Join Chad Weckler, photographer, 2008 NYFA/MARK participant, Columbia County resident and your host of The Art of the Hudson Valley, with special guests: Richard Edelman – Photographer, 2009 NYFA/MARK participant, Ulster County resident and owner of Woodstock Graphics Studio in Woodstock. Karen Davis – Photographer, 2011 NYFA/MARK participant, Columbia County resident and co-owner of Davis/Orton Gallery in Hudson. Carlos Loret de Mola - Photographer, 2010 NYFA/MARK participant, Columbia County resident and recent curator of bookMARKs, a pop-up exhibition of self-published photo-based printed matter which was presented in conjunction with the Society for Photographic Education’s Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region’s 2011 Conference, hosted by Light Work and Syracuse University. The mission of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is to empower artists at critical stages in their careers. NYFA offers a variety of professional development workshops, panels, and conferences for artists working in all disciplines. To learn more, visit www.nyfa.org