ALL DAY

ART GALLERIES

SEASON ART GALLERY OPENINGS

Summer season Gala Gallery Openings at most of the areas numerous art galleries. The galleries will be open to the public all day with special emphasis placed on their individual public receptions starting at 4 PM and running into the evening.

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RAFFLE TICKETS ON SALE

Tickets for a RAFFLE of donations from each organization will be available at each site and at sidewalk tables.

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Woodstock Artists Association & Museum

28 Tinker Street

Woodstock, NY  12498

(845) 679-2940

www.woodstockart.org

For Arts Day WAAM artists will  exhibit and sell additional work from their portfolios. We will also host special free children’s art activities; come see our Youth Exhibition Space! Our Museum Shop offers pottery, jewelry, prints, and books by local artists. Contemporary group and solo art shows, and a Permanent Collection Exhibition are continuously on view.

WAAM

28 Tinker Street

In the center of town – look for the sign with the red triangle

12:00pm -

5:00pm

The Center for Photography at Woodstock

59 Tinker Street

Woodstock NY 12498
(845) 679-9957

www.cpw.org

A SENSE OF DEPARTURE / Combining photography and sculpture, Toronto-based artist, Susana Reisman creates stirring hand-crafted works that seeks to address the ways in which we experience and interpret what we see: how we encounter, read, construct, classify, categorize, and evaluate our visual world. The exhibition display Reisman’s explorations through both the rejection of and return to traditional photographic practices.

59 Tinker Street, Woodstock NY 12498
 

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Historical Society of Woodstock

45 Comeau Drive

Woodstock, NY www.woodstockhistory.org

Exhibition opening of WOODSTOCK THREADS . . . THREADS OF MEMORY, On exhibit are dresses worn by Woodstock women in the 1930's and 1940's - on display are the popular WOODSTOCK DRESS and the CHEATS AND SWINGS square dance dresses. Also, come identify memories - help name your family and friends in old historic photographs. For more information please email wdstkhist@yahoo.com or phone 845-679-7564.

45 Comeau Drive

Woodstock, NY

1:00 pm - 4:00pm

Woodstock School of Art

2470 Route 212

P.O. Box 338
Woodstock, N.Y. 12498

845.679.2388
www.woodstockschoolofart.com

Bluestone Sculpture Park Tours
Tours of the school’s captivating Bluestone Sculpture Park will be given from 1 pm to 4 pm. The public is invited to explore the paths that meander through the woods behind the campus, where native bluestone site-specific sculpture surprise and delight the viewer. In the WSA gallery, a documentary video made by Staats Fasoldt, describing the construction of the sculpture park will show continuously throughout the afternoon. The school’s fourth annual Regional Exhibition of two-dimensional work, juried by Donald Elder, will be hanging in the gallery.  Admission is free to all.  For information, contact the Woodstock School of Art at 845-679-2388, www.woodstockschoolofart.org,  wsart@earthlink.net 

WSA

2470 Route 212

Woodstock, N.Y. 12498

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

The Woodstock Playhouse www.woodstockplayhouse.org

A Family Performance featuring Steve Charney.  The Playhouse is pleased to present a wonderful hour featuring Steve Charney and his Wooden American friend, Harry. Steve has been acting like a nut, for a loooonnnng time. He is a magician, ventriloquist, radio programmer, author, musician and songwriter. Steve has written dozens of songs for "Bear in the Big Blue House" a national TV show produced by Jim Henson Production. Steve also has had a profile written about him in the "New Yorker" magazine, shown up in the New York Daily News, one of his songs was featured on "Regis and Kathy Lee", he has been a commentator for "All Things Considered" on NPR and has published books and music with Scholastic, Metacom, Crown, Troll and Meadowbrook Publishers. His latest book is "Kids' Kookiest Riddles" by Sterling Publishing a division of Barnes and Noble.   Harry sprang from Steve's imagination twenty four years ago and has been going like gangbusters ever since. He is the personification of rebellion, non-conformity and self  containment. His interests include everything except whittling. This performance will be offered at no charge – That’s right - FREE ! So come on down and see what’s happenin’ at The Playhouse.   For more information please call the Woodstock Playhouse at 845-679-4101 or www.woodstockplayhouse.org

The Woodstock Playhouse,
at intersection of Routes 212 & 375, Woodstock, NY.

1:00 pm-
5:00 pm
 

OPEN HOUSE.  Visit the 1916 hand-built Maverick Concert Hall, a National Historic Site, home to the oldest continuous summer chamber music festival in the United States. Maverick Art Colony founder Hervey White and his band of musicians, artists, and local craftsmen built the hall in its beautiful woodland setting as the centerpiece of the collaborative arts colony. Hall and grounds will be open to visitors from 1-5 with a FREE CONCERT of classical music at 3 PM.
 

Maverick Concert Hall, Maverick Road, 1  mile from route 375 and 1 mile from Route 28 and only 2 miles from the center of town

1:00 - 2:30pm

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild

34 Tinker Street
Woodstock, New York 12498
(845) 679-2079
www.woodstockguild.org

GUIDED TOUR. A guided tour (weather permitting) of the historic 1903 Byrdcliffe Art Colony will begin at the Byrdcliffe Theatre. No reservations needed. Possible option will be a walk thru of White Pines, the Arts & Crafts home of Byrdcliffe's founder.

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Woodstock Fringe

PO Box 157
Lake Hill, NY  12448

(845) 679-0167

www.woodstockfringe.org

WOODSTOCK FRINGE PLAY SLAM!

WOODSTOCK FRINGE joins in the celebration of Woodstock’s annual ARTS DAY.  On May 27, WOODSTOCK FRINGE will host a PLAY SLAM at the Byrdcliffe Theatre from 2:00 - 6:00pm.  Playwrights, directors, actors and theatre lovers will convene at the Byrdcliffe Theater. Playwrights, bring your short scripts (10-minute). Directors, bring your director’s fedora. Actors bring your panache.  Plays will be cast, rehearsed and then read on the spot in an orgy of theatre and creativity. All are welcome, pros and non. Raffle tickets on sale.

Byrdcliffe Theatre

Upper Byrdcliffe Road

Woodstock Poetry Society and Festival  www.woodstockpoetry.com

POETRY READING.  Poetry Reading at Maverick Concert Hall: Matthew J. Spireng, Will Nixon and Philip Pardi hosted by Phillip Levine. Free, open to the public.

2:30 - 4:30pm

Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Co.

www.birdonacliff.org

OPEN REHEARSAL Open rehearsal at the Woodstock Playhouse.  Bird-On-A-Cliff's Out-of-the-Nest Theatre Works for Teens.  "School Daze" conceived and created by our talented young actors.

Woodstock Playhouse

Junction of Routes 212 & 375

3:00 pm-
4:00 pm
 

MUSIC AT MAVERICK
FREE CONCERT featuring Sol Sonata Ensemble and Gypsy Mania. Sol Sonata performs fresh interpretations of Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque compositions as well as Celtic and Gypsy tunes for viola, cello, recorders, guitar, mandolin, and percussion. GYPSY MANIA is a group of violinists who are students of Woodstock's Betty MacDonald and Katie Jeannotte. The group is whole heartedly in love with the exciting and passionate folk music of Eastern Europe. The violin is the perfect instrument for this soul stirring music and captures the spirit of the early nomadic gypsy clans.

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild

34 Tinker Street
Woodstock, New York 12498
(845) 679-2079
www.woodstockguild.org

Exhibition Opening of AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH at Kleinert/James Art Center.  A series of contemporary and historic portraits of Americans who stand for the truth. From Sojourner Truth to Pete Seeger. Paintings by Robert Shetterly, Guest Curator is Mary Frank. The highlight of the opening will be the unveiling of the portrait of Pete Seeger, who will be in attendance .

Kleinert/James Art Center
34 Tinker Street
 

East Village Collective

8 Old Forge Road

Woodstock, NY 12494
845-679-2174
www.eastvillagecollective.com

Artist Reception, Louis Cannizzaro, “Le Coeur a ses Raisons” Paintings by Louis Cannizzaro. Louis’s paintings are in collections worldwide. He was the cover artist for the European magazine “exhibit a” on their Big American Issue. He has been featured in publications such as The Daily News, Rolling Stone, W and Woman’s Wear Daily. He has published four art books with his own company Powder French Books which are available at stores around the world; “I Love My Girlfriend”, “To My Sweetheart”, “Full Of Grace”, and “Have Faith”. Louis had his first Paris show last year at the Pitch Gallery. His paintings have decorated the walls on the television shows ER and The Apprentice. “Le Coeur a ses Raisons” will be shown thru June 27.

8 Old Forge Road

Woodstock, NY 12494

 7:00pm

Woodstock Arts Consortium

WOODSTOCK ARTS CONSORTIUM RAFFLE PULLING

Kleinert/James Art Center

34 Tinker Street