Untethered Creatures:
bodies of emergent lore

Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition 2025

William PK Carter | Ana Maria Farina | Bridget Vasquez

September 27, 2025 - November 23, 2025
Saturdays & Sundays 1:00 - 5:00 pm
& by appointment

Opening Reception
Saturday September 27, 4:00-6:00pm
(Remarks 5:00pm)

Newburgh Open Studios
Extended hours, with the artists



Gallery Talks
Saturday October 18, 2:00pm

Exhibition and events are free & open to the public

Learn more about our 2025 Fellows here and our robust Fellowship Program here.

William PK Carter

William PK Carter is a quilter and puppet artist based in Central Valley, New York. She bridges the puppet and fine art worlds by fabricating wondrous creatures that exist at the intersection of queerness and blackness. Following in the footsteps of Black American and Caribbean quilters, Carter’s work serves as a documentation of the current state of our world and provides her own insight into traversing it. She tells stories of finding community- of longing for love- of performing identity- of metamorphosis- of internalized shame- and of being a spectacle. Her work communicates these vulnerable and intense themes by presenting them as beautiful universal truths. Carter believes that human beings are larger and more abstract than their bodies appear to be, and her work gives physicality to that unseen extensivity. Creating works of fantasy allows the audience to relate to other worldly characters, encouraging them to identify with creatures that don't physically resemble themselves.

https://williampkcarter.com/
@baeslleaf

Ana Maria Farina

Ana Maria Farina is a Brazilian artist now based in the Hudson Valley, New York. She conjures art-objects that inhabit a mystical space between abstraction and representation, where painting, sculpture, and textile meet. Ana is attracted by the creature-like, mythological parts of being human and the untamed primordial wilderness we are taught to suppress. Each piece is a tactile exploration of the hidden and the intangible, inviting viewers to connect with both the familiar and the mysterious.

Working in wool, ceramics, and natural dyes provenient from her home allows Ana to bring a sense of grounding and to honor her ancestry of Brazilian craftswomen while working on themes of psychoanalysis and our internal battles of constraint, repression, and release. Through texture, form, and color, she brings forth a world that is at once comforting and unfamiliar, where the lines between the physical and psychological are softly blurred.

The works in this exhibition are Ana’s first exploration of free-standing sculptures in wool and ceramics. She includes hand-dyed wool, most of which derives its color from plants from her home, Brasil. One of these sculptures, bicho pau-brasil, is a direct reference to the work of Lygia Clark but uses wool dyed with brazilwood and ceramic instead of metal. There is also an installation created through the ancient technique of wetfelting in which the artist lays raw, naturally dyed wool on a surface and, by creating friction, tangles the fibers  to form a fabric. The works on display come together as fragments of a ritual of acknowledging, releasing, banishing, and becoming.

https://www.anamafarina.com/
@anamafarina

Bridget Vasquez

Bridget Vasquez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Newburgh, NY, whose practice centers on acrylic painting while extending into printmaking, sculpture, wearable art, and scenic design. Vasquez brings a material curiosity and visual intensity to her work, navigating themes of transformation, girlhood, and diaspora through richly textured surfaces, saturated palettes, and symbolic forms. Influenced by folklore, medieval iconography, and organic structures, Vasquez constructs visual narratives that feel both ancient and immediate. Her compositions frequently feature imposing vessels, layered textures, and evocative shapes, offering a tactile exploration of identity and cultural memory.

https://batstonguearts.com/
@batstongue

Emerging Artist Fellowship:
Safe Harbors' Ann Street Gallery programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and with funding from the Cowles Charitable Trust, Dominican Sisters of Hope, and the M&T Charitable Foundation. The Emerging Artist Fellowship is made possible with support from the TD Charitable Foundation.