WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16
6:30 PM

Quest Gallery
3355 Main St,
Stone Ridge
(across from the Post Office)

Art Salon and Annual Meeting of the Marbletown Arts Association

Pot Luck Dinner with Slides, Conversation and You

The first meeting of 2008 will be combined with a social event at the new Quest Gallery in Stone Ridge.

Come with a dish of your choosing, or a beverage of choice, and gather to talk about upcoming arts issues for the organization. Last season we started combining our meetings with food and brief presentation of work by visual artists. Feel free to bring slides or raise issues you face as an artist for discussion. It's informal, friendly and open to new ideas. Bring an friend or come alone.

Saturday February 9th

Backstage Productions (BSP)
323 Wall St.
Kingston, NY 12401

http://www.bspinfo.net/

Let There Be Love

An elegant evening of music & romance at Backstage Productions, (BSP), 323 Wall Street in Uptown Kingston. Ten singers will be performing jazz standards & original compositions, accompanied by Peter Tomlinson on piano & DeWitt Nelson on bass. Performers include Robin Baker, Tanya Baker, Bill Bannan, Jeffrey Cameron, Barbara Dempsey, Big Joe Fitz, Neil Herlands, Mark Houghtaling, Ann Osmond & Natasha Williams.

This event is fast becoming a tradition and is the perfect time to come in from the cold, and celebrate Cupid’s holiday in style.

The show starts at 8:00 pm, doors open at 7:30. Admission is $20.00, cash bar, complementary chocolates. This event was very well attended last year so reservations are strongly suggested. Proceeds go to benefit the Marbletown Arts Association’s scholarship fund which annually awards scholarships to area high school seniors who wish to continue their education in the arts. For information and reservations contact BSP at (845) 338-8700 or Bill Bannan at (845) 687-4760.

Click Here for directions.

Date and Location TBA,
February/March event in the works

A Literary Brunch: Love Literature Brunch

If you are interested in gathering for a literary brunch featuring readings by Mid-Hudson Valley poets, memoirists, fiction writers and musicians as part of an end to Winter gathering, sponsored by the Marbletown Arts Association, give us a call. .

Call Barbara 687-0660
or email info@marbarts.com

Sat, August 18th, 2007
at Tongore Park

Lantern making 6:30 – 10 pm
with 2nd musical seating new this year, 8:30 pm

Illumination

A magical evening of music and lantern making under the stars" for family, friends and community from 3 to 93. This year there will be a musical second seating for adults (at 8:30) featuring "Machan" (Bossa Nova, Jazz). As always musical guests will accompany the lantern making. This year "POOK" (Percussion Orchestra Of Kingston) will perform playing world music, along with their collaborators, three award-winning dance ensembles featuring performers ages 5-19. Bart Thrall will open the evenings festivities. So bring a picnic, a bottle of wine, a blanket and come and enjoy a summers eve making your own lantern and listening and dancing to some great music.

$8 adults, children free.
For more information contact Rich LaSalvia at (845) 687-2280. or Barbara at (845) 626-3700; or check out Machan's website:http://www.geishagirlmusic.com;
POOK: http://www.cometodada.org/ccedrums/pook.htm;
opener Bart Thrall: http://cdbaby.com/cd/thrall

Directions to Illumination

See press release and photos of last year's event.

September 7th - 30th, 2007

beGallery, 11 Mohonk Road (off Rt. 213), High Falls

Gallery Hours: Fri - Mon 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment

Opening reception:
Friday, September 7,
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Art By the Foot: Members Show

Join us as the Marbletown Arts Association kicks off ART HARVEST 2007 with an extended member show from September 7 - 30, giving you more time to see the eclectic and dynamic work of local artists. All works are in a 12" format making it easy for you to find a place for art in your home or office. Many of our artists are known nationally and in galleries throughout the country. See their work right here at home. Come out and show your support for the art community and enjoy and artful evening or afternoon in town.

beGallery has donated the space for this show so that artists will receive 80% of the proceeds and the MAA will receive 20% to support art programs and scholarships in our town.

Opening reception:
Friday, September 7 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
For more information click here.

September – October, 2007

Art Workshops

The Marbletown Arts Association presents 5 exciting work-shops as part of the Art Harvest Celebration.

This year along with our annual Art Harvest the MAA is very pleased to announce the return of a series of hands on workshops in the artists' studios to be held between late September through October, 2007, right here in the foothills of the Catskills. All are being run by nationally recognized, award winning artists, taking place in or around historic High Falls. Times and locations vary as each workshop takes place at individual Artist’s Studio or Gallery in the Stone Ridge / High Falls area. This year’s workshops will compriseof both Child and Adult workshopsincluding: Paper making;Potteryfundamentals, throwing, underglaze painting on press molded pieces; Found Object Jewelry Making, and Fresco painting.  Some workshops are offered at various times during the year, others take place only during the Art Harvest. Please join us and discover new artistic talents, learn or hone skills, and re-awaken your spirit and your senses to the arts. Autumn is only around the corner.  Click here for 2007 workshops.

Please contact Vaughan at Westcote Bell Pottery in High Falls, for more information: 845.687.7256 vsmithpots@aol.com 

Sat, October 6th, 2007

Dan Feldman's Loft, 93 Kyserike Rd., Stone Ridge.

Doors open at 7:30 PM,
Performance begins at 8:00 PM

MAA Cabaret

An elegant evening of Cabaret and stylish dress featuring the vocal talents of a dozen singers performing Cabaret standards & original compositions, accompanied by pianist Dennis Yerry. Once again, this year's MAA Cabaret will be at the home of Dan Feldman, 93 Kyserike Road in Stone Ridge, NY, just opposite the Rondout Valley High School. A $15.00 donation at the door goes to benefit the Marbletown Arts Association's Scholarship Fund.

Doors Open at 7:30 pm - Performance begins at 8:00 pm.
For more information, call 687-4760 or www.marbarts.com
For Directions click here