The legendary Labor Day Weekend Art Sale returns to The Cornwall Library this year, marking the seventh anniversary of this highly popular event. The sale is on Labor Day weekend only. It opens with a Cocktail Reception at the Library on Friday, August 29, and continues through Monday September 1. Sale hours are Friday, August [Read More...]
The legendary Labor Day Weekend Art Sale returns to The Cornwall Library this year, marking the seventh anniversary of this highly popular event. The sale is on Labor Day weekend only. It opens with a Cocktail Reception at the Library on Friday, August 29, and continues through Monday September 1. Sale hours are Friday, August [Read More...]
A Special Evening with Nathan Kernan, author of A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, in conversation with Alice Quinn on Saturday, September 6 at 5 pm. Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the long-awaited definitive biography of this great American poet (1923-1991) who, along [Read More...]
Learn how to use gouache opaque paints for sketches and finished paintings. Class will cover how this medium is used to create layered work that resembles oil painting styles and techniques and how it can be used in combination with transparent watercolors. Participants will create paintings with supplies provided free for use at the class [Read More...]
Miss Rita returns with her Storybook Hour in September. Thursday mornings from 10:30 until noon and Saturday, September 13 from 10:30 until noon. Jump into a magical book-filled interactive reading time with Miss Rita.
The Cornwall Library will host a show featuring the work of West Cornwall sculptor, Neil Estern, 1926-2019, opening September 13 through November 1. In addition to public monuments, most notably, the FDR memorial in Washington, DC, Estern created many intimate portraits of friends and family, nudes, and studies for large-scale projects. A selection of these [Read More...]
The Cornwall Nature Book Group will be at the Library on September 16th at 1pm. The book to be discussed is What If We Get It Right? by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Ayana is a young Marine Biologist who shows in this book how we can make the earth healthy again, even thrive. She shares input [Read More...]
Learn how to use gouache opaque paints for sketches and finished paintings. Class will cover how this medium is used to create layered work that resembles oil painting styles and techniques and how it can be used in combination with transparent watercolors. Participants will create paintings with supplies provided free for use at the class [Read More...]
John Tauranac will give an illustrated talk on some of the stories from his most recent book, New York’s Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers: The City in the Last Decade of the Gilded Age, stories that are “always fascinating,” says Kent Barwick, the former chair, NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and president emeritus of the Municipal Art [Read More...]
Learn how to use gouache opaque paints for sketches and finished paintings. Class will cover how this medium is used to create layered work that resembles oil painting styles and techniques and how it can be used in combination with transparent watercolors. Participants will create paintings with supplies provided free for use at the class [Read More...]
