Windham Arts Alliance

www.mainstreetcenter.org

Windham Arts Alliance

At the Main Street Community Center

5494 Main Street (SR23)

Windham NY 12496

518.734.4168

The title of the next WAA show at the MSCC is Art in Small Packages. This show will feature small original works in all mediums. The maximum size is 11 x 14 framed. It is open to all artists – new, emerging and professional. The works should be for sale. As an artist, it is up to you to determine the subject of your work. Each artist may submit two (2) works. Please include with each submission a short statement explaining why you selected your subject This statement should be able to fit on a 3 X 5 index card along with the title, price, and artist’s name. Email your statement to trautman5@aol.com with a jpeg of your work. The due date for all submissions is October 15, 2023. However, if you want your work to be used for publicity, the due date is October 1, 2023. Please write “Small Packages” in the email subject heading. In order to get information into local media I need a jpeg of your work and statement as soon as possible.

The artwork must be delivered to the Main Street Community Center at 10:00 AM on November 17, 2023. Take down will be January 12, 2024 at 10:00 am. This will enable the artwork to be on display during the busy Holiday season. The opening will be on November, 18 from 1 to 6 pm. Music by the Catskill Mountain String Band. There will be two exciting hands on workshops. Carol Tenerowizc on November 4 from 12 noon to 4 pm and Amy Silberkliet on November 18 from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. See below for more information.

See attachment for the contract.

For artists who are not current 2023 members of WAA, the dues are $15. Show entry fee is $10. Please send your completed contract and check made payable to:

Windham Arts Alliance

PO Box 55

Windham NY 12496

If you have any questions, call or email Sheila at trautman5@aol.com or 201.803.9854.

We want to thank the Main Street Community Center for generously sharing their beautiful space with WAA and the Community.

“This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered in Greene County by CREATE Council on the Arts”.

https://mainstreetcenter.org/registration/ola/services/hands-on-photography-workshop-with- francis-driscoll

See Call to Artists for contract in formation.

A few examples of the H'art and Soul show. Visit the Main Street Community Center.

Briars and Brambles

Blue-Eyed Slave

written by

Marshall Highet and Bird Jones.

Main Street Community Center

5494 Route 23 Main Street Windham, NY

May 20, 2022

6PM

Hi. Exciting News. On Friday, May 20th @ 6 pm, Briars & Brambles Books and the Main Street Community Center will host an author talk including a reading and book signing for Blue-Eyed Slave written by Marshall Highet and Bird Jones. Both authors and Briars & Brambles Books will donate 100% of book sales to the Main Street Community Center. There is no charge to attend the event but advance registration is recommended via the community center's website (mainstreetcenter.org). For more information, people should visit www.mainstreetcenter.org or briarsandbramblesbooks.com.

Books are available for sale at Briars & Brambles and will be available to purchase at the event.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to be in touch. It would be wonderful if you could publicize the event in advance.

This event is particularly special to me because Bird Jones was a professor and mentor of mine in college. It is not an understatement to say that neither the bookstore nor the community center would not exist if I hadn't met Bird.

Jen Schwartz

Sponsored by Windham Arts Alliance & Main Street Community Center

Join us at the Greene County environmental "vortex" for a celebration of Earth Day/21 on September 25th! Held at the Rip Van Winkle Park/Pavilion in Tannersville/Hunter on the Mountaintop, this location is "sheltered" in the Catskill Forest Preserve, the Catskill Park, the protected Catskill Watershed segment, and the historic focus of the Hudson River School of Art. Many environmental groups, clubs and gov't shops will be present to discuss, display, share, and demonstrate the value of protection, preservation, and celebration of the place that we call home. Join us from 11 AM to 4 PM for hikes, bikes, games, discussions and workshops that focus on the environmental beauty that we all call home. Music performances, tours, and snacks will all be available.... AND ALL FREE!

If you missed the Mountaintop Gathering on

January 19, 2021, you can see it using this link.

https://www.facebook.com/1679252986/videos/10216600047788521/

Covid Through the Eyes of Our Children

Moving Forward with Health and Healing

Go to Students View of Covid to see more artwork by children on the Mountaintop.

CREATE Council on the Arts is pleased to present its Annual Members Small Works Exhibition featuring original artwork created by our Artist Members and emerging artists. The Small Works exhibition will run from December 8, 2020-January 23, 2021.

Due to COVID-19, there will be no opening or closing reception. CREATE’s Catskill Gallery, located at 398 Main Street in Catskill, NY, will be open with limited access and capacity. We are free to accommodate 6 visitors in the gallery per half an hour block. However, you must wear a mask and follow social distancing protocols. Dates and Hours for viewing:

Fri, Dec. 11 &18: 12-4pm
Sat, Dec. 12 & 19: 12-4pm
Tues. Dec 22 & 29: 12-4pm
Fri, Jan 8, 15, 22: 12-4pm
Sat. Jan, 9, 16, 23: 12-4pm

You can make an appointment: info@createcouncil.org or Call us at 518-943-3400.

This show is online AND in the CREATE Gallery in Catskill.

Online Show: click HERE

Click here to View the Soho Studio Visit Produced by the Barry Art Museum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myXHB7HE6vs

Click here to View the Virtual Tour of my Retrospective Exhibition at the Museum

https://barryartmuseum.odu.edu/joan-thorne-exhibition-gallery/

The Windham Arts Alliance will use this Events page to thank front line workers in the fight against COVID 19. Please join the call for artists below and stay safe!

We want to thank the artists, WAA members and CREATE for their support. WAA will be sending posters of these works to local hospitals, supermarkets, post offices and other Front Line workers to help pick up their spirits and let them know we care.