Hyde Park Views Installation Is Complete!

It was three years from concept to completion, and now it is installed. From the Press Release for the project: This community art project was first funded in April 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Grants and crowd-funding supported the completion of the project in June 2023, at the conclusion of most pandemic measures. Strong community support and grants combined for project success, at times therapeutically.

Artist Dan Gottsegen worked with Kevin Stearns and his crew from LWI Metalworks of Morrisville to create and install the art. Gottsegen met with numerous community members in the design process. Connecting the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail to the Village and Hyde Park overall in a pleasing and informative manner resulted in the use of art and history.

Special thanks to the Vermont Arts Council and Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development’s (DHCD) Better Places Program. Over 95 donors, consisting of residents, property owners and local businesses support the project.

Bruce Barth's Beautiful CD "Dedication" (with my cover art) about to be released, September, 2022.

I’m so thrilled that Bruce has chosen my painting Still Music Softly to grace the cover of his beautiful new CD. The music is glorious!!!

No one sounds quite like Barth. His solos are characterized by robust swing, his ability to tell a story, and by his rich, beguiling sound.

ZAN STEWART, THE NEWARK STAR-LEDGER

A pivotal member of New York's Jazz scene for 40 years, pianist Bruce Barth's inspired vision and generous accompaniment has always led to rich musical collaborations, none more so than with his working trio of many years with bassist Vicente Archer and drummer Montez Coleman. Their collective voice found its perfect setting, which makes the release of Dedication a profound and emotion-filled moment, as Montez passed away 5 months after the recording session at the age of 48. Celebrating the joy and camaraderie Montez brought to their work, the thread of relationships, inspiration, guidance and gratefulness that imbued the recording revealed itself, leading Barth to present the music as a display of mindfulness of those gifts. Dedication is for the ones who give, and is filled with life, dance and swing.

PRODUCTION INFO:

Produced by Wayne Windborne & Bruce Barth

Recorded by Aaron Nevezie at Bunker Studios, Brooklyn, NY

August 9, 2021

Mixed & mastered by Katsuhiko Naito

Cover painting: "Still Music, Softly" by Dan Gottsegen

Photo by Antonio Porcar, July 2018

Cover design & layout by John Bishop

The Hyde Park Lamoille Valley Rail Trail Public Art is underway!

Fund raising continues apace for the Public Art project I am doing in Hyde Park, VT. I am currently making the paintings from which the glass will be produced for the project. We are hoping for install this Fall (2022). This should be a wonderful, beautiful work. Some mockups of the the project are below.

A New Catalog

Catalogs of the exhibition in the United States Embassy in Accra, Ghana have been printed. I am proud to have been included in this wonderful show.