Bring a dish to pass (in keeping with tradition)

Exhibition on view until July 17, 2023

For more than 25 years, Brooke Alderson and Peter Schjeldahl welcomed friends, colleagues, and enthusiasts of all ages from near and far at their forested mountainside property in the Western Catskills for Fourth of July communal feasting and fireworks.

Love and Bottle Rockets is an exhibition curated by Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz and designed by Christian Rattemeyer with support from Scott Hill at OSMOS Station in Stamford to commemorate what Brooke and Peter did for the community year after year. The exhibition includes sketches, ephemera, filmed documentation, photographs, props, and relics from 26 years of Fourth of July gatherings. Love and Bottle Rockets pays tribute to Brooke as Delaware County’s most generous host while remembering Peter, who is revered globally for his art writing and remembered locally for his narrative firework performances.