Thank you for your interest in the Open Space Gallery & Events Project. I am please to continue the work of facilitating diverse, multi-generational and inclusive art-related events and education in the Hudson Valley.
Since 1986, I traveled back and forth from Central Pa. to West Park, NY for regular retreat time at a monastery situated on the Hudson. I now understand that my love for the Valley started that first year I visited.
After some months of reflection and encouragement from friends to expand my vision for my artwork and music that had been so well received in Pa., I visited friends in Woodstock in April 2014 and knew immediately that I had come home. I moved to Woodstock from Central Pa., September 8, 2014.
Since that time, my art, music and personal life has been as high as Mt. Overlook. In 2019, I briefly moved to Western Mass on a “Soul Journey” only to return to the area at the beginning of 2020 - a challenging year for everyone.
Nonetheless, my experience and success of collaborating with artists, facilitating “pop-up” galleries, etc., in Central Pa., moved forward the following year in scope and depth as I saw (and heard) the need for something “other” to happen within the arts community.
I feel that it has taken the past ten years to bring the elements comprising the vision for Open Space into a surer focus: Facilitating events for unrecognized artists and under-heard musicians in the Hudson Valley.
On January 1, 2022, this blog started to take shape. On January 26, OSG&EP was launched via email to over twenty artists who then passed the information along to others.
As of today 1/28, I have received over a dozen inquiries from artists seeking to be seen and heard.
I am very excited to network and collaborate with artists, musicians and performers to create something different, (“fringe”? “outsider”?) pop-up galleries, open air events and much more.
I am a facilitator of events: I do the leg work, set up the venue, contact artists who may like to be involved with a pop-up or other events; displaying and selling their works, performance or poetry readings.
Furthermore: If an artist, musician, etc., is looking for a venue for solo exhibitions and/or performance, I will assist them in finding an appropriate situation.
In Sum: Open Space Gallery & Events Project is for and about artists through facilitating opportunities to have their works seen and their music heard.
I am here to facilitate their vision so that they also can reach higher than Mt. Overlook.
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Turtle Totem Pathways - is a complete listing of all my services, workshops, rituals, and music. https://turtletotempathways.blogspot.com
I am also listed on OS blog under Visual Arts, Music & Performance, Poets & Writers and Wellness Arts.
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Arts-related Endeavors:
Shapeshift In-house Studio/Gallery: Spring Mills, Pa
Art, Music, Video & CD recording/production & design; outdoor, public accessible, interactive, educational artworks (summer), pop-up art tent sales (summer). Handmade chapbooks and journals, w/letterpress type, woodcuts. Custom requests and delivery.
Lumina Signature Photography and Design: Wedding, Portrait Photography and Graphic Design
Facilitator - Boalsburg Village Artisans Gallery: Boalsburg, Pa
Gallery Artist/Co-Director, exhibition coordinator, networking, sales, distribution maintenance, and reception coordinator
Founder and Sustaining Supporter:
"The Gallery at Holy Cross" Holy Cross Monastery, West Park ,NY
Byrdcliffe Gallery Shop at the Klinert/James Gallery and Performance Space: Woodstock, NY
Assistant to the shop manager and on-call to the gallery director. Customer service, sales, shop maintenance and appearance, daily accounts and receipts; exhibition and reception set-up and break down.
- Dorsky Museum Selective Juried Exhibition
- Soho Photo, NYC, National Juried, Photo Alternatives
- Soho Photo, NYC, 9/11 Commemorative Invitational, Photography
- Capital Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, National Juried,
- Images National Juried, Central Pa. Fest. of Arts, Photography
- Private Gallery Exhibition/Retrospective, Spring Mills, Pa., Diverse Media
- Woodstock Artists Association and Museum "Small Works" Juried Exhibition
- Byrdcliffe Guild Members Show, Woodstock, NY
- Bank of America, Solo Exhibition, Woodstock, NY.
And allow LOVE….
To consume us