Collaborative Concepts: About Us

Ada Pilar Cruz

Sheilah Rechtschaffer

Jim Lloyd

Hideki Takahashi

Collaborative Concepts is a not-for-profit arts organization based on the idea that professional artists working together can achieve artful accomplishments and provide the community with exceptional cultural experiences. Since its founding in 1999, Collaborative Concepts has curated more than 40 exhibitions in galleries and outdoor settings in the Hudson Valley.

Collaborative Concepts at The Putnam Arts Council is a partnership program for facilitating art on the Council's Belle Levine Art Center campus in Mahopac. The program began during the Collaborative Concepts' Farm Project 2010. The Putnam Arts Council's Visual Arts Committee selected two works of art from the more than sixty works on display at the annual exhibition on the historic, working, 140 acre Saunders' farm located in Garrison, New York. which takes place each year from Labor Day weekend through October. During the following month the art was reinstalled at the art center. The selected artists for this year are Bernard Klevickas and Herman Roggeman. Klevickas' sculpture, referred as "Untitled, red assembly", is a bright red, 14' tall work, fabricated with hydraulically formed aluminum with polished stainless steel structure Herman Roggeman's art, titled "sliver", is a soaring, monumental steel sculpture. The art is on display at the Belle Levine art center through the Spring of 2011.

For its fifth season, Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm invites local and national artists to place sculptures throughout 140 acres of a working and historic farm in Garrison, NY. Located across the Hudson River from West Point, the rolling hills and wooded glens of Saunders Farm culminate in panoramic views of the Hudson Highlands. Black Angus cattle can be seen grazing peacefully in stone-walled pastures. Almost 60 site-specific artworks were chosen to complement the farm’s spectacular vistas.

All the sculpture installations are temporary, and many works are for sale. The exhibition is free and can be viewed from 10 am to dusk, during the exhibition dates. Visitors should dress appropriately for a walk in the country.

Who are you?
An incorporated New York state not-for-profit and registered 501c3 entity with full liability insurance.

What are you?
A non- membership organization with a board of directors committed to facilitating and presenting professional art.

What is your support base?
Contributions from individual and business friends of the arts.

What is your history?
For seven years, Collaborative Concepts has presented more than 30 exhibitions in commercial spaces, in cold spring and beacon. In 2006 we presented our first installation on saunders’ farm.

What is your experience with outdoor sculpture?
Collaborative Concepts Maintained an outdoor sculpture “garden” at our beacon gallery for five years, presented a summer long outdoor sculpture exhibition- earthtones, at the university settlement, beacon, new york

What is the art project at Saunders’ Farm?
For 2007 more than 50 artists have been invited to site sculpture on the over 100 acres of rolling land on an historic farm.

When is this happening?
The exhibition opens september 1st and is open every day from 10am to dusk. Through October 31st.

Is there an admission?
The event is free and open to the public.

What is the environmental impact?
With less than one sculpture per 2 acres, the visual sense of a spectacular landscape predominates. The art has been curated to fit into the vistas.The art is temporary and all sites will be returned to their original condition.

What about the black angus steer?
The steer are rotated from pasture to pasture (on the opening day, the steer will have a pasture of their own). The art as required by the project, is “cow friendly”- no holes, cables, sharp edges, etc. The steer are expected to enjoy the art while they dine.

Is how is the art viewed?
At the entrance to the exhibition, visitors are given a map with the location of each sculpture and recommended walking paths.

Are there guides?
Artists and volunteers are in attendance on the opening day to insure an enriching art experience.

All the sculpture installations are temporary, and many works are for sale. The exhibition is free and can be viewed from 10 am to dusk, during the exhibition dates. Visitors should dress appropriately for a walk in the country.

Who are you? An incorporated New York state not-for-profit and registered 501c3 entity with full liability insurance.

What are you? A non- membership organization with a board of directors committed to facilitating and presenting professional art.

What is your support base? Contributions from individual and business friends of the arts.

What is your history? For seven years, Collaborative Concepts has presented more than 30 exhibitions in commercial spaces, in cold spring and beacon. In 2006 we presented our first installation on saunders’ farm.

What is your experience with outdoor sculpture? Collaborative Concepts Maintained an outdoor sculpture “garden” at our beacon gallery for five years, presented a summer long outdoor sculpture exhibition- earthtones, at the university settlement, beacon, new york

What is the art project at Saunders’ Farm? For 2007 more than 50 artists have been invited to site sculpture on the over 100 acres of rolling land on an historic farm.

When is this happening? The exhibition opens september 1st and is open every day from 10am to dusk. Through October 31st.

Is there an admission? The event is free and open to the public.

What is the environmental impact? With less than one sculpture per 2 acres, the visual sense of a spectacular landscape predominates. The art has been curated to fit into the vistas.The art is temporary and all sites will be returned to their original condition.

What about the black angus steer? The steer are rotated from pasture to pasture (on the opening day, the steer will have a pasture of their own). The art as required by the project, is “cow friendly”- no holes, cables, sharp edges, etc. The steer are expected to enjoy the art while they dine.

Is how is the art viewed? At the entrance to the exhibition, visitors are given a map with the location of each sculpture and recommended walking paths.

Are there guides? Artists and volunteers are in attendance on the opening day to insure an enriching art experience.

Who are you?
An incorporated New York state not-for-profit and registered 501c3 entity with full liability insurance.

What are you?
A non- membership organization with a board of directors committed to facilitating and presenting professional art.

What is your support base?
Contributions from individual and business friends of the arts.

What is your history?
For seven years, Collaborative Concepts has presented more than 30 exhibitions in commercial spaces, in cold spring and beacon. In 2006 we presented our first installation on saunders’ farm.

What is your experience with outdoor sculpture?
Collaborative Concepts Maintained an outdoor sculpture “garden” at our beacon gallery for five years, presented a summer long outdoor sculpture exhibition- earthtones, at the university settlement, beacon, new york

What is the art project at Saunders’ Farm?
For 2007 more than 50 artists have been invited to site sculpture on the over 100 acres of rolling land on an historic farm.

When is this happening?
The exhibition opens september 1st and is open every day from 10am to dusk. Through October 31st.

Is there an admission?
The event is free and open to the public.

What is the environmental impact?
With less than one sculpture per 2 acres, the visual sense of a spectacular landscape predominates. The art has been curated to fit into the vistas.The art is temporary and all sites will be returned to their original condition.

What about the black angus steer?
The steer are rotated from pasture to pasture (on the opening day, the steer will have a pasture of their own). The art as required by the project, is “cow friendly”- no holes, cables, sharp edges, etc. The steer are expected to enjoy the art while they dine.

Is how is the art viewed?
At the entrance to the exhibition, visitors are given a map with the location of each sculpture and recommended walking paths.

Are there guides?
Artists and volunteers are in attendance on the opening day to insure an enriching art experience.