The Roxbury Arts Group and the New York State Council on the Arts announced the 2024 grantees of the Delaware County Arts Grants. This regrant program, which supports individual artists, creative learning, and community arts grants, is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The 2024 awardees are:
• The Hancock Community Education Foundation will offer a three-day workshop for 60 after-school program students in grades K-9 on Glass Mosaic Creation, taught by artist Emily Jablon.
• Arts Inn Collective presents the third annual H&R Vaudeville Variety Show featuring world music, local bands, theater, spoken word and more, Sunday, May 26, from 2:30-10:30 p.m. in Fleischmanns.
• Mountain Madness will present a free immersive theatrical event at Kirkside Park in Roxbury on Saturday, Aug. 3 at 6 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 4 at 2 p.m.
• The Colchester Historical Society will offer a Fun Family Event featuring the creation of historical games and crafts Saturday, Sept. 21 from 1-4 p.m. at the Shinhopple Memorial Center, Shinhopple.
• Pillow Fort Arts Center will offer a free series of meditational movement improvisations with NYC-based dance/performance collective Birdhouse Sunday, June 30 from 12-2 p.m. at Bushel Collective, followed by daily open rehearsals throughout the week from 9-11 a.m. at and a work-in-progress showing Saturday, July 6 at 1 p.m. at Pillow Fort Arts Center.
• Tritown Theatres will show a live musical performance of “Beauty and the Beast” featuring local, non-professional adult and child actors with a full, professional orchestra.
• Isabella Amstrup will lead a community Weaving Club at Bushel Collective from 2 to 5 p.m. June 15, June 29, July 13, July 27, Aug. 10, Aug. 24, Sept. 14, and Sept. 28 (this Saturday will be 10 a.m.-1 p.m.). There will be a culminating final exhibition on display from Sept. 27 through 30 at Bushel Collective that will engage the community in the exploration of weaving as practice.
• Ethan Fox will offer a series of free world drumming classes for the students of Roxbury Central Schools.
• Anna Sea will be showing a large, hand-built, hand-painted ceramics tile mural at the Stagecoach Run Art Festival July 6 and 7, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. both days, at her studio in the Franklin Guest House.
• Gloaming Project presents The Ballad Tree at Kirkside Park Pavilion in Roxbury Aug. 16 and 17 at 6:30 p.m. and Aug. 18 at 4 p.m. Inspired by Appalachian ballads - old English, Scottish, and Irish folk songs carried over to early North America - the ballads are presented through live music, song, dance, and puppetry.
• Catskills Old-time Music in the Mountains will host a series of monthly open jams at Wayside Cider taproom in Andes, starting Sunday, May 26 from 3-4:30 p.m. They are open to any stringed instrument players of any level wanting to play with others in a fun, inclusive atmosphere. The jam will start with a 30 minute workshop followed by a one-hour facilitated jam session.
• Rianna Pauline Starheim and her grandmother, Ruth Rose Many, will co-create artwork centered on intergenerational healing and their caregiving of each other. On Dec. 23, they will have an open house at their home to showcase the photos and essays created, along with other pieces of art created by their family.
• Peter Kleeman’s Space Age Museum project will present a free exhibition in the Galli Curci Theater on Main Street, Margaretville. The exhibit will run May 31–July 9, open five weekends (noon to 4 p.m.) and by appointment weekdays. See 30+ human-size robot sculptures built between the 1930s and 1990s, showcasing the cultural history of the Space Age.
• The Hobart Rotary Club will present an afternoon and evening of free jazz, rock, and blues at the 2024 Sausage and Brew Festival.
• The annual Open Studios Tour, hosted by AMR Artists, July 26-28 opens the door for visitors to explore the personal spaces and processes of established and emerging artists through a self-driving tour of Delaware County.
• Emma Apicelli, in partnership with Land of Strangers, will offer three low-cost workshops on zine history and creation. A workshop for ages 10-17 will be held Saturday, June 29 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and one for ages 18+ on will be held June 30 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. An exhibition of the finished works will be held July 6 from 3-5 p.m. Workshops and the exhibition will be held at the Carriage House in Stamford.
• In two workshops, Tabitha Gilmore-Barnes will guide 24 attendees through the excitement of dyeing locally sourced wools, using toxic-free jacquard acid dyes and indigo dye kit, at Birdsong Community Garden. The workshops will be held Sept. 13 and 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain dates: Sept. 15 and 22.
• The Book of Awe Project by Kathleen Sweeney will entail a limited edition photo book, book launch and interdisciplinary arts exhibition at Diamond Hollow Books, Andes, in Spring 2024.
• ArtUp will collaborate with artist Gary Mayer to create a mural of various locales and points of interest in Margaretville for Zada’s on Main Street (and publication online), including hosting a community input session on the design at the ArtUp Gallery Saturday, May 4 from 12-4 p.m. and an unveiling celebration at Zada’s Memorial Day, May 27 at 3 p.m.
• GG Stankiewicz will present Ecoscape, new paintings and works on artist-made paper inspired by the native plants and fungi living in the Delaware County landscape. It will be on view Oct. 5-Nov. 30 at the Sidney Memorial Public Library, with an opening reception Saturday, Oct. 5, from 1-3 p.m. and closing reception with an artist talk Saturday, Nov. 30, 1-3 p.m.
• “Folk Art in Fiber,” Catskills Folk Connection’s biennial traditional arts exhibit, with demonstrations and a workshop series, offers a display of works by traditional Delaware County quilters, weavers, spinners, and needle workers, from Oct. 18 through Nov. 24 at the Delaware County Historical Association in Delhi.
• Maintenance of the Species (MotS) is a publication/zine that will explore life in Delaware County through the lens of caretaking (broadly and creatively defined). The publication will be edited by Iris Cushing and Alexandra Egan and feature the work of Delaware County-based artists and writer. It will be available at Delhi’s Bushel Collective and other local retailers in the summer and late fall.
• Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, sole proprietor of Plant Pioneers will be expediting four types of art methods that pick-up plant frequencies as relatable impressions. She will follow both farmer and plant over a period of five months photographing, recording and documenting these four techniques and Lady Cannabis’ response to the farmers’ decision-making activities. Delaware County farmers will be able to experience this work Aug. 3 as there will be a special opening. A one-week exhibit will be screened at The Bushel Collective in Delhi Nov. 9 to Nov. 17, with a three-hour workshop to learn the process opening night, Nov. 9, 6-9 p.m.
• Amy Masters will be developing and creating a new body of painting work based on the concepts of House, Home, Shelter And Community shown in 1053 Gallery, Fleischmann’s, accompanied by an artist talk during the exhibit.
• Amy Randall will present ‘Knot Hollow - Good choices make lousy stories’, a one-hour monologue about farming, friendship, and finding common ground, on Aug. 10 at Birdsong Farms, Hamden.
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