Open Art Studio Tours This Summer in the Catskills and Hudson Valley

Open art studio tours have become more and more common all over the country as studio visits trigger questions that aren’t often asked in formal settings such as galleries and museums, and allow for a more intimate interaction with the artwork. This summer alone, four major open art studio tours take place throughout the region featuring a total of 160 artists from Saugerties to Treadwell … Continue reading Open Art Studio Tours This Summer in the Catskills and Hudson Valley

Raining Poetry & Painting in Roxbury 2018

Raining Poetry & Painting in Roxbury 2018 – a public street art project, on the sidewalks of Roxbury during Celebrate Roxbury Summer Festival, Saturday, July 7, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Twenty visual artists will be paired with twenty selected poems: the artists will stencil their visual responses on the sidewalk next to the chosen poems. This doubling promises to be a fun and unexpected way to … Continue reading Raining Poetry & Painting in Roxbury 2018

AMR (Andes – Margaretville – Roxbury) Open Studios Tour Coming Up, July 28 – 29

As art historian George Philip LeBourdais eloquently articulated in a piece for Artsy magazine in August 2016 “The studio is where strange magic happens, as much for the artist’s imagination as for the public’s. It’s the conjuring place of new concepts, styles, or forms. Sometimes it even comes to be seen as sacred, a place where visitors become pilgrims to the altar of art.” Read … Continue reading AMR (Andes – Margaretville – Roxbury) Open Studios Tour Coming Up, July 28 – 29

Book Reading Event at Roxbury General

Novelist Annie DeWitt and photographer Jerome Jakubiec spoke about their widely praised books “White Nights in Split Town City” and “I Actually Wore This: Clothes We Can’t Believe We Bought” at Roxbury General on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 25 this year. The Los Angeles Review of Books depicts “White Nights in Split Town City” as “the story of what it means to feel desired and plugged … Continue reading Book Reading Event at Roxbury General

The Irish Hunger Memorial Re-Opens to the Public

The Irish Hunger Memorial, a public art project designed by sculptor Brian Tolle in Battery Park City, re-opened to the public late last summer after undergoing major renovations to address damage caused by water infiltration in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Originally built in the early 2000s, the monument opened for the first time on July 16, 2002. Roberta Smith from The New York Times … Continue reading The Irish Hunger Memorial Re-Opens to the Public

Pressing Cider at Hubbell Family Farm

Pressing cider has been a cherished tradition at Hubbell Family Farm since 1870 when the family acquired a custom-made press manufactured in Syracuse. For the first 40 years, the press was powered by a steam engine, replaced in 1917 with a gasoline engine that still runs today, a hundred years later. A popular fall activity and tourist attraction in the Catskills, the Hubbell press turns … Continue reading Pressing Cider at Hubbell Family Farm

Artists on Art Tour at Olana

Olana, home of 19th century landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church in Hudson, is hosting Artist on Art Tour, a series of guided tours through Olana under the tutelage of contemporary artists working in various disciplines. Artistic storytelling is a compelling part of Olana’s ongoing narrative. Participating artists offer a unique lens with which to “read” Olana, and experiment and invent with “poetic license” as they … Continue reading Artists on Art Tour at Olana