Art insiders, the inn crowd, and even the outsider art in-crowd (you following this?) gathered on Saturday night at the fabulous barn at Stonover Farm for an opening of paintings by Curtis Ripley, pottery by Luna Garcia, and still-life photography by Dede Reed, among others. While gallerist Suky Werman, orchestrated events downstairs in the intimate Gallery at Stonover, Tom Werman, a rock 'n' roll producer-turned-innkeeper, got things rolling at a dance party upstairs in the vast and fabulous barn. There the rhythm extravaganza known as the Berkshire Batteria had everyone from 2 to 92 on their feet.
Photographer and marketing guru Kevin Sprague with the host Tom Werman
NYC retailer Nina Werman and screenprinter Liam McDermott; BIFF board member Gary Hill, with Buzz Gray, Berkshire branch director of U.S.Green, a Washington-based green building council, and artist Erika Brown
Portrait painter Matt Anderson, artist-designers Ruby Metzner and Sather Duke, and Matt Hill, Esq.
Outsider art dealer Denise Ulick, really good dancer Silver Turner, and costume designer Bega Metzner; Ellen Hamer and Williams College English Professor Ilona Bell
Brook Farm Inn's Phil and Linda Halpern with Garden Gables Inn's Cindy Kaplan
Katie Gleason, interior designer Sarah Thorne, and master woodworker Peter Thorne; NYC vintage clothing and jewelry dealer {encode="suzylev@aol.com" title="Susan Levkoff"}, Stonover renovation architect Pam Sandler, and psychoanalyst Gerry Alpert
As the Wrench Turns (aka: the PBS Car Talk animated series; premieres July 9) casting director Elissa Myers and Shelly Friedman; photographer Ralph Toporoff and Leah Laiman
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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