Special Events:

Opening Reception:

Sunday, August 29, 3 - 5pm

Director's Tour:

Tuesday, September 14, 2pm

Sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties.

Fred Yehl: A Retrospective will feature over 75 works by Skaneateles artist Fred Yehl. Mr. Yehl's stylized tempera paintings depict landscapes, trees, leaves, flowers, buildings and animals. The exhibition will also include a selection of illustrations Mr. Yehl did based on Aesop's Fables.

At 92 years old Mr. Yehl still paints every day and teaches a weekly painting class for adults at the Skaneateles Community Center. He is a retired designer and spent much of his career designing glassware for Fostoria Glass Company and ornamental picture frames and mirrors for Syroco (Syracuse Ornamental Co.) in Baldswinville.

Recent article about Fred Yehl in the Skaneateles Journal by Jessica Soule

Landscapes:

Work by Neil Berger, Nancy Treherne Craig & Richard Henry

This exhibition will include almost 30 contemporary landscapes by regional painters Neil Berger, Ithaca/New York City, Nancy Treherne Craig, Orchard Park, NY and Richard Henry, Endicott, NY.

Neil Berger received his MFA in painting from Boston University School of Fine Art in 1995. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in painting in 2004 and the New York Foundation of Art Fellowship in printmaking in 2007.

Nancy Treherne Craig was born in Baltimore in 1940 and grew up in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She studied painting at Cornell University, Penn State, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and SUNY Buffalo, and has worked as a graphic designer and artist.   After leaving college, she lived in Maryland for twenty-odd years, raising six children and painting sporadically before moving to Western NY.  Craig currently lives south of Buffalo with her husband Dwight and has an active career as an artist.  She regularly shows her work in New York City, Buffalo, and around the Northeast.

Richard Henry earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and is an award winning Graphic designer and Fine Artist with 30 plus years of experience. Richard has taught painting and drawing classes at Broome Community College as an adjunct professor and has personally worked with master artists Natt Youngblood, Frank Webb, Harold Edmonds, William Terness and Robert Douglas Hunter.