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Croton Council on the Arts

Windrose on Hudson
Calling all Fine Artists, Skilled Artisans, Photographers, and Visual Artists to the Hudson River Spring Festival this May.
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Windrose on Hudson
Calling all Fine Artists, Skilled Artisans, Photographers, and Visual Artists to the Hudson River Spring Festival this May.
Click Here to register and for more info.
Windrose on Hudson
Calling all Fine Artists, Skilled Artisans, Photographers, and Visual Artists to the Hudson River Spring Festival this May.
Click Here to register and for more info.
Windrose on Hudson
Calling all Fine Artists, Skilled Artisans, Photographers, and Visual Artists to the Hudson River Spring Festival this May.
Click Here to register and for more info.
Windrose on Hudson
Calling all Fine Artists, Skilled Artisans, Photographers, and Visual Artists to the Hudson River Spring Festival this May.
Click Here to register and for more info.
Fall 2025
– Amazon
– Google
– Apple
85 pages
97 works
53 authors and artists
Spring 2025
– Amazon
– Google
– Apple
84 pages
79 works
46 authors and artists
Fall 2024
– Amazon
– Google
– Apple
78 pages
94 works
56 authors and artists
Let's Talk on Mar 18
March is Womens' History month. Kathy Walkup will talk about the the iconoclastic modernist writer Gertrude Stein.
Let's Talk on Feb 18
February is Black History Month – and Black history is American history. Roy Skodnick will talk about Langston Hughes, and other under-appreciated black poets.
Let's Talk on Jan 21
Let's talk about a book that you love: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, a short story – your love for it will inspire others.
— Love, Cornelia
Let's Talk
Dec 17, 2025
Christmas Party
The Owl and the Pussycat
Let's Talk
Nov 2025
Silvina López Medin
Click Here to view her website...
Let's Talk
Let's Talk is a literature group that meets on the third Wednesday of each month.
Let's Talk
Sept 2025
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Let's Talk
July 2025
Anna Karanina
by Leo Tolstoy
Let's Talk
Dec 2023
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot
Photographers of
Northern Westchester
PNW.crotonarts.org
PNW is a small and friendly group of photographers who meet on the 1st Wednesday of each month for friendship. mutual inspiration, and to share the love for photogrqaphy and digital art.
Does every picture tell a story? We'll each share a fav that does … Join the fun!
Share your fav photo from 2025 at the February PNW meeting on Wed, Feb 4
Meetup at the Met Museum in NYC
Dec 9, 2025
Click Here to see pix from the meetup
At the Nov 5, 2025 meeting, Dennis Thornton talked about his marvelous still life project.
Oct 2025
Dance the Shore
by Michael Washburn
CCoA Mixers
Let's Get Together!
We have mixers where people who want to be a part of the arts community meet one another. The next one is ________. Everyone is welcome and you do not have to be a CCoA member.
CCoA Mixers
Let's Get Together!
CCoA Mixers
Let's Get Together!

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This March, we honor the women of Croton whose creativity and vision have shaped our cultural landscape. From groundbreaking artists of the past to the women in our own community who continue to inspire through their work, we celebrate their impact and their stories.
We invite you to join us in recognizing the artists, organizers, businesses and creators who make our community more vibrant, connected, and imaginative.
For your convenience we have attached (see below) a poster for you to download and print for easy reference to each of our events.

 

March Events

We invite you to mark your calendars and take part in our celebration!!

Our World’s Creative Women
This March, Croton Council on the Arts is inaugurating a month-long series of events to celebrate the past, present and future women of Croton. The programs of Our World’s Creative Women explore and honor the myriad achievements and talents of women of Croton and beyond through exhibitions, concerts, a theatrical performance and an expert workshop. We are thrilled that Croton businesses are participating in our celebration by displaying our historic posters throughout their shops.
Our World’s Creative Women is the brainchild of organizing committee members Carla Dago, Valerie Leis, Jane Parkhouse and Kathleen Walkup. Please scroll down to see the exhibitions, concerts and programs that are all part of the celebration.
First up, a reception for A Woman’s View: A Student Art Exhibition at the Black Cow Coffee Co (4 Old Post Rd S, Croton-On-Hudson) on Thursday, March 5th, 6:30 - 8:00 pm. It's an art exhibition organized by CHHS’s Women’s Empowerment Club. Don’t miss it!
 

Historic Croton Women

March 1 – March 31
A central project of Women’s History Month is the installation of thirty posters in businesses across the Village honoring the many Croton women who have brought art, activism and scientific innovation to the national and international stages over the past 100 or more years. Each of these posters highlights women like activist Crystal Eastman, whose short life was dedicated to women’s suffrage and, as co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, basic human rights; or Bettie Esther Parham, an entrepreneur whose cosmetics designed specifically for Black women were the first marketed both in the U.S. and in Africa.
Croton Girl Scout troops have created a scavenger hunt of questions about each of the thirty women so that kids (and their parents) can roam across the village to answer questions and become eligible for raffle prizes from Croton businesses.

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A Woman’s View: A Student Art Exhibition

Exhibition organized by the Women’s Empowerment Club, Croton Harmon High School
The Black Cow Coffee Company
March 2 – March 31
Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6:30-8pm

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• Women’s Viewpoints: Ourselves, Our World
Juried exhibition of contemporary Croton women artists
Ottinger Room, Croton Free Library
March 4 - April 30, 2026
Reception: Saturday, March 7, 1 – 4 pm
• Women Behind the Lens
Exhibition of contemporary Croton women photographers
Gallery, Croton Free Library
March 4 - April 30, 2026
Reception: Saturday, March 7, 1 – 4 pm

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Denise Bessette in NO REGRETS: based on the Life and writings of COLLETTE

Theatrical performance written and performed by Denise Bessette
The Grand
March 8, 7 pm
Ticketed Event: Tickets are selling quickly!

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Two Ways into Print: Getting your writing published

Advice on getting your work into journals or self-published books from two of Croton’s most illustrious writers/publishers: Cornelia Cotton and Dr. Jeanne-Noel Mahoney.

Symphony Knoll
15 My Airy Rd S, Croton-on-Hudson, NY
March 15, 4-6 pm

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Jessica Krash & Sophia Steger

A concert and cocktail reception featuring Washington, DC composer & pianist, Jessica Krash with Bennett Conservatory alumna violinist, Sophia Steger benefiting the Else Bennett Scholarship Fund.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Hudson Valley, 2021 Albany Post Rd, Croton
March 21, 5-8 pm
Snow date March 22, 5-8 pm
Tickets are $100
To purchase tickets, email bennettconservatory@gmail.com

 

Let's Talk

CCoA's Let's Talk group meets monthly to talk about literature, and this month Kathy Walkup will talk about the writing of the iconoclastic modernist, Gertrude Stein.

Symphony Knoll
15 Mt Airy Rd S, Croton
March 18, 7:30 pm

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Summer Camargo Quartet

A free jazz concert at the Croton Free Library on March 22 at 2 pm. This concert is sponsored by the Croton Arts & Humanities Advisory Council.

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Get Involved Campaign
We’re grateful to our volunteer Caedra Scott-Flaherty, who wrote and filed our first grant application with ArtsWestchester — a demanding and essential effort, and we sincerely thank her. In addition, we’re preparing a new pamphlet that will highlight key information about our work and support upcoming fundraising initiatives.
HELP WANTED
• Social Media assistant. If you have a social media skillset and a bit of spare time we would love to talk to you! We are trying to build a more robust social media presence for higher visibility. Please apply here with your name and availability: (getinvolved@crotonarts.org)
• Aspiring photographers, we are asking for snapshots of public art that inspire you – murals, dancers in the park, handpainted signs, gardens, architecture, museum moments, airport art, and more. Include the location and a brief note about why it caught your eye. We will feature selected photos on our social media to highlight the creativity that enriches our shared spaces with your photo credit! Send your photos to GetInvolved@CrotonArts.org.

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Upcoming Events / New Programming

 

Calling all fine artists, skilled artisans, photographers, and visual artists!
We're announcing the first annual Mother's Day Weekend Arts & Crafts Festival at Windrose on Hudson … a magnificent indoor conference complex on a beautiful 62-acre campus on the Hudson. Windrose is Westchester's best indoor venue for big events, and this is your opportunity to show and sell your work there!
Please note that this does not replace our annual Fall Festival, at Croton's Senasqua Park, on Sat, Sept 5 (rain date, Sun Sept 6). Registration for the Fall Festival will open this summer.

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CCoA's 50th Anniversary in 2027

The Council will be 50 years old next year! We'd like to celebrate our birthday in style, and we'd like to hear your thoughts on how to do that. Please reply to this email if you'd like to be involved in planning the festivities, or have thoughts about great ways to celebrate the Council's milestone birthday.

 

New Croton Review

Get the 2025 Fall Issue of the New Croton Review at the following outlets:
– Amazon
– Google
– Apple
– By the Dam Books
(4 Old Post Rd S, Croton-on-Hudson)
– Cornelia Cotton Gallery
(111 Grand St, Croton on Hudson)
– Hudson Valley Books for Humanity
(67 Central Ave, Ossining)
Cover art by Romare Bearden, and 85 pages containing 97 works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art, by 53 authors and artists worldwide. Check it out!
Look for the 2026 Spring Issue on May 9.

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Member News and Happenings

Members can now submit their events for inclusion in our newsletter, social media and the Westchester events calendar. Please send your flyer, press release and any text or images you want published to JudyRayer@crotonarts.com by the 23rd of each month.

 

Maria Pia Marrella

Open Ending
Buster Levi Gallery
121 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY
February 7 to March 22
Closing Reception: Mar 22, 5-8 pm

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Maria Pia Marrella

Re-View Re-New
Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune Street, NY, NY 10014
March 4 to 22
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun 1-6 pm
Opening Reception: March 5, 5-8 pm

 

Richard Eagan

In-Security – 6th Annual Juried Exhibition
Hudson Valley MOCA
1701 Main St, Peekskill, NY
February 7 to April 30
Click Here to visit MOCA's wenbsite.

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Michael Balter

Editor/Publisher of The Croton Chronicle, the online newspaper serving our local community.
The Croton Chronicle recently achieved a new milestone, passing its 1,500th direct email subscriber. In addition to its news coverage and investigative reporting, the Chronicle publishes many feature stories including Guest Editorials, Guest Essays, and lots of coverage of the arts. Our newest feature is called "The Chronicle Cooks" and is written by guest contributors who share recipes along with the stories of how they came across them. The Chronicle also publishes announcements of community events on a regular basis.

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Rob Dublin

The Eclectic Quartet
Ossining Library
53 Croton Ave, Ossining
April 1 – 29, 2026
Opening Reception: April 11, 2-4 pm

 

Julia Swyers

Acorn Wood Shop
Hi! I'm busy making wooden bowls and vases to get ready for springtime markets. I'll be selling my woodworking at the Daffodil Day market at Honeybee Grove in Somers on April 26th. I also have some woodturning classes scheduled for this spring and summer at regional craft schools.

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Maxine Young

Concerned Photography Project
Streaming Group Show
Capa Space
Feb 22 - Mar 15; 3:00 - 5:00 pm

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Vanessa Lee

Croton River Artisans Gallery
9 Old Post Rd S, Croton-On-Hudson, NY
March 1 - 29, 2026
Reception: Saturday March 7, 3-5 pm

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Community Events

 

Third Climate Action Quilt – Croton100

Unveiling the Quilt
Croton Municipal Building
1 Van Wyck St, Croton-On-Hudson
March 11, 7 pm

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Member Engagement: Building a Stronger CCoA

At CCoA, we are committed to preparing our organization for long-term success. To achieve this, we are encouraging our members to actively participate and get involved.
Your time and ideas help shape CCoA's future. We aim to make your membership worthwhile by adding valuable benefits and opportunities for everyone. Please click here to share any questions, ideas and suggestions you might have for CCoA. We'd love to hear from you.

The Croton Council on the Arts is a non-profit working to:
  • Make the arts a source of enjoyment and pride in Croton
  • Build a vital community of artists, art lovers, and creative people.
  • Help artists get their work out there!
The council runs events and publishes a worldwide arts and literature journal called the New Croton Review (NCR) Website: (NewCrotonReview.com).
The people who run CCoA's events and projects are:
Yoshimi Arai*CCoA Treasurer
Jim Christensen*
JimChristenssen@crotonarts.org
 CCoA President, Photographers of Northern Westchester (PNW) group leader
Cornelia Cotton*Let's Talk group leader
Bruce Dollar*NCR Managing Editor, CCoA Website
Steve Jacoby*NCR Editor
Valerie Leis*NCR Art Editor, Local Color Show, 2026 Creative Womens' Project
Jeanne-Noel Mahoney*NCR Editor-in-Chief
Loomis MayerNCR Editor
Judy RayerPromotion, Community engagement, Get Involved Program, Newsletter Editor
Kathy WalkupNCR Editor
* Denotes a CCoA Board of Directors member.
Croton has a long and continuing tradition of being a magnet for artists of all disciplines. The Croton Council on the Arts was born and grew out of this tradition and Croton’s 1976 Bicentennial celebrations. Local artists and supporters joined forces to stage events for the public in Croton and surrounding villages. Under poet and President Ruth Lisa Schechter’s dynamic leadership, the new council organized many productions in theater and dance, exhibitions of painting, sculpture, photography, and musical recitals and poetry readings. The Croton Review, a literary magazine, was published annually in the 1980s. Croton residents greeted these contributions to our Village with great enthusiasm and CCoA quickly became a valuable asset in the cultural life of our community.
CCoA is in constant need of volunteers to help us run our activities, and come up with new ones. It's also a great way to network and enhance your sense of community. CLICK HERE to send email to us if you have questions or want to get involved with CCoA activities.
The Croton Council on the Arts is a registered 501-C3 nonprofit in New York State. We greatly appreciate your donation, and we'll send you a receipt when we receive confirmation from PayPal™
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Your donation will help us support the arts through a variety of programs. The Croton Council on the Arts is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. A copy of our most recently filed annual financial report may be obtained from the Attorney General’s Charities Bureau's Charities Registry at www.charitiesnys.com or by writing to us at crotonarts@gmail.com or at the USPS address below.
You can donate by clicking the PayPal button (above) – OR – by mailing a check payable to Croton Council on the Arts to us at:
  • Croton Council on the Arts
  • c/o Yoshimi Arai
  • 7 Elm St
  • Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520
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