Our new address:

Arts in Orange
15 Main St
Pine Bush, NY  12566

Mailing address:

P.O. Box 1145
Pine Bush, NY 12566

Stop by and say hello if you are in the area -

We are putting together an event “Handmade for the Holidays” at Quimby & Smith!

This Event will kick-off on November 29th with an opening reception, and run until December 24th, 2009.  We would like to set-up from November 23-25, and open on November 27th.

We will provide the advertising, venue, staffing, and gift wrapping for your handmade gifts for this Holiday Season.  We will be charging 40% commission for this event.  You are responsible to tag each item with your initials and a number, and provide us with a corresponding inventory list. If you have a juried craft that you are interested in selling, please send me jpeg photos of your goods, along with pricing before November 13th.

Together we CAN make a difference!

Thank you!

Ellen

Quimby & Smith
“A Country Store”
P.O. Box 102
91 Main Street
Pine Bush, NY  12566
(845) 744-3946

Artists confirmed include (not a complete list):

• Dorschi Rose Rollwager
• Bob Scully
• Jacquelyn Carter
• James LoRubbio
• Steve Blumenthal
• Mickie McMillan/Patricia Rose Prohach
• Gene Bove
• AJ Killian
• Janet Baskerville/Peg Herzig/Billie Robson
• Joe Baker
• Julie Saltzberg
• Ashley Bauer
• Jill Thurston
• William Kuhn
• Sonya Palumbo

The Pine Bush Chamber has released their official map and listing for the tour, available here.

Pine Bush is looking for more artists to join their arts tour.  All disciplines are welcome, for more information please contact Ellen Quimby at the Chamber.

Artist Conception of the Opening, by Alex

WALKING ON AIR, the Inaugural procession for the Walkway Over the Hudson
OCTOBER 3, 2009.

Workshop Calendar

Note that workshop locations may be added or changed. If you plan to come, please contact to confirm details ahead of time and let them know you’re coming. walkway@processionalarts.org

HOURS:
Wed–Fri:     12–6
Weekends: 10–6

DATES & LOCATIONS:
July 18 – August 2: Poughkeepsie, NY (The Pavillion at the Children’s Museum). Directions . . .
August 5 – September 27*: Locations TBA in Poughkeepsie and/or Red Hook, NY (PAW home studio)

*Labor Day Weekend: no workshops on 9/5 and 9/6. Special Labor Day Puppetraising 10–6 on 9/7

ALSO, there is some other opportunities being organized in a number of areas around the Hudson for the Procession of Towns  Pine Bush is one of them, so please contact Meadow if you would like to get involved.  I do not have more information at the moment, so be nice in your emails

What is your favorite word?
Yes – Anyone can say no, saying “yes” is what it takes to make things happen.

What is your least favorite word?
No – Not much of a surprise there is it?

What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Good music, sunlight, and having time to do things the way I want to do them.

Tell us about your earliest memory that led you to becoming an artist.
I remember that my father had a Polaroid camera and it was amazed at how those pictures would emerge. I still love seeing the images today on the back of the digital camera. It’s like a Polaroid all over again! Later in middle school I was able to get into a photography class and then my interest just exploded. I loved art but I was no painter!

What kind of space do you like to exist in when you are working?
I do my photography everywhere. The majority of it is location based however I do all my processing in my office. Nothing special but I always have music going when I am working

What inspirations do you draw on in Orange County or the Hudson Valley?
The Hudson Valley in the fall is simply amazing. The colors of autumn are tough to beat. We have so much variety here for subjects and locations that you can find about anything you are looking for close by. For me, getting out and exploring the Hudson Valley is a great way to find inspiration.

What have you learned from other artists in the area?
That there is more to the Orange County area than meets the eye.

What profession outside of the arts would you like to attempt?
I have had other “day jobs” and I was fortunate enough to be able to leave them and do what I love.

If you could no longer work in your discipline, how else do you think you would express yourself?
Speaking or lecturing.

What are you working on this year?
I have been working on collaborating with other local area artists. I enjoy the new ideas that spring up from these sessions!

A bit about Pete from his bio:

My interest in photography began at an early age. I still remember the unbelievable experience of watching a Polaroid snapshot come to life before my eyes. By the time I had reached middle school this interest had developed into a passion. With my father’s Pentax camera and two lenses I learned the basics of photography both behind the camera and in the darkroom. Seeing the images emerge in the developing trays was always a treat. I spent many hours experimenting with various combinations of lenses, films and developing techniques to find ones that fit the situation and make it unique and special.

Following my early days with pinhole cameras and darkrooms, I continued to advance my style and skills, and am now utilizing the latest digital cameras and post-processing techniques. Today’s advances in digital imaging have changed the way photographers create their images. Embracing these changes and the incredible control they offer, I have pushed my creativity and vision, better capturing those special moments and places.

Jacquelyn Carter

What is your favorite word?
Om

What is your least favorite word?
Yankee

What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Singing or playing the tambora or harmonium and singing Kirtans. Color, light reflections, silence, inner stillness, natural rhythm and beats…movies of artists lives…..merging with the colors and loosing myself totally in it. It is always the process and not the final outcome that brings me the most joy!

Tell us about your earliest memory that led you to becoming an artist.
Music was my first creative expression…watching TV and wanting to play like Liberace which led me to piano from the age of 5 to 13 years of age then into dance, ballet, & modern Jazz then into the visual arts. The visual arts really started for me in 9th grade. Pen and ink , oils & Drawing and painting people and has continued since then….

What kind of space do you like to exist in when you are working?
I like to have space (which I do not have at present). Typically I would end up having to work in a small area sitting on the couch or last year and the year before at the old Cultural Center in Pine Bush where I held Open Studio Night but, now they have the Cultural Center on the market and it is off limits. Ideally I would love a warehouse, garage, barn, large empty space where it would not matter if I left my work in progress pieces out and got paint on the floor……slept on a couch and woke up to go back to work on it or worked at night on the pieces. I love it at night when everything is still and the chatter and noise has subsided , most people are asleep and the energy is stiller…

What inspirations do you draw on in Orange County or the Hudson Valley?
Seasons, personalities, light and shadow, colors…..in nature, human interest stories and humanitarian causes, emotion and other………

What have you learned from other artists in the area?
That everyone thinks theirs is the best and they have nothing left to learn and are starting to crystallize….along with being Territorial. The free creative out of the box thinkers rely on the structured ones to organize and then become boxed in.

What profession outside of the arts would you like to attempt?
Well I am already doing one which is manager of the Pine Bush Farmers Market but if I had to attempt something non-art related would be having my own coffee shop….growing mushrooms or having my own small greenhouse.

If you could no longer work in your discipline, how else do you think you would express yourself?
Cooking, baking, landscaping…….

What are you working on this year?
Trying to make time for my art and a space and hopefully have some new large pieces. Seeing if I can afford to buy some oil paints which might have to be house oil paints to do a large piece or two on masonite by August….I have some ideas in progress….never short for inspiration or ideas. I need to finish an outside mural at the Shanti Mandir Ashram in Walden that is on an outside kitchen panel and go back over another panel that has faded because of the elements.

A bit about Jacquelyn:
1973-2009 I have been a working artist since 1973 exhibiting in various shows and galleries from Florida, Colorado, South Carolina and New York. I have worked in various mediums, from colored pencils, pen and ink, pastels, acrylic, graphite, computer illustration, 3 dimensional synthetic pieces and jewelry. I worked as a full time digital artist for a newspaper in Myrtle Beach for 10 years in the marketing department creating brochures and various promotional materials from billboard design, special sections mag. Inserts, logos, advertisments and holiday cards duratrans etc.

We lived in South Carolina for 17 years from ‘86 to 2003 and moved to Pine Bush August of that year. Since that time I have worked on a couple of small pieces which were displayed at the Unframed Artists Gallery along with some older larger work . My Husband who is a working artist along with myself own a house on Main Street, in downtown Pine Bush. Art has created many paths for me since a child. I have always been a free spirit riding on the waves of emotion and energy and magic and believing in things that are not always visible to the naked eye. I hope before my time is over on this earth that I can bring my full being into self-expression and give to the world all that my soul has to offer.

Pine Bush Area Chamber of Commerce Arts Tour
“Connecting Local Artists with Local Businesses”

Saturday August 8, 2009
11a.m. – 5p.m.

If you are a BUSINESS, ARTIST, or MUSICIAN, and would like to participate, please contact me as soon as possible!  We would like to get the map and entertainment schedule completed so that we can post it on our website.

The market runs every Saturday, 9 am – 1.30 pm, from June 6 until October 17.  The market is located at the corner of Main and New Streets.

Please contact the organizers with a description and or photo of your work to: pinebushmarket@yahoo.com and or leave a message at 845-978-0273 if you have any questions.

We will do our best to post more information at showing your work at various farmer’s markets through the county and the Hudson Valey, but we also strongly suggest looking for them yourself.  Farmer’s markets are a fantastic way to connect your work to your local community.