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Chamber Arts Festival's Board of Directors
David Alpher, President & Artistic DirectorSue Ellen Sheeley, Vice President
A longtime area resident, Sue is the owner of The Sheeley House Bed and Breakfast in High Falls, NY, along with her children. She regularly hosts several arts and musical events there throughout the year.Having retired from the former family business, Vidacable CATV Systems, Sue is a part-owner of Rondout Golf Cluband Restaurant in Accord, NY. More importantly, she now has time to actively pursue her musical interests, particularly in the area of choral music. She is a member of several area groups including The Musical Society of Kingston, Ars Choralis, Ulster Choral Society, Ulster County Community College Chorus, Christ the King Church Choir and the Mt. St Alphonsus Music Ministry.
Judith Pokowitz, Secretary/Treasurer
Judith Pokowitz brings prior organizational and administrative experience to the Chamber Arts Festival. In 1980 she was one of the founders of the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival which is still held annually at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds. She subsequently served for several years as a Manager for the event which has enjoyed a quarter of a century of continued expansion and commercial success.Since retiring from her position as Camps Registrar for the New York Conference of the United Methodist Church, Judith has finally found time to exercise her long-time interest in antiques and collectibles in a business setting. Although she and her partner specialize in late 19th and early 20th century furniture and accessories, their tastes are fairly eclectic in stocking their local space at Stone Ridge Antiques. Judith and her husband Walter, a dentist, are the parents of four grown children and have four grandchildren. They have lived in Rosendale since 1971.
Mary Collins
Alan Klotz
Alan Klotz has an MFA in Photography with a concentration in museum practice from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. His teaching career spans 25 years beginning at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he taught history and criticism and supervised the graduate photography gallery. While in Rochester he also worked for the local PBS station as cultural reporter and critic and produced a documentary film on dissent in the Soviet Union.Since then he has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the ICP/NYU program, and at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He has lectured extensively here and abroad and has written numerous articles, reviews and book essays on photography.
He began Photocollect gallery in 1977. He currently divides his time between work in New York City and recreation in Stone Ridge where he gardens, cooks, and does carpentry on his never-to-be-completed house in the silence of the Catskills.
Jeanne Batterson Koskie
Barbara Sarah
Barbara Sarah is an oncology social worker and the Director of the Oncology Support Program at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston.She is on the Board of Jewish Family Services of Ulster County and on the steering committees of Ulster County Cohousing and Citizen Action of the Hudson Valley. She is a teacher of Japanese therapies, Morita and Naikan. Married to the incredible Marty Laforse, she is the mother of three dynamic daughters and two fabulous granddchildren. She loves travel, her women friends and chamber music.
Chamber Arts of Festival
of Marbletown
P.O. Box 663, Stone Ridge, NY 12484
(845) 687-2687 info@chamberartsfestival.org
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