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July 2019
“Get Lit” Gala at Willow Drey Farm
Join us at Willow Drey Farm in Andes for the "Get Lit" Bright Hill Community Library Fundraiser Gala Location: Willow Drey Farm - 985 Hyzer Hill Rd, Andes, NY 13731 6:30 - 7:30 Cocktail Hour with opening Band: Hyzer Hillbillies 7:30 - 8:30 Tapas Supper 8:30: Hanzolo With special Guest Cosmic Greg Lee - Fire artist at 9:15 PM "Get Lit" Gala Tickets: $50 per person includes open bar and hors d'oeuvre, supper, entry for both bands General…
Find out more »Summer II: The World’s Oldest, Tallest, Biggest Trees / Paintings in the Style of Hudson River Artists
TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS Grades 1-7, Ages 6-14, 9 am - 2:30 pm, 5 days We will study trees, and why people love them. We will learn how to paint in the style of the Hudson River Artists, then write poems and stories about trees. Includes a trip to the Thomas Cole House (Catskills, NY). On the last day we will present our projects to parents and friends. The cost is $120, which includes morning & afternoon snacks (students bring…
Find out more »Summer III: Art that Lives Outside, Taught by Bertha Rogers
TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS Grades 1-7, Ages 6-14, 9 am - 2:30 pm, 5 days July 22 - 26, 2019, 9 AM - 2:30 PM Daily: Storm King Art Center is known throughout the world for its outdoor art. We will visit, learn about the art, then create our own miniature worlds with art and write poems and stories about them. Includes a trip to the Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY). On the last day we will present…
Find out more »Summer III: Art that Lives Outside, Taught by Bertha Rogers
TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS Grades 1-7, Ages 6-14, 9 am - 2:30 pm, 5 days July 22 - 26, 2019, 9 AM - 2:30 PM Daily: Storm King Art Center is known throughout the world for its outdoor art. We will visit, learn about the art, then create our own miniature worlds with art and write poems and stories about them. Includes a trip to the Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY). On the last day we will present…
Find out more »Summer III: Art that Lives Outside, Taught by Bertha Rogers
TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS Grades 1-7, Ages 6-14, 9 am - 2:30 pm, 5 days July 22 - 26, 2019, 9 AM - 2:30 PM Daily: Storm King Art Center is known throughout the world for its outdoor art. We will visit, learn about the art, then create our own miniature worlds with art and write poems and stories about them. Includes a trip to the Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY). On the last day we will present…
Find out more »Summer III: Art that Lives Outside, Taught by Bertha Rogers
TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS Grades 1-7, Ages 6-14, 9 am - 2:30 pm, 5 days July 22 - 26, 2019, 9 AM - 2:30 PM Daily: Storm King Art Center is known throughout the world for its outdoor art. We will visit, learn about the art, then create our own miniature worlds with art and write poems and stories about them. Includes a trip to the Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY). On the last day we will present…
Find out more »Word Thursdays – Marcela Sulak
Marcela Sulak’s (Tel Aviv, Israel) poetry collections include Decency (2015), Immigrant (2010), and the chapbook Of All the Things That Don’t Exist, I Love You Best. She's co-edited Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, and translated four poetry collections from Czech, French, and, most recently, Twenty Girls to Envy Me. Selected Poems by Orit Gidali (2016), which was long listed for the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry Translation. She is an associate professor of Literature…
Find out more »Summer III: Art that Lives Outside, Taught by Bertha Rogers
TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS Grades 1-7, Ages 6-14, 9 am - 2:30 pm, 5 days July 22 - 26, 2019, 9 AM - 2:30 PM Daily: Storm King Art Center is known throughout the world for its outdoor art. We will visit, learn about the art, then create our own miniature worlds with art and write poems and stories about them. Includes a trip to the Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY). On the last day we will present…
Find out more »August 2019
Word and Image Gallery Exhibit Opening – Christine Alexander
Christine Alexander (East Meredith, NY) was born in Astoria and grew up on Long Island. She earned a BA in English/Education from SUNY Plattsburgh, and an MA in Visual Design from the College of Design, North Carolina State University. Alexander was the photographer, designer, and art editor of The Way We Lived in North Carolina, five volumes, published by UNC Press, 1983. Additionally, she was the writer, designer, and photographer for Third Century Artists, which documented a large public arts…
Find out more »Words Thursdays – Merridawn Duckler
Merridawn Duckler (Portland, OR) is a poet and playwright from Portland, Oregon and the author of INTERSTATE, Dancing Girl Press. Her poetry has been published widely. She was runner-up at the Arizona Poetry Center residency judged by Farid Matuk, finalist for the Gloria Burgess Fellowship at Poets on the Coast and the recipient of merit scholarships to the Southampton Poetry Conference with Billy Collins and Round Top. Her poems have been anthologized in Poetry of the American Southwest, Dos Gatos…
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