Come visit us @garnerartscenter Arts Fest and see our students in action! Giving a voice to nature through printmaking with hand-made stamps ❤️🌱🐟🦅🐿️
#printmaking #natureart #communityart
🎨 Come visit our young artists in the studio this weekend as they launch a printmaking project to be presented at the Hudson River Music Festival next month! 🎵
Join the fun and make your own prints with handmade stamps crafted by our students! 🧑🎨
Find us in Building 10, Studio E on the 2nd floor.
Saturday & Sunday - MAY 16 - 17
11am - 6pm
* Rain or Shine *
Tickets & Info: /2026-arts-festival
#StrawtownStudio #HudsonValley #KidsAndNature #PlaceBasedLearning
#NyackNY #SleepyHollowNY #TarrytownNY #sleepyhollowny #WestchesterNY
#RocklandCountyNY #Rivertowns #Garnerville #MakeArt #garnerartscenter #Garnerville #MakeArt @Garner Arts Center
This Sunday @bethanyartsorg lets create art outside🌿
See the beauty and workings of nature through a creative lens!Space is Limited - Registration @bethanyartsorg bio or
/calendar/strawtownall426/?mc_cid=8024070db0
✨Gather with us in a comfortable outdoor studio staged for relaxed art-making, sharing discoveries, and making new friends! When guided by Strawtown Artists...and with this kind of "art" everyone is an artist! ☀️ Create art from natural materials ☀️ Explore, learn from nature, learn new skills ☀️ Connect with other families
Make art inspired by materials harvested from the land: sticks, stones, plants… Fine art and craft materials and techniques will be woven into classes.
Join for just one class or the whole series!
Sundays 1–3 PM
May 17 • June 14 • Sept 13 • Oct 4
$15 Adult | $10 Child
Best for Families with children 5+
Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY 10562
🤗 We are excited to announce that Strawtown Studio is participating in Hudson Valley Gives Day for the very first time.
On Wed. May 20th, gifts made through the HV Gives platform will directly underwrite a season of children's programs. That means keeping them affordable, accessible, and rooted in the landscapes, waterways, and communities that make the lower Hudson Valley home!
⭐ Thanks to a generous donor we have a matching fund of $2,500!
This is your chance to invest doubly in the next generation of Hudson Valley youth! 💚
📅 Mark your calendar: Wed. May 20th
🔗 Stay up to date on news and events by subscribing to our email list: /subscribe
Please give what is possible. A little can go a long way when we get together and give together on Wed. May 20th for Hudson Valley Gives!
Join the movement by clicking the link in our bio or visiting: /organizations/strawtown-studio
Thank you!
#HudsonValleyGives #GiveWhereYouLive #StrawtownStudio #HudsonValley #KidsAndNature #PlaceBasedLearning #NyackNY #SleepyHollowNY #TarrytownNY #sleepyhollowny #WestchesterNY #Rivertowns #screentimebalance #healthandwellness #getoutside
🤗 We are excited to announce that Strawtown Studio is participating in Hudson Valley Gives Day for the very first time.
On Wed. May 20th, gifts made through the HV Gives platform will directly underwrite a season of children's programs. That means keeping them affordable, accessible, and rooted in the landscapes, waterways, and communities that make the lower Hudson Valley home!
⭐ Thanks to a generous donor we have a matching fund of $2,500!
This is your chance to invest doubly in the next generation of Hudson Valley youth! 💚
📅 Mark your calendar: Wed. May 20th
🔗 Stay up to date on news and events by subscribing to our email list: /subscribe
Please give what is possible. A little can go a long way when we get together and give together on Wed. May 20th for Hudson Valley Gives!
Join the movement by clicking the link in our bio or visiting: /organizations/strawtown-studio
Thank you!
#HudsonValleyGives #GiveWhereYouLive #StrawtownStudio #HudsonValley #KidsAndNature #PlaceBasedLearning #NyackNY #SleepyHollowNY #TarrytownNY #sleepyhollowny #WestchesterNY #Rivertowns #screentimebalance #healthandwellness #getoutside
A belated Earth Day post 🌎💚 but honestly at Strawtown Studio, every class feels like Earth Day anyway. The kids painted with soil, gathered little bits of flowers and nature, and together made this “nature quilt” with so much care and joy. With many hands… one love for the Earth. 🌿✨
Let's step outside and create together.
See the beauty and workings of nature through a creative lens!Space is Limited - Registration Link @strawtownstudio Bio!
✨Gather with us in a comfortable outdoor studio staged for relaxed art-making, sharing discoveries, and making new friends! When guided by Strawtown Artists...and with this kind of "art" everyone is an artist! ☀️ Create art from natural materials ☀️ Explore, learn from nature, learn new skills ☀️ Connect with other families
Make art inspired by materials harvested from the land: sticks, stones, plants… Fine art and craft materials and techniques will be woven into classes.
Join for just one class or the whole series!
Sundays 1–3 PM
May 17 • June 14 • Sept 13 • Oct 4
$15 Adult | $10 Child
Best for Families with children 5+
Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY 10562
#WestchesterKids #HudsonValleyKids #Tarrytown#10591 #FamilyFunNY
Great thanks to everyone who came out to Pocantico Center’s community day yesterday! We loved meeting new families and watching the creativity come alive, painting with river pigments and celebrating our love for the river and its inhabitants! ❤️💦🎨🐟
@pocanticocenter
#natureart
#community
#hudsonriver
#HudsonValleyFamilies
Welcoming Beltane 🌿Strawtown had a beautiful Riverwalk class yesterday.
Beltane (aka Mayday) is an ancient seasonal festival celebrated around May 1st, marking the shift from spring into summer. It’s traditionally a celebration of new beginnings, light and blooming nature. Beltane is often celebrated with fires, flowers, and the energy of the land coming fully alive. #SleepyHollowNY
#TarrytownNY
#sleepyhollowny
#WestchesterNY
#Rivertowns
Chernobyl – 40 Years, Post #3
The Children
With the new wave of nuclear favoritism here in the US, it is all the more important to pay extra attention to the details of nuclear gone wrong, very wrong.
In the 40 years since April 26, 1986, the date of the Chernobyl nuclear plant catastrophe, countless children continue to be sick. The mournful list of original illnesses includes thyroid cancer, leukemia, birth defects increased by 250%, cardio-vascular illness, even strokes. With this also came psychological impacts which persist to this day; fears of getting sick, and the fear of the unknown. Also fear of being shamed - when families were displaced and relocated the children were often ridiculed by other children who called them “glow worms” and would not go near them.
Today the radiation related sicknesses for children in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia are mainly from accumulation of radiation from eating plants and dairy raised in the still contaminated soils.
In a village a few hours from Chernobyl there is a rehabilitation summer program for children on a farmland setting. When here the children are provided with healthy and nourishing organic foods and herbs, which strengthen them and help clean their blood.
It is headed up by Dr. Ludmila Z., a biologist, together with a group of doctors, scientists, teachers and students. I became acquainted with Ludmila through Joanna Macy who has been a significant teacher for both of us.
The restoration summer camp invites the sickest of the children to come, ages 6-16. Ludmila reports that many who come have auto-immune diseases, some are weak, some fall asleep during the day. Daily outdoor chores help them to become stronger. Creative activities with cooking, sewing, crafting, hiking, and creating celebrations makes it a time for learning and fun.
Key is that the children are introduced to healthy, organic gardening practices. They are committed to teaching how to grow in contaminated areas; how to clean the soil, how to wash vegetables, and to introduce vermiculture.
So much of their actions come out of the need to take care of the children. Love lights the way in the darkest of times.
Chernobyl - 40 Years, Post #2
Red Forest Burning
April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant catastrophe was just the beginning of the never-ending nightmare for the people of the territory that lies between three countries, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
Today, the radioactivity continues to be released by soil disturbance, wind and soil erosion, and forest fires which migrate the radiation.
At the time of the explosion the trees in forest surrounding the plant were instantly killed. The trees turned rust red. Both trees and soil were saturated with radioactivity. This area is now called the “Red Forest”.
In 1987, the power plant workers dug trenches with bulldozers and buried the trees. Burying the trees was the lesser of the two evils. Leaving them stand meant potential for forest fires that would re-suspend the radiation. Putting them in the ground meant the likelihood of future water contamination. The buried irradiated trees have been slow to decay but now, as anticipated, there is increasing radioactivity in the groundwater.
A new forest of trees was planted in the contaminated exclusion zone which have absorbed radiation from the site.
Forest fires and radioactive releases are a regular occurrence in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) due to dry conditions and accumulation of dead wood, with major, large-scale events happening in 1992, 2010, 2015, 2016, and most notably April 2020. Between 1993 and 2014, over 1,250 fires were registered, with the 2020 fire being the largest in the zone’s history.
The 2020 fire was hard to contain and it burned for three weeks. The fire moved dangerously close to within 1 1/2 miles of nuclear plant. The fierce forest fire wind carried the smoke with radioactive particulate matter far and wide.
This forest fire was called “Chernobyl #2. It was a tremendously fear producing experience for the people, and the countries. The news barely made it to the wider world.
The people of this region say about their life, “There is before the Chernobyl disaster, and after.”
-Laurie Seeman, Strawtown Founding Director
Chernobyl - 40 years, Post #1
On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl nuclear power station erupted from a cataclysmic meltdown and explosion releasing high levels of radiation that contaminated the region, and traveled around the world. The radiation in the land is still being released. The children are the most vulnerable.
“Angel of Death”, drawing and words by Kolya G., Age 13
“This is the Angel of Death. It has come flying on the terrible black cloud. The radioactive snow is falling from it. When snowflakes fall on the ground, clefts and pits appear. The Angel of Death has done his terrible part; he has brought Radiation to the Earth”. - From the book, “Chernobyl Through the Eyes of Children”.
-Laurie Seeman, Strawtown Founding Director
