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Region 7 Counties
Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester

Region 7 Leadership
Co-Chair and BOT Representative: Kelley Hedin
Co-Chair and BOT Representative: Monica Czernecki Schor
Secretary: Lisa Conger
Treasurer: Jen Wassmer 
BOT Alternate Rep: Eric Stormes and Jen Wassmer

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Artmaking by Nature: A Creative, Earth-based Outdoor Workshop for Educators

6 CTLE Hours

15 Participants LIMIT with Waiting List

 2470 NY-212, Woodstock, NY 12498

STUDIO 1

This workshop offers art teachers an inspiring opportunity to explore nature-based artmaking that blends creativity with ecological awareness. Partially set outdoors, the session centers on using natural elements—such as plants, soil, and found materials—to create art supplies like inks, paints, and handmade paper. Participants engage in hands-on activities such as plant printing, nature journaling, and earth pigment experimentation, all while reflecting on the importance of gratitude and stewardship, practices rooted in Indigenous traditions.

The experience is designed to equip art educators with both the technical skills and the conceptual framework to bring these practices into their own classrooms. By reconnecting with the land and exploring sustainable, low-waste methods of artmaking, teachers will return with adaptable lesson ideas, a renewed sense of creative purpose, and tools to foster environmental curiosity and care in their students.

All supplies are provided or made onsite, but feel free to bring your favorite drawing tools.  Bring a bag lunch.  There are picnic tables and covered pavilion. Open to 15 participants with a wait list as well.

$10 Payment in CASH please (at the class) 

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Bio: Muriel Stallworth is an art teacher and sustainability coordinator at the International School of Brooklyn, where she leads Growing Systems: Nature and Ecology at ISB, an interdisciplinary program that fosters a systemic understanding of the natural world, emphasizing gratitude and reciprocity. As an artist and climate education consultant in the Hudson Valley, Muriel designs experiential programs that weave together visual arts and ecological awareness, grounding students and educators alike in nature-based creativity. Informed by the knowledge of climate solutions, her "possibilist" approach to the climate crisis centers on hope, exploration, and the power of imagination.

New York State Art Teachers Association (NYSATA) is a New York State Education Department (NYSED) approved Continuing Teacher Leader Education (CTLE) sponsor. NYSED requires documentation and verification of attendance for CTLE credit.

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Plein Air Let Loose Outing at Mills Mansion with Holly McCabe

Wednesday, August 6th, 2025     5pm, Concert at 7pm by The Crew Band

Let's meet and draw together at gorgeous Mills Mansion.  Bring your a chair or blanket, favorite drawing and/or painting supplies and BYOB snacks and drinks.  Meet in the parking lot by 4:45pm. 

RSVP to Holly McCabe at [email protected] 

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Region 7 Art Educator Member Show

Bethany Arts Center, Ossining, NY

Open to Region 7 Art Educators who are members of NYSATA

Registration Coming Soon!

September 6, 2025  Opening 

September 27 Closing Ceremony and Awards Recognition, 1-3pm

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Recent Events

UNITY THROUGH THE ARTS :

Personal Experience as Art Practice

at Dutchess Community College
Saturday, May 3, 2025  - 9 am-4pm
6 CTLE credits

“Our job .... Is to act as splicers, fusing personal experience with durable fundamentals
from the past.” — Brian Rutenberg, CLEAR SEEING PLACE, Studio Visits, 2016

As classroom educator/artists, we create many foundational experiences for our
students, including a toolbox of elements and principles. This visual language is essential
for critical thinking processes. It helps them identify and share connections within the
arts, as well as across other disciplines.
Social/Emotional Learning is a natural extension of this creative environment, and from here students can begin to incorporate personal experiences and ideas. They will begin to recognize the value of free expression and develop the confidence to share this process within their communities.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER

We are excited to welcome Keynote Speaker Mindell Dubansky, a book conservator, librarian, author, and artist. She is the Museum Librarian for Preservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library.

She has authored several monographs on book and paper arts. Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper (2023), is the book and topic she will be presenting at the NYSATA Region 7 Symposium 2025.  A perfect example of our theme, Unity through the Arts: Personal Experience as Art Practice, and will include an exploration of beautifully crafted decorative papers, tools, styles and sketchbooks of decorative paper artists from the past 50 years. See more below. 

https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/pattern-and-flow-2022-news

Workshops!
Relief Prints made from Tetra Paks
The Wonderful World of Zines: Applications in the Art Classroom
Modern Pop art Experience and Hands On Workshop
Storytelling with Canva Animations
Layers of Memory: Exploring Place Through Observation and Abstraction
Weaving Intentions-Nest Making & Mindfulness
Fiber Spinning Demonstration
Sewn Felt Mexican Hearts
Pastel Abstract Data Portrait
Drawing Maps: Creative Approaches for All Ages
Eric Carle Printmaking
Collaborative Online Digital Drawing with Magma
Let's Talk About the NYSATA Portfolio Project!
Become a member of NYSATA at https://www.nysata.org/membership 

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