Cost of Admission: FREE

This is an in-person event. Registration is not required.

Native Americans once called the Catskills “Ontiora” which means “the mountains of the sky”. Join us on Friday, May 2nd at 5:00 PM in the Education Center for the opening reception for Mountains of the Sky: Impressions of the Catskills (Paintings Created with Local Mineral Pigments) by area artist Laura Leigh. Refreshments will be served.

Laura’s paintings were created with iron rich red ochre mineral pigments that she has been collecting and milling for about 10 years in the Catskills. Red ochre has a long history of being tied to healing and mysticism. History, geology, landscape, and old stories are what the Catskills offer us, and this show ties them all together.

Laura Leigh is a fine artist and maker of organic watercolor paints based in New Paltz, NY. Laura blends the line between abstraction and landscape in her plein air oil paintings. After completing her BFA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY New Paltz in 2014, she has completed several artist's residency programs, many in national parks. Laura has created her own earth pigment library made from Ochre minerals and clay from around the country, and now spends most of her time teaching online and in person classes. She believes that painting is therapeutic and wants to help heal and connect people through creative expression.