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Horned Dorset Colony

Our mission is to sustain a community of exceptionally talented artists from different disciplines who wish to exchange ideas in a working environment.

In the early 1970s, three aspiring artists, a writer, a painter and a musician, began discussing the possibility of creating a multi-disciplinary community for artists in their small town in upstate New York. Over the next 40 years they spoke to many creative people about this project and purchased property and buildings, several of which they restored and listed on The National Register of Histor

ic Places. They also planted an apple orchard, managed a sheep farm, earned graduate degrees, taught in their respective fields, and created two highly acclaimed hostelries: The Horned Dorset Inn, in Leonardsville, NY, and The Horned Dorset Primavera Hotel, in Rincón, Puerto Rico. In 2011 they formed a private foundation to help facilitate their vision in its final form, The Horned Dorset Colony, where they now serve as directors.

09/16/2025

Please join us Sunday, September 28, 2:00-4:00,
for HDC September Artist Residents' Open Studios.
Please look for the yellow sign on the corner of Route 8 and Huey Road and in front of the 1803 House.
See what four painters and a nature photographer have created:
Carol and Lawrence Sexton, Lisa Boemer, Victoria Bathurst Threlfall, and Liena Vazman.

Photograph: The five residents with Roberta Wratten, program director

06/17/2025

Please join us Sunday, June 22, 2:00-4:00,
for HDC June Artist Residents' Open Studios.
Please look for this sign on the corner of Route 8 and Huey Road and in front of the 1803 House.
Experience what the June Residents have been up to!
l-r: Juan Alberto Negroni, visual artist,
Matilda Bathurst, writer,
Cynthia Manick, writer,
Ken Marchione, visual artist.

06/03/2025

We are thrilled to welcome our four June Residents!
l-r: Juan Alberto Negroni, visual artist, from Dallas TX; Matilda Bathurst, writer, from Los Angelos CA; Cynthia Manick, writer, from Brooklyn NY; and Ken Marchione, visual artist, from Utica, NY.
Save the Date!
HDC June Open Studios - Sunday afternoon, May 22, 2-4pm

Meet the Residents
at the first dinner-concert of 2025
June 15, 2 pm,
Horned Dorset Inn, 2000 Route 8, Leonardsville,
featuring Clarin Arts: Timothy Perry, clarinet, and Margaret Reitz, piano
(details on the event page at HornedDorsetInn.com

11/07/2023

Support the Horned Dorset Artist Residency by staying at our accommodations next to the Horned Dorset restaurant. Come and celebrate with us. We are open through New Year's Eve.

Contact us: [email protected]

10/17/2023

Join us!
Sunday, November 12, at the Horned Dorset for
"Autumn Transitions",
a dinner-concert program featuring
the Hohenfels Trombone Quartet.
Music by Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, Grassauer, Berlioz, and others.
Cocktails at 4pm followed by Concert and prix fixe Dinner at 5pm
The HD Dinner/Concert series are $95 per person including dinner and the musical program.
Proceeds benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Horned Dorset Artist Residency.
Please call (315) 855-7898 for reservations.
Overnight accommodations are available.

photo: Hohenfels Trombone Quartet

07/22/2019

The Horned Dorset Colony
OPEN STUDIO at
Creekside Studio, Huey Road, Leonardsville, NY
Sunday, JULY 28th - from to 2 to 4 pm -

Wine and cheese at 2:00 pm
Artists' presentations will be made at 3:00 pm
Come and join us!
Meet our July 2019 artist residents

Pesya Altman, multi-media artist
Matilda Bathurst, writer
Emily Oliveira, multi-media artist

If you would like dinner reservation at the Horned Dorset Inn,
following the Open Studio,
Please call (315) 855-7898

06/20/2019

The Horned Dorset Colony
OPEN STUDIO
at Creekside Studio, Huey Road, Leonardsville, NY
Schedule changed to Sunday, JUNE 30th - from to 2 to 4 pm -
Wine and cheese at 2:00pm
Artists' presentations will be made at 3:00pm
Come and join us!
Meet our first artists in residence of the season

Michelle Pauls
Soojin Kim
Oriol Mora
Howard Fishman

07/28/2017

Horned Dorset Colony Open Studio July 2017

07/24/2017

Come see what the artists have been working on this month!

July 2017 Open Studios
Thursday, July 27th
4:00 - 6:00 pm
at the Horned Dorset Colony Library
1995 Route 8, Leonardsville

Beth Post, Illustrator, Utica, NY

Wendy Harris, Painter, Syracuse, NY

Sally Strom, Multi-Media Artist, Portland, OR

Suzanne Benton, Writer, Ridgefield, CN

07/11/2017

July 2017 Artist Welcome Reception

Suzanne Benton, Writer, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Wendy Harris, Visual Artist, Syracuse, New York
Beth Post, Visual Artist, Utica, New York
Sally Strom, Visual Artist, Newport, Oregon

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Leonardsville, NY
13364

Website

http://horneddorsetcolony.org/

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