History

Mount Tremper Arts has slowly developed since 2003 when Mathew Pokoik and Aynsley Vandenbroucke bought an old fixer-upper property with the intention of helping sustain our careers (and sanity) as artists.  We soon decided we needed to share it.

Many friends and artists have helped bring the place into being, from scrubbing graffiti off walls and hauling out generations of accumulated garbage, to designing and building the studio, to making septic systems, and speaking up about the importance of the arts at town planning board meetings!  The studio was built in 2005 and artists have been working in the space since then.  The Mount Tremper Arts Summer Festival officially began in 2008.

A partial list of people who have made art, shared art, taught, lectured, and/or built buildings and grounds and infrastructure at MTA so far:

Michele Abeles
Malinda Allen
Ariane Anthony
Ian Baguskas
Monica Bill Barnes
Kimberly Bartosik
Joel Benton
Nayland Blake
Lucas Blalock
Gil Blank
Wendy Blum
Jonah Bokaer
Olaf Breuning
Amy Shoko Brown
Brian Brooks Moving Company
Tammy Burstein
Clare Byrne
Anne Carson
Schola Choi
Peter Cole
Collective Opera Company
Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins
Caleb Considine
Members of Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Laurie Dahlberg
Leanne Darling
Tim Davis
Nancy Deholl
Aaron Diskin
Trisha Donnelly
Nelson R. Downend, Jr.
Exhibit A Performance Group
Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre
Hilary Easton + Company
Shannon Ebner
ETHEL
Walker Evans
Peter Fodera
Clyde Forth
Freefall
Martha Friedman
Michaela Fruhwirth
Michelle Gay
Julie Greenwood
Golem
Emmet Gowin
Jonah Groeneboer
Miguel Gutierrez
Estelle Hanania
Forest Holzapfel
Amber Ryan Horan
Insight Builders
Mark Jarecke
DJ Joro Boro
Carolyn Kahn
Lisa Kereszi
Anya Kielar
Garfield Knight
Michelle Laccaditto
Magnetic Laboratorium/Marisela La Grave
Janice Lancaster
John Lehr
John Leo
Miranda Lichtenstein
Dwayne Linville
John Daido Loori
Devon Ludlow
Luminescent Orchestrii
Lycaon Pictus
Myra Margolin
Rachel Mason
Fabian Marti
Amy Matthews
Pete Mauney
Patricia Milder
Rashaun Mitchell
Carla Monzo
Daido Moriyama
Sophie Nimmannit
Boru O'Brien O'Connell
Ricarda O'Connor
Michele O'Marah
Timothy O’Sullivan
Katy Orthwein
Mamiko Otsubo
Arthur Ou
Christian Patterson
Kelly Peck
Jeff Plant
Mathew Pokoik
Matthew Porter
Michael Queenland
Susana Raab
Alicia Jo Rabins
Michael Rashkow
Silas Riener
Rindfleisch
robbinschilds
Liz Sargent
Jill Schwartz
Shea Settimi
jill sigman/thinkdance
Helen Simoneau
Noah Sheldon
Stephen Shore
Frederick Sommer
Matthew Spiegelman
Dawn Springer
Andy Statman
Terri and Oliver Steele
Amy Stein
Zoe Strauss
Jean Taylor
Dan Torop
Bonnie Myotai Traece
Brian Ulrich
VIA Dance Collaborative
Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Michael Vahrenwald
Mary Weatherford
James Welling
Enrico Wey
Hannah Whitaker
Gary Winogrand
Mark Wyse