Recent
Acquisitions
to the Permanent Collection
June 14 - Sept 28
Sept 6 - 28
Founders Gallery
Altered
Books
YOUTH EXHIBITION SPACE
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INSIDE & OUTSIDE the BOX
show & silent auction
Preview Party
Oct 3, 7 pm,$10
for more info and other EVENTS
ARTHUR
HAMMER
Sept 6 - 28
Reception 9/6 4-6 pm
Small Works on Paper
Sept 6 - 28
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Where fine contemporary art and Woodstock's art treasures live side by side.
click here for more about EXHIBITIONS and ARTIST SUBMISSION DATES
click here 6th Annual Woodstock Fine Art Auction
Hinchey Announces $102,289 Federal Grant For
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
Woodstock, NY (July 17, 2008) -- Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today announced that the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum has been awarded a $102,289 grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support projects that help the museum better serve the community. Hinchey initiated the process that resulted in the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum submitting an application to IMLS and strongly encouraged the agency to provide funding.
"These federal funds will be used to educate students and their families about local art history and provide them an engaging artistic experience," Hinchey said. "Students in Ulster County will benefit greatly from the opportunity to create their own artwork, work with professional artists and display their own artwork to the public."
The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum will use these funds (to be allocated over a three year period) to implement the Maverick Youth Project, a museum education program designed to give students hands-on art experiences and educate them about local art history through the WAAM Permanent Collection. The funds will help to enrich local students' experience of the visual arts by working with art professionals in which they will observe, interpret, and reflect on the artwork from the museum's collection. In addition, students will have the opportunity to create and showcase their own art in the museum's Youth Exhibition Space.
"We are very grateful to Congressman Hinchey for his assistance in securing this grant from IMLS, which recognizes the quality of our Education Program and the relevancy of our museum collection to the community at large," said Josephine Bloodgood, Executive Director. "We're very excited to expand our program under the direction of education curator Beth Humphrey, and to further strengthen the impact it has made in the lives of kids and families in the region."
The grant comes from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums for America Program, which is designed to strengthen a museum's ability to serve the public more effectively by supporting high-priority activities that advance the institution's mission and strategic goals.
Congressman Maurice Hinchey will be thanked publically at an event at WAAM soon to be announced.
Since its beginnings in 1919, the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum has been committed to exhibiting and collecting work in all media by area artists and supporting the tradition of Woodstock as the "Colony of the Arts."
Located in the center of the village of Woodstock, New York, the WAAM functions as a cultural center as well as a repository for the work of American artists associated with the Woodstock Art Colony.
Each year, the WAAM presents a full schedule of concurrent solo and group exhibitions, juried and non-juried, of local artists throughout its spacious galleries.
The Main Gallery hosts monthly group exhibitions, the middle gallery features solo shows of contemporary artists and the Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing is devoted to art from the Permanent Collection. Works created by students and children through the Education Program are featured in Youth Exhibition Space (YES!).
The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum celebrates SECOND SATURDAYS along with other members of the Woodstock Arts Consortium. Galleries in Woodstock will be open with special events until 8pm on the second Saturday of the month, June through October.
For more information about any of our events or exhibitions, call 845-679-2940.
Exhibitions and programs are sponsored in part by the WAAM Founders’ Circle, other individual and business supporters, and our artist membership.
