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12/16/2025

On Wednesday, December 17 at 5:30 pm I am giving a talk for their Artist Toolbox Series titled Professional Presentation of your Work.

I will be discussing the practical skills needed to professionally present, document, and promote your work for opportunities such as exhibitions, residencies, and grants. I will discuss the importance of an artist’s website, statement, bio, CV, and images, as well as organizational tools to help manage your practice. Participants will gain a clear overview of how to present themselves professionally in order to gain exposure for their work. More info below:

Dec 17, 2025 at 5:30 pm

Garrison Art Center is launching an Artist Toolbox series—practical talks focused on the nuts and bolts of being a professional artist and maker—to help our community build skills that extend beyond the studio. This series offers conversations centered on the essential, real-world aspects of professional creative practice.

11/21/2025

Join me this weekend in Beacon for an artist talk with

SOLI PIERCE: unEARTHED
ARTIST TALK
Moderated by Karlyn Benson
Sunday, November 23, 2:00pm
BAU Gallery, 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY

I will be talking with Soli about her solo show and her artistic practice.

Inspired by the natural world’s inherent balance and mystery, Soli Pierce’s work bridges personal and environmental narratives and invites viewers to contemplate the interplay of origins, connectivity, and spiritual introspection. The exhibition includes sculptures created with reclaimed industrial materials, extracted petrified wood, and encaustics, as well as long-exposure landscape photographs and monoprints on handmade paper. Overall, her choice of materials and subject reflects her commitment to bring awareness to the disappearing natural world and climate issues.

11/08/2025

Opening this weekend: SOLI PIERCE: unEARTHED 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY
Opening reception November 8, 6-8pm

I helped prepare for her solo show by visiting her studio and discussing her work, assisting with the exhibition press release, and helping to lay out and install the show.

unEARTHED is an exhibition of new work inspired by the natural world’s inherent balance and mystery. Soli’s work bridges personal and environmental narratives and invites viewers to contemplate the interplay of origins, connectivity, and spiritual introspection. She presents sculptures created with reclaimed industrial materials, extracted petrified wood, and encaustics, as well as long-exposure landscape photographs, and monoprints on handmade paper beautifully framed by

Special event on Sunday, November 9, 11-11:30am, FREE
Join Lawrence Tan for a special movement meditation. The Shaman’s Circle, made up of gathered stones, is a space for spiritual movement and contemplative stillness. Movement, meditation and breathing connect us with the realms of Heaven and Earth. Learn this 3-minute practice that you can take home.

Also opening at BAU Gallery:
George Kimmerling and Linda Lauro-Lazin: Trace Element
Beacon Room: Daniel Berlin and Friends: Intermediaries

10/19/2025

Join me today in Beacon for
I will be checking in visitors for free tours this afternoon, and I helped install an exhibition of work by Bill Burns in the River Center.

Soon is Now, a climate and eco live performance & arts festival
October 19th, 1pm-5pm
Scenic Hudson’s Long Dock Park, Beacon, NY. Free.
Parking at the Metro North Train Station

Participating artists: Davalois Fearon Dance, jill sigman/thinkdance, Bill Burns, Edwin Torres, Stephen Vitiello, Mollie McKinley, Lori Merhige, Emilie Houssart, Bill Burns, Sibyl Kempson, Dee Beasnael, Sarah Willis, Lex Powell, Tom King,Pippa Brehm, Matthew Mottel, Nicole Lattuca, Twinkle Burke, Jojo Gonzalez, Climate Change Theatre Action.

Come to the park to sign up for an immersive walking tour of site specific works throughout the landscape at 2/2:30/3/3:30.

See an exhibition in The River Center by artist Bill Burns, participate in ‘Scribble Scores’ an art and music workshop in a Geodesic Dome for children & adults led by artists Matthew Mottel and Nicole Lattuca at 2pm, and join a special workshop “Mugwort Walk: Radical Kinship for a Future Earth,” by Amy White Eyes at 1pm or 2pm before your tour (free).

For more info

06/04/2025

ransome’s solo show opened last week and it was great to attend the reception.

@ ransomegart “So Fresh and So Clean, the New Negro”
May 29-July 13
Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY

ransome is the winner of the Pelham Art Center’s 13th Biennial Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting

I helped ransome write an exhibition statement for the show.

05/04/2025

Last day for an offering of gravity and grace in Beacon

Closing Reception: Performance & Artist Talk
May 4, 2-4 pm

Super Secret Projects
484 Main Street (enter through Hyperbole) Beacon, NY 12508

04/12/2025

Opening today, Saturday, April 12 in Beacon, a solo exhibition of photographs, video, and sculpture by that explores the endurance of the female body as a vessel of care, remembrance, and transformation.

I have been working with Elizabeth for the past few months to help prepare for her show and I installed her work in the gallery.

Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy an offering of gravity and grace
April 12 – May 4, 2025
Opening reception Saturday, April 12, 4–7 pm

Upcoming events and performances: River Ritual at Long Dock Park: Sunday, April 20, 12 – 12:30 pm Closing Performance and Artist Talk: Sunday, May 4, 2 – 4 pm

Super Secret Projects 484 Main Street, Beacon, NY (enter through Hyperbole)

Images:

1. Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy, Shall We Gather by the River, 2023, Archival inkjet print, 30 × 40 inches
2) Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy: an offering of gravity and grace, installation view

03/29/2025

Final weekend for ransome’s solo exhibition Dark Was the Night in Poughkeepsie. The show closes Sunday, March 30. I was fortunate to attend an artist talk last weekend (3/22) with and curator at at Vassar. Dark Was the Night was curated by .curator

The installation’s theme is the security of a warm home, ancestry, and the African American experience of migration. You can also see the show at night through the gallery’s windows.

I work with ransome on proposals, applications, and more.

03/15/2025

Opening today, March 15
Ellen Jouret-Epstein: SPACE/PLACE in Woodstock, NY
Artist talk: 3:00 pm
Opening reception: 4-5 pm

I helped prepare for her solo exhibition and installed her work at WAAM.

I am moderating an artist talk with Ellen today at 3:00 pm before the opening.

SPACE/PLACE includes a selection of the artist’s recent abstract collages that combine layering, contrast, texture, and movement.

Ellen Jouret-Epstein is a self-taught artist who first exhibited weavings in museums and galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the nascent fiber arts movement. She is also a landscape architect, and her work often features a kind of landscape or topography. Jouret-Epstein’s work has been included in group exhibitions at The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; ASK/Art Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY; Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY, Womenswork Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY; BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY, and more. She currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley.

03/08/2025

Final weekend for Greg Slick’s solo show Depth Perception

Thanks to everyone who has already visited and those who attended the artist talk last weekend. I am so proud of my husband ! ❤️

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12/16/2024

It's the last week to see Shigeko Kubota: Video Mirror in Chelsea. The solo exhibition of video sculptures by Shigeko Kubota (1937-2015) surveys the artist’s work pioneering video as an immersive medium.

Follow to learn more about this important artist.

I've been working with The Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation since January 2024 to assist with writing grants and applications, creating email newsletters, and more.

11/01/2024

It's the last weekend for Susan Walsh: I Could Save Time at Hudson Beach Glass Gallery in Beacon. The exhibition runs through Sunday, Nov 3, 2024.

creates paintings, sculptures, and photographs that mark time through observable changes in natural phenomena such as sun, wind, and rain.

I worked with Susan on her artist statement and press release, and I also helped to lay out and install her work.

Don't miss this wonderful show!

Hudson Beach Glass Gallery

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