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Upstate Art Weekend
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND (UPAW) is a connective annual event, for locals and tourists alike, celebrating the cultural vibrancy of Upstate New York. The fourth edition of UPAW will take place Friday, July 21, through Monday, July 24, 2023.
UPAW launched in 2020 with 23 participants, expanding to over 130 in 2023, welcoming thousands of visitors to the region each year. The participants are art organizations, galleries, museums, residencies, and creative projects.
UPAW compiles a program of events and a comprehensive google map, which garnered 255k+ views for the 2022 edition and continues to be used as a resource to discover the arts Upstate.
UPAW has been featured in The New York Times, artnet news, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Chronogram, Cool Hunting and Whitewall, among others.
Thank you to our previous participants and partners. If you’re interested in becoming a partner, please email us.
Please join our mailing list and follow @upstateartweekend to receive updates.
Moving Art, Moving Audiences: Nineteenth-Century Traveling Exhibitions and the Matter of Abolition
Register for this virtual webinar hosted by the Olana Partnership.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Americans faced a new way to encounter art: the traveling exhibition. Sculptures, panoramas, and paintings crisscrossed the country, appearing at venues that included exhibition and entertainment halls, galleries, reform societies, and fairs. During this virtual webinar, Caitlin Meehye Beach will explore the phenomenon of traveling exhibitions as they intersected a pressing concern of the day: the abolition of slavery. Following the publication of her 2022 book, Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery, this presentation focuses on three works in particular: Hiram Powers The Greek Slave, Henry “Box” Brown’s The Mirror of Slavery, and Frederic Edwin Church’s The Icebergs. Tune in to consider the mobilization of images to abolish slavery, and the regimes of race, sentiment, and spectacle that would be confronted in so doing.
Caitlin Meehye Beach is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Affiliated Faculty in African & African American Studies at Fordham University. Her teaching and research focus on transatlantic art histories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with special attention to the enduring effects of colonialism, slavery, migration, and racial capitalism. Published by University of California Press, Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery is her first book and a recipient of The Phillips Collection Book Prize.
Rhinebeck Fine Art Exhibition Opening Reception (in person)
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Gallery 40 is hosting a Rhinebeck Fine Art exhibition in the month of February 2023. Rhinebeck Fine Art represents a group of talented artists from Rhinebeck and its surrounding areas. The collective was formed in 2020 by artist Thomas Cale in an effort to give fellow creatives a platform to showcase their work through a virtual online gallery. Since inception, the group has expanded, and in addition to maintaining ongoing digital presence, Rhinebeck Fine Art has worked with local galleries to host art openings and exhibits at various physical locations throughout Dutchess County. The group meets regularly to exchange ideas, collaborate, and contribute to the art community.
Featured Artists: Joyce Arons Beymer, Jennifer Axinn-Weiss, Sean Bowen, Thomas Cale, Tarryl Gabel, Rosemary Hanson, Pat Hart, Betsy Jacaruso, Kate Kester, Nansi Lent, Ann Moring, Harvey L. Silver, Julia VanDevelder, Lisa Winika
Gallery 40, 40 Cannon, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4, 2023 5-7 pm
On display through February 26, 2023
Poughkeepsie High School Winter Concert (in person)
Lecture: “Caroline Clowes: How Poughkeepsie, the City of Schools, Nurtured an Artist” (in person)
“Drawn to Nature: The Sketches and Studies of Caroline Clowes.” by Caroline Culp; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at Vassar College.
The Members’ Show: Teen Visions X Barrett Art Center (in person)
During its nearly century-long lifetime, the Barrett Art Center’s mission was to foster and perpetuate an appreciation of the visual arts in the Hudson Valley region through exhibitions, education and preservation. Barrett’s programming engaged and supported our diverse community. Through the merger and support of Barrett Art Center’s membership, The Art Effect’s youth curatorial training program has successfully hosted, curated and exhibited more than a dozen exhibitions as well as hosted the first PKX Arts Festival establishing the beginning of a Youth Arts Empowerment Zone in Poughkeepsie, NY.
The Members’ show, including Teen Visions will take place at the Trolley Barn Gallery from November 18 – December 9, 2022 with an opening reception on Friday, November 18, 2022 from 5-7pm.
Veteran Art Showcase (in person)
The Veteran Arts Showcase is an annual event held at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park New York. The Showcase features visual artists, crafters, writers, poets, musicians, and performers who are active-duty military, veterans, or their family members. Exhibits, films, presentations and performances continue all weekend long. We especially encourage the civilian community to join us in celebration of current and former members of the Armed Forces and their families. This is more than just an Art Showcase!