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New Paltz Times - Features | 7/16/2009 |
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Farm-fresh creativity
ARTiculture comes to Liberty View Farm in Clintondale |
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| | Billiam van Roestenberg of Liberty View Farm with a brahma rooster, Carol Himmel with an oil by Les Castellanos, sculpture of wood by Tufic Thompson, Matthew Robinson with a photographic print and Stuart Bigley of Unison with a four-day-old baby goat. | |
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by Erin Quinn
Art is being brought to a farm and a farm transformed into art. This Saturday, July 18, Unison Arts Center and Liberty View Farm are teaming up to present "ARTiculture," a one-day, multi-media arts festival. According to Stuart Bigley, the director of Unison Arts, there will be music and dance in the meadow, sculpture in the apple orchard and art in the barn at Billiam van Roestenberg's farm, located at 340 Crescent Ave. in Clintondale. With support from a grant received from Ulster County's Cultural Services Promotion Fund, Unison and Liberty View Farm were able to launch ARTiculture, which will showcase regional musicians, painters, photographers, dancers and sculptors.
"There are some people who are presenting work from New York City, but most of the artists are from the Hudson Valley," Bigley said.
To that end, a group of SUNY New Paltz alumni who formed the jazz band, A Perfect Gift -- All That is Jazz, will be playing in the meadow while a dance troupe performs a piece choreographed to fit the agricultural site.
"This band is fantastic," said Bigley. "It's straight-forward jazz, the kind that came out of the 1960s and '70s. "The seven-member jazz band will switch off throughout the afternoon and evening with the country-folk band, David Kraai and The Saddle Tramps.
"The David Kraai band is a great band to dance to," Bigley said. "So we'll have two very different music scenes switching off with 45-minute sets every hour on the hour."
The site-specific dance, which is being choreographed by Clyde Forth of SUNY New Paltz, will also be performed multiple times throughout the day.
"The jazz band will begin at 3 p.m. and then they'll trade off with David Kraai at 4 p.m. and so on until sunset," Bigley said.
While people are welcomed to bring their own picnics and lawn chairs and get comfortable, Bigley noted that van Roestenberg will be providing some farm-fresh organic food and salads for the art enthusiasts to enjoy.
There will be a variety of sculptures placed throughout the orchard and inside the barn will be various pieces of work from photographers and painters.
"We're still accepting artwork," Bigley said. So for those who are interested in exhibiting their masterpieces call Unison at 255-1559.
The festivities will take place from 3 to 9 p.m. and will serve as a fundraiser for Unison. The charge of admission to ARTiculture is $10 per person or $25 per carload.
If the day is rained out, the event will take place the following day, July 19 at the same time.
For more information go to www.unisonarts.org or www.libertyviewfarm.biz.
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