Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Carolyn Turgeon

The One Stone Collective at the Grail in Cornwall-on-Hudson Announces Its Inaugural Art Show:

COMPASS,

Opening July 27, 2009

12 - 6pm at the Grail in Cornwall-on-Hudson

The One Stone Collective is made up of nine women artists from around the country working in various media. For their first show, they’ve collaborated to create fine art pieces around “compass,” an intentionally broad theme that has inspired work as disparate as enormous denim sails covered with ancient mariner imagery, industrial felt strips looped to create a series of spirals that “scribe a compass,” an oversized knotted net inspired by traditional red map lines, a Byzantine-style self-portrait on lacquered silk, a mechanized gyroscope attached to a Greek-style bust, a written fairytale about a girl with “a compass for a heart,” and a papier-mache and ceramic-shard winged sculpture inspired by this story.

Sponsored by the Grail, an international organization with a long history of providing spaces for women to create art, and held at the Grail in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York (located at 119 Duncan Avenue), the show is site-specific. The Grail at Cornwall is situated on 45 pristine acres in the Hudson River Valley. Nets will be draped through honey locust trees in the woods, artwork will swing in the archway of early 1800s ruins, sails will hang in one of the meadows on the property, sculptures will be displayed in outdoor garden shed, and small pieces will jut from holes in the oak trees along the path that leads to the ruins. The June 27 opening will feature live music provided by GO GIRLS NYC and sponsored by Imperial Guitar & Soundworks of Newburgh, a reading by Collective member Carolyn Turgeon, a raffle and prizes, and other activities. The exhibit will remain up until mid August.