Artist’s Statement: My passion as an artist is to express the many moods and emotions evoked by nature’s landscapes with soft pastels. I choose to work outside whenever possible so I can immerse myself in the sensual riches of nature. There are constantly new perspectives to be discovered. Nature is always in flux, as is […]
The Carey Institute is pleased to announce that Jeanne Crane Strausman will be showing her work in the Guggenheim Gallery during the month of April. Ms. Strausman has been living and working in the Hudson Valley for more than twenty years, observing and culling from nature. Residing now in Rensselaerville, she concentrates her attention on the […]
Renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk and Yehuda Hanani in guitar/cello recital “If there is another guitarist in the world who can match the technical accomplishment of the American Eliot Fisk, I should be surprised.” – The Times of London “In this era of the cello, Hanani is among the best. His Bach was absorbing, imaginative, beautiful […]
We were thrilled to host the 6th annual Catskill High Peaks Music Festival in August 2015. Fifty hand-picked emerging artists from around the world gathered on our campus for 10 days to learn from internationally renowned cellist Yehuda Hanani and his acclaimed colleagues. Master classes, moonlight sonatas and evening concerts were all open to the […]
Songwriting with Soldiers program at The Carey Institute for Global Good.
Artist’s Statement For many years Bente Hirsch has been painting and drawing in various locations: in the streets and parks of New York City, the Caribbean, Europe, South America and Marrakech, Morocco. She always tries to catch the light, starting a painting indicating where the light hits. For her, capturing the light is most important. […]
Annie Rosen leads quartet performing blues, jazz, swing and more RENSSELAERVILLE, NY – The Carey Institute for Global Good is proud to welcome a night of acoustic blues, vintage jazz, swing and folk roots Americana ,when Annie and the Hedonists take center stage on Saturday, December 7. Annie and the Hedonists, led by Annie Rosen, […]
Artist’s Statement Sharon Costello started as a fiber artist in the mid 1980’s with a small flock of sheep and a love of creative experimentation. She has been a full time, professional feltmaker since 1995. She is well known for her prize winning needle felted art dolls and felted vessels. She has studied feltmaking in […]
Event gives returning soldiers and veterans a way to cope with combat stress and returning home through song writing RENSSELAERVILLE, NY – The Carey Center for Global Good will be welcoming SongwritingWith:Soldiers for a weekend long retreat beginning on August 23. SongwritingWith: Soldiers pairs up service members with professional songwriters to write songs based on […]
Artist’s Statement Through the years students have asked what inspired me to paint a certain picture, or what kind of pencil I use for drawing. My answer is, “it is a thousand hour pencil”. In other words, the secret is not the pencil… it is the work, the devotion and the love of drawing. Art […]