Please check this schedule for regular updates
2012 OPENING RECEPTIONS
Saturdays: February 11, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 16, July 21, September 8, October 6, November 10
4 - 6 pm
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PAST EVENTS FROM 2011
Sunday, February 20, 5:00 pm
Dialogues: Casting Faith, a Portrait of Gillian Jagger
a film by Barbara Gordon and Richard Schlesinger
Gillian Jagger and award-winning filmaker Barbara Gordon
will be present to take questions from the audience.
Gillian Jagger will also discuss the process
of jurying the Recent Works Show on view at the WAAM
from February 12th through March 6th.
Members: $5
Non-Members: $10
Thursday, March 24th, 6pm. Free.
Dialogues: A Gallery Talk with Franc Palaia
Franc Palaia will discuss his rich and varied career as
an artist and curator. Palaia is a painter, photographer,
muralist, sculptor, lamp designer and educator
who has had over 35 regional, national and international
solo shows. He will be included in a special survey exhibition
of American Prints at the Museum of Modern Art this year.
Juror of the March Group Show, Palaia will talk about
the jurying experience as well.
Saturday, April 16th , 4 pm
Dialogues:Gallery Talk with Patterson Sims
(Juror of Far & Wide, the 3rd annual Woodstock Regional Exhibition)
Curator, writer, and lecturer Patterson Sims has served
as curator at the Whitney Museum and
the Seattle Art Museum,
as well as director of the Montclair Art Museum.
Members: $5
Non-Members: $10
Friday, April 29th, 8pm
Esopus Musicalia
TANGO!
7 pm - Introductory Tango Lesson with Ilene Marder
8 pm - Live Tango Music Concert
Wine & Cheese Reception follows.
Ticket sales starting at 7 pm
Tickets are $20 for adults
$15 for children, seniors and WAAM members.
Sunday, May 22nd, 5pm
Dialogues:Gallery Talk with Grace Knowlton
(Juror of the May Group Show)
Internationally known for her sculpture, Grace Knowlton's
work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum,
Storm King Sculpture Park and
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Her recent work combines drawing, painting,
photography and printmaking.
Members: $5
Non-Members: $10
Saturday, June 11th, 2:30 pm
Dialogues:Gallery Talk with Tom Wolf. Guest Curator
in conjunction with Peggy Bacon: Cats and Caricatures
(June 11-October 19)
Tom Wolf is Professor of Art History at Bard College
and has written on Woodstock arts.
Suggested donation: $5 (free to members)
Saturday, June 18th, 7pm
Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival
featuring Andy Clausen
performing the poetry of Janine Pommy Vega
Also: Hettie Jones, Tom Pacheco, Dave Thomas
Sue Wilens and Shiv Mirabito
Admission $15
Saturday, July 9th, 5pm
Barbara Hammer
The internationally known avant-garde filmmaker
will perform readings from her recently released memoir,
HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
and will show clips of her films spanning 4 decades.
Admission: $10 for nonmembers/ $5 for WAAM members
Thursday, August 4th, 7:00pm
ARTIST SALON
The Artists Salon was inaugurated with an
enthusiastic overflow gathering on June 2nd
and is now being planned as a regular event
on the First Thursday of each month.
Topics will be generated by participants
with the intention of including
a broad range of issues, in both the
practical and aesthetic/philosophical realms.
Everyone is invited to join in the discussion.
Co-sponsored by
The Woodstock Chamber of Commerce & Arts and WAAM
Saturday, August 6th, 12-3pm
FAMILY DAY
Join us for a closer look at the exhibition
Peggy Bacon: Cats and Caricatures
and also have some fun making
your own drawings of animals.
FREE
Sunday, August 7th, 2pm
AMY LIPTON GALLERY TALK
Amy Lipton is the juror for the July/August Group Show
at WAAM. She is co-director of ecoartspace
a bi-costal non-profit organization dedicated to supporting artists
whose works raise environmental awareness.
Monday, August 8th at 7PM, Free
at the WAAM
The Golden Notebook presents Patricia Albers
in a reading and discussion of
her highly acclaimed biography:
Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter
In a recent New York Times book review,
Jed Perl wrote, “Patricia Albers has written a book
about Mitchell that I cannot imagine will ever be improved upon,
so graceful and incisive is her account of the artist’s
hell-bent life and lyric art”.
Fri, August 19th, 7 pm FREE
"The Art of Collecting" Panel Talk
A presentation by
Diane McManus Jensen
author of
The Art of Collecting:
An Intimate Tour Inside Private Collections,
with Advice on Starting Your Own
followed
by a panel discussion
moderated by James Cox, dealer and auctioneer with
Howard Greenburg, one of a small group of gallerists,
responsible for the creation and development
of the modern market for photography.
Carl Van Brunt, gallery director of the WAAM and one of
the pioneersof the gallery scene in Beacon, NY
and Sylvia Leonard Wolf, long time Board Member of WAAM,
an active fine art appraiser who founded Sylvia Leonard Wolf Inc.
and former president of the Appraisers Association of America.
Sunday, September 4th, 1pm (Labor Day Weekend)
9th Annual
WOODSTOCK FINE ART AUCTION
To view the catalogue click here
Saturday, September 10th, 2:30 pm
John Cage's
4'33"
Performed by
Mimi Goese and Ben Neill
Discussion and Q&A with Kyle Gann
Author of No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33"
FREE
4'33" was
composed in 1952 for "any instrument
(or combination of instruments),
and the score instructs the performer
not to play the instrument during
the entire duration of the piece."
It was first performed in Woodstock on August 29, 1952,
presented by the Woodstock Artists Association at
the Maverick Concert Hall.
Saturday, September 24th, 4 pm
Dialogues:Gallery Talk with Alex Nemerov
Nemerov will discuss the life and career of George C. Ault (1891-1948).
Nemerov is Professor of Art History and American Studies at
Yale University and curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's
To Make A World, George Ault and 1940s America.
Members: $5
Non-Members: $10
Thursday, October 6th, 7:00pm
Artists Salon
The Artists Salon is now a regular event
on the First Thursday of each month.
Topics will be generated by participants
including a broad range of issues, in both the
practical and aesthetic/philosophical realms.
Everyone is invited to join in the discussion.
Co-sponsored by
The Woodstock Chamber of Commerce & Arts and WAAM
Sunday, October 9th, 2pm
Columbus Day Weekend
Peggy Bacon: A Celebration
A special event marking the close of the exhibtion:
Peggy Bacon: Cats and Caricatures
featuring excerpts from an interview with Bacon
reenacted by Victoria Sullivan and Bruce Weber.
The performance will be intermingled with critical readings on
Bacon's caricatures, as well as a story from one her children's books,
several of her poems, and her cat stories.
Organized by Bruce Weber and Guy Reed.
Suggested Donation $5/ Members Free
Saturday, October 15th, 2:30pm
Gallery Talk by Milton Glaser
in conjunction with the opening of
Shakespeare & Other
Subjects
Prints and Drawings by Milton Glaser
October 15, 2011 - January 2, 2012
Sunday, October 30th, 3pm
BETH E. WILSON GALLERY TALK
Juror of the WAAM October Group Show, Wilson is an
art historian, critic, and curator. She is a Lecturer in art history
at SUNY New Paltz, where she teaches courses in the history
of photography, film, and modern/contemporary art.
Members: $5
Non-Members: $10
Saturday, November 5th, 5pm
Film Screening: Edge of Survival
An award-winning film about world hunger
by Barbara Gordon
Edge of Survival was one of the most watched documentaries
of the year when it was showcased on every PBS station
in the US in 1982 and received the first
World Hunger Media Award at the United Nations.
Edge of Survival is part of the permanent collection
of the Museum of Modern Art.
Members: $5
Non-Members: $10
Saturday, November 12th, 5pm
Gallery Talk: Tatana Kellner
Juror of the WAAM October Small Works Show, Tatana Kellner
is a visual artist with over 20 solo exhibitions in the USA and Canada.
Her practice encompasses artist’s books, printmaking,
papermaking, drawing, photography and installation.
She uses these media to comment on contemporary culture.
Kellner is the founding member and Artistic Director of the
Women’s Studio Workshop, an artists’ workspace in Rosendale, NY
where she is instrumental in helping artists publish and market
limited edition artists’ books.
Members: Free
Non-Members: $5
WAAM Dialoguesare made possible with support from the
Milton & Sally Avery Foundation
