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Catskill Center Erpf Gallery, Arkville, NY
I'll be performing a few songs in between readings of some of the best Catskill Mountain poetry ever to hit the page. See http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/arts/arts.html for more info. For centuries the Catskills has been a place where art colonies have flourished. The first American school of landscape painting, the Hudson River School, was initiated here in 1835 by Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Thomas Doughty, Frederic Edwin Church, and Albert Bierstadt. In 1887, the painter J. Francis Murphy founded the Pakatakan Artists Colony in Arkville, and in 1902, Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, a student of John Ruskin at Oxford University, founded the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony on 1500 acres above Woodstock as an experiment in the art of living through creative manual work. To this day, the entire region continues to be the home of an exceptionally large number of gifted artists, craftspeople, writers and musicians.
Date: August 15, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
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