The Art of Portraiture: Representing oneself or a subject through a creative medium involves more than merely capturing a likeness. These often surprising but always revealing works reflect physical, emotional, and even spiritual connections that can inform and challenge expectations. Queen City 15 Gallery is presenting the artists interpretation of this theme with traditional and nontraditional approaches. Whether artist, subject, or observer, everyone has a story.
Exhibition runs: July 2 through 31
Opening Reception: Saturday July 3, 4:00 to 6:00pm
For the 14th annual Hudson Valley Artists exhibition, curated by Helen Toomer, we invited artists to submit artwork that deals with the challenges of the past year and the re-imaginings of years to come, responding to the question “Who really cares?” asked by Marvin Gaye fifty years ago on the monumental album, “What’s Going On.”
The exhibition begins July 7 and continues until November 14, 2021. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm
August hours: Weekends only. Suggested $5 donation.
Read more about it here!
The Barrett Art Center is pleased to announce a group exhibition: “Slipping Over The Dark Hills: A Retrospective of Eric Lindbloom, Nancy Willard and Judith Lindbloom.”
Curated by James Lindbloom and Sasha Louis Bush, the exhibition interweaves photographs, sculptures and paintings – and includes many rarely seen works.
Join the City of Poughkeepsie Public Arts Commission Meeting. On the agenda:
- Trash truck painting
- Whale sculpture update
- Historic bridges of the Hudson Valley project
- Public Art Policy discussion
- Dutchess County Urban Trail outreach
- Upcoming gallery exhibitions and events
View the detailed agenda here.
Register here!
Since 2015, Poughkeepsie Open Studios has been a popular and unique experience for art enthusiasts to personally interact with the many talented artists who live, work, and/or teach in our area. Open Studios is a two day self guided tour of local art galleries, arts organizations, and artist’s studios in the historic City of Poughkeepsie, NY. Attendees to this event are afforded the opportunity to visit artist venues – studios, galleries, arts organizations, and temporary “pop-up” spaces – and explore the creative processes, inspirations and types of modalities employed by participating artists as well as take in the rich history of Poughkeepsie, the broad cultural diversity of our community, and the beauty of the Hudson River Valley.
The 2021 Poughkeepsie Open Studios will once again be held on Father’s Day Weekend but will not be the large-scale weekend event of the past. Art galleries, arts organizations, and art studio locations will include multiple in-person artists along with limited artist “pop-up” space available.
Join the Poughkeepsie arts community Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20, for an enjoyable, softer, gentler, and safe experience that will be enriching for one and all!
Visit the POK Open Studios website to stay tune with the list of locations!
Since 2015, Poughkeepsie Open Studios has been a popular and unique experience for art enthusiasts to personally interact with the many talented artists who live, work, and/or teach in our area. Open Studios is a two day self guided tour of local art galleries, arts organizations, and artist’s studios in the historic City of Poughkeepsie, NY. Attendees to this event are afforded the opportunity to visit artist venues – studios, galleries, arts organizations, and temporary “pop-up” spaces – and explore the creative processes, inspirations and types of modalities employed by participating artists as well as take in the rich history of Poughkeepsie, the broad cultural diversity of our community, and the beauty of the Hudson River Valley.
The 2021 Poughkeepsie Open Studios will once again be held on Father’s Day Weekend but will not be the large-scale weekend event of the past. Art galleries, arts organizations, and art studio locations will include multiple in-person artists along with limited artist “pop-up” space available.
Join the Poughkeepsie arts community Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20, for an enjoyable, softer, gentler, and safe experience that will be enriching for one and all!
Visit the POK Open Studios website to stay tune with the list of locations!
Join Arts Mid-Hudson for a virtual discussion with New York based Puerto Rican singer, filmmaker, and activist, Taína Asili. Asili’s powerful vocals carry themes of social justice with an energetic fusion of Afro-Latin, reggae, and rock. Her music exudes strength of spirit and inspires audiences to dance to the rhythm of rebellion.
RSVP here!
Arts Mid-Hudson presents a virtual event: “Poets Respond to Art,” which features 14 poets and 14 visual artists in our third annual celebration of National Poetry Month. The participating poets have selected a piece of visual art to respond to through their own work.
Participating Poets:
Pat Churchill, Janet Hamill, Wendy Insinger, Mike Jurkovic, Mary Louise Kiernan, Melanie Klein, Penelope Levine, Linda McCauley Freeman, Kirsten Meehan, Cathy Schmitz, Matthew J. Spireng, Lisa St John, Adriana Tampasis, and Rebecca Watkins
Participating Visual Artists:
Mary Altobelli, Lauren Basciani, YouYe Chu, Felicidad Dukes, Stacie Flint, Jerome Goldberg, Susan Hennelly, Rachel Kleinman, Maureen Lohan-Bremer, Julie Mihaly, Robert Oehl, Rita Sherry, Pamela Wallace, and Crystal Yang
Free & Open to the Public but please RSVP.
Learn more about the Hudson River School with The Walkway and the Loeb Art Center!
When the doors of Vassar College opened in 1865, it already possessed an enormous collection of Hudson River School of American Painting. On display in a specially-designed art gallery were hundreds of works by many of the movement’s leading artists, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Church, Jasper Cropsey, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Today, they can be viewed in an intimate suite of galleries at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, as well as in a new 3D Virtual Exhibition that will help to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these remarkable early depictions of the American landscape. Learn more about these works at this Walkway Talk, presented by Bart Thurber, the Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
