FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS

Summer in the country brings endless opportunities for weekend entertainment across the towns and villages of our rural area. Whether you like music or art, farmer’s markets or yard sales, the Hudson Valley and Litchfield Hills offer something for everyone on nearly every summer weekend. We’ve had food festivals, book signings, and car shows already this summer but the lazy days of August still hold opportunities for more meandering at outdoor festivals. While many signature events from cultural powerhouses are ticketed, many arts organizations and […]

The Wassaic Project’s Summer Exhibition currently on view at Maxon Mills brings together a dynamic group of international artists in all media – painting, sculpture, mixed media, video, charcoal, collage, neon, textile, and more. What’s striking about the show is the range of disciplines on display and the innovative use of materials, from traditional oil paint and charcoal to soda cans, tufted hand-dyed wool and sand. The survey show is one of the most exciting I’ve seen this year, fresh in perspective and hopeful in […]

Last winter the Dell Eads Reading Room at Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, CT, got some unexpected visitors. Renowned kinetic sculptor, Tim Prentice and his longtime artistic collaborator, Dave Colbert were looking up at the ceiling of the octagonal shaped room, considering the light. Prentice and Colbert were being shown a potential location for an installation they planned to gift to the school in the spring by Pat Vanicky, the school’s art teacher and fellow Cornwall resident. Vanicky had approached Prentice and […]

There’s a certain inexplicability that comes with properly capturing a moment, scene or feeling. Perhaps that’s why the elusive action is so closely associated with the great artist. To funnel the world as it exists through the imagination, molded there into something that others connect with on a level even they cannot articulate.

That, perhaps, is what the phrase “art taking command” looks like. It’s a mantra which artist Carl Chaiet lives by.

Chaiet was born in Manhattan and raised in Mount Vernon, NY, where he could […]