How Art Is Made: In the Catskills is a collection of interviews with some of the world’s most accomplished artists who live and work in the Catskill Mountains, New York. Five painters and illustrators, two ceramicists and printmakers, one sculptor, one weaver, and one writer discuss what inspires and moves them, what draws them to their medium of choice, what materials they use, how they … Continue reading How Art Is Made: In the Catskills
In December last year The New York Times reported that Miss Manhattan and Miss Brooklyn, two replicas of Daniel Chester French’s original sculptures re-created by Brian Tolle, were installed on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn by the Manhattan Bridge. Read excerpts from my interview with Mr. Tolle, conducted in November 2015 when we discussed this project among others. Mr. Tolle is one of the artists featured … Continue reading Miss Manhattan and Miss Brooklyn Installed on Flatbush Avenue
Anique Taylor holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University, and an MFA in Drawing from Pratt Institute as well as a Diplôme from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She has co-authored works for HBO, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and others. She has given featured readings at St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Dixon Place, the Speakeasy, Cedar Tavern, and group readings at What Happens Next, Tompkin’s … Continue reading Featured Writer: Anique Taylor
Leslie T. Sharpe is an author, editor, and educator. She began her editing career at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and is currently an editorial consultant specializing in literary nonfiction, literary fiction, and poetry. A member of PEN American Center, she is the author of Editing Fact and Fiction: A Concise Guide to Book Editing (Cambridge University Press, 1994), which is regarded as a “modern editing classic” and … Continue reading Featured Writer: Leslie T. Sharpe
Writers in the Mountains presented at the Woodstock Public Library, as guest of the Poetry Barn, Thanksgiving Literature, Friday, November 18, 2016. Readers included Lillian Browne, Geoff Rogers, Sharon Israel, Lissa Kiernan, Bonnie Lykes, Carrie Bradley Neves, Nina Shengold, and Anique Taylor. A feast for the soul! In 2017 Writers in the Mountains will celebrate a quarter century of creative writing and community in the … Continue reading Thanksgiving Literature with Writers in the Mountains at the Woodstock Library
The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, Steuben County, has on display some of the world’s most exquisite glass collections, spanning over thousands of years of history. Glass objects and glassmaking techniques from various parts of the world are showcased in several different galleries. A gallery dedicated to Glass in America includes early and rare artistic and decorative pieces. Glassmaking is considered to be the … Continue reading Featured Destination: The Corning Museum of Glass
This weekend: David Bromberg Quintet performs at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock; Visual artists Lisbeth Firmin and Richard Kathmann lead a workshop called Double Vision: Plein Air Painting at the West Kortright Centre in East Meredith; And author Lowell Thing discusses his book The Street That Built a City: McEntee’s Chestnut Street, Kingston and the Rise of New York at the Delaware & Hudson Canal Museum … Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 8/26/2016
This weekend: Chamber music with Adam Tendler, Emmanuel Feldman, and Aurea Ensemble at Maverick Concert Hall; As You Like It and Macbeth at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Robert Hite: A Distant Embrace at Wired Gallery; And Writers Exposed with Writers in the Mountains at the Erpf Center. Learn more at Upstater.com. Continue reading Weekend in the Catskills – 8/19/2016
Art in the Catskills 