Impressions from the AMR Open Studios Tour 2018
© 2018 Simona David Continue reading Impressions from the AMR Open Studios Tour 2018
© 2018 Simona David Continue reading Impressions from the AMR Open Studios Tour 2018
Roxbury, an international destination in recent years given its wildly popular attractions The Roxbury Motel and Plattekill Mountain, is now home to a Writers’ Residency, newly opened by writer Annie DeWitt and photographer Jerome Jakubiec. The three-day residency program includes accommodations, meals, workshops and manuscript review by DeWitt, who teaches writing at Columbia University and is the author of White Nights in Split Town City, … Continue reading New Writers’ Residency Opens in Roxbury
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
Raining Poetry & Painting July 7, 2018 Roxbury, New York Continue reading Raining Poetry 2018
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 – 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
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
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
4/29 Writers Unbound Literary Festival, Union Grove Distillery, Arkville, NY 6/23 Catskill Interpretive Center Book Festival, Mt. Tremper, NY 7/28 – 29 AMR Open Art Studio Tour, Halcottsville, NY 8/19 Blink Art Gallery, Andes, NY 9/8 Zadock Pratt Museum, Prattsville, NY Look for our news releases to learn more about upcoming events. Continue reading Art in the Catskills 2018 Events
April 29, 2018 Union Grove Distillery Arkville, New York Continue reading Writers Unbound – Fifth Annual Catskills Literary Festival