The Art Barn

The Art Barn

photograph by Nancie Battaglia   Martha Corscaden’s Keene Valley gallery celebrates 50 years Martha Corscaden is not an artist, and she certainly never imagined herself as a gallery proprietor back in 1971, when her older sister Vryling “Vry” Roussin came...
Nell Painter

Nell Painter

Photograph by Ben Stechschulte   A historian turned artist finds peace in the Adirondacks Nell Painter was born into segregation at the Houston Hospital for Negroes in 1942. If her family hadn’t relocated to Oakland, California, when she was a few weeks old,...
Just Beyond the River

Just Beyond the River

The past flows through the work of Daesha Devón Harris The artist Daesha Devón Harris doesn’t wait around for inspiration. She looks for it; she brings it home. She takes it from memories of family picnics at Moreau Lake and Fish Creek near Saratoga Springs, where she...