Fifty years to the day after sculptor Harvey Fite died within the monumental bluestone artwork he spent much of his life building, Opus 40 will mark the anniversary with a community gathering to celebrate his legacy and preserve memories of the place he left behind. “Community Day – Celebrating 50 Years of Opus 40” is […]
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Azart Gallery Turns to Hudson Valley Artists in ‘Standpoint 5’
“Standpoint 5,” on view at Azart Gallery in Woodstock through April 26, brings together six Hudson Valley artists in a group exhibition built around a shared exercise: responding to the same two prompts. The show, now in its fifth season, asked each artist to create work based on a still life and a woman posed […]
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Jane Street Art Center’s “Matter Out of Place” Turns Waste Into Art
“Matter Out of Place,” an exhibition at the Jane Street Art Center in Saugerties, brings together six artists who use discarded materials to explore waste, destruction, and environmental change ahead of Earth Day. The show, on view through May 8 at the center at 11 Jane St., features work made from found and repurposed objects. […]
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Woodstock School of Art Series Spotlights Marielena Ferrer’s Migration-Inspired Work
Marielena Ferrer told an audience at the Woodstock School of Art in February that she became an artist “by accident.” Born into a working-class family in Venezuela, Ferrer said she had always been drawn to art but did not see it as a profession. After fleeing Venezuela for Spain with her children and later settling […]
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Six Exhibits Open at Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
When Nicole Goldberg stepped into her role as executive director of the Woodstock Art Association & Museum five years ago, she had no idea how many artists lived and worked in the area. For an organization devoted to artists within a 50-mile radius, that abundance carries a responsibility to support them—and a joy. “Every opening […]
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`Sharing the Space’ at Byrdcliffe Guild Showcases Local Landscapes
A group exhibit at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts showcases historic tonalist landscape paintings by Woodstock artists and photos by the Woman’s Photographers Collective of the Mid-Hudson Valley that depict water in its many forms—rain, snow, ice, fog and the Hudson River itself. “Sharing the Space,” on view through Nov. 30, includes landscapes from […]
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Robert Angeloch and Landscape Painting in Woodstock in the Post-War Era
Robert Angeloch’s appointment in 1964 as a landscape painting instructor at the Art Students League’s Woodstock summer school helped spark a resurgence in a long-neglected genre, leading to major exhibitions and his recognition as a bridge between two generations of artists. Angeloch was a native of Queens, the New York City borough where he was […]
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The Man Inside the Giant Pumpkin
If you’re reading this, it’s more than likely that you’ve seen the giant pumpkin on Saugerties–Woodstock Road, also known as Route 212, that signals the arrival of fall in the Catskills. And, if you’re like me, you’ve probably wondered what the story is. Every October, Douglas Haeberer, a semi-retired handyman uses a truck and chain […]
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Winslow Homer’s Hidden Hurley: An Exhibit Uncovers Local Ties to the American Master
“Hurley is a tiny village with a big history,” says Gail Whistance of the Hurley Heritage Society. Founded in 1662 and settled by Dutch immigrants, Hurley still preserves 26 of their stone houses. Its Main Street is a National Historic Landmark today, but was already considered historic by 1872. That year the New York Evening […]
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Woodstock School of Art Exhibit Marks 150th Anniversary of Art Students League
Almost six decades after its founding, the Woodstock School of Art is marking an even older anniversary—the 150th birthday of the Art Students League, whose history has been intertwined with the school since shortly after World War II. “In the Open Air: The Art Students League’s Woodstock School of Landscape Painting and Its Impact,” curated […]
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Woodstock Arts Institutions Launch Upstate Art Weekend With United Front
The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM) held a kickoff event on Thursday to launch Upstate Art Weekend, a regional celebration of the arts, and a boost to the creative economy that runs through Monday across the Hudson Valley and Catskills. In Woodstock, the event underscored a growing partnership among local institutions, with official Upstate […]
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The Women of the Woodstock Art Colony
The Historical Society of Woodstock will open its 2025 season with an exhibition celebrating the women who helped define one of the nation’s oldest artist colonies. “Making Her Mark: 50 Women Artists of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony” opens Saturday, July 12, at 20 Comeau Drive, with a public reception at 3 p.m. Curated by […]
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Saugerties
Heather Hutchison Builds Light
In the sun-washed hills where Saugerties meets Woodstock—“Saugerstock,” as locals call it—Heather Hutchison builds light. For more than two decades since 2000, the not-formally trained artist has lived and worked in a converted barn purchased in 1996 perched just outside Woodstock, a structure she and her husband, painter Mark Thomas Kanter, transformed into an airy […]
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A Moment in Woodstock
The door was propped open. A small dog with an exaggerated overbite greeted me with a hesitant sniff last Friday at Tengu Yama Studio on Rock City Road. I stepped into a room filled with hand-painted Japanese-style tattoo sketches, soft chatter, and the steady hum of a tattoo machine. Jay Rios, sleeves rolled and focused, […]
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Tremper Reimagines the Arts in Phoenicia
Tremper, a multifaceted event space formerly known as Mount Tremper Arts, launched its inaugural season of programming on May 27 with an avant-garde concert. The evening featured flutist Adriana Tampasis, who opened with a nontraditional, inventive performance. She was followed by MAW, a trio composed of upright bassist Frank Meadows, electric guitarist Jessica Ackerley and […]
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Sue Zann Debuts Retrospective Exhibition at Small Talk
On Friday, May 23, from 4 to 9 p.m., local artist Sue Zann will hold an opening reception for her show “Anything Goes—A Retrospective” at Small Talk, an intimate cocktail bar located at 1 Tinker Street. The exhibition takes place in a small pop-up gallery above the bar, a space provided by Small Talk owner […]
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Where Stone Remembers: Brunel Park Reimagined
The 19th-century French immigrant portrait photographer Emile Brunel churned clumps of concrete in preparation for his Indigenous-inspired sculptures, influenced by his time traveling through the western states. After immigrating to the United States in 1904 in search of frontier adventure, Brunel supported himself as a nomadic artist and later a commercial photographer, documenting the lives […]
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New Exhibit at WAAM Captures the Beauty of Uncertainty
The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM) held an opening reception on May 9 for its new exhibit, “FOCUS: In Flux,” a juried show curated by Kathy Greenwood. The event drew a couple of hundred visitors who flowed in and out throughout the evening. The exhibit will remain on view through June 22 in the […]
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Celebrating 100 years of Artist Sam Spanier
A month of events honors the life, art, and legacy of Sam Spanier, co-founder of Matagiri and friend to artists from Baldwin to Giacome.
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The Many Lives of Cris Gamet
A painter and farrier balances solitude and strength, wielding brush and hammer to shape a life on her own terms.
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Portraits and Poetry
With life-sized cardboard portraits displayed across storefronts, artist Joanne Pagano Weber honors the neighbors who define her adopted hometown.
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Finding Stillness Through Figure Drawing
In a quiet studio at the Woodstock School of Art, artists confront the challenge of capturing the human form—and discover a sense of community and calm.