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Plein Air: Over 200 in attendance for art auction at VIEW

Linda Weal, right, conducts the Heads/Tails segment of the auction. Photo by Michele deCamp

Linda Weal, right, conducts the Heads/Tails segment of the auction. Photo by Michele deCamp

The 7th Annual Plein Air Paint Out and Art Auction at VIEW drew 40 artists from across New York and the northeast to the area over Labor Day weekend.

The artists painted scenery, landmarks and characters found in Old Forge and its surrounding communities over the three-day event that culminated with an art auction at VIEW on Saturday, September 5.

Over 200 people were in attendance for the auction that featured 63 paintings and a variety of uniquely decorated Adirondack chairs.

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VIEW readies 7th Annual Plein Air Paint Out & Art Auction

Artists from across New York and the northeast will come to the area over Labor Day weekend for VIEW’s 7th Annual Plein Air Paint Out and Art Auction.

Beginning on Thursday, September 3, the artists will paint the scenes, landmarks and characters found in Old Forge and its surrounding communities.

Among the participating artists will be the Mountain Painters, a local, active plein air group who meet at VIEW frequently from spring through fall.  Continue reading

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Tony-nominated play Arcadia, comes to VIEW

Pendragon Theatre will present the play, Arcadia, at VIEW’s Gould Hall on Monday, August 24 at 8 p.m.

Arcadia has been praised as the finest play from one of the most significant contemporary playwrights in the English language, Tom Stoppard.

It won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play in 1995. Continue reading

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VIEW to present operatic performance Aug. 20

David Pershall

David Pershall

Opera and Broadway music aficionados have the opportunity to attend a performance by world-class opera singers, baritone David Pershall and mezzo soprano Krysty Swann at VIEW, the arts center in Old Forge, on Thursday, August 20.

Pershall, a Temple, TX native, recently returned to the states after performing the part of Rodrigo in Don Carlo at the Austrian Opera Festival, Oper Burg Gars.  Continue reading

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VIEW: World class opera singers to take stage at Gould Hall

David Pershall

David Pershall

Baritone David Pershall and Mezzo-Soprano Krysty Swann will be accompanied by Arthur McManus in a memorable evening of great opera and Broadway hits at VIEW, the arts center in Old Forge, on Thursday, August 20.

David Pershall was recently featured in Voix des Arts “Best Artists of 2014” and praised for “[dispatching] his smooth, evenly produced lyric baritone with elegance and style” in Opera News.

His latest performances in the U.S. were at Minnesota Opera, as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Washington National Opera, as Papageno in The Magic Flute, and at Carnegie Hall, as Lord Nottingham in Roberto Devereux for which he was hailed as “passionate and resonant” by The New York Times. Continue reading

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