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BREAD ALONE: ORGANIC BREADS & FINE BAKED GOODS SINCE 1983
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In 1983, Dan Leader and friends built Bread Alone’s first oven and began to sell organic bread from the back of the family car. Today, with several locations in the Catskills and Hudson Valley, and distribution throughout the region, this vibrant Ulster County business is a leader among artisan bakeries. A 196 KW solar array on the roof of their Kingston HQ ensures at least 30% of their power comes from the sun.
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FRONT MATTER 12 On the Cover 16 Esteemed Reader 19 Editor’s Note 20 Letters to the Editor 22 Donna Minkowitz’ Natural Selection 27 Big Idea
FOOD & DRINK 29 Yeast of Eden Follow food writer Peter Barrett’s lead, and craft your own seasonal sodas and meads.
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HOME & GARDEN 42 Adopt + Adapt Adaptive reuse gives buildings a new lease on life.
49 At the Heart of the Universe A peak inside the handbuilt home and temple of a musician and a Daoist priest and their kids.
59 Where the Wild Things Grow In Tannersville, Mountain Top Arboretum offers a safe-haven for native flora and its admirers.
HEALTH & WELLNESS 62 Print Me An Organ Transplant-ready 3D-printed organs are closer to being a reality than you might think.
OUTDOORS 66 Peaks Like Woolly Mammoths
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features 81 the state of sex ed
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Only 24 states plus Washington, DC, require medically accurate sex education be taught in public schools: New York is not one of them. So what are kids learning?
In this essay, Lisa Mullenneaux reflects on the enchanting beauty and danger of the Catskills.
COMMUNITY PAGES 68 Woodstock Since the turn of the 20th century, Woodstock has hummed as a thriving center of art, culture, commerce, and community.
HOROSCOPES 124 No Business Like Show Business Lorelai Kude scans the skies and plots our horoscopes for August.
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The creator of “Lumpland,” artist Emily Ritz explores self-love and healing through ceramics, work on paper, and music.
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Michael Lang, cocreator of the historic 1969 Woodstock Festival, reflects on its legacy 50 years out.
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Tony Orrico performs at Hudson Eye Festival. Read our preview of the inaugural festival on page 113. Photo by Jakub Wittchen
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111 Shakespeare meets Americana in a Doo-Wop “Much Ado About Nothing” at Boscobel.
From an account of economics, family, and race in New Orleans to an exploration of the ways art and religion intersect, here are seven short book reviews for August reading.
105 Music Album reviews of Stumbler’s Business by Kendl Winter; Ornettiquete by Chris Pasin; Jim Sande’s Silver and Pagliacci; and Twelve Pieces for Solo Piano by Eric Starr and Michelle Alvarado.
106 Poetry Poems by D.C.G., Colleen Geraghty, Michael Glassman, Sandra Kolankiewicz, Laura Rock Kopczak, Christopher Porpora, Genevieve Schmidt, George J. Searles, William Teets, Meagan Towler. Edited by Philip X Levine.
113 The Hudson Eye festival brings a hyperlocal focus to multidisciplinary community programming. 115 Bridgman/Packer Dance incorporates video in their work, coming to PS21 in Chatam. 117 Brooklyn’s The TEAM theatre ensemble wrestles with intersectional identities in Gone With The Wind at LUMBERYARD. 119 A gallery guide for August. 123 Six live music shows to pencil in this month, from Tal National to the Fugs.
128 Parting Shot Feminist, Millennial, and utterly unapologetic, artist Angela Alba tackles bodies, hair, and gender in her surreal found-object sculptures.
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on the cover alt cover Norman Rockwell, The Puzzling Case of Richard Nixon (Portrait of Richard M. Nixon), oil on canvas, 1967. Story illustration for the March 5, 1968 issue of Look magazine.
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Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. walks on the surface of the moon, July 20, 1969. NEIL ARMSTRONG Courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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the historic Woodstock Festival poster. Our cover photo, taken by Armstrong of his crewmate Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon, is a highlight of the exhibition as is Rockwell’s own illustration of the early moon steps, The Final Impossibility: Man’s Tracks on the Moon. The museum, as it happens, is also celebrating its 50th anniversary. Besides hippies dancing in the rain and astronauts literally bouncing in the moondust, lots of other things were happening in 1969 and illustrators were on it. The Vietnam War continued with newly elected President Nixon now at the helm. Chwast’s woodcut of Uncle Sam entitled End Bad Breath screams with the outrage many felt. Rockwell himself was trying to unravel The Puzzling Case of Richard Nixon in an illustration for the magazine Look (see the alt cover above). The variety of illustrational styles brought to bear on the pressing issues of the day, and represented in this exhibition, speak to the volatile emotions at play back then. Even seemingly innocuous genres like comic books were being reinvented by artists such as R.Crumb who often portrayed aspects of the human psyche that were uncomfortable for many. Elsewhere in the show, illustration for the entertainment industry (which was quite separate from the news industry back in the day) is highlighted. Illustrations created for the
music industry still proliferated on album covers and concert posters and many examples are on view at the Rockwell Museum, including a rare watercolor by Yellow Submarine artist Heinz Edelman, for the film’s release in Italy. The exhibition references the changes taking place in the world of children in 1969 as well. A little game changer of a TV show debuted called “Sesame Street,” where all kinds of folks lived in the same neighborhood, grouches popped out of garbage cans, and vampires taught counting, hah, hah, hah! “Woodstock to the Moon” also touches upon the fact that a segment of the parent population protested pervasive violence in children’s cartoons like the “Looney Toons,” which led Hanna-Barbera Productions to develop “Scooby-Doo.” All this is covered in a digital compilation of moving images from 1969, including television clips highlighting Vietnam, the Mets versus Orioles World Series, celebrity interviews, concert footage, film trailers, the moon landing, and Woodstock. Criss-crossing the popular media of the time, “Woodstock to the Moon” is an eye-opening place to land if you are seeking insights into the “long strange trip” that was 1969. —Carl Van Brunt “Woodstock to the Moon” is on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts through October 27. Nrm.org
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: The tenor of the public discourse, so rife with vitriol, polemics, and contradictions exerts a continuous draw on attention and the temptation to get swirled into an omnipresent vortex of negativity. In my view, this is the beginning of the kind of mass psychosis that tends to precede violent upheavals in society. How does a person inwardly strive for presence and impartiality in front of budding and blooming disequilibrium leading to the deterioration and collapse of a society that has, hitherto in our lifetime, been livable if not comfortable? Around the time of my birth, numerous spiritual teachers and thoughtful academics were expressing much the same message: the current social and economic structures of human life are not sustainable for the earth nor for maintaining a basic let alone abundant human society. The unsustainable system, these teachers said, is bound to fail, and we need to begin to coalesce authentic communities based on perennial principles. One of the teachers from what could be called the “New Axial Age” of the end of the 20th century was an English polymath named John Bennett. He formulated the problem and pointed to a solution in a private meeting with a group of students in London in 1972: “The problem in front of us all is how to live in a world that is being increasingly dominated by negative forces; how to become possible channels for transmission of positive forces. How not to get oneself caught into the stream of negativity. It seems easy enough to decide in one’s own mind that this is what one wants to do and intends to do, but it is necessary to stop and ask oneself whether we are capable of making the decision to put aside, with every means available to us, negative attitudes in our thoughts and in our speech and in our behavior towards other people.” I am humbled in the face of an admonition such as the above, suggesting the possibility of putting away all negative attitudes toward others. Despite efforts to be inwardly clean, I see the frequency with which negativity leaks into my thoughts, emotions, words, and deeds. I see that I react to both people near to me—people that I love—as well as to public figures and events in the news. To become really cleansed of negativity seems like a bodhisattva vow, something ideal but impossible. Some of the events in the life of John Bennett come to mind. I recall how his teacher, Peter Ouspensky, suggested that Bennett and other students attempt to work with the Orthodox practice of perpetual Prayer of the Heart. With application, Bennett became able to recite The Lord’s Prayer continuously and simultaneously in English, Greek, and Latin, even in the midst of a busy outer life. Bennett had superpowers of intention, effort, and attention. He was a giant of inner work. As a mere mortal, I wonder, how could I approach this task? In answer, I recall that Bennett further suggested that we are not in this evolutionary inner work alone. There are forces, intelligences, he said, that are involved with genuine human progress. This evolution is a development of being, growing a vessel or soul that is able to contain reactions and transmute poison into nectar. Help, Bennett said, is available to those guided by conscience, the inner compass that allows human beings to see and respond to what is true. The forces involved with human evolution are always available to help. To receive this one needs a balance of active work on oneself and receptivity to help and guidance from beyond (or from deep within) oneself. This is expressed in the Arab proverb “Trust in Allah but tether your camel,” or “[The Totality] helps him who helps himself.” Bennett concluded his teaching with this formulation of the task for those who wish to work for a positive future for humanity: “To replace all negative attitudes towards the existing world by a feeling of confidence and love towards the new world which is being born, towards the still unborn child that is the future mankind, to arouse in oneself constantly this love of the future humanity. Every time one observes in oneself some kind of negative attitude, to take this as the reminder that we human beings live on this Earth in order to serve and particularly to serve the future and to serve with love, with hope, with confidence that it is possible for humankind to be born again.” —Jason Stern
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his past Sunday evening, I returned home filthy, smelly, and exceedingly contented. In the humid night air, sweat dripped off my nose as I schlepped camping gear up the stairs to my new apartment, unpacking my car from a weekend trip to paradise—Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival. The first time I went to Grey Fox three years ago, I arrived with a nervous jitter stoked by several cups of gas station coffee and rave reviews from my friends, with little knowledge of bluegrass beyond the Alison Krauss and Union Station CD I had lifted off my older sister a decade earlier. The trip to get there—through rolling hills, past cattle fields and the Irish bungalow colonies of Greene County—felt like a pilgrimage. In the weeks leading up, I remember being regaled with feel-good stories of idyllic fields, cool brooks, happy faces, and dueling fiddles, but when I first pulled up that muggy day in July 2017, past the chill county cops and over a small bridge, the first thing I saw was a sea of camper vans and RVs spreading out as far as the eye could see. The buzz of generators filled the air like the roar of a million gas-powered cicadas. My heart sank. Where was my promised Eden of twang? (I later learned this area is redeemingly called Generatorville.) My partner and I rolled up to the checkin booth and reluctantly purchased our festival passes from the cherub-cheeked volunteer, who cheerfully told us to continue driving up the hill to reach the High Meadow camping area, where our friends awaited. “Happy Grey Fox!” he wished us as we rolled away. We drove on, past school buses and happy, muddy, barefooted revelers, reaching a rise where suddenly the whole festival was visible below us. A pole tent stage faced a makeshift amphitheater made up of camping chairs surrounded by a halo of sunshades. Beyond that, a Hooverville grid of tents of all sizes and shapes. Tents rigged in trees, tents made out of massive old billboard banners, tents with fully stocked prep kitchens, tents with kiddie pools out front and hammocks out back. Unloading, we were aided by helpful strangers, who departed when the work was done with a wave and a smile. On our way to the woods, people offered us cold beers out of their coolers and squealing kids criss-crossed our path with bubble wands. What was this magical place? In the forest, we found our friends clustered around a stone table
playing cards and twiddling on the guitar. Tents, laundry lines, coolers, and fairy lights dotted the sylvan hillside. We had made it. Later that night, after setting up camp and getting a ceremonial creek baptism, I saw baby-faced Billy Strings on stage for the first time, and in that moment it felt like he was picking the tune to my soul. I watched in awe as 70-year-old women danced with skirts hitched high and dads bounced piggy-backing kids to the rhythm. After the show ended, the crowd cleared out leaving an arena of empty seats. “What’s the deal with the lawn chairs,” I asked a friend. “Everyone sets them up on the first day, and anyone can use them all weekend. The only rule is that if the owner comes back, you have to give it up,” I was told—my first hint to the unwritten code of Grey Fox. All weekend, I observed the scene unfolding before me, gleaning an understanding of the heart of the festival. I saw lost items tied up on tent poles. Groups of children playing on the hillside for tips and a chance at fame. Neighbors loaning a hand to tie down a fly-away tent or sending over plates of food unprompted. Established groups adopting solo festival-goers. Families combining forces to tackle childcare. I paid for a blooming onion in Funny Money (no dollars at Grey Fox). I listened as the Ice Man toured the fields in his truck, droning over the megaphone—the clarion call of survival in the hot summer sun. And I quickly decided this was utopia—a multigenerational, modern-day, trust-based community founded on the ever-wholesome
principle of good ol’ fashioned Appalachian mountain music. This year, pulling up to Walsh Farm, I felt like I was coming home. A vortex of positivity swirled around me as I drove in. My friends happened to be dancing right by the road as I drove in and gleefully unloaded my gear. I moved through the temporary landscape as if in a dream, joyfully reencountering Grey Fox friends from years past, whose names I may have forgotten but whose faces were burned forever in my mind, forged in a fire of good times and good intentions. With a couple of festivals under my belt, it was my turn to be the ambassador inviting newbies into the culture of Grey Fox as they flocked to our ever-growing ranks. I spent the weekend striving to model the ethos of inclusivity, trust, and fun that sets the festival apart. I’ve come to think of Grey Fox as an alternative model to our current world—a sweet, self-contained social experiment (punctuated by world-class performances). Packing up camp on Sunday in the bittersweet come-down, it dawned on me that I had an open invitation to carry this state back with me into my “real life” and to create a small microcosm of paradise wherever I go. It won’t be easy amidst the stress and isolating mundanity of daily life—paying bills with decidedly un-funny money, stressful phone meetings, and evergrowing to-do lists—but bolstered by a big dose of bluegrass and the support of few fellow Foxers, I’m feeling up to the task. 8/19 CHRONOGRAM 19
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hiking trails, river walks, and community gardens to public lands retained to provide the kind of beautiful, safe, affordable housing where people can see trees and vegetables out their window and mountains in the background without peeling paint, and art or trails or food (or all three) nearby. Where they feel clean air when they open their windows and can be confident that their homes won’t be sold off to speculators who will ultimately make them leave. In fact, the fight against gentrification is just as important for the purpose of keeping us all connected to our root as the fight to protect wild green spaces. Both are threatened by kowtowing to the pursuit of profit. A full one-third of us in the Hudson Valley are renters—I’m one—and we have the right to the same access to the lifegiving views of the mountains as a billionaire with the deeds to half of Peekskill. The truth is that this land really is our land, as Woody Guthrie sang, and it belongs to all of us who live here. What this means is that we need to collectively steward, nurture, and direct the entire body of land in the Hudson Valley for the public good. “The public good” is itself a notion that long ago dropped out of our nation’s mainstream political conversation, but it’s time to revive it, even if it means embracing that hot potato concept turned into a baseball bat by Republicans: “socialism.” We need to use our power as citizens to speak up against construction that’s not in the public interest, cap residential and commercial rents, and force governments to plan our towns for the benefit of all of us—parkgoers, playground users, small business owners, parents, workers, people who walk, seniors who rely on the community centers, people who take the bus because they can’t afford a car. I live in Beacon, where nearly everywhere I walk, I can see the muscular shoulder of Fishkill Ridge curling around our town like some kind of beautiful animal. Yet Beacon, like the rest of the Hudson Valley, is increasingly being priced out of the reach of people like me—and anyone who earns less than me—as developers have their way with our city. The new buildings have only a tiny amount of affordable housing, and small businesses throughout the city have repeatedly been forced to close as building owners jack up the rents. Dan Aymar-Blair, the Democrat running for an open City Council seat in Beacon, is calling for the city to steward both the lands it owns and every lot whose policies it has a say in, so that all residents can bask in the psychic riches of the gorgeous landscape around us while remaining in Beacon. I’m with him. This land is our land, and the time to fight for it is now.
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BIG IDEA CONOCER SUS DERECHOS Ante un encuentro con ICE, el servicio de inmigración y aduanas Cada vez que nuestro presidente anuncia posibles redadas o allanamientos de ICE (el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de los Estados Unidos, por sus siglas en inglés), comienzan a correr rumores y pánico entre nuestras comunidades inmigrantes del Valle del Hudson. Lo más importante es mantener la calma y conocer sus derechos en caso de una visita inesperada de ICE. Aquí una breve guía informativa.
1. En primer lugar, es sumamente importante mantener la calma. No simplemente ante una visita de ICE, sino también con cualquier otro tipo de redadas. Hay muchos rumores en las redes sociales y no todos son ciertos. Recientemente se pospusieron redadas en más de diez ciudades metropolitanas de los EE.UU. No porque usted sea inmigrante quiere decir que va a ser parte de una redada. 2. Asegúrese de que ICE
tenga derecho a entrar a su casa. Es mejor hablar con ellos a través de la puerta, ya que usted puede denegar el acceso a los oficiales a no ser que tengan una orden de allanamiento o de arresto firmada por un juez. En el caso de que tengan una orden de deportación, usted aún puede denegar acceso a su hogar ya que esta no da permiso a ningún oficial a entrar a su casa sin su consentimiento. Pida que le pasen los papeles por debajo de la puerta en lo posible y verifique que la
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información esté correcta (como su dirección, su nombre, etc.). En el caso de una orden de arresto, la persona indicada en la orden tiene que estar presente en la casa para que los oficiales tengan permiso de entrar sin su consentimiento. En el caso de una orden de allanamiento, la dirección o el área debe ser correcta.
3. En el caso de que las
autoridades entren a su casa de forma forzosa, no se resista. Si usted es arrestado permanezca en silencio y pida hablar con un abogado. Anote toda la información y un cronograma de lo ocurrido para poder utilizar la información en la corte.
7. En cuanto a papeles.
Mantenga copias de todos sus documentos legales con un familiar o amigo cercano. Nunca provea documentos falsos. En el caso de que tenga la posibilidad de presentar una forma de identificación estadounidense (licencia de conducir del estado, tarjeta de la biblioteca, carné estudiantil) es preferible, ya que un pasaporte inmediatamente atrae atención al hecho que usted es extranjero y esto puede ser utilizado como evidencia en la corte. En caso de que usted sea arrestado, estos documentos pueden ayudar a localizarlo y a tramitar su liberación.
8. Grabe y documente la
ICE tenga una orden de allanamiento (Search Warrant) o una orden de arresto (Arrest Warrant), asegúrese de que los datos estén correctos, mantenga la calma y déjelos entrar. Recuerde que bajo los Miranda Rights, es su derecho permanecer en silencio y pedir hablar con un abogado o representante legal. Usted no tiene que contestar ninguna pregunta que le haga el ICE.
redada. Hágalo con calma e informe a los oficiales que es lo que usted está haciendo antes de sacar su celular. En el caso de que usted crea que han violado sus derechos, consiga la mayor cantidad de información sobre los oficiales posible: sus nombres, número de sus placas, y número de licencia de los vehículos utilizados. Estos usted los puede reportar al siguiente numero: (844) 363-1423 y recibir asistencia.
5. En el caso que decida
9. En el caso de que usted
4. En el caso de que
hablar con ICE o esté obligado, recuerde que todo lo que diga puede ser usado en su contra. ¡No mienta! Cualquier información que usted de al gobierno de los Estados Unidos va a ser comprobada y verificada. Si decide hablar, diga la verdad y no mienta sobre cuál es su estado de inmigrante.
6. ¡No firme ningún
papel sin hablar con un representante legal! Usted tiene derecho a consultar con un abogado en todos los estados del país, así que no haga ninguna clase de compromiso sin anteriormente estar enterado de su situación y las leyes al respecto.
sea arrestado, permanezca en silencio y pida hablar con un abogado. Si bien usted tiene el derecho a consultar con un abogado, el estado no tiene que proveerle uno. Pero si tiene que darle acceso a opciones gratuitas y de bajo costo. Usted tiene derecho a una llamada telefónica en caso de arresto. Si usted llama a un abogado, las autoridades no tienen derecho a estar presentes y escuchar o grabar su llamada. Debe ser totalmente confidencial.
10. Si usted tiene miedo
de ser torturado, ser perseguido políticamente, o corre cualquier clase de peligro inminente en su país de origen, mencione esto a las autoridades y
by La Voz contacte a un abogado inmediatamente. Tiene derechos adicionales en este caso.
¿Qué pueden hacer los ciudadanos estadounidenses? Si usted es ciudadano de los Estados Unidos: 1. ¡No se quede callado! Si ve que están pidiendo documentos en el tren, en el bus, en la calle, actúe. Pregunte a los oficiales qué están buscando, a quién, y por qué. Como ciudadano usted tiene derecho a estas preguntas. 2. Documente cualquier
interacción con ICE. Usted tiene derecho a estar presente y documentar cualquier intervención si es ciudadano de los Estados Unidos en el caso que algún familiar sea arrestado. Si ICE le pide que se aleje del predio o que pare, es mejor seguir sus directivas ya que pueden confiscar su cámara.
3. Si ve barreras impuestas por ICE, pregunte por qué están parando, qué están investigando, y a quién están buscando.
4. Si ve que ICE está
pidiendo documentación en un tren u otro medio de transporte, niegue acceso a sus documentos. Pregunte por qué están ahí en primer lugar y póngase como muralla entre ICE y los inmigrantes indocumentados.
5. Si usted ve que alguien está siendo arrestado, pregunte por qué esa persona está siendo arrestada y a dónde va a ser trasladada.
6. Anote toda la
información que pueda. Anote números de placas, nombres, número de licencia de los vehículos etc. Todo esto puede ayudar en la corte en el caso de
que haya sospecha de que los derechos del afectado hayan sido violados.
7. Si usted tiene familiares en riesgo, haga copia de todos sus documentos y guárdelos en un lugar seguro. Todo esto puede servir en una situación legal.
8. Organice grupos
de apoyo dentro de su comunidad. Estos pueden servir para hacer vigilias y protestas ante las oficinas de ICE. También pueden preparar recursos para inmigrantes ya sea asistencia legal, o para ayudar y apoyar a las familias después de una redada. Si bien estos pueden ser tiempos perturbadores para los inmigrantes que vinieron con esperanzas a un país construido por inmigrantes, es importante comportarse de forma racional ante las autoridades, saber nuestros derechos, y documentar todo lo ocurrido.
LA GRAN IDEA KNOW YOUR RIGHTS In the Case of an Encounter with ICE, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Every time our president announces possible raids or search warrants by ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), rumors start circulating and panic rises in our immigrant communities in the Hudson Valley. In the case of an unexpected visit from ICE, the most important thing is to stay calm and know your rights. Here is a short informative guide.
1. First, it is extremely
important to stay calm. Not just during an ICE visit, but also during any other kind of raid. There are a lot of rumors on social media and they’re not all true. Recently, they postponed raids in more than 10 metropolitan cities in the US. Just because you are an immigrant, doesn’t mean that you are going to be part of a raid.
2. Make sure ICE has the
right to enter your home. It is better to speak to them through the door since you can deny the officer access if they don’t have a search or arrest warrant signed by a judge. In the event of a deportation order, you can still deny them access to your home, as this order does not give any officer permission to enter your house without your consent. Ask them to pass you the papers under the door, when possible, and verify that the information is correct (like your address, your name, etc.). In the case of an arrest warrant, the person on the warrant needs to be present in the house for the officers to have permission to enter without your consent. In the case of a search warrant, the address or the neighborhood needs to be correct.
3. In the event of a forced entry, don’t resist. If you are arrested, remain silent and ask to speak with a lawyer. Write down everything and make a timeline of everything that happened so you can use the information in court.
your rights, get as much information as you can about the officers: name, badge number, license plate number. You can report these to the following number and receive assistance: (844) 363-1423.
4. If ICE has a search
9. If you have been
warrant or an arrest warrant, make sure that the information is correct, stay calm, and let them in. Remember that under the Miranda Rights, it is your right to remain silent and ask to speak with a lawyer or a legal representative. You don’t have to answer a single question ICE asks you.
5. If you decide to speak
with ICE or you are required to do so, remember that everything you say can be used against you. Don’t lie! Any information that you give to the United States government will be checked and verified. If you decide to speak, speak the truth, and don’t lie about your immigration status.
6. Don’t sign any papers
without speaking to a legal representative. You have the right to consult a lawyer in every state in the country, so don’t make any type of agreement without understanding your situation and the relevant laws.
7. With regard to your
papers, keep copies of all your legal documents with a family member or close friend. Never provide false documents. If you have an opportunity to present an American form of identification (state driver’s license, library card, student ID) it is preferable, because a passport immediately draws attention to the fact that you are a foreigner and this can be used as evidence in court. If you are arrested, these documents can help locate you and process your release.
8. Record and document
the raid. Do it calmly and inform the officers what you are doing before you take out your cell phone. If you believe they have violated
arrested, remain silent and ask to speak with a lawyer. Even if you are entitled to speak with a lawyer, the state is not required to provide one. But, they do have to provide a free or low-cost option. You have the right to one phone call if you are arrested. If you call a lawyer, the authorities do not have the right to be present, listen, or record your phone call. It should be completely confidential.
10. If you are scared of
being tortured, politically persecuted, or you run the risk of any type of imminent danger in your country of origin, mention this to the authorities and contact a lawyer immediately. You have additional rights in this case.
What can American citizens do? If you are an American citizen: 1. Don’t stay quiet! If you
see that officers are asking for documents on the train, on the bus, or in the street, act. Ask the officers what they are looking for, who they are looking for, and why. As a citizen, you have the right to ask these questions.
2. Document any
interaction with ICE. You have the right to be present and document any intervention if you are a US citizen if a relative of yours is being arrested.
3. If you see ICE barricades, ask why they are stopping, what they are investigating, and who they are looking for. 4. If you see that ICE is
asking for documentation on the bus or another form of transportation, deny access to your documents. Ask why there are there in the first place, and position yourself as a barrier between ICE and the undocumented immigrants.
5. If you see someone being arrested, ask why that person is being arrested and where they will be taken to. 6. Write down all the information you can. Take down badge numbers, names, license plates, etc. All of this can be used in a court if there is a suspicion of a human rights violation. 7. If you have family
members at risk, make a copy of all their documents and keep them in a safe place. All of this can help in a legal situation.
8. Organize support groups in your community. These can help set up vigils and protests in front of ICE offices. You can also gather resources for immigrants whether that is legal assistance, or to help and support families after a raid.
While this is a turbulent time for immigrants who came with hopes to a country built by immigrants themselves, it is important to behave in a rational manner in front of the authorities, know your rights, and document everything that happens.
Para Más Información/For More Information Llame a la línea de Nuevos Americanos del Estado de Nueva York (800) 566-7636. Para emergencias, llame a la Red de Defensa de Inmigrantes del Condado de Ulster (888) 726-7276 (888-7-AMPARO). También puede llamar a Immigrant Defense Project: (212) 725-6422, una Línea de asistencia legal para inmigrantes con antecedentes penales; buscar en el localizador de Detenidos en Línea: Locator.ice.gov; o para informarse sobre próximas comparecencias en la corte de inmigración (hay que saber el número del caso) Immigration Court Information System: (800) 898-7180 Aquí encontrará un directorio de servicios legales de inmigración de organizaciones sin fines de lucro (sólo ponga su código postal): Immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/ For more information, call the New Americans of New York hotline at (800) 566-7636. For emergencies, call the Ulster County Immigrant Defence Network at (888) 726-7276 (888-7-AMPARO). You can also call the Immigrant Defence project (212) 725-6422, a legal assistance hotline for immigrants with criminal record look for a detainee locator online: locator. Ice. gov; or to learn about the next immigration court appearances ( you need to know the case number) call the Immigration Court Information System: (800) 898-7180.
Fuentes/Sources aclu.org/know-your-rights/derechos-de-los-inmigrantes afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/how-allies-can-defend-against-ice-raids informedimmigrant.com/how-to-prepare-yourself-for-an-immigration-raid mijente.net/2017/09/10/prepare-raids-new-defend-rights-materials-available ulsterimmigrantdefensenetwork.org unitedwedream.org/end weareheretostay.org/join-the-here-to-stay-network Copyright 2019, La Voz, Cultura y noticias hispanas del Valle de Hudson. Reprinted with permission.
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Taste the rainbow. Meads from left to right: peach, rose-rhubarb, grape, black currant, elderberry-yarrow.
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O MAKE YOUR OWN NATURAL SODAS & MEADS Text and photos by Peter Barrett
ur growing season spans roughly five months, and a lot happens in that short time. I do a lot of pickling and freezing to preserve the bounty from my garden, but recently I’ve been turning more of the harvest into liquids. There’s a pretty good chance that you have soda, kombucha, wine, and vinegar in your kitchen right now. You may not know that all four of these things exist on a spectrum, a continuum of fermentation, and that you can make all of them on your kitchen counter with minimal gear. In addition, you can flavor them in all manner of ways using local ingredients and save a lot of money. By steering the process at a few points you can arrive at each of the four destinations listed above, and a lot of fascinating in-between places as well. There is no lovelier way to mark and celebrate the passage of time than by drinking a progression of elixirs made from the leaves, fruits, and flowers of summer. To begin, you need a source of yeast and bacteria. These industrious beasts will transform your raw materials into whatever you desire through the alchemy of fermentation. A kombucha SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) is like a vinegar mother: a cellulose raft that forms on top of fermenting liquids. They can be bought, but they also grow readily given the right conditions. A bottle of store-bought kombucha or raw cider vinegar is a good inoculation source, but I prefer to start my own by gathering wild yeast from the plants around my house and building a robust fermentation culture—much like a sourdough starter, but for drinks—over the ensuing weeks. Depending on how and how long they’re fermented, this diverse microbial colony can create sodas, kombuchas, meads, and vinegars.
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How I Made Your Mother I begin each spring in early May by harvesting spruce tips, the bright green new needles that taste strongly of lime. They’re covered in wild yeast. I put them in a jar with a maple syrup or honey solution and let it sit on the counter, loosely lidded, for a week or two until it gets fizzy. Meanwhile, I gather a variety of early herbs and flowers from my yard and garden to begin a second jar: mint, bee balm, and anise hyssop leaves; dandelion, violet, apple, cherry, plum, and peach flowers. I add a splash of the spruce starter to this second jar, and keep doing this throughout the season; each new jar receives a bit of the previous ferment, compounding its biodiversity and vigor. By the dog days of August, it’s a frothing monster; a half pint of it will set my three-gallon carboy bubbling in less than a day. I keep the spruce separate, because I like it by itself as a drink, and then I let the remainder become vinegar. (More on this down below.) As the season progresses, each week sees a new mixture. Rhubarb juice is an excellent addition and obviously pairs beautifully with strawberries (which I just mash up and add to the jar). The beach roses outside my front door make an incredible soda on their own, and the rose-rhubarb mead I bottled last week gives new meaning to rosé. In July, the red currants and gooseberries ripen, and the sour cherries, followed by elderberries, black currants, and peaches. Summer’s end means the grapes are ready. For complexity and depth of flavor, I also add whatever herbs are happening at that moment, or sometimes just make an herbal mixture without any fruit. Yarrow and mugwort are excellent for contributing a little bitterness and structure to anything you want to age for a while. Once your starter is vigorous, there’s no limit to the ways in which you can deploy it. Tomatoes and celery (and horseradish, and hot or black pepper) can inspire Bloody Mary vibes: imagine spicy tomato kombucha with vodka on ice. Push this a little harder into savory territory (with onions and garlic) and you’re making hot sauce. Add salt at the beginning and you’re lacto-fermenting. Add it at the end, and you’re seasoning spicy vinegar or fire cider. This rabbit hole has no bottom, only intricately ramified side passages that lead to infinite variations on your favorite drinks and condiments.
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The Method My master ratio is eight-to-one water to sweetener, or one cup per half gallon. Half-gallon jars are readily available in the canning section of your local hardware store, so that’s a good volume to start with. More often than not, raw local honey provides the sugar source (plus its own dose of yeast). I like honey and maple because they’re local products, and because they have their own flavors and characters. Sugar does the job, but it’s boring. Your flavors—fruit, flowers, leaves, and such—should take up somewhere between a quarter and half of the jar. Mash, puree, or juice the fruit (depending on its nature), add herbs and flowers, and then fill it with your sweetened water. Leave some room at the top because once it begins fermenting, it will foam and push the leaves and skins up quite a ways. Don’t screw the lid on tight, since gas will need
to escape. I like to screw a mason jar ring over a folded square of cheesecloth instead of a metal lid; this allows ventilation while keeping fruit flies out. After a couple of days (sometimes a lot longer) of macerating, I strain out the skins, leaves, and flowers and let the liquid ferment in a clean jar. The Science Whether purchased or grown, your starter knows what it’s doing. Very simply: yeast turns sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Acetic acid bacteria turn alcohol into vinegar. By leaving your liquid exposed to air you’re allowing both kinds of fermentation to happen more or less simultaneously. That’s why kombucha has negligible amounts of alcohol and tastes vinegary. Leave your jar open on the counter at room temperature and taste it every couple of days, since the beauty of this process reveals
itself over the course of fermentation. In the early days, it gets a little fizzy but is still very sweet. Bottling it at this stage makes for wonderful homemade sodas, suitable for kids, and also some exciting mixological possibilities. Be aware that especially with younger ferments, pressure will continue to build in the bottles. Keep them refrigerated, and open them carefully to avoid hosing down your kitchen with fruity probiotics. For older ferments, a little more sugar or fruit juice is added before bottling, so that a secondary fermentation occurs; because this happens in a sealed container, the resulting carbon dioxide is forced into solution, carbonating the drink. Swing-top bottles (like Grolsch beer, with rubber gaskets for a tight seal) are ideal for home bottling and come in a variety of sizes. Carbonation achieved this way is delicate—a fine fizz in comparison to the brash bubbles a soda maker forces into your seltzer.
Fresh-picked red currants sit aside black currant mead from the previous year.
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Coffee kombucha gives a sweet-and-sour, almost candied boost to coffee grounds.
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Tropical Influences Ginger is a logical choice for fermenting and increasingly available from local sources. Homemade wild-fermented ginger ale will change the way you think about soda. The skin and core of a pineapple, fermented for a few days in sugar or honey water, yields tepache, a popular drink in Mexico. Try it 50/50 with coconut water. Now add some rum to that. You’re welcome. Speaking of tropical imports, and since kombucha is tea, why not use coffee? Especially coffee grounds, which most homes produce by the ton. A 24-to-48-hour infusion of a cup of used grounds (or about half that much fresh) in half a gallon of sweetened water yields a beautiful auburn decoction, which, when strained, ferments into a compellingly complex beverage. I like to pour a double shot of espresso over ice and then top it with an equal amount of coffee kombucha for a stellar summer pick-meup. (A meaningful percentage of this piece was written under the influence of this very drink.) Sweet potato and other vegetable peels, such as carrot, cucumber, and beet, are great additions as well. Keeping a ferment going on your counter means that at any given time you have the means to extract flavor and nutrition from not just beautiful fruit and flowers but also the humblest trimmings. And it’s a lot sexier than a compost bucket. Vinegar is the Vanishing Point If, say, after straining out the solids, you were to pop an airlock on your jar—and airlock lids specifically designed to fit wide mouth mason jars are easily found online—then the space up top fills with carbon dioxide, pushing out the air. Acetic acid bacteria need oxygen, so excluding it means that the alcohol remains uneaten. Now you’re making country wine, or rather mead if honey is involved (acerglyn is the cumbersome term for wines made with maple syrup as the sugar source). Besides the sodas and kombuchas, I make a variety of meads with fruit from the garden. I let these ferment for longer, until the airlock bubbling slows way down or stops altogether, and then bottle them. Any residual sugar makes them beautifully fizzy, and those examples with higher acidity (from things like gooseberries, grapes, and rhubarb, or a longer initial open fermentation) age really well. Last year’s peach mead, flavored with holy basil and foraged sassafras, is drinking beautifully a year later. Bottle-aging on the lees (yeast sediment) adds a lovely complexity. It’s not going to replace fine wine in the rotation, but it sure does make for some pleasant sipping (and killer spritzers with homemade bitters and liqueurs). And it’s worth noting that this quenching homebrew cost me about $3 a bottle to make, and that was all for the honey; the rest (fruit, herbs, and yeast) was homegrown. If any of these beverages become too sour for your taste, just let them be. Gently agitate them every now and then, and be sure to keep them covered with cloth so fruit flies can’t get in, and somewhere between six and 12 months down the road, you’ll have vinegar. Vinegar is the vanishing point, the place where all these different avenues ultimately converge—the final resting state of all these fermentations. I made a killer faux key lime pie using spruce vinegar for the curd. For a real eye-opener, try making red-eye gravy with coffee kombucha or vinegar. This ongoing collaboration with nature, which enlists all three kingdoms, engenders a deeper appreciation of the bounty that surrounds us and furnishes bright bottles for fending off the impending cold.
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n 2015, Robin Hayes was living in Gardiner and doing respite foster care for a newborn. “His sister was just two years old, so I helped the family out a lot,” she says. “I had him two to three full days a week when his foster mom worked, and I just got attached to the little guy.” For Robin, a hobby sewer, this attachment manifested in bespoke baby garments. After seeing her own son Sam’s animations, she asked for the files to print them on fabric so she could stitch them into onesies and bibs, “You know, just for fun, for this little guy,” she says. Suddenly, everywhere she went with the babe—the bank line, the post office, story time at the local library—Robin was getting compliments on his clothing. “One day, my daughter Eva was home from college and came on rounds with us,” Robin recalls. “She saw the response and said to me, ‘Let’s start a business after I graduate,’ and I was like, ‘Sure!’”
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One diploma and six months of R&D later, Lucky Bug Clothing Company was born—a labor of love and family, with Robin at the helm as CEO, her daughter Eva in charge of operations, and her son Sam as creative director and illustrator. Their guiding principles were threefold: sustainability, great working conditions, and comfort. They settled on an organic bamboo jersey fabric, which is naturally soft and stretchy— both necessary qualities for a wiggling, crawling, burping, and falling baby. Initially, they were planning to outsource all their sewing to the city, when Robin decided to tour The Accelerator, a production facility and business incubator in New Windsor. Sponsored by the Orange County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) and supported by both state and federal grants, The Accelerator offers below-market rents and a suite of support services to help new manufacturing start-ups get off the ground.
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architecture The Lace Mill in Midtown Kingston sat vacant for years before RUPCO transformed it into a complex of affordable artist housing and gallery space.
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RECLAIMING HISTORIC BUILDINGS FOR MODERN USE By Anne Pyburn Craig
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hastily scribbled graffiti tags. “Look at that brickwork! Nobody builds like that anymore.” Nobody was sure just what to do, but most agreed that it tore at their hearts when yet another venerable edifice met its date with the wrecking ball, usually replaced by mass-produced box store selling cheap sundries. Historic preservation efforts had to beg for funding, and the ones that existed often focused on saving a particular iconic building. Historic residential properties and Depression-era municipal buildings got some love, but former factories were white elephants. Those jobs were never coming back. What on earth would anyone do with that big old hulk? But time can heal communities, just as it can individuals, and you can’t keep a great town down. As the generation that had toiled in those factories passed the torch to those who’d grown up in their boarded-up shadows, people began to dream up answers to the questions their ancestors would never have imagined.
Take Two The venerable stone buildings that house offices and apartments in Kingston’s Stockade weren’t built to accommodate lawyers and insurance brokers. But it would take a visionary new breed of adaptive re-users to recognize the treasure lying carelessly in plain sight in the Hudson Valley’s river cities, and a ton of hard work and collaboration to bring fresh vibrance to downtowns that the cynics had long ago assumed were out for the count. Adaptive reuse—the process of adapting an existing structure for a purpose other than what it was originally built—has gained traction over the past two decades. “There is a tremendous amount of building stock for our generation to work with— mills, factories, churches, even homes,” says architect and adaptive reuse specialist Scott Dutton. In Newburgh, the Ritz Theatre and Hotel Newburgh, two of the most imposing structures on the east end of Broadway, were built as late 19th-century factory and retail
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The Lace Mill at dusk. Photo by David Miller
spaces and had their first brush with adaptive reuse in 1913, when they were transformed into the Cohen Opera House and Hotel. Names and ownership would change, but the landmarks at Liberty and Broadway remained a theater and hotel throughout the 20th century. By its end, the theater that had helped launch Lucille Ball and Frank Sinatra’s careers had become a defunct moviehouse and the once-proud Hotel Newburgh a truly scary place. Enter Tricia Haggerty-Wenz, a social work student doing fieldwork, whose sister-in-law had helped to create Common Ground (now Breaking Ground) in Times Square, turning the dilapidated and dangerous Times Square Hotel into supportive housing, based on a model she’d witnessed in Northern Ireland. Her sister-in-law wasn’t in the market, but she acknowledged the potential of the building. Dogged, Haggerty-Wenz kept going back, even after a rat fell from the ceiling onto the head of a man standing beside her, and eventually dropping out of college to form a dedicated nonprofit to buy and refurbish the property. “I just had this idea, and it didn’t occur to me that I couldn’t
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do it,” Haggerty-Wenz told Chronogram in 2008. By that time, Safe Harbors of the Hudson, as she christened her nonprofit, had transformed the 13,000-square-foot-hotel into The Cornerstone, a 128-unit supportive housing residence with artists’ lofts and a gallery. The neighboring theater, still a work in progress, has already hosted performances by Grammy and Emmy winners in its handsomely refurbished lobby. Safe Harbors has since partnered with the Rural Ulster Preservation Coalition (RUPCO) to create the 45-unit East End Apartments, a scattered-site project with income restrictions and units set aside for homeless youth, veterans, and artists, built to the same exacting standards of quality, livability, and convenience as the Cornerstone. And adaptive reuse has taken serious hold across Newburgh, arguably the city that needed it most of all. Atlas Industries, Regal Bag Studios, The Wherehouse, and the West Shore Station are but a few examples that come to mind. The Newburgh Armory Unity Center, created after visionary philanthropist Bill Kaplan
convinced New York State to sell him the defunct government property for $1, offers an eclectic and robust menu of free athletic, educational, and civic programming for all ages, and is used by hundreds of people a week, helping to build confidence and job skills for the next generation. Thornwillow Press founder and CEO Luke Ives Pontifell is in the process of adapting and reusing an entire industrial block of the city into Thornwillow Makers’ Village. Artists and makers are a key element in adaptive reuse projects all over the Hudson Valley. It turns out that the high ceilings, open floor plans, and generous windows of old factories are ideal for making and displaying art, while the solid construction and architectural detail preserved from bygone days make creative hearts beat faster on general principal. “Culturally, we are craving some connection to something that is more tangible, to history. Everything else in our society seems so fleeting,” says Dutton. “We are craving longevity, permanence, and quality, and that is what you find with older buildings—they feel real and solid.”
Neighborhood Catalyst One of the groundbreaking conversions of this type is still one of the highest-profile: the creation of Beacon’s world class museum, Dia from a former Nabisco box-printing factory, which established Beacon as an upand-coming arts destination and rescued the city from economic oblivion. Project architect Aryeh Siegel has gone on to reimagine much of Beacon’s Main Street, including the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls (a former mill building) and a slew of other places. Some analysts see a connection between an influx of artists and gentrification. It’s a question that Guy Kempe, RUPCO’s Vice President of Community Development, confronts on a regular basis; in Kingston, RUPCO has transformed the 1903 US Lace Curtain Mill into dedicated moderate-income artists’ apartments and gallery spaces. Adaptive reuse, Kempe points out, may make neighborhoods more desirable but by definition doesn’t displace residents. “That building had been vacant for 30 years,” he points out. “We think that it’s the right thing to put it back into service and invest in the cultural economy and help build the community. One of the first things we do on
any project is what we call 'asset mapping': The Lace Mill project started with walking around that neighborhood looking at vacant commercial spaces and at other investments, and within a block, a group of arts-related businesses, several with international reputations, all with considerable investment in the cultural economy. So Kingston had already been identified as great for artists, who are often underserved in terms of housing. We saw the Lace Mill as an opportunity to preserve affordability for artists 50 years into the future.” Dutton, who was the lead architect on the Lace Mill project, recalls, “A very short time after that project finished, the character of the neighborhood changed and attitudes about Midtown Kingston changed with it. The Lace Mill is now a thriving cultural center and a strong bookend to transformational change that is taking place throughout the neighborhood. What was once a signal to keep driving, is now a destination and a beacon for the community.” Besides the Lace Mill, developer Mike Piazza has converted the Shirt Factory, Brush Factory, and Pajama Factory, along with several other properties, into mixed-
use live/work spaces marketed to artists. The sleek website, Artistworkspace.com, is clearly marketing to those who can rent at market rate. Yet digging a little deeper uncovers the close connection between Piazza’s Crossfield Management and the creation of the Midtown Arts District (MAD) organization, a nonprofit that, in turn, partners with the Kingston Library and the YMCA to provide arts education and employment opportunities for local youth. The upside for artists is obvious. “We needed more fabrication space than we could afford in Brooklyn,” says Matt Dilling, who has established an outpost for his internationally known Lite Brite Neon fabrication enterprise in a 15,000-squarefoot repurposed furniture factory on Downs Street in Kingston. “Being up here creates a level of affordability not just for the shop space but for the 20 artists in the collective. They can buy homes here; we can afford to do more artists’ editions as fundraisers for nonprofits. We stay aware of being integrative, rather than displacing anyone.” Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress has been promoting adaptive reuse for years, as uniquely suited to Hudson Valley downtowns, and issued an eight-page white
The Fuller Building partway through the restoration and adaption process. Photo by Chris Kendall
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paper on the subject in 2012, which included a case study of Middletown’s Railroad Avenue project and a flow chart intended to help prospective developers figure out whether a project was a good adaptive reuse prospect. It’s a complex flowchart; potential downsides of undertaking adaptive reuse include “delays generated by labyrinthine processes” and the possibility of high design and construction costs, especially when facing concerns like asbestos abatement. Kempe says that just getting the funding put together for adaptive reuse projects can take anywhere from three to seven years. New Year, New Use The challenges may be major, but so are the benefits—both culturally and environmentally. “When you tear down a building, you’re taking all of that material and putting it in a landfill then building
from the ground up again, which involves all the raw materials and transportation that go back into making the same shell that you just tore down,” points out Dutton, who recently revamped the 67,000-square-foot Fuller Shirt Factory into studio and office spaces that rent for $1 a square foot per month. “Adaptive reuse should be done wherever possible,” he says. “If you can salvage the core and shell of a building, you are halfway to a new use.” RUPCO is currently under contract in a half-million-dollar deal to purchase the First United Methodist Church on Newburgh’s Liberty Street, an ornate, iconic structure that will be transformed into a music and dance venue, in partnership with the Blacc Vanilla Foundation. The Center for Creative Education sees program opportunities in the property’s gym, kitchen, and schoolhouse. “The congregation had dwindled to 12
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Duncan and Masse’s hand-built timber frame home sits on 15 acres and is totally off-grid. Their building methods and lack of electric appliances keep the interior of the home acoustically very quiet, except for the sound of the nearby stream. Outside by the frog pond, it’s a different story. “Because of the clearing and the frogs, we get a lot of hawks and owls,” says Duncan. “They just hang out by the side of the pond, and then eat the frogs—it's certainly pretty lively out there.”
Duncan, Masse, and their two children, Ida and August, by the stream that forms the northern border of their property.
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At the Heart of I the Universe DAOIST PRIEST IAN DUNCAN AND MUSICIAN HEATHER MASSE’S HAND BUILT HOUSE AND TEMPLE IN ACCORD By Mary Angeles Armstrong Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
The home’s main room has a vaulted ceiling and a cupola. After clearing the land, Duncan milled the beams himself from the property’s abundant red oaks and used mortise-and-tenon joinery to frame the house.
an Duncan is mastering the art of translation. Not only is the founder and abbott of the Northern Dipper Temple translating ancient Daoist liturgical texts from classical Mandarin to English, he is also translating the ancient religious tenets into practices that meet the needs of modern householders. Daoism, which first originated in China at least 5,000 years ago is “an enlightenment tradition,” explains Duncan. It emphasizes simplicity, humility, and compassion, as well as freedom from suffering by living in harmony with nature and the Dao, or the eternal flow of all things, and the “effortless virtuous action of non-doing —or WuWei.” Daoist spiritual traditions and philosophy inform not only Duncan’s daily life, but also the architecture and building of the home he shares with his wife, the musician Heather Masse—who is both a solo artist and one-third of the Juno-winning band The Wailin’ Jennys—and their two kids. Duncan designed and built the 3,200-squarefoot timber frame home and adjacent temple himself, using traditional Japanese and European techniques and incorporating passive solar elements into the architecture. “Daoism is a living tradition,” Duncan explains. “Now with an outpost here in the Hudson Valley.”
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The home’s large main room—with dining and living areas and the kitchen—strikes a balance between family and contemplative space. A trampoline and a climbing rope hung from the ceiling are regularly utilized by Duncan and six-year-old August for exercise, and the space’s western corner is dominated by Masse’s collection of instruments. In opposing corners, two peaceful sitting areas provide views to the surrounding landscape. Duncan designed the bluestone fireplace at the room’s center.
Finding the Way After a childhood in Kentucky and New Hampshire, Duncan attended college in Maine and then landed in New York City’s Chinatown where he worked as an abstract artist. He first encountered Daoism in 2007 through the book Vital Breath of the Dao by Wu Zhongxian and was intensely drawn to its teachings. “It was the language of it,” Duncan explains. “It just made intuitive sense to me and resonated on a deep level. It was separate from anything I was raised with, but at the same time, it felt like I was coming home.” He began studying with Master Wu, traveling with him to China in 2008 to visit Daoist sacred sites, including the Dragon Gate Caves Temple. “I felt a deep connection to the place and the abbot, Master Zhu Fa You. I knew that I wanted to return, to become a disciple and a priest,” remembers Duncan. However, the language barrier and his desire to start a family seemed to make this dream an impossibility. “This particular lineage was especially traditional and strict,” explains Duncan. They had never ordained either westerner or a “householder”—someone who takes on
the responsibilities of having a family, home, and work (as compared to a renunciate). “Still, I continued to feel connected to the caves and to Master Zhu, finding myself there in dreams and meditations,” Duncan recalls. In 2009, he and Masse were married by Master Wu, using water from the Dragon Gate Caves in their ceremony, and later that year, they moved from Chinatown to the Hudson Valley. They loved the area’s natural beauty and felt that both economically and psychologically it was a better place to start a family. They bought 15 raw acres in Accord with the intention of building a house, but the inclination to do more—both with the land and Duncan’s Daoist practice— persisted. Even though Duncan was a householder, he still felt a strong calling to become a priest. “The idea wasn’t fully gelled in my mind when we came up here,” explains Duncan. “It evolved as the house design evolved and our lives evolved.” He began clearing the land in preparation for building, and he and Masse lived onsite in a yurt as they built their new home and what was to become the Northern Dipper Temple. 8/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 51
Harmonizing with Nature “The whole process was one of discovery,” Duncan explains of designing and building both his home and temple. He felled some of the property’s abundant red oaks, and, in the process of learning to mill them, gained an appreciation for the beauty of their woodgrain, ultimately using them for the home’s exposed beams and about half of the frame. Duncan was aided by Jim and Peter Kricker of Rondout Woodworking in Saugerties as well as neighbor Mike Herzog of Stonykill Builders. He used mortise-and-tenon joinery for the beams and then used the German method of woodchip and clay infill to create 12-inch-thick walls. At first, Duncan and Masse tried to source the clay from their own property, as they’d done with the beams. “At the beginning we were very romantic about it,” remembers Masse. “We tried mixing it with our bare feet—we patched maybe one five-and-a-half-foot corner.” The couple eventually sourced bagged clay to complete the structure’s exterior walls. As they were completing the home’s exterior, Masse became pregnant with the couple’s first child, but that didn’t stop her from lending a hand to raise the roof beams. As the building progressed, the idea of building a temple became clearer. “As my 52 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 8/19
Daoist practice matured and developed, I continued to feel clear about the importance of the support of a committed religious community and practice on the path to enlightenment,” Duncan says. In 2010, he founded the Northern Dipper Order and Temple to support both his own practice and the community he was growing locally, naming it after the constellation that, in Daoist philosophy, is believed to be the heart of the universe. “The cycling of the Big Dipper through the night sky is believed to give birth to time and space,” Duncan explains. Form Following Function The slow, steady progress of the building allowed Duncan to consider the needs of his growing family in designing the home’s interior. “When our son was born, the house was rough. It was really just warm and dry,” Duncan remembers. Throughout the home’s main living level, Duncan installed propane radiant heat coils and poured concrete floors. The home’s windows were sized and placed to work with the overhanging eaves, allowing the home to receive ample warmth from the sun in winter and shade in summer. At the heart of the space, Duncan worked with a local stone mason to design a masonry stove, forming the main living room’s double
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height north wall. The passive solar design and the fireplace, along with the radiant heat floors, provide ample heat throughout the year. (The home is totally off-grid with solar panels and a propane generator.) Duncan drew on his experience as a parent, as well as the Chinese practice of Feng Shui to inform the details of the home’s interior layout. “We aimed for a minimal, casual, timeless space that was visually quiet with a sacred orientation,” Duncan explains. The south-facing home is entered through a large mudroom, which opens into the main living area. Above, a cupola roof has windows facing all four directions. The southward orientation was intentional. “Not only does warmth come from the south,” explains Duncan. “[In Feng Shui], human energy comes from the south as well.” In the southeast corner of the main living area, Duncan worked with Jeff Gagnon of Rondout Valley Natural Builders to create an open layout kitchen with ample wooden cabinetry. “Both the kitchen and dining area received eastern morning light and act as the wood energy in the system,” explains Duncan. “Both elements encourage nutrition, growth, and family.” The home’s bedrooms are divided into two north-facing wings, and the layout of the home allows for flexibility in meeting the family’s—and Northern Dipper Temple’s—evolving needs. After their first child, the couple was acutely aware of the pressures around living well, sleeping enough, and raising a newborn. So with their second child, they decided to capitalize on the flexible layout of the home to improve everyone’s quality of life. In the northwestern corner of the home’s main level, a large suite currently serves as a bedroom for Masse and the couple’s newborn daughter, Ida. Overlooking the woods and a stream through a bank of northfacing windows, the large rectangular space has an open tub along one wall, a double bed at one end, and a crib at the other. A stairway from the main living and kitchen area leads downstairs to a wing of smaller northfacing rooms built into the side of the hill. Once filled with bunk beds and utilized for Daoist retreats, the space currently serves as a bedroom for Duncan and the couple’s six-year-old son, August. Along with a laundry and utility room, an additional bathroom, and overflow storage space, there is a writing room for Duncan. “This current configuration works very well,” explains Duncan. “Heather and Ida are in their room from 6pm to 8am, and she often has to sing loudly to settle Ida in the middle of the night. But when August and I are wrestling in the other room, it doesn’t wake them up. Everyone gets plenty of sleep.” As one third of the folk-bluegrass-country band The Wailin' Jennys, Masse tours often and was a regular on NPR’s “Prairie Home Companion.” She’s also released multiple jazz albums as a solo artist. Masse lent a hand with the home’s construction as well, influencing the home’s overall design, helping to raise roof beams, and finishing walls.
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Internal Alchemy The temple, built at the eastern end of the house, was the last piece of Duncan’s construction odyssey, and the resulting structure shows the accumulation of his learning. “It was very satisfying how everything came together and to get to utilize the various building skills that I’d developed,” he says. To build the structural manifestation of the Northern Dipper Temple, Duncan felled four new trees, milled them, cut the joinery, and erected the space in a matter of weeks. With a vaulted ceiling, the temple has windows facing in three directions overlooking the surrounding woods. In 2018, after years of study with various Daoist lineages, Duncan returned to the Dragon Gate Caves Temple where Master Zhu accepted him as a formal disciple and he was ordained into the 30th generation of the Complete Reality Dragon Gate Secret Lineage. “There have always been some streams of the Dao in which priests were also householders with families and world responsibilities, but this was the first time since it was founded 800 years ago that this guarded lineage has opened to a westerner or a householder. It’s a great honor to carry the tradition forward here in the West.” Currently, Duncan teaches regular classes at Northern Dipper Temple and holds retreats for a mixed community of approximately 30 laypeople and formal disciples and is focusing on carrying forth authentic Daoist traditions and serving the needs of people on its spiritual path.
A drawing of a lion by Duncan and Masse’s son, August.
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othing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree,” wrote German-Swiss author Herman Hesse in an essay that was posthumously published in the collection Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte (Trees: Reflections and Poems). The Nobel winner and author of Siddhartha believed that by communing with trees, we could come to know ourselves. You probably have your own local favorite trees, in parks or in your own backyard—as one does. But to truly appreciate Catskills trees in all their variety and majesty, there’s no finer destination than the Mountain Top Arboretum, a 178-acre public garden situated at 2,400 feet of elevation just outside of Tannersville. Trails and boardwalks offer easy access to 35 species of native trees and the native plantings that thrive with them. “It’s a very different place from down in Woodstock,” says Executive Director Marc Wolf. “We have meadows, ponds, hemlock forests—so many varied ecosystems.
Geologists come and study the Devonian bedrock, there’s a huge mountaintop marsh that feels more like the Adirondacks—just a huge expanse of wetland with birds, frogs, bears, all sorts of butterflies.” The Arboretum story begins with two second-home owners, Dr. Peter Ahrens and his wife Bonnie, a research physician and interior designer who purchased their summer place in Tannersville in 1948 and fell deeply in love with their surroundings. Claiming all the while to be humble amateurs, the couple began planting and studying all sorts of cold-hardy seedlings, “as if we were going to live forever,” Bonnie once wrote. In 1977, they opened the Arboretum—then less than a tenth of its current size—to the public as a “sanctuary of trees and shrubs” and learning resource. Educational programming began right away, so it seems likely that Peter and Bonnie would be as happy with the possibilities offered by the newly unveiled timber-frame Education Center as Wolf is—and he’s ecstatic.
“This is the first time we’ve had offices onsite—the first building of any kind except for a maintenance barn,” he says. “It’s a big change for us. We can be more present for visitors, and we can do a lot more school programming now that we can be inside if the weather gets bad.” The design, by world-renowned Berkshires timber-frame architect Jack Sobon, was realized using 21 distinct species of wood from the Arboretum grounds. “A group of about seven of us walked the property together and chose the trees for the building,” Wolf says. “We had the timber-framer, the miller, the arborist. We chose trees from deep in the forest, far from the trail, or in a place where we’re creating a new trail and cutting anyway. Specific trees were chosen for their particular branching patterns—there are things that oak can do as opposed to hemlock, for example.” Landscape architect Jamie Purinton of Copake designed the building’s surroundings, including tree and shrub plantings and a system of six rain gardens, 8/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 59
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which were executed by horticulturist Joan Kutcher. “All of it is in line with what the founders were interested in: cold-hardiness, land stewardship, and education,” says Wolf. “You look at the ecosystem that exists, study what works well with that slope and drainage and so on, and start gardening that way. It’s a cool time to visit because we’ve just planted 10,000 native seedlings near the new building, and you can see how something comes from nothing—with the aid of a lot of watering and fertilizing with mycorrhizal fungi.” The Education Center is a dream come true for Arboretum members, but it’s hardly the first thoughtful touch added to make your visit a joy. Four distinct areas—West Meadow, Woodland Walk, East Meadow and Spruce Glen—feature trails and boardwalks, breaking the 178 acres down into 35- to 40-minute self-guided tours. West Meadow is where you’ll find the Bird Cove (although the entire property is a birdwatcher’s paradise, harboring about 60 species) and a spiral labyrinth of native grasses. Along Woodland Walk, you’ll encounter wildflowers, mountain laurel, a natural amphitheatre, and the Fairy Garden, where children are invited to create houses, forts, and gardens for the wee mythical residents using natural materials. The Spruce Glen walk takes you past the large Hidden Marsh and the ancient Emerald Bog. Arboretum staff are already working with teachers to expand the curriculum: pond, forest, and soil ecology; weather; geology; biology; and a host of other topics are beautifully illustrated by the surroundings. A writing workshop took place even before the building’s grand opening, complete with poetry reading in the lobby. Educational opportunities and fun for the general public are ongoing this month: there’s the biweekly Story Time in the Shade series, two evening programs—“Night Creatures: Scouting Bats and Moths” and an astrology evening with Bob Berman— and, on August 10, the annual Blues @ the Arboretum collaboration with 23Arts. This year, the blues showcase features Grammy-nominated saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Patrick Bartley, Jr. But even on an ordinary day, you’ll be in exceptional company at the Mountain Top Arboretum—the gracious and placid company of thousands upon thousands of well-loved trees. Besides the native and naturally occurring species, you will make the acquaintance of the ones imported from all over the world by Dr. Ahrens in his study of what else might thrive through the chilly Catskills winters, a project the Harvard-educated scientist found an interesting companion piece to his studies of cholesterol in the human body. Wolf, who happened to be seeking a Catskills job when the Arboretum was looking for a horticulturist, stepped into the executive directorship in 2017 and says he never tires of the company of trees. “It’s pretty crazy how little we know about what goes on six inches below our feet: the resource sharing, the mycorrhizal connection. Did you know plants emit scents that communicate to other plants when they’re under attack by pests or disease, and trigger their neighbors’ immune system into action? We’re just starting to learn about all of this. They can’t walk around so they’ve evolved other ways to communicate; it seems they cooperate a lot more than they compete.” Seems like we could all take a cue from the trees.
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Model of a child’s kidney with tumor tissue, 3D-printed by Mediprint to help doctors plan surgery and delineate the boundaries between the cancer (translucent purple) and the organ (clear).
PRINT ME AN ORGAN LOCAL VISIONARIES ARE PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF 3D PRINTING TO CREATE TRANSPLANT-READY TISSUES SOONER THAN YOU THINK By Wendy Kagan
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rent Chanin has always been a tinkerer. After studying mechanical engineering in college and working briefly as a scuba diver in underwater archaeology, he started a consulting company pitched toward helping inventors take their ideas “from a paper napkin to the real world.” One day, a radiologist from NYU Langone approached Chanin: He had figured out how to turn medical imagery into 3D computer renderings, but he wanted help turning those digital drawings into 3D-printed models that you could hold in your hand. It was a challenge right up Chanin’s alley, and the two partnered for a few years, banging out patient-specific plastic organs on 3D printers and bringing the models to surgeons to see how the technology might help their work. “It became very clear that this was powerful,” says Chanin. “The first time it 62 HEALTH & WELLNESS CHRONOGRAM 8/19
really clicked for me was when we gave a neurosurgeon a 3D-printed model of a young boy’s skull. The boy had outgrown a spinal implant supporting his neck, and it was time for a replacement. When we handed the doctor the model, he immediately said, ‘Well, I’m not going to do what I was planning on doing.’ The speed at which he came to that conclusion, having the model in his hands for just a few seconds—that’s when it really struck me that this technology could powerfully change the way patient care is delivered and specialized.” That was about five years ago, and Chanin is now the CEO and CTO of Mediprint, a Chester-based company that creates patientspecific 3D-printed medical models based on diagnostic scans from CT, MRI, ultrasound, PET, and other imaging data. Mediprint makes models for various uses from patient
education, medical training, and surgery planning to sizing and placing stents and other devices. To produce its models, Mediprint often partners with the Hudson Valley Advanced Manufacturing Center (HVAMC) at SUNY New Paltz, one of the most advanced 3D printing facilities in the country. “You can practice a surgery [on a flexible model] as many times as you like before you ever have the patient on the table. You can even put fluid through the model if you want to do vascular simulations,” he says. “This could eliminate the need for exploratory surgeries.” Chanin is part of a new generation of engineers, doctors, and researchers—some of them right here in the Hudson Valley—who are looking to 3D printing for a range of medical applications. Yet he is also thinking beyond mere models and toward the living,
growing future of medicine. For some people, that future is about human tissue engineering. That’s why Chanin is now CEO of a second company, Organofab Technologies, dedicated to this next step, which is really more of a quantum leap for science. “[Organofab is] probably the most exciting thing that I’m working on and it’s essentially the same process that we’ve been doing, just using different materials and tweaking the technology,” Chanin says. “It’s 3D printing human cells.” When Cells Are Your Ink The idea of “bioprinting” human tissues and organs has been around for a few years, and some researchers and entrepreneurs are pouring their efforts into what seems like a far-out yet promising notion. The implications are mind-blowing, because if we print individualized organs from our own cells, we can solve many problems in the fields of organ transplantation and regenerative medicine. Gone will be the problem of donor-kidney shortages (there are currently about 96,000 Americans on a kidney donor waitlist, and 13 people with kidney failure die every day waiting for an organ). We could also avoid immunosuppressive drugs, because the body would have no reason to reject tissues made from its own cells. Researchers like Dr. Anthony Atala and his team at Wake Forest University have had success already with similar regenerative medicine techniques for the bladder—and they are now using 3D technology to print a prototype kidney that they’re studying experimentally. Imagine using an ink-jet printer in a lab, but instead of ink, cells come out, and the end result is an organ. Dr. Atala is also tackling wound repair with the concept of a mobile skin bioprinter—a bedside printer filled with a patient’s own skin cells that could lay them down directly on top of a wound or burn to revolutionize the healing process. Although the science is making progress, it still has a way to go. “Printing a replacement kidney hasn’t happened yet and probably won’t for a long time,” says Daniel Freedman, director of HVAMC and dean of SUNY New Paltz’s School of Science and Engineering. “There are a lot of people working on printing live cells. The idea is that an organ is basically just a bunch of different cells arranged in a very particular way. If you can get all of those cells in the right place with a matrix that will support their growth, then in theory—I’m no biologist—but you might be able to recreate an organ or recreate something that could function as an organ. People have had some success with 3D printing live cells and getting them to grow afterwards.”
Bioengineering an Airway To get from printing living cells to bioengineering an organ, several obstacles stand in the way—and few people know about those obstacles as intimately as Dr. Faiz Bhora. To accept the role of the new chief of thoracic surgery at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, Bhora moved upriver this spring after 14 years at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where he built a reputation as a leader in robotic thoracic surgery and also started working on a translational-research side project—3D printing a human trachea. Along with Vassar Brothers’ creation of a new residency program and medical school, opening in 2020, and a $545-million hospital expansion, Bhora and his team are part of a fresh wave of innovation in the region. And their goal is nothing less than to become the first doctors in the world to implant a 3D-printed, bioengineered trachea in a human patient within a few years. “As far as I know, we are the only group that is looking to build a trachea from biological materials,” says Bhora. The process involves first printing a scaffold for the trachea out of a bioplastic called polycaprolactone (PCL), which takes only about 15 minutes on a Fab@Home 3D printer. The scaffold is the easy part—next comes lining it with a matrix made out of collagen and then seeding that matrix with stem cells from the patient. “We will potentially use cell homing techniques to cellularize these grafts,” says Bhora, explaining that when the graft is surgically
implanted, it will tap into the body’s own process of drawing stem cells to the tissue, a natural occurrence called cell homing. Dr. Bhora and his team have tested many aspects of the bioengineered tissue in the laboratory and have implanted about 20 to 25 tracheal grafts in pigs. Along the way, they’ve published and presented their research nationally and internationally. “We’re the first to say that we still do not have the perfect graft,” he says. “This is a complex, difficult problem that needs a fair amount of work until it’s ready for prime time and for human use.” Nonetheless, Bhora’s goal is to have a clinical trial in humans in about two years, driven by need because there are no other solutions. “At the moment, there is no substitute for the trachea if it is diseased for more than four or five centimeters in length,” he explains. Transplant is not an option for a variety of reasons, and patients who lose their trachea face permanent tracheostomy, the creation of an opening to bypass the defect. The patient breathes through that opening and loses the ability to speak; swallowing becomes difficult and tracheostomy maintenance is also challenging. A bioengineered trachea would be lifechanging for people who need it, but several obstacles stand in the way. “Blood supply to the trachea is not very defined, so vascularization of the graft becomes difficult,” says Bhora. “The trachea is also exposed to outside air and bacteria, so the risk of infection is high whenever
Model of the hearts of conjoined twins, with color-coding to show each of the heart chambers and aortas, 3D-printed by Mediprint for presurgical planning.
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you do operations on the trachea. Another issue is scar tissue. The trachea is sensitive to injury, and [post-surgery], it will form granulation or scar tissue, which tends to then make the trachea narrower.” There is a lot of work to be done, but if Dr. Bhora and his team can get over hurdles like these, they might help find a path forward for other 3D-printed and bioengineered organs in the future. “I think we can say that we are one of the leading labs in the world that is looking at this,” he says. “We have made substantial progress toward achieving a workable tracheal graft, and in the process, we have expanded our knowledge as to what works and what doesn’t work.” From Practical to Pie-in-the-Sky While bioprinting has kinks to work out, there is still a lot that the medical field can do with 3D printing technology here and now. “The biomedical side of printing live cells is still very highend research and has to be done through a medical school or bioengineering program,” explains Freedman from SUNY New Paltz. “At the Center, we’re focused on very practical things.” Since around 2013, HVAMC has served a dual purpose of supporting the university’s academic programs and partnering with local companies to help stimulate economic growth for the region. They charge for their services but only what they need to keep the operation going. Recent grants from the Dyson Foundation and Central Hudson allowed HVAMC to expand and purchase more high-end printers, including a 3D printer for metal (they’re one of the first academic labs in the Northeast to have one), a continuous-build printer in beta phase (one of only about 10 in the US), and a polyjet 3D printer, which prints a liquid resin that cures into a solid material in a full range of colors. “We work with quite a few [medical] entrepreneurs, and we’ve done a bit of design work for medical devices,” says Freedman. “That’s been limited, and I’m hoping that with the new metal printer we can do more with devices, because 3D printing is used very heavily in that area.” Meanwhile, the polyjet printer is a game-changer for entrepreneurs like Chanin, who can use it to print model organs in full color or with transparency. HVAMC’s machines have churned out hearts, lungs, and even a life-size spinal column, which took about 48 hours to print. For his Organofab venture, Chanin and his collaborators have a machine of their own in alpha phase. “We’re creating essentially a box where you can put in a patient’s cells on one side, and out the other side is going to come your organ to be implanted, or your tissues or cellular therapies.” After developing the prototype for about two years, they are now beginning to approach researchers with it as a new tool for tissue regeneration. “We’re just on the cusp,” he says. “This is all experimental but really exciting.”
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PEAKS LIKE WOOLLY MAMMOTHS A CATSKILLS MEMOIR By Lisa Mullenneaux
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t eight I knew the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York were woolly mammoths moving in a caravan for our delight. They let us climb on their backs, pull on their firs, and ride them season after season. Often when my family arrived in June for our first hike, rock slides and rain gullies that hid the marked trail would clearly show us how quickly nature could overtake our puny efforts to domesticate her. That lesson would be repeated during my 50-year climbing history, sometimes with dramatic force. But my earliest memories are idyllic—a band of trekkers led by my father with his hand-carved hickory stick, then us kids, and finally my mother, often pregnant, guarding the rear so no stragglers hurt themselves or wandered into the brush. Slide, the tallest of the Catskill peaks at 4,180 feet, is still my favorite. It gets its name from a landslide in 1819, not the rapid descent of some pilgrim who lost his footing. Rock formations, striations, and deposits all point to the glaciation that carved the Catskill range. At several spots along Slide’s trail, overlooks allowed us to stand on a rock ledge above the expansive valley and gauge our progress skyward. Then it was back on the path at a slower pace, as the sun flashed 66 OUTDOORS CHRONOGRAM 8/19
through a canopy of spruce, balsam firs, ash, and beeches, my mother tending to a child with gravel in its sneaker or one who needed a squat in the ferns. My mother was philosophical about peeing outside: “The foliage will be a little greener,” she would assure us if we hesitated to drop our pants. My father liked to unlock large scalloped fungi from tree trunks and later inscribe the surface with the date of our hike. Our reward at the top of Slide, even more than the sea of green beneath a boundless azure sky, was lunch. Afterwards, we took time to collect pine cones or balsam needles we would later sew into little bags. If we were lucky, a red-tailed hawk or bald eagle would perform its aerial acrobatics. For the naturalist John Burroughs, who immortalized his climbs in The Heart of the Southern Catskills, the summit view was incomparable: We saw the world as the hawk or the balloonist sees it when he is three thousand feet in the air. How soft and flowing all the outlines of the hills and mountains beneath us looked! The forests dropped down and undulated away over them, covering them like a carpet. In my absence from upstate New York, I heard the family had adopted a smaller
mountain, closer to home, called Pisgah. As of summer 2018, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation was logging off the conifers along those familiar trails and many others. Still, as I discovered when I returned, the Catskills were as popular as ever—and climbers as dangerously unprepared. I started hiking again with a club that catered to New York metropolitan residents—some were veterans, some had never seen moss. My first trip out convinced me of the risks of relying on volunteer leaders. Our group of 12 stayed at an inn over Labor Day Weekend and included at least three experts, several experienced hikers, and one beginner, who made a mistake that could and should have been corrected by those assigned as “sweeps.” Instead of turning left down Wittenberg, she walked straight up Terrace Mountain. Only when she reached the lean-to and fire pit about 5pm did she grasp her mistake. She stayed put and that probably was the wisest thing she could have done. But as the temperature fell—it was 40 degrees in the valley that night—she panicked. Fortunately, she was joined by backpackers who spent the night with her in the lean-to. It was a tragedy of errors: the “sweeps” failed to do their job by counting heads on the trail; the leader failed to report her missing until 10:30pm.
Because the lost hiker was my roommate, I was nearly as upset as she was to be left on Terrace Mountain overnight, but it was a warning about the need (1) to have rules and (2) to stick to them for everyone’s safety. Not two years later, I was the one who made a mistake— or several—and almost paid for it with my life. The rules I ignored? Always hike with a buddy, and be prepared for the worst. My route this summer afternoon was one of the easiest I’ve ever taken—from Platte Clove Preserve to Echo Lake and back, about 8 miles. This trail isn’t steep nor challenging, and my company for the first hour was families with kids and dogs. At Echo Lake, I sunbathed for 15 minutes before starting the gentle ascent back to Elka Park. Sprinkles of rain convinced me to duck under an outcrop, but when the “sunshower” escalated to a thunder storm and heavier downpour, I realized I needed to stop lollygagging and get off the mountain. One of the biggest mistakes I made was to wear tennis shoes, not a problem on this trail in dry weather, but I was getting soaked. My gear was a backpack that contained a light windbreaker, water, and maps. The woods grew dark and the trail sluiced rainwater. I tripped on a tree root and hit the ground, the bridge of my nose on a rock. In seconds, my condition changed from uncomfortable to dire. Spitting cartilage, I used my bandana as a bandage and removed my broken glasses as it was easier in the rain to see without them. That is until I lost sight of the yellow trail markers. I yelled, but all those kids on mountain bikes and families with German shepherds were at the Dairy Queen or safe at home. I knew one thing: I couldn’t panic. I set my soaked backpack down and surveyed the small clearing I was standing in. One area of the underbrush was more trampled than others, and I followed it until I spotted a yellow marker on a tree trunk that eventually got me to the trailhead and my car. A neighbor drove me to a hospital where they cleaned and stitched me up. In my haste to treat the cut in my head, I had ignored a fall that caused my right leg to swell painfully. What would have happened had I broken it? For hours after I escaped the woods, I was still shivering from hypothermia. I was lucky; many hikers—especially at Kaaterskill Falls near Palenville in Greene County—never make it home. According to forest ranger Rob Dawson, the last four people who died at the Falls were taking or posing for pictures. (Another thing to blame on social media.) Were they hikers or sightseers and did anyone tell them wet rocks are slippery? Stephen King couldn’t make up the accidents reported in the Catskill Mountaineer, but for rangers like Dawson, Russell Martin, and Kenny Gierloff they are accidents that could have been avoided. Hikers get lost because darkness closes in on them, and they have no lights or they sprain their ankle and can’t walk or the weather changes, as it did on Platte Clove, and they lack warm, waterproof clothes. In addition to carrying the right gear—a whistle, compass, fire-starter, flashlight, firstaid kit, water, maps—the best advice is to never hike alone. Tell someone about your itinerary and when you expect to return, but don’t assume you can use your cell phone to contact them. Cell signals are unreliable in the Catskills. Often it takes hours for Search and Rescue teams and forest rangers to extract lost or injured hikers. Helicopters are sometimes needed. A space or thermal blanket will help contain body heat and prevent hypothermia during the wait. Above all, Gierloff insists, wear the right footwear; no flip flops. “I teach young kids about preparedness by asking them to see how long they can walk on their hands,” he says. “It really drives home the message: Take care of your feet.”
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“The establishment of Byrdcliffe represented the first integration of artists into the town,” says Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner. “A lot of the locals weren’t sure what to make of the artists at first. Ralph Whitehead was instrumental in the process of reaching out to the local population and involving them in what Byrdcliffe was doing.” Among the prominent figures who spent time at Byrdcliffe are naturalist John Burroughs, dancer Isadora Duncan, and Bob Dylan, who bought a home there in 1965. Its rustic facilities are open for tours today and include painting, sculpting, weaving, pottery making, metalworking, and woodworking studios, performing spaces, and artist cottages. Heppner adds, “It’s ironic, that you had these local people who made their living off the landscape interacting with these artists who were doing paintings of that same landscape.” Some of these painters were the teachers and students who participated in the local summer programs sponsored by the Manhattan-headquartered Art Students League. After parting ways with Whitehead in 1905, Hervey White and two friends purchased a 90acre wooded tract just outside of Woodstock, turning it into a gathering ground for artists, intellectuals, writers, and musicians. White named this newly established breakaway arts colony the Maverick, and a collection of ramshackle shacks was built on the property as accommodations. In 1916, White and his crew erected a large timber-frame hall to hold musical performances. Dubbed the Maverick Concert Hall, the majestic, rough-hewn structure is fronted by a wall of diamondpaned windows and still serves as the venue for Maverick Concerts, America’s oldest continuous summer chamber music festival. (Inside the hall, John Flanagan’s hand-carved 1924 sculpture, the Maverick Horse, graces the stages, a totem for the art colony.) The series, now in its 103rd year, incorporates jazz, folk, and world music alongside classical styles. The hall’s hallowed walls have seen actor and singer Paul Robeson perform and the premier of composer John Cage’s controversial 4’33” in 1952. Like Byrdcliffe, the Maverick site is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1915, as a means of raising funds to build a well for the commune, White launched the Maverick Festival. Featuring musical and theatrical performances, the festival was held yearly until 1931 and earned a reputation as a boisterous, bacchanal event attended by thousands of revelers at a time. Prohibition did little to halt the flow of bootleg liquor among the attendees, many of whom were visiting New Yorkers clad in flamboyant costumes and wearing flowers in their hair, attracted by the free-speaking social liberties of the occasion. “Maverick Festivals became annual occurrences that felt like Old World fairs with a dash of Bohemian sparkle,” writes Jill D. Sweet, the daughter of Broadway dancer Barbara Adams Stephens in her memoir, Life as a Tarantella. “Each year the Maverick Festivals became more outlandish and outrageous than
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the year before.” In light of this perfect storm of creativity and relaxed revelry, it’s easy to see how the Maverick Festivals greatly shaped the climate that led to the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Founded by painters John F. Carlson, Frank Swift Chase, Andrew Dasburg, Carl Eric Lindin, and Henry Lee McFee in 1919, the Woodstock Artists Association celebrates its centennial this year. The artists’ group was started with the mission of promoting and nurturing the visual arts and arts education in the Woodstock community. Located on Tinker Street in the heart of the village, the museum exists as a repository for the work of artists associated with the original Woodstock arts colonies as well as a gallery space for exhibiting the creations of contemporary local artists. As part of their 100th year celebration, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) will host a retrospective exhibition this fall, displaying rarely seen pieces from their archives and permanent collection. Woodstock in the 1960s-1980s When asked about the effect of the Woodstock area on The Band’s early period, the quintet’s pianist and singer, Richard Manuel, told the Woodstock Times in 1985, “I don’t think [the group’s early albums] would have happened without it. The environment had a great deal to do with it.” Manuel’s comments embody a sentiment echoed by many artists and musicians who gravitated to the area in the second half of the 20th century. When The Band began their run of classic records, including Music from Big Pink, Stage Fright, Cahoots, and Moondog Matinee, music like theirs wasn’t really being made outside of Woodstock. It was music that mirrored its surroundings: rustic, downhome, handcrafted, timeless. Music with a mystique that—like the tunes being made by their erstwhile employer Bob Dylan when he was in Woodstock—gave the town the identity on which its namesake festival was based. The Band was first led to Woodstock by Dylan, who himself was led here by his manager, folk and rock impresario Albert Grossman. Grossman, in turn, had been attracted by the local arts and folk music community. Since 1959, the Cafe Espresso on Tinker Street (now the Center for Photography at Woodstock) had featured visiting folk artists like Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, and Odetta (another Grossman charge), as well as soon-to-be locals like John Herald and Happy and Artie Traum. Artist Milton Glaser, who later created the famous “I ❤ NY” logo, helped Grossman find a house in the hamlet of Bearsville (the cover of Bob Dylan’s 1965 album Bringing it All Back Home depicts Dylan and Grossman’s wife Sally in the home’s parlor), where over time, the entrepreneur built a nearby compound that included Bearsville Sound Studios, the Bearsville Theater, the offices of his Bearsville Records label, the Bear Café and Little Bear restaurants, and Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Soundstage studio (now home to Radio Woodstock). In essence, Grossman was following in the footsteps of Byrdcliffe and 72 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 8/19
Maverick arts colony founders Ralph Whitehead and Hervey White, luring a new generation of artists to the area and playing a crucial role in the development of Woodstock as a music haven. Bob Dylan began coming up from New York in earnest in 1963, once Grossman was a resident. (When Dylan wasn’t staying at his manager’s home, he’d sometimes stay and write songs in a room above the Cafe Espresso). Before long, the singer had his own his house in the Byrdcliffe district, where he sought shelter from the storm of his riotous 1965-1966 world tour with The Band, then known as The Hawks. Dylan withdrew further into the solitude of Woodstock following the 1966 motorcycle accident he had on Glasco Turnpike, and in early 1967 invited The Hawks up from New York to join him in working on new material. A few of the group members rented a house called Big Pink in the neighboring town Saugerties, and there, in the basement, with mostly acoustic instruments, they tried out the newer, quieter songs Dylan was writing and played folk and country tunes for fun. Rough recordings of these sessions would later be bootlegged and commercially released as The Basement Tapes, and today they’re hailed as the touchstones of Americana music. The atmosphere of Woodstock also influenced Dylan’s markedly softer and reflective 1967 album, John Wesley Harding. No longer wanting to be known as The Hawks, Dylan’s collaborators decided to call themselves what the folks around town were calling them: simply, “the band.” Also woodshedded in Big Pink’s basement were songs for The Band’s debut album, Music from Big Pink. Released in 1968, the album, with its blend of rootsy, quietly moving songs, stood out from the loud acid rock of the day and offered a respite from a turbulent society—much like Woodstock itself did for its new residents. As the scene swirled around Dylan and the Band in Woodstock, other artists were drawn to the area. Janis Joplin would frequently stay at her manager Albert Grossman’s estate, while Grossman artists Richie Havens and Todd Rundgren became long-term locals. Also making their homes in Woodstock over the years have been Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Charles Mingus, John Sebastian, Paul Butterfield, Jesse Winchester, Graham Parker, Tim Hardin, Maria Muldaur, Jack DeJohnette, David Johansen, Ed Sanders, Blondie’s Chris Stein, and many others. The Woodstock Sound-Outs, which took place mainly at local gallery owner/deli manager Pan Copeland’s farm on the WoodstockSaugerties border from 1967 to 1970, drew local and international acts for the genial vibe and beautiful setting, helping to inspire the concept for the 1969 Woodstock Festival. The influx of musicians to Woodstock fueled a thriving nightlife scene, with venues like the Sled Hill Café, the Elephant, the Watering Trough, the Village Jug, the Cafe Espresso, and Deanie’s restaurant, which was the preferred late-night hang of The Band, Van Morrison, and visiting royalty like
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George Harrison. Joyous Lake, which presented the likes of Muddy Waters, Talking Heads, and even the Rolling Stones, who were in town rehearsing) constantly hopping with top talent. Remembered for its raucous party scene, living-legend performer-patrons, and the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll, the mere mention of the place still brings a sparkle to the eye of many Woodstock boomers. From 1971 to 1984, the Creative Music Studio, cofounded by jazz legend Ornette Coleman and local musicians Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso, was a premier study center for contemporary creative music and is known as the birthplace of “world jazz” fusion. And in the world of visual art, the Woodstock School of Art, which was founded in 1906 by the Arts Students League of New York, offered affordable, high-quality instruction to artists of all levels alongside exhibitions of their work, further framing Woodstock as a vibrant center of the arts. Woodstock: Today and Tomorrow Today, Woodstock continues to thrive as a vibrant hub of arts, entertainment, business, and community, proud of its legacy and association with the world-famous music festival that shares its name, but at the same time possessing a character all its own— one that infuses the creative climate of its legacy with a fresh, contemporary edge and a shared sense of caring community for residents and visitors alike. Fanning out from the idyllic village green in the heart of the town are Woodstock’s main thoroughfares of Tinker Street, Mill Hill Road, and Rock City Road. Each is lined for blocks with distinctive, appealing shops and other businesses catering to yearround residents, weekenders, and tourists. “Sixty percent of the people here are second-home owners,” says Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner. “Going back to the beginnings of the Byrdcliffe and Maverick art colonies, then with the musicians in the ’60s and ’70s, it’s always been the artists who’ve brought new life into Woodstock. And since 9/11 there’s been a new wave of artists coming to town. It’s more active now than it’s been in a long time.” Consistent with its outsized artistic tradition, Woodstock boasts a remarkable concentration of art galleries and museums for a town of such modest scale. Among the most prominent are the Woodstock Artists Association Museum (WAAM), which was founded in 1919 expressly to collect and exhibit the work of local artists and celebrates its 100th anniversary this year; the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, which is operated by the historic Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild; the Center for Photography at Woodstock, in existence since 1977; Woodstock School of Art, which offers exhibitions of local and regional artists; the Fletcher Gallery, which specializes in noted artists circa 1900 to 1950; the James Cox Gallery, in nearby Willow; and the Elena Zang Gallery in the hamlet of Shady. Near the town center is the Woodstock Artists Cemetery, where The Band members Levon Helm and Rick Danko are among those buried. Located on the beautiful Comeau Property (open to the public for hiking), the Historical Society of Woodstock is home to changing exhibits and archives relating to the area. The shops here embody the balance of old-Woodstock charm and new-Woodstock dynamism. Venerated mainstays—like town staple H. Houst & Son Hardware (established in 1932), candle emporium Candlestock (1970), cosmetics and beauty supplier Jean Turmo (1976), Catskill Art Supply and legendary bookstore The Golden Notebook (both 1978)—remain open alongside popular newer retailers like Overlook Bicycles, Pegasus Footwear, Lotus Fine Art & Design, and Woodstock Music Shop. Specialist stores like Mirabai, Tibetan Arts & Crafts, Pondicherry, Dharmaware, and Gryphon Gem & Crystal Shop reflect the meditative and spiritual focus equated with the “Woodstock Generation,” while natural food markets Sunflower and Sunfrost offer healthy sustenance consistent with the town’s back-to-the-land ethos. Celebrating its 42nd continuous season in 2019 is Mower’s Market, a weekly flea market open on
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Saturdays and Sundays from May to November, and Wednesdays in July and August. With its formidable variety of world-class restaurants, Woodstock is one of the Hudson Valley’s premier dining destinations, and its deliciously diverse wealth of culinary options parallels the town’s creative soul. Recent additions to the gustatory landscape like Silvia (in the former location of Joyous Lake), Shindig, Early Terrible Wine Bar, Provisions, A&P Bar, and the revamped Woodstock Pub have each brought bold new colors to the regional palate. Fervent foodies also flock to more established eateries like the upscale Cucina, the vegan Garden Café, Yum Yum Noodle Shop, Oriole 9, Taco Juan’s, Bread Alone, and Catskill Mountain Pizza, which often hosts live music. Provisions, a rustic restaurant serving up comfort food in a streamside setting, also runs The Table at Woodstock out of a local church, offering no-cost, prepared food to underserved community members three nights a week, embodying the culture of neighborly sharing that has come to be the town’s calling card. Live music is, of course, an inseparable aspect of Woodstock life, and there are several venues that regularly rock with national and local performers. Colony (formerly the Colony Cafe, established in 1929) serves tasty food and features rising indie and legendary acts ranging from Darlene Love to the Meat Puppets. Levon Helm Studios, known affectionately as “the Barn,” was home to the late The Band drummer and now, as a venue, pulls in audiences from around the world for its magical Midnight Ramble sessions, which have seen the likes of Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, and other big names in its intimate space. Another frequent concert site is the Woodstock Playhouse, which was built in 1938 and has presented theatrical productions starring Lillian Gish, Karl Malden, fan dancer Sally Rand, Diane Keaton, local legends Lee Marvin and Chevy Chase, and others. Rebuilt after a fire in 1988, it continues its main mission of staging plays and musicals. 76 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 8/19
Each fall sees the return of the Woodstock Film Festival, one of the country’s leading independent film events. Centered in Woodstock, the four-day festival presents high-quality indie films and celebrity panels and workshops in town and in nearby Rosendale, Saugerties, Kingston, and Rhinebeck. For great films year-round, there’s Upstate Films, a non-profit, member-supported cinema that screens a diverse range of newly released, indie, and classic movies. The Obie Award-winning arts organization the Secret City, which set up shop near the Byrdcliffe Guild, presents ecstatic community celebrations of everyday creative life, and bills itself as part ceremony, part salon, and part show. Each event has a different theme and an ever-changing roster of artists and performers, harkening back to the carnival-like, early 20th-century Maverick festivals that first drew artists to Woodstock and set the tone for the town. In addition to its thriving culture and natural beauty, what attracts so many people to Woodstock—and makes them feel so at home there—is the deep sense of mutual support and compassion found among its residents and business owners. Radiating through the quaint village are the same welcoming undercurrents of love and human connection that have defined it since well before 1969—and in turn set the tone for the namesake festival. Today, those values come shining through in the way shopkeepers and restaurant workers greet each other at the Wednesday market, spend time getting to know their customers in order to give them the best experience, and support local nonprofits like Family of Woodstock, which was founded in 1970 and has grown to be one of Ulster County’s main social services providers. “Woodstock’s not just ‘the place where the festival didn’t happen’,” says Richard Heppner. “There was a creative spirit in Woodstock long before that. And it’s still here.”
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f you’re like most people who attended public school in the United States, sex education evokes memories of being separated into boys and girls, giggling as instructors slipped condoms over bananas and flipped through highly detailed anatomical diagrams. Thankfully, you may have thought, it was over after one or two days. Or maybe you didn’t have sex ed at all. Only 24 states plus Washington, DC mandate sex education in public schools, according to the Guttmacher Institute. New York is not one of them. Our state does mandate HIV education, but there’s no requirement that what is taught be medically accurate or culturally appropriate. That has helped foster a situation in which “many public schools across New York provide sex ed curriculum that is inaccurate, incomplete, and stigmatizing,” according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. In 2012, the NYCLU published a report detailing a range of problems with public school sex ed curricula. Among them: Lessons on reproductive anatomy and basic functions were often inaccurate and incomplete; students weren’t learning the full range of methods to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections; and LGBTQ students were being stigmatized or ignored as heteronormative biases shaped instruction. It’s hardly better seven years later, according to Katharine Bodde, senior policy counsel with the NYCLU. “If anything, in this inflamed atmosphere, we’ve seen districts
take a step back,” she says. Private, or independent, schools have more power to set better standards, but that doesn’t mean they always do. “As our report revealed, sex ed is wildly different across the state, and that’s largely because the state has not adopted and required schools to reflect standards,” Bodde says. What would standards look like? According to Bodde, “Building a foundation so people can have a basis for healthy relationships, respecting each other’s bodies, and bodily autonomy.” The issue of sex education feels more urgent than ever, at a time when abortion rights nationwide are imperilled, the Trump administration is cutting federal funding for family planning programs, and we’re having a national conversation about sexuality, harassment, and consent. In New York State, oftentimes whether or not a child receives quality sex education comes down to the prerogatives and passions of individual educators. Across the state, a number of teachers, consultants, lawmakers, and nonprofits are trying to fill the gaps in what kids are learning about sex and their bodies in schools. The goal is comprehensive sex ed, which the advocacy group The Future of Sex Education defines as: “A planned, sequential K-12 curriculum that is part of a comprehensive school health education approach which addresses age-appropriate physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of human sexuality.”
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In other words, sex ed that’s more than a couple of perfunctory lessons with props. Advocates say it’s important to start earlier, too. “That’s so we’re not just talking about the technical aspects of not getting pregnant and not getting STIs, but how to have a healthy relationship with another person,” Bodde says. “Which is so critical at a time in our culture where we’re trying to break down sexual harassment and sexual violence.” Outside Help Many schools, both public and private, are bringing in outside consultants and educators to teach sex ed to students. “Schools are not really including it in their curriculum, and then parents are contacting me outside of school,” says Susanrachel Condon, a sexual health educator based in New Paltz. Condon mostly teaches group workshops to kids out of her home. Lately, she’s been working with 5th through 8th graders from the local Waldorf school. Her experience as a midwife helps her navigate the tricky terrain of talking about bodily experiences that someone might be going through for the first time.
“It’s about having a dialogue,” she says. “That’s what’s missing: finding out what people don’t know, what they want to know, and what they need to know, then helping them understand it in a way that is coordinated with their values, their level of understanding, and their health literacy.” Condon’s approach is more robust and interactive than the typical pile-offacts lesson that many students receive in school. She’ll have students roleplay specific scenarios in order to teach them how to resolve conflicts or declare personal boundaries in a clear, respectful way. One of the first things she does with each group is ask them to set guidelines to create a safe space, modeling a building block of healthy relationships. Most kids say similar things phrased in the negative (“don’t laugh” is a common refrain). Condon will ask them to rephrase each point in a more affirmative way. “We usually end up with, ‘Listen respectfully. Consider others’ viewpoints,’” she says. “Then you realize, ‘Oh, this is how people relate to each other in a positive way.’” Establishing a safe space helps bring marginalized kids into conversations they
have historically not been included in, often to the detriment of healthy selfdevelopment. “There’s a good amount of research at this point showing that the LGBTQ students get left out entirely,” says Elizabeth Greenblatt, an educator who’s been teaching about sexuality for more than 25 years. “Teachers get thrown into teaching sex ed, and if you don’t have training in navigating and facilitating these conversations and holding space for folks that is non-judgmental, you’ll fall back on your own biases, which can really shut down questions and opportunities for growth.” To Greenblatt, perhaps the main problem with sex education as it’s currently taught is that it’s often delivered as a couple of lessons too late in a child’s life, rather than an ongoing conversation tailored to specific developmental stages. We learn to count, then we learn long division, then we learn calculus. Why shouldn’t it be the same with sex ed? That hasn’t been the norm because, as a culture, we’re still pretty uncomfortable with the idea that young people are sexual, according to Greenblatt. That’s why most sex education is preventative in 8/19 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 83
nature. “Prevention should be part of a comprehensive curriculum,” she says. “But we do young people a disservice when we don’t talk about human sexuality as a normal, healthy part of life.” Greenblatt thinks these conversations should begin as soon as kids start getting curious about their bodies—by the age of 5, if not earlier. “If we really want to build a world in which consent is part of how we understand and function with each other, we’ve got to start young,” she says. That’s easier to do if educators look at sex education as part of a holistic social and emotional course. “There are some schools that are really interested in thinking about it that way,” Greenblatt says. “You can look at building out a very comprehensive program that also includes training with parents, training with school staff, looking at the school mission, vision, and values, and thinking about how are we incorporating these into who we are as a school.” Forward-Thinking Schools The Poughkeepsie Day School is among the local academic institutions rethinking how it teaches sex ed. The independent coeducational K-12 school, which was founded in 1934, has deep roots in the area, and in recent years, it has increasingly brought social and emotional learning into its core curricula. Last year, PDS incorporated social and emotional learning into its existing health and human growth instruction that all kids receive from pre-K through fifth grade. The program was developed in consultation with experts (including Greenblatt) and has five major components: self-awareness, selfmanagement, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. “Adolescence is such a confusing time, and we want to build a foundation where there are trusted adults you can turn to with questions,” says Mary Ellen Kenny, PDS’s lower school head. “You will feel confused, but you don’t have to feel confused all by yourself. School is a place where you can get answers.” The goal of the program is to normalize conversations about things that are often uncomfortable for kids to talk about. Lessons are done in groups, but students can ask questions anonymously via a question box. There are direct lessons, stories, and role-playing. For the little ones, Kenny says, it’s about instilling the truth that they can make decisions about their own bodies, and it’s the beginning of understanding what consent means, such as: not all friends like to be hugged. “They need to understand from a very early age that there are boundaries they’re in charge of,” Kenny says. The fourth- and fifth-graders, meanwhile, get a more formalized program that includes social-emotional learning components 84 EDUCATION CHRONOGRAM 8/19
“Prevention should be part of a comprehensive curriculum. But we do young people a disservice when we don’t talk about human sexuality as a normal, healthy part of life.” —Elizabeth Greenblatt
with medically accurate instruction about the changes their bodies are beginning to undergo. PDS instructors also hold info sessions with parents, so the adults stay aware of what their kids are learning and can continue conversations at home. Starting early means that these conversations become something kids expect to engage with in school, Kenny says, which makes building up to the more sensitive discussions around puberty and gender easier, and helps eliminate shame on the part of the kids. “Having a common vocabulary and common way of repairing situations has been helpful.” On the public school side, the Kingston City School District is also bringing its sex education into a broader wellness framework. Students there get a semester of health in fifth, seventh, and ninth grade, with specific, age-appropriate sex ed units in seventh and ninth grade that also include discussions of mental health, rape, harassment, and consent. “Our thinking is to provide our students with a comprehensive wellness overview, to allow them to lead a healthy lifestyle for their future,” says Richard Silverstein, director of physical education, health, and athletics for the district. Like many public and independent schools, KCSD supplements its in-class instruction with after-school workshops and presentations by guest educators and community-based professionals in the field. At the high school level, they’re one of many Hudson Valley schools that works with Planned Parenthood of the MidHudson Valley. Nonprofits Filling the Gaps In the absense of strict statewide standards, there are a growing number of organizations like Day One (which serves New York City) and WiseBodies (based in Chatham) that teach accurate, appropriate comprehensive sex ed to kids, teens, and even adults. Shelter houses like Grace Smith House, in Poughkeepsie, are also picking up the slack. Planned Parenthood falls somewhere in between. In addition to its work at Kingston High School, PPMHV leads one-off workshops and multisession programs at New Paltz High School, Poughkeepsie schools, and Newburgh High School, among other academic institutions. Last year, the chapter reached more than 28,000 community members through its education and outreach efforts. PPMHV’s most common comprehensive sex ed module is the Be Proud! Be Responsible! program, a seven-part curriculum evaluated and recommended by the Centers for Disease Control. It aims to help youth curb risk-taking behaviors, negotiate safer sex, increase their knowledge about pregnancy and STIs, and learn
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negotiation and refusal skills. Since the program is grant-funded, PPMHV is not allowed to change it, but when possible its instructors expand series to include holistic social-emotional instruction. “We call it ‘adulting,’” says Jessie Moore, director of sexuality education for PPMHV. Most of PPMHV’s sex ed efforts are free to schools, with money coming from the Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention program, a statewide initiative through the New York State Department of Health that funds evidence-based instruction in “high-risk” zip codes. Moore says that PPMHV has had to cut back on other programming that had been funded federally by the Title X Family Planning Program, which the Trump administration slashed earlier this year. Still, PPMHV has maintained its commitment as best it can to provide instruction throughout the community. Its educators not only go into schools, they’re also in group and foster care homes, shelters, non-secure detention facilities, and Office of Children and Family Services facilities. “I want to make sure that throughout the State of New York, everybody is getting comprehensive sex ed, that by the end of fifth grade, all students have learned the same information,” Moore says. “Look at the states that have abstinence-based education: Have you seen their unintended pregnancy rates? Their STI rates? More information creates better outcomes.” Changes to Come The fight to reform and modernize sex education is happening on two fronts. While the work of individual educators, progressive schools, and nonprofits is undoubtedly changing lives, that doesn’t amount to a solution for a systemic problem. The rising tide that will lift all boats is a law that mandates comprehensive sex education for all students in the state. That may happen soon. This year, local freshman Senator Jen Metzger introduced a bill that would require schools in New York State to introduce sexuality education in grades K-12 that reflects national standards. (The primary Senate cosponsor, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, carried similar legislation as early as 2008.) The bill would empower the Commissioner of Education to develop a model curriculum and prescribe overarching topics to be included within a comprehensive sexuality education, while leaving implementation and local control with educators, administrators, and parents in each district, who best understand their kids’ specific needs. Local school boards would also establish an advisory council to make recommendations
Only 10 states even reference “sexual assault” or “consent” in their sex education curricula.
regarding the curriculum, content, and evaluation of the program. Senator Metzger started working on the issue within a couple months of taking office. “For me, a surprising and deeply concerning finding was that most school districts do not include any information to help students access local resources if they, or someone they know, have been a victim of rape, sexual assault, or intimate partner violence,” she says. According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network), one in nine girls and one in 53 boys under the age of 18 experience sexual abuse or assault at the hands of an adult. “There is a pressing need to address such realities as relationship violence, harassment, and bullying, which can harm a young person’s emotional and physical health as well as academic performance,” Metzger says. The bill had widespread support from sex ed reform advocates, including the NYCLU and Day One, but it didn’t make it to a floor vote in this year’s session. But Senator Metzger is optimistic about its passage in the next legislative session. “Right now, it is really hard to know what is happening from district to district,” she says. “What we do know is that, as a state, we can and must do better to ensure that students receive the high-quality, medically accurate, and age-appropriate sex education they deserve.” Little by little, kids and teens in New York State are starting to get better sex education. But there’s still a long way to go. “It doesn’t have to be this way. In many countries, the right to accurate information about sexual health is deemed essential,” writes Andrea Barrica, the founder and chief executive of O.school, a media platform for learning about sexuality, in a recent New York Times op-ed that also included such sobering statistics as: 18 states require educators tell students that sex is acceptable only within the context of marriage; seven states prohibit teachers from acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people other than in the context of HIV or to condemn homosexuality; and only 10 states even reference “sexual assault” or “consent” in their sex education curricula. None of those things is true for New York State, but we’re nowhere near the head of the pack, either. To get there, a lot of changes still need to be made. “When the #MeToo movement started, educators got a lot of questions about how to incorporate it,” Greenblatt says. “But this has always been a core component of the work we do. It’s very hard for folks to talk about their experience. I do think there’s more conversation, but there’s more shutting down of conversation, too.”
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EMILY RITZ Love and Healing in Lumpland
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F “Hands are my favorite part of my body. Mine have stayed in great shape, and they have knowledge and wisdom.” —Emily Ritz
or Hudson-based artist Emily Ritz, music and art have always coexisted in tandem tracks, though lately the paths are coalescing. In 2015, she was living in a cabin in West Marin, in a community of young artists who’d escaped the high rents of the Bay Area. She was playing in a duo called Yesway and showing her delicately colored and intricately patterned watercolors in San Francisco galleries. The abstract paintings featured intricate organic forms, inspired by coral reefs, flora, fauna, and other natural phenomena, resembling surreal botanical drawings. Ritz would eventually come to call this fantasia-like imagery “Lumpland,” creating a whole language of patterns. After a debilitating chronic Lyme flare-up, Ritz moved back east to live with her mother and get treatment from a distinguished Lyme specialist in Rhinebeck. When her health had improved, she eventually moved to Hudson, where she began experimenting with ceramics, translating her Lumpland patterns into three-dimensional shapes. The fired pieces recall sea anemones and coral, and seem to sway in some unseen current. “I can’t stop making,” says Ritz, whose apartment proliferates with the marine-colored sculptures. “Art for me is this meditation medicine, creating my own perfect world. I trust my hands so much. But I don’t trust myself as much with music.” Raised by two artists, Ritz’s creative exploration was encouraged from childhood. “Being an artist was my identity from a really young age,” says Ritz, who took classes at Mill Street Loft as a teenager. “But I guess I needed another outlet, so I just started writing songs.” From the beginning, when Ritz was in college and performing her songs on guitar at open mics, music was a channel for her emotions. “Writing music is medicine for my deepest pain and deepest pleasure,” she says. “I’m really turned on by words—visually and sonically, so lyrics are the most important thing for me.” Over time, she developed her own style of composing, which she describes as “psychedelic,” characterized by “weird time signatures and picking patterns.” In spring of 2018, Ritz released her first solo album, Patterned Recess, and did a cross-country solo tour. She wrote another record processing the experience while on the road. “I was self-releasing a record and going on tour. I had to build myself up,” she recalls. “So I started writing songs about manifestation and letting my light shine.” Since being back in Hudson, her artwork, too, has moved in the direction of affirmation and self-actualization. Her “me to me” series depict her in tender embrace with herself, hugging, whispering sweet words, making love.“More than ever, my art and music inform each other,” she says. “My drawings are about having a conversation with myself, and the name of my new record is In Love Alone. It’s all very harmonious and holistic, and it’s never been quite that clear before.”
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These hands are to love The hands are to hold These hands I’m keeping All for my own I made a double I made a mirror I made a lover Out of my figure I made a double I made a twin I made the best of this body I’m in I’m in love I’m alone —from “I’m in Love”
Clockwise from top left: A ceramic vase from Lumpland; Go Fuck Yourself, pen and watercolor on paper; ceramic piece from Lumpland.
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“My songs used to be so shrouded in metaphor. It was this fear of being seen. But more and more, I’m letting myself just say the thing.” Feeling Myself Feeling Myself, ink on paper.
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We Were Half a Million Strong Michael Lang and the 1969 Woodstock Festival By Peter Aaron
Above: The rotating stage at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969. © Henry Diltz Opposite: Michael Lang in the office trailer backstage at the festival. © Henry Diltz
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ne might expect that the man known as the driving force behind the most famous music festival of all time would have been raised in a musical family. “Not terribly,” says Brooklyn-born Michael Lang. “My dad was in the construction and heating business; my parents weren’t that big on music. They did own a Latin nightclub for a while, though. When I was a teenager, I loved the early rock ‘n’ roll. I was addicted. And I still was when I was going to NYU and studying business and psychology.” Those three elements—a love of rock 'n’ roll, a business sensibility, and a head for psychology—would serve Lang well in 1969 when, at the age of 24, he cocreated and oversaw the cultural event that defined a generation: the Woodstock Festival, which, 50 years later, is the focus of Woodstock, a new book of photographs from the landmark festival assembled by Lang.
The Woodstock Festival wasn’t Lang’s first foray into concert promotion, but he was still new to the game when the idea for a three-day “Aquarian Exposition” was born. A friend had opened the first head shop in the East Village, and in 1967, when he decided to open another in the arts enclave of Coconut Grove, Florida, Lang followed him down to help run it. He quickly connected with the Miami area’s budding counterculture and began promoting local concerts. The run of shows culminated with his coproducing the 1968 Pop Festival, which was inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival and featured the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Mothers of Invention, Chuck Berry, and others. Despite his local success, though, it wasn’t long before he decided he’d had enough of the Sunshine State. Lang’s next stop, that same year, would be another small town with a thriving reputation as an artists’ haven: Woodstock.
“It was time to get back to the New York area, and I wanted to live in a small, creative community that was like Coconut Grove but closer to the city,” he says. “I already knew Woodstock from visiting the town with my parents when I was a kid. And I knew Bob Dylan and Paul Butterfield were here. And The Band [whose debut album, Music from Big Pink, was then redefining the music world] were here. I met them early on.” While he was attending one of the Sound-Out mini festivals that were held at arts matron Pan Copeland’s farm just outside of Woodstock from 1966 to 1970, an idea entered Lang’s mind. “Nineteen-sixty-eight had been a terrible year, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and Vietnam and the violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago,” Lang says. “I just thought about how nice it was for someone to be sitting out under the stars in the summer, smoking 8/19 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 99
Festival preparations at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel. © Henry Diltz
a joint, and listening to music. I thought, ‘I wonder if something like this but bigger could work here.’” Lang and a partner, record producer Artie Kornfeld, hooked up with some investors and began scouting nearby locations for what they were calling the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, which, in addition to numerous other top rock and folk acts, would be headlined by a trinity of the day’s biggest names: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the Grateful Dead. After they’d ruled out Winston Farm in Saugerties as physically unsuitable, the newly created Woodstock Ventures organization moved their site to Mills Industrial Park in Walkill, where they expected 50,000 to attend. But in a contentious civic meeting, a group of locals came out against the perceived threat of an impending hippie hoard and blocked the event (still named for the zeitgeist-defining town to the north that had inspired it) from taking place locally. “Some of the old timers had been watching our crew of long-haired guys grow as we were working on the site,” says Lang, who admits he wasn’t fond of the sterile industrial park to begin with. “And I guess they thought we were going to steal their cattle or something.” By this point, July 15, 1969, the opening date of the rapidly growing, national buzz-generating festival, was exactly a month away. News reports about the now homeless happening attracted dozens of phone calls with offers of new venues, and Lang and his team followed up on all of them. After visiting a run-down, swampy bungalow colony that was immediately eliminated, 100 ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM 8/19
they stumbled upon their field of dreams: Max Yasgur’s farm in the Sullivan County town of Bethel, about 60 miles from the town of Woodstock. “[A] perfect green bowl,” Lang recalls in The Road to Woodstock, the 2010 book he cowrote with local author Holly George-Warren. “There at its base is a rise just waiting for our stage.” Rather than an outsider-fearing yokel, Yasgur turned out to be an upstanding figure—and an astute businessman—who was sympathetic to the young organizers’ plight. He agreed to rent them the field and some additional property as a place for their “music fair.” Before he met Yasgur, Lang maintains, it was looking like Woodstock wouldn’t happen. But, as the world now knows, it did happen. On a much bigger scale than, it can be safely said, anyone—Lang included— could have ever anticipated. What was by the first day of the festival expected to be a total of 150,000 swelled to, reports to this day vary, somewhere between 400,000 and 600,000—at the time, roughly equal to the populations of several of New York State’s larger cities. On the first day, after nearly 186,000 tickets had been sold and with thousands of festival-goers still streaming in, the event was declared free henceforth. Joining Hendrix, Joplin, the Dead, and contemporaneously hot acts like the Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Canned Heat, The Who, and The Band was a brace of lesser-known newcomers whose star turns at Woodstock would make their careers: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, in their second-ever live
appearance as group; Santana, a last-minute addition; and Joe Cocker, whose passionate performance of The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends” is among the iconic festival highlights preserved via the 1970 concert documentary Woodstock. “One of the favorite moments for me was when I finally convinced Richie Havens [taking the place of delayed openers Sweetwater] to go on and open the festival—and the PA worked!” says Lang with a relieved-sounding laugh. Havens’ spontaneously written “Freedom” was another star-making segment; it and Hendrix’s fiery rendition of “The StarSpangled Banner” are two more of the Woodstock film’s historic scenes. (Reproduced in Lang’s new book is a heartbreaking find: a letter from The Beatles’ Apple Records dated the month before the festival offering the services of John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band, James Taylor, and Billy Preston that somehow got lost in the shuffle.) But, really, Woodstock was about much more than the music. Pushed along by the mounting public sentiment against the Vietnam War and its imposed draft; the push for civil rights; the environmental effort; and the longing of many young people to shed what they considered the restrictive social constraints of previous generations, the hippie movement had grown from a San Francisco phenomenon to one that had spread much farther than most could ever have conceived of. But then, right there, stretching for as far as the eye could see in front of the whole world, was roughly a half million of its members. And not only that, but they were taking care of
each other and themselves and embodying, in one massive tribal gathering, the message of compassion and togetherness that was the theme of the event—a theme that would be picked up and amplified henceforth. Due to mud-making rain delays and other logistical snags, the event stretched from the planned three days into four, finishing with Hendrix’s 9am set on August 18. When it was all over, the so-called Woodstock Nation had been born and popular culture had been forever changed. So, too, had Lang. “It was such an amazing experience to be immersed in this total love fest—so incredibly powerful and rewarding,” says the Ulster County resident, well-known as an eternal pillar of calm in the tensest of situations. “But I’d been traveling at 1,000 miles per hour for a long time and suddenly I felt like I was in freefall. I realized I had to move away from doing festivals for a while. Because anything else I would do was going to be unfairly compared to Woodstock.” He next started a record label, Just Sunshine, and moved into film production and artist management, working with Joe Cocker, Rickie Lee Jones, Willie DeVille, and others. But the born promoter couldn’t stay out of the game forever. Twenty-five years after the Bethel event, at the original festival’s intended Saugerties site, he costaged Woodstock ’94, which featured Bob Dylan, Metallica, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others. He stresses that he was minimally involved in Woodstock ’99 (“MTVStock,” he derisively calls it), which took place farther upstate, in Rome, and was marred by violence and vandalism. All over the news in recent months has been the saga of Woodstock 50, the three-day golden anniversary incarnation of the 1969 festival Lang had been preparing for the past few years. Sadly, at the time of this writing, things don’t look good for the problemplagued event, which includes Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, Robert Plant, and the Killers among its scheduled headliners. In July, after already losing its planned location of Watkins Glen International Speedway along with investors Dentsu, Inc., and event producers Superfly, Lang’s firm was denied a permit to hold the festival at the alternate venue of Vernon Downs Racino in Oneida County. That prompted Superfly’s replacement, Virgin Produced, to drop out as well. But if there’s one thing to be learned about Lang from the monumental 1969 gathering he and his troupe pulled off at Yasgur’s Farm with less than a month’s set up, it’s that the eternally youthful entrepreneur shouldn’t be written off yet. When asked if he ever thought he’d never put on another Woodstock Festival after coming down from the heights of the first one, Lang quips, “Never say never.”
Michael Lang in July 2019. Photo by Fionn Reilly
Woodstock is published by Reel Art Press. Reelartpress.com. 8/19 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 101
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books
The Yellow House Sarah Broom Grove Press, August 13, 2019, $26 “I always dwell on absences more than the presences,” author Sarah Broom confesses, summing up a truth at the heart of The Yellow House. In this gripping debut memoir, Broom chooses an unlikely monument to recreate history—her neglected, too-small childhood home on a dead-end street in a part of town, New Orleans East, that had long been abandoned by developers and city officials. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae purchased the house in 1961 for $3,200, using money she received following her first husband’s death. At this time, New Orleans East—a city literally built on a swamp—was being promoted as the next great urban expansion of the South, with the promise of jobs at the nearby NASA plant, where members of Broom’s family worked. As time passed and these silver-lined economic dreams failed to materialize, the house carried on. But when Broom’s father died abruptly six months after her birth, the structure entered a 20-year period of neglect. “Now girl, you know this house,” was her mother’s refrain whenever a visitor threatened to darken their doorstep. Broom’s book is organized in four parts: the history of her family and the city that gave rise to the yellow house; Broom’s life growing up in it; the tempestuous waters of Katrina that, despite their strength, were unable to fell the building; and finally Broom’s investigations into the house’s history and the city’s deceitful policies in failing to compensate families like her own who had lost everything. Threaded throughout the prose are the voices of family and friends, which add layers of textures to these overlooked neighborhoods while rounding out the overall sense of loss—a ghostly chorus of a past that refuses to be washed away. After the waters of Katrina level New Orleans East, a suprised engineer notes that the enduring yellow house was never properly tethered. So what held it in place all those years? “The weight of the people who lived in it,” the engineer suggests. In Broom’s hands, the yellow house—which survived a dozen children, the abrupt death of a parent, and the devastating waters of Hurricane Katrina—is transformed not merely into a symbol of her own family’s story, but a synecdoche for the history of New Orleans, the struggles of African Americans, and ultimately the soul of America itself. —James Conrad The Golden Notebook in Woodstock hosts Sarah Broom, interviewed by Abigail Thomas, for a reading and signing on October 5 at 4pm.
Tending the Perennials Eric Booth
Joy Road: My Journey from Addiction to Recovery Julie Evans
BETTERYET PRESS, $16
WOODSTOCKARTS, $19.95
One person paints while the other prays: two separate forms of expression, but perhaps not so different as they might seem. In his most recent book, teaching artist Eric Booth attempts to bridge the gap between art and religion and examine the similarities between the two. “Religion is the work of art in the medium of spirit,” Booth claims. In this collection of philosophical monologues, Booth draws analogies that liken the artistic process to the curation of one’s own bespoke spirituality. He breaks down traditional notions, providing strategies to rewire one’s thinking and ultimately offering an alternative path for spirituality.
Like communities across the country, the Hudson Valley has struggled with the deadly vice grip of addiction. Author Julie Evans is no stranger to this pain. In her teens, she lost her mother to alcoholism and her father to cancer, and later, walked out on her lover splayed on the couch with a needle still in his arm. This earnest memoir follows the author on her journey as she deals with addictions to sex, nicotine, alcohol, and cocaine. Her painfully honest anecdotes highlight her struggles and evoke her resilient personality. This rollercoaster tale hits all the marks with sex, drugs, hippies, a harrowing fall from grace, and a heartwarming redemption.
Hudson River Lighthouses Hudson River Maritime Museum ARCADIA PUBLISHING, $21.99
Huma Bhabba: They Live Edited by Eva Respini
It’s 1850; a thick veil of fog has crept over the surface of the Hudson River as your ship cuts through choppy water in the ink-black night. With many vessels sharing the river, both freight and passenger, and an everchanging coastline, the path is treacherous. The only thing preventing a catastrophic crash is the piercing white beam of a lighthouse illuminating the waterway. While dozens of these structures used to dot the Hudson River shoreline, today sadly only eight of these historic monoliths are left. This book compiles a variety of archival images from the Hudson River Maritime Museum and other contributing institutions to detail the important history of lighthouses on the river, which served as the region’s main trade and travel artery for decades.
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, $50
Shatter the Sky Rebecca Kim Wells
In the Shadow of Genius Photographs and text by Barbara G. Mensch
SIMON & SCHUSTER CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING DIVISION, $18.99
EMPIRE STATE EDITIONS, $34.95
Young Maren wants nothing more than the love of her girlfriend Kaia and to roam the lush mountainside of her homeland. But their nation’s tyrannical emperor has different plans: His minions kidnap Kaia to join his ranks, leaving Maren with a burning desire for revenge. In order to save Kaia, Maren must find a way to apprentice with the Aromatory, the emperor’s illusive dragon-trainer, to gain the power necessary to launch her daring and dangerous rescue mission. Described by the author, Rebecca Kim Wells, as “that angry, feminist, bisexual, dragon, YA, fantasy novel,” the book speaks to the young person in all of us while presenting queer identity as a nonissue. Wells’s writing style is vividly descriptive and accessible, while serving up a healthy dose of pageturning cliffhangers at the end of each chapter. This empowering work is sure to delight young and old alike.
For 30 years, Otisville-based author and photographer Barbara G. Mensch lived in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. She marveled at the massive structure and, as she began to photograph it, soon sought to investigate the brilliant minds of the Roebling family behind its construction. Her journey took her from Brooklyn to Mülhausen, Germany, the birthplace of John Roebling, to the battlefield of Gettysburg where Washington Roebling fought for the Union, and countless places in between. She offers an intimate look into the lives of these brilliant architectural minds through personal letters, notebook entries, newspaper clippings, and other archival documents, revealing never-before seen perspectives on one of New York’s most treasured structures.
Poughkeepsie-based artist Huma Bhabha has a knack for making the grotesque and disturbing look exquisite. She abstractly depicts the human form with clay, brick, construction materials, and other found objects. This beautiful hardcover coffee table book binds together two decades of Bhabha’s most well-known and distinctive pieces, which take influence from horror films, science fiction, and ancient artifacts. It also includes a collection of her essential photographs, drawings, and printmaking revolving around the subject of the body. Accompanying essays pry into the cultural references of her PakistanAmerican upbringing and frequent themes in her work like war, displacement, and colonialism.
—Max Freebern
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music Kendl Winter Stumbler’s Business (Team Love Records) Team-love.com Let me be clear at the outset: I don’t like twang. I have no explanation or excuse for my bias; it’s just something my ears reject. I’ve turned down more than a few review assignments at the first sound of a banjo. Which is all the more reason to trust me when I rave about Kendl Winter, a banjoist and singer-songwriter with a voice even twangier than Emmylou’s. The overall vibe of this release on New Paltz’s Team Love label sounds like Winter and her musicians (Joey Capoccia on bass, Derek McSwain on mandolin, and Joey Seward on drums; Winter also handles guitar) snuck into Daniel Lanois’s recording studio after a Wrecking Ball session and, with mics still hot, laid down these haunting, minimalist tracks. (Kudos to Joey Seward as producer.) Winter’s “modern old-time” approach belies her past efforts playing punk and other styles of music, and the drones she builds upon owe as much to the Velvet Underground as to primitive folk and hillbilly. Winter has often been compared to Iris DeMent and Gillian Welch, but to my twang-allergic ears, her sound transcends the country-folk idiom, and her lyrics—“using bottles like vehicles to get around”—are more Maggie Nelson than “Little Maggie.” Winter’s twang is just an illusion cloaking the sound and sensibility of a thoughtful, meditative artist mining and playing her own brand of deep soul. —Seth Rogovoy
Chris Pasin Ornettiquete
Jim Sande Silver; Pagliacci
Eric Starr/Michelle Alvarado Twelve Pieces for Solo Piano
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(Independent) Ericstarrmusic.com
It’s a stretch from the straight-ahead big-band-style of Greene County-based trumpeter Chris Pasin’s long-time boss Buddy Rich—the horn man toured as a member of Rich’s band for years—to the bent sounds of free jazz firebrand Ornette Coleman. But Pasin had a familiarity with the avant-garde in his back pocket long before he signed on with the legendary drummer and bandleader, absorbing albums by Coleman, Albert Ayler, and Don Cherry when he was a teenager. On this set of five Coleman compositions; two fine Pasin originals; and a version of Ayler’s immortal “Ghosts” with vocals and lyrics by Ingrid Sertso, Pasin brings his knowledge and bright, burnished tone to the music, laying claim to his own rung of its ongoing evolution. As a leader, he’s aces as well, allowing his impeccably assembled ensemble of area greats—Sertso and her husband Karl Berger (vibraphone, piano), Michael Bisio (bass), Harvey Sorgen (drums), and Adam Siegel (saxophone)—ample room to shine. —Peter Aaron
Furniture music was the term Erik Satie coined for a series of short pieces created to be performed live yet functioning, essentially, as background. Useful stuff, sonically speaking. Brian Eno carried the concept three steps further with ambient music, and artists like William Basinksi have made careers of slowly shapeshifting tones. Delmar’s Jim Sande eschews his pop roots with a pair of new discs that, while more organic and approachable, share an ethos. Silver is delightful for working on a Thursday afternoon—busy enough to draw your attention, light enough to let your mind wander. Perfect to paint by! Pagliacci, alternatively, is for the night drive later that evening, allowing thought to lead the wheel as much as the hands. Remarkable care is given here by Sande; a surprising amount of instrumental variety and gentle humor—strings and a touch of circus fun—blend in with the thoughtful dark wash. —Michael Eck
The jazz drummer and composer Eric Starr has long favored the “chamber” side of jazz—modernist harmony, contrapuntal ensemble arrangements, and through-composed forms as opposed to the head-solosolo default of pickup jazz or the spontaneous design of the “free” school. On 2018’s Twelve Pieces for Solo Piano, Starr makes it official. This serious composer’s gambit has been hailed as a “valuable addition to the piano literature” by Andy LaVerne, a jazz legend who also treads that line between jazz and serious chamber music, along with Brad Mehldau, Fred Hersch, Dan Tepfer, and so many of jazz piano’s current giants. Performed with lucid elegance by Michelle Alvarado, Starr’s compositions identify with the French Impressionistic tradition in their harmonic colors, their movement agile but not driven by resolutions. In their unpredictable thematic development, they bristle with invention and mischief. And—this is significant—none of it swings much. Whether the serious repertoire will recognize this bid, as LaVerne suggested it might, remains to be seen, but there is no doubt about the substance and elaborate design of this music. —John Burdick 8/19 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 105
poetry
EDITED BY Phillip X Levine
Walking At Dusk
Every month I seek to publish a poem from one of our young poets. I’m always looking. If your young child, grandchild, nephew, niece, student, or friend writes or simply says something you think worth sharing, I’d love to see it.
All aboard Before the sun sets Or else You’ll go wild
Email it to me, Phillip X Levine, at poetry@chronogram.com. Keep listening.
-Genevieve Schmidt (5 years)
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Fire Island Oceanfronts
Neverendingly
Walking in the water, Cold ocean salt stings yesterday’s bites. Wind-scattered mosquitoes Leave mind space to notice Details obscured by yesterday’s heat. A glinty jet ascends Under a white moon. Carcasses of two horseshoe crabs— Did someone carry them up from the Bay?
Truthfully it is one alluring scene after the other—whether it be small petals being blown in the wind from some bouncy blossom, or a car pulls up on the street, and a woman steps out, a black dress billowing in the sudden breeze sounding through leaves, branches swaying in an astounding choreography to this mysteriously conducted, yes— symphony.
Owners used to worry That a storm like Sandy or Irene Would take these oceanfronts, But instead the government has chosen some, Doors boarded, catwalks opened So those who want to trespass Cannot. They will patriotically revert To National Seashore. An old man sits in the surf Stretching his bones and eating The energy of the sea. These old houses are all owned By old men who don’t care what weather Is coming ten years anon. I think of my mother now long gone. Did her ashes drift all the way to Tahiti Or are they brushing my feet as I walk? -Laura Rock Kopczak Guitar Lessons (for J.R.) Dude, it’s true what you said yesterday. No young boy ever learned piano or French horn in order to meet girls.
Hues I seem to dream of you in colors that don’t exist in blues that tinted orange and purple so bright they glow just like the sun -Meagan Towler
-George J. Searles Love On The Road We hug and kiss in the fast food parking area From their SUV my family waves farewell to me We are on the same road until they slow to approach their exit For an instant we are side by side Everyone turns in their seats and throws me an extra kiss They look like any other family Except they’re my family -Michael Glassman 106 POETRY CHRONOGRAM 8/19
-Christopher Porpora The Back Door’s Alive How you turned and pivoted into the rectangle of light from the open door, a sliver that made me suddenly you and your choices. Though I stood in the dark, your slight stumble as your foot came down on the side of your decision became my own as I felt myself drifting toward that search for clarity and wholeness in a home where mirrors are appreciated for reflecting, telling us what we don’t want to know, confirming what we do. Don’t get me wrong; I love the night. Give me a late rising moon and the Milky Way, I’ll fall in love until dawn, attention drawn more to the majesty of feeling than the day to day mediocrity of consistent scaffolding if you do it right. I too have slept and stumbled through a miasma of my own making, confused the humors rising off the bog with mist, will o’ the wisps for knowledge. The back door’s alive. Inside are seven fireplaces, meaning seven chimneys to escape from, seven rooms where you might find where you belong. -Sandra Kolankiewicz All Saints Day In the corner of my kitchen Gabriel and Judas play five card draw The water faucet is broken, the wine barrel bare Yesterday’s bread crust, stale on the counter John decrees there will be no baptisms performed Mary Magdalene arrives with sangria and saves the day She sells tickets to the resurrection three for the price of one Gabriel blows his horn, Judas pulls an inside straight I buy a raffle for salvation Mary smiles -William Teets
Class Trip I last saw my son, fourteen years old, at the New York Public Library. Arriving at the big city from upstate, while his classmates spent a scheduled hour shopping he announced in a new, growly voice, “I have a much better idea,” and sprinted through traffic to a magnificent marble building where a pair of stone lions stand guard. His father and I milled the ground floor while our son paced, exasperated until commandeering our elbows and we were off to glide polished floors, skate hallways and skim past chandeliers that swam in light. He knew exactly where he was going— this son of mine with no sense of direction— and on quick legs (longer than ours) bounded the stairs two steps at a time until he stopped, suddenly underneath an arch: an architect’s prayer a mason’s embrace the curved girder that keeps weight from crushing space. Just beyond, blue sky filled the open throat of a window.
Teachers report regular sightings in calculus and sculpture classes. Siblings claim to regret his presence. Sometimes I hear him laughing with friends— but by the time I get close, he is already gone. Tricked by the light under his door, I knock— but when he opens it, and I scan the room littered with school uniforms and paint supplies— he is not there. I lost him at the New York Public Library to the inverted runners of a marble cradle the lintel of an arc through which a young man might escape might discover, in plain sight a portal and just beyond it the blue shock of freedom. If anyone sees him— If anyone sees my beloved son, Please, please, let me know. -D.C.G. Expectant Orchards
“Isn’t it beautiful?” he breathed, leaning slender, reverent, toward the opening.
My mother said I came from Adam’s rib, Heaven and hell, purgatory and penance; one gluttonous day in paradise bursting with original sin.
And before my eyes, my son’s face faded into white walls his thinly-poured whisper trickling into creases between stone slabs.
Said I came from temptation, from eating the wrong apple, from one celestial serpent, preying on me, belting blue-black bruises into my holy, hell-bound flesh.
When we turned away, I thought nothing of it, but he did so reluctantly. I—accustomed to his brilliant comings and goings—assumed his triumphant escapes were mine, as well as if I would never lose vantage of his confidences as if they belonged to me. If I had known, I would have shouted, “Wait! The world will crush you, people will not love you as they should!” might have wept, even would have latched onto my husband’s arm since our son had let go of my own. I didn’t know and so, I didn’t.
From seven capital sins: pride, envy, anger, sloth, lust, gluttony, and greed. I come from golden rules, and healing holy sacraments; Commandments, confessions, and decades of Hail Mary full of grace, Our Fathers, Acts of Contrition, and a lifetime of penance.
We retraced our steps, turning faces from chandeliers ignoring lions’ scowls and wading into stalled traffic, threading our way back to teenagers with shopping bags and parents asking wearily, “Where did the time go?” except for one dad, who joked, when we boarded the bus, “Next stop, high school,” and no one laughed. I have not seen my son since that unforgivable day. His face in full bloom. His posture of rapt attention. Precise fingers; pale hands.
I come from night dreams, with headwaters deep, windy epiphanies full of slippery fish, and whitewater moon beams roiling in a rutting red sea.
Full of transgressions, now, I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep… what comes from my night dreams, where I am not born from a miser’s mouth or Adam’s dust bone cage, his timid ribs. I have not fallen from Heaven’s grace, burning in hell’s eternity. Wafer-paper Gods, don’t linger, rotting on my crippled Sunday tongue.
I come from crimson mud and fruit laden, expectant orchards, bursting ferocious cunt curses, and furious luscious love. I come from hot, wet, belly-dreaming, my own fertile story, birthing my own pregnant truth. -Colleen Geraghty Full submission guidelines: Chronogram.com/submissions 8/19 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 107
Painting Peace: Art in the Time of Global Crisis Kazuaki Tanahashi visits Zen Mountain Monastery to read from his latest book Painting Peace and speak about his career as an artist, peace activist, and leading translator of Zen Master Dogen (one of the founders of the Soto Zen school). He shares about his childhood in war-torn Japan and the influence of his father, an important figure in the Japanese military who later became a Shinto priest and dedicated his life to the cause of world peace. August 8 at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper
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the guide
August 24 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 August 3: Bon Odori in Kingston August 9: Spirit Family Reunion at Spiegeltent August 11: Saugerties Caribbean Festival August 13: Woodstock: The Whole Story at Rosendale Theatre August 16-17: Bridgman/Packer Dance at PS21 August 17: The Fugs at Byrdcliffe Barn August 17-18: “Reconstruction” at LUMBERYARD August 23-25: Summer Hoot at Ashokan Center August 23-September 2: Hudson Eye Festival Through September 8: “Much Ado About Nothing” at Boscobel
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Event Gallery August 8
Motionless in White August 9
Nelly, TLC, & Flo Rida
August 15
(SOLD OUT) Film on the Field with Arlo Guthrie
August 16
Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo + Melissa Etheridge
August 30
Bush & +Live+
Our Lady Peace August 31
Pentatonix
Rachel Platten Sundays Sept. 1-29 (Free)
Harvest Festival
September 12 Luke Bryan
Cole Swindell & Jon Langston September 13
Wine Festival
October 6
Borisevich Duo PLAY: The Classics
Event Gallery October 12
Craft: Beer, Spirits & Food Festival
October 15
Graham Nash
Event Gallery October 19
John Sebastian
Event Gallery November 7
David Sanborn Jazz Quintet
Edgar Winter Band & Blood, Sweat & Tears
Canned Heat
Event Gallery
September 21
August 17
Chris Thile
Max Weinberg’s Jukebox
(SOLD OUT) Santana
The Doobie Brothers
Event Gallery Event Gallery September 22
Axiom Brass PLAY: The Classics
August 18
Event Gallery
Tedeschi Trucks Band & Grace Potter
Jimmie Vaughan
John Fogerty
September 29 Event Gallery
Made in the Hudson Valley.
October 5
OCT 4 - OCT 20
Alice Cooper & Halestorm
August 25
Professional Theatre.
(SOLD OUT) Gordon Lightfoot
AUG 23 - SEPT 8
August 1 & 2
JULY 19 - AUG 18
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary where it happened, where it’s happening still.
JUNE 21 - JULY 14
A Season of Song & Celebration.
MAY 31 - JUNE 16
BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
November 24
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CLAIRE LYNCH & JIM HURST
December 7 & 8 (Free)
8/3
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Holiday Market
April 26, 2020
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2019 Special Exhibit
We Are Golden: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival and Aspirations for a Peaceful Future.
Thru December 31
SEPT 6–8 @ SUNY NEW PALTZ
To learn more, purchase tickets , and see a complete list of programs and events visit BethelWoodsCenter.org. Follow Us Special 50th anniversary events and activities are supported in part by donors to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts and by a grant awarded to Bethel Woods by Empire State Development and New York State’s Division of Tourism/I LOVE NY under Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Regional Economic Development Council Initiative. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a 501c3 nonprofit cultural organization that inspires, educates, and empowers individuals through the arts and humanities.
Performances by THE NIELDS • BONSAI TREES • SASHA DOBSON WITH JEFF MURPHY & AARON JOHNSTON DAVID GONZALEZ • RAINA SOKOLOV-GONZALEZ • MARIO, REYNALDO & NIKO RINCON • JEFF BOYER • JONATHAN BURNS • THE PUPPET PEOPLE • OKRA DANCE COMPANY T i c k e t s & m o r e i n f o : w ww .r i d g efes t n p .com
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Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival will perform an adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing" set in 1950s America at Boscobel through September 8.
The flames of love, war, and sexual taboo are fanned throughout Shakespeare’s greatest plays, captured in stories that are remarkably relatable to this day. His themes echo through history: Families torn apart by forbidden romance, combat-weary soldiers who embark on battles of the heart, the so-called purity of a woman held in higher regard than her mind or manner. The centuries-old works of this prodigious playwright transcend his era in such a way that his art imitates life-to-come. Proving the timelessness of Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing,” director May Adrales reinterpreted the story by changing its setting from 1590s Italy to 1950s America; her vision can be seen during this summer’s Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival at Boscobel. “May was inspired by the time period of the TV show ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’” explains Davis McCallum, the festival’s artistic director. “She felt that setting the play in a world where there were defined gender roles would be useful for this particular story.” “Much Ado” tells entwined tales of love and neartragic betrayal, with the Great Bard’s notorious witty banter and comic repartee peppered throughout. The plot unfolds with Benedick and Claudio, two soldiers returning from war. They fall for cousins Beatrice and Hero, whom they attempt to woo during a masked ball, where instead of swans and jokers, party guests don masks of renowned figures of that period, like Jackie Robinson. While Benedick and Beatrice exchange insults and verbal jabs as defense mechanisms to defy their mutual attraction over time, Claudio and Hero lean into their affections and are soon set to marry.
Whether through jealousy or a lack of love, Hero’s uncle Don John, sabotages the union by putting Hero’s integrity (and hymen) in question, leading Claudio to call off the wedding. What ensues is a scheme to uncover the truth that dramatically snowballs with classic Shakespearean flair—faked death, vengeful plotting, near heartbreak, and a happy ending. As the truth is revealed, Hero is finally unveiled as alive and, ahem, intact. “We approach performances in a playful, contemporary way; rarely would you see actors in pumpkin pants,” McCallum says of HVSF’s programming. Instead, costuming and music for this play are both indicative of the ’50s. “Though the language is still Shakespearean, we approached singer-songwriter Nellie McKay to write music to his lyrics. She created these cool, retro songs that sound like what you’d hear in a Doris Day movie.” The show takes place under the Theater Tent, a 500-seat outdoor space overlooking the Hudson River. McCallum suggests packing a picnic and enjoying the scenic views before the show. “You know movies described as romantic comedies—that genre in which two strong, independent characters take the entire film to realize they love each other? ‘Much Ado’ is the original romantic comedy,” he explains. “It’s a great way to remember how wonderful it is to fall in love.” “Much Ado About Nothing” is performed every third night of the festival through September 8 at Boscobel in Garrison. Additional performances during the festival include “Cymbaline,” “Cyrano,” “Into the Woods,” and “Julius Cesar.” Hvshakespeare.org. —Melissa Dempsey
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Tony Orrico creating a Penwald Drawing, part of a series of bilateral drawings exploring the use of the body as a tool of measurement to inscribe geometries through movement.
It seems like most local arts festivals are more about the outside world, with the organizers concentrating on booking “big name” out-of-town artists with the aim of luring large crowds, mainly from beyond their town boundaries. But the vision behind the inaugural, multidisciplinary Hudson Eye festival, which will take place in its namesake city from August 23 through September 2, looks to defy that view with programming celebrating artists who live in and/or have roots in the Hudson area. “As far as I know, this is really the first attempt in Hudson to do a festival that’s local in focus and groups artists, dancers, and musicians together under one banner,” says acclaimed choreographer Jonah Bokaer, who, along with curator Aaron Levy Garvey, is overseeing the 10-day event. “The goal is to animate the arts community in Hudson and stimulate creativity.” In addition to the world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic and a recital by Bokaer’s own company Jonah Bokaer Choreography, other artists set to appear at Hudson Eye include guitarists Patrick Higgins and Alexander Turnquist; filmmaker Tijana Petrovic; dancers Elena Mosley, Davon, and Women of Resistance; performance artists J.M. Tate and Laura Gutierrez; musician Ryder Cooley; dance DJ and multimedia artist Matthew Placek; and visual artists Timothy Stanley, Sheida Soleimani, Rachel Libeskind, and Tony Orrico. Participating venues include Basilica Hudson, Club Helsinki, Hudson Hall, Second Ward
Foundation, Studio 429, the Hudson Area Library, and Space 428, which Bokaer established in 2016. The needle of Hudson Eye was threaded when an anonymous donor offered Bokaer and Garvey a grant to launch a locally oriented arts incentive. “I’d received some commissions for dance projects from the Brooklyn Art Museum over the years, and I wanted to carry my gratitude for those forward with a project that was more multimedia,” says Bokaer, who founded his eponymous dance company in 2002 and has been living and working in Hudson since 2009. Besides its overarching hyper-local, pan-genre approach, other signature elements of the planned festival are its panel salons, the “Dine Around” restaurant component, and “Hot Topics,” a series of free talks about timely, relevant issues, which will take place in the West Room of Hudson Hall at 1pm each day. Among the subjects set to be addressed at the conversations are the opioid crisis, rising water levels and other ecological concerns, local gentrification, and matters relating to the LGBTQ community. “Hudson has a really strong, young arts community and a great arts heritage going back to the Hudson River School painters,” says Bokaer. “We think this festival will add a new layer to that history.” The Hudson Eye festival will take place from August 23 through September 2 at venues throughout Hudson. Tickets for individual performances are $10 (students and seniors are $5). Thehudsoneye.com. —Peter Aaron
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World-Class Music Festival with Dance, Voice, Food and Family Fun!
Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 11am - 8pm Andy Lee Field, Woodstock, NY
Diverse Music, Dance & Voice From Around The World Rain or Shine • Bring a chair/blanket Food & Art Vendors • World Class Talent
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SEPTEMBER 14 This semi-annual series explores the many similarities between these two traditions. We will review many of the teachings of Jesus and the Buddha and discuss the way of the Saint and the way of the Bodhisattva.
TreeHuggers Ball: A Fundraiser for the Center at Mariandale
SEPTEMBER 22 Join us on Sunday, September 22, at 4:30pm for the annual TreeHuggers Ball, as we gather to celebrate trees and all of the natural world in its strength, beauty, and splendor. Kacey Morabito Grean of WHUD’s morning radio show will be our Master of Ceremonies! This highspirited annual fundraiser will be held outside in our lovely courtyard with a Hudson River view. Enjoy live music, light fare, and local seasonal beverages.
Photography and Meditation
OCTOBER 5 This workshop is designed to cultivate mindful awareness, stimulate the senses, and open channels to seeing anew. The workshop will include both indoor and outdoor space incorporating the natural habitats, surrounding views and magnificent setting. Special equipment is not required. All levels of experience are welcome.
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Bon Odori, or Obon, is the 500-year-old Buddhist-Confucian custom of commemorating ancestors. This celebration continues today in Japan, where families pilgrimage to the burial sites of their relatives to clean the graves, make offerings, and dance the Bon Odori. This treasured tradition will be brought to life in Kingston with martial arts demonstrations, dance, and taiko drumming, along with other fun festivities for the family. There will be plenty of locally sourced food and drinks onsite to hydrate you as you move through the day. The event has also expanded its focus to address environmental issues by inviting local farms and clean energy providers to table, and by pushing for denuclearization both in war and industry. The event will take place at the Center for Creative Education in Kingston on August 3. Bonodori.org
Theater “Meek” at Denizen Theatre
The US premiere of “Meek,” a new play by Penelope Skinner, takes place on August 7 at Denizen Theater in New Paltz and will run until September 1. Denizen’s 2019 programming includes a slate of fresh, new plays that were picked, in part, because of the dynamic roles they offer women actors. The all-female cast of “Meek” portrays a dystopian reality in which one woman is imprisoned for an unknown crime. In this haunting vision of ruthless state theocracy and tense relationships, the private and personal become political, and freedom of speech is nonexistent. The intimacy of the Denizen’s black box theater provides a perfect space for this piece, forcing the audience to confront the unnerving parallels between the play’s purported world and our own. Directed by Kelly Kitchens, “Meek” shows how a small act of resistance turns a free-thinker into a political revolutionary and extends a deeply sobering theater experience to audiences. Denizentheatre.com
Food & Drink Saugerties Caribbean Carnival We don’t all have the funds to fly down to the warm beaches of the Caribbean this summer, but you don’t have to shell out to enjoy island culture. Bask in the warm Catskills sun and soak up the lively food and music of the Carribean on August 11 from 11am to 6pm at Cantine Veterans Memorial Complex during the second annual Saugerties Caribbean Carnival. Last year’s event was a big success: thousands of locals kicked up dust to live island music and dance shows. There will be over 60 food vendors onsite to satisfy your stomach with Carribean specialties like oxtail, while the kids enjoy games and gimmicks for all ages, including face painting and a costume contest with a $250 prize. Seasoneddeliciousfoods.com
Festival Summer Hoot 2019
This biannual Hudson Valley hootenanny returns to The Ashokan Center for three days of local food, craft brews, and live music from August 23 to 25. The country/folk-centered celebration offers up an ideal environment for family-friendly foot-stomping to a fiery fiddle, with a sylvan backdrop. Some returning bands include the Brooklyn-based Spirit Family Reunion and Hudson Valley’s The Mammals. On Friday and Saturday, workshops will be held in performance hall including blacksmithing, dance, and music classes. The surrounding grounds are perfect for hiking if you need to escape all the bustle.
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Explore the liminal state between waking and dreams with Bridgman/Packer's "Voyeur" at PS21 August 16-17. Photo by Sally Cohn
In November 2002, Art Bridgman had an epiphany. While experimenting in his studio in Valley Cottage, New York, he discovered that he could project a life-size video of himself, stand inside of it, then step out, as if he were escaping from his own photograph. He showed the illusion to his partner, Myrna Packer, who immediately recognized its aesthetic possibilities. Long into the night, the two worked on the dance piece that would become “Seductive Reasoning.” Ever since, Bridgman/Packer have integrated video into their dance performances. They bring two works to PS21 in Chatham on August 16 and 17. Table Bed Mirror, their most recent dance, began as a series of improvisations with eight-foot conference tables, which sometimes doubled as video projection screens, as well as beds and mirrors. The shifting viewpoints reminded the dancer duo of dreams, leading them to research the neuroscience of human sleep. One of their discoveries was REM sleep paralysis, in which the brain sends messages to the body’s muscles to prevent them from acting out the events in dreams. A dreaming person functions on three levels: physically she is motionless, mentally she is active, and experientially she’s driving cars and making sandwiches. Consider two people sleeping in the same bed, and these three levels are doubled. Furthermore, is it possible that their simultaneous dreams harmonize? Could they actually be visiting each other’s dreams? These are questions Bridgman and Packer considered. In the soundtrack to Table Bed Mirror, the dance duo included some of their neurophysiological research. “The sounds of the various functions of the brain we found very poetic,” Packer notes. “‘Medulla’ and ‘subcoeruleus nucleus.’” (For the insatiably curious, the subcoeruleus nucleus is a section of the brain
associated with REM sleep.) The second piece that will be staged at PS21, Voyeur, resulted from a commission by the Edward Hopper Museum in Nyack, to create a performance inspired by the namesake artist’s paintings. Voyeur is, in a sense, dance as art criticism. Bridgman and Packer spent three days in Portland, Maine—which Hopper also visited—being filmed by their longtime videographer, Peter Bobrow. Their goal wasn’t to recreate classic paintings but to evoke Hopper’s forlorn atmosphere. “In so many of Hopper’s paintings, you see a partial moment of private life,” observes Packer. This led to the theme of voyeurism, influencing the set they built: slanting walls pierced by two windows and a doorway, which reveal as much as they conceal. At one point in the dance, Packer and Bridgman disappear behind a wall, but the audience still sees them on a video screen. Suddenly the Canon camera becomes an instrument of surveillance. Packer happens to resemble Edward Hopper’s wife, Jo, who was the artist’s only model. (Jo insisted that every woman in her husband’s paintings be a version of herself.) Bridgman/Packer spent two years making Voyeur. For the score, they researched sounds from midcentury America: radio dramas, movie music, and the evocative purr of a rotary phone dialing. In 2017, the piece won a Bessie Award, the highest achievement in the dance world, for outstanding production. —Sparrow Bridgman/Packer Dance will perform at PS21 in Chatham on August 16 and 17. (518) 392-6121. Ps21chatham.org 8/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 115
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Dance Vanaver Caravan’s SummerDance on Tour
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This Hudson Valley nonprofit dance troupe has toured the world with their impressive lineup of multicultural dance routines reaching stages from across the US to Southeast Asia. From July 22 to August 11, the company is holding a three-week summer workshop at Stone Mountain Farm to teach young dancers a variety of dance styles from across the globe including Modern, percussive/Irish dance, ballet, and African dance. In the final week of the camp, students will to flex their newfound skills in live performances around the region. SummerDance on Tour will perform at the Bon Odori Festival at the Kingston Point Beach on August 3, at Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz on August 8, Towne Crier Cafe on August 9, and the Rosendale Theatre on August 11. Vanavercaravan.org
Film Woodstock: The Whole Story
The 1969 Woodstock music festival is one of upstate New York’s claims to fame, and arguably one of the most influential cultural events in 20th-century American history. The week of the festival’s 50th anniversary, local historian, teacher, and filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss will present an alternative look into the lesser-known impacts of this momentous event with a multimedia lecture at Rosendale Theatre on August 13 at 7pm. The presentation tracks the development of the town of Woodstock and the surrounding area, which eventually led to the festival, with hundreds of images and original footage of the community throughout the years. Through his series of short films, Blauweiss argues that long before the epic Woodstock festival, the namesake town was already deeply rooted in a culture of the arts, inclusivity, and progressivism, paving a path for the event to take place. Before the show, attendees can enjoy live Woodstock-era music.
Theater Arm of the Sea
For the past 20 years, nonprofit mask-and-puppet troupe Arm-of-the-Sea has developed its own powerful style of magical realism through a combination intricate visual art, skilled musicians, nimble performers, and timely themes. Their annual Saugerties residency, Esopus Creek Puppet Suite, will feature larger-than-life puppets, shadow projections, masked dancers, and various low-tech devices of theatrical enchantment in a series of true tall tales inspired by regional history and current events. This year’s story, “Keep that Lamp Trimmed and Burnin’” draws from the annals of the 1869 Saugerties Lighthouse, which is celebrating its 150th year. Performances begin at 8pm on August 16-18 at Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park. In the event of inclement weather, the performance will take place at St. Mary’s Hall. Armofthesea.org
Theater “I Loved Lucy” at Club Helsinki
For countless Baby Boomers across the globe, “I Love Lucy” was a staple of childhood, with Lucille Ball, acting as a quirky second mother. While she’s beloved for her humor and charm on-screen, few people knew Ball behind the scenes—all the laughs, tears, struggles, and triumphs that never made it into the public eye. Director and playwright Lee Tanen was close friends with actress, cementing a sincere friendship in her last decade of life. This biographical play offers a glimpse at the private life of Ms. Ball. In this Club Helsinki performance on August 24, respected American-British actor Sandra Dickinson will play the lead role opposite Tannen, who makes a rare appearance as himself. “I Loved Lucy” will be followed by a reception with champagne and desserts to meet and mingle with the cast. Helsinkihudson.com —Max Freebern and Charlotte Katz
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The TEAM in rehearsals for "Reconstruction (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)" directed by Rachel Chavkin, which will be staged at LUMBERYARD in Catskill August 17-18.
Brooklyn-based theater ensemble The TEAM will continue developing a new dance-theater work “Reconstruction (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)” with a pair of mid-August performances at the LUMBERYARD Center for Film and Performing Arts in Catskill. Directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin (“Hadestown”), “Reconstruction” is built around characters from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, based on Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel. “The work wrestles with Gone with the Wind as a Confederate monument and delves into race, representation, white feminism, and capitalism’s role in maintaining the system,” according to the dance company’s site. The TEAM will spend the week prior to the performances in the Catskills honing the production and building a set described as a “sort of rotting, haunted house Tara,” (the fictional plantation where the movie is set.) During this time, they will also lead workshops at local adolescent detention facilities, while the work-in-progress piece continues to take shape as it moves toward a full premiere in the 2020-2021 season. “‘Reconstruction (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)’ is a hugely ambitious work, and with as many ideas and writers as we have, it is going to take time to fully develop,” says producing director Alexandra LaLonde. “In 2020 we are planning to travel to Montgomery, Alabama, to continue researching and working on the piece, drawing a lot of inspiration from that place’s profound history and reality of oppression and civil rights work. In between these two largescale work periods, smaller groups of our artists will also be gathering, traveling, and conducting research in as many far-flung parts of America as we can manage.” Originally commissioned by the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, and now adapted to feature an expanded company with more artists of color, “Reconstruction” tackles numerous serious topics from white supremacy to
gentrification, but Zhailon Levingston, associate director and co-writer of the production, says they will be presented in an engaging and entertaining way. “One of the more exhilarating questions that comes up while working on this piece is how to take the vast complex histories of not only this country but the people who make up this country and house it—both metaphorically and literally— on stage,” Levingston says. “What’s incredible about working with the TEAM is that they firmly believe that ‘how we make is as important as what we make.’ What I have learned about this way of working is that the true event of Reconstruction, specifically, is what happens in the rehearsal room and what the audience gets to see on stage is the overflow of all the fruit that is reaped in our process. There’s a great faith in leaning into the hard questions and languishing in them and creating from a place of true curiosity, trusting that, at the very least, what we generate will be entertaining.” While “Reconstruction” is based on a work set in the mid-19th century, it is also very much in the present. “America is a country with an unfortunate case of amnesia,” Levingston says. “Because of this, many of the things we think are history are actually the same events recycling themselves in different clothing. We have a tyrant in the White House and many presidents who owned slaves or outwardly supported bigotry. We are one of the few developed nations that has yet to be led by a woman. So this ‘current vibe’ is a tale as old as time. I think audiences, deep in their DNA, will recognize what they are seeing as such and that confrontation is the real horror of the piece.” —Crispin Kott The work-in progress performances of “Reconstruction (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside)” will take place at LUMBERYARD on Saturday, August 17 at 8pm and Sunday, August 18 at 3pm. $30-45. Lumberyard.org/catskill/the-team/ 8/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 117
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Pete Mauney at Kleinert/James Center What do fireflies, airplanes, and walking the shores of the Hudson have in common? Another question: How can photographing in the dark reveal the interconnections between seemingly disparate phenomena? You may ask yourself similar questions while traversing a path around the walls of the Kleinert/ James Center taking in the wonderous timelapse photographs of Pete Mauney. Or then again maybe you won’t. Which would be pigment fine withprint, the photographer, who Danny Goodwin, Gobo, 2019. evidently has lots of thoughts about bioluminence for example and “the pursuit of randomness generated by highly programmed and engineered entities,” but would prefer to just take in the wonder of the thing in itself. You know, walking along a road on a clear and mild summer evening, then suddenly seeing the fireflies dance in a field; moments Mauney’s painstakingly captured trails of light transmit perfectly. Through September 8
Denver International Outbound Traffic, Runway 8/16, a 2018 photograph by Pete Mauney, will show as part of his exhibition at the Kleinert/James Center, sponsored by Anatoli Jewelry in Woodstock.
Bruce Tomb in Gardiner
Jim Watt at One Mile Gallery
Nil Yalter at the Hessel Museum at Bard
The Maria memorialized by The Shroud of Maria is more of a machine than a person, and any religious allusion is cloaked in good-humored irony. An artifact of an evolving and often hilarious conceptual project by California artist Bruce Tomb (silent “b”), the shroud is a lovingly rendered record of drill holes made in the hood of a 1959 Chevy El Camino, depicting (when backlit) a female robot from Fritz Lange’s Metropolis. The hood in question remains attached to the fulsome Chevy, which is itself mounted to a hydraulic-tracked excavator resulting in a vehicle whose velocity tops out at two miles per hour. Making up for it’s turtle-esque land coverage, the Maria del Camino moves at warp speed through a constellation of engaging concepts. Fittingly, the vehicle itself, which sports a vanity licence plate proclaiming LIMINAL, is not physically present in Gardiner. But the shroud is meticulously displayed along with a road map of documents in a truly beautiful “cappella” designed and built by noted architect Mathew Bialeki who also happens to be one of this delightful project’s patrons. Through August 23 (by appointment)
As an architect, Jim Watt relies on scale drawings and models as functional representations, but he also finds them beautiful as artifacts of spatial delineation. As a painter, Watt is free from practical constraints like the proper placement of load-bearing walls, enabling him to take a freewheeling approach to line and the application of oil paint to canvas. That said, he is keenly aware that without discipline, the whole enterprise can collapse into mud. Watt references Di Chirico as an inspiration, and while his own palette is a good deal sunnier than the Italian surrealist’s, and the mood more upbeat, he does share a passion for the representation of form and space. Watt’s path through pictorial space is decidedly modern and built by push-pull and gesture rather than surrealist perspective gambits. You may find his paintings interesting terrain for your eyes to take a walk. Through August 31
A female figure framed on-screen so that only her midsection is visible. On her skin she’s written, “a woman’s sexuality is both convex and concave,” and then set those words in motion by a full-tilt belly dance. While this could easily be a description of the latest viral video on YouTube, it is actually a 40-year-old work of art by Turkish artist Nil Yalter, Created in 1974 in Paris, the video is entitled The Headless Woman (aka The Belly Dance) and is considered a feminist classic. It’s on view at the Hessel Museum along with over 20 other groundbreaking projects by Yalter from the late ’60s through the early ’80s covering such topics as the living conditions of immigrants, women in prison, and transgender identity that still resonate in 2019. Yalter who makes use of diverse media including the aforementioned video, photography, large-scale collages and installations is a veritable trailblazer, and as it happens, she is currently blazing in our neighborhood. Through October 13
Ed Smith at BCB Art Sculptor, printmaker, draftsman, and professor Ed Smith is a storyteller. In his exhibition of new bronze sculptures and drawings at BCB, Smith plumbs the depths of Homer’s Iliad to reveal lasting verities about the nature of human struggle. His is an iterative process of countless drawings, wax models, and small bronze studies, in the search of the final form of his emotive figurative sculptures. His credo is “ideas spring from labor.” His figuration is reductive, letting fragments of the body, which bear the marks of the artist’s fingers, tell the tale. “Nothing’s new,” Smith says. “Mythic concepts are still active in modern life.” There’s not the slightest whiff of irony in that statement. Ed’s on a quest with his work— one of heroic ambition. Crazy? Perhaps. But he’s got the chops to back it up. The Greeks gave us democracy, Ed wants to know if we’ll be valiant enough to protect it. Through August 24
Heather Hutchinson at 11 Jane Gallery One could see Hutchinson’s past work as a 21st-century manifestation of the Luminous branch of the Hudson River School. Indeed she describes her work on view at 11 Jane as “luminous paintings” and most certainly shares a love of the light in our region with these 19thcentury artists. However, with the work in this exhibition, Hutchinson questions her previous “all-out search for LIGHT” (her caps), and she eschews the beeswax she has been using for many years “for all sorts of technical and environmental reasons.” Although her work remains reductive, having always emerged from her observations of nature, lately she has come to a deeper realization that the prismatic epiphanies she seeks are dependent on an underlying darkness. This darkness has a physical dimension and also refers to the shadow self, which is the necessary background for inner light if it is to be found. Hutchinson remains acutely aware of the changes that the constant play of light and dark has on her work as it is seen over time and has developed new materials that bring these changes to the fore. August 10-September 1
Zachary Skinner & Susan Walsh at Garrison Art Center In case you’ve missed the headlines, we have about 11 years to deal with climate change or face irreversible consequences. Zachary Skinner’s solo show “Anthropocene Drifter” is a powerful reaction to this horrifying reality. It’s part installation and part painting exhibition with both components working together in contemplation of a dystopian future where, alas, we didn’t get Mother Nature’s message. Susan Walsh takes contemplation in another direction in her show “Vibrant Traces,” leading viewers gently to the beating heart of Nature to help us realize what we are at risk of throwing away. One of her guides on this voyage is chance master John Cage, and Walsh has devised several creative ways to include chance operations in her work. One involves allowing a wave to literally crash over her drawing thus capturing a moment of time from Nature’s tick, tick, ticking clock. August 10-September 15
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exhibits “Ad Astra Per Aspera” at Wassaic Project The Wassaic Project’s annual summer show is a perennial must-see for those wanting to take the pulse of emerging contemporary art. It’s well worth the climb upstairs to the multiple exhibit floors featuring works by nearly 70 artists. This year’s theme translates to: “through hardships to the stars.” And while the very top floor delivers not celestial visions per se but lovely faux pigeons made and arranged with great care by artist Susan Hamburger, the urban birds in combination with the idyllic landscape viewable through the room’s elevated windows engender a welcome moment or two of inexplicable peace. Other delights include an alternative lifestyle barbershop installation by Ace Lehner and a neon piece by Annesta Le, which mercifully delivers a non-confrontational and elegant abstract message. Whatever your proclivities, you will find several works that will invite you to pause, look, and contemplate. Through September 21
An installation by Anna Cone and Kirsten Lamb from the “Ad Astra Per Aspera” exhibition at the Wassaic Project.
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“Ken Sahr: Current Work.” August 2-September 1. Opening reception August 3, 3-6pm.
“Shimmering Flowers: Nancy Lorenz’s Lacquer and Bronze Landscapes.” Through September 30.
“Anthropocene Drifter by Zachary Skinner.” An exhibition of paintings and sculptures. August 10-September 15. Opening reception August 10, 5-7pm.
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BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY
“Summer Salon.” Through August 31.
“Midsummer Salon.” Works by Betsy Jacaruso and Cross River Artists. Through August 31.
510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK
THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT
“Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art.” Through September 15.
AMITY GALLERY
110 NEWPORT BRIDGE ROAD, WARWICK “Water and Clay. A Mother/Daughter Show.” Martha Haude’s watercolors and Morgan Haude’s ceramics. August 3-September 1. Opening reception August 3, 5-7pm.
ART OMI
1405 COUNTY ROUTE 22, GHENT “Tschabalala Self.” The exhibition features works on paper, a new wall mural, new works from the studio, a sculptural work and a new neon piece. Through September 29.
5 WEST STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA
43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK
BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
“Pulse: Color and Form in a Visual Rhythm.” Group exhibit examining the work of Jeanette Fintz, Dai Ban, Ginny Fox, and Jenny Kemp working in abstraction. Through September 15. Opening reception August 3, 5-7pm.
CATALYST GALLERY
“Two From B’Klyn.” Collette Fournier Photography and Mark Kirton Collaborative Exhibition. August 15-21.
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BANNERMAN ISLAND GALLERY
“Community Access to the Arts: I Am a Part of Art.” Through August 25.
“The Mystery Unveiled.” Works by the 25 professional artists that painted on historic Bannerman’s Island on June 1. Through August 4.
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“Making Music.” Through September 30.
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CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART
“Acting Out.” Exhibition takes its prompt from artist Leigh Ledare’s “The Task,” a single channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference. Through October 13.
“Lily Prince: There, There.” Through August 4.
116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “In the Achaean Shadow.” Drawing from imagery and tales of the Trojan Wars, Ed Smith’s bronze sculptures and drawings reflect on the art and causes of war. Through August 24.
BEACON ARTIST UNION
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Elizabeth Arnold: Plant Spirit Medicine.” Through August 4.
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10 UPPER MAIN STREET, SHARON, CT
HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY
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CLARK ART INSTITUTE
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“Granary: A Solo Exhibition by artist Amie Cunat.” Through October 14.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
“Dia Staff Art Show.” The staff of Dia Art Foundation presents an annual multidisciplinary art exhibition including painting, sculpture, and performance. Through August 18.
BARD COLLEGE: HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART
202 SHAKER ROAD, NEW LEBANON.
“Peter Steiner: Paintings.” Through August 31.
137 MAIN STREET, BEACON
150 MAIN STREET, BEACON
HISTORIC MOUNT LEBANON SITE
“Peter Mauney: Nocturnal Transmissions.” Solo show of nighttime photographs of fireflies and planes. Through September 8. “Psych Out!!!” A group show of psychedelic outdoor sculpture commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival. Through November 3.
ATLAS STUDIOS
11 SPRING STREET, NEWBURGH
23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON
99 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES
DUCK POND GALLERY
128 CANAL STREET, TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN “Myrna Hilton: Mixed Media.” August 2-31. Opening reception August 2, 5:30-7pm.
EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY 348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION
“Verisimilitude: Watercolors and Drawings Exhibit by Annamarie Evans.” August 1-31. Opening reception August 2, 6pm.
HUDSON AREA LIBRARY
51 NORTH 5TH STREET, HUDSON “Watercolors by OTTO.” Through August 31.
162 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“BeaconArts Member Show.” Curated by Karlyn Benson and Theresa Gooby. Through August 4.
HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM 50 RONDOUT LANDING, KINGSTON
“Rescuing the River: 50 Years of Environmental Activism on the Hudson Presented by Bank of America.” Through January 2021.
HUDSON VALLEY MOCA
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL
“Anne Samat: The Greatest Love.” Using intricately-woven textiles and found objects, Samat builds elaborate totems evoking her familial lineage. Through September 8.
HURLEY HERITAGE SOCIETY 52 MAIN STREET, HURLEY
“Winslow Homer’s Hurley—An Artist’s View.” The display includes vivid color reproductions of paintings as well as six original 19th century wood engravings. Through October 31.
JDJ | THE ICE HOUSE
CALL FOR ADDRESS, GARRISON “HOME/WORK.” Each of the six artists in HOME/WORK were asked to think about the complicated relationship between work and personal life. Through September 2.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON “Lois Dickson: Rocks and Caves.” Also showing Ben Butler, Isidro Blasco, Thaddeus Radell, and Eric Banks. August 17-September 9. Opening reception August 17, 6-8pm.
exhibits “Composed to Decompose” at Unison Art Center In the past, we tended to think of art as permanent, and traditionally, works have been made to stand the test of time. Things have changed—at least, that is the view of curators Linda Weintraub and Michael Asbill and the bevy of artists they have assembled for this outdoor show. According to the curators: “This exhibition invites artists to challenge the widespread social, personal, and economic desire for material stability.” In other words: Hey artists, stop using toxic stuff to make your art, and art lovers, get used to the fact that, in the words of Jimi Hendrix, “castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually.” In case you might think this is all pretty grim, think again. Adaptation can be fun. In that vein, a feature of this show is a kind of 3D, time-based version of the famous surrealist technique exquisite corpse, where several artists work together in sequence to create one drawing. At Unison, 12 artists over 12 months will use the same site to compose, decompose, and recompose one evolving work. Perhaps we can think of this as one long, selfless gesture pointing the way to the future. So, why not give it a try: take a walk in the fields and forests of impermanence at Unison, you may enjoy the change. Through July 21, 2020
Transition, an installation by Katrina Speiss from the “Composed to Decompose” exhibition at Unison Arts Center.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY
RIVERWINDS GALLERY
THE RE INSTITUTE
“The Fantastic Drawing Show.” Through August 17.
“The Nude Male Figure: Paintings by Richard Taddei.” Through August 4.
“Earthly Delights.” Through August 24.
19 CENTRAL SQUARE, CHATHAM
MANITOGA/THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER 584 NY-9D, GARRISON
“Michele Oka Doner: Close Your Physical Eye.” Through November 11.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ “H2O—Water in Art.” Group show of over 20 artists. Through September 7.
MASS MOCA
1040 MASS MOCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA “Nick Cave: Until.” August 19-September 4.
MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL
6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK “Route 66.” Photography exhibit Lee Courtney and John A Verner. Through August 31.
MOTHER GALLERY
18 WEST MAIN STREET, BEACON “Soft Temple.” Through August 4.
172 MAIN STREET, BEACON
ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS
27 SOUTH GREENBUSH ROAD, WEST NYACK “Natural Progressions.” Large on-site installations address themes with interactive work, integrating sensory elements, inviting visitors to reconnect to nature. Through April 30, 2020.
ROELIFF JANSEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM 8 MILES ROAD, COPAKE FALLS
“Hidden History of the Roe Jan Region.” Through September 2.
SEPTEMBER
449 WARREN STREET #3, HUDSON. “Yellow.” The color yellow plays a significant role in each work selected for this group exhibition. Through August 4.
SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ARTS CENTER 790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN
“The Curator as Artist II.” Exhibit featuring mixed media collages, paintings, ceramics, and photographs by Academy gallery curators. Through August 11.
STANDARD SPACE
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM
147 MAIN STREET, SHARON, CT
9 GLENDALE ROAD, STOCKBRIDGE, MA
Region One School Show. Through December 31.
“From Woodstock to the Moon:1969 Illustrated.” A look back at the many ways illustrators portrayed news events and reflected popular culture in 1969. Through October 27.
STORYSTUDIO
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON
“In Frederic Church’s Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature.” Multimedia design concepts and installations developed by leading architects and artists. Through November 3.
5 CHERRY STREET, RED HOOK “Alexander Gilson: From Property to Property Owner.” Exhibit tells the story of Alexander Gilson, who went from being a slave tending the gardens at Montgomery Place to an employee to a business owner. Through August 31.
‘T’ SPACE
137 ROUND LAKE ROAD, RHINEBECK
“In Other Worlds.” August 3-31.
“Brice Marden: Cold Mountain Studies Exhibition.” 35 ink-onpaper drawings were inspired by nature and echo the poetry and calligraphy of 9th-century Chinese poet Han Shan.
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THE CHATHAM BOOKSTORE
“Signs of the Times.” Paintings by Mary Anne Erickson. Through August 31.
“Carried Away: Diaries, Sketchbooks, Mosaics.” Spencertown photographer Wendy Noyes shows new photographs using digital technology. Through September 1.
ONE MILE GALLERY
475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON
17 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
QUEEN CITY 15
317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE QUEENCITY15. COM. “Elementals: Artwork by Lisa Winika and Suprina.” August 2-31. Opening reception August 2, 5-8pm.
27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM
THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 1946 CAMPUS DRIVE, HYDE PARK
“State of Ate: New York’s History Through 8 Ingredients.” New York State’s history through the lens of apples, beef, corn, dairy, oysters, salt, sugar, and wheat. Through December 31.
1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL
“Thomas Cole’s Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek.” Through November 3.
THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM
“Ned Snider: Onward Upward Toward Downward.” Through August 4.
TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI
“Transparency: The Material and The Immaterial.” August 2-25. Opening reception August 10, 6-8pm.
UNISON
68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ “Composed to Decompose.” Forty-five artists have composed installations that are designed to decompose over the course of a year. Through July 31, 2020.
VASSAR COLLEGE: THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE
“An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions.” A tribute to James Mundy upon his retirement as director of the Lehman Loeb Art Center. Through September 8.
WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION 330 MORTON ROAD, RHINEBECK
“5th Outdoor Sculpture Biennial Exhibition.” Through October 31.
WIRED GALLERY
11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS “Side by Side: Jo-Ellen Trilling & Andrew Willner.” A husbandand-wife dual retrospective featuring fairy-tale fantasy and woodwork. August 3-25. Opening reception August 3, 5-7pm.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
“100 Years / 100 Objects.” Rarely seen items from the WAAM’s permanent collection and archives. Through September 1.
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK
“Instructor’s Exhibition.” Through September 7.
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Tal National plays at The Half Moon in Hudson on August 6.
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August 6. One of the most wonderful developments on the US indie circuit in recent years has been the enthusiastic fervor that’s exploded for visiting African artists. Despite the xenophobia currently coming down from the White House, it seems like audiences here are at last making the connection and seeing the exchange between certain African acts’ exotic, ancient rhythms and flavors and their Western descendants— funk, blues, psychedelia, soul—and they’re loving it. One of the finest and most popular exponents of this recent wave of touring bands from Africa is Niger’s Tal National, who always turn the Half Moon into a joyous, sweaty, marathon dance party. And here they are again. Go. You need this. 8pm. $12. Hudson. Thehalfmoonhudson.com.
August 9. Based in Brooklyn with ties to our area, acoustic band Spirit Family Reunion references folk, country, gospel, and other traditional American roots styles. On the rails of their brand-new fourth album, Ride Free, the old-timey outfit hops a train bound for glory upstate to hoot ‘n’ holler about its release at this jamboree beneath the bigtop of the Bard SummerScape Spiegeltent. With guitar, banjo, washboard, fiddle, accordion, mandolin, drums, and tambourine, the group’s richly layered sound has been going since 2010 and has appeared on NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert.” They’ve toured with Levon Helm, Trampled by Turtles, the Felice Brothers, Dr. Dog, and Alabama Shakes. (The Boilermaker Jazz band swings August 4; Ryan Landry presents “A Night of Song” August 16.) 8:30pm. $25. Annandale-on-Hudson. Fishercenter.bard.edu.
HUDSON VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL August 8-11. Celebrating its 10th year this month is the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival, which once again returns to venues throughout Orange County and the greater Hudson Valley. The 2019 lineup includes several new names as well as many returning favorites. Among the artists performing are the Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble; Lew Scott with Mike Jackson and Jeff Siegel; the Jeff Ciampa Group; Perry Beekman with Lou Papas; Neil Alexander and Nail; the Judi Silvano Zephyr Group; the Tani Tabbal Trio; the Pete Levin Group; Eric Person; the Roland Vazquez Sextet; and a Billie Holiday/Lester Young Song Fest featuring Teri Roiger, John Menegon, and others to name a few. Free. Warwick area. Hudsonvalleyjazzfest.com.
FOLDING August 11. The project called Folding brings together two highly innovative guitarists from the always-intriguing Drag City label for one night at Tubby’s: Bill Mackay, who’s also associated with Tompkins Square Records, and Mike Donovan, best known for his work in the San Francisco band Sic Alps. Fountain Fire, Mackay’s newest album, flows freely between psych, traditional folk, and sonic experimentalism. Donovan’s Exubrian Quonset, also just out this year, drinks deeply from his lo-fi garage/noise roots and hovers in the haze somewhere between Syd Barrett and Will Oldham. (Wombo, Ted Tyro, and Pasha and the Kindred Spirits rock August 12; Cheer-Accident checks in August 13.) 8pm. Donation requested. Kingston. Tubbyskingston.com.
ARROWHEAD MUSIC AND ART EXPOSITION August 16-18. Those looking for an inexpensive, less fussy way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival might consider this three-day event at Arrowhead Ranch in the Sullivan County hamlet of Parksville. The outing opens on August 16 with a gong meditation followed by Aliza Hava performing the music of Janis Joplin, “funky troubadour” Fantuzzi, and a drum circle to close. On August 17, Wondrous Stories play The Who’s Tommy; Ice Petal Flowers do the early Grateful Dead; Reverend Jefferson covers the Jefferson Airplane; and Uncle Shoehorn jams Sly and the Family Stone. August 18’s bill is still coming together as of this writing. $19-$20. Parksville. Arrowheadranch.org.
THE FUGS August 17. In times like these, it’s good to know that the legendary Fugs are back to rail against the evil powers that be. Formed on the Lower East Side in 1964, the irreverent, bawdy, politically radical folk/protopunk band were giants of the underground during the Vietnam War era, singing and recording songs like “Kill for Peace,” “Group Grope,” and “CIA Man.” Fifty-four years down the line, author and Woodstock resident Ed Sanders is the group’s only remaining original member (cofounder Tuli Kupferberg died in 2010), but their insurgent spirit burns bright nonetheless. Promised for this Byrdcliffe Barn performance is an “exorcism of the White House,” with the audience invited to participate in a group chant of “Out, demons, out!”—reprising the legendary 1967 March on the Pentagon led by Sanders, Tupferberg, and others. 8pm. $30. Woodstock. Woodstockguild.org.
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Overture, curtain, lights! This is it, we’ll hit the heights when Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars all pass through proud and passionate Sun-ruled Leo, the most dramatic of all the zodiac signs this month, and oh what heights we’ll hit! The First Quarter Moon in Scorpio, August 7, squares the Sun’s trine to Jupiter, priming the inspirational pump from trickle to flow to gushing geyser with Jupiter’s direct station synced to retrograde Uranus. Prepare for Olympian-level theatrics! Lighting strikes, earthquakes, and wildfires—both metaphorical and literal—are nearly inevitable. By August 14, when Mercury in Leo returns to his original retrograde position, it feels like early July all over again. Emotions that you presumed were erased from your heart’s DVR repeat in a continuous loop on the memory screen. Was that the real thing, or is this just a fantasy? Caught in a landslide? No escape from reality? Then open your eyes to see the part you played in how you got from there to here. Retracing your steps isn’t a retreat, it’s searching for a shortcut back to a lost path. The dynamic tension between Venus and Mars in Leo, opposite the Full Moon in Aquarius on August 15, reaches a shattering crescendo in a showdown between “me” and “us,” “self” and “others,” “mine” and “ours.” Polarity needn’t be an ultimatum! There are infinite points along the spectrum of independence and intimacy in real life. By August 24, the Sun, Venus, and Mars conjunct in Virgo are engaging in an analytical menage-a-trois, a metaphorical three-way kiss— mingling intellect, creativity, and passion in a synthesis of past events, present realities, and hoped-for futures. Original solutions to old problems appear August 26. New Moon in Virgo on August 30 cleanses old wounds and provides a fresh start. So on with the show, this is it!
ARIES (March 20–April 19)
With Sun in Leo though August 22 and Mars through August 17, your passion is emboldened and your pursuit of that obscure object of desire redoubled. Your impetus is to conceive a new creation, whether that’s an idea, a project, a work of art, or a child. Full Moon in Aquarius on August 15 illuminates friendships, confirms fellowships, and exposes foes. By August 18-20, you’ll be ready to boldly ask for— nay, demand—whatever it is you need to achieve your goals. Be ready to name specific resources and support requirements when queried; don’t fear to ask for everything.
TAURUS (April 19–May 20)
You’re learning that true stability depends on flexibility. Japanese architects’ earthquake-proof buildings using oil dampeners, rods, and load-bearing design. Now is the time to ensure your foundation can withstand life’s tremors, of which there will be many during the transit of Uranus through Taurus, which stations retrograde August 11. Full Moon brings new ideas to challenge and stimulate you August 15. Take a vacation to your comfort zone with Moon in Taurus August 21-22; Virgo Sun after August 23 finds practical harmony and useful solutions. Let Venus soothes your woes away the 26th; self-care is key to well-being now.
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GEMINI (May 20–June 21)
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Doldrums in the rear-view mirror starting August 17, when Mars in Mercury-ruled Virgo stimulates analysis and initiates action around moribund domestic situations. Relationships take a turn for the practical August 21-22, while the Last Quarter Moon in Gemini on August 23 helps resolve communication issues in a clear and honorable way. Communication issues improves exponentially after the 29th. Trust but verify big offers after August 11; partnerships and associations around common goals have ambitious aims, but can the promiser deliver? “Get it in writing” is your motto in all joint ventures this month, along with “be immaculate with your word.”
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First Quarter Moon in Scorpio on August 7 uncovers deep domestic wounds, preparing them to receive the healing, cleansing light of consciousness. Mercury in Cancer though August 11 rehashes old topics through new realities. The tension you’ve endured since mid-April peaks this month; your best therapy will be connecting with Earth’s elements. Swimming, gardening, or any activity in which you can touch Mother Earth or be immersed in her elements will help process and integrate the changes being wrought. Full Moon on August 23 and Venus-Mars conjunction on the 24th rightly raises the bar of both affections and expectations to a reasonable height.
LEO (July 22–August 23)
You lead with your passion during August, blazing brightest between the 11th and the 17th. Full Moon in solar opposite Aquarius August 16 illuminates your inner conflict between collective obligations and individual needs. When Leo is happy, everyone around you basks in the sunshine of your love. When you’re miserable we all suffer. Therefore, taking care of yourself is taking care of everyone else by default. Your blocked feeling begins to dissipate after the 11th; the Venus-Mars conjunction on August 24 brings surprising yet practical blessings and unforeseen material world benefits. Say yes to gifts—but only without strings attached.
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Mars in Virgo after August 17, Venus after the 21st, the Sun after the 23rd, and Mercury after the 29th, offer tremendous support this month, which is only right because the workout you’ve endured since March has been a tough one. Flex those muscles of resilience you’ve developed while exercising patience and discernment in relationships both personal and professional. The conjunction of Venus and Mars in Virgo on August 24 and the New Moon in Virgo on August 30 resets your inner clock, recalibrates your sense of self, and renews life balance when duty and desire finally kiss and make up.
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Surprise! You’re on candid camera on August 2 when unexpected information is abruptly, and perhaps publicly, revealed. Whether fake news or irrefutable fact, the value of your reputation and good name can’t be measured in dollars and cents. Ruling planet Venus in proud and passionate Leo through August 21 believes the best defense is a good offense, yet truth emerges between August 23 and 31, testifying on your behalf in the court of public opinion, as the accumulated measure of your good deeds speak for themselves. Freely given kindnesses are returned with interest: Reap what you’ve sown and then some.
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SCORPIO (October 23–November 21)
First Quarter Moon in Scorpio on August 7 sings a harmonious duet with the Cancerian North Lunar Node, making beautiful and hauntingly familiar music you feel you’ve heard before. Revisiting the past or reviving an old love now allows you to bring forward lost treasures of self and soul. Connect to your soul roots for strength and stability. Full Moon in Aquarius on August 15 squares your Sun, challenging you to loosen membership requirements to your inner circle. Redefining family via heartlines rather than strictly by bloodlines opens doors and possibilities. The deeper and wider the roots, the tastier the fruits.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22)
Your mojo is back! Clouds begin to clear August 8-10, preparing you for ruling planet Jupiter’s direct station on August 11 after a tedious four-month retrograde. Damage assessment confirms you haven’t lost as much ground as you feared; in fact, you’ll be shocked at the tangible progress you’ve made after the dust clears. Snap back into forward position, and prepare to run that ball all the way down the field until mid-November. You are playing to win, and the forces of good are on your side. The power to expand your vision and channel inspiration to others is yours now.
CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20)
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Ruling planet Saturn’s slow dance with the Lunar Nodes, which began in April, escalates tensions between structural integrity and emotional security. Ever-practical Capricorn prefers uncomfortable truths to pleasant fictions and hard realities to soft fantasies—not because you enjoy unpleasantness but because neither fiction nor fantasy is useful when building an inhabitable life. Last month’s lunar eclipse stress-tested your foundations; this month’s Full Moon on August 15 exposes challenges to your resources, which are easily met when you remember you’re not alone in this battle. All the support you need is there for the asking. You are valued and appreciated!
AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19)
Full Moon in Aquarius on August 15 inspires the lunacy of love, the insanity of intimacy, the madness of mating. You may be speaking bold words and uttering surprising declarations on the 16th; engaging in a marathon game of “Truth or Dare” between the 26th and 28th in which winner takes all—hearts, minds, and wallets. The seemingly random, abrupt unpredictability factor is at Defcon 1! Avoid irrevocable commitments even when smitten sideways, or the adding of the newfound object of your enamored adoration onto bank accounts until you’ve seen their baggage and you know whether it matches your own.
PISCES (February 20-March 19)
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Pisces you have one more chance to recalibrate your reality this year! The third of three squares of Neptune to Jupiter doesn’t occur until mid-September. You have almost six weeks of dreamtime to brew the elixir of love, success, and fulfillment you’ve been formulating for over a year now. The Sun, Venus, and Mars in Virgo August 23-24 and Mercury after the 29th give you practical tools, discerning vision, a humble spirit, and willingness to put your shoulder to the grindstone and do whatever it takes to break on through to the other side. Vigilant diligence won’t go unrewarded.
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From a distance, the work of 25-year-old sculptor and installation artist Angela Alba appears to be surreal, girly claymation. It’s all a ploy. She lures people closer with approachable, nonthreatening colors and textures, only to slam them with potent, undiluted social commentary when they’re too close to back away discreetly. Using found objects, items from her home, and internet purchases as base, Alba builds her sculptures out of paper clay, sometimes incorporating bent neon as a light source. Since earning her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2015, the Millennial feminist artist has focused her efforts on issues around hair and body image, aiming to bringing body positivity and inclusivity into the art conversation. “Hair is such a weird part of our body that I love to address in work,” Alba says. “You can take it off or leave it on, cut it short or grow it long. There are so many ways hair can define you as a person. But I think it is ridiculous when people try to monitor our bodies and say where we are and are not supposed to have hair.” Past installations have included a clay-covered razor next to a caucasian skin-tone strip of wall dotted with hair follicles, half shaved, half sprouting hair. Alba’s predominantly pastel palette started facetiously, as mockery of traditional “girl colors,” but over time she has grown to love the gentle tones unironically. Survey Dover Plains, a large-scale exhibition of 17 artists on display at 5HArts through August 10, features three of Alba’s works. Pink Pool, shown above, arose out of the timeless New York City-based artist concern about art storability. Alba bent neon for the piece, displaying it in a blow-up kiddie pool filled with neon kitty litter, eliciting distinct Miami vibes, while loosely recalling, for some, the uncomfortable moment of deciding whether to strip down to your bikini and get in the water or stay clothed and hot, and just wet your toes. Another piece, a pretty functional fan, covered in blue and pink clay, swirls air nondescriptly, but the coup de grace is the title: I Know I Don’t Need a Vaginal Deodorant But I’m Airing Out Just in Case. “Of course I want to address everything,” Alba says. “It wouldn’t be fair to just address hair removal, but there is so much to explore in that one area of shaming. So I’m hoping that by exploring one area at a time, it creates a ripple effect and people are able to draw conclusions.” —Marie Doyon 128 PARTING SHOT CHRONOGRAM 8/19
Angela Alba’s work will be on display, along with that of 17 other artists, in “Survey Dover Plains” at 5HArts.
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