Grace Smith House has been serving our community, for forty-two years. In 1981, Grace Smith House opened its first door. Now, for over four decades, courageous, compassionate and empowered women and men have stepped across the threshold and received the support they needed to stop the cycle of domestic violence in their lives. To attend …
QUIET AS IT’S KEPT is an exhibition of contemporary Black art that explores the depths of Black expression, translating its complex aesthetic dialect and demonstrating that Black art is as unique as Black people. We are healing by recognizing ourselves as art, as worthy of art, and as part of an indelible system of artistic …
Join Poet Gold as she talks with Joel Bergner, a community artist whose large-scale murals can be found in 30 countries across 5 continents, painted in his signature style combining intimate portraits of local residents, vibrant color palettes and small details that draw the viewer in to experience multiple levels of meaning. His elaborate murals …
Create a still life of the object of your choosing at this "paint and sip"-style event! Participants will use sentimental objects to form a meaningful community tableau in this workshop led by exhibiting artist and local educator, Melissa Small Cooper. Learn more about upcoming events here. Community members who drop off objects will be encouraged …
The Trolley Barn Gallery offers guided group tours on the First Friday in November. Poughkeepsie’s First Friday is a city-wide celebration held monthly from 5:30–8:30pm, when shops, galleries, and community spaces stay open late to engage with communities that may not have access during usual business hours. Groups can sign up ahead of time or …
Visit the Victorian Gallery of the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center at 9 Vassar Street for an art opening reception for Arlene Seymour, whose expressive semi-abstract watercolor, gouache, ink and acrylic pieces are based on her inner imagination and photographs of colorful landscapes and figures. Visit the Reception Gallery of the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center at 12 Vassar …
As part of the quiet as it’s kept exhibition and as a method of sharing knowledge with our community, the Trolley Barn Gallery youth curators host a panel of local wellness organizations to speak on movement, food literacy, language justice, and mental wellness.