“Catskill Art & Air” Listings
Saturday, July 3
Debb Rendo will be demonstrating how to carve and paint wood to create folk art from 10-12 pm on Sat. July 3, as the first of ten artist demonstrations scheduled this summer at the Pakatakan Farmers Markett, Route 30, Halcottsville. Ms. Rendo, who creates her own hand carved, painted pine original “Folk Art” patterns is the opening event of "Catskill Art & Air,” an open-air series of art, music, and literary events each Saturday this summer at the market, a collaboration of the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild and numerous local arts and business organizations. Events are free. For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, July 10
“Catskill Art & Air” presents a writers tour featuring Dr. Robert Titus, who will lead you on a journey through Dry Brook to explore the geological vestiges of the flood still carved in the landscape on Sat. July 10 at 9 am at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, Route 30, Halcottsville. Hartwick College Professor of Geology, Dr. Titus is the author of : The Catskills in the Ice Age, The Catskills: A Geological Guide and The Other Side of Time, a collection of essays that share his passion for Catskills’ geological history with the people who live here. Autographed books will be available for purchase. All tours leave the Market at 10 am and return by 2 pm. Remember to pack a lunch, water, and gear necessary for the forecast.
Also that day, Nat Thomas, a member of both the Longyear Gallery and the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild, will show us a sampling of dying techniques he uses to create his vibrant fabrics from 10-12 pm.“Catskill Art & Air” is an open-air arts collaboration presenting events every Saturday this summer at the Pakatakan Farmers Market. Events are free.For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, July 17
Martha Bremer will demonstrate traditional basket weaving and some caning techniques on Sat. July 17 from 10-12 pm at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, Route 30, Halcottsville on July 17 as part of “Catskill Art & Air” an open-air arts festival series presenting events every Saturday this summer through Labor Day. Bremer, a master basket weaver has been mostly self taught for the past 25 years and her present focus is on traditional and functional styles. The “Catskill Art & Air” open-air arts series is presented by the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild in collaboration with the Mark Project with support from numerous local arts and business organizations. Events are free.For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, July 24
A writer’s tour takes you to the Halcott Center Grange to meet Don Bouton, a man who has treasured farming as away of life for more than eight decades. This event begins on Sat., July 24 at 9 am at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, Route 30, Halcottsville, as part of the continuing “Catskill Art & Air” festival series. Come hear stories of growing up on a Halcott Center farm in the 1920s and 30s that inspired Donald’s first book, By the Light of the Kerosene Lantern. Bouton will also read excerpts from his new book, Cow Tales and Farm Life in the Catskills, due to be published in December, which was inspired by the farm he and his wife Shirley Woolheater bought in the 1940’s, and their life there. All tours leave the Market at 10 am and return by 2 pm. Author signed books will be available. Remember to pack a lunch, water, and gear necessary for the forecast.
Artist Demonstrations continue this week from 10-12 pm as Carlyle Bradford who works with her hands employing one of nature's oldest forms of ceramics –concrete. Her demonstration will feature how she is inspired by nature and molds this organically mixed stony material into functional pieces of home and garden sculpture. “Catskill Art & Air” is an open-air arts collaboration presenting events every Saturday this summer at the Pakatakan Farmers Market. Events are free.For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, July 31
“Catskill Art & Air” presents artist Robin Bruck-Tanner of Loving Earth Studio who will show us how she creates her distinctive pottery on Sat. July 31, from 10-12 pm at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, Route 30, Halcottsville as part of the weekly open-air arts series. For this demonstration she will demonstrate the potter’s wheel and some of the methods used to activate the surface of the clay with texture. The “Catskill Art & Air” festival series is presented by the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild in collaboration with the Mark Project with support from the Roxbury Arts Group, The Pakatakan Farmers Market of the Round Barn and the Delaware County Historical Association. Events are free.For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, Aug. 7
Explore the villages “lost” to the reservoir system with Mary Sive, author of Lost Villages: Historic Driving Tours in the Catskills, on Sat. Aug. 7 at 9 am at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, Route 30, Halcottsville as part of this weeks “Catskill Art & Air” writers event. Travel with Mary where you’ll see remnants of villages now under the Pepacton Reservoir. Visit the Pepacton Cemetery, where many of the 2,000 grave remains from “lost villages” are re-interred. .
All tours leave the Market at 10 am and return by 2 pm. Author signed books will be available. Remember to pack a lunch, water, and gear necessary for the forecast.
Meanwhile back at the Market, Becky Nielsen will demonstrate her unique painted river rocks from 10-12pm. Nielsen began painting river rocks just eight years ago and enjoys hunting for the right stones, ones that have been naturally sculpted and offer hints of the final outcome. “Catskill Art & Air” is an open-air arts collaboration presenting events every Saturday this summer at the Pakatakan Farmers Market. Events are free.For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, Aug. 14
The art of carding, spinning and weaving will be showcased as Mountain Yarns presents a “Sheep to Shawl” demonstration on Sat. Aug. 14 from 10-2 pm at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, Route 30 Halcottsville as part of the “Catskill Art & Air” open-air arts series. “Wild and Wooly Women” will be on hand with their looms “dressed,” spinning wheels greased and piles of fiber ready to go. During this demonstration a shawl-length cloth will be created in just one afternoon. You can just watch the demonstration, or card some wool or spin on a spinning wheel yourself and learn what it takes to make cloth. You can also meet some of the “wooly” animals thatprovide us with fleece and yarn!
Also at the Market from 10-12 pm will be Barbara English demonstrating how glass work is created from start to finish. Barbara will show the design stage, using various techniques , to glass cutting and preparation of the layered piece for the first kiln firing, to the intermediate firing and completion of a piece of artwork. “Catskill Art & Air” is an open-air arts collaboration presenting events every Saturday this summer at the Pakatakan Farmers Market. Events are free.For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, Aug. 21
Enjoy a moderately easy and scenic four-mile hike through Kelly Hollow with David and Carol White on Sat. Aug. 21 at 9 am at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, Route 30 ,Halcottsville at the final writer’s tour of the “Catskill Art & Air “
open–air arts series. Carol and David White, authors of Adirondack Mountain Club publications, Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons (2002) and editors of Catskill Trails will lead hikers on trails through Kelly Hollow which offer a scenic variety of forest and terrain, beautiful streams and waterfalls. Pack a lunch, water, and gear necessary for the forecast.
Artist demonstrations continue at the Market from 10-12 pm with Val Wells demonstrating the art of paper marbling. Ms. Wells will show us the process by floating paint on a surface of viscous liquid, move the floating paint with rakes and combs to draw patterns, and transfer these designs to paper. “Catskill Art & Air” is an open-air arts collaboration presenting events every Saturday this summer at the Pakatakan Farmers Market. Events are free.For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, Aug. 28
Craft Artisan Lisa Scalf will demonstrate how she takes recycled cans and fabricates them into footstools and other fun items on Sat. Aug. 28 from 10-12 pm at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, Route 30, Halcottsville as part of the “Catskill Art & Air” series continues. Lisa’s inspiration for this collection stems from her grandmother in Kentucky who made footstools from cans in the 1940’s and 1950’s, long before the current trend of recycling. " Catskill Art & Air,” is an open-air series of art, music, and literary events each Saturday this summer at the Pakatakan Farmers Market, a collaboration of the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild and numerous local arts and business organizations. Events are free. For more info, visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the O'Connor Foundation.
Saturday, Sept. 4
The textile team of Jeremy and Claire Herz will demonstrate fusible quilting techniques from 10-12 pm on Sat. Sept. 4 as the final event of the ” Catskill Art & Air” festival series at the Pakatakan Farmers Market , Route 30, Halcottsville . Jeremy is predominantly a designer, while Claire is well-versed in all aspects of quilting.
The “Catskill Art & Air” open-air arts series is presented by the Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild in collaboration with the Mark Project with support from the Roxbury Arts Group, the Pakatakan Farmers Market of the Round Barn and the Delaware County Historical Association. For more info visit www.catsguild.org or call 845-586-3443. Funded in part by generous grants from the Catskill Watershed Corporation and the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation