55 YEARS OF THE CATSKILL CENTER & THE CELEBRATION CONTINUES!
JOIN US FOR AN AUTUMNAL EVENING OF CATSKILL REVELRY
2024 CATSKILL CENTER FALL BENEFIT
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2024 | 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
CATSKILLS VISITOR CENTER | 5096 NY ROUTE 28 MOUNT TREMPER, NY 12457
We believe the Catskills are a New York State treasure, and we’re dedicated to protecting them.
Our Fall Benefit raises funds to support our work to safeguard the environmental, cultural, and economic well-being of the Catskills.
Thank you for your support.
Christie Scheele has been painting devotedly since receiving her BFA in 1980. Her artistic foundation was shaped by a transformative year spent at the Royal Academy of Fine Art and the University Complutense of Madrid from 1978 to 1979. By 1985, Christie had begun exhibiting and selling her work, quickly establishing herself among collectors and gaining widespread recognition.
She started painting the atmospheric, minimalist landscapes that have come to define her style just before moving to the Catskills from New York City in 1990. As a non-regional landscape painter, Scheele paints images of all of the places she has ever been. Among her favorite locales are the beaches and marshes of the Northeast, the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and the highways and bridge views of the Hudson Valley and New York City metro area. These meditative pieces cross the boundaries between traditional realism and the contemporary art world, reaching the viewer’s heart without sentimentality or melodrama.
As a full-time painter, Christie Scheele’s work has been collected nationally and internationally by hundreds of private and public collectors. These collections include the Queens Museum of Art, the Dorsky Museum, the Tyler Museum of Art, American Airlines, Waterford Crystal, Elaine Kamarck, Kelsey and Camille Grammer, and Howard and Ellen Greenberg. Her paintings were featured in the film Broken Flowers (in the scene with Jessica Lange) and Perfect Strangers on the set of the Halle Barry character; have appeared in Architectural Digest; and have been written about and reviewed extensively in the Hudson Valley and beyond.
In recent works, Christie has subtly captured the environmental shifts impacting the Catskills landscape she calls home. Her exhibitions at Albert Shahinian Fine Art in Rhinebeck, NY and the 1053 Gallery in Fleischmanns, NY, reflect on nature’s transient yet enduring essence and its susceptibility to human influences.
ALF EVERS AWARD HONOREE
BRETT BARRY FOR SERVICE TO THE CATSKILLS AND THE CATSKILL PARK
Brett Barry hosts and produces Kaatscast from Silver Hollow Audio, in the heart of the Catskills. He teaches podcasting and audio production in the Digital Media & Journalism department at SUNY New Paltz.
Brett graduated from Syracuse University’s television, radio & film program and worked as an associate documentary producer for several years before launching a career in voice-overs in 2002. He returned to Syracuse 10 years later for a graduate degree in television-radio-film.
Brett’s voice has featured in television and radio commercials, audiobooks, promos, and narration. He’s the host of public radio’s Sound Beat, was the longtime voice of India’s English-language network, Zee Café, and the last announcer for the iconic soap opera Guiding Light. He has narrated more than 125 audiobooks and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
Named for Alf Evers, this annual award is given in memory of the noted Catskills author and historian, who was also a long time member of The Catskill Center's Board of Directors. Through this award, we recognize individuals or organizations who have made outstanding contributions in community development, education, arts & culture or natural resource protection in the Catskills.
LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
FOLK-SOUL SINGER & SONGWRITER BROTHER JAX
Over a number of exploratory years, Jax has been able to refine his performing prowess in different bands while releasing several EPs and a full-length album. Since 2016, Jax has been cultivating fruit & nut trees and designing landscapes throughout Central America and the Eastern seaboard of the United States. All the while quietly amassing a huge amount of new musical material, while performing impromptu gigs in cities around the world.
With the release of the Mazunte // mouth to the wind EP in Spring of 2021, the Brother Jax solo project has truly come into its own. The songs are honest, short compositions dense with emotional depth. It is the sort of “folk-soul music with heart” that lies at the center of Jax’s eclectic musical cannon.
Following the release, the rest of 2021 has proved to be a whirlwind of gigging, writing, and traveling–weekly busking on the streets of Baltimore, a performing residency in the Catskills of New York, a series of private concerts in Mexico curated by Grammy award winner Rodrigo Sánchez. And all the while writing tunes.
Brother Jax is now based in the Hudson Valley of New York, preparing to record a full-length album and beginning to plan for a busy Springtime of shows.
OUR SILENT AUCTION IS LIVE online
Whether or not you can join us in person for our fall benefit, you can still be a part of the festitivies by participating in our silent auction. You can view items for our silent auction online and start bidding now! The silent auction will end with the close of our Fall Benefit on the evening of October 5th.
WE CONTINUE OUR ANNUAL FALL BENEFIT TRADITION WITH HORS D'OEUVREs AND SMALL PLATES PROVIDED BY PROVISIONS.
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