Schedule of Events

Saturday, May 21st

MORNING TALKS:

9:00
Registration and Coffee at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring Street Catskill, New York

9:30
Welcome Remarks

9:45 - 10:25
"The Workshop of a Beloved American Genius:" Daniel Chester French's Studio at Chesterwood by Linda Jackson, Manager of Collections and Interpretation at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA

10:30 - 11:10
"This Little Corner of the World:" N.C. Wyeth's Chadds Ford Studio by Christine Podmaniczky, Associate Curator of N.C. Wyeth Collections at the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA

11:15 - 11:55
"Dragon Rock:" Russel Wright's Consummate Achievement at Manitoga by Anita Pidala, Executive Director of Manitoga, the Russel Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY

12:00 - 12:15
Questions

12:30 - 1:30
Box Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSIONS:

1:30 - 4:00
Tours of Thomas Cole's Old Studio at Cedar Grove by guest curator Frank Racette; Frederic Church's Studio at Olana with Curator Evelyn Trebilcock and Associate Curator Valerie Balint and viewing of The Studio Revealed: A Video Tour of the Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner Studio, East Hampton, New York

4:00 - 5:30
Wine and Cheese Reception on the East Lawn at Olana

Sunday May 22, 2005

Contemporary Artists' Studio Tours

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11:00 a.m.
Coffee at the Greene County Council on the Arts, 398 Main Street, Catskill, New York

12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Self-guided tours of selected contemporary artists' studios in, and around Catskill, NY. Sponsored by Olana, Cedar Grove and the Greene County Council on the Arts

*Contemporary Artists' Studio Tours Maps will be given out with symposium material on Saturday. For those only attending the Sunday tours, maps will be available at the Greene County Council on the Arts beginning at 11:00 Sunday morning.

For additional information on the symposium please call (518) 828 0135 ex.302 or 314