Videos made by Cornelia Seckel
for ART TIMES

all videos can be found on YouTube and the ART TIMES Facebook page

An overview of the Exhibition Eugene Ludins: An American Fantacist held at the Samuel
Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz February 11 - July 12, 2012. Susana Torruella Leval,
curator. This exhibit will open at the New York State Museum, Albany, NY
February 1 and run through May 30, 2013. This exhibit will open at the New York State Museum,
Albany, NY February 1 and run through May 30, 2013.

This is a brief overview of the 2011 Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice's main event
the Opera "Don Giovanni" held in Phoenicia, NY August 2011. The opera featured Louis Otey,
Kerry Henderson, Barry Banks, Michelle Jennings, Maria Todaro, Toby Newman,
Masetto Mathew Curran and music Director Steven White.
The Festival included 4 days of honoring the voice with the Opera Don Giovanni; lectures,
Choral Chamber Singers; Kids' Programs; World Music; Jazz; Cabaret, Gospel; Concerts with:
Justin Kolb, Mikail Horowitz, Carey Harrison, Babette Hierholzer, Sylvia Bucelli,
Lauren Flanigan, Lily Arbisser and Lawrence Craig

Upcoming Festival of the Voice: August 2-5, 2012; for a full schedule see phoeniciavoicefest.org

An overview of the 2011 Altamura Summer Music Festival in Round Top, NY.
Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures was founded in 1970 by Leonard and Carmela.
Altamura, provides ethnic, social, professional and cultural relations in the world through
the arts for the purpose of promoting understanding among world peoples through the study of music.

Altamura Center for the Arts Opera and Theater 2012:

Sunday, July 29 Bellini's "La Sonnambula"

July 20-30 Summer Institute

Saturday, August 25: "An Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen adapted by Arthur Miller

Sunday, August 26: pre-concert "Chopin and the Age of Bel Canto" and
Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" an opera in two acts

The Mount, in Lenox, MA. was the home of Edith Wharton who designed the house and the
gardens outlined in her influential book, The Decoration of Houses (1897) and lived there for
many years until relocating to France where she lived till her death in 1937. Edith Wharton
wrote over 40 books and was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the first
woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Yale and the first woman elevated to full
membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The National Academy Museum re-opens in the Fall of 2011 after year-long rennovations.
This is a brief overview of Museum reopening in the Fall of 2011. This is just one of the many
celebration receptions of The National Academy Museum and School, NYC

Fall for Art— an annual fundraising event in Kingston, NY that supports the work of the
Ulster County Jewish Federation and presents a check to an outstanding arts organization
in the Hudson Valley. For more about Fall for Art and the Federation www.ucjf.org

"A New Deal for Youth: Eleanor Roosevelt, Val-Kill Industries and the Woodstock Resident
Work Center" on view at the Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY thru Nov. 5, 2011.

Individuals and members of Women's Organizations in the Hudson Valley who walked
across The Walkway, Poughkeepsie, NY on March. 8th, 2011. We joined Women from
25 different nations who also walked across thousands of bridges for the 100th Anniversary
of International Women's Day, a day to celebrate women around the world, and an
opportunity to educate people about the plight of women.

Harriet Tannin Retrospective at the Woodstock Artists Association Museum,
Woodstock, NY Feb 12— Apr 3, 2011. Harriet was a painter, photographer and collage artist.
She was particularly known for her photographs of notable Woodstock Artists and
her concern with the lack of attention Women artists were receiving in galleries and the media.
Video taken March 12, 2011.

The 22nd Annual Delray Beach Arts Festival in Delray Beach, Florida Jan. 15-16, 2011

Boca Raton Museum of Art Opening Reception and overview of exhibits on view Jan. 19, 2011

Annual Ringling International Arts Festival, Sarasota Florida a collaboration
between The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and the Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC