WAAM EVENTS

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY  AUG 30, 31 & SEP 1, 12-5 PM

Make a tiny work of art and post on the studio. Express yourself with pencil and crayon with our DIY station by the studio!

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY  AUG 30, 31 & SEP 1, 12-5 PM

Make a tiny work of art and post on the studio. Express yourself with pencil and crayon with our DIY station by the studio!

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

We’re very excited this August 29 to present, on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of its world premiere in Woodstock, NY, John Cage’s 4’33” produced by Norm Magnusson and performed by The Perry Beekman Duo featuring Lou Pappas. Its world premier was in a concert produced by WAAM at the Maverick Concert Hall as a benefit for our “Artists Welfare Fund.” For the 9th consecutive year, we will present a performance of this truly revolutionary and still controversial composition in our Towbin Wing on the anniversary of the original performance.

This year, the Perry Beekman Duo featuring Lou Pappas on bass will perform the Cage piece along with some of his own selections. Columnist, editor and John Cage scholar Kay Larson will introduce the piece and host a Q&A following the performance.

Kay Larson was the art critic for New York Magazine for 14 years, and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times.  Click here to read a recent article she wrote on Cage and Buddhism for the Huffington Post. Larson is the author of Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists. Kay is currently working on her second biography of Cage.

To see a video-taped interview with John Cage briefly discussing his views about music click here.

Past 4’33” Performances:

• 2011 – Mimi Goese and Ben Neill
• 2012 – Vibraphonist extraordinaire Karl Berger
• 2013 – Paul McMahon and Linda Mary Montano
• 2014 – Baird Hersey and Prana
• 2015 – The Clear Light Ensemble
• 2016 – Tracy Bonham
• 2017 – Jill Sobule
• 2018 – David Van Tieghem

Refreshments will be served.
We look forward to seeing you.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 16, 17 & 18, 12-5 PM

My three day project will be a demonstration of how a personal data collecting system can be used to create a large format piece of Art. The use of decks of Tarot will serve as a means to accumulate data. It will demonstrate an approach to how an action can be transposed into a symbol. Each participant will create, by the chance in drawing cards, a specific point for the creation of lines that will be placed on an panel, 4 ‘ by 5’ as a work in process. Discussions about either the process or the meanings connected to Tarot will be welcome. Completed artwork that represent a sampling of the variation of the process will be displayed. The randomness found in contemporary art and how data collecting can transition into a system for art making will be highlighted.

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 16, 17 & 18, 12-5 PM

My three day project will be a demonstration of how a personal data collecting system can be used to create a large format piece of Art. The use of decks of Tarot will serve as a means to accumulate data. It will demonstrate an approach to how an action can be transposed into a symbol. Each participant will create, by the chance in drawing cards, a specific point for the creation of lines that will be placed on an panel, 4 ‘ by 5’ as a work in process. Discussions about either the process or the meanings connected to Tarot will be welcome. Completed artwork that represent a sampling of the variation of the process will be displayed. The randomness found in contemporary art and how data collecting can transition into a system for art making will be highlighted.

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

August 10 – September 1, 2019

Gallery Talk with Juror Joe Concra: Friday, August 16, 5 PM

Reception: Saturday, August 17, 4 – 6 PM

MAIN GALLERY

JUROR: Joe Concra, Artist, Director, O+ Festival

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Nancy Campbell, Tracey Cockrell, Matt Frieburghaus, Carole Kunstadt, Barbara Masterson, Richard Pantell, Suzy Sureck, Marlene Wiedenbaum and Jill Ziccardi

“Illumination is open to many interpretations. Questions of light, sound, spirit, belonging and representation are asked and explored here in this show. We pay homage to the tradition of landscape painting in the Hudson Valley and look ahead to artists that are expanding our ideas of what illumination represents.”

– Juror, Joe Concra

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 16, 17 & 18, 12-5 PM

My three day project will be a demonstration of how a personal data collecting system can be used to create a large format piece of Art. The use of decks of Tarot will serve as a means to accumulate data. It will demonstrate an approach to how an action can be transposed into a symbol. Each participant will create, by the chance in drawing cards, a specific point for the creation of lines that will be placed on an panel, 4 ‘ by 5’ as a work in process. Discussions about either the process or the meanings connected to Tarot will be welcome. Completed artwork that represent a sampling of the variation of the process will be displayed. The randomness found in contemporary art and how data collecting can transition into a system for art making will be highlighted.

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 9, 10 & 11, 12-5 PM

Hundreds of synthetic cork will be upcycled into a sculpture as we attach them to a giant globe, creating the beautiful world of our dreams and becoming more aware of the materials we use as humans and artists. Learn, teach, and grow here as we also create the mind garden sculpture, adding flowers for each idea we share with each other in this space of creativity and eco-consciousness

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

Philip Guston – The Essential Line

and performance of Morton Feldman’s, For Philip Guston

August 10 – September 1, 2019

Opening Reception: Sat. August 17, 4-6pm

Performance: Sat. August 10, 1-5pm

The Essential Line features Philip Guston’s “pure drawings” and in conjunction with the exhibition a performance of Morton Feldman’s composition, For Philip Guston.

The selection of twelve ink on paper drawings, referred to as the “pure drawings,” were completed in a two year period of time between 1966 and 1967 when Guston had abandoned his painting to concentrate only on drawing. This was an extremely liberating time for Guston. In an interview with Mark Stevens that appeared in The New Republic (March 15, 1980) the artist commented on this work saying – “It was a clearing the decks. It was like starting again, like a child, just taking a very simple line”…..what would happen, I thought, if I eliminated everything except just raw feeling and the brush and ink, the simplest of means without even the seductions of color. It was like testing myself, to see what I am, what I can do.”

A special performance of Morton Feldman’s composition, For Philip Guston will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Composed in 1984, Feldman (1926-1987) was inspired by the work of painter Philip Guston (1913-1980), who had passed away in 1980. Feldman and Guston had a long friendship that ended with a falling out which Feldman came to regret. Guston moved to Woodstock in the late 60’s, and thus with this performance, Feldman and Guston are brought back together again.

The composition will be performed by New York’s Bent Duo, an experimental NYC-based duo project investigating the limits of chamber music for piano and percussion. Founded in 2015, the duo has performed at a wide variety of venues and is equally committed to works that exploit the performers’ virtuosic instrumental technique as to those that are developing new performance techniques entirely. Bent Duo members Bill Solomon, percussionist and David Friend, pianist are respected members of the NYC classical and new music scenes and frequently perform in NYC, across the country, and abroad with groups including Ensemble Signal, Grand Band, Talujon Percussion, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the American Composers Orchestra, among others. 

The quiet, slow composition of For Philip Guston is complimented by the essential, minimal nature of the “pure drawings.” The exhibition of the drawings will be installed in a gallery adjacent to the performance area allowing audience members to take in both art and music throughout the performance. This is an event that transcends a typical concert experience, but rather presents an immersive and contemplative environment that will resonate with audience members. Due to the extreme length of the work, (over four hours), audience members will be invited to listen to the performance for any duration they wish, walking through the gallery to see works or sitting down to focus on the music.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 9, 10 & 11, 12-5 PM

Hundreds of synthetic cork will be upcycled into a sculpture as we attach them to a giant globe, creating the beautiful world of our dreams and becoming more aware of the materials we use as humans and artists. Learn, teach, and grow here as we also create the mind garden sculpture, adding flowers for each idea we share with each other in this space of creativity and eco-consciousness

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 9, 10 & 11, 12-5 PM

Hundreds of synthetic cork will be upcycled into a sculpture as we attach them to a giant globe, creating the beautiful world of our dreams and becoming more aware of the materials we use as humans and artists. Learn, teach, and grow here as we also create the mind garden sculpture, adding flowers for each idea we share with each other in this space of creativity and eco-consciousness

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

JOHN MURPHY, PhD
Art and the Counterculture in 1960s Woodstock
Woodstock: the word is shorthand for the 1960s counterculture. Artists as well as writers and musicians contributed to Woodstock’s reputation as a bohemian enclave. As early as 1952 experimental composer John Cage debuted his (in)famous 4’33” — four-and-half minutes of silence. Inspired by Cage, avant-garde artist Allan Kaprow staged a 1962 “Happening” in the forests outside Woodstock for which sculptor Eva Hesse made her first three-dimensional piece. Gerd Stern, an intermedia pioneer and founder of the experimental art collective USCO, moved to Woodstock in 1964. In the late 1960s New York School painter Philip Guston moved to Maverick Road to reinvent his practice. This lecture will explore Woodstock as a ferment of art, experimentation, and creativity in the 1960s, a period in which artists as much as writers and musicians contributed to a growing counterculture opposed to mainstream values.

The program is a partnership between the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, the Historical Society of Woodstock, Maverick Concerts, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and the Woodstock Artists Association.

About John Murphy PhD: John P. Murphy PhD is the Hoehn Curatorial Fellow for Prints at the University of San Diego and a specialist on Arts and Crafts colonies. He has published work on Ivan Albright, Bolton Brown, William Gropper, and Charles White. His dissertation examined the colonies of Byrdcliffe, Roycroft, and Rose Valley. His research has been supported with grants and fellowships from the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, the Huntington Library, and the Wolfsonian Museum. He was a 2014-2015 Luce/ACLS Fellow in American art.

Lecture Date and Time: Sunday, August 4, 4:00 pm
Location: BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Cost: FREE

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 2, 3 & 4, 12-5 PM

Join Christine Sloan Stoddard in creating a collaborative book. We will be writing, drawing, and collaging together. The final book will be digitally scanned and posted to QuailBellMagazine.com.

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

The Woodstock Art Colony: The Nascent Years 1900-1930

A lecture series with Dr. Bruce Weber

A series of lectures on the history of the Woodstock Art Colony and its fundamental years from 1900-1930, presented by Dr. Bruce Weber, 19th & 20th century American Art scholar and former curator of the National Academy Museum and the Museum of the City of New York.

AUGUST 3 |  The Roaring Twenties: The Woodstock Art Colony and the New Generation

* This lecture will run from 2-4 pm with a 10 minute intermission

Sign up for all our lectures. Upcoming lectures:

SEPTEMBER 7  |  Life of the Maverick: The Arrival of Visual Artists, 1920 – 1930

All lectures take place from 2 – 3 pm at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum

Admission
$20 general
$15 WAAM members & students

$75 book of tickets for the series
$55 book of tickets for the series for WAAM members & students

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 2, 3 & 4, 12-5 PM

Join Christine Sloan Stoddard in creating a collaborative book. We will be writing, drawing, and collaging together. The final book will be digitally scanned and posted to QuailBellMagazine.com.

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, AUG 2, 3 & 4, 12-5 PM

Join Christine Sloan Stoddard in creating a collaborative book. We will be writing, drawing, and collaging together. The final book will be digitally scanned and posted to QuailBellMagazine.com.

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

Saturday, JULY 27, 12-3 PM

Join us in our colorful opening celebration by helping us paint the HFA studio! Just bring your imagination. Paint provided.

Events for All Ages, Free and Open to the Public

ABOUT HABITAT for ARTISTS

Founded by Simon Draper, Habitat for Artists (HFA) is a collective project that uses the idea of the artist’s studio as a catalyst for mutual engagement between artists and communities. The “habitats” are small, temporary, 6’ x 6’ studios installed for experiencing art and connecting with the process of artists engaging in creative work. HFA invites artists to work in these small, temporary studios. While exploring their own creative process, artists engage in active dialogues with a new audience. All are invited to participate in this new interaction and discussion about art, the artist’s role, as well as topics which are pertinent or relevant to the community.

Support for Habitat for Artists at WAAM is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.

Additional support provided by the Klock Kingston Foundation,
Hyman J. & Florence Hammerman Family Foundation & individual donors.

Artist Daniel Goodwin will discuss the work in his current exhibition Daniel Goodwin: Object Oriented in WAAM’s Solo Gallery. This informal Q&A will begin at 3 PM, is free to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the back yard under the tent as part of WAAM’s Birthday Celebration from 4-6 PM.   

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Save the Date for Ice Cream and Cake!

WAAM celebrates 100 years of art, community, history and creativity.

The Birthday Bash – cake and ice cream party happens on Saturday, July 20th under the tent in WAAM’s backyard from 2 -6 pm.  All are invited. Jane’s Ice Cream will provide their “small batch homemade” ice cream and Bistro-to-Go will donate a gorgeous (and edible) birthday cake. The whole community is invited to party to live music by the Xtractions, and Nancy Tierney and the Boys. Special remarks, awards and presentations will be made at 5 pm. 

     

Join Roger Lazoff for a screening of Ken Kesey’s The Bus Movie, Episode 2: North to Madhattan, Sunday, July 7 at 2 PM. Free Admission.

This film is being screened in conjunction with the current exhibition Get on the Bus with Roger Lazoff in WAAM’s Solo Gallery, June 15 – July 7, 2019.

In the summer of 1964, Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, undertook an epic cross-country bus trip. In a decade of Happenings, this event, chronicled on film and in print, became a celebration and a touchstone for the emerging counter-culture. In later years, the Merry Pranksters continued to demonstrate their version of free expression, both graphically and through what might now be called performance art.

The items in this show; posters, film, books – by Kesey and others – illustrate the multimedia interests of the group.

I went to California in 1974 and quickly fell into the Kesey orbit.  Some of the objects in this exhibition came to me during the six years I lived with and around the Pranksters; others represent the next generation.

This exhibition asks and suggests the answer to the question: is Ken Kesey still relevant today and if so why? It is my belief that he is, not only because of his great novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, but also because he was so central to the cultural transformation  that took place in the 60s and early 70s.  Kesey’s circle of influence encompassed the Grateful Dead, John Barlow developer of the Well, the first online information source, and Steward Brand, who created the Whole Earth Catalogue, Kesey can also be seen as one of the key figures in the development of new art forms as can be seen in the 1964 Bus Trip movies.  To put it in the parlance of the time, Kesey’s vibes were everywhere and they are still being felt today.

Roger Lazoff, Merry Prankster

The Woodstock Art Colony: The Nascent Years 1900-1930

A lecture series with Dr. Bruce Weber

A series of lectures on the history of the Woodstock Art Colony and its fundamental years from 1900-1930, presented by Dr. Bruce Weber, 19th & 20th century American Art scholar and former curator of the National Academy Museum and the Museum of the City of New York.

JULY 6  |  George Bellows and His Woodstock Circle, 1920 – 1930

Sign up for all our lectures. Upcoming lectures:

AUGUST 3  |  The Roaring Twenties: The Woodstock Art Colony and the New Generation
* This lecture will run from 2-4 pm with a 10 minute intermission

SEPTEMBER 7  |  Life of the Maverick: The Arrival of Visual Artists, 1920 – 1930

All lectures take place from 2 – 3 pm at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum

Admission
$20 general
$15 WAAM members & students

$75 book of tickets for the series
$55 book of tickets for the series for WAAM members & students

Join Roger Lazoff for a screening of Ken Kesey’s The Bus Movie, Episode 1: Journey to the East, Saturday, June 29 at 2 PM. Free Admission.

This film is being screened in conjunction with the current exhibition Get on the Bus with Roger Lazoff in WAAM’s Solo Gallery, June 15 – July 7, 2019.

In the summer of 1964, Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters, undertook an epic cross-country bus trip. In a decade of Happenings, this event, chronicled on film and in print, became a celebration and a touchstone for the emerging counter-culture. In later years, the Merry Pranksters continued to demonstrate their version of free expression, both graphically and through what might now be called performance art.

The items in this show; posters, film, books – by Kesey and others – illustrate the multimedia interests of the group.

I went to California in 1974 and quickly fell into the Kesey orbit. Some of the objects in this exhibition came to me during the six years I lived with and around the Pranksters; others represent the next generation.

This exhibition asks and suggests the answer to the question: is Ken Kesey still relevant today and if so why? It is my belief that he is, not only because of his great novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, but also because he was so central to the cultural transformation  that took place in the 60s and early 70s. Kesey’s circle of influence encompassed the Grateful Dead, John Barlow developer of The WELL, the first online information source, and Stewart Brand, who created the Whole Earth Catalogue, Kesey can also be seen as one of the key figures in the development of new art forms as can be seen in the 1964 Bus Trip movies.  To put it in the parlance of the time, Kesey’s vibes were everywhere and they are still being felt today.

Roger Lazoff, Merry Prankster

Join Roger Lazoff for a discussion of the art, books and objects on display in the current exhibition Get on the Bus, Saturday, June 22 at 3 PM.

In the summer of 1964, Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters,  undertook an epic cross-country bus trip.  In a decade of Happenings, this event, chronicled on film and in print, became a celebration and a touchstone for the emerging counter-culture.  In later years, the Merry Pranksters continued to demonstrate their version of free expression, both graphically and through what might now be called performance art.

The items in this show; posters, film, books- by Kesey and others- illustrate the multimedia interests of the group.

I went to California in 1974 and quickly fell into the Kesey orbit.  Some of the objects in this exhibition came to me during the six years I lived with and around the Pranksters; others represent the next generation.

This exhibition asks and suggests the answer  to  the question: is Ken Kesey still relevant today and if so why? It is my belief that he is, not only because of his great novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, but  also because he was so central to the cultural transformation  that took place in the 60s and early 70s.  Kesey’s circle of influence encompassed the Grateful Dead, John Barlow developer of the Well, the first online information source, and Steward Brand, who created the Whole Earth Catalogue,  Kesey can also be seen as one of the key figures in the development of new art forms as can be seen in the 1964 Bus Trip movies.  To put it in the parlance of the time, Kesey’s vibes were everywhere and they are still being felt today.

Roger Lazoff, Merry Prankster

Woodstock Artists Association commemorates 100 years as a non-profit art and cultural center, with two special birthday celebrations. 

Celebrating art, history, community, and creativity Art for Education at WAAM invites all ages to come celebrate community & have fun painting our 7 foot high birthday cake sculpture in front of the building on Saturday, June 22nd from 12 noon to 6pm. Decorating the three-tiered wood sculpture is one of two special events WAAM is sponsoring for their grand 100th. Stop by and make your mark! Fun for all ages with adult supervision.

The wood sculpture waiting to be decorated and painted is designed by Stephen Robin, a furniture designer and cabinet maker. Steve was a former WAA board member who has generously donated his time and artistry to WAAM for the centennial celebration. 

The materials for the enormous cake have been donated by Chris Neher of Woodstock Building Supply. The Neher family has been present in the community for over seventy years. Although Andre Neher is still president, his son Chris now runs the business. 

The Birthday Bash!

Cake and Ice Cream Party
Saturday, July 20th, 2-6 PM
under the white tent in WAAM’s backyard
All are invited

Jane’s Ice Cream will provide their “small batch homemade” ice cream and Bistro-to-Go will donate a gorgeous (and edible) birthday cake. The whole community is invited to party to live music by the Xtractions, and classical guitar performed by Gilles Malkine. More talent will be announced. 

Art for Education at WAAM invites the public to come decorate colorful birthday hats for the party. Strike a pose and take a photo in your WAAM 100 hats! 

The Woodstock Art Colony: The Nascent Years 1900-1930

A lecture series with Dr. Bruce Weber

A series of lectures on the history of the Woodstock Art Colony and its fundamental years from 1900-1930, presented by Dr. Bruce Weber, 19th & 20th century American Art scholar and former curator of the National Academy Museum and the Museum of the City of New York.

JUNE 1  |  In Quest of Harmony: The Founding Years of the Woodstock Artists Association, 1919 – 1925

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JULY 6  |  George Bellows and His Woodstock Circle, 1920 – 1930

AUGUST 3  |  The Roaring Twenties: The Woodstock Art Colony and the New Generation
* This lecture will run from 2-4 pm with a 10 minute intermission

SEPTEMBER 7  |  Life of the Maverick: The Arrival of Visual Artists, 1920 – 1930

All lectures take place from 2 – 3 pm at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum

Admission
$20 general
$15 WAAM members & students

$75 book of tickets for the series
$55 book of tickets for the series for WAAM members & students

Artist Christina Tenaglia will discuss the work in her current exhibition Christina Tenaglia: A tree is not a pile in WAAM’s Solo Gallery. This informal Q&A will begin at 3 PM, is free to the public, and will be followed by a reception from 4-6 PM.   

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Introduced last year, Far and Wide National is open for applications from artists living throughout the United States. This year’s juror, Kimberly Camp, President, Galerie Marie, selected 34 artists from the 191 applications we received from artists across the nation. Kimberly will discuss her selections during a gallery talk on Saturday, May 11th from 2-3 PM.

JURORS STATEMENT

Far and wide is an opportunity on a national level, for artists to demonstrate their command of traditional forms and their willingness to innovate, rejuvenate and reposition media and genre to create fresh forms of expression. The entries were of exceptional quality, making the job of selection difficult. What you see here is a mix of the best of different approaches, different uses of materials, and different ideas.

Contemporary thinking about art has expanded to include diverse voices, a renewed interest in realism, and the need for artists and art patrons to reconsider cultural appropriation and identity. Here is an exceptional collection of artworks that mix digital imagery, blur the lines between craft and fine art, and demonstrate mastery of visual traditions. Some of the works capture a whimsy that is far too scarce in today’s art world. Some use traditional themes and archetypal images in new ways. Others capture movement and mood in a way that is refreshing and enlightening.

I selected 35 artists from the almost 200 entries from across the United States. From portraiture to landscapes, to re-imagining archetypal stories, these 35 artists demonstrate a mastery of their mediums and their willingness to push the edges of our imagination with distinct aesthetic statements of identity and purpose. Through distinctly unique views of the subtle nuances demonstrated in color, form, and light, these artists are a wonderful sampling of the richness of an ever-expanding aesthetic vocabulary.

Artist Len Jenkin will discuss the work in his current exhibition Len Jenkin: FIRE OVER WATER in WAAM’s Solo Gallery. This informal Q&A will begin at 3 PM, is free to the public, and will be followed by a reception from 4-6 PM.   

ARTISTS STATEMENT

WAAM is proud to host FOCUS: Gaia 2019 artist, micro-sculptor Sergey Jivetin on Sunday, March 31, 2-4 PM for a special event planned in conjunction with the close of the exhibition. Jivetin will be hand-engraving select motifs on heirloom seeds as part of his Furrow project. Audience members are encouraged to bring seeds they have special connection with, to see representations of their personal stories embedded and programmed into these seeds.

Seeds are fundamental units in our relationship with food, agriculture and the natural environment. On both physical and symbolic levels, seeds collectively carry the history of complex motives and consequences of plant domestication. Seeds have been both silent witnesses and active participants in waves of travels and migrations, growth and decline, individual and societal transformations. Seeds are also records of more personal stories of people or families that cultivated them for generations. Such diversity and richness in the deeply rooted relationships of people and seeds remains mostly silent, physically and figuratively locked inside the coat of each seed.

By traveling the country and connecting with a multitude of people and organizations that contribute to seed advocacy, Furrow project seeks to make those often compelling stories visible, to externalize and memorialize the contributions of professional and enthusiast growers, breeders and seed-savers.

The nature of the artist’s hand guiding a cutting tool and creating a miniature furrow in a shell of a seed alludes to a farmer’s plow piercing through the top layer of soil, releasing nutrients and jump-starting a cycle of growth. The symbolic act of piercing through the seed coat to uncover the information contained within, is coupled with the physical function of helping it germinate if planted.

Sergey Jivetin’s work is currently on view in FOCUS: Gaia 2019 (March 9 – 31) in WAAM’s Main Gallery.

Merry Prankster Roger Lazoff will discuss the current exhibition Get on the Bus. The exhibition includes posters, film, and books from Lazoff’s collection, many documenting the six years he spent living with and around the Pranksters.

In the summer of 1964, Ken Kesey and his friends, known as the Merry Pranksters,  undertook an epic cross-country bus trip.  In a decade of Happenings, this event, chronicled on film and in print, became a celebration and a touchstone for the emerging counter-culture.  In later years, the Merry Pranksters continued to demonstrate their version of free expression, both graphically and through what might now be called performance art.

This exhibition asks and suggests the answer  to  the question: is Ken Kesey still relevant today and if so why? It is my belief that he is, not only because of his great novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, but  also because he was so central to the cultural transformation  that took place in the 60s and early 70s.  Kesey’s circle of influence encompassed the Grateful Dead, John Barlow developer of the Well, the first online information source, and Steward Brand, who created the Whole Earth Catalogue,  Kesey can also be seen as one of the key figures in the development of new art forms as can be seen in the 1964 Bus Trip movies.  To put it in the parlance of the time, Kesey’s vibes were everywhere and they are still being felt today.

Arbitrary History: The People’s Choice (Feb. 2 – May 5, 2019)

FOCUS: Gaia 2019 (Mar. 9 – 31, 2019)

Abigail Gunnels: Domestic Detritus, A Family Album (Mar. 9 – 31, 2019)

Small Works (Mar. 9 – 31, 2019)

Pencils, Paint & Pixels: Onteora High School Students (Mar. 9 – 31, 2019)

Artist Abigail Gunnels will discuss the work in her current exhibition Abigail Gunnels: Domestic Detritus, A Family Album in WAAM’s Solo Gallery. This informal Q&A will begin at 3 PM, is free to the public, and will be followed by a reception from 4-6 PM.   

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Our Town: Images of Woodstock (continues)
Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Wing

Carole P. Kunstadt Solo Exhibition
Solo Gallery

Members Holiday Show
Main Gallery

Members Small Works
Founders Gallery

Youth Exhibition Space

Exhibitions continue through December 31, 2018