One only Earth, One only Sky

a multisensory workshop with clay, breath, and touch
with exhibiting artist, Bel Falleiros

Saturday, August 16, 2025
2:00 - 3:30pm
Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street

Free & Open to the Public
RSVP required to annstreetgallery@safe-harbors.org
Limited Space Available

In a hands-on workshop we will use a multisensory clay exercise to investigate how to open space inside ourselves so we can relate better to what is around us. Can clay, silence, breath and darkness teach us about listening? In a safe environment we will experiment with different forms of experiencing art, artmaking, and ways of sharing knowledge in an embodied way, guided by our touch, scent, and inner self.

Guided by the Guarani word “Edjapyxaka” (shared by the Guarani Mbya educator and filmmaker Carlos Papa), the workshop and artworks presented by Bel Falleiros relate to the necessary gesture of going to the darkness and to silence (or getting off the light or the noise) as a technology to better listen and to better understand our inner self and what is around us. Like the exhibition, etheReality, this is a reminder that the breath, the air or the cosmos are constant presences and signal our interconnectedness: a crucial understanding for our moment of social and environmental collapse.

In ungrounded and restless times like ours, art and embodied knowledge can be powerful and simple tools for changing our fast and destructive way of doing things.  This is a workshop about remembering that we already have what is needed to walk gentler on the earth and to remember our interconnectedness. We just have to make space for these things, like the space we will open in the clay during the workshop, or the space we open in our lungs in every (deep) breath, or the restorative dream space we get with a full night of rest.  The workshop is an invitation for all of us to be part of a necessary regenerative force and care for our inner self, each other, and the earth.

Bel Falleiros is a Brazilian artist whose practice focuses on place and belonging. She creates immersive welcoming spaces to be in community with nature, with our inner being and the beings around us. She is a fellow artist of Sacatar Institute (2014), Pecos National Park (2016), Burnside Farm, Detroit (2017), Santa Fe Art Institute (2018/2025), Socrates Sculpture Park (2020), More Art (2021) and Wave Hill (2023). She was a Dia:Beacon artist-in-residence for their Teens Program (2021-2) and had a commissioned piece for the 37o Panorama of Brazilian Art at MAM-SP (2022). Her recent solo show at KinoSaito (2024) presented a retrospective of works made in the past 7 years. She will be one of the Recess Art Session program artists in the Spring of 2026. In addition to her studio practice, she participates in collaborative projects across the Americas connecting art, community, education and autonomous thinking.

belfalleiros.com.br

@bel.falleiros

Artist Dialogs:
Ghost of a Dream & Jason Mitcham

Artist presentations and conversation with exhibiting artists in etheReality, from breath to air, and back


Saturday, August 23, 2025
2:00 - 3:30pm
Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street

Free & Open to the Public

Please join us in the gallery for slide presentations from Ghost of a Dream and Jason Mitcham as they offer a deeper look into their creative practices and the ways they relate to the themes and questions guiding the exhibition, etheReality: from breath to air, and back.

Presentations will be followed by a conversation with curator and gallery director, Alison McNulty, including a Q&A with the audience.

Ghost of a Dream is the collaborative project of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom founded in 2008. Ghost of a Dream's work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, MassArt Art Museum, Ackland Art Museum, Hunterdon Art Museum, and at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and in group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum, Courtauld Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Frist Center for Visual Arts, The Mint Museum, Museum of Craft and Design, and The Textile Museum of Canada among other venues.

Ghost of a Dream has received support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Artist Resource Trust, Jerome Foundation. They received the first annual Young Masters Art Prize in London and have participated in artist residencies in Berlin, Basel, Beijing, France, and at venues throughout the US including Bemis Center, ISCP, Smack Mellon, Wassaic Project, the Joan Mitchell Foundation AIR in New Orleans, and Elsewhere Museum. They will attend the Rauschenberg Foundation AIR in 2024. Ghost of a Dream’s work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic, BlouinArtinfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, and World of Interiors.

ghostofadream.com

@ghostofadreamart

Jason Mitcham is a visual artist whose work spans painting, drawing and stop motion animation. He has held solo museum exhibitions at the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Flint Institute of Arts. His work is included in numerous private collections, and in the public collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the University of Florida School of Forest Resources and Conservation. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, was a finalist for the 1858 Prize at the Gibbs Museum, and has been a resident at Yaddo. He received a BFA from East Carolina University and an MFA from the University of Florida.

jasonmitcham.com

@jason_mitcham

Artist Panel:
Mollie McKinley, Linda Stillman, & Amy Talluto

Round Robin Q&A between exhibiting artists in etheReality, from breath to air, and back, with curator, Alison McNulty

Saturday, August 30, 2025
2:00 - 3:30pm

Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street
Free & Open to the Public

Please join us in the gallery for a round robin Q&A between exhibiting artists Mollie McKinley, Linda Stillman, and Amy Talluto, with curator Alison McNulty. The artists and curator will take turns instigating a fast-moving conversation through a series of prepared questions and spontaneous answers followed by an open dialog with the audience.

Both intentional and playful, this panel offers an unusual format with diverse access points to the artists and curator, aiming to draw out the themes, resonances, and motivations underlying the exhibition and the works that comprise it through the participants’ engagement with each other’s work.

Mollie McKinley is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice works with non-human intelligences of the elements. She works with media such as photography, light, glass, and sculpture to materialize the ethereal and visceral aspects of nature consciousness. McKinley’s work has been shown at The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, NADA Foreland, Turley Gallery, Fridman Gallery, Pioneer Works, UrbanGlass, Independent Curators International, The Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, The Museum of Arts and Design, Anthology Film Archives, and many others. McKinley holds a BA in photography from Bard College, and an MFA in sculpture/dimensional studies from Alfred University. Her critical writing on art and arts education can be found in Museum Teen Programs How-To Kit, published by the Walker Art Center in collaboration with the Dia Art Foundation (2023); Emergency Index Vol. 10+ (2023) and in Peer Review Vol. 3 (2025). McKinley is based in the Hudson Valley of New York, and works as a photographer and educator at the Dia Art Foundation.

molliemckinley.com

@mollie_mckinley

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Linda Stillman is a Hudson Valley based artist who works in various media including drawing, painting, photography and collage. She focuses on the natural world and the passage of time.

Stillman’s work has been featured in many exhibitions in galleries and museums around the country and abroad including the Brooklyn Museum, the Dorsky Museum, the Arts Club of Chicago, and the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.

She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts MARK program, the Wave Hill Winter Workspace and The Studios at Mass MoCA.

Her art is in many private and public collections such as the Dorsky Museum, Montefiore Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Stillman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BA), the School of Visual Arts and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA).

lindastillman.com

@linda_stillman

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Amy Talluto is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Hurley NY. She was born in New Orleans, LA and earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2018 she was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Painting and was an Artforum Critics Pick for her solo exhibition at Black & White Gallery (Brooklyn). She has recently shown her work at Auxier Kline Gallery, Jeff Bailey Gallery, The Garrison Art Center, the Samuel Dorsky Museum, Geoffrey Young Gallery, The Albany Airport and Wave Hill Gardens. She has been an Artist in Residence at MacDowell (NH), the Saltonstall Foundation (NY), Ucross Foundation (WY), Provincetown Dune Shacks & the Byrdcliffe Colony (NY). She participated in Norte Maar’s 2025 Counterpointe 12 collaborative ballet as a visual artist (Brooklyn). She is also the host and producer of the Pep Talks for Artists Podcast.

amytalluto.com

@talluts

Ann Street Gallery is on the 2025
Upstate Art Weekend (UPAW) Program

We are excited to share our participation in the fifth edition of Upstate Art Weekend, July 17-21, 2025! Over 150 cultural organizations will participate in this year’s edition, celebrating art and culture in ten counties in the Catskill Mountain and Hudson Valley.

Follow @upstateartweekend for more information and regular programming updates.

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, M&T Charitable Foundation, and TD Charitable Foundation.