Open Opportunity at Ann Street Gallery

We are pleased to announce that applications are open for our fifth annual Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellowship. The program provides a supportive platform for early-career or under-recognized artists in Newburgh and the Hudson Valley, with a focus on artists from historically marginalized communities. The fellowship provides three artists with opportunities for mentorship, networking, and professional development as well as a $2000 USD materials and supplies allowance, a shared studio space on site, a cohort exhibition in the gallery during Newburgh Open Studios, opportunities to engage with the public, and individual guidance toward identifying goals and further opportunities.



Fellowship program Info Session: Wednesday, February 18 from 6:00-7:00 PM.
Join the Zoom meeting HERE.

Learn more about the program and application process
HERE.

Introducing Guest Curator, Edwin Torres

Ann Street Gallery is thrilled to announce Edwin Torres as the guest curator of our spring group exhibition, (your) body is a porous language, opening with a reception on Saturday April 11 from 4:00-6:00pm and running through May 31.

Edwin Torres is a Nuyorican poet and performance artist known for his innovative, multi-sensory approach to poetry, seeking our possibilities for connection by investigating our entry into language. A multidisciplinary poet, rooted in the languages of sight and sound, Torres is interested in the physicality of language, as a permeable territory traveled between us, infinite with mistake and wonder. His performances blend vocal improvisation, physical movement, and audience interaction. Born in the Bronx, Torres is an adjunct poetry professor at Columbia University currently living in Beacon, NY.

Torres is the author of multiple books of poetry, including Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books, awarded an American Book Award), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books), Ameriscopia (University of Arizona), with a new book forthcoming this fall Feel Recordings In The Evershift (Wave Books). He is also the editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). He has been awarded fellowships from NYSCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Arts MidHudson and NYFA among others. He's presented his bodylingo poetics worldwide and locally at the Soon Is Now climate festival among others. His work has been widely anthologized in volumes including New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives, Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Torres’ visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art, White Box, EFA Gallery in NYC, and a graphic retrospective Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin Torres at the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago. His sound recordings include Sublingual Infinities, with sound artist Stephen Vitiello, and his own CD Holy Kid, which was included in the Whitney Museum’s exhibit The Last American Century Pt. II. Torres has collaborated with artists across a variety of media and has taught process-oriented creativity workshops across the nation titled, “Brainlingo: Writing The Voice Of The Body”.

Legendary poet Alice Notley writes, "To know two languages is to be aware of how very many there are inside anyone, Torres insists on using all the languages he knows." And writer and scholar Juliana Spahr notes, "Edwin Torres is our 21st Century Mayakovsky."

Torres has previously performed at Safe Harbors of the Hudson’s Literary Festival and was commissioned to write and perform new work for Ann Street Gallery’s inaugural Artist Researcher in Residence program, From the Ground UP. His piece for the exhibit, Burial Chant: did you in your life leave any wonder behind, was recorded and presented in the gallery and online project archive, available at the link in the gallery's bio.

Stay tuned for more details on our spring exhibition in the coming weeks and follow Torres @Brainlingo_

http://www.brainlingo.com