Laura Cannamela will present “Harmonic Nature,” featuring her art, at the North Chatham Free Library on Sunday, September 18 at 3:00pm. She finds inspiration by observing the Kinderhook Creek and patterns in nature. She will show her work and discuss some of her art historical and geological sources, such as Japanese illustrations, ancient Chinese scholars’ rocks, and the glacially carved gorge in Valatie where she lives. She will also explain the ceramic and paper techniques she uses to interpret natural patterns.

Laura Cannamela received her MFA in Painting from Queens College of CUNY before moving to the Hudson Valley area. Her artwork has been featured in numerous exhibitions at galleries in New York and New England. Her ceramic sculpture was entered into the permanent art collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. She was a Platte Clove Artist-In-Residence and has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Martha Boschen Porter Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

WMHT AHA! The arts. https://video.wmht.org/video/ceramic-art-laura-cannamela-brec6y/

To register, email the library: Registernorthchathamlibrary@gmail.com. Audience will be limited. Registration is required no later than Friday, September 16 at 6:00pm.

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Columbia County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.