CAS call for submissions

LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The Catskill Art Society (CAS) is calling for submission for an exhibition “Utopia and Wallpaper: the Real and the Ideal in the Pursuit of Social Democracy,” guest curated by Joel Carreiro and Brett DePalma. The exhibit will be at the CAS Arts Center from October 16 to November 21.

The exhibition takes inspiration from the fact that the Livingston Manor Central School houses several amazing 19th-century panels (including New York Bay pictured at right) from the famous Zuber et Cie wallpaper company, which depict idealized visions of what America was or might become. CAS plans on connecting these images, which were also installed at the White House (purchased by Jacqueline Kennedy), with the celebration of the Hudson River’s Quadricentennial and the history that event recalls.

Artists submitting to this open call will be asked to respond directly to these wallpaper images and to the implications they embody for the possibility of social democracy, then and now. The postmark deadline for submission is May 1.

For more information visit catskillartsociety.org .