Woodstock, NY (8/20/2022)

Saturday, August 20, 2022 (continued)

It was the 18th Annual Woodstock Volunteers Day/Day of Gratitude with vendor booths lining some of the streets. Which meant parking was difficult, so we ended up paying $10 to park in a municipal lot.

We first had lunch (after a wait), then visited the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (again with Tyler Arboretum reciprocity).

Radius 50 Exhibit (juried presentation of some of the best artwork in the Hudson Valley):

Symbiosis (2021, by Richard Scherr)

Angel Island Immigration Station
(2021, by Siyuan Tan) (KSS)

L: Layer State (2021, by Ruth Freeman;
and R: HysteriaWisteria (purple)
(2016, by Niki Lederer)

Solo Exhibition: Kingsley Parker: Trouble in the Terroir:

When Farms Sell (2022, by Kingsley PArker)

Art installation: Broken Monarchs by Marielena Ferrer:

Broken Monarchs features clusters of handmade paper
butterflies symbolically connecting the monarch butterfly
migration with the migrant children at the US-Mexican border

Broken Monarchs detail

Fallen butterflies represent individual children who have died
in US Customs and Border Protection custody in 2019 (KSS)

Small Works: Cycle (juried exhibit of works relating to recycling, repurposing, and up & down cycling):

Portal (2019, by Joan Barker); how
can this be an unaltered photograph?!

Ukrainian Garden (2022, by Nansi Lent)

So... upcycling converts material into something of greater value than the original; recycling converts material into something of roughly the same value; and downcycling converts material into something of less value.
What Unites Us: Americana Art From the Permanent Collection:

Teenage Quilt (1997, by Ransome)

Sound Tower, Woodstock Festival, 1969 (1969,
by Elliott Landy); FYI: The Woodstock Festival was
originally intended to take place in Woodstock, NY,
yet it actually took place in Bethel, NY (60 miles away)

Leaf paving stones in Woodstock, NY

Merlin (by paulsmosaics.com) is covered
with plastic figures and knick knacks

Now in Walden, NY: Statue (1924) of
President William McKinley

In 1890, as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the US House of Representatives, William McKinley crafted the McKinley Tariff Bill, which made it more expensive to buy items manufactured overseas. The resulting price inflation sent the economy into a tailspin; however, it was profitable for stockholders of companies that made things in America. Walden, NY was known as Knifetown because of the many knife factories. When President McKinley was assassinated, Colonell Thomas Bradley, president of the US Knife Company, left money in his will to erect a monument to McKinley. But! The base of the statue is inscribed: Erected by the working men of Walden.

Tamiko's brother, Frank, lives in Walden, but he happened to be in Vermont this weekend!

Next: Rockland County, NY.