When I found out that I was accepted to the Women’s Studio Workshop for the summer of 2008, I was so excited to return to this amazing place after a fellowship I did there in 2006. This time having the honor of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, I knew the many weeks of [...]

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Artist, Visionary Donor, Teacher, Past WSW Board Member
About 20 years ago I saw a Women’s Studio Workshop announcement for an artist book residency in one of the arts newsletters. At that time my life was in transition. Three years earlier I had left my day job as a financial analyst, my partner died, and I [...]

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The Birdie Gable Cookie
(featuring a mouthful of: Oatmeal,Pumpkin, Butterscotch, & Craisin)
Sandra Brown
The Birdie Gable Cookie originated around Thanksgiving time when I was feeling homesick and hungry. What better way to remedy the Binnewater blues than with the distraction of jamming more ingredients than necessary into an initially simple oatmeal cookie recipe?
This wayward cookie is aptly [...]

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Hey! The lovely folks at the NY Times wrote a great review about our show at the Islip Art Museum.
Check this out:
Link to Article on NYTimes Website
PDF version

I don’t know what else to say,but I guess they said it all much better than I could, So I dont have to!
Have a great weekend…
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Laureen just finished a 3 week residency in our silkscreen studio. I had been eagerly anticipating her stay as it is not often enough for me that we get in residents who are working on textiles and experimenting with new techniques and certainly not in the scale that Laureen is working on. It was a [...]

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