Featured Destination: AMR Open Studios Tour 2018

AMR (Andes – Margaretville – Roxbury) Open Studios Tour 2018 will take place Saturday and Sunday, July 28 – 29 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with close to thirty participating artists and artisans working in all disciplines – painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, ceramicists, furniture designers and textile artists. Located in a bucolic scenery, all studios will provide unique experiences for visitors to explore the … Continue reading Featured Destination: AMR Open Studios Tour 2018

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

The Fabulous Beekman Boys at Creative Corner Books in Hobart Book Village

Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, the stars of reality TV show “The Fabulous Beekman Boys,” will be at Creative Corner Books in Hobart, the Book Village of the Catskills, this Sunday, June 24 from 12–1 pm, signing copies of their latest cookbook A Seat at the Table, co-written with Rose Marie Trapani. Creative Corner Books, which carries “How Art Is Made: In the Catskills,” was featured … Continue reading The Fabulous Beekman Boys at Creative Corner Books in Hobart Book Village

Featured Destination: John Burroughs Estates

Slabsides, West Park  Naturalist John Burroughs built his log cabin in West Park, Ulster County in 1895, in the Adirondack style. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968, the cabin retains most of its original furnishings, and is open to the public year round. Slabsides is one mile east of Riverby, Burroughs’ main residence. The naturalist wrote some of his most celebrated essays while at Slabsides. He … Continue reading Featured Destination: John Burroughs Estates