Windham Arts Alliance: Art in Small Packages

The Windham Arts Alliance is proud to present its Art in Small Packages Show at the Main Street Community Center from November 18, 2023 to January 12, 2024. This show will feature small original works in all mediums. We are proud to give an opportunity to all artists whether they are new, emerging or professional. Windham Arts Alliance is a not for profit that prides itself on initiating projects that open new opportunities to people in our communities. With the holidays in mind, designating the show as a small works show makes it possible for visitors to purchase original artwork at reasonable prices.

Two hands on workshops will enhance this show and give people the opportunity to try their hand at printmaking. As a preview event prior to the actual show, on November 4, 2023 from 12:00 to 4:00 pm, Carol Slutzky-Tenerowicz will present a hands-on workshop on how to do Orkney Method White-Line Woodcuts. Each participant will make a woodcut during the workshop and be able to print it. They also will be able to keep the woodcut and prints. One of the beauties of this type of printing is that a printing press is not needed, so it can be “kitchen table” printmaking. There will be a $10 registration fee to hold your place. All materials participants need will be supplied by Windham Arts Alliance.

Carol is a native of Hunter who returned to her hometown after college and has always been a vibrant and active member of the community. She is locally known as a landscape painter, but in recent years has returned to spending more of her time working as a printmaker, her preferred medium. Although she has worked in a wide spectrum of printmaking techniques, she now works mostly in Lithography, Linocut, Orkney Whiteline Woodcut, Moku Hanga (Japanese Woodcut), Monotype, and Solar Etched Intaglio.

On November 18, 2023 Art in Small Packages will present a day of focusing on the arts, from 12:00 noon until 6:00 pm.

From 12:00-3:00 pm, Amy Silberkleit will present a Lithography and Monoprint workshop. This workshop will include a lithography printing and intaglio demonstration followed by the participants having the opportunity to make their own monoprints. There will be a $10 registration fee to hold your place. All materials will be supplied by Windham Arts Alliance. Amy says, “Printmaking allows me to make multiples of my drawings. This gives me the opportunity to do two very different things. First, I can print an edition of nearly identical images, hand-pulled from a single drawing. Second, I can use different techniques to enhance the work, such as adding color, printing on different papers and layering. This changes the mood, focus and depth of the original image. I do stone lithography because the stone’s texture is unique as a ground for drawing. Just as important, each print run is a series of processes and decisions. The challenge of getting everything just right is scary and satisfying.” One of the highlights of the afternoon is the opportunity to see Amy’s beautiful printing press.

From 3:00 to 4:00 pm there will be a reception with snacks and the opportunity to view the artwork and talk to the artists.

Finally, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, we are looking forward to the Catskill Mountain String Band playing and singing bluegrass, old time, country fiddle, banjo, guitar and dobro tunes. WAA is committed to including a musical event at their openings to display the musical talents in our community. The entertainment is free. Local musicians Mark Patton, Andy Bing and Bruno Bruzzese sing bluegrass and old-time country songs and perform fiddle tunes and instrumental numbers on banjo, guitar, fiddle and dobro. All of the members are multi-instrumentalists and add to the variety of the show by switching instruments to fit the style of each song. Mark, Bruno and Andy have crossed musical paths ever since the 1980s and are individually rooted in styles that complement each other’s playing and make the trio more than the sum of its parts.

Windham Arts Alliance and The Main Street Community Center are excited about this opportunity to collaborate and again provide another occasion for all to enjoy the arts, participate in workshops and listen to a wonderful musical production. The Main Street Community Center is located at 5494 Main Street in Windham. For more information contact the Main Street Community Center at mainstreetcenter.org/art-show or call 518 734 4168. We want to thank the Main Street Community Center for generously sharing their beautiful space with WAA and the Community.

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of The Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered in Greene County by CREATE Council on the Arts.