Board Members

Steve Sinkoff — President

Steve moved to Cazenovia in late 2005, having lived in Westchester County and New York City for the previous 31 years.  With a BFA from School of Visual Arts, Steve was a professional photographer in his early career.  For the next 15 years he worked as a marketing communications producer, developing brand identity programs and integrated marketing campaigns for organizations such as IBM, Pepsi, Kraft, Dannon and SAP.  From 1996 to 2004 he ran the sales, marketing and operations of a business consulting company and since then, his own company, Eventure Events (www.eventureevents.com).  Eventure unites global business communities and develops, produces and markets specialized networking and thought-leadership programs to serve those communities.

Anne Beckwith Ferguson — Vice President

Anne’s career over the past 25 years has been within the financial services industry, with positions responsible for computer systems development, strategic and tactical planning, and large scale project management. She is currently Vice President of Systems Development for NBT Bancorp, based in Norwich NY.  Previously, she was Senior Vice President of Electronic Banking for Riggs Bank of Washington DC, and Fleet Bank in Princeton NJ.  Born and raised in Illinois, she is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. Anne relocated to Cazenovia in 2005. She is currently a member of the Planning Board for the Town of Cazenovia; a member of Cazenovia Preservation Foundation, the Tree Commission, the Shakespeare Club, and the Central NY Genealogy Society, as well as the Art Park.  She was a Trustee and Board Member from 2003 – 2008 of the Princeton Arts Council, a community center for arts education, exhibitions, literary events, and performing arts, in Princeton, NJ.

Steve Waldron — Secretary

Steve first joined the board in 1994 and since has served twice as Board President. He has been the Associate Director at the CNY Health Systems Agency, Inc. since 1975 and Coordinator of the Central New York HIV CARE network since 1991. Waldron is also a board member of the New York AIDS Coalition and a former board member of the American Lung Association of NYS. He has been a member of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild for 30 years and is a past president of the Guild.

Doug Gustafson

Having devoted many volunteer hours to the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park over the past 12 years, Doug has built up extensive experience in the areas of trail maintenance and design and is currently chairman of the Trail Committee. He also participates in many Art Park public activities and is familiar with the functional mechanics of running the Park. Doug has worked as a project manager for energy efficiency construction projects for the past 16 years and is currently an active SQHAP board member.

Dewey F. Mosby

Dewey F. Mosby is Director Emeritus of the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University and was formerly the Curator of European Art at the Detroit Institute of Art. Dr. Mosby has been awarded the rank of Officer from the Order of Arts and Letters of France. The many dozens of exhibitions he has organized include two for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, on the African-American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner.

David Rudd

David Rudd of Dalton's American Decorative Arts has been a dealer of decorative arts and has co-operated his gallery at 1931 James Street in Syracuse since 1980. He is nationally recognized as a specialist in the work of Gustav Stickley as well as art and objects produced during The American Arts and Crafts Period. Rudd has been an exhibition consultant to the Everson Museum of Art and other nationally known institutions. In 1993 Mr. Rudd was instrumental in starting the Arts and Craft Society of Central New York and is currently president of its board of directors. In January 2006, Mr. Rudd was elected to sit on the board of trustees of the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms in Morris Plains, New Jersey. In 2009 he was invited to become a member of the prestigious group The Antiques Dealers Association of America.

Joel Potash

Joel Potash joined the Art Park board in early 2010. He is a family physician and practiced in Cazenovia in the 1960s-70s. He was a New York State Family Physician of the year, and a Syracuse Post-Standard Person of Achievement in 2006. As a young physician in Cazenovia, he was fortunate to meet a number of area artists/sculptors and acquire their works. He co-owned and operated 12 Rms-4 Gallery on Burnet Avenue in Syracuse, with David Saperstein and Anna Dewan Carlson. The gallery was devoted to the works of area artists. While living in Cazenovia, he was attracted by the beauty of Stone Quarry Hill in all seasons. He believes that the co-mingling of nature and art, and the many programs and workshops accessible to residents of and visitors to Central New York at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, adds to the quality of life of the community.

 

Executive Director

Joseph A. Scala

Prior to becoming the Executive Director of Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, NY, Joseph A. Scala founded and directed both Mystic Mountain Art Workshops and the Joseph Scala Art Gallery, in New Woodstock, NY.

Scala, a Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University, not only founded the University’s computer graphic art program, but also served as Director of the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery for eight years, and the University’s Lubin House Gallery in New York City for six years. He has raised over half a million dollars in grants from grant writing, corporate donations, and individual gifts, including grants from the Institute of Museum Services, the NY State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Scala was a founding member of the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries (ACUMG) and served as the organizations first president.

He is a member of the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, the Greater Cazenovia Chamber of Commerce, Madison County Tourism, the Everson Museum , the Metropolitan Museum
and MOMA. A former president of the DeWitt Kiwanis Club, and a former board member of the Community Folk Art Gallery, Scala has been listed from 1976 to the present in Who’s Who in American Art.