Currently, this painting 16″ x 20″ is on display at ASK Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway through Nov. 2 along with other abstract paintings by regional artists. It expresses my feelings of a sense of place that is dear to my heart ever since 1973 when I arrived in Saugerties, NY.  The beauty of this park is unequal to any place that I have visited up until now.

I plan to speak about my experiences as an artist from childhood in northern Maine to producing hundreds of paintings of Seamon Park in Saugerties, New York at my closing party at the Saugerties Library, 91 Washington Avenue. The party is scheduled for 5:30 – 7:30 pm and I will speak at 6:30 pm and show slides of my artwork. Currently, sixteen paintings of the park are on exhibition in the downstairs gallery at the library through October  30, 2015.

Pictured here are finished paintings by two KBS students  in the teenage class for the Mum Festival Art Show scheduled for Oct. 4, 2015 at Seamon Park, Saugerties, NY.

Best of Show: Child:  Cassidi Vedder (9)” Tasty Treat” (Acrylic) ; Runner-Up: Sarah E. Davis (8)  “My Magic Tree” (Acrylic) ; Best Class Work: Autumn Stever (14)” Dragon Spirit” (Pastel)

Best of Show: Adult: Ruth Bach-Dhondy “Apple Blossoms and Crocuses” (Oil); Runner-Up: Agnes Barber “Kiersted House” Acrylic; Best Class Work: Ruth Bach-Dhondy “Hibiscus” Watercolor

Best Painting among each set of submissions of each individual artist:

Abby Hopf (7)”Cali Boober” Acrylic; Tyler Siracusano (7) “Rocky Road” Acrylic; Sarah E. Davis(8) “Two Sisters” Acrylic; Estelle Kamrass (8) “Polar Bear” Acrylic; Mackenzie Krauss (9) “Daddy Dear” Acrylic; Cassidi Vedder (9) “Fenec Fox” Acrylic; Sage Fanelli ( 11) “Chameleon” Acrylic; Sophia Kamrass (11) “Autumn on the River” Acrylic; Anna Sweeney ( 11) “SPL” Pastel; Kyla Misasi ( 12) “Iceberg” Pastel; Etolie Steinlage (12) “Violet” Oil; Autumn Stever “Dragon Spirit” Pastel.

Adults:” Agnes Barber “Sawyerkill by Valley Farm #1” Acrylic; Ruth Bach-Dhondy “Hibiscus” Watercolor; Patrick Buonfiglio “Sawyerkill Creek” Acrylic; D.L. CAV (Diane Cavalaro) “Waterfalls” Oil; Teresa Herzog “Rhinebeck Aerodrome” Acrylic; Donna Newkirk “June Afternoon” Oil; Patricia Steyer “Sunrise” Acrylic; Special Guest Former Student: Kelly Warringer “Still Alive” Mixed Media

Art judge, Eleanor Steffen chose the awards for our 25th Gala Anniversary Art Show. The awards are top secret until the reception on May 3, 2015 at the Dutch Ale House Gallery, 253 Main Street, Saugerties. The reception will be held 4 – 6 pm with awards being presented at 5 pm. (The public is invited to this free event.) Our distinguished judge has won the highly-honored Kunioshi Award at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM) in 2007.  She won Best of Show at WAAM in 1993, 1994 and 1995. In 2008, she and her late husband, Bernard Steffen (former art teacher at the Art Students League – summer school in Woodstock , NY)  had a two- person show at the Dog House Gallery in Saugerties in 2008. She had a one-person show there in 2014. Among many juried shows over the years, she had a solo show at WAAM in 2007. Eleanor Steffen was an art teacher at Brentwood High School on Long Island (1970 – 1993). We are honored to have her select the winners of our 25th Annual Art Show.

Students of all ages are getting ready for our 25th Annual Art Show “Universal Light” scheduled for May 3, Sunday, at the Dutch Ale House, 253 Main Street, Saugerties, NY. The show will run for two months May and June 2015. There will be over 100 works of art by current and former students and instructor Kristy Bishop. An awards ceremony will be held at 5 pm during the reception on May 3. Hours of the reception which is free to the public are 4 – 6 pm on Sunday. One of the entries (pictured here) is a pastel done in class by Autumn Stever, aged 14, daughter of Christena Sedlak of Saugerties, NY.