Nina Doyle takes helm as Woodstock School of Art’s executive director
Nina Doyle, the Woodstock School of Art’s new executive director, says her management philosophy is simple: to listen and learn.
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Sanford Gifford’s scenic landscapes on view at Cedar Grove
The artists of the Hudson River School captured their landscapes in a way that strikes a chord with all of us. We look at their paintings and our hearts beat as one with theirs.
Martha Frankel wants Woodstock Bookfest to bring different points of view together
The Woodstock Bookfest is in its eighth year of entertaining and inspiring writers and book-lovers alike. Since its conception, the festival has drawn speakers, panelists, and literarians from across the country as well as locally.
Abstract Evocative at WAAM
The new exhibit up at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum through the month, Abstract Evocative, holds a hundred years of art history on its many surfaces.
Counterculture’s next wave: Anna Hafner wants art to be for everyone
“We’re aware of other ways of being than this capitalist madness. I barely ever sell my art because it makes me crazy. Art should be for everyone, not only a pasttime of the wealthy.”
Center for Photography gets a house
After a quick and successful fundraising effort, the arts organization, celebrating its 40th year, bought a building on Glasco Turnpike in which it could house its annual artists-in-residence. And not just any building, but the former home of artist Henry Mattson, built in 1824 and once home to the artist Frank Swift Chase, as well.
Women composers lifted from obscurity by Ars Choralis
Barbara Pickhardt, music director of Ars Choralis, has a knack for presenting ambitious theme programs which often really teach us something as they entertain us.
The Quarry Fox snares your heart
“The Quarry Fox: And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills” is an amazing work, as much a clarion call announcing a quietly strong new voice in nonfiction writing and reflection as a key work about this unique region we call home.
Woodstock writer Alison Gaylin nominated for top mystery novel prize
“What Remains of Me” a finalist for the Edgar Award, given yearly by the Mystery Writers of America (MWA).
Judith Kerman’s Aleph, broken
The mud-luscious season we entered as soon as this past pile of snow started melting is perfect for poetry. Or at least its reading.