PAST BYRDCLIFFE FORUM TALKS

2022 Members' Show Artist Talk
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Thursday, Feb 24 | recording coming before long

A panel moderated by Ursula Morgan, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Social club'south Exhibitions Director, and featuring artists in the current members' show sharing some thoughts well-nigh their work on view.

Hudson Valley Abstractionists

February 17, 2022

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A panel Moderated by Doug Sheer and featuring painters Melanie Delgado, Harriet Livathinos, Anne Sanger, and Roberta Sickler discussing their abstract works and many influences.

Forest Bathing Artist Panel

January 20, 2022

Curated by Jen Dragon, the exhibition Forest Bathing features artwork by Ashley Garrett, Anne Leith, Iain Machell, John Lyon Paul, Christy Rupp, and Martin Weinstein . All six artists independently use the woodlands of upstate New York as a touchstone for very different gimmicky styles of painting and sculpture. Moderated past Sara Lynn Henry, a word among the exhibiting artists' on the inspiration of woodlands in their work.

Woodstock Masters: Jenne 1000. Currie Artist Talk

November 11, 2021

The Byrdcliffe Forum presents artist Jenne M. Currie showing and discussing her work, interviewed by Sylvia Leonard Wolf, Fine Art Appraiser and Consultant , as part of our "Woodstock Masters" series. The talk covered the various periods of Jenne Thousand. Currie's artistic career, which includes painting, wall sculptures, welded steel, bronze casting, mixed media, and collage. Currie also shared a bit nearly her family – her mother, begetter, aunt, and uncle; all achieved artists.

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Artwork (left to correct): Jenne One thousand. Currie, Twilight, acrylic on woods, twoscore x 32 in., The Conversation, Welded Steel, 38 x 29 x 12 in., courtesy the artist.

Bob Lang, Craftsman "Shop Drawings for Byrdcliffe Furniture"
with Henry T. Ford, Byrdcliffe Historian and Manager Emeritus
August 12, 2021

Utilizing their knowledge of pattern and history, Robert Lang and Henry T. Ford, Byrdcliffe Historian and Director Emeritus, discuss this contempo publication which showcases the process and background used to recreate some of the iconic pieces of article of furniture that Byrdcliffe was originally known for during the American Arts & Crafts period of the early twentieth century. These kindred spirits look forward to sharing their adoration of the history of the Whiteheads and aesthetics of these unique pieces of art and form.

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Byrdcliffe Forum presents an "Artists Estates" Panel
July 8, 2021

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Arthur Anderson, John B. Koegel, Sylvia Leonard Wolf,
Magda Salvesen, Douglas I. Sheer

Douglas I. Sheer, an artist, author and arts administrator moderates a console discussion on the problems surrounding the planning and implementing of artists' estates.

The iv panelists joining Sheer include: Magda Salvesen, estate planner and author of "Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust," John Koegel, fine art police force attorney and fellow member of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild board, Arthur A. Anderson, collector and philanthropist and member of the Byrdcliffe lath and Sylvia Leonard Wolf, fine art appraiser and fellow member of the Byrdcliffe board. Sheer leads the Byrdcliffe Forum committee and is Chairman Emeritus of Artists' Talk on Art, the art earth's longest running aesthetic forum. He as well serves on the Byrdcliffe programming and showroom committees and also the education and public engagement committee of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

With the post-war 'boomer' generation aging, many artists and their families are growing concerned with what to do with a lifetime of fine art when they pass. This panel will delve into a number of the cardinal issues pertinent to planning and preserving an artist'south estate, legal matters unique to artists estates and art, organizing and databasing the works, contacting institutions and valuing art estates from a taxation ground, insurance and sales perspective.

If you are an creative person, an artist's family fellow member or an executor or trustee, this panel is for you.

Judith Kerman, "Definitions" in conversation with Eleanor Lehrman
Thursday, June 17, 2021

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Judith Kerman's new book, Definitions, was published by Fomite Press in May 2021. She has published ten prior collections of verse, about recently Aleph, broken: Poems from My Diaspora (Broadstone Books, 2016), as well as three books of translations of Cuban and Dominican women'due south poetry and fiction. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic in 2002. A retired academy professor and ambassador, she founded Earth's Daughters magazine in Buffalo, NY (1971 to present) and runs Mayapple Printing, located in Woodstock, NY.

Eleanor Lerman is the author of numerous award-winning collections of poetry, short stories and novels. She is a National Book Accolade finalist, recipient of the Lenore Marshall Verse Prize from the University of American Poets, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship every bit well equally fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her novel, Radiomen (The Permanent Printing), was awarded the 2016 John W. Campbell Prize for the Best Volume of Science Fiction. In 2019, her novel, Satellite Street (The Permanent Press) was a finalist for both the Montaigne Medal and the Eric Hoffer Accolade. Her well-nigh recent novel, Watkins Glen, was published by Mayapple Printing in June 2021. www.eleanorlerman.com

Woodstock Masters: Portia Munson
Byrdcliffe Forum artist talk with Portia Munson
Th, May 13, 2021

Portia Munson is a visual creative person, Feminist, and Environmentalist living in the Catskills of New York. She will exist discussing her diverse artwork and recent exhibition featuring her electric current installation "Memento Mori Mandalas," currently showcased at the Olana Country Historic Site.

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Portia Munson is a visual artist working in a range of media including, installation, sculpture, painting, cartoon, video and photography, focusing primarily on cultural and environmental themes seen from a feminist perspective.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Garden at Meridians /Fine art Basel, Miami Embankment, FL; Pink Projects at Rockefeller Center, NYC; The Garden at PPOW Gallery, NYC; Her Room/ Her World at Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; Overflowing at Disjecta, Portland, OR; and Colour Forms at Mass MOCA, N Adams, MA.

Over the form of her twenty-five-year career, her piece of work has been included in dozens of exhibitions in the US and Europe, some recent exhibitions include Cross Pollination at Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY; Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC; The Super Natural, 21C Museum Hotel, Nashville, TN: Dime-Shop Abracadabra at The Flag Art Foundation, NYC; and Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

Some of her public works include; Fine art in the Terminal at the Albany Airport, Albany NY; MTA Arts for Transit installation at Bryant Park MTA Station, NYC; and a permanent Metropolitan Transit Authorization installation in Brooklyn New York.
Munson has a BFA from Cooper Union (1983), and an MFA from Mason Gross School of Fine art (1990), Rutgers University. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1987) and has been awarded residencies at institutions including Civitella Ranieri (Umbertide Italy); MacDowell Colony for the Arts (Peterborough, NH); Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA); and Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY).

Munson has taught at School of Visual Arts, New York University, Yale School of Art, Vassar Higher and SUNY Purchase.

Munson was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2019.
She lives and works in Catskill, NY and is represented past PPOW Gallery in NYC.

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Byrdcliffe Forum: Author Talk with Gretchen Primack
Thursday, April 22, 2021

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Gretchen Primack is a poet, educator, and indie bookseller living in New York'southward Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated with prison didactics programs (mostly higher) since 2006.

She's the author of 3 poesy collections: Kind (Lantern Publishing), which explores the dynamic betwixt humans and other animals in our fourth dimension and place; Visiting Days (Willow Books), which imagines a maximum-security men's NYS prison house like the ones where she's taught; and Doris' Red Spaces (Mayapple Press), a more personal drove; along with a chapbook, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line). She co-wrote The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals with Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary co-founder Jenny Chocolate-brown (Penguin Avery).
Her poetry publication credits include The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, FIELD, Poet Lore, The Massachusetts Review, The Antioch Review, New Orleans Review, Rhino, Tampa Review, and many others journals and anthologies.

She's also worked at the renowned indie bookstore The Golden Notebook for many years.

Gretchen is a passionate advocate for the rights and welfare of not-human being animals and lives with several of them, along with a beloved human named Gus.

Nickole Brown received her MFA from the Vermont Higher, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter South. Thompson. She is the author of several books: Sister, a novel-in-poems (Sibling Rivalry Press); Fanny Says, a biography-in-poems (BOA Editions); To Those Who Were Our Commencement Gods (winner, Rattle Chapbook Contest); and Donkey Elegies (Sibling Rivalry). She taught at University of Arkansas at Piddling Stone and is now editor of the Marie Alexander Verse Series and teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Programme, the Great Smokies Writing Plan at UNCA, and the Hindman Settlement School, among other places. She lives with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs, in Asheville, NC, where she volunteers at three animal sanctuaries.

Woodstock Masters: Joan Snyder
Byrdcliffe Forum artist talk with Joan Snyder interviewed by Franklin Parrasch
Th, April 8, 2021

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Rose & Vine, 2018, oil, acrylic, cloth, burlap, herbs, rosebuds, paper, ink, pastel on linen, 32 x 128 inches, Photo by Dawn Blackman

Photo of Joan Snyder in her Woodstock Studio, Photograph by Maggie Cammer

Joan Snyder will be interviewed by gallerist Franklin Parrasch on Zoom. A brief Q&A with the audience will conclude the approximately l-infinitesimal talk. The event will continue the Woodstock Masters series of creative person interviews that, along with writer talks and panel discussions, autumn nether the commonage championship Byrdcliffe Forum.

Born Apr 16, 1940, in Highland Park, NJ, Joan Snyder received her A.B. from Douglass College in 1962, and K.F.A. Rutgers University in 1966. Snyder is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2007.

Joan Snyder get-go gained public attention in the early 1970s with her gestural and elegant "stroke paintings", which used the filigree to deconstruct and retell the story of abstruse painting. By the tardily 70s Snyder, abandoning the formality of the grid, began to more explicitly incorporate symbols and text, every bit the paintings took on a more circuitous materiality. Ofttimes referred to as an autobiographical or confessional creative person, her paintings are narratives of personal and communal experiences. Through a fiercely individual approach and persistent experimentation with technique and materials, Snyder has extended the expressive potential of abstract painting and inspired generations of emerging artists.

Recent shows: The Summer Becomes a Room, 2020, CANADA Gallery, NYC; Rosebuds & Rivers, 2019, Blain/Southern, London; Epic Abstraction, ongoing, Metropolitan Museum, NYC.

Public collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art, The Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, The Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, High Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Mod Art, Fine art Institute of Chicago, The Phillips Collection, Harvard Museums and Tate Modernistic, London recently caused her seminal piece of work Dark Strokes Hope from 1971.

Snyder currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY

Art dealer and gallerist Franklin Parrasch founded his eponymous gallery, at present located on Manhattan'south Upper Due east Side, in 1986 in Washington D.C. He has curated and hosted many solo and thematic exhibitions over the 35 year history of the gallery including an award-winning exhibition of Lynda Benglis' work in 2002; critically acclaimed shows of works past Ken Cost and Kathy Butterly; and numerous group exhibitions examining works by artists associated with the West Coast "Cease Fetish" and "Light and Space" movements, amidst others.

Parrasch and his gallery take worked with Joan Snyder, the preeminent abstract, Feminist painter with whom he will exist speaking today, since 2012, hosting solo exhibition Sub Rosa in 2013 (catalogue), and group exhibitions Forrest Bess | Joan Snyder in 2017 and Mulberry & Culvert: Joan Snyder, Keith Sonnier, and Jackie Winsor in 2019.

In 2016, with partner Christopher Heijnen, Franklin founded Parrasch Heijnen gallery in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles; Parrasch Heijnen hosted Snyder's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles later that year. In 2019, along with boyfriend New York Urban center-based art dealer Nicelle Beauchene, Franklin founded Parts & Labor Buoy.

Photograph of Joan Snyder and Franklin Parrasch

Beingness Ram Dass
Rameshwar Das in chat with Mirabai Bush
Opening Incantation past Shyma Chapin
Thursday, March 11, 2021 6:00 pm ET

This event non simply features Ii amazing authors, but will also include a Kirtan incantation at the beginning!

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Perhaps no other instructor has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the Due west as Ram Dass. If you've ever embraced the phrase "be here at present," skillful meditation or yoga, tried psychedelics, or supported anyone in a hospice, prison house, or homeless center—then the story of Ram Dass is also part of your story.

From his birth in 1931 to his luminous subsequently years, Ram Dass saw his life as simply one incarnation of many. This memoir puts usa in the passenger seat with the one-time Harvard psychologist and lifelong risk-taker Richard Alpert, who loved to take friends on wild rides on his Harley and test nearly every boundary—inner or outer—that came his way.

Hither, Ram Dass shares his life's odyssey in intimate item: how he struggled with issues of self-identity and sexuality in his youth, pioneered psychedelic research, and opened the doorways to Eastern spiritual practices. In 1967 he trekked to India and met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba. He returned as a yogi and psychologist whose perspective changed millions.

Populated past a cast of luminaries ranging from Timothy Leary to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Allen Ginsberg to Sharon Salzberg, Aldous Huxley to Alan Watts—this intimate memoir chronicles Ram Dass's experience of the cultural and spiritual transformations that resonate with united states to this mean solar day, a journey from the mind to the heart, from the ego to the soul.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rameshwar Das is a writer, photographer, and coauthor of several Ram Dass books including, Be Love Now, Polishing the Mirror, and Being Ram Dass.

Mirabai Bush teaches contemplative practices and develops programs through the awarding of contemplative principles and values to organizational life. Her work with individuals and organizations includes entrepreneurial project management, compassionate staff-board relations, organizational leadership, public relations, communication, networking, and strategic relationship building all through the lens of contemplative practise in activity.

Her spiritual studies include ii years in India with Hindu teacher Neemkaroli Baba; meditation in monasteries with Buddhist teachers Shri S.Due north. Goenka, Anagarika Munindra, and IMS guiding teachers; and studies with Pir Vilayat Khan and Tibetan Buddhist lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Gelek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and others; and five years of intensive practise in Iyengar yoga and five years of Aikido under Kanai Sensei.

Shyama Chapin. "Although I've been singing one way or another throughout my life and then far, these days I love most and all-time to chant the Sanskrit Divine Names and experience lucky and blessed to be able to heart my days effectually this subtle, profound practise. I lead kirtan in New York City—my babyhood hometown—and beyond, as well as on morning and evening live-streams since the Covid-xix lockdowns began. I've been singing in Krishna Das' Posse, live and on his recordings, for many years; and am featured in response vocals on a number of other friends' chant recordings.

Woodstock Masters: Donald Elder
Donald Elder interviewed by Douglas I. Sheer
Thursday, February 25 at 6:00 pm

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Donald Elder studied at the Fine art Students' League, the New York Academy of Art, at Pratt and abroad in Italia. He was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and worked in Paris on an extended Edward G. McDowell Grant. In galleries in New York, Grand duchy of luxembourg and Switzerland, Elderberry's work is held in public and private collections throughout the U.S. and in Europe.

After moving from New York to Woodstock in the tardily 1990s, his accent became abstract landscape, but he continued to paint abstracts. Whether abstract or abstract landscape, his work is tactile and absorbing, both styles offer anarchistic gesture, and sophisticated tensions between the hard-edged and the romantic.

Elder is profoundly influenced past nature; even his entirely abstract works take their visual cue from bodily forms in nature, with phenomenon, texture, color and juxtapositions becoming bathetic and impressionistic through shifts in perspective.

He's made Woodstock his home for decades, cartoon inspiration from purple mountains and wild forests of the Hudson Valley and the gardens he's created around his home and studio. Elder has been represented for three decades by Elena Zang Gallery in Shady, NY.

photo by Lauren Piperno 2019

Donald Elderberry will be interviewed past Douglas I. Sheer, atomic number 82 of the Byrdcliffe Forum committee and a member of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Gild Exhibition and Programming committees. Sheer is a painter and author living in Woodstock. He co-founded Artists Talk on Art, a NYC-based aesthetic console word series which he chaired from 1974 through 2019. ATOA has presented over 8,500 artists in over i,000 panels and dialogues. He was the archivist of its archive, which became the largest taken in by Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian in 2016. He is now chairman emeritus of that series.

Nick Lyons, Fire In The Straw reading and chat moderated by Bennet Ratcliff
Thursday, February 11 at half-dozen:00 pm

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Fire in the Straw is the witty and deeply felt memoir of Nick Lyons, a man with an intrepid desire to reinvent himself—which he does, over and over.

Nick Lyons shape shifts from reluctant student and graduate of the Wharton School, to English Professor, to husband of a fiercely committed painter, to ghost writer, to famous fly fisherman and award-winning author, to father and and then granddaddy, to Executive Editor at a large book publishing visitor, and finally to founder and publisher of his ain successful contained press.

Honour-winning author Nick Lyons has written some 20-odd books and hundreds of essays, which have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, National Geographic, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Big Sky Journal, The Pennsylvania Gazette, and widely elsewhere. He lives in New York City and is a longtime resident of Woodstock, New York.

Moderator Bennet Ratcliff is an angler and writer who lives in Woodstock, New York.

Woodstock Masters: Nancy Azara
Thursday, January 14 at 6:00 pm

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Nancy Azara will be interviewed past curator and art historian Sara Lynn Henry on Zoom. A brief Q&A with the audience will conclude the approximately 50-minute talk. The outcome volition continue the Woodstock Masters series of artist interviews that, forth with author talks and console discussions, autumn nether the collective title Byrdcliffe Forum.

Nancy Azara is an creative person and feminist educator all-time known for her large-calibration wood sculptures and mixed media collages. Nancy developed, and continues to piece of work in, a distinct fashion of sculpture – constitute wood, carved, ornamented and mounted. Instinctive chip carving peels off an outer layer of wood, reaching for an essentialized raw experience of the body, of the limbs, exposing flesh and blood. This work explores life cycles, utilizing the metaphor of tree for personhood. Egg tempera, oftentimes in reds and pinks, and aluminum, palladium, aureate gilding recover these exposed layers, exploring folkloric stories of women's roles, goddess imagery, ancient symbols, mystic spiritual traditions and affirmation of female self.

Nancy continues to make and exhibit piece of work from her studios in Tribeca and Woodstock. She is constantly challenging herself and her community in quarterly intergenerational feminist dialogues, (RE)Nowadays, an outgrowth of NYFAI, The New York Feminist Art Constitute, a school she co-founded in 1979. Hither, she formalized automatic periodical cartoon for a class she taught called "Visual Diaries, Consciousness Raising Workshop" as a way to admission the unconscious. This method quickly became popular as a feminist consciousness-raising technique and was embraced in the nascent feminist art community in New York and with groups similar Redstockings.

Nancy holds annual workshops, teaches, and mentors other feminist artists, sustaining a unique visual, experiential and pedagogical artistic practice which remains informed by the body, nature, spirituality and her experience equally a woman.

Sara Lynn Henry is an independent curator, art writer, and Emerita Professor of Fine art History and N.Due east.H. Distinguished Pedagogy Professor of Humanities, Emerita, Drew Academy. She has curated major thematic exhibitions, including Labyrinths of the Mind (2019, Kleinert, Woodstock, NY); The Animals Look Dorsum at United states of america (2013, Kleinert, Woodstock, NY and the Williamsburg Art and Historical Middle, Brooklyn, NY); I am the Cosmos (2010-11, N.J. State Museum, Trenton, NJ); Midnight Full of Stars (2008, Visual Arts Center of NJ. Summit, NJ); and As if Alive: Animate Sculpture (2000, Visual Arts Heart). While at Drew she curated several one-person and collection shows, eastward.g. those of Joyce Scott, Lila Katsen, Hsu Dan, George Gross Prints, and the Nancy Graves Collection. Her art writing includes essays and talks on Robert Kushner, Ellen K. Levy, Millicent Young, Suejin Jo, Alice Neel, and Grace Bakst Wapner. As a scholar she has published widely on Paul Klee.

Bethany Saltman in chat with Lisa Phillips
Monday, Nov 30 at 5:00 pm

Bethany Saltman will discuss her book Strange Situation: A Mother's Journeying into the Science of Zipper with author Lisa A. Phillips.

Bethany Saltman

In Strange Situation: A Mother'due south Journey into the Science of Attachment, Bethany Saltman discovers that while our behavior is important, what matters most is the way nosotros remember and experience nigh our attachments, transmitted heed to listen from generation to generation. This is excellent news. Subsequently all, every bit Saltman's decades of Zen practice tell her and her readers, the i thing completely within our power to change is our minds.

Bethany Saltman is an writer, laurels-winning editor, and researcher. Her work can exist seen in magazines similar the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Parents, Town & State, and many others. Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Into the Scientific discipline

Lisa A. Phillips

of Attachment (Ballantine, April 21, 2020) is her outset book. Bethany also serves equally a bestselling book partner and in-need mindfulness mentor, helping writers and entrepreneurs at all stages of the creative procedure envision and execute their projects, including book proposals, books, content development, big ideas, messaging, and more than. In 1992, Bethany graduated from Antioch College where she was i of the architects of the nation's commencement Affirmative Consent Policy. She went on to receive her M.F.A in poetry from Brooklyn College in 1994, where she studied with Allen Ginsberg. A longtime Zen student, Bethany is devoted to the fine art and game-irresolute effects of paying attending. She lives in a minor town in the Catskills with her family.

Lisa A. Phillips is the author of Unrequited: The Thinking Woman's Guide to Romantic Obsession. Her essays and journalism on what she likes to phone call the "dear and heartbreak beat" have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, Cosmopolitan, Salon, and other outlets. She's working on a new book about what parents become through when their kids outset having romantic relationships. She teaches journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Woodstock Masters: Hongnian Zhang
Monday, November 16 at 5:00 pm

Hongnian Zhang will be interviewed by James Cox on Zoom. A brief Q&A with the audition will conclude the approximately 50-minute talk. The outcome will continue the Woodstock Masters series of artist interviews that, along with author talks and panel discussions, fall under the commonage title Byrdcliffe Forum.

Hongnian Zhang is a Chinese American realism painter, whose works are love in both America and Cathay.

His formal artistic training was at China's highly selective Cardinal Art University. Immediately afterwards, he was sent to the countryside to endure 4 years of hard labor as "Re-education" during the Cultural Revolution.

His art career began when he returned to Beijing in 1974 and was selected to join the Beijing Fine Art University. He before long became a rising star with paintings that caught the public's attention and eye. He was a leader of the "Scar Fine art" movement. Three of his works were caused by China's National Fine art Museum for their permanent collection.

He moved to America in 1985. In 1986 he was in the first testify introducing Chinese oil painting to the West. "Realism from People's republic of china" at Thousand Central Art Galleries in New York City attracted national attention.

Over the years his bailiwick matter has expanded to include contemporary life in America, and large-calibration history paintings. Several of his Chinese history paintings have been featured in National Geographic Magazine. He recently painted the mural "The Travels of Marco Polo" for China's National Museum in Beijing.

Zhang and his wife, the artist Lois Woolley, co-wrote The Yin Yang of Painting, which presents his methods and philosophy of painting.

James Cox, photograph past Dion Ogust

James Cox met Hongnian Zhang when he was Executive Manager of the Grand Primal Art Galleries in New York City. Cox so moved to upstate New York where he opened the James Cox Gallery in the historic art colony of Woodstock.

Cox has served on the boards of the New York Academy of Art, Grand Central Fine art Galleries Educational Association, and the Dorsky Museum of Fine art at the Country University of New York, New Paltz. He is a member of the International Association of Fine Fine art Appraisers; The Auctioneers Association, New York; and the International Foundation for Fine art Inquiry. Cox has edited numerous art publications, including "Tonalism – An American Experience"; "Impressionism-Mail service Impressionism, Transformation in the Modern American Fashion"; "La Femme – The Influence of Whistler and the Japanese Impress Masters on American Fine art", and more than. He has organized over 170 exhibitions of American contemporary and historical art at the Grand Key Art Galleries, NYC; James Cox Gallery at Woodstock, NY; Phoenix Art Museum; Brooks Memorial University; Heckscher Museum; and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

Byrdcliffe Forum Author Talk With Mark Matousek
Monday, November 2 at 5:00 pm

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Please bring together us on Monday, November 2 at five:00 pm for a Byrdcliffe Forum writer talk with Mark Matousek interviewed by V (formerly Eve Ensler).

Mark Matousek, photo past Karen Fuchs

"It'due south hard to know when y'all're having a breakup in New York City. The symptoms of living here, succeeding here, and losing your mind here are here are nigh identical." So begins Matousek's 1996 breakout memoir about leaving a fast-track publishing life (working for popular artist Andy Warhol at Interview magazine) and striking the dharma trail in search of a meaningful life and spiritual wisdom. Hailed by Publisher'due south Weekly (starred review) as "brave, beautiful, and brilliantly observed," Sex Death Enlightenment became an international bestseller (published in 10 countries). Like Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love and Paul Monette in Borrowed Time, Matousek takes the reader on an insightful, raucous search for answers to life'south deepest questions.

Well-nigh the Author
Mark Matousek is an laurels-winning writer of seven books, a blogger for Psychology Today, and a teacher and speaker on creativity and growth using the Writing to Awaken method. He has written for The New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine, Details, Tricycle, Good Housekeeping, Harper'southward Bazaar, and The Village Vocalization. Later on working at Andy Warhol'southward Interview mag, Matousek spent a decade as a freelance writer and dharma bum in Europe, India, and the United states of america. The founder of The Seekers Forum, an online customs for nonsectarian spiritual dialogue, and co-founder of V-Men, the male person arm of Eve Ensler's 5-Twenty-four hour period motility, he lives in Springs, New York.

V, photo by Paula Allen

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V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony Honour winning playwright, performer, and activist, is the author of The Vagina Monologues, translated into over 48 languages, performed in over 140 countries, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End. The play ran for over ten years in the U.K., Mexico and France.

Byrdcliffe Forum Artist Talk With Yale Epstein
Mon, Oct 19 at 5:00 pm

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A native of New Haven Connecticut, Yale Epstein studied art, lived and worked in New York City until 1988. Among his teachers, were Advert Reinhardt, Marc Rothko, Carl Holty, Ilya Bolotovsky, Phillip Pearlstein, Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann and Edwin Dickinson. In 1998 he relocated to Woodstock, NY.

Epstein's, career has spanned over six decades with 63 solo painting, printmaking and photography exhibitions. His highly detailed contemporary works were shown in galleries in the US, France, Frg, Italia and Switzerland, and he was invited to exhibit in several pregnant international exhibitions, including those in Basel, Florence, Krakow, Maastricht, Hong Kong and Sorrento.

In addition to several art galleries the New York expanse, as well as in Chicago, Boston, Chapel Hill, Dallas and Miami, public venues include Avery Fisher Hall Lincoln Heart, The Bronx Museum of Art, Brooklyn College, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hudson River Museum, Marymount College, The National Arts Lodge NYC, The National Academy of Blueprint, The National Gallery print Research Foundation DC, New York City Community College, New York University'due south Loeb Center, The University of Hawaii and the Hong Kong Fine art Centre.?

Epstein's work is in public collections including the The Biblioteque' National in Paris, The Brooklyn Museum, China International Trade Center, Beijing, The Pew Charitable Trust, The Metropolis of Chicago, US State Department, The Library of Congress, and Yale University. He is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, likewise equally grants from The Foundation For Contemporary Arts and The Creative person's Fellowship Org, among others. He was also selected for a residency in the Visiting Artist/Scholar Program at the American Academy in Rome.

Epstein'due south teaching career included Brooklyn Higher, The Brooklyn Museum Fine art Schoolhouse, Pratt Institute, and The School of Visual Arts in New York City.

A former educator, music conductor, and sailor, Albert Shahinian sees his current venture as role of a personal mission – not but to brand a positive qualitative difference in the immediate community but also to provide vital links to a richer inner life. He strives to engage his audience by providing them with the personal tools needed to access, apprehend, and appreciate the visual arts and the artists who create those works. To cross-pollinate amongst the other arts, Albert produces operation and arts-educational events at the gallery. This activeness is office of a vital and continually growing arts scene in the Hudson River Valley. Since 2001 he has been role-fourth dimension staff in the Preparator's department at the Hessel Museum/Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College doing exhibition installation/deinstallation and drove management piece of work for the eye'due south extensive contemporary fine art plan.

Byrdcliffe Forum Author Talk with Sparrow
Monday, October five at 5:00 pm

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Please bring together united states of america for a Byrdcliffe Forum author talk with Sparrow. He will discuss Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies, his new volume to be published on October 13, 2020, by Monkfish Book Publishing Company in Rhinebeck.

Jacqueline Kellachan from The Golden Notebook will innovate Sparrow and take questions from the audience.

Originally conceived as a list of "eternal truths" for his immature developed girl, Sparrow's new book is a quirky collection of sense of humor, spiritual wisdom, memoir, observations of absurdity, and reasons to exist happy—all of which turn out to resonate deeply in this time of upheaval.

Including a wide and wild array of subjects—such as the art of aroma; cocky-psychoanalysis; dancing equally medicine; how to decorate with books, get equipped for winter or summertime, compost poetically, behave a wedding or host a party like no other; and historic period vigorously (including an interview with Sparrow's 100-year-old begetter)—Sparrow has written an invaluable guidebook for remaining relatively sane, happy, and even innocent in the face up of a global pandemic and political upheaval.

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Woodstock Masters: Heather Hutchison
Monday, September 14 at 5:00 pm

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Heather Hutchison will be interviewed by critic and author Eleanor Heartney. A cursory Q&A with the audition will conclude the approximately l-minute talk. The event will continue the Woodstock Masters series of artist interviews that, along with author talks and panel discussions, fall under the commonage title Byrdcliffe Forum.

Heather Hutchison, Photo by Tom Warre

Heather Hutchison was born in Philomath, OR and was raised betwixt the loftier desert of Bisbee, AZ and the San Francisco Bay Area. For over 20 years, she has lived, worked and raised her family in Saugerties, NY. Hutchison is self taught, and has innovated methods and mediums such as paw-edifice and bending forms out of Plexiglas to facilitate her artistic process. Hutchison's work oft incorporates ambient calorie-free as a primary material. She shares similar concerns with the Light and Space artists, spending decades observing and contemplating nature and the accelerating effect of climatic change. Hutchison's works capture the essence of calorie-free in natural environments. Each piece is a direct enquiry into the perceptual feel of color, calorie-free, and shadow particular to a time of 24-hour interval and place. Hutchison emphasizes the horizontal world that surrounds us and finds solace in the everpresent rhythms of nature.

Heather Hutchinson, Twilighting, 2020, Mixed media, reclaimed Plexiglas, birch plywood box, 23 3/4 10 25 x 3 3/four inches

Hutchison's piece of work is represented by Winston Wächter in NYC and Louis Stern Fine Art in Los Angeles and has been included in numerous museum exhibitions including the Brooklyn Museum, Montclair Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Knoxville Museum of Art likewise as existence included in the 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. She has exhibited in dozens of solo exhibitions over three decades. Several public collections hold her work including the Brooklyn Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Hutchison has received grants from the Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYFA, and Anonymous Was A Woman.

Eleanor Heartney is a Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively on gimmicky art bug for many publications. Her books include Disquisitional Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads, Postmodernism, Defending Complexity: Art Politics and the New World Order, Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art, Art and Today and Doomsday Dreams: the Apocalyptic Imagination in Gimmicky Art. She is a co-author of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art, and The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium. She received the Higher Art Clan's Frank Jewett Mather Honor for stardom in fine art criticism in 1992 and was honored past the French government every bit a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2008. Heartney is a past President of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association.

Byrdcliffe Forum: Galleries of the Hudson Valley
Monday, Baronial 17 at 5:00 pm

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Art galleries are essential to the cultural vitality of the Hudson Valley. The console Galleries of the Hudson Valley, to be held Baronial 17 from 5:00-half-dozen:15 pm on Zoom, volition shed lite on the diverseness, significant contributions, and artistic ways galleries are surviving the COVID pandemic by featuring representatives of 4 of the region's leading galleries.

The presenters are Alan Goolman, curator of Lockwood Gallery, Kingston; Franklin Parrasch, co-possessor of Parts & Labor, Beacon; Jennifer Hicks, owner of eleven Jane Street, Saugerties; and Linden Scheff, co-director of Carrie Haddad, Hudson. The event was organized by Douglas I. Sheer and Lynn Forest. Wood, a local arts announcer, will moderate and briefly introduce the gallerists. The discussion volition conclude with a Q&A session with the audience.

The Galleries of the Hudson Valley panel collectively represents galleries based in Beacon, Saugerties, Kingston, and Hudson, each of which occupies a specific niche in the regional art scene.

Alan Goolman is curator of the Lockwood Gallery, located in Kingston in the architectural office of Michael Lockwood. The 1,300-foursquare-foot gallery opened in January 2019 and has featured a number of large group show of mainly artists from the region. Goolman, a consultant to the cosmetics industry specializing in branding and creative marketing, previously curated shows at Cross Contemporary Galley in Saugerties.

Franklin Parrasch opened Parts & Labor in Beacon in May 2019 with Nicelle Beauchene. Both Parrasch and Beauchene are long-time eponymous NYC gallery owners, respectively located on the Upper East Side, with a branch in Los Angeles, and on the Lower East Side; they conceived their collaborative space in the Hudson Valley as a forum for combining and pairing works by contemporary artists with more historically recognized artists, re-contextualizing dialogues nearly mode, content and other bug that illuminate connections betwixt the two. Currently on display is a bear witness featuring quilts from the Gee's Bend, in Alabama, and gimmicky abstruse works; up next is a evidence of works by surrealistic landscapist Shara Hughes and paintings by the older, established artist she chose to accompany her piece of work, Lois Dodd.

Jennifer Hicks, a painter and performance artist bought a historic brick building in Saugerties after moving there from Boston in 2015. After an all-encompassing renovation she opened 11 Jane St. Art Center in April 2019. The circuitous features 3 fine art galleries, including the functioning space in Gallery Due north and Gallery South at xi Jane St, for hanging art and installation, plus The JJ Newberry Edifice around the corner at 236 Main St. for large scale projects. The JJ Newberry edifice on Master Street is currently showing "Read to Me," an exhibition of works combining visual fine art, words and poetry by ten visual artists and two writers. Paintings by Joseph Conrad-Ferm are displayed in the windows every bit part of their monthly "Art in the Windows" series. On Aug. 29 a solo show of Jan Harrison's animal paintings and sculpture will open at 11 Jane St. Fine art Center, Gallery North and South, with a operation by the artist and a audio accompaniment by Gary Weisberg.

Linden Scheff is co-managing director of Carrie Haddad Gallery, which was founded by Carrie Haddad in Hudson in 1991, making it the first fine-art gallery in that metropolis and 1 of the oldest art venues in the Hudson Valley. Currently occupying three,000 foursquare feet in a building on Warren Street, the gallery represents dozens of established and emerging artists in a range of media, including sculpture and experimental photography. It features eight exhibitions on the chief floor equally well as revolving photography shows on the 2d. Carrie Haddad kicked off an art scene which has go internationally prominent in the minor urban center of Hudson, and information technology continues to be i of the region'due south most successful galleries.

Moderator Lynn Woods has interviewed dozens of artists, curators and other influential people in the regional arts scene for Chronogram, Almanac Weekly, Hudson River Museum and Gallery Guide, and Hudson Valley Ane. She co-directed and co-produced Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal, an hour-long documentary virtually the 1960s urban renewal project that devastated Kingston's waterfront district, and co-authored Adirondack Style: Great Camps and Rustic Lodges (Universe Books; 2009).

Byrdcliffe Forum Author Talk: Nina Shengold
Monday, August three at 5:00 pm

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Please bring together us for a virtual talk with playwright and writer Nina Shengold interviewed by artist Kate McGloughlin, President Emeritus of the Woodstock School of Art. Nina's latest book Reservoir Twelvemonth: A Walker'southward Volume of Days is a gorgeous new book about self-discovery through
daily walks around the Ashokan Reservoir

Nina Shengold is the author of Clearcut, a novel (Anchor Books); River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers with lensman Jennifer May (SUNY Press); and fourteen theatre anthologies for Vintage Books and Viking Penguin, many co-edited with Eric Lane. Nether her nom de tween "Maya Aureate," she wrote the six-volume Cinderella Cleaners series and Spellbinding for Scholastic, and Harriet the Spy, Double Agent, a posthumous sequel to Louise Fitzhugh's classic, for Delacorte. For the screen Shengold is a Writers Guild Honor winner for Labor of Dearest, with Marcia Gay Harden; Blind Spot, with Emmy-nominated Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney; Double Platinum, with Diana Ross; SHINE Award winner Unwed Father; and more. Shengold has profiled more than than 200 writers for Chronogram, Poets & Writers, and Vassar Quarterly, and published stories and essays in Feckless Cunt: A Feminist Anthology, Love on the Road, Odd Shorts, Prima Materia, Riverine, and Tinker Street. She teaches creative writing at Vassar College and lives in the foothills of New York'southward Catskill Mountains, well-nigh the glorious Ashokan Reservoir.

Kate McGloughlin is a native of Olivebridge in New York'south Hudson Valley. She graduated from the University of Arizona at Tucson with a BA in Drawing & Painting. In 1991 she was awarded The Yasuo Kuniyoshi Scholarship to study printmaking with Robert Angeloch at The Woodstock School of Art where she currently teaches Printmaking, Landscape Painting and is President Emeritus of the Board of Directors. McGloughlin teaches landscape painting and printmaking workshops in Italy, Mexico, Ireland and the Us, and is represented widely in the Us. She has exhibited at Kiesendahl +Calhoun Contemporary Art, Kleinert James Gallery, Samuel F. Dorsky Museum, Albert Shahinian Gallery, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Attleboro Arts Museum, and many others. Her piece of work is in the collections of Print Club of Albany, Samuel F. Dorsky Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, and the Springville Museum of Art.
Website: katemcgloughlin.com

Images: Nina Shengold; Kate McGloughlin
Shengold'southward book Reservoir Year: A Walker's Book of Days

WOODSTOCK MASTERS ARTIST TALK WITH MARY FRANK

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The first effect in the series is Woodstock Masters: Mary Frank on Monday, July 20 at 5:00 pm. The event will launch the Woodstock Masters serial of artist interviews that volition have place (along with author talks and panel discussions) under the collective title Byrdcliffe Forum. The talks will be available to watch alive through Zoom, with a link provided before each upshot on our website and via email. Mary Frank will exist interviewed by artist and educator David Hornung. A brief Q&A with the artist volition conclude the approximately l-minute talk.

Mary Frank, Due west of My Childhood, 2018-2019, Acrylic, oil, and paper on lath, 41 10 33 x one i/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York.

Mary Frank was born in London, England, in 1933. She moved to the United States with her family in 1940. In the 1950s she studied with Hans Hofmann and Max Beckmann. Frank works across disciplines as a sculptor, painter, photographer and gifted ceramic artist. She has been the subject field of numerous museum exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Neuberger Museum in Buy, New York in 1978. Her work is in the collection of major museums such as the Art Plant of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Jewish Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA, to proper noun a few. Books on her and her work include Mary Frank past Hayden Herrera (1990), Mary Frank: Encounters by Linda Nochlan (2000), Experiences by Mary Frank (2002) and Pilgrimage: Photographs by Mary Frank (2002) among others. Frank lives and works in New York City and Woodstock, New York. She is represented past D. C. Moore in NYC www.dcmooregallery.com and Elena Zang Gallery elenazang.com in Woodstock.

David Hornung is a painter and collage artist whose work has been widely exhibited in the U. Southward. and the U. K. He is author of Color: A workshop for Artists and Designers (Lawrence King Publications, Ltd), a textbook that has been published in six languages and is used in fine art schools and individual studios worldwide. David has held teaching positions at Indiana Academy, Skidmore College and the Rhode Island School of Pattern. He is currently a professor of art at Adelphi University. He is represented by Elena Zang Gallery in Woodstock.