHillLLC. For more information visit www.rivercrossings.org 518-589-6657 Workshop: HIP HOP DANCE. A dance workshop com; email: [email protected], or call May 23 (CIP) (518) 929-7821. taught by Anthony Molina in collaboration with May 2, 9, 16 & 23 (DEC) Operation Unite. An emerging artist, Anthony’s Workshop: MOUNTAIN VIEWS ACRYLIC BRONCK MUSEUM OPENS FOR SEASON. Classes: ART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. credits include 106 & Park, Bad Boys Comedy Show, Museum Hours: Wednesday-Friday 12pm-4pm, Arts program for adults and children. Classes are PAINTING CLASS. Held outdoors at the Siuslaw he’s taken 1st place at the Apollo Theater, Senior Model Forest, instructor Ruth Leonard will guide Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 1pm-4pm. Last tour held at the Old Schoolhouse, 1198 Route 21c in Hip Hop Arnold Classic and Wildout Wednesday on leaves at 3:30pm daily. Closed Monday and Tuesday Harlemville, at Harlemville Road & County Route this artistic exploration of the views of the Catskill BET. He was a semi-fi nalist on So You Think You Can Northern Escarpment. Pre-teens, teens, and except on holiday Mondays which include Memorial 21, next to the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, one Dance, and has performed with Vanaver Caravan and Day, Labor Day and Columbus Day. Admission: Adults mile from the Taconic Parkway, at the Harlemville/ adults. All experience levels welcome. Paint, tools, is a seasoned choreographer and dancer of Energy panels and easels will be provided. Registration $6, Ages 5–11 $2, Ages 12–15 $3, GCHS members Philmont/217/21c Exit. Call 518-672-7140 or visit Dance Company of Kingston. Open to ages 6 & up. free. More info: 518-731-6490 Bronck Museum, 90 www.artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org. recommended. Free. 10 AM – 1 PM. Cornell 5:15 – 6:15 PM. Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Cooperative Agroforestry Resource Center, Rte 23, County Route 42, Coxsackie. www.gchistory.org Street, Hudson, NY 12534 518-822-1438 Exhibition: FUNCTIONAL ART FOR THE HOME Acra. Sponsored by Cairo Library. 622-9864. May 23 (CIP) By local and regional Fine Crafts Artists. Custom Event: HUDSON COMMUNITY BOOK GROUP. May 2 Concert: PLANET ARTS PRESENTS THE RHYS orders, shopping services, gift-wrapping. Mon/ In collaboration with Hudson City School District. TIVEY ENSEMBLE. Deen Anbar on guitar and Jake Thurs/Fri 10-5, Sat 10-7, Sun 11-5, Closed Tues/ students and their parents participate in a facilitated Concert: JAY MASON & MOLLY MASON perform Pinto on piano. Jazz at the Beattie-Powers House. Wed. Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery at Hunter Village conversation about literature. Free. 6-7:30 PM. timeless renditions of Appalachian melodies, Cajun Prospect Avenue, Catskill, NY. 5 PM For information, Square, 7950 Main St., Hunter, NY. 518-263-2060, Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Street, Hudson, and Celtic tunes, Civil War classics, swing and country ticket reservations contact Thomas Bellino at www.catskillmtn.org. NY 12534 518-822-1438 songs, stunning waltzes and their own original works. The duo received international acclaim with their 518 945 2669 or [email protected] or www. Omi International Arts Center. PROGRAMS AND Thursdays PlanetArts.org PUBLIC EVENTS. Outdoor Sculpture Park, Summer performance of Grammy nominated song Ashokan Camps. The Fields Sculpture Park, Architecture Omi, Gathering: AFTER-HOURS TEEN TIME, 5-7 PM Farewell on the sound track of Ken Burns’ The Civil May 28-31 every Thursday. Ages 12-17 welcome. Spend an War. $20. 8 PM. Valatie CommunityTheatre, 3031 and Education Omi - Omi contributes to a vibrant Performance: OBSCURA: A MAGIC SHOW. Bridge hour on Academic and/or Creative pursuits followed Main St, Valatie. 758-1309 arts culture locally, regionally, and internationally. For Street Theatre Speakeasy, 44 W. Bridge Street, by an hour of relaxed socializing, games, music, etc. more information visit:www.omiartscenter.org 1405 May 2-3 Catskill, NY. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 28-30 at Catskill Public Library, 1 Franklin St. Catskill NY. For County Route 20, Ghent NY 12075 7:30pm and Sunday May 31 at 2:00pm. Tickets are more info: www.catskillpubliclibrary.org OR speak to Workshop: MONOPRINTING with Beth Thielen as a $15 General Admission, $10 for Students with ID. Exhibit: OUTDOOR SCULPTURE. More than 40 Jesse at (518) 943-4230. weekend workshop (with an optional third day May 4) contemporary sculptures in landscape. Daylight 10 am to 4 pm. Register at artschoolofcolumbiacounty. Reservations: (518) 943-3818 or visit BridgeSt.org. Thursdays hours all year, guided tours, children’s workshops. org or call 518-672-7140. May 30 The Fields, Sculpture Park Art Omi International Arts Class: QI GONG FOR ADULTS. 11:30 AM. Free May 2 - July 11 Concert: CLARION CONCERTS SPRING BENEFIT Center, 1405 County Route 20, Ghent, NY 12075. and open to the public. Palenville Branch Library, featuring pianist Christopher O’Riley, 518-392-7656/392-2848. 3335 Route 23A, Palenville, NY. For more info: www. Exhibit: LEON A. COMSTOCK JR. SOLO EXHIBIT. Film Program: SELECTED FILMS. Popular catskillpubliclibrary.org OR call (518) 678-3357. Neumann Fine Art. 65 Cold Water Street, Hillsdale, host of NPR’s “From the Top.” Concert to support NY. Gallery hours Thursday - Sunday 11 - 4. Visit the Leaf Peepers Concert Series. Also featuring Hollywood, independent; foreign screenings. Lobby Saturdays café: espresso, cappuccino, tea, desserts; light www.neumannfi neart.com. Music Director Eugenia Zukerman, fl utist; Edward suppers Saturday, open 1/2 hour before show. Catskill Teens & Adults: KUUMBA AFRICAN DANCE & May 2 & May 7 Arron, cellist; Paul Green, clarinetist; and Tessa Mountain Foundation Film and Performing Arts DRUM. 10:30 am adult & teen drum, 11:30 am dance Lark, violinist and one of the young alumni of “From Center, Rt. 23A, Hunter, NY 12442. 518-263-4702 ages 7 - adult. Bring a drum or share one of ours. Collage Workshop: ONE OF A KIND MOTHERS the Top.” Includes a glass of wine and refreshments www.catskillmtn.org. Adults, $5 each class; youth are free. For more DAY CARD with Theresa Corrigan Saturday from following the performances. $75. 3 PM. Private hilltop information call 518-828-3612. Hudson Opera 1130and Thursday 6 to8 pm . Cairo Library Call 622 home in Hillsdale, NY (Address and directions to the Workshops, Readings, Activities for Toddlers, House, 327 Warren Street in Hudson, NY. Call 9864 to reserve. No Fee. concert will be sent to those who make reservations). Teens and Adult. All welcome. Roeliff Jansen 518-822-1438 for more information or visit www. May 3 (DEC) www.leafpeeperconcerts.org 518-329-5613. Community Library, 9091 Route 22, Hillsdale, NY hudsonoperahouse.org. 12529 Contact, Howard Van Lenten, 518-325-5260. Concert: CLASSICAL SUNDAYS AT BRIDGE May 30 Sundays through May 2015 Tours, lectures, programs: A LIVING MUSEUM. STREET THEATRE. Varied classical chamber works Concert: LOS PAJAROS MARIACHI BAND. Arts, local history, horticulture, botany, environment. Classes: INTRO TO AERIAL ARTS for teens and performed by members of the Catskill Chamber Traditional Mexican Music. $5 presale/10 at door. adults at the Hudson Department of Youth. Bindlestiff Orchestra. 2 PM. $10 Bridge Street Theatre, 44 Valatie CommunityTheatre, 3031 Main St, Valatie. Individual, group tours, plant sale. Change of Family Cirkus Classes will be on Sundays, from West Bridge St, Catskill. 943-3894 landscape in four seasons. Photogenic woodland 758-1309 1pm to 3pm. For information, registration and May 3 (CIP) walk, native trees, plants. Call for calendar. The tuition, email stephanie@bindlestiff .org. HUDSON May 30 Mountain Top Arboretum, Maude Adams Road, POB DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH CONTACT: 518-828- Concert: MANDOLINS A LA NAPLES. 1pm to 5pm Drawing Workshop. FUNDRAISER FOR SCENIC 379, Tannersville, NY 12485. 518-589-3903. www. 0017. $45 includes lunch. Altamura Center For The Arts. mtarbor.org 404 Winter Clove Road Round Top NY. 518-610- HUDSON’S LONG VIEW PARK, NY $35. Fourth Sunday Chorus: ATHENS COMMUNITY 3332 or [email protected]. www.atlocanto. For beginner to intermediate levels. 9 am–2 pm. Visit Class: FOLLIES WITH BOBBY: Ballet and other CHORUS. Anyone who loves to sing is welcome to org newbaltimoreconservancy.org smooth moves for women of a certain age and join the Athens Community Chorus. There are no confi dent men. Saturdays, 10:30-11:30 AM and auditions or membership dues. All that we require May 9 May 30-31 Mondays 6- 7 PM. Improve balance and fl exibility is a little bit of talent and a big appreciation for good Workshop: EXPLORING COLOR, Maj Kalfus’s. 9 Exhibit: GUY CHIRICO SR., MAJOR and transform your body awareness using techniques music. We will get together once a month to share am-noon. Register at artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org th RETROSPECTIVE. Scribner Hollow Lodge. from ballet, modern dance, jazz, soft shoe, and 4 our talents and to sing a rich and diverse selection or call 518-672-7140. Saturday, 1- 8 pm & Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. grade Physical Education class. Taught by Bobby of vocal works, from classical to jazz standards, and May 9 Refreshments by Prospect Restaurant. Scribner Lupone. Drop-ins welcome. Athens Cultural Center, Broadway to madrigals. FREE Drop-ins welcome. nd nd Hollow Lodge located across from Hunter Mountain 24 2 Street, Athens, NY. info@athensculturalcenter. Athens Cultural Center, 24 2 Street, Athens, NY. Workshop: POP ART DESIGN with Gary Finelli. 1-4 on Route 23A, Hunter, NY. Call Guy Chirico, Jr. at 518- org Email to be notifi ed of class cancellations or changes. p.m. Register at artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or call 518-672-7140. 331-6510, email [email protected] or visit www. Classes: RIVERTIDE AIKIKAI, Martial Arts Third and Fourth Saturdays schribnerhollow.com. Instruction For All Ages. 3198 Old Kings Rd. just May 9 off of Rt. 23A in Catskill. Sunday: Adults: 5:00 – Art: ART CLUB FOR KIDS. Free and open to May 30 - July 25, 2015 children of all ages. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. Come, Concert: AN EVENING WITH SINGER/ 6:00pm, Jo Class: 6:15 – 7:00pm, Monday: Teens: Exhibit: BODYWORKS: CARS, TRUCKS, BIKES & have fun, and be creative! Palenville Branch Library, SONGWRITER JOHN DEROSALIA. Bridge Street 13 -17 years old: 3:45 -4:45, Kids 4 -7 years old: TATTOOS Group Exhibit. Columbia County Council 3335 Route 23A, Palenville, NY. For more info: Theatre Speakeasy, 44 W. Bridge Street, Catskill, 4:45 – 5:30pm, Adults: 6:00 – 7:15pm, Tuesday: on the Arts Gallery. Opening reception on Saturday, [email protected] http:// NY. Saturday May 9 at 7:30pm. $10 cover charge. Adults: 6 -7:15pm, Wednesday: Kids 8-12 years old: May 30, from 5 to 7 pm. 209 Warren Street in catskillpubliclibrary.org/ (518) 678-3357. Reservations: (518) 943-3818 or visit BridgeSt.org. 4:45 – 5:30pm, Adults: 6:00 – 7:15pm, Thursday: Hudson, NY Call 518-671-6213 for more information Bokken Class: 6:00 – 6:45pm, Adults: 7:00 – 8:00pm, Third Wednesday May 15 Workshop: or visit www.artscolumbia.org. Friday: Adults: 7:30am - 8:30am, Rivertide Aikikai welcomes all visitors to the dojo to watch a class and Activity: GREENE COUNTY CAMERA CLUB. INTRODUCTION TO THE ORCHESTRA SCHOOL June 5, 6, 12, 13, 14 (DEC) Meets at the ACC the third Wednesday of every month WORKSHOP featuring the Bard Conservatory String ask questions. For membership info call 518-943- Performance: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. The for speakers, presentations and fi lms. Free and open Orchestra, pianist Tanya Gabrielian, and conductor 4000, email [email protected] or visit www. Two Of Us Productions presents the Broadway musical to the general public. Call Nora Adelman at (518) Robert Manno. Hunter-Tannersville Central rivertideaikikai.org. hit. Includes the songs I Don’t Know How to Love 945-2866 or [email protected]. Athens Cultural Elementary. Hunter, NY. www.23Arts.org Him, King Herod’s Song, and Superstar. The show Ongoing May-July 2015 Center, 24 Second Street, Athens, New York, 12015 May 15 (DEC) will be performed with a full orchestra. Friday and or visit www.athensculturalcenter.org Events & Workshops: PUBLIC PROGRAMMING Saturday performances 7:30 PM. Sunday matinees FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN. Exhibits, classes & Concert: GOOD GLOBE SINGING SCHOOL Movies: SUBJECTS VARY. $8/6/4. Spencertown directed by Sheri Bauer-Mayorga, will present an $20/14 students/seniors/12 families & groups. 3pm. workshops, hikes and many special events. Classes Academy, Rt. 203, POB 80, Spencertown, NY 12165. Performing Arts Center at Taconic Hills School in held in Wagon House Education Center. Olana evening of song. Performances and student led sing 518-392-3693. alongs of traditional folk, classical, and pop songs Craryville, NY. www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org or State Historic Site, 5720 State Route 9G, Hudson, 518-758-1648. NY 12534 .For more information, registration or to Exhibits, cinema: TIME AND SPACE. Exhibits, will fi ll the evening. Guest guitarist and hurdy-gurdy purchase tickets visit www.olana.org. classical movies on weekends. Time and Space player, Rob Caldwell (of Hudson’s “Musica”) will be June 5 Warehouse Cultural Center. 434 Columbia St., the evening’s accompanist and soloist. Family friendly Theater: THREE BY TENNESSEE. Blue Horse Mondays through May 2015 Hudson, NY. 518-822-8448. www.timeandspace.org event. Admission free will off ering. 7 PM. Spencertown Repertory Company presents a special one-night- Classes: Hudson Juggling Club. Montgomery C. Smith Academy (790 Route 203, Spencertown, NY). Contact 392-5809 www.sheribauermayorga.com only benefi t performance for Bridge Street Theatre Intermediate School gym in Hudson, 6pm. Bindlestiff of 3 one-acts by Tennessee Williams: Portrait of Family Cirkus. Stephanie@bindlestiff .org 518- a Madonna, The Frosted-Glass Coffi n, and The June 8 June 13 a tour of some of the homes of notable women of the Strangest Kind of Romance. Bridge Street Theatre Mountain Top at Onteora Park, followed by a talk and Yoga and Sing-Alongs: BARI KORAL FAMILY ROCK Class: ABOUT FACE: DRAWING THE HEAD, FACE, Speakeasy, 44 W. Bridge Street, Catskill, NY. Friday photographic exhibit, then high tea catered by the BAND. Hunter-Tannersville Central Elementary, AND FEATURES with Maj Kalfus. 9 am to noon. June 5 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15 General Admission, fabulous Washington Irving Inn at our historic U & Hunter, NY. www.23Arts.org Register at artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or call $10 for Students with ID. Reservations: (518) 943- D train station on our Haines Falls campus. Register 518-672-7140. 3818 or visit BridgeSt.org. June 12-14 & 19-21 (DEC) at [email protected] or call 518-589-6657. $20 per June 13 (DEC) person. Mountain Top Historical Society. Haines June 6 Theater: THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH. Kaliyuga Falls, NY. Arts presents the world premiere of a new one-man Performance: SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE’S Concert: AN EVENING WITH SINGER/ stage adaptation of the world’s oldest-known work OTHELLO performed both traditionally and as June 24 & July 1, 8, and 15 SONGWRITER JON WOODIN. Bridge Street of literature, featuring actor Steven Patterson and reconceived by Advance Placement students from Theatre Speakeasy, 44 W. Bridge Street, Catskill, Wednesday Workshops: INTRODUCTION TO funded in part by a Decentralization Grant from Catskill High School in conjunction with artists from NY. Saturday June 6 at 7:30pm. $10 cover charge. REALISM IN OIL PAINTING with Jeff rey Neumann. GCCA. Bridge Street Theatre Main Stage space, 44 Bridge Street Theatre, a project funded in part by Reservations: (518) 943-3818 or visit BridgeSt.org. 6-9 pm. Continuing, with an optional Session II July W. Bridge Street, Catskill, NY. Fridays and Saturdays an Arts Education Grant from GCCA. Bridge Street 22 and 29 (Session I as prerequisite). Register at June 6 (CIP) at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2:00pm June 12-14 & 19- Theatre Speakeasy, 44 W. Bridge Street, Catskill, NY. artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or call 518-672-7140 21. $15 General Admission, $10 for Students with ID. Saturday June 13 at 2:00pm. Free of charge. Dance: KEIGWIN + COMPANY. 7:30 pm. Orpheum Reservations: (518) 943-3818 or visit BridgeSt.org. June 27 and 28 Film & Performing Arts Center. 6050 Main Street, June 13 and 20 Village of Tannersville. Catskill Mountain Foundation. July 12 (CIP) Event: HIDDEN GALLERY WALK OF Saturday Workshops: SEEING IN BLACK AND Tickets & info visit Catskillmtn.org. PALENVILLE. Noon to 6 pm. Information and maps Event: BRONCK FAMILY AT HOME GETTING WHITE with E. S. DeSanna. Linoleum block design will be distributed from the Welcome Tent at the June 6 THINGS DONE. Explore early American sleeping on archival paper using a press. 1-4 p.m. Register at intersection of Routes 32A and 23A in Palenville, NY. furniture and customs, Tours begin at 1pm, 2pm & artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or call 518-672-7140. Event: 39TH ANNUAL TOUR OF HOMES to be held Free parking. Visit www.PalenvilleNY.com or email 3pm, Adults $7, GCHS Members & Children $3.50 in Athens, Tour headquarters at Zion Luthern Church June 14 [email protected]. Bronck Museum, 90 County Route 42, Coxsackie. on 385, 10am-4pm, Tickets $25, advanced sale tickets www.gchistory.org Fundraiser: GARDEN PARTY FUNDRAISER June 27-28 $20, More info: 518-731-1033 or www.gchistory.org FOR VALATIE COMMUNITY THEATRE. Silent June 13-July 25 Weekend Workshop: SCULPTURE: ART & June 6 (CIP) auction of local artisan, crafter, and business goods. ENVIRONMENT with Draga Susanj. 10 a.m. Exhibit: MICROCOSM GROUP EXHIBITION. Beverages by local brewers, wine, soft drinks & Event: NATIONAL TRAILS DAY. The MTHS will to 4 p.m. Make site-specifi c sculpture with Opening Reception, June 20th, 5-7 pm, GCCA Catskill food by Carolina House. Music by David Woodin of celebrate John Burroughs with a hike, lunch and willow and paper sculptural forms. Register at Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY. Gallery Hours: Catskill Chamber Orchestra. $25 3 – 5 PM. Valatie presentation by Paul Misko, Joan Burroughs and artschoolofcolumbiacounty.org or call 518-672-7140. M-F 10-5, Sat. 12-5. FREE, www.greenearts.org, 518- CommunityTheatre, 3031 Main St, Valatie. 758-1309 Johanna Titus. Mountain Top Historical Society. 943-3400. June 28 (CIP) Haines Falls, NY. Register at [email protected] or June 20 518-589-6657 June 13-July 25 Concert: ALL THAT JAZZ. 1pm to 5pm $45 includes Performance: EAST OF EDEN. Mix of cover tunes lunch. Altamura Center For The Arts. 404 Winter June 6–7 Exhibit: SARAH BARKER’S SOLO SHOW “PLANT and original pieces played by Mark Calkins and Clove Road Round Top NY. 518-610-3332 or SPIRIT SERIES. Opening Reception, June 20, 5-7 Friends. $5 8 PM. Valatie Community Theatre, 3031 Weekend Outdoor Painting Workshop. [email protected]. www.atlocanto.org pm, GCCA Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill, Main St, Valatie. 758-1309 FUNDRAISER FOR SCENIC HUDSON’S LONG NY. Gallery Hours: M-F 10-5, Sat. 12-5. FREE, www. June 28 (DEC) VIEW PARK, NY. For beginner to intermediate levels. June 20 greenearts.org, 518-943-3400. 9 am–4 pm $100. Visit newbaltimoreconservancy.org Concert: GOSPEL NIGHT With Catskill Jazz Factory. Concert: KAREN SAVOCA, winner of seven SAMMY June 13 (DEC) Ensemble led by Steven Feifk e and Alphonso Horne awards performs acoustic soul music. 6:30 pm. FREE. June 7 (DEC) and featuring the Greene Room Players Choir. Bunn Mill located on High Street in Richmondville, Performance: ONE WORLD, MANY RHYTHMS: Concert: RICHMONDVILLE HISTORICAL Kaaterskill United Methodist Church. Tannersville, NY. TANGO. Join us for another journey around the world, SOCIETY WILL HOST LOCAL JAZZ AND BLUES NY. www.23Arts.org as we reprise our popular musical series with all new June 29, July 1, 6, 8, 13 & 15 (DEC) LEGEND LARRY MAZZA Noon to 3 pm. FREE. acts! To kick off our second year, we welcome Diane June 20 Event is held as part of Richmondville Historical Workshop: YOU CAN BE A GRAPHIC ARTIST. Lachtrupp Martinez and Johnny Martinez of Tango Society’s weekend-long “Richmondville Day” Concert: LATE NIGHT JAM SESSION With Catskill Local artist Barbara Slate will be using her book “You Fusion Dance Company for a special performance, festivities and will also off er a pig roast at the same Jazz Factory. Last Chance Tavern. Tannersville, NY Can Be a Graphic Artist” to lead a workshop for this rain or shine, under a tent in the library yard. Free time and location. Bunn Mill located on High Street in www.23Arts.org summer’s reading program “Every Hero Has A Story.” 1:00 PM, Kinderhook Memorial Library, 18 Hudson Richmondville, NY. Suitable for ages 10 and up. Free. Reservations St, Kinderhook, NY 12106. wwwkinderhooklibrary. June 20 (CIP) required. 6 – 7:30 PM. Chatham Public Library, 11 org 518-758-6192 Event: MTHS TRAILS, TALES, AND TEA will off er Woodbridge Ave, Chatham, NY. 392-3666.

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As a not-for-profi t, community-based organizations, the Inc.; Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home; M Gallery; Paul & Cynthia LaPierre, Bob Laurie, Anna Contes DeFeo, John Delaney, Nancy Delaney, Tasha Depp, Greene County Council on the Arts depends upon the on- MJQ Irish Cultural & Sports Center; Mountain & Doug Maguire, Ronnie<<<<< McCue, Clarence B. Bruno DeSantis, Thomas Dobbins, Gail Dorrance, going support of our members to help us maintain our core Outfi tters; Mountain T-Shirts; Mountain Top Historical Moon, Jennifer Houston & Lawrence Perl, Herman Francis X. Driscoll, Sandra Du on, Timothy Ebneth, programs through which we provide a variety of services. Society; NBT of Greenville; NBT of Oak Hill; & Susan Reinhold, Joanne Schindelheim, Paul & Richard Edelman, Anne Emerman, Helen Exum, A continually growing membership is crucial to our eff orts National Bank of Coxsackie; New Athens Generating Sheila Trautman, Guy and Dale Loughran & Donna Patrick Farley, Kathleen Farrell, Olive Farrell, to deliver these services so that we may be er serve our Company; New York Foundation for the Arts; NY Trunzo, Nancy Ursprung, Barbara L. Walter, Mary C. Lorri & Roger Field, Joan Fournier, Susan Fowler- communities through all the arts. ZipLine Adventure Tours; The Open Studio; Alfred A. & Sheldon Warshow Gallagher, Reidunn Fraas, Danielle M. 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Ilana Wolfe, David Woodin, Jonathan B. Woodin, J. Wase Construction Corp.; Jujamcyn Theatre; Just Aronson, Deborah Artman, Deirdre Astin, Ritva Audrey Wyman, Arthur Yanoff , Joan Young, Eugenie Leave it to Us; Kaliyuga Arts; Karen’s Flower Shoppe; Sponsors Babcock, Sue Bain, Stephan Bardfi eld, Paul Barton, Ytarte, John C. Zavala, Edna M. Zelasko, Jeannine Kelly Logging; Kirwan Enterprises LLC; Kiwanis Club Donna L. & William Barre , Deborah Allen & Terrice Bassler, Kirsten Bates, Keith Ba en, Winifred Zwoboda of Catskill; Kosco/Amos Post Div.; La Conca D’Oro; P. 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Hopkins, Ann Anne Christman, Marie Cole, Theresa Corrigan, Motion Pictures, Inc.; Mental Health Association of Thomas Cramer, Donn Critchell, Linda Cross, Louis Columbia-Greene Counties, Mid-Hudson Cablevision, Dee Burnham & Joe Kindred, Patricia Feinman & Arthur Klein, Eleanor B. Alter & Dr. Allan M. Lans, Curshmann, Regina Daly, Gene DeBartolo, Janet < Page 20 May/June 2015 ALIVE CELEBRATING 39 YEARS AT THE BEAUX ARTS BALL! Top Row: Surrounded by former recipients Natalia Sonevytsky is presented the 2015 Distinguished Service Award by GCCA Board President David Slutzky and GCCA Executive Director Kay Stamer. 2014 honoree Thomas Cole NHS Executive Director (1st on l.) Betsy Jacks and Assemblyman Peter Lopez (4th from SAVE THE DATE l.) were in attendance to present the FOR NEXT YEAR’S BALL ON award. APRIL 2, 2016! WE WILL BE CELEBRATING 2014 Honoree Betsy Jacks and husband 40 YEARS Kenneth Dow. OF SERVICE! GCCA Board Member Liz Kirkhus and Ball volunteer extraordinaire Kristi Gibson. Second Row: Ball attendees Jodi and Tom Larison. GCCA Artist Member and Silent Auction donor Susan Kukle (2nd from r.) and friends. David Slutzky, fl anked by masked friends, once again hosted a magical evening. GCCA Advisory Board member Karl Anis and GCCA Executive Director Kay Stamer send out a sincere thank you to all! Third Row: GCCA Board 1st Vice President Bill Deane and wife Helen (3rd & 4th from r.) with friends from near and far. Advisory Board Member Ruth Sachs and husband Chuck, Carolyn and Marty The Board of Directors, staff the evening, creating wonderful have signifi cantly benefi ted the Catskill Mountain Country Store, Gresack, Patsy Winkler, David Krasner, and volunteers of the Greene County memories for each attendee. mission of the Arts Council as well Catskill Mountain Foundation, GCCA Board Member Sheila Trautman Council on the Arts would like to Thanks to our wonderful and as the cultural life of Greene County Cave Mountain Brewing Company, and husband Paul. take this opportunity to express our gracious event hosts, David and – and Natalie has done just that! Charlie’s Windham Mtn. Ski Shop, abundant thanks to everyone who Jean Slutzky, and a special thanks Chicken Run, Christman’s Windham GCCA Board Member Laura Segall and husband Peter. helped make our 27th Annual Beaux to David for weaving Jean’s magical A round of applause for House, Deer Mountain Inn, Dennis Arts Ball an aff air to remember. As ideas throughout the ballroom all the artists who opened their J. Dalton, Ltd, FM Bakery & Cafe Natalie Sonevytsky and the women we celebrate 39 years of service to and silent auction area. Thanks to hearts to the Arts Council and and More, Fortnightly Club, Gerta who make the Music & Art Center of our community, your loyalty and the entire Slutzky family for their generously donated their works of Austria, Greene Room Players, Greene County an amazing destination! support is heartwarming and more generous hospitality; to David Kukle and talents to the Silent Auction: Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, valuable than ever. and the superb staff at The Copper Tina Accardi, David Allen, Sarah House of Tuki, Hudson River Sloop This year’s Masked Ball and Tree Restaurant for their skillful and Barker, Athena Billias, Naomi Blum, Clearwater, Hunter Hair Design, Please support the Ball Creative Black Tie event was held patient help; to Valerie for her mana- Dick Brooks, Dan Burkholder, Jill Hunter Mountain, Hunter Mountain Program underwriters: The on March 28 at the Copper Tree gerial wizardry and Chef Tim Lang Supkin Burkholder, Dot Chast, Sports Center, Hyer Expectations, Altamura Center for the Arts, Art Restaurant at Hunter Mountain. for his delectable artistry; to Tracy Anne Christman, James Cramer, Kaatskill Mountain Club Spa, School of Columbia County, Bridge The Beaux Arts Ball is GCCA’s for taking care of all our IT and other Bill Deane, Helen Deane, Terrence Kingston Oil Supply Corp. (Kosco), Street Theatre, Cairo Chamber major fundraising event, generating issues, to the First Niagara Bank DePietro, Eugene DeVillamil, Fancis L & M Studio, La Conca D’Oro, of Commerce, Greene County indispensable proceeds that support for underwriting our Distinguished X. Driscoll, Patti Ferrara, Frank Last Chance Antiques & Cheese Chamber of Commerce, Hinterland the vital programs and services Service Awards; to Ellen Mahnken Giorgini, Lex Grey, Bob Gruen, Cafe, Lenora Freese Licensed Design, Hudson Valley Dance we provide to the community for the elegant hand-calligraphed Elizabeth Gregory Gruen, Jeanne Massage Therapist, Lovely, Maggie’s Festival-Dancers Responding to throughout the year. Thanks to our presentation awards; to Nite-Time, Heiberg, Peter Keitel, Dawn Kidd, Crooked Cafe, Magpie Bookshop, Aids and Pamela Belfor, Sales attendees, donors and honorees, New York City’s premier party band Itoko Kobayashi, Susan Kukle, Jodi Mahalo, Mariluz Candles, Mill Associate Gary DiMauro Real this was another wonderful event! for fabulous party music that got Larison, Meryl Learnihan, Mara Rock Restaurant, Molly Stinchfi eld Estate. Thank you! Our gratitude goes to everyone who everyone onto the dance fl oor; band Lehmann, John Shaughnessy III Leis, Photography, Neapolis Pizzaria & To show appreciation to artists took part in the festivities as well as leaders Yves and Amy Goldberg Nicole Lemelin, Ruth Leonard, Alex Grille, NY Zip Line Adventure Tours, participating in the silent auction, to those who contributed to making for helping underwrite Nite-Time’s Levi, Deborah Magnuski, Deborah Onteora Mountain House, Objects each year, an artist is randomly the evening an overwhelming appearance; to Lex Grey’s Naughty Magnuski, Stanley Maltzman, Linda ‘N the Round at Publication Studio, “picked from a hat” to receive two success. Cabaret for smokin’ renditions Maran, Susan Miiller, Linda Nicholls, Pro Ski N’ Ride, Robin Ann Stapley complimentary tickets to the Beaux during the cocktail hour in the Silent Elizabeth Nields, Regine Petrosky, Licensed Massage Therapist, Ruby’s Save the date for next year’s Arts Ball. This year we had addi- Auction area; and to all our friends Karen Rhodes, Toni Rosenbaim, Restaurant/Hotel, Shinglekill Bed & Ball on April 2, 2016! We will be tional underwriting from Doreen in the media for their unfl agging Ruth Sachs, David Slutzky, David Breakfast, Swamp Angel Antiques, celebrating 40 years and Crane Davis and Eugene and support in publicizing this and other Slutzky, Carol Slutzky-Tenerowicz, The Painted Piece, The Print Shop, of service! Mary Hatton and the winners were: Council events. Special thanks to D. Jack Solomon, Carol Swierzowski, Thomas Cole National Historic Meryl Learnihan and Carol Slutzky The success of this year’s WGXC for the live broadcast of our Richard Talcott, Beth Temple, Site, Tiger Lily Jewelers, Traphagen Tenerowicz. Congratulations! event is due to the hard work and awards ceremony and to our very Sheila Trautman, Marianne Tully, K. Honey, Urban Country Store, Vanity To all those who contributed dedication of many. Special thanks creative volunteer mask makers Velis Turan, K. Velis Turan, Marlene Fur, Village Hardware, Washington fi nancially to the underwriting of to our lead sponsors and Platinum headed up by Dara Trahan. Special Vidibor and Sofi ka Zielyk. Irving Inn, Windham Country Club, this year’s Beaux Arts Ball and to table benefactors, The Bank of thanks also to GCCA’s Board of Windham Mountain, Windham the well-being of the Arts Council Greene County and Nina Matis & Directors, staff , and all our volun- A most sincere thank you to Mountain Outfi tters and Windham throughout the year, we extend our Alan Gosule, and to Silver table teers for their hard work and long these generous businesses and Wine & Liquor. grateful and heartfelt thanks. We benefactors Columbia Memorial hours. individuals who donated their The GCCA Board and Staff had a Ball! See you next year on Health, Nancey Rosensweig and Congratulations to Natalie specialty products and services to are grateful for the support from April 2nd – Save the Date! Dan Arshack, Doc Rob and Sarah Sonevystky, the unstoppable and the Silent Auction. Their gener- these volunteers who helped make View more photos of the Schneider, David and Jean Slutzky; eloquent leader of the Music and osity benefi ts GCCA’s program- the fundraiser a success before, evening at http://www.greenearts. and to our numerous individual Art Centre of Greene County and ming: Ann & Company, Bavarian during and after! Carmen Borgia, org/beaux-arts-ball-photos or benefactors, many of whom were recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Manor County Inn & Restaurant, Kate Boyer, Anne Christman, Alison visit the evening captured by Ball Music & Arts Center Board of Service Award. This award was Bistro Brie & Bordeaux, Body Be Davy, Helen Deane, Kristi Gibson, Photographer Rob Shannon at Directors and friends. Thanks to established to honor individuals Well/Pilates Sports Center, Bridge Cathy Poplock, Dara Trahan and http://fotopic.shootproof.com/ Rob Shannon of fotopic.com for their whose outstanding contributions Street Theatre, Catskill Golf Club, Doug Theis. Thank you! event/1330154. photographic services throughout

Sign up as a mask or costume maker. Are you up for a design challenge? The rebels wore calico and masks - enough said! To participate in one of our design workshops, contact Fawn, Dance [email protected]. Sign up as a dancer. You don’t have to be in the royal ballet to participate, Showdown but you should like to have fun. Above: Greene County resident, We’ll be off ering a stipend for Todd Whitley, a former dancer who those of you who step up to be a helped create the Hudson Valley team leader. For more informa- Dance Festival and now teaches, tion about participating, contact, will choreograph a series of dance Todd, [email protected]. showdowns for the American We’ll going to be drama- This event will be choreo- Step into history by Everyone is welcome to Masquerade project. participating in an interactive tizing this historic event in a graphed by Greene County participate and will be guaran- series of dance showdowns resident, Todd Whitley, a former Left: “Calico Indians” Catskill celebration of the Anti-Rent teed a good time...or at least Mountain farmers who disguised Wars, a rebellion where the throughout the summer in dancer who helped create the a better time than our rent- themselves in their wives’ calico Calico Indians (disguised tenant three Greene County villages Hudson Valley Dance Festival burdoned forefathers. Join on dresses and sheepskin masks. farmers) were pitted against -- Catskill, Tannersville/Hunter and now teaches, choreographs for this once in a lifetime ex- the land owning aristocracy, an and Prattsville! No experience and fundraises to raise aware- perience - and celebrate our very own! Learn more at www. important part of early Hudson is necessary, beyond a willing- ness of the benefi ts of dance. rich Greene county heritage greenearts.org/american- Valley /Catskills history that ness to have fun and work with Interested? Here’s how you in a dance showdown of our masquerade. ended feudalism in America. a team. can help.

A Canadian law quietly Masks weren’t originally enacted in 2013 specifi cally meant to conceal. From their Mainly Greene Arts Partnership bans people from wearing any beginning in ancient times, sort of mask or face covering they were used for protection American Masquerade during an “unlawful assembly”. or ornamentation. It is believed Under current Canadian law, a that masks were used fi rst to maximum ten-year sentence is transfer supernatural power or being threatened against anyone call up “the gods”. Masks were convicted of concealment of used in ancient Roman festivals one’s face. While Canadian law to signal that the necessity for had already enacted a ban on polite behavior was not neces- covering one’s face during a sary and people were free for a criminal act, this newer law is short period of time to engage said to be aimed directly at activ- in “merry-making” beyond their ists who wear masks at protests. rank or status. At the Carnival of In Oklahoma, lawmakers are Venice, which dates back to 1268 planning to introduce a similar AD, all were equal behind their bill. Calico Riders In The Moonlight by Thomas Locker, Oil On Canvas, 20 X 65-1992. continued on page 15