Program/Workshop

Castkills Irish Arts Week
· It an intensive week filled with non-stop excitement with over 40 + Classes ranging from Fiddle, Song, and Dancing Art (Monday – Friday)· Concerts every evening from 7:30-9:30 PM(M-F) featuring the All-Star teaching staff and Irish Dances (Ceilis) to live music from 9 pm to...

An educational presentation from the Northeastern Association of the Blind in Albany.  The 4 leading causes of vision loss in older Americans today is age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and cataracts.  We will discuss what it means to have "low vision",...

Lexington artist Athena Billias' art talk will be about her personal relationship to the Clove and how it and its history has inspired her to be an artist.  Starts at 1pm.  Free admission.

Carol will speak about her artwork of the Clove.  "As a lifelong resident and native of the Mountaintop Town of Hunter, my memories of "the mountain road" are etched into by psyche.  How it is now, and as it was when I was a child, riding in the back seat of the parent's car, watching in...

Local artist Patti Ferrara speaks about the spirit of Kaaterskill Clove.  She will speak as artist and local resident about the Kaaterskill Clove, why so many love it, and why so many trash it.  She believes that the most imporatnt part of this exhibit is to make people statewide and...

Historian Shirley Dunn will explore the relationship between the first European settlers and Native Americans.  Starts at 2pm.  Free admission.  Program at the Vedder Research Library.

Instructor:  Linda Schultz. Chinese brush painting is intended to be a spontaneous art form, capturing the essence of an image or idea with very little attention to precise details.  Using the "Four Treasure" - the brush, the ink tick, the ink stone and the paper - you will learn the...

Create your own Ukrainian-style plate or pitcher.  Admission:  $70/person. Registration deadline:  July 15th.  Program hours:  AM hours TBA.

Learn how to make pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs using the age-old wax-and-dye technique.  Cost:  $70/person.  Registration deadline:  July 15th.  Hours:  AM hours TBA.

Ukrainian embroidery course for all skill levels - beginner to expert.  Cost:  $70/person.  Registration deadline:  July 15th.  Hours:  AM hours TBA.

Instructor:  Kris Woodward.  Hours:  10am-4pm.  In this workshop we will work on 2 exciting surfaces:  Yupo, a bright white synthetic watercolor paper with a slick non-absorbent surface for easy lifting and brilliant color.  Your brush dances across this paper and you...

"Vienna Evening" with Anna Rabinova, violin; Bela Horvath, violin; Randolph Kelly, viola; Marta Bagratuni, cello; Natalia Khoma, cello with play works by Haydn and Schubert.  Hours:  8-9:30pm.  Admission:  $20, $15 seniors, $12/members, students free.

Featuring "pop up" art galleries in unique locations around the hamlet of Palenville.  Local, regional, and national artists are participating, all celebrating Palenville's historic role as one of the key birthplaces of American Art.  Visitors will be able to walk to most locations where...

On Saturday, June 1, at 1pm, Dr. Kevin Avery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will give a lecture at the Zadock Pratt Museumin Prattsville to kick off an exhibit of cultural significance to the region entitled Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art. Dr. Avery's talk will focus on original Hudson...

Dr. Robert Titus, M.A. Ph.D., Boston University, and auther of The Catskills, A Geological Guide, The Catskills in the Ice Age and Hudson Valley in the Ice Age, will speak about the geology of Kaaterskill Clove.  Hours:  9am-5pm.  Free admission. 

Dr. Avery's lecture will concern chiefly the images of Kaaterskill Clove by the artists who worked there, especially Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Sanford Gifford, Jervis McEntee and others, in the context of the locale's contemporaneous reputation in the literature of Irving, Cooper, Bryant and...

Instructor:  Cynthia Fisher.  Hours:  10am-4pm.  An understanding of Roman laying patterns (opus) is still the foundation from which contemporary mosaic artists approach the medium today.  In this workshop students will learn about the rich history of the medium, materials...

Registration deadline:  June 10th.  Cost:  $100/person.  Are you interested in learning more about the habitats, plants, and animals of New York State and increase your knowledge of the natural environment?   If so, please join us for this program which was premiered...

Agroforestry Resource Center, 6055 Route 23, Acra NY 12405
This is a driver safety presentation that provides older drivers and their families with helpful information.  It is not to be confused with a driver safety course that entitles attendees to possible auto insurance premium reductions.  Starts at 11:30.  Free admission.

This is a driver safety presentation that provides older drivers and their families with helpful information.  It is not to be confused with a driver safety course that entitles attendees to possible auto insurance premium reductions.  Starts at 11:30.  Free admission.

Instructor:  Judith Orseck Katz.  Hours:  10am-4pm.  This watercolor and goucache workshop will start in the studio with a few loosening up watercolor exercises and a look at some of the Masters Landscape paintings.  We will then go out and paint on site at some of the...

Registration deadline:  May 28th.  Cost:  $15/person.  Hours:  9am-12noon.  Presenter:  Jim Ochterski, Progressive Pond Consulting.  This program is being funded in part by the Robert H. Wentorf Foundation.This workshop is a comprehensive look at pond...

Agroforestry Resource Center, 6055 Route 23, Acra NY 12405
Laurie Dahlberg, professor of art history and photography at Bard College, explains Bierstadt's use of stereographs then leads participants in making their own stereographs of the landscape.  Starts at 2pm  $9/non-members, $7/members.

Thomas Cole Historic Site, 218 Spring Street, Catskill NY 12414
Registration deadline:  June 11th.  Cost:  free.  Time:  7-8pm. This program is offered in partnership with the NYS Water Resources Institute and the NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program, with support from the NYS Environmental Protection Fund.Have you ever wondered how...