The New Woodstock Free Library will present a collection of works by landscape artist Robert Glisson from July 2 through August 27, with an artist’s reception from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 22.
Glisson has exhibited his work throughout Central and Western New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts where he is a member of the Alden Gallery. He has won recognition and awards including Grand Prize at the Regional Art Show Cooperstown, Award of Distinction Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival and Best of Show, Professional Level Vineyard Art Competition, Syracuse. Glisson has also provided illustrations for The Angry Right published in 2006 by Prometheus Books.
A Studio Arts graduate of SUNY Cortland, Glisson studied with Gary Trento of Syracuse University. He says he “Finds inspiration from a wide range of artists – I get as much of a thrill looking at a Courbet, Turner, or Inness as I do when I look at work of contemporary artists like Kevin MacPherson or Mary Giammarino.”
The Alden Art Gallery said “Glisson often paints with majestic Finger Lakes landscapes before him. His bold use of color and thick paint-strokes are reminiscent of post-Impressionism and Fauvism, but his inspiration often comes from the romantic landscapes of the American realist George Inness.”
Visit http://www.aldengallery.com/glisson/ or http://outfieldoils.com/ for more information.
The New Woodstock Free Library now has Madison County recycling punch cards available for sale.
The library now has free passes for adults to the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Children are free.
Information about free water testing by the Madison County Department of Health is posted in a large display along with application forms.
For more information on library events, programs and services, call 315-662-3134, or visit online atwww.midyork.org/newwoodstock. Call for a schedule of children’s programs and a 2016 library events calendar.
The library is open Monday–Friday 1-5 pm, Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7-9 pm, and Saturdays from 10-1 p.m. The library is also open whenever the blue library flag is displayed.