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48 Hours in Woodstock: Music, Art, Mountains and Magic - Inside + Out Upstate NY

For many people, Woodstock still conjures images of tie-dye, free love, and the legendary music festival that famously never happened here. (That was Bethel, about 90 minutes away.) But the Woodstock of today feels less frozen in the past and more confident in itself—artistic, eccentric, and entirely its own.

The Summer Pour: The Rosés and Pét-Nats You'll Be Reaching for All Summer Long - Inside + Out...

From porch parties and picnics to streamside afternoons, David Pinkard of Woodstock Wine & Liquor shares the bottles he loves all seaso

Sense of Place: Artful Living at Ohayo Mountain House - Inside + Out Upstate NY

There’s a particular kind of magic happening in the Hudson Valley right now—where modern architecture, collectible design, and the natural landscape are no longer simply coexisting, but speaking fluently to one another.

Trusting Instinct: The Beautiful World of Martina Arfwidson - Inside + Out Upstate NY

Martina Arfwidson walks into the room like something is already happening. There’s an immediacy to her—bright, quick, entirely present—that makes you lean in without quite realizing it. She talks fast, thinks even faster, and within moments, you’re not just listening, you’re keeping pace.

The Beauty of Broken: We are Upstate NY with Artist Elisa Sheehan - Inside + Out Upstate NY

Artist Elisa Sheehan transforms fragile, discarded eggshells into luminous art, drawing inspiration from the Japanese philosophy of kintsugi and the changing seasons in New York’s Hudson Valley.

The Women Defining How the Hudson Valley Eats - Inside + Out Upstate NY

It’s Foodie Month at INSIDE+OUT, our annual celebration of everything delicious upstate — the farms, bakeries, markets, kitchens, and gathering places shaping how the Hudson Valley eats now. Here, food is less a trend than an expression of place. Landscape becomes flavor. Community gathers at the table. Memory turns edible.

How to Look Chic When It's Freezing: Stylist Hillary Harper Neal's Winter Edit - Inside + Out...

Does winter dressing exhaust you before you’ve even pulled on a sock? By February, getting dressed can feel less like self-expression and more like a logistical exercise. Layers accumulate. Silhouettes soften. Somewhere between the thermal base and the final zip, even the most style-minded among us can look in the mirror and see a version that feels… padded. Serviceable. Slightly snowman-adjacent.

Love Frequency: Carter Harrington + Todd Carr of Hort and Pott - Inside + Out Upstate NY

Creatives tend to find one another. Maybe it’s the shared obsession with ideas, the low tolerance for small talk, or the quiet thrill of being understood mid-thought. Makers often feel most at home loving someone who speaks the same strange dialect of curiosity, risk, and relentless noticing.

Annika Barriteau of Haven Spa: Beauty, Led by the Heart - Inside + Out Upstate NY

There is a certain kind of first moment that tells you everything you need to know about a person. Not credentials, not origin stories—but taste. The way someone notices texture. Fit. Ease. What they will and won’t tolerate.

Fun is the New Black: Nancy Geaney on Designing A Rich, Lived-In Life - Inside + Out Upstate NY

Nancy Geaney is the kind of interior designer whose work doesn’t announce itself—it welcomes you. A native New Yorker who found her forever home in the Hudson Valley, she brings a lifetime of visual fluency to every space, shaped by a richly layered background in fashion, modeling, set styling, textile design, and event production.

Daryl K: The Timeless Muse - Inside + Out Upstate NY

The moment I heard Daryl Kerrigan had an Upstate pop-up retrospective of her work at Red Hook’s Verse Work/Shop, memories stitched into my twenties in NYC rushed to the surface.

Fire + Ice: The Ritual of Renewal - Inside + Out Upstate NY

January has a way of clarifying things. After weeks of excess—too much food, too much screen time, too much darkness—the body asks not for indulgence, but for a much-needed recalibration. This year, that reset can be found close to home. Across the Hudson Valley, renewal now meets you where you are—whether you have fifteen minutes or a weekend to linger and let the ritual deepen.

New Year. Same Face. Only Better. - Inside + Out Upstate NY

For all the sparkle and celebration, the holidays leave subtle traces behind—on our skin, our nervous systems, our sense of balance. January arrives as a corrective: a deep, restorative exhale.

Countdown to 2026: Where to Celebrate New Year's Eve in the Hudson Valley - Inside + Out Upstate NY

New Year’s Eve in the Hudson Valley is its own kind of magic — a constellation of twinkling mountainside gatherings, candlelit dinners, cosmic dance parties, and tiny havens where old friends and new stories meet.

2025 Holiday Gift Guide From Those Who Make the Valley Shine - Inside + Out Upstate NY

From small-batch syrups and hand-thrown ceramics to luminous candles, cookbooks, and one-of-a-kind treasures, each pick reflects the thoughtfulness that defines life upstate.

Pocketbook Hudson - A Living Work of Art in a Historic Factory - Inside + Out Upstate NY

There’s a new hum in Hudson. It rises from a red-brick factory built in 1883 — once a pocketbook textile mill, now reborn as Pocketbook Hudson, a 70,000-square-foot sanctuary for art, design, and those who love both.

The Art of Gathering: By Course, By Heart - Curated by the Valley's Best - Inside + Out Upstate NY

There’s something special about a Hudson Valley Thanksgiving — a sense of slowness, gratitude, and connection that lingers like the scent of woodsmoke. Here, the feast isn’t just about food. It’s about the people who make it: the chefs, bakers, and artists who shape our table with care, intention, and a bit of wonder.

A Jewel Box in the Trees: Kate Cummings Reimagines the She-Shed - Inside + Out Upstate NY

Kate Cummings has designed some of the Hudson Valley’s most enviable homes—airy farmhouses, stone-walled estates, sprawling weekend compounds. Founder of Freestyle Restyle, she blends a contractor’s pragmatism with an editor’s instinct for color and texture, a gift she has honed since childhood in a family of interior designers, builders, and real estate developers, where blueprints were spread across the dining table as often as dinner plates.

The Invisible Eye: Past Lives, Present Shadows - Inside + Out Upstate NY

There are thrillers, and then there are metaphysical tales that hum with something otherworldly.

High Vibe, High Ground: Cannabis, Hudson Valley Style - Inside + Out Upstate NY

Sunlit fields, soulful growers, and counters alive with local connection.

BCMT Gallery: The Alchemy of Opposites - INSIDE + OUT Upstate NY

The Hudson Valley does something to you. The light sharpens, the air turns almost crystalline, and the land hums with its own frequency. Here, bridges rise like sculpture over the Hudson River, and the forest feels like a cathedral — all vaulted canopy and filtered gold. It’s a place that draws you in quietly, then keeps you.

A KITCHEN OF ONE’S OWN: REDEFINING DINING IN THE HUDSON VALLEY

Brushstrokes and Backroads: INSIDE+OUT's Guide to Upstate Art Weekend 2025 - Inside + Out Upstate NY

This July, barns become galleries, flower farms bloom with queer ecologies, and studios across the Hudson Valley open their doors in a joyous celebration of art and place. Inside + Out's top picks for Upstate Art Weekend 2025 are here-your invitation to roam, wonder, and discover art that feels truly alive.

Sophie Knight Tiedemann | Substack

Ex-beauty director turned full-time guinea pig-where science meets beauty savvy. I sift through what truly works-and call out the total BS-especially for fabulous women of a certain age. Let's play!

Property Pitch Proposal

Created detailed pitch proposals to show current market, team's strengths and capture and engage new clients

Real Estate Content

Promote Properties for Sale on Social

Ask Not Book Launch

Created Instagram account to accompany book launch

Shape Magazine

Artist Bio

Wrote artist bio and gallery details and executed all PR outreach for an upcoming show

Hair's Happiest Hour

Adaptagens

Five Beauty Care Myths Busted

As ethical consumers in the beauty industry, we have been fed an overload of jargon about how a 10-step skin-care line will solve all our problems or how the right shampoo can change our life. Turns out, much of this is not really accurate, is misconstrued, is misleading, or is sometimes just marketing nonsense.

Eternal Sunscreen of the safest kind

About Face

Spring Awakening

Summer Pop Hit

Five Ways to Travel Earth-Friendly and Eco-Chic

You don't have to compromise comfort or sacrifice style when you travel. Going green doesn't mean roughing it. Here are 6 tips for you to have a five-star getaway and be eco-chic, saving money, time, and the environment along the way.