We invite painters, sketchers and photographers to create on the beautiful grounds of the historic Southlands riding farm on Rt. 9 in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Artists will have access to the 200 acre property where they can set up easels and paint or photograph all day. The following week all the artworks will be installed at the Montgomery Row Gallery in the Village of Rhinebeck for the month of July. All artworks will be for sale and proceeds fro sales will be split beetween the artists and Southlands, a 501c3 not-profit institutuion. There is no fee to participate. The public is welcome to come watch the artists create and encouraged to visit Montgomery Row Gallery to shop during the month of July.

Local renowned artist Franc Palaia will be coordinating the event with Southlands. Franc Palaia is an award winning New York based multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, photography, public art, murals, sculpture, scenic and lamp design, and is an independent curator and musician. Franc has been included in over 300 group shows and 45 solo shows, regionally, nationally and internationally. He has received over 20 grants and fellowships that include the Rome Prize Fellowship, two Polaroid Sponsorships a L. C. Tiffany grant, a Puffin Grant, two NYFA grants, two New Jersey Arts Council grants to name a few. Exhibitions include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art annex, LA MoCA, OK Harris gallery, PS1, New Museum, ACA Galleries, NY, Saatchi Museum, London, Exit Art, Dorsky Museum, Samuel Morse Museum, BAU Gallery, Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, Carrie Haddad Gallery, WAAM, Kleinert-James gallery, Vassar College, Albany Airport Gallery, Fundacio Salvador Dali-Gala in Spain, Woodbury House, London, the Velan Arte Contemporanea in Turin, Italy and the American Academy in Rome among others. His works are included in the permanent collections of MoMA, Newark, Montclair and Brooklyn Museums, Prudential Ins. McDonald’s Corp., Robert Wood Johnson and the New Jersey State Museum among many others.