Upcoming Events

 

Join Us at the Zadock Pratt Museum for the 2nd Annual Colonel George W. Pratt Heritage Day: August 28th- 11AM - 5 PM


11 AM - Civil War encampment opens with the 120th NY Volunteers performing musket drills and demonstrating how soldiers lived while on the march. Rural Felicity plays period fife & drum music.

12 PM - New additions to the museum's Hardtack & Home Front Recollections Civil War exhibit, ''Drummer Boys: Answering the Call" and "Silver Eagles: The War Colonels of the 20th NYS Militia' opens to the public on the 2nd floor of the historic Pratt Homestead. See a PowerPoint presentation on Colonel George Watson Pratt: Soldier, Statesman and Patriot.


1:30 PM - Special children's drummer workshop with Rural Felicity and Sharon Quinn. Make your own period drum and learn the basic rhythms that were played a military drum corps. Drum kits will be provided (Ages 8-12 yrs old).


2:30 PM - Ice Cream Social followed by an 1860s Cake Walk with prizes and an encampment sing-a-long with the 77th NY Regimental Balladeers.

3:30 PM - Children's Games with Jody Luce.


Throughout the day
• Meet famous personalities from the period,
• Talk with Civil War soldiers
• Visit memorabilia displays
• Enjoy the surrounds of mid-19th century historic homestead

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Celebrate our 50th with us on Aug. 28th!

Colonel George W. Pratt 1st Annual Heritage Day. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Zadock Pratt Museum. Saturday August 29th, Prattsville NY. Civil War Music and Exhibits. - View the Event

 

 

GCCA Catskill Gallery, 2nd Floor  June 6 - July 25 - Opening Reception June 6, 5 to 7pm

Lucia France Gannett has a personal relationship with flowers. Her watercolor portraits of this favorite subject will grace the walls of the Greene County Council on the Arts' Second Floor Catskill Gallery in a solo show titled: "Blooming Color: Flowers Real or Imagined" from June 6 through July 25. An opening reception will be held June 6, 5 to 7 p.m.

 

The rich, bold colors and large scale size of these blooms say summer to anyone living in northern climes. Gannett's flowers are drawn free hand first and are not intended to be exact replicas but to have a hint of interpretation in both form and color. During the development of the paintings, the images are intended as color poems seen through the eyes of flower lovers. Hence, sunflowers20are "Ladies of the Sun" and a delicious red poppy is "Gypsy."

 

Gannett, who has lived in the Catskills for over 35 years, is a resident of the Woodstock area. Working as a weaver and dyer, she eventually took her love of color from the loom to canvas where she concentrated on painting, primarily with pastels, oils and watercolors. Her love of nature and the overwhelming rush she received from the medium's special glowing quality and pure vivid colors spun her in direction of watercolors. The wonder, mystery and unexpected experience of watercolor keep her deeply involved, exploring the world of flowers and leaves real and imagined. 

 

The GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, INC. (GCCA) is a tax exempt, not-for-profit, county-wide arts service organization whose purpose is to broaden and enrich the quality of life in Greene County through the development and strengthening of all the arts. Since 1975, the GCCA has provided information and essential services to artists, arts organizations, cultural and educational institutions, civic groups, community agencies and the general public.