The Arts Workshop Program provides opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in music, dance, visual arts, drama, video, animation and computer graphic arts. The workshops are taught by professional artists with expertise in working with special populations. The hands-on workshop experiences take place at sites throughout New York City and the surrounding region. Led by professional artists, the program serves the needs of teachers in special education classrooms, specialized instructional environments and general education classrooms. (212) 575-7676 548 Broadway, 3rd Fl. New York,NY 10012 USA

ArtReach's workshop program brings performing and visual artists into facilities serving disabled and disadvantaged audiences on an on-going basis. This program has included two after-school programs with children ranging from 6-12 years in age (215)568-2115 info@art-reach.org

This training is open to any Chester Historical Society member wishing to learn about these topics and get involved in the project. Contact Clifton Patrick (chester_historical@mac.com) if you'd like to sign on. If you'd like to help, but are not interested in traveling for the training, we have lots of documents that need to be transcribed. The Chester Historical Society 47 Main Street Chester, NY 10918 direct phone/fax 845-469-7645 1915 Erie Station 845-469-2591 (9 am - 1 pm Saturdays, May - Oct.) CHS Office 845-469-2388 (10-11:30 am Tuesdays) url: www.ChesterHistoricalSociety.com Hudson River Valley Heritage (www.HRVH.org) contributor.

Outreach is a service through which artists of color, rural artists, new immigrant artists, disabled artists, mature artists and others can share opportunities and resources. Outreach works with a network of local artist activists to reach artists.

Thorough knowledge of woodworking, from the log up and the grain out, is often best developed through traditional hand skills, and this can be uniquely enhanced with the revival of pre-industrial machines and techniques. In this workshop, participants will learn the fundamentals of both carving and turning (which is essentially concentric carving) using traditional hand tools and non-electric lathes, along with some green woodworking techniques added for good measure. The class will be geared around kitchen utensils. This will allow for instruction regarding turned and adzed/carved bowls, spoons, ladles, whisks, honey dippers, rolling pins, butter paddles, cutting boards, etc.). July 24 - 26 Fri: 6-8pm, Sat: 9am-12pm/1pm -6pm, Sun 9am-12pm/1pm-3pm Carving and riving (splitting) will be taught using axe, adz, handsaw, froe, chisel, gouge, slick, and rasp. For turning, participants can learn how to form both spindle and bowl forms using treadle-, spring-pole-, and bow-powered lathes in large and small formats. In a similar method, a parser bow-drill will be used to create inlays. Green wood will be shaped using shaving horses, drawknives and spoke-shaves. The class also features guided discussions on contemporary and historical artists, craftspeople, and designers that have employed such traditional methods in their work. Additionally, the old-school content of the class will be complemented by an investigation of some local edible plants, natural drinks, and even the construction of a lashed yurt sweat-lodge. Experimentation and collaboration will be encouraged as students work to create their own engaging art, craft, or design

The Mid-Hudson Children's Museum is a place where children discover, experiment, and explore their world through hands-on exhibits and children's original artwork – a place where the arts and the sciences join hands in teaching children about the world they live in. The museum offers interactive performances, workshops, presentations, playgroups, summer camp, and an arts and culture activity corner. Come take delight in their waterfront site.

2010 Winter Digital Kitchen Workshops. Offering a dynamic range of one-day, weekend, and multi-week events. Workshops, Classes, and Lectures FROM WET DARKROOM TO DIGITAL DARKROOM, INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSHOP, INTERMEDIATE PHOTOSHOP, INTRODUCTION TO FINE-ART DIGITAL PRINTING, WIDEN YOUR HORIZON, STITCHING PANORAMAS WITH PHOTOSHOP, INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, MASTERING YOUR DIGITAL WORKFLOW, INTRO TO PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS, TAKING BETTER PICTURES WITH YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA

Private one-on-one lessons in a fully-equipped blacksmithing and fabrication studio, based on your skill level and specific interests. The blacksmithing studio is a fully-equipped workshop, and the upstairs gallery is a showroom of metal arts elements. (845) 651-7550 Blacksmithing Open Studio Center for Metal Arts 44 Jayne St, Florida

The program, taught by Susan Hope Fogel, is based on the concept of the guild. Small classes averaging 4-7 students ensure a lot of individual attention as students are guided toward a fuller understanding of the principles of drawing and painting. (845) 986-0986 susanhopefogel@gmail.com The Warwick Atelier 3 Points of View, Warwick

a professional coach and mentor that develops careers for artists. I have over 8 years experience. I earn my living in the arts. I have exhibited my work at The Whitney Museum Biennial in New York, and have had solo museum and gallery shows. I will help you to identify and overcome your specific problems, so that you can reach the next level in your career. I will create a roadmap for you to follow so that your goals can be easily and steadily achieved. I also write grants, proposals, art statements and letters for you. email me for more information

This publication contains more than 5000 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the US federal government and various foundations and associations across the United States. Programs in the Catalog provide a wide range of benefits and services, which have been grouped into 20 basic functional categories, and 176 subcategories that identify specific areas of interest. Listed below are the 20 basic categories in which all programs have been grouped by primary purpose. for more info email ***webmaster@usgrantsguide.info

Literary Magazines Where can you publish your work? What are magazines looking for? How do you reach them? Find answers in our database of literary magazines. And get practical advice from their editors. Quick Fiction Quick Fiction is a biannual literary journal that publishes stories under 500 words. .More Literary Magazines .Small Presses It’s largely the small, independent presses that publish and consider work from new and emerging writers. Find the right places to send your manuscript in our database. ChiZine Publications ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words.

Technical assistance seminars are offered for individual artists, and for Putnam-based cultural and community organizations. Seminar topics include grant writing, accessibility/usability issues, marketing and outreach, and shared resources. (845)278-0230 putnamartscouncil@suscom.net

Begining May 13th Wallkill River School Preserves Orange County Farms and Open Spaces with Plein Air Painting Classes! Contact: Shawn Dell Joyce, (845) 457-ARTS (2787) Gallery/School www.WallkillRiverSchool.com; www.oclt.org WallkillRiverSchool@frontiernet.net (845) 728-4001 cell Orange County, New York- The Wallkill River School is following in the tradition of the Hudson River School; America’s first environmentalists, by joining with the Orange County Land Trust this summer. Six Land Trust site, not normally open to the public, have been made available to artists for plein air painting workshops. Paintings made at these sites will be auctioned off in Nov. to benefit the O.C. Land Trust and help preserve our agricultural history for future artists. These workshops are free to try one time, and run every Sunday from May through Oct. Most workshops are handicapped-accessible, with extra help provided for elderly and disabled participants. All Wallkill River School workshops, picnics and events are zero waste, local-based, and respectful of the environment.

Wallkill River School Preserves Orange County Farms and Open Spaces with Plein Air Painting Classes! Contact: Shawn Dell Joyce, (845) 457-ARTS (2787) Gallery/School www.WallkillRiverSchool.com; www.oclt.org WallkillRiverSchool@frontiernet.net (845) 728-4001 cell Orange County, New York- The Wallkill River School is following in the tradition of the Hudson River School; America’s first environmentalists, by joining with the Orange County Land Trust this summer. Six Land Trust site, not normally open to the public, have been made available to artists for plein air painting workshops. Paintings made at these sites will be auctioned off in Nov. to benefit the O.C. Land Trust and help preserve our agricultural history for future artists. The Wallkill River School meets Sundays from 9-1pm on location, and features regionally-known artists demonstrating their approach to the landscape (see www.WallkillRiverSchool.com). The demonstrator works one-on-one with workshop participants as they capture the landscape in paint, until noon. The workshop ends with a group critique and a local foods lunch, often featuring fresh produce from the same farms just painted. These workshops are free to try one time, and run every Sunday from May through Oct. Most workshops are handicapped-accessible, with extra help provided for elderly and disabled participants. All Wallkill River School workshops, picnics and events are zero waste, local-based, and respectful of the environment. Anyone can try out a class for free, Tuition is 4 classes for $120, 8 classes for $200 and the whole season (23 classes) for $300.

SlowArt sponsors competitions for Direct Art Magazine publication and Limner Gallery exhibitions. Spring and Fall competitions are held each year for the Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer issues of Direct Art Magazine. Periodic competitions are held for various Limner Gallery thematic exhibitions. (518)828-2343 TheLimner@aol.com

Open Atelier Sessions in New Windsor Thursdays, 7-10pm Bring your own materials and take advantage of live models posing for 3-6 hour at a time. Drop-ins for area artists and student are encouraged and welcomed. Artists $20 for 3hrs or $35 for 6hrs. Students $10 for 3hrs or $20 for 6 hrs. www.carriageartatelier.com