By Phyllis Tower This month Learning Woodstock Art Colony has the pleasure of publishing the following piece on the artist Alison Rickey Ames by longtime Maverick resident Phyllis Tower, who offers many thanks for help and encouragement to her daughter Nadja Lazansky and to her dear friend, Alison's grand-niece Mary Ball. If you're near Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania go view the exhibition Making Her Mark: 50 Women Artists of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony, which was on view last...

By Bruce Weber It was quite a busy 2025. I curated three exhibitions exploring different aspects of the historic Woodstock art colony: Making Her Mark: 50 Women ArtIsts of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony at the Historical Society of Woodstock, which is touring to the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettsyburg College, opening January 28, 2026 (I'll be giving a gallery talk that da y ); In the Open Air: The Woodstock School of Landscape Painting and Its Impact , which which was on exhibition...

By Bruce Weber Current visitors to the new Woodstock library are able to view the exhibition The Art and Artistry of The Plowshare, 1916-1920, whi ch is on display in a glass case on the second floor. On Saturday morning December 13th from 10:30 a.m. to noon I'll be at the Woodstock School of Art for the final day of In the Open Air: The Art Students League's Woodstock School of Landscape Painting and Its Impact - DON'T MISS IT (open till 3. p.m.) . At 3:30 p.m. on the 13th, I will be...