FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS
Alden “Trevor” McWilliams
Alden “Trevor” McWilliams grew up as a faculty child on the Millbrook School campus in Millbrook, NY. His artistic expression was influenced by his grandfather, a professional illustrator, as well as his father who taught photography, drawing, and printmaking. Trevor’s love for the visual arts was solidified on trips to New York City’s museums, viewing atmospheric Hudson River School masterpieces, and studying drawing and painting under Millbrook’s longtime art director, painter, and mentor, Bill Hardy, from 1997-2001.
After studying English and Art at Colby College, in […]
Frances Palmer
Reading Frances Palmer’s brilliant Life in the Studio, published in 2020, was for me three parts exhilaration, one part exhaustion. The good kind. It may look like a modestly sized, more-of-same coffee table book, but it emphatically is not. It is a treatise creativity and inspiration as the subtitle announces, a manual on technique, a workplace journal, a studiously considered collection of still-life color photography, and a comprehensive narrative about throwing, glazing, arranging, documenting, parenting, cooking, and laughing. Here you will discover the eager Barnard […]
An Artist’s Legacy
In honor of our “history” themed issue that you are currently reading, we opted to give a nod to an artist who not only resided in our area and worked here, but who has since passed – a first for us in this artist profile feature. CB had his selection of talented artists to choose from with so many artists having called our area home throughout the centuries. His choice was Daniel Chester French whose work we have (probably) all seen.
The name may not be […]
License to Play
Walking into the Re Institute in Millerton, NY, during exhibition hours you’re likely to find artist and founder/director, Henry Klimowicz mingling with visitors and enthusiastically explaining the current exhibition. The gallery, located in Klimowicz’s studio in a former dairy barn sits just north of the village of Millerton, and it exists in many ways as an outgrowth of his unique vision of artistic process. In many ways, Henry is the Re Institute.
An art ecosystem
Located on Boston Corners Road among picturesque rolling hills, shoulder high with […]
