OUR REGION - ITS BEAUTY! ITS DEMISE?

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"From the Low Mucklands to the Highlands to the Catskills,

Art is Deeply Ingrained in our Region"

Artists and Poets of the geographic region in which we live and work really love this place. The topography varies from the low mucklands of the Black Dirt area to the Hudson Highlands and the Catskill Mountains and the many waterways from creeks, brooks, and ponds to the mighty Hudson and the raging Delaware (during thaws). A few cities have developed at key junctions in history and continue growing today with sprawl. However, even with the larger population, it’s the hamlets, villages, and towns that shape the diverse character of area. And, people love the open space, the wilderness –if not in their backyards, just a few minutes away. So, when a call went out in CANVAS and via email invitation, for Our Region ~ its Beauty! its Demise? artists and poets reacted and brought photographs, paintings, drawings, linoleum block reductions, scratchboard engraving, and collage and poets sent their poems. The concept moved one visual artist so much that she painted new works accompanied by statements and a poet wrote a work directly related to the photographs next to which it is hung. The works of forty artists and ten poets ~ 97 artworks and 22 poems, share their feelings. Interestingly, the invasives possess beauty in their own right. Industrial related demise is quietly depicted.

***Bull-Thistle-Invasive by Renelle Lorray***

***Fall Porcelain Berries, an invasive by SarahFortner***

Visual and Poetry Artworks on Display

Artists

Ciro AttardoLinda Barboni

Stacey Bartman

Naomi Berkery

Patricia Collins Broun

Lindsay Brown

Lisa DeLuise

Catherine DeMaio

Betsy Ehlers

Dennis Fanton

Sarah Fortner

Moses Fridlich

Karen E. Gersch

Bill Gould

Ann Higgins

Kate Hyden

Oluwafiropo M. Ibitoye

Denise Shelby Isseks

Jo Ann Johnson

Anne W. Kelly

John Kiersten

Renelle Lorray

Pat MacDonald

Noel Malsberg

Pam Mather-Cathy

Susan Miiller

Midge Monat

Linda Osterhout

Mary Cathryn Roth

Rhoda Ryba

Margie Saler

Mitchell Saler

Mary Mugele Sealfon

Danica Shafer

Vaune Sherin

Ann Marie Silvani

Richard Spisto

Elizabeth Sundwall

Joseph Sundwall

Rachel Williams

Renee Zernitsky

Diane Bliss

Howard Horowitz

Michael Kusen

Pam Mather-Cathy

Virginia Petzold

Nina Rubin

Anne Sandor

J.R. Solonche

Marlene Tartaglione

As the exhibit is installed and open, come view the artworks, both visual art and poetry, on display in Orange Hall Gallery, SUNY Orange. Gallery are hours are Monday -- Thursday, 8am to 8pm and Friday 8am to 5pm. The gallery will also be open on Saturday, March 7 from 6 to 8pm. A Closing Reception is scheduled on Sunday, March 15 from 2 to 4:15pm during which the duo of Bev Poyerd, pianist, and Al Ramos, bassist, will create a lively ambience.

Orange Hall Gallery is located at GPS: 24 Grandview Ave., Middletown. Parking lot #1 is adjacent to the building.

Questions may be directed to cultural@sunyorange.edu

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