Onteora Student’s Solo Photography Show At Lockwood
Art lovers are cordially invited to the opening reception for “Senior Thesis,” a solo show featuring the photography of Onteora High School student Megan Davis. The opening reception will take place 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, February 29 at The Lockwood Gallery, 747 Route 28, Kingston. The exhibition will run through March 6.
“Senior Thesis” is the culmination of Megan’s project for Onteora High School’s Gifted and Talented Community Mentor Program. This year, Megan has been working on her photography with guidance from her mentor, local portrait photographer Juliet Lofaro.
Megan, who grew up in Shokan, specializes in both darkroom and digital photography. At Onteora High School, she developed her craft through classes in studio art, photography, digital art, drawing and design, and independent study. Outside of school, she is an enthusiastic volunteer at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Since opening in January 2019, The Lockwood Gallery, owned by architect Michael Lockwood and curated by Alan Goolman, showcases well-established, mid-career, and emerging artists from the Hudson Valley, New York City, and beyond. The gallery is open Thursdays through Mondays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment.
Utopian Living: Byrdcliffe Artists-in-Residence 2019
The Kleinert/James Center for the Arts will spotlight the works of Byrdcliffe’s 2019 artists-in residence with visual art, music, panel talks, an opening reception, and readings by resident writers as part of the exhibition Utopian Living: Byrdcliffe Artists-in-Residence 2019, on view through March 29. The exhibition features painting, ceramics, fiber art, video, installation, sound, photography and collage; poetry, playwriting, and fiction. An opening reception will take place 3 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday Februery 29 at the Kleinert, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock.
Utopian Living is an ode to our own searches for community, space & clarity, and freedom to be as we are.
Byrdcliffe’s Artist-in-Residence Program annually welcomes over 80 creative minds for full-year, 5-month, or 4-week residencies to live and work in Byrdcliffe’s historic 240-acre mountain landscape. Artists from all disciplines and backgrounds are given the freedom to practice within a creative community. A supportive collective of individuals naturally unfolds within Byrdciffe’s sprawling landscape as artists find solace in one another’s creative pursuits, resting for a time in mutual creative ambitions.
The opening reception for Utopian Living will be preceded by an informal panel discussion with the artists and curators at 3:00 pm. The discussion will be followed by a reception and readings and performances by Byrdcliffe’s artists-in-residence from 4:00-5:30 pm. All events are free to the public. For more information, see woodstockguild.org or call 845-679-2079.
Dig Deep With Violet Snow
Violet Snow teaches a 4-session workshop, “Dig Deep: Writing the Past,” Tuesdays, April 7-28, 6-8 p.m., at The Poetry Barn in West Hurley. Whether you write memoir, essay, family history, or historical fiction, this four-week course will inspire you to write the truth of the past and connect it to the truth of the present.
Exercises will include ways of excavating past sensations, emotions, and personal history and then working with your imagination to fill in the blanks and mold a narrative arc. You’ll also learn how to establish a theme, balance scenes and narration, develop real or fictional characters, and get unstuck. If you’re working on a project, this workshop will help you sculpt it. If not, it will help you break ground.
Register by March 6 for early bird price of $125. Regular price $140. For more details or to register, visit https://www.poetrybarn.co or call 845-280-0430.
Hall’s American Fever at Golden Notebook
Peter Christian Hall will present his novel, American Fever: A Tale of Romance & Pestilence, and a discussion about what we in Woodstock and the Hudson Valley might expect from the COVID19 coronavirus, at 3 p.m. Saturday, February 22 at the Golden Notebook bookstore, 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock. The book tells the tale of a young flu fighter huddling at home in the East Village blogging about a devastating Asian Flu pandemic as he sells masks, gloves and goggles over the internet.
Hall, a Bearsville resident and lifelong journalist, has published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones, the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others.
For American Fever’s synopsis, see http://www.americanfeverbook.com/synopsis/. For more information, see goldennotebook.com or all 845-679-8000.\
At Home At Pine Hill Community Center
The Catskilled Crafters, Wendy Brackman, Blythe Carey, Gail Freund, Karen Goertzel, Barbara Hagstrom, Hedi Kyle, Gail Lennstrom, Teddy Slater Margulies, Pamela Martin, Barbara Redfield, Berns Rothchild, Sharon Suess, and Ros Welchman present an opening reception for At Home, a show of local crafts, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, February 22 at the Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main Street, Pine Hill. There will be an Artist Talk at 3 p.m.
Join the family! 
