2012 Residency Open Application

2012 Sprouts Farm Calendar

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Available for purchase at the following locations:

Pakatakan Holiday Market, Round Barn, Halcottsville, NY                           Saturday, November 26, 2011 10 a.m.- 2 p.m.

Russell’s General Store, Bovina, NY

Lucky Dog Farm Store, Hamden NY

Foothills Shoe Store, Margaretville, NY

Printed Matter on 10th avenue near 22 st.

Golden Notebook, Woodstock NY

EAT, Greenpoint, NY

2012 Andes Sprouts Farm Calendar

  coming soon…

Stone Mason and Trapper Francis Daniels in Roxbury

The man who built the fireplaces in Roxbury Run tells his stories and gives a dandelion recipe.  Recorded in Roxbury by Deedee Halleck

A DOWN RENT WAR GATHERING

ANDES SPROUTS PRESENTS

A DOWN RENT WAR GATHERING

AUGUST 19, 2011

HUNTING TAVERN, ANDES, NY

An evening dedicated to exploring the lively history of the Catskills’ Down Rent War.  The program will take place at the Hunting Tavern in Andes where some of the actual events of the War took place.  The evening will include an informal reading of portions of The Calico Indian Insurrection a film script about the 19th century rebellion written by Ernest Larsen. Larsen is the author of the Edgar-nominated novel Not a Through Street, a widely-published media critic (The Nation, Art in America, Jump Cut, etc), and the writer/producer of many award-winning experimental films and videos screened at international festivals and two Whitney Biennials.  Ulster County’s Academy Award winning actress, Melissa Leo will read one of the parts.

Larsen has said this about his film script:

Fantasy, history, and the history of fantasy intertwine and strengthen one other in this story:  the farmers, inspired by the Boston Tea Party and their own imagination, decide to organize anonymously and clandestinely in small tribes, a brilliant organizational move– they adopt Indian pseudonyms ( like “Big Thunder ‘) and dress up, disguising themselves (both cross-race and cross-gender in 1840!))  in red-dyed sheepskin masks (fitted out with horns and antlers) and women’s calico dresses and even adopt a fake-Indian patois so that no one should be able to identify their faces, their bodies, or their speech patterns.

As fantasy-Indians, in calico skirts, the Anti-Renters let loose a playful and generalized spirit of unchecked transgression that influences even the Patroon van Rensselear’s family in the end—infecting Amy, the still young frustrated wife of the overly-formal new patroon, Stephen.

Included in the evening’s events will be tin horn music and a recital of Down Rent songs.  The Down Rent War took place on both sides of the Hudson River.  The evening’s program will present short clips from a video by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor, Branda Miller, about Big Thunder and the Down Rent War east of the Hudson in Columbia County.

Thanks to The Hunting Tavern, a project of The Andes Society for History and Culture, a not for profit educational corporation established in 1975 for the purpose of promoting the history of Andes and the surrounding area and to provide diverse educational and cultural programming. It is located in the historic village of Andes, NY in the heart of the Catskill Mountains.

Resident Artist, Layet Johnson

Image above is a still of Layet Johnson’s virtual cabin he constructed during his residency.  It is a virtual cabin and landscape built from html, javascript, and css, implementing Google APIs and common RSS feeds. The Google Earth terrain displays Stamford, NY (42.24’6″ N, 74.36’26″ W.)  Layet will continue to work on research and development of a phone app to identify the botany in the preserve.

Michael Kudish Botanical Inventory Project

 

Layet Johnson presents his past and current work…

At Casey Joes Coffee House in Arkville. July 30, Arkville, NY, 5 pm- 6 pm

Layet Johnson, Andes Sprouts Society resident artist, will be presenting on his current research including his recent graduate thesis work from The University of Georgia as well as his ongoing project in Stamford involving a digital weather survey and botanical inventory of the Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve. He will also discuss his creative process as well as how it relates to contemporary notions of a virtual landscape. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Layet has always maintained an interest in drawing and sports. He states that “drawing is the foundation of the arts because it forces one to see and it is bound by nothing but its two dimensions.” While in Athens, Georgia, for graduate school, Layet became interested in not only the physicality of sculpture but the potentiality of its materials. This potential, he says, “leads one to question what material is raw – is it organic or synthetic, found or created, and is it even tangible?” This culmination of artistic practices, from the visionary realm of drawing to the physical moment of sculpture, has brought Layet here to the Catskills to explore notions of the internet landscape and the physical landscape via a field-work and programing practice. Please join him for discussion and refreshments afterwards and then the auction at 6 pm.

Free and all are welcome

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Zohar and her sprouts

Sprouts Society’s first resident of the season, Zohar Kfir is on her way back home to Montreal.  In this photo she is with her companion sprouts, broccoli, cucumber, gourd, fava, pea and tomato.  Zohar’s sprouting time lapse project will continue over the border in Canada.  See the documentation of Zohar’s time in the Catskills http://sproutingthoughts.tumblr.com/

Zohar Kfir at the Round Barn

DeeDee Halleck interviewed Zohar at the Pakatakan Round Barn about her residency and time lapse projects.

Stop Motion Animation/ Time Lapse Workshop : With ZOHAR KFIR.

Presented by                                                                                                                Sprouts Society Resident Artist & Greater Roxbury Learning Initiative Corp.

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In this workshop, we will cover concepts and techniques for creating stop motion animation and time-lapse movies. All animation can be regarded as stop motion animation; the subjects – drawings, clay, sand, puppets, paintings, or people – are all stopped in their motion and photographed one frame at a time. Animation is not drawings that move, but movement that is drawn. Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique where the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that which will be used to play the sequence back. time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. In the workshop we will cover various differences and techniques of both methods as well as create few short movies.
Zohar’s website : http://zzee.net/

LOCATION: Roxbury Central School                                                                      TIME: 9am – 11am- Wednesday, July 13
10-16 years old
…maximum # of participants: 15
Call for a reservation at 607-326-4754

Photos by Evan Gonzalez

Residency Studio on the road : Andes to Stamford

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Meet Zohar Kfir and hear about her time lapse project

Andes Sprouts Society and the Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve will sponsor a presentation by artist-in-residence Zohar Kfir from Montreal. Zohar will update the public on her art project which involves time lapse photography of sprouting seeds.

The presentation takes place from 7 – 8 PM on Sunday July 10 at the Nature Preserve which is located at 2515 Tower Mountain Road in Stamford.

for more information call 646 775 5055.

After the presentation, we will enjoy the sunset with fresh vegetables and Sky Blue Blueberry wine.

Free and open to the public.

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