Sometimes the most fun and engaging forms of art won't be found on a flat pice of canvas. Thinking outside of the frame is a daily ritual for Pam Booth.

Pam is a trained sculptor (Memphis College of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Summit Art Center) Creating whimsical sculptural pieces of gnomes and creatures.

Website: cartoonsbybooth.net

I started out painting and making wall sculptures.

I couldn't afford to buy a new handbag, so I made one for myself incorporating my artwork. My business shifted from paintings & sculptures to handbags, bracelets & tech accessories including cell phone covers.

Additionally, I have mentored young artists in our community with mental health issues & who were a suicide risk.

Website: www.debbiebrooks.com

Email: dsb.debbiebrooks@gmail.com

Phone: 917.709.8449

I believe we have the ability to choose what holds deep meaning and purpose for us, what guides us and what we hold as sacred. As divine. As holy. As aligned. As our altars and as our church.

This work began as a healing process, searching for guides and direction from the natural world during a time of deep self transformation. What emerged was a body of work to celebrate and join with the sacred, to create a place of gratitude and remembrance within the home, to continually connect with the messages and meaning found in each element, animal, spirit and representation.

These pieces are symbols of what I want to call into my life. Relics of what has guided me back to wholeness, back to a place of remembering who I really am.

The materials used have been found in the forest surrounding my home, as well as gifted from neighbors and friends. I do not hunt or kill for bones or feathers to use in my work. Items have been collected and repurposed with the deepest reverence and respect for the animals.

I enjoy the process of praying to the bones, feathers, wood and earth asking for permission to co-create with them, to learn, and share their wisdom. As artists, we become conduits for a voice beyond our own. I dedicate this practice, these poems, this work, to being of service for the greater good.

View website: 
http://www.thefreedomlodge.com

Inquiries and Purchases: 
anna@annadavisfilms.com

Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/TheFreedomLodge

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Inspired by Soutine, Bacon, Freud, Basquiat and Rauschenberg, Lorian has been working as a mixed media artist and filmmaker for over 20 years. His work is often political, abstract, provocative, oneiric, and hard to classify. Found objects find themselves into his oil canvases, when oil is used. Sometimes it's housepaint, critters, dirt, wind, fire, snow and whatever else finds itself materializing around his spirit and soul. The unexpected and subtractive are primary results hisworks. Mark Bradford is also a big hero of his.

Website: lorianjdelman.com

Tiffany Dyckman has been working as an artist in a variety of mediums for the past 25 years.  Her pottery studio is located right on the GOST trail in an old barn nestled into the Shawangunk mountain ridge in Wallkill, NY. Her Pottery is high fired functional stoneware. While she is working primarily with wheel thrown ceramic pieces at this time, her work in Painting and Photography is a constant pulse in her life and journey as an artist.

Tiffany studied art at the undergraduate level at SUNY Potsdam and at Ripon and York St. John’s University in York, England. She earned her Master’s in darkroom photography from Long Island University. She has spent the past 29 years working as Art Faculty at Lakeland High School in Westchester County, NY where she runs a popular darkroom photography program and teaches painting and studio in art. It is a great joy to share her love and passion for the fine arts with her students.

You can visit Tiffany’s Pottery studio where she loves creating functional pottery that is meant to be used and enjoyed on a daily basis.

You can contact Tiffany Dyckman at TNTBUTTERY@GMAIL.com for commissions, sales and studio appointments.

What is most notable about my oil or acrylic paintings and commissioned portraits are the vibrant color and energy. I use imagery of people, places and objects from life and imagination and reinvent them through the creative process alive in me as a joyful expressionism. The mood may be quirky, laugh-out-loud funny, or harmonious. My work has evolved from a pop-y narrative with graphic outlines, to a softer edge, broader subject, and incorporation of more painterly elements. The color, energy, accessible imagery and good mood are consistent and distinctive to my art. I call it Love Through Art.

I paint for the joy of creation, to celebrate the spirit, to satisfy the eye, to engage in childlike imagination, to feel free, to use juicy color, to connect people, for the love of art!

Flint’s paintings and portraits are owned nationally and internationally. She has exhibited in various U.S. states and Canada, New York City, and throughout New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley. Her art has been featured on numerous magazine covers and has appeared in various publications. She has illustrated a children’s book and created art for music CD covers. Her commissioned public art is on permanent display in Ulster County.

Location:

23 Outlook Farm Drive

New Paltz, NY 12561

914.475.0113

www.stacieflint.com

stacieflint@yahoo.com

My soft sculptured animals and wearable art are inspired by the natural world and love of color, patterns and form.

Felting is the oldest textile technique. Combining wool fibers with water and soap and vigorous kneading to form a durable, dense and strong unwoven material used for clothing, decoration, shelter and warmth dates back thousands of years.

The techniques I use are based on traditional feltmaking as well as contemporary methods combining layers of wool and silk, viscose and bamboo fibers with hand dyed silk fabric. This combination of various fibers and fabrics create endless possibilities through the blending of colors, textures and forms and the naturalness of the materials.

I have a degree in fine art from Cooper Union and a former life as a graphic designer and children's book illustrator. Now I love making artful toys, elegant scarves and other accessories

View website: alexaginsburg.com

Contact info: Alexa.ginsburg@gmail.com

 I have been a visual artist since the ’60’s, and have primarily worked as a painter. My paintings and my sculptures were exhibited at galleries in New York City and were placed in corporate collections both in the United States and Canada.  Additionally, my artwork was included in the “virtual corporation “ run by Gordon Gecko in the movie Wall Street.

It was serendipitous  that through my experiences teaching art in the Department of Education in New York City, I was reintroduced to ceramics.  I found working with clay extremely pleasurable and much different than creating a painting.  I found myself spending more and more time making a body of work with clay as the medium.

 I have been working in clay seriously for the last 20 years.  Wheel work was a skill I began to develop about 12 years ago.

Shortly after moving to Pine Bush in the Hudson Valley of New York State in 2007, I built a studio building on the property and established New Prospect Pottery. The pottery built two kilns thereafter. The pottery holds group firings in the 40 cubic foot gas reduction kiln and the salt kiln. Potters from all around the tri-state area come together to glaze and fire their work. I mix and experiment with glazes and slips and make all the glazes that the pottery uses.  Glaze experimentation is an ongoing process, as there is much to learn when making glazes that are specifically  made for each different type of firing.

These glazes and slips are available for the ceramic artists who come to glaze and fire their pots here and for my students who study at the studio. Please feel free to contact the pottery directly for information about firings and classes.

View Website: 
www.newprospectpottery.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 845.744.6787
Email: newprospectpottery@gmail.com

Purchase:
Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/newprospectpottery

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Susan Kraft is an artist and writer who, in 2000, relaunched her art career with the founding of ART21 Gallery in the heart of Palo Alto, CA. A few years later, she produced and hosted “Talk Art,” an award-winning cable TV talk show about artists’ work and their backstories.

Art has always been part of Susan’s life. She started painting in oils very young in her father's art studio, and at age 19, she entered college as an art major. With no financial backing following the death of her father several years previously, she was forced to reevaluate working toward an art degree, and she pivoted to math and science. This also satisfied her search for understanding who we are and how to best live on this tiny blue dot suspended in the Milky Way. Her first post-grad job brought her to Palo Alto, CA where she lived until recently.

In 2022, she moved from California to live and work in New York.

For inquiries and purchases:

Susan.Kraft@gmail.com

kraftart.com

Leonie Lacouette manages to strike a balance between concepts and influences that otherwise might seem like polar opposites-her elegant clocks successfully reconcile the strict geometries of Minimalism with a warm, approachable palette of colored patinas on the copper and nickel that predominate her designs. Created from a basic language of circles, squares, ovals, and rectangles, the clocks are not only beautiful, but often playful as well. In one design, the otherwise hidden movement of the pendulum swings gently back and forth, revealed by a perfectly circular hole punched through the face of the piece to create a dynamic (and unexpected) game of 'hide-and-seek'.

Leonie started making clocks over 30 years ago. She found it to be a practical way to make a living while making great use of the aesthetic training she'd received in art school. It all began when she needed a clock for her studio and noticed an ad in a magazine for a company selling clock mechanisms. Ordering five, she used one to make her own timepiece, and then made four more to sell. They sold out immediately and she's been making clocks ever since!

Her work includes wall clocks in various styles and sizes, all hand crafted in New York State. Her clocks are designed with clean contemporary lines and feature the materials of wood, patinated copper, steel and other metals. They are both functional time pieces and beautiful kinetic sculptures. From geometric metal clocks to modern wooden timepieces, her clocks make ideal gifts for weddings, anniversaries, housewarmings, birthdays and more. A functional piece of art for your home? It's about Time.

View website:
http://www.leonietime.com

Inquiries and Purchases:
leonie@leonietime.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Contemporary art allows me the freedom to see, interpret, imagine and create from objective reality and subjective experience. It’s a process I find both exhilarating and deeply satisfying. It echoes back my life to me in ways I can only experience through my brush and canvas. Having the opportunity to share this experience with you is a true honor for me.

Email: info@dmgallery.art

Website: dmgallery.art

Location: 208 Bruynswick Road, New Paltz

Phone: 845-255-3336

Marsha Massih is an award-winning oil painter, exhibiting her paintings throughout the East Coast and abroad for 30 years. She recently had a successful solo exhibit summer of 2023 at Studio 89 in Highland, New York. In December 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal of Honor at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s 126th Annual Exhibit in Manhattan for her oil painting ‘Red Boudoir’. Group shows include the CLWAC, Allied Artists of America, National Arts Club, Artists’ Fellowship, National Association of Women Artists, Hudson Valley Artist Association, National Art League, Audubon Artists Society of NYC, Dutchess County Arts Council, Art Society of Kingston, Lace Mill Gallery in Kingston, NY, and several Plein Air Invitationals.

Marsha’s paintings got noticed by set designers on the popular HULU Series ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, and HULU purchased a painting that debuted in Meryl Streep’s apartment on the third season, episode 5, on August 29, 2023. The head designer chose to place the only overhead light on Marsha’s painting, which hangs in the front entrance of the apartment.

Marsha’s artwork and biography have been featured in several publications , including Fine Art Connoisseur (fineartconnoisseur.com) as well as ‘Art Times’, “Kingston Times’ (July 2017), New Paltz Times (May 2015) , the Gardiner Gazette (Summer 2015), and ‘Lines from the League’ (Winter 2011-12).

Marsha is a founding member of the Gardiner Artists Open Studio Tours (GardinerOpenStudioTour.com).

Marsha’s paintings are included in numerous private collections throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Hawaii, Indonesia, Brazil, France and Italy.

For Inquiries/purchases:

Email: mmmassih@gmail.com

Phone: 845-532-3548

Studio visit hours: every morning and by appointment.

Meadow’s work is constantly redefining and refining intimacy and emotional relationships between herself, her materials and her visual language. She strives to remain vulnerable and experimental while including a graceful marriage of symbolic and ancient references.

In order to maintain freshness in her work, she produces art in a variety of media and metaphors; as a sculptor, jeweler, painter, printmaker, product designer and children’s book author and illustrator. She has an MFA degree from George Washington University, in Washington DC, in Ceramics and Design and an MFA degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Sculpture and Jewelry. Her undergraduate degree is from The Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, in Ceramics.

Meadow’s international exhibition history is long and distinguished. Her art can be found in numerous private and public collections including; Smithsonian Institute, and Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC, the Science Museum, San Francisco, and DiRosa Collection, in Napa, CA. Her large installation sculptures were shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY, and galleries and museums in NYC.

Inquiries and Purchases:
Email: woodrockstudios@yahoo.com

Meadowmeadow.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

William creates handmade ceramics in his on site workshop including mugs, bowls, tiles, and plates with local and animal themes.

Facebook: BlueSkinkPottery

I graduated from The Cooper Union and also studied art at Syracuse University, The School of Visual Arts, and The Woodstock School Of Art. Rather than choosing to be a professional artist, I became co-owner of Morgan Gaynin Inc. in NYC representing U.S. and international illustrators for 35 years. Concentrating on my own creative interests since retiring in 2014, I have enjoyed conveying energy, movement, and emotion through figurative drawing.

Visit Vicki’s Studio:

501 Route 208, New Paltz NY, 12561

845. 522. 2663

vickierenzo@gmail.com

As an artist there is variety in her work, though her love of Mexican folk motifs appears no matter the medium she's working in. This folk art flavoring gives her painting and pottery a delightful playfulness that is the perfect antidote for people who feel intimidated by more formal styles of artistic expression. 

Annie herself can also be vigorously irreverent which serves her well in her work. If you see any of her #GOSTdoors you will recognize them right away.

View her work:
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Woman’s Studio Workshop Honoree: http://bit.ly/annie-oneill

Inquiries and Purchases:
Phone: 845.255.5508
Email: annieohoh@earthlink.net

Hours:
By Appointment Only

Nature's evanescent beauty.

Seascapes, mists, moonbeams, winds, fire -- in light that throbs and glows, sparkles and darkens. All is movement. Nothing is still.

My paintings are born in motion -- a riot of splashing, tossing, restless color that eventually calms to harbor the drama of the flowing world.

Like music, holding a long chord.

Visit Marilyn’s Studio:

Acrylic and Encaustic Paintings

56 Black Hawk Trail, Gardiner NY

917.834.4507

mperryart@gmail.com

www.marilynperryart.com

Michelle Rhodes has studied ceramics at the Boston Museum School and the Brooklyn Museum School, Haystack Crafts School, Penland Crafts School, Greenwich House Pottery and the Banff Center for the Arts. In 1978-79 Michelle was apprenticed in Japan studying wood-firing and traditional methods of pottery-making with the renowned Fujiwara family of Bizen, and with then emerging master Shige Morioka of Amano near Osaka. She has also studied Tea Ceremony. Her Tea utensils, including various bowls, water jars, and other containers have been used by the Urasenke Tea Ceremony Society schools in Kyoto and New York City.

Michelle Rhodes first had a studio in NYC's SOHO from 1969 to 1971. She came north to Gardiner in 1971 to create a larger studio where she could build kilns, make pots and teach. Michelle's work can be purchased through her online store as well as at her Gardiner showroom, which is open by appointment year-round.

Michelle continues to share her love of clay with others through teaching and art therapy. As an art therapist/expressive psychotherapist she practices an approach to therapy based in both studio work and inner process. Her faith in universal creative potential is at the core of her work with people of all ages and abilities. In addition to working individually with students and those seeking art-based psychotherapy, she leads a women's clay group called Dreamfigures in her Gardiner Studio.

All works pictured are Ceramics: Wood-fired Stoneware, gas reduction-fired stoneware, or Raku.

Website: Michellerhodespottery.com

Contact info: email deepclay@mac.com

Phone (land line) 845-255-8039

All works pictured are Ceramics: Wood-fired Stoneware

I seek to discover that pivotal moment in human events when there is no turning back; disaster or salvation is imminent. The scene is a finely balanced fulcrum about to tip; the viewer can speculate on the outcome. Romantic influences combined with a realization that in the greatest Shakespearean works all the main characters end up dead, to me, are the ingredients of a great painting.

My visual imagination is fed by Gothic Horror novels and Italian Horror movies of the 60’s and 70’s by Mario Bava and Hammer Films. The five key elements to any Gothic Horror Novel are Murder, Incest, a Ghost, and an Evil Monk (priest, or nun), and a Castle. The best of these is The Monk by Matthew Lewis

Conceptually my ambition in the studio is to easel paint like an Old Master, using oils in the traditional sense. Over canvas hand- stretched with copper tacks rabbit skin glue sizing is applied, then three coats of oil priming sanded smooth between each layer. The surface is finished with two coats of black oil ground. Opaque colors begin the concretion of the conceptual dream and dozens of layers of oil glazing complete the illusion within a glowing, visually deep surface. Utilizing pure pigments alone to create images leaves maximum conceptual and formal room for the artist to seduce his prey, the audience. The appearance of the familiar, comfortable surface is the most successful device for letting people draw close, inspect the artwork for aesthetic pleasure, and finally be horrified, disgusted, raptured, or enthralled at the macabre manifestation presented.

The infamous author of the supernatural H.P. Lovecraft tells of an artist whose paintings are the embodiment of the hideous and grotesque. Strange rites and rituals performed by hyperborean humanoids and antediluvian amphibian-like gods fill scores of canvases.Am I that artist and have found that doorway to those unnamable places? Epiphany is the goal, reflection on the eternal. Metaphysical psychic transformation through sublime visual terror and surprise.

Website: michaelxrose.com

My artwork has predominantly been pastel painting. I use a variety of soft pastels on sanded paper to create images of landscapes, floral still life, portraits and animals. I paint what captures my interest. Additionally I am drawn to other forms of visual creativity with sketching, pen and pencil portraits and other mediums. I’m really trying to test the available mediums of visual creativity to express what art excites me.

Website: LaurieSammons.com

Amy Schnitzer in a New York City-based potter. She rediscovered pottery in 2010 upon making a career change and taking a 6-month work hiatus. Not only did her new local studio community embrace her, but the clay became a new and exciting medium to work with. She quickly shifted from years of hand- building to wheel-throwing and has been working at the wheel ever since.

In March 2020, with the global pandemic closing down businesses all around her, including her studio, she bought a wheel and set up her own make-shift, at-home pandemic pottery studio.

And now, the pandemic has pushed her to build her own business that includes creating, showing, and selling her work as well as helping other makers promote and sell their wares.

Gas reduction, salt, and wood are the ways in which she prefers to fire her work due to the rich colors and textures and unexpected results. She works with 5-8 different clay bodies at any given time because they produce vastly different results. She fires her work in the Hudson Valley, at New Prospect Pottery.

Her pottery is functional — meaning it’s meant to be used. She focuses on form which is key to functional work because handles need to be comfortable, lids need to fit, and bowls and plates need to stack.

Location for the tour:

New Prospect Pottery - 2646 New Prospect Road, Pine Bush, NY 12566

amyspotsnyc@gmail.com

773.733.1927

www.AmysPots.com; Instagram: @amys_pots; Facebook: www.facebook.com/amy.schnitzer.3

A Memorial Tribute to artist Ron Schaefer

1944-2022

Exhibiting paintings of his landscapes, still lifes and structures.

Email:

tuthilltownartgallery@gmail.com

Website:

http://www.ronschaeferpaintings.com/

My drawings, writing, sculpture, and video installations involve physical and metaphoric qualities of wind, water, light, and shadow. I integrate technology and traditional media to work with natural systems through audio, video, text, and image. Branching structures, such as root systems, neurological patterns, underwater and aerial views, river maps and microscopic imagery, speak of our interdependence of the bodies and land we inhabit.

Drawing has always been a staple of my creative practice, I work abstractly with water based and shellac inks, sized from 8”x8” to 30” x 40”. Shown here are two indigo ink drawings, and SEE / SAW, my first book of poetry and ink drawings published December 2023.

John A. Varriano has been a respected representational and accomplished portrait artist for over 20 years. As an artist and instructor, John focuses on how to observe nature and effectively translate the language of light into the language of paint .  Exhibiting extensively in juried shows and galleries throughout the country, John has won various awards for his oil paintings, including the 2016 American Artists Professional League ‘Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Traditional Landscape’, the 2015 Allied Artists of America ‘Florence and Ernest Thorne Memorial Award’ for Portraiture, Best in Show at the UCJF’s 14th Annual Fall for Art Show in Kingston in 2010, the Sanford Grumbacher Gold Medal, the Alfred and Mary Crimi Award, and the Guilia Palermo Award at the Audubon Artists Exhibits.  In 2011, John was awarded ‘Best in Show’ at the National Art League’s Annual Exhibit in New York and First Place at Gardiner Plein Air Show in June.  In August 2012, John was one of 20 artists chosen out of thousands to participate in the International Fine Art Exhibition at Agora Galley in Chelsea.  

 John served on the Board of Directors of the Art Students League for several years and was its President in 2005 and 2006.  John is a member of the Allied Artists of America, the Audubon Artists Society, the Artists’ Fellowship, and he currently sits on the Board of the Hudson Valley Artists Association.  He is a founding member of the Gardiner Artists Open Studio Tour.  John teaches figure drawing at the Art Students League of NYC, and portrait painting and drawing at the Art Center of Northern New Jersey. He conducts landscape painting workshops in New York and New Jersey.  John’s portrait commissions are In numerous private and public collections.

View his Workshops:
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Inquiries and Purchases:
johnvarriano@yahoo.com

Hours:
By Appointment Only

My work is an exploration of a specific kind of beauty existing at the intersection of the natural and the artificial. I’m interested in how the two collide in visually, culturally, and sometimes politically striking ways. Most of us expect to have moments of awe in the historically “beautiful”scenes or subjects of a landscape painting, but perhaps the expectation that a beautiful sunset will inspire awe, prevents us from seeing the magical in the daily scenes of life. Capitalism and consumer culture create much of the world around us—for many of us, more so than the natural world—and slowing down to take in the collision of those two worlds can provide a new way of seeing, or expecting to see, beauty. The majority of my work is based off photographs I've taken out in the world, in which I usually modify elements to invoke a specific sensation, or draw attention to a specific moment or object. The work is predominately acrylic on canvas though there are some exceptions to this rule.

Website: awackart.com