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Glasshouse Artlifelab, 251 Springtown Road, New Paltz, NY (2026)

01/15/2026

We are excited to introduce ‘Framing Air’ as our annual theme of 2026, and the open calls at Glasshouse which are now live! Check it out (link in bio) and submit your proposal to join our 24h performance program, artist in vacancy offering or conversation lab.
“‘What is a window other than air framed by a molding?’ asks Clarice Lispector, describing a freedom defined by its borders. The word window comes from the Old Norse vindauga, meaning “wind-eye.” A window allows us to see air in motion—movement made visible through its frame. Lispector’s question lingers between openness and enclosure, possibility and limit.”

12/27/2025

Thank you for making 2025 such a memorable one. As 2026 enters, our hearts are full thanks to the amazing community that is making Glasshouse a vibrating performance offering. Thank you to all the artists who made this year so special,
thank you to the amazing board members who support our offering, thank you to all the hundreds of visitors and supporters; you are all the moons and stars of our humble project. We can’t wait to start a new year!
If you can, please make a tax deductable donation to support our GoFundMe campaign, help us build a permenant house for Glasshouse’s artist in residency project! Details in bio

11/05/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to support Glasshouse through our silent auction and for making the culminating event of Conversation Lab, To House a River a huge success!! And thank you to all the artists who donated and put in their time to create such a sensitive, dynamic and attuned time-based activation of 257!! Here’s to the power of community. 🩵🩵🩵🩵

10/28/2025

Alumni focus: Alison McNulty. She will be presenting a site specific work in “To House a River”, November 1st & 2nd, 2-5pm. She will also have work up for auction in the Shed!

Bio
Alison is showing a site-responsive arrangement of plywood panels she sculpted and weathered to replace the boarded-up windows of a condemned house as part of her project “House Project:Newburgh” at 39 S. Miller St, Newburgh. “House Project” was an extended residency with Newburgh Community Landbank’s Artist in Vacancy program in 2023.

Alison McNulty is an artist, educator, curator, and gallery director based in Newburgh, NY. Her interconnected roles serve a collective spirit of community and co-mentorship that tends to the margins, values diversity and nuance, and includes the non-human world. Alison’s interdisciplinary research across and outside the arts is characterized by a poetics that strives to weave intellectual rigor with the somatic and mysterious. Through ephemeral and site-responsive artwork, she works to reveal layered histories, ecological entanglements, beauty, violence, loss, and playful absurdities embodied in ordinary reclaimed materials and precarious places.

Alison’s work has been presented at museums, galleries, conferences, farms, historic sites, forests, performance spaces, and abandoned and neglected spaces throughout the US and in Europe and Columbia. Awards include the Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award from Washington University in St. Louis and the Empowered Artist Award from Arts Mid-Hudson, an Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Commission, residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Saltonstall Foundation, and STONELEAF Retreat. Alison is a Part-Time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design and Director of Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh.

Images:
Permitting Weather / Inviting Light (Stack)
plywood, pigment
2023-2025

10/28/2025

Alumni focus: Rita Leduc. She will be presenting a site specific work in “To House a River”, November 1st & 2nd, 2-5pm. And will have small works up for auction!

To House a River is the culminating project of this year’s Conversation Lab Fellowship co-organized by Lital Dotan and Shanti Grumbine and facilitated by Shanti Grumbine. Drawing on five months of conversations surrounding the theme ‘A Permit/To Permit,’ fellows, alumni, and co-hosts co-create an experimental conversation/exhibition that activates the abandoned Glasshouse site through installation, sound, and scent.

RITA LEDUC is an interdisciplinary artist whose creative relationship with ecosystems informs additional relationships on human and societal scales. Recent sites of engagement include Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (NH), MacLeish Field Station (MA), and Nantucket Harbor (MA). Leduc has taught, shown, and communicated her practice widely, including exhibitions, publications, courses, and events at the Museum of the White Mountains (NH), Syracuse University (NY), The Nature of Cities Festival (Berlin), and Art.Earth’s “Sentient Performativities” (Dartington Hall, UK), among others. Leduc has attended several residencies and received support from entities including NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, Atlas Obscura, Oika, and Rutgers University. She is founder and director of GROUNDWORK and a member of The Place Collective. She teaches in Rutgers University’s interdisciplinary program, Creative Expression and the Environment. Leduc received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

TITLE: Gestures of Acquaintance (The Abandoned House)

“Gestures of Acquaintance (The Abandoned House)” is a visual record of phenomenologies I experienced during my first intentional encounter with The Abandoned House. During this intersection of shared listening and participation, boundaries such as inside and outside, self and other, and time and space dissolved, breathing permission into an idiosyncratic–yet familiar–relational space of limitless potential

10/25/2025

Community showing up to help us with construction while smashing some walls and pulling some strings. Come to our fundraiser and silent auction next week, Nov 1+2, 2-5pm
We’ll be offering works by Millicent Young, Spencer Tunick, Koyoltzintli, Sarah E. Brook, Lital Dotan, Kerry Downey, Alexis Elton, Shanti Grumbine, Rita Leduc, Alison McNulty, Andrea Frank, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, and more!

10/23/2025

Artist focus: Alexis Elton. She will be presenting a site specific work in “To House a River”, November 1st & 2nd, 2-5pm.

To House a River is the culminating project of this year’s Conversation Lab Fellowship co-organized by Lital Dotan and Shanti Grumbine and facilitated by Shanti Grumbine. Drawing on five months of conversations surrounding the theme ‘A Permit/To Permit,’ fellows, alumni, and co-hosts co-create an experimental conversation/exhibition that activates the abandoned Glasshouse site through installation, sound, and scent.

BIO

Alexis Elton is an artist working with site-as-material to form connections with plants, soil, and other living beings. Her work creates ephemeral sensory encounters where art and agrarian systems meet. Committed to exploring place, her work continues to take form through native seed-saving initiatives, farm and art education programs, and food production. Merging everyday tasks of land-based living with studio art sensibility, she creates opportunities to experience the natural world through physical labor, slowness, and the senses.

Alexis earned a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has shown her work internationally and nationally including Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India; 5 x 5, Washington, DC; Kingston Sculpture Biennale, Kingston, and NY; 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM. She has received awards from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, NYFA, and American Museum of Natural History, among others. Alexis lives in the Hudson Valley, NY

Image Info:
Encounters with Marigold, turmeric dyed fiber scented with marigold, in collaboration with Erin Daily, 2023

10/22/2025

Artist focus: Koyoltzintli. She will be presenting a site specific work in “To House a River”, November 1st & 2nd, 2-5pm.

To House a River is the culminating project of this year’s Conversation Lab Fellowship co-organized by Lital Dotan and Shanti Grumbine and facilitated by Shanti Grumbine. Drawing on five months of conversations surrounding the theme ‘A Permit/To Permit,’ fellows, alumni, and co-hosts co-create an experimental conversation/exhibition that activates the abandoned Glasshouse site through installation, sound, and scent.

Koyoltzintli is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in Ultser County, New York. She was raised on the Pacific coast and in the Andean mountains of Ecuador. Her work revolves around sound, ancestral technologies, ritual, and storytelling, blending collaborative processes with personal narratives.

Image: Detail from solo show, Canto Hondo, The Deep Song, 2023

10/21/2025

“To House a River” is the culminating project of this year’s Conversation Lab Fellowship co-organized and facilitated by Shanti Grumbine. Drawing on five months of conversations surrounding the theme ‘A Permit/To Permit,’ fellows, alumni, and co-hosts co-create an experimental conversation/exhibition that activates the abandoned Glasshouse site through installation, sound, and scent.

Bio:
Sarah E. Brook (b. 1981, Reno, NV) builds public artworks, sculptures and installations as both perceptual explorations and abstract narratives of identity. They have exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York: Lesley Heller, NY; Field Projects, NY; NARS, NY; Ground Floor Gallery, NY and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, among others. New York solo exhibitions include Open Source Gallery, Turley Gallery, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, The Vanderbilt Republic and Greenpoint Gallery. Brook was also included in the 2019 BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer and Jennifer Gerow. They were awarded the Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellowship, the Media Arts Fellowship from BRIC, and residencies from Montello Foundation, Stove Works, Marble House Projects, I-Park, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Jentel Foundation, Playa and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Select public artworks and large-scale commissions include: Viewfinding, a year-long installation and collaboration with q***r poets, Riverside Park, NY, 2018-2019; Align, a permanent sculpture in Crystal Park, NY, 2019; Reach, Source, Level, a permanent work at City Harvest, a food justice organization in New York, 2022; and The Need You Know It Is A Letting Light, Lena Horne Bandshell, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2022-2023, commissioned by BRIC. Brook currently lives and works in New York.

Info for images:
Align, enamel on glass, steel, 10’ x 2’ x 19’, 2019. Permanent installation at Crystal Park in Holmes, NY.

10/20/2025

To House a River is the culminating project of this year’s Conversation Lab Fellowship. Drawing on five months of conversations surrounding the theme ‘A Permit/To Permit,’ fellows, alumni, and co-hosts co-create an experimental conversation/exhibition that activates the abandoned Glasshouse site through installation, sound, and scent. This site-specific ephemeral show offers a glimpse into the process, with works spread throughout the house using wild clay, scents, salt, ice, paper, reclaimed wood, sounds, glass, and embodying the river. The fellows explore cultural and systemic limitations on who has access to what and why, and how normative cultural frameworks shape how we see, move, feel, and hear.

Bio

Kerry Downey (b. Ft. Lauderdale, 1979) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Kingston, New York. Their practice explores embodied forms of experiencing, knowing, and transforming the world. Downey has exhibited at the Underdonk Gallery (New York, NY), Bard CCS / Hessel Museum (Annandale, NY); Queens Museum (Flushing, NY); Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY), Kate Werble (New York, NY); University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ), and Cooper Cole (Toronto, CA). Downey’s book, We collect together in a net, was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2019. They are a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and they participated in the Queer|Art|Mentorship program (paired with Angela Dufresne). Artist-in-residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME; Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, NY; the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions, New York, NY; and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Their work has been in Artforum and The Washington Post and their writing has been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Art Journal Open. Downey holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College. Downey is currently Guest faculty in Visual and Studio Arts at Sarah Lawrence College.

image info:
Kerry Downey, Is It Raining In Your Bedroom, 2025, still from single channel video

10/15/2025

To House a River is the culminating project of this year’s Conversation Lab Fellowship. Drawing on five months of conversations surrounding the theme ‘A Permit/To Permit,’ fellows, alumni, and co-hosts co-create an experimental conversation/exhibition that activates the abandoned Glasshouse site through installation, sound, and scent. This site-specific ephemeral show offers a glimpse into the process, with works spread throughout the house using wild clay, scents, salt, ice, paper, reclaimed wood, sounds, glass, and embodying the river. The fellows explore cultural and systemic limitations on who has access to what and why, and how normative cultural frameworks shape how we see, move, feel, and hear.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Glasshouse will be hosting a fundraiser with a silent auction at our Shed in the adjacent property at 251 Springtown Rd.

Conversation Lab was co-created by Lital Dotan and Shanti Grumbine. It was born out of a need for in-person connection, communion, and discourse in reaction to the isolation of the pandemic and the disembodiment of the internet. We are interested in the various artistic, personal, pedagogical, legal, and civic performances of conversation and how the vibrational space between is a seed for belief, movement, delineation, compromise, and invention.

07/23/2025

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