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.
Remote Open Studio with Artist Hanna Washburn
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!
Thrive: Making a Career in the Arts (part 2)
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!
Panel Discussion for Kinship: The Inspiration of Artistic Connection curated by Ransome
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.
Celebrating the Sister Arts (part 2)
Please join the Loeb Student Advisory Committee for the virtual two-part event, Celebrating the Sister Arts. Past winners of the Sister Arts Poetry Prize will read their works on April 8th (register here) and all participants are invited to return the following week, April 15th, for an intimate writing workshop led by the Dutchess Poet Laureate, Raphael Kosek (VC `75), (register here). Students will be able to workshop their own poetry in time to submit their own pieces for the English Department’s Sister Arts Poetry Prize. In doing so, participants will connect and develop an enriching relationship not only with the art in the galleries but also with Vassar’s wonderful network of alumni/ae.
Journeys Toward Justice – Beyond the Dream
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
Beyond the Dream
In this session, we will explore how activists of the past and conscientious rappers of today used their words to encourage action. Dr. King talked about his dream, Langston Hughes wrote about a dream deferred. What does that mean today? How do the lyrics of Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar unite, encourage or motivate? Participants will consider how poetry and music can bring us together in conversations and help develop an action plan to address challenges in community.
Speakers:Sheryl Davis, Executive Director of the SF Human Rights Commission
Hosted by the University of San Francisco’s McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
Journeys Toward Justice – Public Art as a Form of Activism and Untold Narratives of BIPOC Voices
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
Public Art as a Form of Activism and Untold Narratives of BIPOC Voices
Brandan “BMike” Odums is a New Orleans-based visual artist who, through exhibitions, public programs, and public art works, is engaged in a transnational dialogue about the intersection of art and resistance. From film to murals to installations, Odums’ work encapsulates the political fervor of a generation of Black American activists who came of age amidst the tenure of the nation’s first Black president, the resurgence of popular interest in law enforcement violence, and the emergence of the self-care movement. Most often working with spray paint, Odums paints brightly-colored, wall-sized murals that depict historical figures, contemporary creatives, and everyday people. In his otherwise figurative work, Odums departs from realism to play with color – blending lavender to paint the skin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and robin’s egg blue for Harriet Tubman, for instance – suggesting an ethos of boldness that unites the subjects of his work and surpasses race, time, or any other aspect of physical reality. Join us for conversation with BMike and Fredrick “Wood” Delahoussaye, the Artistic Director at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center of New Orleans, as we explore the use of Public Art in all spaces.
Speakers: Brandan “BMike” Odums, Lead Artist & Curator and Studio BE, and Frederick “Wood” Delahoussaye, Artistic Director at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center
“Painting with Sunlight:” Imagery of Poughkeepsie & Its People by S.L. Walker, Daguerrist
The Dutchess County Historical Society presents an event on photography, Poughkeepsie, and its people. Soon after the invention of the daguerreotype, Samuel Lyon Walker was one of America’s first practitioners of this new art. His love and devotion to his craft ran deep and he was continually experimenting, even to the detriment of his health. Known for his great artistic taste, his images were considered some of the finest ever made. Though mostly unknown today, he was devoted to recording and promoting nineteenth century Poughkeepsie and its people.
Kirk Moldoff is a medical illustrator and animator with a passion for industrial archaeology, local history and cast iron stoves. His research into the work and life of Poughkeepsie’s S.L. Walker stems from an interest in the 19th Century Hudson Valley as a nexus for art, innovation and invention.
Performance and Artist Talk: The Plantings
Local Poughkeepsie artist, Suprina Sculpture, invites you to attend her first performance piece, titled The Plantings. This piece is part of a larger collaborative exhibition, “We Are The Forest,” located at Queen City 15 Gallery.
PoughETRY Fest
PoughETRY Fest will be held in the month of April (which is also known as Poetry Month) on Saturday the 24th, 2021, 12 pm to 8 pm EST. Curated by the 2017 & 2018 Dutchess County Poet Laureate – Poet Gold, in collaboration with the Cunneen Hackett Arts Center, PoughETRY Fest is a one-day festival, free and open to the public highlighting the art of poetry – both written and spoken, as well poets of the Hudson Valley and beyond. Spelled, PoughETRY, to signify where the Poet Gold resides, Poughkeepsie, NY in the Mid-Hudson Valley – PoughETRY Fest 2021, being mindful of social distancing requirements, will be a hybrid event with online programming and an in-person finale streamed Live on social media platforms.