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18th Annual Treadwell
Stagecoach Run Art Festival!
July 6 & 7, 2013
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Treadwell, NY --- July 6 and 7, 2013 marks the 18th year of the Treadwell Stagecoach Run Art Festival and Open Studios. More than 50 artists will be showing their work in their own studios and galleries in Treadwell, Franklin, and environs. The gala event, drawing art lovers and collectors from throughout New York, will take place 10 am - 5 pm Saturday and Sunday along Route 14 and its streets and byways; free maps will be available at Barlow's General Store in Treadwell and at each of the participating sites. Complete information may be found at http://www.stagecoachrun.com or by calling 607-829-2206 or 607-829-5307.
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The Catskills hamlet of Treadwell has long been a magnet for artists, and Stagecoach Run Art Festival and Open Studios was founded 18 years ago, steadily growing to encompass not only Treadwell studios but those nearby. Visitors and locals will have the opportunity to see art in the artists' studios and talk directly to the artists about why they make art and why they chose the media in which they work.
Collectors and art lovers will follow numbered maps or select specific locations and artists for viewing. Works in egg tempera, oil, watercolor, gold leaf, etchings,
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Marie Cummings Painting
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assemblage, sculpture, collage, metal work, giclee prints, flame-work glass, photo-based
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Jane Carr Egg Tempera
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installations, mobiles, handmade furniture, pastels, screen prints, mixed media, recreated furniture, basket weaving, chair caning, wood engravings, photographs, lino cuts, artists' books, and other media will be on hand for viewing and buying.
Among the artists represented, many of them internationally and nationally known
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Doug Jamieson Etching
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, are Pati Airey, Christine Alexander, Barbara Ardan, Nathan Eldred Banks, Harry Barnes and Muffy McDowell, Richard Birkett, Charlie Bremer, Martha Bremer, William Buchina, Gail Bunting, JoAnne B. Chemielowski, Jane Carr, Patricia Coyle, Marie Cummings, Glen Fellows, Caralee Fincher, Lisbeth Firman, Ernest M. Fishman, Brian Fox, Terry Fox, Eliss
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Joseph Kurhajec Sculpture
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a Gore, Zena Gurbo, Rhonda Harrow, Doug Jamieson, Rita Ilse, Richard Kathman, Joseph Kurhajec, Kerry Lane, Bill Lee, Simone Mantellassi, Ann Matthews, Dana Matthews, Colleen Morris, John Morton, Edmond Rinnooy-Kan, Bertha Rogers, Adam Scudder, Anna Sea, Jeff Sears, Maryann Stow, and Judy Thuss. The Treadwell Abbey will be offering Eastern OrthodoxChristian arts and crafts. Bright Hill Literary Center will showcase works of WPA artists, including L
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Edmond Rinnooy-Kan Painting
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ewis Ferstadt, Ruth Fortel, and Stuyvesant Van Veen, and other New York and loca
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Robert Bensen Poetry by Bright Hill Books
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l artists of the 1940s to 2000s. Bright Hill will also feature its own poetry book publications at special festival prices as well as previously-read books at bargain prices.
Visitors may drive to the various studios and galleries outside Treadwell and Franklin or they may chose to park and walk to thestudios in the hamlets. Meals and sandwiches, barbeque, hot dogs, burgers, and other refreshments may be purchased at the renovated Barlow's General Store or at the Treadwell United Methodist church; and Brewery Ommegang will be offering beer samples.
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John Morton Photograph
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Stagecoach Run is sponsored by the artists and by Artware, Barlow's General Store, Brewery Ommegang, Burgins Auto Service, Inc., CANO, Gary Vassinelli and Nick Preston,Charlotte and Jonathan Collett, Cooperstown Art Association, Delhi Liquor Store, The Design Destrict, Jeff Englund and Scott Morelock, Franklin Stage Company, Hobart Book Village of the Catskills, Masonville Gneral Store, Rachel's Framing and Fine Art, Ray's Fine Wines & Spriits, SixtyOne Main Gallery, and the Treadwell Community Improvement Club.
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