FOLK ART IN STONE Exhibit Opening
On Saturday, April 13, an opening reception was held for the long awaited exhibit "Folk Art in Stone." originally planned for the fall of 2018. Schoharie County artists Mark Swanberry and Richard McCormack were there, talking with exhibit viewers who came from a number of communities around eastern Delaware County and western Ulster County. Richard McCormack Mark Swanberry The art works range from chiseled figures on smooth stone, to large etched fish to rural scenes painted directly on stone to lamps, lanterns, votives and wall plaques with copper mounted on stone. The folk artists both came from families with artistic traditions; both have landscape businesses in which they work with stone; both create items designed to sell and one-of-a-kind items that give their creative expression free rein; both work in bluestone and say that they take their inspiration from nature. Their works differ in that McCormack's work emerges form his skills in drawing, while S