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CALL FOR ENTRIES
Photowork 2012
25th Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition
JUROR: Susan Thompson, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Click here for details and prospectus
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Dutchess County Art Association /Barrett Art Center is pleased to announce
New Directions 2012
27th Annual National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition
Juror: Susan Cross, Curator, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
Due to inclement weather, our Opening Reception
has been rescheduled. Please join us
Saturday February 4th, 3:00-5:00pm
awards announced at 4:30pm
Figure Wrapped in Blue – mixed media/sculpture – by Don Haggerty, Seattle, WA
Exhibition Dates: January 21st-March 9, 2012
at the Barrett Art Center
55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY
Gallery Hours
Wednesday- Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturdays: 11am-3pm
or by appointment
call 846-471-2550
Conratulations to the 35 selected artists!
John Asaro – Ventura, CA, Howard Barlow – Ellenburg, WA, Courtland Blade – Indianapolis, IN, Jeff Briggs – Boston, MA, Yvonne Buchanan – Syracuse, NY, Sasha Bush – Poughkeepsie, NY, Aric Calfee – Stanhope, NJ, Jeannie Choe – Leonia, NJ, Frank D’Astolfo – Willow, NY, Tracy Deer – Jersey City, NJ, Andrew Edwards – New York, NY, Don Haggerty – Seattle, WA, Mark Hedengren – Provo, UT, Liz Innvar – Brooklyn, NY, Gjon Izano – Summit, NJ, Shreepad Joglekar – Manhattan, KS, Karen Krieger – Needham, MA, Joan Lesikin – Pine Bush, NY, Harriet Livathinos – Woodstock, NY, Susan Lyman – Springfield, MO, Basha Maryanska – Beacon, NY, Claudine Metrick – Stoughton, MA, John Harlan Norris – Jonesboro, AR, Jim Pearson – Lawrenceville, IL, Steve Rude – Ventura, CA, Manju Shandler-Estrin – Brooklyn, NY, William Stoehr – Boulder, CO, Brad Story – Essex, MA, Doug Tausik – Ventura, CA, Nathan Taves – Columbia City, IN, Kimberly Thurston – Chicago, IL, Tony Toscani – Brooklyn, NY, David Welch – Edgartown, MA, Aran Winterbottom – Bedford, NY, and Deborah Zlotsky – Delmar, NY
About the juror:
Susan Cross has been Curator at MASS MoCA since 2005. Prior to that, she spent 10 years at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, where she organized The Eye of the Storm: works in situ by Daniel Buren. Other major shows that she curated during her time there include Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience for Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, and The Hugo Boss Prize 2002: Pierre Huyghe. Cross earned her BA from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of the Williams College Graduate Frogram in Art History at the Clark.
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Save the Date: Sunday February 12th, 2012
100 for $100 Raffle Tickets
are Available Now !
Paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings, photographs,
sculpture, ceramics and mixed media works
This event/fundraiser will be held on
Sunday, February 12, 2012
4:00 - 7:00 pm
at Locust Grove: The Samuel Morse Estate
2683 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Here's how it works:
100 donated works of art by some of our area’s most popular artists will be
raffled off on February 11th starting at 4:00pm.
Only 100 all-inclusive tickets at $100 each will be sold for admittance to this special raffle event. A ticket entitles the holder to admission for two people, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, and one work of art.
Ticket numbers will be drawn at random from a box and as the numbers are drawn the chosen ticket holder will select and take home any available piece of artwork he or she chooses from the wall. As the numbers are drawn the amount of pieces available will get smaller and smaller until all pieces are raffled off.
For more information, or to purchase tickets, please call
Ursula Morgan at Locust Grove, at (845) 454-4500, x. 217,
or Barrett Art Center at (845) 471-2550
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Drawing Class in Millbrook!
The Fountains at Millbrook offers Barrett School of Art classes in their wonderful art studio.
The Art of Drawing with Leslie Bender
Tuesdays, March 13th, 20th, 27th, April 3rd.
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Experience the excitement of drawing using realism, abstraction, and imagination. Exploring composition and analysis of line and form, students crate dynamic artworks from still life and photographs. All levels of skills welcome.
ABOUT LESLIE: Leslie’s paintings, drawings and prints have been shown in museums across the United States, and are in collections around the world. Her political prints were included in both the Whitney Downtown exhibit “MetaManhattan” in 1984 and The Museum of Modern Art “Committed To Print”.
Space is limited. For more information, class fee info and to register, call the Fountains' Community Life Office by Friday, March 9th
(845) 677 – 8550 ext. 8014
Teressa DelCampo, Community Life Director
The Fountains at Millbrook
Watermark Retirement Community
is located at 79 Flint Road Millbrook, NY 12545
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Click here for Printmaking Classes and Open Studio Time,
Darkroom Rental and more!
Barrett Clay Works, at 485 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, is a well-equipped art center with two floors focusing especially on the ceramic arts, a third floor for painters, printmakers & writers, etc, and a gallery for solo & group shows and sales. Expand your abilities with advanced lessons taught on site and by inspiring each other. Communal ceramic equipment includes worktables, wedging boards, electric potters' wheels, slab roller, extruder, electric and gas kilns, and glaze mixing room. For access to the communal ceramics equipment simply drop by during our daily Open Studio hours.
For your added convenience, potters can rent a rack of shelves in the communal ceramics studio space (second floor) for $75 per month; keep your clay, personal tools and works in progress at Clay Works.
For the serious artist, we also offer semi-private and private studio spaces (second and third floors) from $150 to $300/month. These feature 24/7- access with Wi-Fi, public computer terminals, kitchenette privileges, bathrooms & shower (but not for living). Free parking with easy access to Rte. 9, 44 and 55. Close to art supply store, convenience store and restaurants.
For more information, please E-mail info@barrettartcenter.org or call 845-471-2550.
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