Mailing address: PO Box 156, Mahopac, NY 10541

Location: Tilly Foster Farm, 100 Route 312, Brewster, NY  10509
Building 6: pottery      Building 8: office/class space
www.putnamartscouncil.com

putnamartscouncil@comcast.net

Who We Are

The Putnam Arts Council (PAC) is a not-for-profit arts service organization chartered in 1963 by the State of New York. PAC is the voice for the arts in Putnam County, and maintains a leadership role in promoting, fostering, and perpetuating the visual, performing and literary arts in the county and environs. Our programs include exhibitions, Art in Public Places, workshops in the visual and performing arts, a summer arts program, concerts, theatre performances, advocacy, technical assistance workshops, studio tours and special events.

As a county-wide arts service agency, the Putnam Arts Council extends its programming to reach constituents where they live and work, and to provide support for the creative development of artists, students, and cultural organizations.

PAC was formerly housed at the Belle Levine Art Center on Kennicut Hill Road in Mahopac. This turn-of-the-century barn was once the studio of cartoonist Bud Fisher who created "Mutt and Jeff", the first syndicated cartoon for the Chicago Tribune. Due to an extensive fire in the winter of 2006, we have moved to a new location. We are currently residing at Tilly Foster Farm in Brewster. Our Mahopac site is under construction with an anticipated completion date in February 2008. Programs and services continue to be offered at our new temporary site.

Tilly Foster Farm is a very large and beautiful horse farm which is owned and operated by Putnam County. It has a variety of buildings on it in addition to the horse barns and many acres of rolling pastures. Students of all ages will find inspiration from the landscape and animals. Please click here for a map and directions to the farm.

The Putnam Arts Council is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and with public funds from Putnam County. Additional support is generated through membership, fund-raising efforts, and with donations from local businesses and individuals.

Putnam Arts Council Staff

Board of Trustees

Charles Albertario		Jane Posner
Laura Aquina		Martin Posner
Kazumi Futagawa		Kathy Randell
Robert Hammel		Helen Senko
Dell Jones		Debra H. Swee
James T. Meyer		Miriam Yekutiel
Joyce Picone

PAC is a not-for-profit cultural service organization that supports the work of artists and promotes cultural enrichment activities for individuals throughout the region. PAC is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and with public funds from Putnam County.