The Catskills · Pillar
Cabins, Artist Colonies & the Catskills Creative Class
The Catskills have been an artist-colony destination since Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead founded Byrdcliffe in Woodstock in 1902 — one of the oldest continuously-running arts colonies in America. A century later, the same mountain towns still pull painters, potters, writers, and residencies: WAAM in Woodstock, Hawk + Hive in Andes, Roxbury Arts Group up in the western hills, and a long list of cabin rentals designed around solo work and weekend retreats. This pillar covers the creative geography and the cabin culture that comes with it — who’s working out of where, which galleries are still showing serious programming, and which rental cabins actually have decent light for a long weekend of making things.
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FeaturedCannabis-Friendly Cabin Stays in the Catskills — A Practical Guide for Weekenders8 min readRead →Catskill and the Hudson River School: Cedar Grove, the Skywalk and Olana5 min readRead →Slow Cabin Culture — The Western Catskills Long-Weekend Playbook4 min readRead →Off-the-Grid Catskills Cabins — Properties That Actually Disconnect4 min readRead →Cabin-and-Creek Weekends — Matching Lodging to Catskills Water4 min readRead →Andes — The Western Catskills Arts-and-Cabin Weekend4 min readRead →Byrdcliffe’s 120-Year Artist-Residency Program4 min readRead →Hawk + Hive, Longyear, and the Western Catskills Galleries4 min readRead →Woodstock Galleries Worth the Walk4 min readRead →Margaretville — The Western-Catskills Crossroads Where Rt 28 Meets Rt 306 min readRead →Woodstock — The Artist-Colony Weekend the 1969 Festival Accidentally Overshadowed7 min readRead →Saugerties and Opus 40 — The Catskills Gateway Where the Esopus Meets the Hudson5 min readRead →
