Join the City of Poughkeepsie Public Arts Commission Meeting. On the agenda:
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.
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
Late Night at the Loeb Art Center presents a panel conversation about Moving Stories: Lives Transformed by Dance. The film documents six dancers across four countries in a New York-based company, which empowers at-risk youth to share their stories through dance. All are welcome! This is a virtual event. After registering for this virtual event, attendees will be given temporary access to the full film.
Fall Kill Creative Works invites you to attend a Remote Open Studio with Hanna Washburn, an artist and curator based in Beacon, NY. Hanna makes compound sculptural forms using recycled clothing, textiles, and found objects. Hanna is interested in material memory, the body, and craft practices.
This is a virtual event where attendees can tour Hanna’s studio and learn about sculpture practice! You are welcome to stay the entire time, or drop in for a little while. These sessions are a community space for makers to work on projects together!
This FREE event is brought to you by Arts Mid-Hudson in partnership with The Mid-Hudson Career Consortium. The program is designed for students to hear about the types of employers who hire artists as well as learn how to make a career in the arts. Some of the organizations participating will also speak to internships or positions that they may be offering. The format will begin with a brief roundtable introduction of the employers and artists and then students will have the opportunity to meet, and network with professionals and ask questions in 1:1 or small group break-out rooms.
Panelists include: Orange County Arts Council, Opus 40, Shadowland Stages, Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Foundation, Albany Center Gallery, Woodstock Film Festival, New York Stage and Film, Woodstock Art Association & Museum, OPositive Festival, DIA: Beacon, R & F Paint, Art Therapist Allison Miskulin, and more!
Join Arts Mid-Hudson (virtually) for a panel discussion for Kinship: The Inspiration of Artistic Connection curated by Ransome.
Painters Steven Cozart (artist, educator, and documentarian), Philemona Williamson (a narrative painter who has shown widely in the United States and abroad), Tracy Hayes (work has been shown and is in collections throughout the Northeast), Jenny Nelson (abstract painter and a painting instructor), and Ransome (works included in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African- American Art) will be discussing 21st Century Painting moderated by Laura Domencic, the executive Director of the Erie Art Museum in Pennsylvania as our moderator.
Exhibiting Artists: Corina Alvarezdelugo, Deborah Read Belguendouz, Steve Cabral, Steve Cozart, Deborah Davidson, Robert Freeman, Edi Friedlander, Tracy Hayes, Alex Jackson, Joel Longenecker, Jenny Nelson, Ruby Palmer, Ransome, Deborah Roberts, Peter Rostovsky, Ben Sloat, Molly Snee, Laurel Sparks , Tara Tamaribuchi, Oliver Wasow, Deb Todd Wheeler, Philemona Williamson
Free & Open to the Public.
