Bethany Arts Community

06/01/2026

Drink & Draw with us this Thursday 🍺🖋️

In this non-instructional event, we aim to create a relaxing, social and inclusive environment for the community to come together for a fun night of drawing. From beginners to seasoned artists — never tried figure drawing? Drink & Draw is for you!

Thursday June 4, 7-9:30PM
w/ host Peter Leeds Studio
Bring your own art supplies. BYOB. Ages 21+.

Click below to register (does fill up! we recommend you register in advance).

We will have a figure model for 2.5 hours posing for the group. Bring your own art supplies. BYOB. Any and all mediums are encouraged!

05/29/2026

05/29/2026

Join us in welcoming the first cohort of our 2026 Emerging Artist Fellows, Jayna and Gabrielle Deacon!

Our 4th Annual Emerging Artist Fellowship welcomes four artists for 15 weeks each to Bethany. This fellowship provides time, space, and support as emerging artists develop their creative practice, establish professional relationships, and expand their artistic networks.

✨ Jayna Dias ✨ is a Senegalese-American visual artist and performer that creates works rooted in the complexity of the Black diaspora. Through drawings, paintings, and the body, Dias creates visual exemplifications of the intricacy of Black identity, Western colonialism’s intervention on it, and how deconstruction can be a powerful tool in reasserting it. Her work investigates themes of misogynoir, cultural hybridity, and fetishization channeled through lived experiences, family lineage, and academic research. Unstable compositions, expressionistic figures, boisterous colors, and found materials are all utilized in her practice to stage invitations for viewers to engage with the underrepresented themes she depicts. Above all, Dias’ practice is about visibility.

✨ Gabrielle Deacon ✨ is a studio artist and illustrator based in Appalachian Ohio. Her work revolves around social critiques of her experiences, utilizing mixed media in order to discuss a range of subjects from the trauma of digitalization to the food service industry. These experiences are not only her own but belong to many, and it is her intention to connect with community and viewers
through research and visual exploration.

This fellowship is generously supported by The New York Community Trust – Westchester.

05/28/2026

Our favorite month of the year is ARTober and our biggest day of this year is ARTober 3!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS and join us in ARTober for interactive art projects from BAC Artists-in-Residence and Studio Artists, live music, pumpkin carving, food, and much much more. ARToberfest is a magical & creative day for ALL ages.

🍁 BAC's 7th Annual ARToberfest
📅 ARTober 3, 11AM-4PM (rain date ARTober 4)
🎟️ $15 per car

Join us us October 3rd, 2026 for music, art, crafts, food and family fun! Purchase of parking pass is required & space is limited.

05/27/2026

Community Post! 🐝

Celebrate the remarkable story of how a community learned to care for its own.

From Spiritual Care to Modern Care:
How Ossining Learned to Heal Itself
Presented by Ossining Village Historian, Joyce Sharrock Cole

📅 Thursday, June 11, 7PM
🏥 at Open Door’s new home (2 Church Street, Ossining)
🎟️ Admission is free, and all are welcome

REGISTER HERE: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/fh4v736/lp/05bf1240-dcfc-43ed-9ca9-78284cc525b6

Through powerful storytelling and live performances by local actors, the program will trace the journey from early spiritual care and home remedies to the creation of modern community health services. Along the way, it will honor the individuals and moments that shaped this legacy of care, including the founding and growth of Open Door Care Network.

This event is a meaningful way to celebrate both our nation’s 250th anniversary and Open Door’s half century of service. Healing has always been strongest when communities come together with compassion and purpose.

05/27/2026

We had a blast ✨🎉 last night at the Opening Reception of Art Concepts, a Conceptual Art Exhibition curated by Tamarah Fernandez-Bridgewater. In the Galleries now through June 6.

Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday 10AM-4PM
Closed Sundays

Conceptual Art is thinking and sharing outside the box. "Art Concepts" is a platform where an idea is not only a visual but is an opportunity for thought to be encountered.

Participating Artists
Osei Essed, Burnham Essed, Ron Whitehead, Anna Adler, Mandi Olivieri, Vernon M. Byron, Simone Rene, Deborah Silberberg, Katarina Hoeger, Marcy B. Freedman, Howard Fleischer, Jackie Arevalo Carrillo, Haley Druskin, Inez Andrucyk Zychal, Jeremy Starpoli, Melissa Helal, Jessica Irons, Barbara Lalicki, and Tamarah Fernandez-Bridgewater.

Presented by ENU Builds Community-Empower, Network, Uplift. Supported by friends & community ArtsWestchester & & Bethany Arts Community

05/22/2026

NEXT UP IN THE GALLERIES:
✨ Art Concepts, a Conceptual Art Exhibition ✨
Curated by Tamarah Fernandez-Bridgewater

📅 Exhibit Dates: May 26 – June 6
🎉 Opening Reception: Tuesday May 26, 6:30-8:30PM

Creatives think differently, deeply, and question happenings. This process informs their work and also engages the viewer to join the conversation.

Art Concepts — Conceptual Art Exhibition is a platform where an idea is not only a visual but is an opportunity for thought to be encountered. A manifestation of creative perspectives seen through the artist’s intentionality of process.

ArtsWestchester ENU Builds Community-Empower, Network, Uplift ArtinaBoxCo

05/22/2026

Don't miss our last session before summer! 🎨🎭 ☀️

Little Explorers Studio nurtures curiosity, creativity, and self-expression through hands-on arts & crafts, performing arts, storytelling, reading and collaborative play. For ages 5-8, we encourage self-discovery, critical thinking, and unity, all while building important skills such as literacy, problem-solving, confidence and communication.

📅 Saturday June 13
⏰ 10AM-12PM
*Registration required by Friday June 12 at 3PM*

➡️ REGISTER: https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/lesjune1326/

Taught & created by local Ossining educator Katrina Holmes.

05/21/2026

This April, Raja Feather Kelly and the feath3r theory joined us in residence for three weeks. Each residency group that comes through Bethany is unique. These artists were fiercely kind, generous, focused, supportive of one another and the values we hold at Bethany, and just so joyful. We loved hosting you.

Find out more about DOOMSCROLLERS on the web here: https://thefeath3rtheory.com/a-body-of-dangerous-ideas

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05/19/2026

Each day at Bethany Kids CREATE, kids participate in multidisciplinary arts, theater, movement, music and nature adventures.

A core element of CREATE is a community art project in which kids collaborate to build an art installation that becomes a part of Bethany's architecture. Use outside the box thinking (literally!) to to make art!

Session I: August 3-7, 2026 9AM-3PM
Session II: August 10-14, 2026 9AM-3PM
Session III: August 17 - 21, 2026 9AM-3PM

For ages 6-11 (entering 1st-6th grade)
🔗 Spots are filling up fast — sign up here: https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/category/create-camp/

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