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December
5 x 7 Exhibition… “everyone’s favorite little show”
Opening Reception: Friday, December 1st from 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Admission: 10, Participating Artists Free
Exhibition Dates: Through December 23rd, Everyday 12noon – 5pm
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild presents the annual 5x7 exhibition, kicking off with the preview party on Friday, December 1st from 5-7pm. The show consists of over 100 original works of art on 5x7 canvases by well-known local, national and international artists. Each piece is $100 and is anonymous until after purchase. All proceeds go toward the Kleinert/James Exhibition Program of The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. The exhibition runs through December 23rd. A list of participating artists is available. Be sure not to miss it, this is everyone’s favorite little show!
LONGEST NIGHT CELEBRATION
Date: Thursday, December 21
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Time: 7:00 pm
Admission: FREE!!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild invites the community to the Longest Night Celebration in honor of the Winter Solstice on Thursday, December 21 at 7pm. The evening, directed by Nancy Chusid, will include Song, Music and Dance for the whole family with Seasonal Sing Alongs, Children’s Chorus, Community Chorus, Chamber Music, Solstice Revels and African Dance and Drumming. The evening will also include a raffle with some great prizes. The event, at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, is free and open to the public. This event was made possible by donations from businesses and people in the community. For more information please call The Guild at 845-679-2079.
ANNUAL SOLSTICE CONCERT WITH HAPPY AND ARTIE TRAUM AND FRIENDS
Date: Saturday, December 16
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Time: Doors open at 7:30 pm, the show starts at 8:00 pm
Tickets: $30 General , $25 member (Please note this show is
SOLD OUT!)
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information or to include your name on the waiting list.
The Annual Solstice Concert, one of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s most popular events, featuring legendary folksingers
Happy and Artie Traum, is sold out and there is a waiting list for tickets. Joining the Traums at this year’s concert will be Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, Ida, and Fiddler, Larry Packer and singer/songwriter,
Joe Flood.
Happy and Artie Traum have been active and important figures on the American music scene for over thirty years. Full time musicians since the 1960’s, they have performed extensively through out the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and most recently, Japan, performing solo as well as performing with many well known artists.
Since joining forces in the late 1970s,
Jay Ungar and Molly Mason have become one of the most celebrated duos on the American acoustic scene They have garnered legions of fans through their appearances on Great Performances, A Prairie Home Companion, their own public radio specials, and work on film soundtracks such as
Brother’s Keeper, Legends in the Fall and a host of Ken Burns documentaries.
Ida is Elizabeth Mitchell, Daniel Littleton and
Karla Schickele. They play folk flavored indie rock. Their compositions are measured and minimal, often defined by voice , piano and guitar. They have played at Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble and in numerous clubs in New York City. They have recorded several CDs and are a real treat to see!
Multi-Instrumentalist, singer and songwriter
Joe Flood is a veteran of the downtown NYC roots rock scene that spawned such talent as the World Famous Blue Jays, Blue Chieftains, and Five Chinese Brothers. Both instrumentally and vocally he is a true inheritor of the rich- rock- blues-country –folk blend of The Band. In fact, his work has been recorded by that legendary group as well as by The Bottle Rockets and Laura Cantrell.
Fiddler, Larry Packer has played with just about everyone, including The Band, David Grissman, Hall and Oates and Phoebe Snow to name just a few.
For more information or to include your name on the waiting list for tickets please call The Guild at 845-679-2079.
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November
MEMBER’S SHOW
Dates: November 3rd – November 26th
Opening Reception: Friday, November 3rd. 5:00 – 7:00pm
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Gallery Hours: Friday through Sunday 12 to 5pm and by appointment.
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild presents the annual MEMBER’S SHOW, a group exhibition at the Kleinert/James Arts Center from Friday, November 3rd through November 26th. The opening reception is on Friday, November 3rd from 5pm – 7pm. The gallery is located at 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock, NY. Regular gallery hours are Friday through Sunday 12noon – 5pm and by special appointment.
The exhibition features painting, sculpture, prints and photography by members of The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. In addition, ceramics will be exhibited by students of the year-round Byrdcliffe Ceramics Program (located at The Guild’s historic Byrdcliffe Arts Colony) under the direction of Program Coordinator, Meg Oliver. Jewelry students, under the direction of Program Coordinator, Dan Marshall, will also be exhibiting. The Jewelry Program has been offering classes year-round in the Tinker Room at 34 Tinker Street since 1939. Awards are given each year at the Member’s Show to jewelry students working in silver for excellence in craftsmanship.
The Member’s Show is open to all Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild members as well as jewelry and ceramic students. All current members are welcome to participate. Each member or student may submit one work with a size limit of 60 inches. For more information Please call The Guild at 845-679-2079.
WHAT IS IMPROVISATION?
Date: Saturday, November 11
Time: 2 pm
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Cost: FREE!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present a talk with jazz pianist,
Marilyn Crispell, entitled, What Is Improvisation? at the Kleinert/James Arts Center in Woodstock. Ms. Crispell will speak, demonstrate and conduct a Q and A on Saturday, November 11 at 2pm.
Marilyn Crispell has been a resident of Woodstock since 1977 when she came to study and teach at the Creative Music Studio. For ten years she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble and has been a member of the Barry Guy New Orchestra and guest with his London Jazz composers Orchestra, as well as a member of the Henry Grimes Trio, Quartet Noir (with Urs Leimgruber, Fritz Hauser and Joelle Leandre), and Anders Jormin’s Bortom Quintet. In 2005, she performed and recorded with the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada and in 2006 she co-directed the Vancouver Creative Music Institute and a faculty member at the Banff Centre International Workshop in Jazz. Besides working as a soloist and leader of her own groups, Crispell has performed and recorded extensively with well-known players on the American and International jazz scene.
Marilyn Crispell is a 2006 Artists’ Fellowship Recipient of the
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a public program of NYFA.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Call The Guild at 845-679-2079 for more information.
Master Drummers of South India Perform at Kleinert/James Arts Center
Date: Saturday, November 11
Time: Doors 7:30pm Show 8:00pm
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Tickets: $25/ General Public and $20/ Guild Members
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present an evening of Indian Percussion Music with two renowned Drummers from South India, Ganesh Kumar and Subash Chandran. Joining the two drum masters is the Hudson Valley’s own bansuri flute virtuoso, Steve Gorn and John de Kadt, a percussionist from the Berkshires, on Saturday, November 11th, 8pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center.
Mr. Kumar is a renowned Kanjira player. The kanjira is a South Indian Frame Drum Tambourine. He has performed with all of the leading musicians in India and abroad. He found new techniques in playing this “one hand instrument” and found unimaginable nuances of melody from this amusing bass percussion instrument.
Subash Chandran is a leading ghatam (clay pot instrument) artist and recognized as the leading artist in the art of konnakol, South Indian vocal percussion. He is known through out the world for his unique vocal rhythmic compositions; known as Konnakol, are considered to be the best in the world.
Percussionist,
John de kadt, has been playing hand percussion instruments for over 25 years. He appears on numerous recordings and performs regularly throughout the East coast. He has performed with Steve Gorn, Glen Velez, Eugene Friesen, Robert Bly. Krishna Das, Baba Olatunji, and others. John has taught drumming live nationally on NBC TV and performed on PBS TV. He has produced and released his own CD in 2005 entitled, This Rhythm is Not Mine, which has received excellent reviews and is currently working on his new CD to be released in 2007.
Steve Gorn, Bansuri flutist, infuses great mastery with a haunting, lyrical sweetness to bring the healing breath of the sacred to our demanding contemporary lives. He is praised in India by the most demanding of
Indian audiences and reviewers. He performed and recorded with India’s top musicians. He has also lent his elegant bansuri sound to American pop music. He has recorded with Paul Simon, Richie Havens, Paul Winter, Jack DeJohnette, Glen Velez and many others. Deepak Chopra, Krishna Das, Coleman Barks, Jai Uttal, Jerome Robbins and Julie Taymor are among those who have sought out his virtuoso bamboo flute. He has composed for film, television, dance and theatre, and performed in concerts and festivals throughout the world, drawing from classical Indian, jazz and world music to create a distinctive signature sound.
The quartet has been touring the east coast for the past few months and we are honored to have them stop in Woodstock. Be sure to get your tickets early. For tickets call 845-679-2079. Tickets are $25 /General and $20/Members
CELEBRATE THE CELTS
Date: SATURDAY, November 4
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: Doors 7:30pm Show 8:00pm
Tickets: $20/ General Public and $15/ Guild Members,
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present,
CELEBRATE THE CELTS, an evening with Sonia Malkine and Friends on Saturday, November 4 at 8pm. As Sonia likes to tell people “The Celts from Ireland are always the group that is recognized. What about the Celts from Scotland, Wales and Brittany?” This special Woodstock evening at the Kleinert/James Arts Center will include the dance, music and legend from all of these countries. Performing with
Sonia Malkine will be David Hornung, Richmond Johnston, Tim Kapeluck, Julie Parisi-Kirby, Gilles Malkine, Abby Newton, Maggie Sylvester and T.G. Vanini.
Sonia Malkine was born in France, of Breton ancestry, and was raised there and has lived in Woodstock for decades. She has sung in coffee house all through America, for the Alliance Francaise and at Carnegie Hall, accompanying herself on the guitar and vielle (hurdy gurdy). She has appeared at numerous folk festivals and has produced three radio series of folk music, one for a CBS affiliate. She has recorded 3 records and has made 35 television programs, which have been aired in 116 cities. Joining Sonia will be
David Hornung, a third generation accordionist who has played in regional bands all his life. Most recently, he was a member of “Celtic-Crossing” a band that specialized in traditional music of Britain and New England.
Richmond Johnston of High Falls has been playing the great Highland bagpipe for eighteen years, piping for weddings, funerals, and all occasions. He competes as a solo bagpiper and with the Capitol Region Celtic Pipe Band of Albany, and has studied piping with some of the greatest bagpipers in the world. He sings and plays pipes and whistles with the Celtic Band, Aisling.
Tim Kapeluck is a multi – instrumentalist (fiddle, mandolin, and guitar) and singer. He has played traditional Scottish, Irish and American music for over 40 years. Tim is a regular player at local Irish sessions. As a member of The Saturday Night Bluegrass Band, Tim performs most Thursday nights in Woodstock.
Julie Parisi-Kirby (vocals) and T.G. Vanini (violin, vocals) are often heard locally as two- thirds of The Princes of Serendip, and at Celtic music sessions. Their original music springs from a love of Celtic music and storytelling. Julie is also a voice teacher, T.G. first learned Celtic fiddle tunes in the Irish pubs of Manchester, England, 30 years ago.
Gilles Malkine, Sonia’ son, is an actor, musician, and songwriter who has been performing in Woodstock since the age of ten, and shows no sign of stopping. Harpist,
Maggie Sylvester is a member of the Hudson Valley Harp Circle and has performed as a member of Celtic Women in Music. She has played at the Capitol District Scottish Games, A Celebration of Celts, The Stock wood Renaissance Faire, as well as at schools, galleries and local clubs.
Abby Newton, of the acclaimed group Ferintosh is well known for her groundbreaking work in the revival of the cello in American and Scottish traditional music. In the mid 70’s she began performing with John Cohen and Jay Ungar in the Putnam String County Band, making it the first modern string band with a cello. She has produced and recorded over a hundred folk recordings including 16 CDs with Scottish singer, Jean Redpath. She has also appeared on Prairie Home Companion.
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October
SLIDE SLAM
Date:
Thursday,
October 19, 2006 - THIS SLIDE SLAM IS POSTPONED, NEW DATE TBA
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm FREE!!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information. Call or email to sign up, spaces still available!!!
In an effort to create a forum for local artists to share their work with each other and the community, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild invites area artists to sign up to show their work at this 'SLIDE SLAM'.
A visual extravaganza of images!! Artists are invited to bring 10 slides to add to the slide tray and talk about their work for 10 minutes.
Show slides of your work OR be a 'SLAM Spectator' and enjoy watching the visual action happen! We encourage brevity, levity, sincerity, frivolity, relevance, pertinence, and impertinence. All are invited to join in.
Ceramics Sale at Byrdcliffe Theater
Preview Party: Friday, October 6, 6-9pm , Admission: $10
Dates: October 7 – 9 and October 13 -15, 10am - 6pm
Location: Byrdcliffe Theater on Upper Byrdcliffe Road in Woodstock, NY
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to announce
a special Ceramics Sale at The Byrdcliffe Theater with work by the 2006 Ceramic Artists in
Residence at The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. The sale will open with a preview party on Friday,
October 6th, 6-9pm with a chance to preview the work, have a drink and a bite to eat.
The admission for the preview party is $10. The sale continues October 7 -9 and October 13
- 15, each day 10:00am – 6pm .
There will also be pottery for sale by a variety of local potters in
conjunction with the residents show.
Sallie Thompson
This summer, Ceramic Residents include Melite Greenleaf,
Kyle Kruchten, and Sallie Thompson. Ms. Green leaf earned a BFA from
SUNY New Paltz. While living in Berkley, California, she worked as a
gallery assistant at Trax and taught at Kid ‘n Clay. Mr Kruchten
studied at University of Montana at Missoula and has a home studio
in Brainerd, Minnesota. Ms. Thompson studied at the Oregon School of
Arts and Crafts, Carbondale Clay Center, and earned a BFA from Alfred.
She maintains a studio in Syracuse, New York. The residents will
exhibit a variety of functional and sculptural work.
The Byrdcliffe Theater is one mile
outside of Woodstock on Upper Byrdcliffe Road. For further information
and directions call The Guild at 845-679-2079 or visit
www.woodstockguild.org
INSIDE OUT
5th Annual Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, June 10 - Monday, October 9th
Exhibition Hours: Sunrise to Sunset
Location: Villetta Inn at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Upper Byrdcliffe Rd. Woodstock, NY
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present INSIDE OUT, the 5th Annual Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition curated by Richard Timperio. The opening reception is on Saturday, June 10th, 4:00pm – 8:00pm at the Villetta Inn at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony on Upper Byrdcliffe Road in Woodstock, NY
Flowers 1, 2, 3. By Vallessa Monk
This year’s exhibition consists of 26 artists that usually create indoor installations. INSIDE OUT will be taking these indoor works and presenting them in the extraordinary outdoors of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony.
The Participating Artists include: Thomas Broadbent, Susan Brietsch, Rosemarie Castoro, Ursala Clark, John Clement, Paula Deluccia, Dan Devine, Stephen Gerberich, Elaine Grove, David Hatchett, Tadashi Hashimoto, David Henderson, Phillip Howie, Norm Magnusson, Norma Markly, Vallessa Monk, Portia Munson, Frank Marshall, Chris Martin, Eung Ho Park, Larry Poons, Judy Richardson, Laurel Schute, Leon Smith, TODT and Christopher Yeatman.
The exhibition will be open everyday from sunrise to sunset through October 9th. For more information please call the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild at 845-679-2079 or www.woodstockguild.org.
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September
Continuing the Tradition: Byrdcliffe Ceramics
Exhibition Dates:
Sunday, September 24 - Tuesday October 28th
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 24th @ 1 pm - 4 pm
Exhibition Hours:
Friday - Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm or by appointment
Location:
Kleinert/James Art Center, 34 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Kleinert/James Arts
Center is pleased to announce, Continuing the Tradition: Byrdcliffe
Ceramics. This exhibition is an exciting selection of 15 artists who
have lived and worked at the Ceramics Studio in the Byrdcliffe Barn
over the past 10 years.
Artists: Chris Baskin, Rich Conti, Kate Doody, Stacey Esslinger, Jenny Gawronski, Melita Greenleaf, Kyle
Kruchten, Katie Love, Edward Meyer, Tony Moore, Meg Oliver, Noh Kyoung
Park, Lucie Piedra, Sallie Thompson, Kyla Toomey. Curated by Meg Oliver.
Plate by Chris Baskin
Clay is one of the most immediate and
intimate of materials. It registers our every touch. Yet to produce
works in clay one must understand its processes; making, drying,
bisque firing, glazing, glaze firing. Which effectively makes clay
a material that is not only embraced by the hands, but with the head
as well.
The choice of clay as a primary material
for an artist is interesting because of the ‘craft’ issue. Where is
that line between art and craft? Is there one? Does it matter? In
recent times, clay sculpture has been included under the title of
Fine Art, where as functional work has not. Intriguing as well within
in the setting of the Byrdcliffe Artists Colony- where, in its heyday,
‘crafts’ were revered, but only if designed by ‘artists’.
Stacey Esslinger
So, what if the artist and craftsperson were one?
Each piece in this exhibition was designed and made by the same person.
As a whole the work is highly diverse- including traditional thrown
pottery, wall mounted tiles, wood fired sculpture, and a slab-built
tea set. Yet still speaks the same language- be that craftsmanship?
Or perhaps Clay.
Sallie Thompson
The Kleinert/James Arts Center is located at
34 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY. Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday , 12
noon to 5pm and by appointment. For more information please contact
The Guild at 845-679-2079. www.woodstockguild.org
FERINTOSH, Celtic All-Star Perform at Kleinert/James Arts Center
Date:
Friday, September 15
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St. Woodstock, NY
Time: Doors 7:30pm,
show starts at 8:00pm
Tickets: $25 / General $20/ Members. Call 845-679-2079
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guildis pleased to present Ferintosh on Friday, September 15th at 8pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center. Ferintosh presents the vibrant
folk music of Scotland and of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where Scottish Highland music has continued
in a living tradition since the 18th century. Their dynamic arrangements unleash both the subtle
beauty and rhythmic energy of this timeless music. Ferintosh’s sound combines the soulfulness and
energy of traditional Scottish music with the precision and nuance of Baroque music.
Ferintosh is Abby Newton on cello,David Greenberg/ fiddle and Kim Robertson on Celtic harp. Abby Newton is well known for her groundbreaking work of the revival of the cello in American and Scottish traditional music and
has appeared on Prairie Home Companion. Violinist
David Greenberg enjoys a busy career as a chamber musician, orchestral musician
and folk fiddler. He is recognized as a master Cape Breton fiddler. Kim Robertson on Celtic harp is recognized as one of the most
popular lever harpists performing today. All three musicians have been featured on NPR’s
Thistle and Shamrock.
The Kleinert/James Arts Center is located at 34 Tinker Street in Woodstock, NY.
Tickets are $25 / General and $20 /Members. For tickets please call the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild at 845-679-2079.
Byrdcliffe Artists -in- Residence Invite Public to Open Studios
Date:
Friday, September 15
Location: Villetta Inn at The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY
Time:
5:00pm FREE!!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
Byrdcliffe Artists -in- Residence Invite Public to Open Studios
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Artists-In-Residence Program for August invites the public to celebrate with them on Friday, August 18th, at an open studio and pot-luck supper. Studio tours begin at 5:00 p.m., followed by supper. After supper the writers-in-residence will read from their work. Admission is free, except for the nutritional contribution.
The ten artists-in-residence include Becca Deysach from Evanston, IL, who combines an academic background in environmental studies with creative non-fiction writing. She used this month to work on essays in a collection she is developing in which the scientific and personal are interwoven.
Writer, Dorothee E. Kocks, comes from Salt lake City. Her broad range of interests and accomplishments include short stories and creative non-fiction articles; a novel, Seeing Red, which won the publication prize from the Utah Arts Council in 2005, and was also first place winner in the U.A.C.’s Original Writing Competition. Dorothee spent last year looking around the world, visiting with members of Servas, a peace organization.
John O’Connor writes creative non-fiction. Coming originally from Kalamazoo, MI, John used his month at Byrdcliffe to work on a series of non-fiction essays that will comprise a book-length comic narrative about a “familiar yet vastly under-explored American subculture: the white, repressed, middle-class, post-Vietnam, Midwestern household.” On a serious side, John spent the year 2000 as a volunteer, teaching children in Senegal, West Africa.
Saralyn Wilson, with many publications to her credit in both fiction and non-fiction, received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University. She used her time at Byrdcliffe to pull together a complete draft of her novel-in-progress, Midnight in a Perfect World, which explores different visions of beauty, art, and transcendence.
Ellen Goldstein from Jamaica Plain, MA, has published poems in many distinguished journals and recently received the Boston Redevelopment Authority Artist Certification, and was a finalist in New Voices poetry contest.
From Brooklyn, Rachael Wren is a young painter with a notable list of solo and group exhibitions to her credit. She has an up-coming solo show at University Gallery, U. Mass., Lowell. At Byrdcliffe she used her time to work her way to “places she can only get to through painting.”
Also from Brooklyn, Barbara Velazquez has come to Byrdcliffe for her second summer to work on a series of abstract digital prints based on her “Sense of Place” images from last year. Barbara has shown her work from coast to coast in the U.S. and in Europe.
Painter Philip Douglas Heilman combines an intensive painting practice with his own private art sales business. In October he will have a solo show at the Heidi Cho Gallery in NYC; and toward that show he has spent his month at Byrdcliffe enlarging some of his paintings from a series he calls “The Encroachment.”
Andrew Long of Austin, TX, has a list of solo shows dating back to 1986, with two already scheduled for 2007 – at the McMurtrey Gallery in Houston and at Plus Gallery in Denver. This is his third residency at Byrdcliffe, where in addition to his painting he has worked on play writing, poetry, and photography. He used this month to paint in preparation for his two up-coming shows.
A painter from NYC, Sue Burickson has participated in many group shows in New York. Portraiture is a particular interest of hers; and has led her into re-enactment art, in which she paints portraits from Civil War prints.
JAKE BERTHOT
Artist lecture at Kleinert/James
Art Center
Date:
Saturday, September 16th.
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time:
7:30 pm
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present a slide lecture
by artist Jake Berthot on Saturday, September 16 at 7:30pm at the Kleinert/James Art Gallery.
Throughout the 70’s and 80’s Berthot painted abstractions based on geometry. These works were structurally simple, but with a deep atmosphere created by the application of paint in a feathery impasto. In 1996, Berthot moved upstate and gradually, as a reaction to his natural surroundings, began painting landscape. Like his abstractions, these new paintings had bold, simple forms and dense imagery.
The Artist and Model, Berthot’s ink drawing show, which has been on exhibit at the Kleinert/James Gallery since August 11, is what Berthot describes as an outgrowth of the private world of the sketchbook. Unlike most life drawings which focus on the model as the object of a drawing exercise with the viewer looking through the artist’s eye, Berthot’s works are a series of diaristic tableaus with the artist as the protagonist. The Artist and Model exhibition will close on Sunday, September 17.
Jake Berthot currently shows at the Betty Cunningham Gallery in New York and at the Nielsen Gallery on Boston. His work has been shown in major museums around the world.
Marilyn Crispell and Michelle Makarski
Improvised Piano and Violin Concert
Date:
Sunday, September 17th.
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time:
2:00 pm
Cost: FREE!!!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present
Marilyn Crispell and Michelle Makarski in a concert of improvised music for the piano
and violin on Sunday, September 17th at 2pm at the Kleinert/James Arts
Center. This program is free to the public.
Marilyn Crispell, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied
classical piano and composition has been a resident of Woodstock since 1977 when she came to study and teach at the Creative
Music Studio. For ten years she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble. Besides working
as a soloist and leader of her own groups, Crispell has recorded and performed with well known players on the American and
international jazz scene. In addition, she has taught improvisation workshops and given lecture/demonstrations at universities
and art centers in the US, Europe, Canada and New Zealand, and has collaborated with videographers, filmmakers, dancers and poets.
Crispell has been the recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005 – 2006),
among others.
Violinist, Michelle Makarski has appeared as a concerto soloist with numerous orchestras including the American Symphony
and American Composers Orchestras, both at Carnegie Hall and the Royal Philharmonic at the Barbican Arts centre in London.
Her appearance with Keith Jarrett on the Lincoln Center Great Performers series led to her work with ECM Records.
Ms. Makarski was winner of the Alberto Curci Competition in Naples and was awarded the Beethoven Sonata Prize at the Carl
Flesch competition in London. She has been listed in BBC Music Magazine’s “Who’s Who in Music” as one of the most important
contemporary violinists. She lives in New York City.
 
In November, Crispell and Makarski will be performing together at the
Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival, the biggest contemporary music festival in England.
JAKE BERTHOT
Ink Drawings: The Artist and Model
Dates:
Show runs till
September 17th.
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time:
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Opening Reception on
Friday August 11,
2006
Gallery Hours: Friday-Sunday 12:00pm - 5:00 pm or by
appointment.
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
Curated by Carol March
Jake Berthot says of his mysterious, poetic ink wash drawings that “they are an outgrowth of the private world of the sketchbook.” Unlike most life drawings which focus on the model as the object of a drawing exercise with the viewer looking through the artist’s eye, Berthot’s works are a series of diaristic tableaus with the artist as protagonist. The figures, drawn entirely from his imagination, function as vocabulary to describe changing inner dramas and spiritual states. Sometimes the artist appears as a bearded figure in a long coat; sometimes he wears a costume from some past age, often a hat. Brushy, rich black areas in the drawing may create spaces where the artist hides, peering out, or, as in the last drawing of the 2006 series, completely covers a large looming canvas, to which the artist seems an appendage. Other works are lighter and have visual humor—in the gestures, unexpected rhythms and physicality of the line.
Berthot’s more public work usually has not included references to the human figure. Throughout the ’70’s and ‘80’s, he painted abstractions based on geometry. These works are structurally simple, but with a deep atmosphere created by the application of paint in a feathery impasto. In 1996, Berthot moved upstate. Gradually, as a reaction to his natural surroundings, he began to draw and then to paint landscape. Like his abstractions, these new paintings had bold, simple forms and dense imagery. Sublime, romantic and deep, the landscapes enter the viewer and connect him/her to all of nature.
Jake Berthot currently shows at Betty
Cunningham Gallery in New York and at the Nielsen Gallery in Boston. His work has been shown in major museums around the world.
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August
Byrdcliffe Artists-in-Residence Invite Public to Open Studios
Date:
Friday, August 18
Location: Villetta Inn at The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY
Time:
5:00pm FREE!!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information.
Byrdcliffe Artists -in- Residence Invite Public to Open Studios
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Artists-In-Residence Program for August invites the public to celebrate with them on Friday, August 18th, at an open studio and pot-luck supper. Studio tours begin at 5:00 p.m., followed by supper. After supper the writers-in-residence will read from their work. Admission is free, except for the nutritional contribution.
The ten artists in residence, who will be presenting their work, were selected from over 90 applicants from the United States and abroad.
Karin Batten has received numerous grants, including a Pollock-Krasner in painting, and an Artists' Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in painting. Batten has shown her paintings at the June Kelly Gallery, New York, for the last twelve years and in Zurich, at Galerie a-16. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Continental Insurance Company, and many other venues both here and abroad.
Jill McKeown of Belfast, Northern Ireland, also comes with a host of awards and experience. She has had numerous solo shows of her paintings and prints, and has exhibited throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S. Her work is in permanent collections from China to the U.S. Of her work, she says that by looking at the details – the ‘parts’ – as a way of examining the ‘whole,’ she relates monumental scale to surface, distance to intimacy and the actual to the implied.
William Knight, a painter from Burlington, NJ, has had numerous one-person shows, including Princeton University, and the Johnson Art Center in Connecticut. His paintings have also been shown at the Katonah Museum in New York, the Charles Cowles Gallery in NYC, and many other museums and galleries. He was awarded a full fellowship from the Dodge Foundation to attend and exhibit his art at the Vermont Studio Center.
Gabrielle Mayer teaches art at the University Of Kentucky; she plans to use her time at Byrdcliffe to work on a new series of paintings. She comes with an extensive list of exhibits throughout the eastern and mid-western states.
The art of
Elizabeth Riley from NYC is sculpture and installation. She has a number of solo and group exhibitions to her credit in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. She has also been honored with residencies from Spain to Florida.
Playwright
Matthew Keuter will use his time at Byrdcliffe to develop the first draft of a new play. Currently living in NYC, Matthew’s plays have been produced extensively in Colorado and Arizona. He also has a short film to his credit.
Writer
Mark Guarino comes from Chicago, where he serves as music critic for the Chicago Daily Herald. He is also a freelance feature writer for such publications as SPIN, Chicago Magazine, and Harp. Winner of a national new play competition, his plays have often been produced in Chicago.
Combining her work as an academic economist with her creative writing and drawing skills,
Joan Hoffman plans to work on her book about the watershed collaboration between NYC and up-state communities. Joan, who comes from NYC, is an often-published writer on environmental economics.
Best known for her book, Lipstick, and subsequent TV features, Jessica Pallingston will use her month at Byrdcliffe to complete a 400-page book of historical fiction/fantasy, The Greyhound Trilogy. Inspired by a need to explore the meaning of being American, Jessica focuses on three episodes in American history: Columbus’ expedition, the Salem witch trials, and the statue of liberty. She has many awards and fellowships to her credit.
From a teaching position at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Therese Stanton comes to Byrdcliffe as a seasoned writer and management consultant. Therese will use her month to complete a series of stories entitled Reading and Writing in America. “All Songs Singing,” the anchor novella, draws on Therese’s family background as a registered member of the Lower Sioux Indian Community and on her historical research into Walt Whitman’s involvement with Native Americans through his work at the BIA during the Civil War.
Byrdcliffe’s Artist-in-Residence program received over 90 applications this year. Successful applicants showed serious commitment to their art, and were chosen from among emerging, mid-career, and established artists.
SLIDE SLAM
Date:
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm FREE!!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information. Call or email to sign up, spaces still available!!!
In an effort to create a forum for local artists to share their work with each other and the community, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild invites area artists to sign up to show their work at this 'SLIDE SLAM'.
A visual extravanganza of images!! Artists are invited to bring 10 slides to add to the slide tray and talk about their work for 10 minutes.
Show slides of your work OR be a 'SLAM Spectator' and enjoy watching the visual action happen! We encourage brevity, levity, sincerity, frivolity, relevance, pertinence, and impertinence. All are invited to join in.
A Salute to the Sixties; White Pines Gala
Date:
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Location: White Pines Historic House, 454 Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY
Time:
5pm
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
and tickets.
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild (WBG) is pleased to
present A Salute to the Sixties; White Pines Gala, an annual fundraiser on Saturday, August 12 at 5pm at
White Pines in the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony. White Pines, the historic
home of Peter Whitehead, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony founder, has been
in the process of restoration since 2005. Last year, the WBG received
a matching grant from the Save America’s Treasures Fund of $128,000.
All profits from the gala will go towards the matching of this grant.
The Byrdcliffe Art Colony is on the National Register of Historic Places
and is a haven for artists. This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the
extraordinary gift of the Byrdcliffe Colony from Peter Whitehead.
This year’s gala will be celebrating the contribution
of music made to Woodstock’s cultural life by honoring local music
industry legends, Sally Grossman, owner of Bearsville Records and
Studios, Michael Lang, creator of the 1969 Woodstock Festival and
Elliott Landy, photographer. Gift certificates, services, art, dinners
at local restaurants and consultations are just some of the offerings at
the live and silent auctions. The Five Points Band will provide live
music during the silent auction and a served sit down dinner will be
catered by Oliver Kita Fine Catering.
Please come out and support The Guild! For tickets and information please call 845-679-2079.
HERVEY WHITE DAY
Date:
Saturday, August 5th
Time:
2:00 pm
Location:
Byrdcliffe Barn, Upper Byrdcliffe Road in Byrdcliffe Artists Colony in Woodstock, NY
Cost: ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased
to present a tribute to Hervey White at the Byrdcliffe barn. “Hervey White
Revisits Byrdcliffe”, on Saturday, August 5, 2:00pm, featuring Mikhail
Horowitz reading from White’s work with musical accompaniment by Gilles
Malkine. In addition, The Byrdcliffe Chorus, directed by Nancy Chusid,
will perform songs from Jane and Ralph Whitehead’s “The Morningstar Sang
Together: Folk/Songs and Other Songs for Children”.
Other events for Hervey White Day will
include an 11am gallery talk at The Woodstock Artists Association
Museum (WAAM) with co-curator Tom Wolf, professor of art history at
Bard College and essayist William Rhoads, professor emeritus from
SUNY New Paltz.
Later that day, the opening reception for
“The Maverick: Hervey White’s Colony of the Arts 1905- 1944” exhibition
will be held from 4-6pm in the Towbin Museum Wing of the WAAM. This
exhibition has been curated by Josephine Bloodgood and Tom Wolf. To
reserve a seat for the 11am gallery talk at WAAM please call 845-679-2940
or for more information on Hervey White Revisits Byrdcliffe please call
The Guild at 845-679-2079. All events are FREE.
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July
Byrdcliffe Children’s Artist-In-Residence Program Presents Summer Arts Day Camp
Date:
Monday, July 24 – Friday, August 4th
Time:
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location:
Byrdcliffe Barn, Upper Byrdcliffe Road in Byrdcliffe Artists Colony in Woodstock, NY
Cost: The cost of the camp is $300 for 2 weeks or $175 for 1 week.
The artistic experiences of children growing up in the Byrdcliffe
Artists Colony will be explored during this two week camp. Children will explore Music and Singing,
Recorders, Folk Dancing, Visual Art, Pottery, Chinese Brushwork, Mask making, Costumes and Jewelry
making in the barn. Learn what it means to come together in an artistic spirit and create in a beautiful
natural setting. The camp will also include onsite visits to working artist’s studios as well as guided
tours of the historic grounds.
The camp will be directed by Nancy Chusid and Roberta Ziemba. Nancy Chusid is a
musician, artist, author and composer as well as a collector of songs. She has been teaching children and adults
for over 20 years. Ms. Ziemba is a fiber artist, textile artist and printmaker. She is an experienced teacher who
currently teaches in the Onteora Schools at Bennet Elementary School.
For more information please call 845-339-6891. To register please call The Woodstock Guild at 845-679-2079.
The Klezmatics
15th Annual Woodstock Beat at Maverick Concert Hall
Date:
Saturday, July 15th
Time:
Doors: 7:30 pm Show: 8:00 pm
Location:
Maverick Concert Hall, Maverick Road,
Woodstock, NY
Tickets: $60, $45 and $25 - 845-679-2079 for more information
and to purchase tickets!
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Kleinert / James Arts Center is honored to present an evening
with The
Klezmatics and special guests, Susan McKowen and Boo Reiners, in their 15th
annual fundraiser, THE WOODSTOCK BEAT on Saturday, July 15th at 8pm at the Maverick
Concert Hall. The evening will be a special program of Woody Guthrie's newly discovered
lyrics with music by The Klezmatics that have resulted in their new CD ; “Wonder Wheel”,
out on July 25th. The program is in honor of Woody Guthrie’s 94th birthday and will be
hosted by his daughter, Nora.
The Klezmatics play soul-stirring Jewish roots music for our time, recreating klezmer in arrangements and
compositions that combine Jewish identity and mysticism with a contemporary zeitgeist and a postmodern aesthetic. Since their founding
in New York City’s East Village in 1986, the Klezmatics have celebrated the ecstatic nature of Yiddish music with works which are by
turns wild, spiritual, provocative, reflective and danceable.
The first all English language project by the Klezmatics- a group long acclaimed for an adventurous
sound that melds world music, American traditions, and a rich tapestry of Yiddish culture- the album,” Wonder Wheel” is a glorious tale
of discovery, populated by luminaries from different worlds and different eras.
The album’s roots date back to Guthrie’s tenure in Brooklyn’s Coney Island in the 1940’s. Guthrie
famously lived on Mermaid Avenue and entertained visitors ranging from Pete Seeger to Lead Belly to his mother-in-law and legendary
Yiddish poet/activist Aliza Greenblatt, who discovered in Woody a kindred spirit of words and idealism. Woody’s daughter Nora,
the album’s Executive Producer and champion, originally encountered the Klezmatics while they were performing with violinist,
Itzhak Perlman at Tanglewood.
In the hands of the Klezmatics, the unique insight and fiery worldview that propel Guthrie’s lyrics
take flight—matched with a set of daring and virtuosic musical compositions that make “Wonder Wheel” a rollicking and endearing
redefinition of what ‘folk music’ can be in the 21st Century. An evening not to be missed!!!
The Maverick Concert Hall is located at Maverick Road in Woodstock. Tickets are $60, $40 and $25.
Please call the Guild at 845-679-2079 for tickets. Reservations are highly suggested. This program is sponsored by Precision Flow
Technologies, Roundout Savings Bank and the Woodstock Chimes Fund.
THREAD BARE
Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 1, 5:00-8:00 pm
Date:
Show runs till Sunday, August 6
Gallery Hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-5 PM
or by appointment
Location: Kleinert/James Art Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Kleinert / James Arts Center is pleased to announce,” THREAD BARE; Tradition
Unraveled” an exhibition of 10 artists whose common thread is an inventive reworking of traditional methods and materials. The artists
in this exhibition have created a wide range of thought provoking work, broadening our conceptions about fine art.
Artists: Sally Agee, Elana Herzog, Beth Humphries, Paula Lalala, Robyn Love, Lee Musselman, Mark Newport, Donna Sharrett,
Devorah Sperber and Paul Leone from The Woodstock Wool Company. Curated by Stella Chasteen, Heather Hutchison and Portia Munson.
Sally Agee began the study of fabric design years ago at Syracuse University. Her studies were
abandoned so she could have more time to focus on painting. During the 1980s her designs were purchased by many well known fashion
designers. It was not until she moved into her home in Brooklyn, where she could buy fabric by the pound at a neighborhood store,
did she begin to create her fabric collages. Agee cuts and then glues and/or sews the pieces together creating extraordinary wall
hangings.
Elana Herzog, sculptor and installation artist uses familiar domestic materials to imply
mutation and growth or decay. The tawdry and garish nature of the materials is evocative and playfully sculptural, traversing
limits of attraction and repulsion and challenging our experience of beauty as an indicator of taste. Her mutations, even mutilations,
of functional and decorative items from the house are as whimsical as they are disturbing. Ms. Herzog will be exhibiting two wall pieces.
Elana Herzog
Beth Humphrey started working with fabric after she found an old, worn out, ripped quilt for a
doll’s bed. “It felt like a story to me” says Humphrey. When starting a piece, Humphrey often picks a short phrase or message, like
what would be found on traditional samplers, playing with the idea of what is considered good advice for homemakers. She then prints,
felts and dyes and embroiders fabric, building layers, often including found scraps of unfinished quilts and handwork.
Paula Lalala will be exhibiting a video installation of a performance where she literally
cuts up every article of clothing that she owns into tiny pieces. Ms. Lalala’s NYC studio is now open as a museum.
Paul Leone, co-owner of the Woodstock Wool Company, adamantly states “I hate the idea that
knitting is called a trend. It is an ancient art-as old as going out and hunting for food”. Leone will be exhibiting some of his
age-old knitted wisdom.
Robyn Love will be exhibiting her Memorials/Doughboy piece which was created as a part of
site-specific installations for sites in Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens. She selected the Doughboy site after completing a knit
cozy for a gravestone, which started an investigation into the meaning of memorials-both personal and public “I was interested in the way memorials simplify, and in some ways, obscure that which they honor.
I thought of my knit covers as a way of obscuring the obscurer, as well as a way to bring another layer of meaning and appreciation
to the memorial” states Love. This piece was knit over the course of nine months and took seven ponds of wool.
Lee Musselman, a sculptor working in a variety of mediums, incorporates found objects and
traditional craft techniques such as weaving and sewing into three dimensional collages/sculptures often resulting in fantastical dolls.
Mark Newport expresses his ideas about male identity in American Society with his knitting
and embroidery needles. Exploring the stereotype of the he-man and the tough guy, Newport hand-knits larger-than-life costumes of
comic book super-heroes and meticulously beads and embroiders comic book covers. “Turning the superhero inside out is a way for me
to present an understanding of masculinity” says Newport. Superheroes suggest strength, but knitting them or covering them with
embroidery provides a softness that is contradictory to their image”, he adds. Newport will be exhibiting two large scale hand-knit
superhero costumes and two embroidered comic books.
Mark Newport: Batman and Catwoman
Donna Sharrett began in the early 1990s, as a response to personal loss, to address in her
work cultural traditions and historic objects and materials associated with memorial and remembrance... Her work is reminiscent of
religious mandalas, needlework constructions made of rose petals, artificial hair, rings, bone beads and guitar- string ball ends.
Her materials are chosen specifically for their symbolic significance as her work is mysterious and meticulous in it’s craftsmanship
as well as magical in it’s transformation to ordinary objects. Ms. Sharrett will be exhibiting four of her unusual needlework
constructions.
Donna Sharrett: Wild Horses
Devorah Sperber creates visual art assembled from thousands of ordinary objects such as
thread spools and pen caps which function as low-tech pixels in Sperber’s exploration of artistic imagery in low and high resolution.
“The imagery is derived from photographs, which I digitally manipulate and translate into low-tech pixels”, says Sperber
“I am interested in the effects of digital technology on issues such as what constitutes reality, the effects of scale on
perception and how the eyes prioritize.” The work is often installed so that the viewers cannot back up sufficiently to see
the photographic images directly. The photo-realistic imagery is only visible when seen reflected in strategically-placed convex
or cylindrical mirrors, through reversed binoculars or viewing spheres. Ms. Sperber will be exhibiting one of her thread spool
installations.
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June
UNEXPECTED CATSKILLS
Date: Show runs till Sunday, June 25
Gallery Hours: Friday-Sunday, 12-5 PM
or by appointment
Location: Kleinert/James Art Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Kleinert / James Arts Center is pleased to announce, Unexpected Catskills, a thought provoking exhibition of work by seven artists who live in the Catskills and work in a variety of media. Inspired by the Catskill landscape the artists reveal a very different view of the region. We are living in a time when any sense of balance between humans and nature seems to be tipping. Our cultures relationship to nature has evolved into a place arrived at on a vacation or visited on television. Working within the natural surroundings of the Catskill Mountains, the artists in this exhibition have created works that turn on the question of our place in this world of conflicting Nature and Culture. In their various ways, these artists show us works that broaden our view toward this region in transition. Curated by Portia Munson.
Artists: Vincent Bilotta, Tasha Depp, Jared Handelsman, Iain Machell, Norm Magnusson, Alexander Queen and Susan Wides. Curated by Portia Munson.
Vincent Bilotta achieves a painterly idealization of nature using the latest computer technology. He visits the sites of famous Hudson River School paintings where he takes numerous photos, brings them back to his computer, and weaves them together creating a modern take on a classic subject. He will be exhibiting a wall size archival K3 print.
Tasha Depp is showing paintings from two different bodies of work; in one she paints close up landscapes in which a piece of garbage caught in the weeds might be mistaken for flowers. In the others, she makes beautiful paintings of wild flowers on trash both collected from the roadside and woods.
Jared Handelsman will be showing his large scale photograms of nocturnal landscapes. Working with this early photo technique, he captures images of the natural world lit by moonlight and artificial means: a flashlight illuminating a garden or the passing headlights of a car piercing the forest landscape at a curve in the road.
Iain Machell creates poetic environmental sculpture. He inscribes military lingo into the natural world by carving text into rocks and dead tree limbs. He will show a rock/text installation and photographs of other installations including one of a log jam in a stream where a log has been carved with the word “target”.
Norm Magnusson will be showing new historical markers from his I-75 project. Using the appropriated format of the roadside markers that dot the history-rich Catskill region, he has created his own markers with socially relevant content, using the authority of the format to consider the issues addressed.
Alexander Queen travels around the Catskills drawing quick sketches of the landscape. Back in his studio he works from these sketches drawing many versions and reworking them over a long period of time. He will be showing a wall of these landscapes.
Susan Wides is a photo based artist currently working in the landscape, she creates beautiful, voyeuristic, environmental images of the natural world. By shifting the focus of her large format camera she alters the scale of a scene causing the viewer to look at and experience the landscape differently. In one photo a large car dump nestled into the autumn forest is seen as if toy-like through a brightly colored scrim of blurred leaves.
SLIDE SLAM
Date: Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm FREE!!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information. Call or email to sign up, spaces still available!!!
In an effort to create a forum for local artists to share their work with each other and the community, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild invites area artists to sign up to show their work at this 'SLIDE SLAM'.
A visual extravanganza of images!! Artists are invited to bring 10 slides to add to the slide tray and talk about their work for 10 minutes.
Show slides of your work OR be a 'SLAM Spectator' and enjoy watching the visual action happen! We encourage brevity, levity, sincerity, frivolity, relevance, pertinence, and impertinence. All are invited to join in.
Sacred Steel Gospel Music with
The Campbell Brothers
Date: Saturday, June 3rd
Time: Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8:00pm
Tickets: $30/ Door, $25/ General Public and $20/ Guild Members
Location: Overlook United Methodist Church 233 Tinker St., Rt. 212 West
, Woodstock, NY
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information and to purchase tickets
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is honored to present an evening of sacred steel gospel music with The Campbell Brothers on Saturday, June 3 at the Overlook United Methodist Church on Rt. 212 at 8pm.
The Campbell Brothers perform SACRED STEEL: African American gospel music with electric steel guitar and vocal. Until recently sacred steel music was heard only in the churches. The Campbell Brothers have taken the tradition from sanctuary to concert hall-including the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Symphony Space-secular audiences are now able to appreciate a performance both devoted and rocking.
Pedal steel guitarist Chuck Campbell and his lap steel-playing brother Darick are two of the finest in the tradition. Rounding out the band, which has been playing together for over two decades, is a high energy rhythm section featuring brother Phil Campbell on electric guitar, his son Carlton on drums and bassist Malcolm Kirby. Classic, gutsy gospel vocals by Denise Brown and Katie Jackson bring the ensemble to a level of energy and expression that defies description.
Chuck is known as the master of the sacred steel. He is recognized as a great innovator as well as a gifted teacher in the tradition. Campbell developed a unique tuning and set-up for the pedal steel that is emulated by a new generation of steel players including the high profile Robert Randolph. The Campbell Brothers were mentors to Randolph when he was just starting out in the sacred steel tradition.
The tradition’s roots reach back to the 1930s, when sacred steel came to life in the House of God Holiness-Pentecostal churches, partly influenced by Hawaiian music. The mainstream audiences are just now finding out about the music, since it only broke out of the church in the mid – 1990s after folklorists and musicologists stumbled upon it. The appeal of the music has caught the ear of the well known John Medeski of Medeski, Martin and Wood., so much that Medeski produced the latest Campbell Brothers CD. “Can You Feel It?” on the Ropeadope label.
When the Campbell Brothers perform you can expect a high energy, rocking show. It will be a miracle if you stay in your sit, as many are known to stand, clap and dance to the mighty rhythms of the Campbell Brothers. An evening you will not want to miss!!!
The Overlook United Methodist Church is located at 233 Tinker St on Route 212 West in Woodstock. Tickets are $25/General Public, $20 for Woodstock Guild Members and $30 at the door. Please call the Guild at 845-679-2079 for tickets. Reservations are highly suggested.
“The Campbell Brothers play music that until recently was heard only in gospel churches, with pedal steel guitar lines swooping skyward like a gospel shouter; two Campbell brothers trade off leads, carrying the songs to peak after peak.” - Jon Pareles, The New York Times
“This man (Chuck) is the Jimi Hendrix and the Django Reinhardt of the steel guitar.” - Andy Grigg, Real Blues
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May
WOODSTOCK ARTS DAY
at The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
Date: Saturday, May 27
Location: Woodstock, NY and Byrdcliffe's Artist's Colony
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present, as part of the WOODSTOCK ARTS DAY EVENTS, a guided walking tour of the 1903 historic Byrdcliffe Artists Colony and White Pines, the Byrdcliffe founder’s home, which is now a historic house museum undergoing preservation, on Saturday, May 27. For all interested, you should meet at the Byrdcliffe Theater at 1pm, weather permitting. The tour lasts about an hour and a half and will be guided by Carla Smith, Executive Director of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.
For those getting a late start to the day, at 2:00pm the Kleinert/James Art Center will be home to Hudson Valley poets, Will Nixon, Saul Bennett and Michael Perkins in a performance of words and music hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip Pardi.
Later that afternoon, at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, “Unexpected Catskills”, a group exhibition depicting a very different view of the region, with work by Vincent Bilotta, Tasha Depp, Jared Handelsman, Norm Magnusson, Iain Machell, Alex Queen and Susan Wides, will have its opening reception from 5:00pm – 8:00pm. This exhibition was curated by Portia Munson and runs through June 25.
At 7:30pm, the winning raffle ticket from the Woodstock Art’s Day Raffle will be picked. Prizes include prints donated from the Woodstock Artists Association as well as a book of tickets for the Maverick Concert Series. For more information please call the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild at 845-679-2079 and be sure to come out and help celebrate WOODSTOCK ARTS DAY!
Classical Concert with Piano Virtuoso Warren Bernhardt
Date: Saturday, May 20
Time: Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8:00pm
Tickets: $25/ General Public and $20/ Guild Members
Location: Kleinert/James Art Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information and to purchase tickets
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is honored to present an evening of classical piano with local Virtuoso Warren Bernhardt. Bernhardt will be playing works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Debussy and Rachmaninoff on Saturday, May 20 at 8pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center in the heart of Woodstock.
Warren Bernhardt, pianist, composer and producer, has had an extremely successful career of working with some of the top names in the pop and jazz worlds. He was Steely Dan’s pianist (1993-1994) and Musical Director (1994). He recently played on vocalist Linda Ronstadt’s new CD of jazz standard as well as toured with Simon and Garfunkel on their “Old Friends” tour of Europe and the United States and will be touring this summer with Art Garfunkel. He has toured and recorded with Jack DeJohnette, Gerry Mulligan. Jeremy Steig, Mike Mainieri, Gary McFarland, to name just a few and he has accompanied such great singers as Donald Fagen, Carly Simon, Art Garfunkel, Michael Franks, Patti Lupone and Liza Minnelli. Warren has recorded countless jazz/pop albums, performing solo as well as with his own band. He has also recorded more than 50 feature film soundtracks.
With this impressive resume in the pop and jazz worlds, Bernhardt is an equally accomplished classical player. Having been exposed to music and to the piano at an early age, his father was a pianist and teacher and a close friend to other pianists, among them Russian virtuoso Joseph Lhevinne, who actually gave Warren his very first training at the keyboard. While still very young, after his family re-located to New York City, he began serious study of the classical piano literature with well-known pianists Sascha Gorodonitzki, Miklos Schwalb and Herbert Stessin, as well as with his father. The Saturday evening concert will include Four Scarlatti Sonatas, Beethoven’s final sonata: Opus 111, Six Preludes of Debussy and Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Correlli.
“I am very happy to be included in this year’s series at the Kleinert/James. It is always a high point in my life when I get the opportunity to give a recital here at home for all of my friends and neighbors. This program is most challenging to my own musical integrity, and I can hardly wait to play this magnificent piano music for all of you”
-Warren Bernhardt
Singer/Songwriter, Chris Smither in Concert A Second Saturday Event
Date: Saturday, May 13
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8:00pm
Tickets: $25/ General Public and $20/ Guild Members Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information and for tickets
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present Singer/Songwriter Chris Smither on Saturday, May 13th at the Kleinert/James Arts Center. This concert is part of Woodstock’s Second Saturday Art Events.
Over the last decade Singer/Songwriter Chris Smither has released one gem of an album after another. His music draws as deeply from the blues as it does from American folk music, modern poets and humanist philosophers. He has made outstanding music since he emigrated north from his native New Orleans as a teenager at the tail-end of the 1960’s folk revival. At that time he sat at the feet of the masters, learning their techniques. Now, in the new century, Smither stands as a master on his own. The bluesmen on the Delta and the Appalachian mountaineers made timeless art with just voice, guitar and a stomping foot. And that is the art of Chris Smither.
(Smither) taps his foot to keep the rhythm, much like the late blues legend John Lee Hooker. His finger-picked guitar lines are sleek, unhurried and insistent. And, then there’s the voice—equal parts gravel and molasses, Smither’s singing sounds like a distillation of the folk and blues heroes he grew up listening to in New Orleans.
-National Public Radio
Cy Twombly Dreamhouse A Performance of Music Dance Video
Date: Saturday, May 6
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: Doors at 7:30pm Show at 8:00pm
Tickets: $20/ General Public and $15/ Guild Members
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information and for tickets
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present Cy Twombly Dreamhouse, a performance of music, dance and video, created and Directed by Marilyn Crispell and Choreography by Savia Berger, on Saturday, May 6 at the Kleinert/James Arts Center.
Marilyn's inspiration for this work came after seeing an exhibition of Cy Twombly’s, Works on Paper at the Whitney Museum in 2004, and when she received a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2005, her creation of the Cy Twombly Dreamhouse began. The images used in The Dreamhouse have all been taken, with the permission of the artist, from the Works on Paper catalogue. The performance is comprised of twelve sections of music and dance, partly composed/choreographed and partly improvised. The dance focuses on shapes and structures relating to the paintings rather than on movements requiring a great deal of momentum. The piece attempts to blur the boundaries between light, human figures, projected images, movement and sound. The music and dance are meant to reflect the improvisatory nature and rhythmic quality of the artworks, as well as their exquisite balance of emptiness and form.
Cy Twombly Dreamhouse is created and directed by musician, composer and master teacher Marilyn Crispell. Marilyn has lived in Woodstock since 1977, when she came to study and teach at the Creative Music Studio. For ten tears she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble. Other groups she has recorded, performed or collaborated with are the Barry Guy New Orchestra, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Henry Grimes Trio, Quartet Noir, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros and Anthony Davis to name just a few.
Other musicians performing in Cy Twombly Dreamhouse are Peter Buettner on tenor saxophone and flute, another student of the Creative Music Studio and member of local music groups, Mambo Kikango and Prana.
Trumpet player Baikida Carroll is one of the early architects of the new music. His scores have distinguished theater, dance, TV, film and concerts for nearly four decades. As a trumpeter, he has performed with such artists as Cecil Taylor, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Lester Bowie, David Murray, Tina Turner, Dr. John and David Sancious to name just a few.
Percussionist Garry Kvistad is also the founder and CEO of Woodstock Percussion Inc., makers of Woodstock Chimes and musical instruments for children. In 2002, Garry joined NEXUS, the internationally renowned Canadian –based chamber music ensemble. He is one of eighteen musicians to win a Grammy Award for the 1998 of Steve Reich’s Music for Eighteen Musicians.
Drummer, Doug James has been playing drums for over five decades and was a member of the band, The Sons of Bix, recording nine albums between 1977 and 1990. One of these was Bob Haggart’s “A Portrait of Bix,” recorded in 1986 for Jazzology Records. He has also played and recorded with Paul Butterfield, Happy Traum, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Al Cooper David Sanborn and Bucky Pizzarelli to name just a few. He has played concerts and recorded two CDs with Marilyn Crispell, “And Your Ivory Voice Sings” and the trio “Gaia” with bassist Reggie Workman, both on Leo Records.
Choreographer and Dancer, Savia Berger, has been dancing since the age of six. She has been a member of Feld Ballets N.Y., the Basel Ballet in Switzerland, the New York City Opera Ballet (musical theater and stage acting) as well as working as performer, and co- choreographer with numerous independent choreographers in the U.S. and Europe, including Paul Esterbrook and Mark Davis. She has had numerous roles in film television and review theater, and was a member of the Broadway workshop cast of “Fosse”. Savia will be joined by fellow dancers, Zahrah Abdur-Raheem and Neil Totton.
This program is made possible by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the George Rockman Fund and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The show starts at 8:00pm and doors open at 7:30pm. Tickets are $20 for the General Public and $15 for Guild members. For tickets please call The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild at 845-679-2079.
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April
FLOW
Date: Saturday, April 15th OPENING RECEPTION
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: 5:00pm -7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: April 15 – May 21, Fri – Sun, 12noon to 5pm and by appointment
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Kleinert / James Arts Center is pleased to announce, FLOW, an exhibition of one sculptor and five painters. This exhibition is the first to be curated at the center by painter/sculptor, Heather Hutchison.
Labrador Sea IXX By Gregory Amenoff
The fluidity of nature, matter changing form or state, is the inspiration, if not the subject, of the works assembled for this exhibition. As evidenced in the excerpts from their own statements, these artists are all working in an internal "flow," a term proposed by the Western Psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to mean a mental state in which a person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing at that moment, a state characterized by a feeling of energized focus and full involvement in the process of the activity. It is in this 'flow' that people are found to be most happy, a state in which food, passage of time, and ego/self are typically ignored. During Csikszentmihalyi's interviews in 1975 several people used the metaphor of a current carrying them along to describe their experiences, hence the term, 'flow'.
'Flow' is certainly a state of mind and body which many individuals experience, particularly those involved in creative pursuits. The artists selected for this exhibition have been chosen because of the results of their forays into this state: their work. The paintings and sculpture in this exhibit retain a pure and essential imprint of the nature which created it, and the nature they reference.
Painter, Sasha Chermayeff says of her work, "The images come from visions, dreams and memories; a result of living with, and working from nature and its flowing endless change. Like two clouds merging into one new shape, my work changes from one form into another as one color layers itself over another in gestural sweeps. The paper itself is the third element. I carve the white, using it as I would a color, trying to give it form of its own, in relation to the whole piece. As a Japanese ceramic artist once said to me "as a painter you seek motion in stillness, as a potter I seek stillness in motion". He pretty much summed up an artistic desire to capture something in nature- the flow of the passing moment."
Gregory Amenoff says of his Labradour Sea Series shown here, "I thought I would use the idea of "the north" and icebergs to bring back more abstraction into the work in a reductive format---sea, sky, water and ice. They worked for me in a small format but when I attempted them on a grand scale I became bored with all the empty space. I still like the small iceberg paintings and am glad to have joined the ranks of artists who have found that subject both visually and existentially challenging."
Theresa Hackett states, "My work gravitates towards making references to landscape that function primarily as metaphors of a future world. The landscape is in a state of tension, rocks are falling from the sky, and gravity is questioned. The breaking apart and re-formation of structure and shape evokes a post-apocalyptic vision.
Shifting perspectives, flow of gravity, and stratification from previous times are what these paintings represent. My goal in these works is to continue pushing the limits of conventional painting and further blend the languages of abstraction and pastoral landscape."
Chris Metze writes, “I am interested in the non-verbal dialogue that occurs between line, shape, and color. The elements in my paintings are composed of shapes that are indistinct. They may appear to be something specific, but that remains in question. This uncertainty, as well as their interaction within what appears to be a landscape, is at the core of my paintings. I am interested in the line that divides the perceived rational world from the inner landscape."
Jenny Nelson says, "…it has always been my natural instinct to depict my surroundings in abstract forms. Most of the paintings evolve as a subconscious reaction to places I have been or the spaces I have encountered or lived in throughout my life. To evoke this kind of sensory memory in my work I apply many layers of paint, using gesture and my internal color sense. With great sensitivity to these evolving colors and forms, a very personal abstract language emerges."
And finally, of Mai Braun's sculpture, which so elegantly and concretely demonstrates the concept from a multitude of perspectives, Mark Flood writes, " Mai Braun’s work offers as its apparent subject an unfamiliar duality: irrational but concrete expressions versus recognizable but illusory optical effects. Thin Line (2003), a piece where what looks like a puddle of fluorescent paint supports a short section of two by four. The mundane two by four is partly covered in the same fluorescent color as its puddle, and thus appears to have been partially dipped and withdrawn, or perhaps engaged in dipping, in something very much more strange and beautiful than itself. The puddle of course is simply a solid oval piece of something fluorescent, probably painted wood. The viewer's eye wanders back and forth between the two sides of this equation, each of which projects its peculiar contribution of illusion and mystery onto the other. One is left with a haunting presence that owes something to the straightforward presentations of Minimalism and something to trompe l'oeil naturalism.”
View some of the show.
Blues Legend John Hammond in Concert
Date: Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: Doors, 7:30pm - Show, 8:00pm
Tickets: $25/ General Public and $20/ Guild Members
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information and to buy tickets
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present blues legend John Hammond on Saturday, April 1 at 8pm. From coffeehouses to concert halls, festivals and beyond, John Hammond has spent forty years entertaining blues and rock audiences around the world, performing intense acoustic blues.
A Grammy Award winner and four -time nominee, Hammond is also a multiple W.C. Handy Award winner who has shared the stage and/or recorded with many of the masters, including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf. John has recorded over twenty five albums and his passionate commitment to traditional blues made him the natural choice to host the BRAVO TV special and Sony Home Video, The Search for Robert Johnson. His 2003 release, Ready For Love, was produced by David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and is the perfect follow up to Wicked Grin, the acclaimed album produced by longtime friend Tom Waits and featuring all Waits’ songs.
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March
SLIDE SLAM
Date: Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm FREE!!
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information. Call or email to sign up, spaces still available!!!
In an effort to create a forum for local artists to share their work with each other and the community, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild invites area artists to sign up to show their work at this 'SLIDE SLAM'.
A visual extravanganza of images!! Artists are invited to bring 10 slides to add to the slide tray and talk about their work for 10 minutes.
Show slides of your work OR be a 'SLAM Spectator' and enjoy watching the visual action happen! We encourage brevity, levity, sincerity, frivolity, relevance, pertinence, and impertinence. All are invited to join in.
Emerson String Quartet Violist performs at The Kleinert/James Arts Center
Date: Saturday, March 18th, 2006
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: Doors, 7:30pm - Show, 8:00pm
Tickets: $20/ General Public and $15/ Guild Members
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information and to buy tickets
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild presents an Evening of Brahms Plus One with Lawrence Dutton / Viola, Elizabeth Lim-Dutton / Violin, Darrett Adkins/ cello and Marija Ilic/ piano, performing Brahms and a Martinu on Saturday, March 18 at 8pm.
As violist of the world renowned Emerson String Quartet, Lawrence Dutton performs over 100 concerts each season and has won six Grammy Awards, most in 2001 for “Best Classical Album” and “Best Chamber Music Performance” of the string quartets of Shostakovich on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Mr. Dutton has collaborated with many of the world’s great performing artists. They include Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Oscar Shumsky, Walter Trampler. Menahem Pressler, Lynn Harrell, Leon
Fleisher, Yefim Bronfman, Joseph Kalichstein, Misha Dichter, Jan De Gaetani and Edgar Meyer among others. As a soloist, Mr. Dutton has appeared with many American and European orchestras including those of Germany, Belgium. New York, Connecticut, Colorado and Virginia, among others.
Elizabeth Lim-Dutton has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, the Far East and Australia. She has appeared as soloist with L’Orchestre de Bayonne-Cote Basque and the L’Orchestre de Bordeaux (recorded by Radio France), the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra, New York Virtuosi as well as with Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York. In New York City, Ms. Lim-Dutton performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Lukes and has toured for two seasons as Concertmaster for the New York City Opera National Company.
Darrett Adkins, cellist has been called “an adventurous champion of contemporary music” by Strings Magazine. He has won numerous awards including the Presser Music Award and the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award, for which he appeared as soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic. He has also appeared with Tochio Soloisten and the Orchestra of St. Lukes and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra among others.
Pianist, Marija Ilic, has been praised as a “clear and decisive usician…compelling…poetic” by The New York Times. Her performances include recitals at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, Musica Viva in Belgrade, Clark Studios at Lincoln Center as well as the Aldeburgh Festival in England, just to name a few. She has worked with composers such as Martin Bresnick, George Crumb, Oliver Knussen, Joan Tower and Vykintas Baltakas. Marija is a native of Belgrade, Serbia and holds degrees from the Belgrade Music Academy, Mannes College of Music, and a doctorate from Rutgers University.
Jack DeJohnette and David Sancious play The Kleinert/James Arts Center
Date: Saturday, March 11th, 2006
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: Doors, 7:30pm - Show, 8:00pm
Tickets: $25/ General Public and $20/ Guild Members
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is honored to present an evening of JAZZ with drummer Jack DeJohnette and David Sancious/ Keyboards on Saturday, March 11 at 8pm at the Kleinert/James Art Center.
 Jack DeJohnette has worked with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Thelonis Monk, Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman to name just a few. He is widely regarded as one of jazz music’s greatest drummers and has collaborated with most major figures in jazz history. Last year He started a record label, Golden Beams Productions, to release the pieces of his work that major record companies may pass on, like “Music in the Key of Om”, to accompany meditation and “Music from the Hearts of the Masters”, a duo set with Mr. Suso, a virtuoso of the kora, a 21- string harp indigenous to West Africa.
David Sancious’ first exposure to the music industry was as an original member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. Performing on keyboards and guitars, and as a composer and producer, David has recorded and toured with some of the most notable talent in the music industry including Eric Clapton, Santana, Sting, Peter Gabriel and Yousou Ndour to name a few.
When David and I get together always expect the unexpected. Mostly it is spontaneous improvisations and we will be as surprised as everyone else by what ever transpires. I am sure a good time will be had by all including David and myself” – Jack DeJohnette
THE "7+14" SHOW
Date: Saturday, March 4 OPENING RECEPTION
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY
Time: 5:00pm -7:00pm
Exhibition Dates: March 4 – April 9, Fri – Sun, 12noon to 5pm and by appointment
Call The Guild at: 845-679-2079 for more information
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is proudly kicking off its 2006 exhibit season in the Kleinert/James Art Gallery on Saturday, March 4th with an exciting new group exhibit showcasing the work of the recently reorganized exhibit committee members (all well known artists and one architect) and two artists that each has selected. The paintings and relief sculptures are an amalgam of fine art concepts and styles, created by the team of curators who will launch and define their signature concepts throughout this year’s cycle of public showings.
These artists/curators include; Nancy Azara, a sculptor who has a home in Woodstock and exhibits her carved, painted and guilded works internationally.
Byron Bell, an architect who over a 35 –year period has traveled widely collecting utilitarian crafts and photographing people making and using them. He further documents his travels with ink and watercolor drawings depicting the world around him in terms of its architecture.
Stella Chasteen, a ceramic artist who lives and works in Woodstock and Manhattan and most recently exhibited in a solo show at the Elena Zang Gallery in Woodstock.
Heather Hutchison has been exploring translucent media for over 20 years and in 2006 exhibited new work in a solo show at the Margaret Thatcher Gallery, in Chelsea.
Bette Korman, whose artworks have been exhibited in numerous one woman and group shows in museums, galleries, corporate and private collections throughout the United States. Her recent work has been informed by her incessant need to explore the parallels between human and environmental Nature.
Carol March, a painter who works with botanical forms as the armature on which she builds her abstract compositions, attended the Byrdcliffe Artists Colony for several summers and as a result moved to Willow in 1999.
And, Portia Munson best known for her saturated pink plastic installation at the New Museum’s “Bad Girls” Show in 1994 and more recently known for her solo show at P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City entitled “Flower Mandala”.
The participating artists selected by the exhibition committee are Darla Bjork, Nana Olivas, Jan Harrison, Jonah Meyer, Ancil Chasteen, Rhody Chasteen, Charise Isis, Mark Thomas Kanter, Winifred Bendiner-Viani, Grace Wapner, Sydney Blum, Ruth Leonard, Freeda Handelsman and Lucky the Elephant.
View some of the show.
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The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, established in 1939, is a multi-arts membership organization serving the Mid-Hudson Valley. Our Kleinert/James Arts Center hosts and presents local and national performing, visual, and literary artists. The Guild offers a variety of classes and is steward of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony founded in 1903, now a home to an international artist-in-residence program and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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