Category: photography

art, art studio tour, books, ceramics, Contemporary Art, crafts, galleries, landscape painting, lithographs, multi-media, murals, News, painting, photography, plein air painting, prints, sculpture, still life painting, weaving, wood-block prints

Not to Miss This Weekend: AMR Open Studios Tour 2015

This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, July 25 – 26, from 11 am to 5 pm over twenty artists in Roxbury, Halcottsville, Margaretville, Fleischmanns, Halcott Center, Arkville, and Pine Hill will open their studios to the public, and show their working spaces. A good place to start the tour is the Wawaka (Halcottsville) Grange, which is true to its original function as a Grange and General … Continue reading Not to Miss This Weekend: AMR Open Studios Tour 2015

Admin
abstract art, art, art studio tour, ballet, classical music, Contemporary Art, crafts, dance, design, galleries, installations, jazz, opera, painting, photography, sculpture, storytelling

Weekend in the Catskills – 7/17/2015

This weekend in the Catskills: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival in Cooperstown; New York City Ballet dancers perform at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center; Abstract painter Adam Cohen exhibits at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson; And Phoenicia Art Tour (formerly known as the Shandaken Art Tour) celebrates its eight anniversary. For more, go to Upstater.com. Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 7/17/2015

Admin
art, Contemporary Art, Featured Destination, galleries, photography

Featured Destination: The Center for Photography at Woodstock

The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) was founded in 1977 to exhibit and support photographic art. It was only in the 1970s that the photographic imagery was accepted in the mainstream media as conceptual art, and was included in museum and gallery exhibitions. Since the 1970s, CPW has been presenting exhibitions, and offering workshops and residencies to artists interested in photography. The center organizes … Continue reading Featured Destination: The Center for Photography at Woodstock

Admin
art, arts and crafts fair, classical music, crafts, dance, festivals, galleries, history, Hudson River School, multi-media, museums, music, painting, photography, sculpture

Memorial Day Weekend in the Catskills

Fenimore Art Museum Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, Otsego County, is hosting an Iroquois Cultural Festival Saturday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum’s new Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater, located near the shores of the Otsego Lake, will celebrate its grand opening this Saturday. Otsego: A Meeting Place Iroquois Sites are located nearby. Native American music, dance and storytelling performances will be held … Continue reading Memorial Day Weekend in the Catskills

Admin
abstract art, art, books, classical music, Contemporary Art, galleries, history, Hudson River School, landscape painting, literary events, mansions, modern art, multi-media, music, painting, photography, plein air painting, portrait, sculpture, writing

Weekend in the Catskills – 5/1/2015

May Day, Park Day, Independent Bookstore Day, Kentucky Derby, and superb weather this weekend – many reasons to celebrate. Thomas Cole National Historic Site & Olana State Historic Site Thomas Cole National Historic Site in partnership with Olana State Historic Site are co-hosting River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home, an exhibition that opens this Sunday, May 3 at both sites. The exhibition, featuring twenty-eight contemporary … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 5/1/2015

Admin
art, collage, Contemporary Art, Featured Destination, galleries, Hudson River School, installations, landscape painting, mansions, memorial sites, multi-media, painting, photography, plein air painting, sculpture

Featured Destinations: Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site

I interviewed Betsy Jacks, Director of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, Greene County. The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in partnership with Olana State Historic Site are co-hosting River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home, an exhibition that will open this Sunday, May 3, and run through November this year. The exhibition, featuring twenty-eight contemporary artists inspired by the works of Thomas Cole … Continue reading Featured Destinations: Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site

Admin
art, books, classical music, Contemporary Art, festivals, galleries, literary events, music, painting, photography, poetry

Weekend in the Catskills – 4/10/2015

This weekend in the Catskills and surrounding area: books, daguerreotypes, pastels, Brubeck, and poetry: what can be better? Writers in the Mountains’ “Meet the Authors” Book Festival Writers in the Mountains (WIM) is hosting “Meet the Authors,” Second Annual Catskills Book Festival, Sunday, April 12, 2015 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at the Roxbury Arts Center. Participants include award-winning writers Jenny Milchman, author of … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 4/10/2015

Admin