Saturday, Jan. 16
Longyear Gallery hosts a reception for a Group Invitational Show, “Artists Choose Artists” in its gallery in the Commons Building, Margaretville, from 4 - 7 p.m. This show and reception is the opening event to welcome back the multi-arts "Art in Common" Saturday event series that will continue through out the winter and spring in the Commons Building. Refreshments will be available.
Sunday, Jan. 17
Wendy Nief, popular vocalist of jazz and blues, will be performing 4 - 6 p.m. at the Commons Building on Main Street Margaretville, to kick off the "Art in Common," series of multi-art events scheduled throughout the winter and spring at the Commons. Events are free of charge and refreshments will be provided by “Harry and the Hippie Chic”. For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the NYSCA Community Arts Funding administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, Jan 23
Three artisans from the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild will demonstrate nature-inspired works in the Commons from 3-6 p.m. as part of the mult-arts“Art in Common” winter events series.Carla Shapiro will demonstrate her birch bark art, Becky Nielsen explains her painted river rock artworks and master basket weaver Martha Bremer demonstrates her craft. Longyear artist member Christopher Moore will give a talk on “How to Frame Your Art”. Events are free of charge and refreshments will be available. "Art in Common" is a multi-arts collaboration presenting events each Saturday afternoon this winter and spring in the Commons Building. For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the NYSCA Community Arts Funding administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, Jan. 30
Mountain Yarns will be hosting a Winter Fiber Festival in the second floor atrium of the Commons Building on Main Street Margaretville from 1 - 4 p.m. on Jan 30 as part of the multi-arts "Art in Common" fall events. This is a hands on affair to temp your creative juices. Come learn all the different aspects of the traditional craft of “Rug Hooking”. Art in Common" is a multi-arts collaboration presenting events each Saturday afternoon in the Commons Building (businesses will open for shopping during events). Events are free of charge and refreshments will be available. For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443.Funded in part by the NYSCA Community Arts Funding administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group and the O'Connor Foundation.
On Saturday, January 23, from 3 - 6 p.m., the Longyear Gallery joins the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild to present its first “Artists at Work” event in the ongoing ”Art in Common” series being held at the Margaretville Commons each weekend throughout the winter and spring. These events are offered free of charge for community entertainment and enrichment and refreshments will be available.
Upstairs at the Longyear Gallery, member artist Christopher Moore will give a talk on “How to Frame Your Art.” Moore is a New York City photographer and artist, who spends the weekends in the Catskills and builds frames for his own artwork. Although most people — even artists — find the framing process intimidating, Moore insists it isn’t difficult to do. He will demonstrate how his build frames from scratch and demystify the process for artists and art lovers.
Throughout the Commons, three artisans from the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild will be demonstrating their nature-inspired works.
Martha Bremer, master basket weaver, studied at the Brookfield Craft Institute in Connecticut but has been mostly self taught for the past 25 years. Her present focus is on traditional and functional styles. She has been teaching basket weaving in schools and community classes for the past two decades. At her business, Briar Creek Studio, she also does furniture restoration, specializing in cane and rush seat weaving work.
Becky Nielsen began painting river rocks just eight years ago. She enjoys hunting for the right stones, ones that have been naturally sculpted and offer hints of the final outcome. “I love developing my own techniques such as using traditional egg tempera on rocks and combining stones and paper so that the results are almost three dimensional. It gives me great joy to watch my work move out into the world, to make connections with people,” says Nielsen.
Carla Shapiro is a photographer and artist who divides her time between New York City and the Catskill Mountains. She teaches photography at Pratt Institute and has shown her work in galleries throughout the U.S. She spends every Thursday hiking throughout the region, taking photographs and collecting birch bark that has fallen from the trees. She makes housewares and frames from the bark and often uses a frame to display a photo from the hike.
Saturday, Jan. 30, “Art in Common” will feature Mountain Yarns, hosting a “Winter Fiber Festival” in the second floor atrium of the Commons Building on Main Street Margaretville from 1 - 5 p.m. This is a hands-on demonstration to inspire your own creativity with various techniques in the traditional craft of rug hooking.
The “Art in Common” series is presented by the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild in collaboration with the Mark Project and sponsored by the Central Catskills Chamber of Commerce, The Delaware National Bank of Delhi, MTC, Freshtown, Margaretville Liquor Store, Oakley's Place, Longyear Gallery, Home Goods of Margaretville, Mountain Yarns, M. Gerard Country Home, Little Sprouts, Wildflowers, Red Sparrow Clothing and Portfolio Café. Funded in part by The O'Connor Foundation and the NYSCA Community Arts Funding Program administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group. Local food tastings sponsored by the Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship and the New York Farm Viability Institute, Harry and the Hippie Chic and Maine Black Bear.