Cooperstown NY- SUNY Oneonta gallery director, Sarah Simpson, will moderate a four-artist panel discussion at the Art Garage, Thursday Aug 28, 5PM. The panel, named ‘Playing on the Girls Team’ in reference to an artwork in the show, will include artists featured in the current show, Samurai Base AND MORE: a fine-arts-look-at-baseball: Ashley Norwood Cooper (Cooperstown / SUNY Oneonta instructor), Katharine Kreisher (Schenevus / Hartwick College professor) , Steph Marcus (Cooperstown / Oneonta Elementary School Art Teacher) and Ada Yonenaka ( Bowerstown / New York City independent artist). The gallery will open at 4:30 with light refreshments. Seating is limited: reservations recommended. Contact: leartgarage@gmail.com, text/call 315-941-9607. Parking on lawns is requested, for public safety.The current 15-artist exhibition will be on view through Saturday September 13. Among the panelists, Ashley Norwood Cooper (Cooperstown) offers a worm’s-eye-view nature painting with a baseball, the insect world and a looming dark cloud that will wow her admirers with its familiar yet new imagery; Katharine Kreisher (Schenevus), Playing on the Girls Team, an archival print of a hand-colored photograph of a gal in a ball gown batting a hydrangea out of the park, and the inspiration for the title of the panel; Steph Marcus (Cooperstown), a series of experimental sculpted baseball cards — and reproductions of them for those wishing to collect a set— that portray some of her favorite Hall of Famers… as cats, such as Licky Mantle or Pedro Purr-tinez of the NY Pets; Ada Yonenaka (Bowerstown and New York City), both framed and unframed works on paper with inventive stamped configurations such as chopsticks holding baseballs or the iconographic stances of baseball players repeated in mesmerizing patterns. The last panel discussion, Playing Hardball, is Wed. Sept. 3 at 5PM and will feature Charles Bremer, James Herman and David Wilson. Gallery is open Saturdays 11-3 and every day with a call/text to: leartgarage@gmail.com or 315-941-9607. See less