Paintings by William Bond Walker

The Philmont Library Cultural Center hosts paintings by William Bond Walker.  Walker’s works will be on view beginning Saturday May 19 through June 22, 2012. A reception with the artist will be held Saturday May 19 from 12 – 2:00 PM, admission is free.  The exhibit by artist will feature his landscape and abstract paintings. Paintings are on view courtesy Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY.

 Walker paints landscapes, often from his home in Queechy Lake, as well as figurative and abstract works. He cites Cezanne as a major influence. In this exhibit of Walker’s we hope to provide the viewer with an opportunity to experience these landscapes and abstract works together.

 “My choice of “subject” Walker writes, “is usually abstraction, developed intuitively.  I am interested in the power of color and the interaction of color and “design” as components in the evolution of a painting, whether abstract or representational.”

 “ The successful abstractions, I feel, should conceal the method by which they were created, and may seem to have grown organically, like a lichen, or to have been arranged successfully by chance – like pebbles on the beach.”

 William Bond Walker, born in Tennessee in 1930, was a Library Director at art museums including Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and The Metropolitan Museum of Art for years. During this time he painted as well, and has lived and painted in Queechy Lake since 1994. His paintings have been exhibited in New York, including Park Row Gallery, Chatham; Hudson Opera House, and Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson as well as galleries throughout the New York/ Massachusetts region.

 Admission to the exhibition and artist reception is FREE.

Book Club

The next book club will be a discussion of Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay on Wednesday, May 23.

Art of the Graphic Novel: Works in Progress

Claverack Free Library & Philmont Public Library

Presents a Gallery Showing of The Art of the Graphic Novel

Directed by Barbara Slate

Reception:  Saturday, April 21, 12 to 1:30, Located in the Karen A. Garafalo Cultural Center, Philmont Public Library

Featuring the works-in-progress by:

Hunter  Thibeault, Nicole Shedrick, Gabby Shedrick,  Ruby Lamond,  Sean Madey,  Alexander Madey,  Phelan Riley,  Alice Hoyt,  Nicholas Alexander,  Abigail Alexander,  Grace Howard,  Madison Smith,  Brandon Waithe,  Lula Butler, and Megan Schoep.

This event is made possible with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the NYS Council on the Arts, administered in Columbia County by the Columbia County Council on the Arts through the Community Arts Grants Fund.

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Free Columbia Art Course to Hold Exhibit at the Philmont Public Library

On Sunday, March 25, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, an opening reception will be held for the Free Columbia Art Exhibit, that will run at the Philmont Public Library, 101 Main Street, from March 25 through April 20.  Although the training is located in Hillsdale, many of the current year’s students live in Philmont.  The library has generously offered to host an exhibit.  The exhibit will be open during Library hours, which are available on their website at www.philmont.org/library.

 Works by the current year’s students will be displayed in a fashion that reveals the nature of the training.  Panels representing training blocks — Color Moods, Black & White Drawing, Luster & Image Colors, Imagination, Color Perspective & Puppetry — will show stages in the creative process.  Directed by Laura Summer and Nathaniel williams, other faculty include Karen Derreumaux, Henrike Holdrege and Ella Lapoint, along with guest lecturers.

 A one-year training, the Free Columbia Art Course is now in its third year of operations, and is committed to creating a free cultural space. The ability to attend the program is not linked to the ability to pay tuition. Free Columbia is currently taking applications for the 2012/13 school year.  For more information go to www.freecolumbia.com.

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Book Club Comes to the Philmont Library

April’s book for discussion is Family Tree by Barabara Delinsky, an utterly unforgettable novel that asks penetrating questions about race, family, and the choices people make in times of crisis.  Leading the discussion this month will be Linda Mackerer and Karen Garafalo

The book is available in regular or large print, as an audio book on CD. 

Please join us on Wednesday, April 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Karen A. Garafalo Cultural Center.  After the discussion, we will be selecting the book for the next meeting.

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