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Join us in celebrating our Ceramic Artists in Residence!
Wednesday, March 18, 4pm - 6pm
In the Gallery At Castle Hill
Elycia Castaneda
I am Elycia Castaneda, an Indigenous Ceramics Artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Since the start of my relationship with clay as a teen, I have cultivated a ceramics practice using both hand-building and wheel throwing to create tableware, cookware, and sculptural works. I continuously dedicate myself to intensive classes and immersive experiences that deepen my practice and skills.
I spend time each year in New Mexico learning the ceramic traditions of my Apache ancestors. Specifically, the art of Micaceous Cooking Vessels. There, I have learned the entire process: from collecting and processing clay to creating and pit firing the finished vessels. I also travel biannually to Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to fire with Chris Gustin in his Wood Fire kiln. Alongside 25 incredible ceramicists, we spend seven days and nights as a community feeding the fires until the kiln reaches temperatures over 2000 degrees.
These experiences have revealed my love for unpredictable finishes. Whether wood firing or pit firing, the results are always unknown, shaped by variables like wind, temperature, and natural occurrences. For me these processes have become a co-creative dance with the Earth.
My practice centers on that co-creative dance. From beginning to end, I listen to the clay, creating not only what I envision, but what the material yearns to become. I craft each piece to enrich daily life with beauty and intention. Every creation reflects my essence: my love of nature, spiritual beliefs, ancestry, and so much more.
Kathy Escobar
Grounded by my background in functional ware, Patchwork is a series of vessels made as an ode to female craft and my experience being taught by women. Starting with wheel thrown forms, I alter by cutting gaps and holes through each vessel and in this space, I have room for textile play. I focus on textile work that has been predominantly female for hundreds of years. I explore crocheting, sewing, stitching, embroidery, stuffing and other techniques used to mend. In the act of inserting myself into these processes, I hope to gain insight into the women that have come before me and the women I love and respect within my community. I believe women are menders by nature. I interact with processes that are either taught to me by women or are historically recognized as female. In intermingling the two I create an accurate representation of my own education and upbringing in the early 2000s.
The Pamet Float is Back!!
You must sign up in advance in order to get a float!
Please arrive at 10 Meetinghouse Road by 2pm to catch the shuttle bus to the float’s starting point!
Come One – Come All To the Pamet River Float!
Bring your friends and experience the outer cape landscape from a unique point of view. You will float in an inner tube with the outgoing tide, down the Pamet River from the Pamet Harbor to Castle Hill. The Float is about 1 mile (about a half hour float), downstream following the river as it wanders back and forth across the marsh. Afterwards, join us on the back deck for celebration!
This year, sign up to borrow a float, or for an additional $25, you can take your float home and enjoy it the rest of the summer!
Be prepared to be wet, wear sunscreen, and water shoes are a must! Life vests are recommended for less experienced swimmer and required for children.
Things to bring on your Pamet River Float:
· Swimsuit, OR Swim top and shorts
· WATER SHOES ARE REQUIRED (Old tennis shoes, water shoes, etc.)
· Hat and /or Visor
· LIFE VESTS are recommended for NON-SWIMMERS, INEXPERIENCED SWIMMERS, and Mandatory for Children.
· Sunblock – Essential item!
· Sunglasses (Eyeglass holders, use an attachment string).
· Beach Towels
· DO NOT TUBE WITH YOUR VALUABLES (jewelry, phones, watches, credit cards, etc.)
Enjoy local oysters and other hor d’oeuvres, beverages and the music of the NY Opera Society at the home of Terry Kahn & Lesley Silvester.
Tuesday, August 11, 6pm
The New York Opera Society (NYOS) develops new audiences for opera by commissioning, creating, and funding exemplary productions. To that end, NYOS serves as a conduit to the public by disseminating important messages, musical inspiration, and seminal artistic performances via partnerships with major performance venues, corporations, nonprofits and governments to present the work of our artists. In its most recent season, NYOS commissioned and co-presented the world premiere of Upon this Handful of Earth with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space in NYC and a highly lauded excerpted world premiered staged reading of Letters from Ruth at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; both works by Gisle Kverndokk and Aksel-Otto Bull. NYOS has also commissioned the first operatic version of Tres Sombreros de Copa by Ricardo Llorca which premiered in Brazil and will have its Spanish premiere at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid in November 2019. Previously, NYOS has produced the Lincoln Center and United States premiere of its contemporary Spanish opera, Las Horas Vacias, by Guggenheim fellow and Juilliard faculty member Ricardo Llorca; three tours and world premieres of NYOS’ commissions from Gisle Kverndokk’s and Wiik’s Max & Moritz: A Cartoon Opera in Seven Pranks and Supersize Girl. Other notable NYOS evenings have taken place at the National Gallery of Art, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Embassy of Italy, New York’s World Financial Center, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and the United Nations. Audiences have included the Royal Couple of Norway, the Undersecretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., Queen Sofia of Spain (at a gala in her honor), Barbara Walters, Stanley Tucci/Martin Scorsese (at a gala in their honor), and nearly every European and South American Consulate. NYOS has been favorably featured in The Washington Post, on PBS, in a feature article in The Wall Street Journal, and Opera News. NYOS is led by Executive Director Jennifer Cho and a dedicated Board of Directors chaired by philanthropist, Lesley Silvester.
The William Tell Student Showcase
Friday, August 14, 4-6pm
Join us in sharing stories, laughs, and a shared community experience!
Participants from William’s week-long workshop will be sharing the stories that they have crafted and composed for this event. Open to all!
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