• Amity Farm Batik
  
• http://www.etsy.com/amityfarmbatik
• http://carol-conklin.artistwebsites.com
• http://amityfarmbatik.blogspot.com
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/amityfarmbatik
• (518) 642-9406
  

Hartford, New York
amityfarmbatik@gmail.com

Artist Carol Law Conklin

Batik is an ancient method of painting on fabric with wax and dyes and I have brought it to modern times with my magical images of fantasy and farm.

I have been a batik artist for over 36 years and began doing batiks in the hills of Western Massachusetts where I also met my husband. Together we had a Jersey cow dairy farm near the Adirondacks in Upstate New York where I gathered many beautiful images and inspiration.

I have shown in galleries in Rockport, Provincetown and Leverett, Massachusetts; also a solo show at Ghent Gallery in Norfork, Virginia.

www.jeffreyandersonphoto.com
jeffreyandersonphoto@hotmail.com

(518) 615-0963

Commercial and art photographic services.

www.kateaustinavon.net
www.myadvokate.com

(518) 353-2121

Kate E. Austin-Avon was raised in Killington, Vermont, and now resides in Glens Falls, New York. She has been showing her work in Glens Falls and Killington since 2007 and is always seeking new venues to show her artwork or sell her jewelry. Kate graduated from Empire State College with her Bachelor's in Visual Arts in 2008 and owns a business called Advokate promoting artists and small businesses. She served as Co-President for the North Country Arts Center for two years and served as chair of Colors of Fall for more than four years and an exhibiting and active member of many local arts organizations.

www.bjsartworks.com
www.bjsartworks.blogspot.com

Beverly Saunders, owner and artist

My work in pastels are a constant study in color, texture and the relationships of light and atmosphere. By capturing time and space in landscapes and still life, I create a sense of peace and serenity. In today’s fast pace world these qualities are hard to come by.

My landscape images are inspired by photographs of places that are special to me. I, in turn, wish to share that with the viewer.

The still life images are just that...still life.  There is certain peaceful quietness in still life that engages the artist as well the viewer...a time to step out of the now and into a place which clears the mind and renews the spirit.

New to portraits of people, I am encouraged to continue my experience in rendering portraits of people, homes and animals in pastel, hoping to capture their emotional and personal nature in the traditional yet classic form.
   

Stay tuned for information.

www.wildflowersinyourownbackyard.com
dc.wildflowers@gmail.com

Wildflower photographer and enthusiast Diane Collins runs a unique business, WILDFLOWERS IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD, producing personal wildflower books.

Diane lives in Glens Falls, NY, near the Adirondack Mts.  She is an exhibiting member of the North Country Arts Center, and her wildflower photographs have been displayed in several Glens Falls locations.  Diane will work for you, or with you, to chronicle the wildflowers on your property or along a favorite trail.  The flowers would be photographed and identified from May through September, and your hard cover wildflower book would be produced for you by the following spring.

Diane is also the creator of several wildflower booklets developed for local non-profit organizations:

Most recently Warrensburgh Beautification Inc. (WBI) commissioned Diane to photograph wildflowers in the Warrensburgh area and design her 3rd booklet “Warrensburgh Wildflowers” published in October 2008. “High Peaks Wildflowers” was self-published in May 2005 and chronicles spring and summer wildflowers growing alongthe trail to Rooster Comb Mt. in Keene Valley, NY. Proceedswere shared with High Peaks Hospice.

“Seasonal Wildflowers Along the Feeder Canal Park Trail” was first published in 2003 for the Feeder Canal Alliance in Glens Falls.

All the personal books and booklets designed by Diane include photographs illustrating the local settings and home place.

Stay tuned for information.

Sustaining Member
Paul Hobart is from Glens Falls. Stay tuned for more on his work!

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http://www.larac.org/Betty_Obrien.htm
The Shirt Factory
21 Cooper St., Suite 204
Glens Falls, NY 12801
518-260-6764
518-798-2822
emobrien@adelphia.net

Overall my work is about making opposites connect to create a poetic effect.  I look for contrasts, both those inherent in the subject and those formal ones that occur in the process of composing a work.  Although I carefully plan a composition I want media manipulation and expressive marks to push reality beyond the merely descriptive.

Stay tuned for information!

Stay tuned for information.

Contributing Member

Kathleen Roberts is a photographer from Chestertown and currently sits on the North Country Arts Center board. Stay tuned for more about her work!

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www.chestercreekpress.com
PO Box 316
29 Pine Knolls Road
Chestertown, New York 12817
518-494-3627
bob@chestercreekpress.com

Chester Creek Press is located just outside the hamlet of Chestertown in New York State’s Adirondack Park. The main focus of the press is publishing limited editions of contemporary works of prose and poetry. Most of the production work of each edition happens here in our studio – design, illustration, papermaking, letterpress printing from handset metal type, and bookbinding.

We also bring over thirty years of fine woodworking experience to the creation of bookbinding tools and tools for hand papermakers. We use the tools we make and we encorage feedback from our customers so our tools are refined and well tested.

The press offers summer and fall workshops in various aspects of the book arts, including introductory classes in bookbinding, papermaking, boxmaking, letterpress printing, and decorative paste-papers.

There are three studios at Chester Creek: bookbinding, letterpress printing, and boxmaking classes are taught in the print shop and bindery. Our equipment includes two Vandercook proof presses, a C&P Pilot platen press, over fifty cases of metal printing type, various hand bookbinding tools, and lots of handmade and fine art paper. We also expose and hand wash polymer plates in the print shop.

Downstairs from the print shop is the woodworking shop where we make specialized bookbinding tools and hand papermaking equipment as well as tools, jigs and fixtures for our other studios.

Out back is the paper mill where the hollander beater is kept along with vats, tubs, felts and blotters for making paper the traditional way, from cotton and linen rags.

Chester Creek Press is the imprint of Robert Walp.