Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellowship Gallery Talks
October 19th 2:00pmAnn Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellows Matthew Gilbert, Nicole Hixon, and Zeinab Manesh will introduce their work, fellowship projects, and experience in the fellowship program. Join us in the Gallery at 2pm for informal 15-minute talks, with additional time for questions!
Learn more about the Fellows here and the Fellowship program here.
Two Coats of Paint Second Annual Hudson Valley Gallery Crawl
October 19-20 1:00-5:00 pmInteractive map available here.
More Information here.
Artist talks and Gallery Crawl free and open to the public. No reservations neccessary.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays through November 24 from 1:00-5:00 pm
Ann Street Gallery presents two performances at the Mahicannituck/Hudson riverfront in conjunction with the exhibition Back and Forth, Between Names: An exhibition about bodies of water!
Find individual performance details below!
Glacier Elegy Newburgh
August 24 at 2:00pm
A participatory performance by Jaanika Peerna
at People’s Park, Newburgh riverfront
followed by a closing reception at Ann Street Gallery
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
What would you do if you were handed the last piece of natural ice left on Earth? This silent question guides Jaanika in her Glacier Elegy Newburgh performance as she invites audience members to ponder the question with her.
Ever since Jaanika Peerna was a little girl dreaming of becoming an Olympic figure skater in the northern European country of Estonia, the material of ice has been close and dear to her: its toughness, transparency, beauty, as well as fragility. As we are witnessing a massive and furious melting speed of glaciers in polar regions these past decades, Jaanika has been looking for ways to face the facts, heal the soul, as well as act as an artist in order to help slow the destruction down.
Jaanika’s Glacier Elegy Newburgh performance takes place on the shore of the Mahicannituck/Hudson River, which itself flows in a glacier carved bed. Glaciers that covered and moved through what is now known as the Hudson Valley over 20,000 years ago carved grooves into the landscape, deepened the river bed, and shaped the landscape.
For Glacier Elegy Newburgh, we will proceed together from our meeting point (see map and instructions to the right) and ground ourselves at the riverfront. Jaanika’s gestures and movements will invite the audience to collectively imagine connections between the landscape when it was sculpted by ice, the water moving both ways, and the pending absence of ice from the earth.
August 24 at 2:00pm
A participatory performance by Jaanika Peerna
at People’s Park, Newburgh riverfront
followed by a closing reception at Ann Street Gallery
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
What would you do if you were handed the last piece of natural ice left on Earth? This silent question guides Jaanika in her Glacier Elegy Newburgh performance as she invites audience members to ponder the question with her.
Ever since Jaanika Peerna was a little girl dreaming of becoming an Olympic figure skater in the northern European country of Estonia, the material of ice has been close and dear to her: its toughness, transparency, beauty, as well as fragility. As we are witnessing a massive and furious melting speed of glaciers in polar regions these past decades, Jaanika has been looking for ways to face the facts, heal the soul, as well as act as an artist in order to help slow the destruction down.
Jaanika’s Glacier Elegy Newburgh performance takes place on the shore of the Mahicannituck/Hudson River, which itself flows in a glacier carved bed. Glaciers that covered and moved through what is now known as the Hudson Valley over 20,000 years ago carved grooves into the landscape, deepened the river bed, and shaped the landscape.
For Glacier Elegy Newburgh, we will proceed together from our meeting point (see map and instructions to the right) and ground ourselves at the riverfront. Jaanika’s gestures and movements will invite the audience to collectively imagine connections between the landscape when it was sculpted by ice, the water moving both ways, and the pending absence of ice from the earth.
Glacier Elegy Brooklyn by Jaanika Peerna photo credit: Annette Solakoglu
MEETING POINT, PARKING, RECEPTION
Jaanika’s performance will begin at 2:00pm.
The audience should navigate to People’s Park, Newburgh. People’s Park is on the South Side of the riverfront boat launch at the end of Washington St. Enter the park at the fence pictured above, and walk toward the meeting point at the edge of the tall grasses, ahead and to the right upon entering the park.
Parking is not available in the lot adjacent the park; please navigate to the ferry parking lot as indicated on the map above or walk from the the Gallery. The park is .5 mi walk from the gallery at 104 Ann St. with 100 feet of elevation change.
Please join us back at the gallery for a closing reception following Jaanika’s performance!
Jaanika’s performance will begin at 2:00pm.
The audience should navigate to People’s Park, Newburgh. People’s Park is on the South Side of the riverfront boat launch at the end of Washington St. Enter the park at the fence pictured above, and walk toward the meeting point at the edge of the tall grasses, ahead and to the right upon entering the park.
Parking is not available in the lot adjacent the park; please navigate to the ferry parking lot as indicated on the map above or walk from the the Gallery. The park is .5 mi walk from the gallery at 104 Ann St. with 100 feet of elevation change.
Please join us back at the gallery for a closing reception following Jaanika’s performance!
Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist living and working in New York since 1998. Her work encompasses drawing, installation, and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. Her art practice stems from the corporeal experience of our existence and reaches towards enhanced awareness of the fragility, interconnectedness and wonder of all life. She has exhibited her work and performed extensively in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Europe and Australia. Her work is in numerous private collections in the USA and Europe and is part of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. Her performance Glacier Elegy was acquired by the Glyn Vivian Museum in the UK and her drawing is in the Royal Collection of Sweden. In 2022 a monograph Glacier Elegies was published by Terra Nova Press, distributed by MIT Press.
https://www.jaanikapeerna.net/
@jaanika_peerna_studio
To Cleanse the River
August 18, 5:00pm
A procession from Ann Street Gallery to the river and back including a participatory performance and elemental listening event at the waterfront with Koyoltzintli
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
In a soon to be dystopian reality, there will be an instrument that alongside mushrooms and algae will help decompose debris and plastic from the waters.
This instrument that emits sound frequencies that dissolve waste and bodily ailments (not) oddly enough sounds like a pre-american water whistle. So it happens that the answers to our future environmental and soul-based dilemmas are stored as artifacts in museums, when in fact they are ancient future technologies ready to assist us. conclusion : get those instruments out of the museum; let's hear them play!
Join Koyotzintli as we walk from the gallery to the river holding embracing gathering tuning aligning dissolving through sound.
Koyotzintli started making pre-columbian instruments from a place of grief; making and hearing them taught her about grief, as the environmentalist of the soul. It healed something in her, and since then, making has turned into inquiry: When were these instruments played, what rituals enveloped them, how did their rites of passages, and funerary rites sound? In addition, she explore pathways for indigenous and diasporic communities to reclaim these technologies, challenging colonial narratives through the essential act of listening.
Through crafting these instruments, Koyotztintli stitches together fragmented stories and revives one of the oldest and most obscure sonic heritages--Abya Yala's legacy. She seek guidance from celestial constellations as she shapes flute beings, water whistle beings, rattle beings, serpent beings--each endowed with unique patterns and frequencies. These inter-dimensional mechanisms are imbued with sonic codes, they are ancient future technologies, carrying memory about land and self.
August 18, 5:00pm
A procession from Ann Street Gallery to the river and back including a participatory performance and elemental listening event at the waterfront with Koyoltzintli
Free and open to the public. No reservations required.
In a soon to be dystopian reality, there will be an instrument that alongside mushrooms and algae will help decompose debris and plastic from the waters.
This instrument that emits sound frequencies that dissolve waste and bodily ailments (not) oddly enough sounds like a pre-american water whistle. So it happens that the answers to our future environmental and soul-based dilemmas are stored as artifacts in museums, when in fact they are ancient future technologies ready to assist us. conclusion : get those instruments out of the museum; let's hear them play!
Join Koyotzintli as we walk from the gallery to the river holding embracing gathering tuning aligning dissolving through sound.
Koyotzintli started making pre-columbian instruments from a place of grief; making and hearing them taught her about grief, as the environmentalist of the soul. It healed something in her, and since then, making has turned into inquiry: When were these instruments played, what rituals enveloped them, how did their rites of passages, and funerary rites sound? In addition, she explore pathways for indigenous and diasporic communities to reclaim these technologies, challenging colonial narratives through the essential act of listening.
Through crafting these instruments, Koyotztintli stitches together fragmented stories and revives one of the oldest and most obscure sonic heritages--Abya Yala's legacy. She seek guidance from celestial constellations as she shapes flute beings, water whistle beings, rattle beings, serpent beings--each endowed with unique patterns and frequencies. These inter-dimensional mechanisms are imbued with sonic codes, they are ancient future technologies, carrying memory about land and self.
Koyotzintli playing Untitled (For Toshiko, triple water whistle), to be used in the performance, To Cleanse the River
Untitled (For Toshiko, triple water whistle), installed at Ann Street Gallery
MEETING POINT & PROCESSION
We will meet at 5:00pm inside Ann Street Gallery at 104 Ann Street, Newburgh.
Koyotzintli will lead a procession from Ann Street Gallery to the river, a .6 mile walk with a significant 100 feet of elevation change. Following her participatory performance and elemental listening event (about 40 mins), we will return to the gallery and replace the instrument within Koyotzintli’s constellation of seeds and ceramic figures at the Gallery.
For audience members who wish to meet the procession at the riverfront, please meet us at 5:15 at the gate to People’s Park at the bottom of Washington Street, next to the boat launch. Parking is available in the ferry parking lot,as indicated on the map posted below for Glacier Elegy Newburgh.
Koyotzintli will lead a procession from Ann Street Gallery to the river, a .6 mile walk with a significant 100 feet of elevation change. Following her participatory performance and elemental listening event (about 40 mins), we will return to the gallery and replace the instrument within Koyotzintli’s constellation of seeds and ceramic figures at the Gallery.
For audience members who wish to meet the procession at the riverfront, please meet us at 5:15 at the gate to People’s Park at the bottom of Washington Street, next to the boat launch. Parking is available in the ferry parking lot,as indicated on the map posted below for Glacier Elegy Newburgh.
Koyoltzintli, is an interdisciplinary artist, healer, and educator living in NY. She grew up on the pacific coast and the Andean mountains in Ecuador, these are geographies that permeate her work. She focuses on sound, ancestral technologies, ritual, and storytelling through collaborative processes and personal narratives. Nominated for Prix Pictet in 2019, and 2023 her work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the United Nations, Parish Art Museum, Princeton University, Aperture Foundation in NYC, and Paris Photo, She has had two solo shows at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery and a solo show at Leila Greiche in 2023. She has taught at CalArts, SVA, ICP, and CUNY. Koyoltzintli, has received multiple awards and fellowships including the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, NYFA, We Woman and most recently, the Latinx Artist Fellowship by US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF). Her first monograph Other Stories was published in 2017 by Autograph ABP. Her work was featured in the Native issue of Aperture Magazine (no. 240) and was included in the book Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer former chief curator at BRIC. Koyoltzintli has performed at various places among them, Whitney Museum, Wave Hill, Socrates Park, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum.
https://koyoltzintli.com/
@koyotzintli
Water, Ink, Breath, Movement
A Workshop with Suzy SureckSunday, August 4, 2:00pm -4:00pm
Ann Street Gallery
104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY
UPDATE: THE WORKSHOP IS FILLED TO CAPACITY! Thank you!
This workshop is free and open to the public, but reservations are required and the workshop will be capped at 12, with a waiting list. All are welcome, regardless of experience level. Materials are provided.
Email amcnulty@safe-harbors.org to reserve your spot by Friday August 2 at 9pm.
Please join us for a day of playful discovery and artistic liberation in a free ink workshop with Ann Street Gallery exhibiting artist, Suzy Sureck. Suzy’s workshop offers the public a glimpse into the processes informing her Indigo Series, some of which are included in the exhibition, Back and Forth, Between Names: An exhibition about bodies of water.
The workshop will begin in Ann Street Gallery, with an introduction to the exhibition and Suzy’s practice. The artist will discuss examples from her Indigo Series, which show water's fluidity and structure, translucency, and unpredictability. Working with ink and water, Suzy tunes in to a dance between intention and chance, starting with gestures from the hand and body. The group will move to a workspace with tables, where Suzy will lead us through dynamic mark making, using guided gestures and movements to loosen us up to water’s flow. Let creativity roll with this free-drawing process! You will be guided through gestures and serendipitous ink techniques, unleashing fluid forms and vibrant colors.
With hesitation or confidence, we make a mark, then let go of expectation, flowing with surprise, alive with wonder. This process of direct experience continues to be Suzy’s grounding practice and a lot of fun; she looks forward to sharing it with you!
Suzy’s ink process is seen in the images that move through pages of her first book of poetry and drawings SEE /SAW published by LumenDot in December 2023. Signed copies will be available.
Suzy Sureck Indigo Series works and workshop
Suzy Sureck is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculpture, installation, and drawing involve physical and metaphoric qualities of wind, water, and the poetics of shadow and light. Cross-pollinating disciplines, she merges traditional media and technology to bring nature’s wisdom to audiences experientially through text, image, audio, and video. Suzy’s works have been exhibited in galleries, museums, sculpture parks, biennials, art foundations and alternative spaces in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Korea, Australia, and India. Recent works include projection performances in the Hudson Valley, Germany and Lincoln Center. She has been awarded multiple residencies including MassMOCA, Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Art Omi and Studios of Key West. Her works have been reviewed in the NY Times, Hyperallergic, Sculpture Magazine, World Art, Flash Art and. New Observations. Suzy received a MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook and BFA from Cooper Union. She lives and works in New York, and is an educator at Pratt Institute and DIA.
https://suzysureck.com/
@suzysureck
Summer Exhibition Opens!
Back and Forth, Between Names:
An exhibition
about bodies
of water
Exhibition
July 6 - August 25, 2024
Free & Open to the public
Saturdays & Sundays 1:00 - 5:00 pm
& by appointment
Opening Reception
Saturday July 6, 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Extended hours for Upstate Art Weekend
Friday July 19 - Sunday July 21, 12:00 - 5:00 pm
We are excited to share our participation in the fifth edition of Upstate Art Weekend! Over 140 cultural organizations will participate in this year’s edition, celebrating art and culture in ten counties in the Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley. Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh is number 8 on the Upstate Art Weekend map.
Programming
August 4 — Ink Workshop with Suzy Sureck 2:00pm
August 18 — performance by Koyoltzintli 5:00pm
August 24 — performance of Glacier Elegy Newburgh by
Jaanika Peerna 2:00pm
Exhibition information here.
Ann Street Gallery’s summer exhibition and programming are made possible with support from the Dominican Sisters of Hope Ministry Fund and The M&T Charitable Foundation.
Emerging Artist Fellowship Announcements
Our Emerging Artist Fellowship 2024 Open Call closed on June 3, 2024. Applicants will be notified of jury selections in June, so stay tuned!
Find details about the Fellowship, alumni, and their projects here.
The 2024 Emerging Artist Fellowship is supported, in part, by the TD Charitable Foundation. The 2024 Fellowship Exhibition is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
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Our Emerging Artist Fellowship 2024 Open Call closed on June 3, 2024. Applicants will be notified of jury selections in June, so stay tuned!
Find details about the Fellowship, alumni, and their projects here.
The 2024 Emerging Artist Fellowship is supported, in part, by the TD Charitable Foundation. The 2024 Fellowship Exhibition is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
Calling Them Home: A Tribute to the “99”
Saturday
February 24, 2024
2-4pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
Join us for a From the Ground UP performance celebrating the lives and honoring the deaths of those buried in Newburgh “Colored” Burial Ground, including the 99 individuals who were exhumed during construction of the City of Newburgh’s courthouse in 2008, and continue to await reburial.
This last performance in the series of From the Ground UP events will include Newburgh’s all-star cast of Ralph, Jazzy, Manni & Dev M’Vore performing hymns, spirituals and movement. From the Ground UP project lead Jean-Marc Superville Sovak will introduce newly commissioned artworks on exhibition in the Gallery through March.
The Gallery exhibition will continue to be open Saturdays and Sundays 12-4 through March 31.
@ftgu2024 is a convergence of local community stakeholders and artists led by Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak @supersovak. The project brings Superville Sovak’s creative research and practice together with community members dedicated to imagining, rendering, and presenting collaboratively-designed visions for remembering and honoring African- Americans buried in, and disinterred from, Newburgh’s “Colored Burial Ground” through conversation and the arts.
Please visit our Opportunites page to read about our Open Calls for participation in the project. Visitors can bring your offerings, letters, sketches, ideas, and questions on Saturdays & Sundays 12-4. We will continue to host events every Saturday through February.
No reservation needed. All are welcome!
Myra B. Young Armstsead, Author of Freedom’s Gardener; James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America & Professor of Historical Studies at Bard College, & Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
Saturday
February 17, 2024
4:30-5:30pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
Dr. Armstead and Superville Sovak will conjure the extraordinary ordinariness of the life of James F. Brown, an emancipated Black man turned Master Gardener who established in 1851 the "Colored Peoples Union Burying Ground" at Fishkill Landing (present day Beacon, NY).
The care and concern shown for burial spaces for African-Americans by an enfranchised, free Black man such as Brown as well as the concerns and activities of his days as chronicled in his journals, demonstrate dignity and respect claimed in both life and death, which contrast with descriptions and records of the "Colored” Burial Ground as operated by Newburgh’s Almshouse until 1867. The comparison invites us to look closer at evidence that the Ancestors buried in Newburgh’s “Colored” Burial Ground were cared for by their loved ones while also considering a vision for how they could have been shown proper care and respect under the city's charge.
@ftgu2024 is a convergence of local community stakeholders and artists led by Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak @supersovak. The project brings Superville Sovak’s creative research and practice together with community members dedicated to imagining, rendering, and presenting collaboratively-designed visions for remembering and honoring African- Americans buried in, and disinterred from, Newburgh’s “Colored Burial Ground” through conversation and the arts.
Please visit our Opportunites page to read about our Open Calls for participation in the project. Visitors can bring your offerings, letters, sketches, ideas, and questions on Saturdays & Sundays 12-4. We will continue to host events every Saturday through February.
No reservation needed. All are welcome!
Unfolding Grief
Saturday
February 10, 2024
2-4pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
We invite the public to a community conversation in the Gallery. In remembrance of Ancestors buried in Newburgh's "Colored" Burial Ground, Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence Jean-Marc Superville Sovak & artist, storyteller, and conservationist Vivian Sansour will hold space for local faith leaders, invited guests, and community members to share personal stories of loss from experiences across time & cultures.
The conversation and stories that will be shared from direct experience aim to collectively consider:
- Whose deaths get to be mourned?
- Who deserves to be remembered? And how?
- How should the dead, once desecrated, be honored?
Please join us on Saturday to listen and converse within the evolving Gallery installation for the project From the Ground UP, which currently includes an installation by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, photographs by Donna Francis, sumi ink drawing by Michelle Corporan, and a collection of books on loan from A Little Light Bookstore & Educational Center for Culture, History, & Freedom in Newburgh.
@ftgu2024 is a convergence of local community stakeholders and artists led by Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak @supersovak. The project brings Superville Sovak’s creative research and practice together with community members dedicated to imagining, rendering, and presenting collaboratively-designed visions for remembering and honoring African- Americans buried in, and disinterred from, Newburgh’s “Colored Burial Ground” through conversation and the arts.
Please visit our Opportunites page to read about our Open Calls for participation in the project. Visitors can bring your offerings, letters, sketches, ideas, and questions on Saturdays & Sundays 12-4. We will continue to host events every Saturday through February.
No reservation needed. All are welcome!
Poems for the Ancestors
Saturday
February 3, 2024
2pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
We are thrilled to invite the public to a free poetry reading in the Gallery on Saturday, February 3rd at 2pm to conjure, remember, and honor those laid to rest in Newburgh’s “Colored” Burial Ground. Kate Hymes, Ulster County Poet Laureate, Poet Gold, Dutchess County Poet Laureate, and Edwin Torres, Nuyorican Legend, will be performing and reading new and existing works in response to Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak’s research on the Burial Ground, speculation on who may be buried there, and the context and circumstances of their burials.
Please join us on Saturday for this unique reading performance amidst the evolving Gallery installation for the project From the Ground UP, which currently includes an installation by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak and photographs by Donna Francis.
@ftgu2024 is a convergence of local community stakeholders and artists led by Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak @supersovak. The project brings Superville Sovak’s creative research and practice together with community members dedicated to imagining, rendering, and presenting collaboratively-designed visions for remembering and honoring African- Americans buried in, and disinterred from, Newburgh’s “Colored Burial Ground” through conversation and the arts.
Please visit our Opportunites page to read about our Open Calls for participation in the project. You can bring your offerings, letters, sketches, ideas, and questions on Saturdays & Sundays 12-4. We will continue to host events every Saturday through February.
No reservation needed. All are welcome!
Songs for the Ancestors
Saturday
January 27, 2024
2pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
We are thrilled to invite the public to a free ensemble performance in the Gallery on Saturday, January 27th at 2pm to Honor the Ancestors. Led by award-winning violinist, Gwen Laster, this ensemble includes bassist Damon Banks, guitarist/vocalist Patrick Jones, & percussionist Todd Isler. The ensemble will perform music from the Black American Diaspora, including folkloric music, African ceremonial music, Blues, and Jazz to honor those laid to rest in Newburgh’s “Colored” burial ground.
Please join us on Saturday for this unique performance amidst the evolving Gallery installation for the project From the Ground UP.
@ftgu2024 is a convergence of local community stakeholders and artists led by Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak @supersovak. The project brings Superville Sovak’s creative research and practice together with community members dedicated to imagining, rendering, and presenting collaboratively-designed visions for remembering and honoring African- Americans buried in, and disinterred from, Newburgh’s “Colored Burial Ground” through conversation and the arts.
Please visit our Opportunites page to read about our Open Calls for participation in the project. You can bring your offerings, letters, sketches, ideas, and questions on Saturdays & Sundays 12-4. We will continue to host events every Saturday through February.
No reservation needed. All are welcome!
Conjuring the Ancestors
Saturday
January 20, 2024
12-4pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
ASG Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, invites the public for a drop-in workshop this Saturday. Superville Sovak will give short presentations at 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30 to introduce his residency project, From the Ground UP, and explain his strategies for Conjuring the Ancestors, creating Collective Monuments, and honoring those buried in Newburgh’s “Colored” Burial Ground.
Through the drafting of letters, shared conversation, and visioning ceremonies, Superville Sovak, will guide visitors in ways of using his research on the Newburgh “Colored” Burial Ground to honor and remember their ancestors. Visitors are encouraged to come with questions or messages to write or to be transcribed by the artist.
Come by to learn about Newburgh history, engage in conversation with Superville Sovak on his latest research on the Burial Ground, Alms House Records, and Census Reports, and learn about the different ways you can contribute to the project! Visitors need not have prior knowledge of the project or the history to participate. All materials provided.
No Appointment needed: drop in, stay as long as you wish, all are welcome!
Letters to the Ancestors
Saturday
January 13, 2024
12-4pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
We are excited to invite the public to our next FTGU event this Saturday January 13, 12pm-4pm! Please join ASG’s Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak for the workshop, “Letters to the Ancestors,” an opportunity to put pen to paper and craft messages to those buried in, and those disinterred from, Newburgh’s “Colored” Burial Ground.
Open to all ages, this workshop will include all materials, writing prompts, technical demonstrations and introductions to the historical context of New York’s (painfully) Gradual Abolition of Slavery.
Superville Sovak will introduce his residency project and the historical context of the workshop at 12:30, 1:30, & 2:30. Come anytime, stay as long as you wish!
From the Ground UP events will continue on Saturday afternoons throughout January and February 2024, including artist talks and hands-on workshops as well as commissioned performances and poetry readings.
The Gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays 12-4 (and by appointment) through February to:
- view Superville Sovak’s evolving installation in the Gallery, which will gradually transform to include commissioned artworks from other regional artists
- collect, document, discuss, and display offerings, messages, and conjuring bundles from the public
- discuss the project and your visions for memorialization with the artist
- collect coats for distribution in Newburgh
- reference our curated collection of reading materials
FTGU events are updated weekly on ASG website and IG accounts and @ftgu2024
Artist Talk & Research Presentation: Jean-Mark Superville Sovak, ASG Artist Researcher in Residence
Saturday
January 6, 2024
2-4pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
Please join us Saturday January 6, 2024 2-4pm in the Gallery as Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean Marc Superville Sovak, presents his evolving residency research for the Project, From the Ground UP. Superville Sovak’s presentation will review his findings from the Newburgh Alms House Records (1853-58) and the Newburgh "Colored" Burial Ground Archeology, Osteology, and History Report. The event will feature guest artists reading Phillis Wheatley, Khalil Gibran, David Mills, and more!
From the Ground UP is a coalition of local community stakeholders & artists dedicated to imagining ways to remember & honor African-Americans buried in Newburgh’s “Colored” Burial Ground through conversation & the arts. The project is led by Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence (ARiR) Jean-Marc Superville Sovak.
Events will continue on Saturday afternoons throughout January and February 2024. The Gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays 12-4 through February to:
- view Superville Sovak’s evolving project
- collect coats for distribution in Newburgh
- document, discuss, and display offerings and conjuring bundles from the public
- discuss the project and visions for memorialization with the artist
To learn more visit supervillesovak.com and follow @supersovak and @FTGU2024.
Artist Talk: Jean-Mark Superville Sovak, ASG Artist Researcher in Residence
Saturday
Dec. 16, 2023
2-4pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
Please join us today at 2pm in the Gallery or on Zoom for an artist talk by ASG Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak. Zoom link @ftgu2024
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 882 6827 6731
Passcode: FTGU2023
Superville Sovak will present his art practice and research leading to his residency project, From the Ground UP. He will discuss his approach to the project and answer questions about his research followed by a discussion and reflection.
Superville Sovak and From the Ground UP are in residence at ASG through February. Over the course of the residency, the project transforms the Gallery into a lab, workshop, and exhibition space dedicated to the memorialization of African-American lives and deaths in Newburgh shortly after the Gradual Abolition of slavery in NY state.
Coat Collection:
As a participatory and durational form of memorialization, the gallery requests donations of gently used winter coats to distribute in the vicinity.
Community Gathering
Saturday
Dec. 9, 2023
2-4pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
Historian Dr. Christina Ziegler-McPherson will Zoom in to this in-person gathering to introduce visitors to the historical context of the project From the Ground UP
during the post Emancipation (1827) and antebellum years (1861-65) that coincide with the Newburgh “colored” cemetery’s usage. THe presentation will be followed by a Q&A hosted by Ann Street Gallery’s Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville-Sovak & community organizer Gabrielle Burton-Hill.
Coat Collection:
As a participatory and durational form of memorialization, the gallery requests donations of gently used winter coats to distribute in the vicinity.
Community Gathering
Saturday
Oct 28, 2023
3-5pm
Broadway & Robinson Ave
Free & open to the public.
Community Gathering, Workshop & Artist Talk
Saturday
Oct 21, 2023
3-5pm
Ann Street Gallery
Free & open to the public.
Please join sculptor Vinnie Bagwell, Community Activist Gabrielle Burton Hill, and artist Jean-Marc Superville Sovak for a community gathering, artist talk, and workshop this Saturday October 21 from 3-5pm in Ann Street Gallery.
This event launches From the Ground UP, a coalition of local community stakeholders & artists led by Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, who are dedicated to imagining ways to remember & honor African-Americans buried in the “Newburgh Colored Burial Ground” through conversation & the arts.
From the Ground UP will consist of a series of gatherings at Ann Street Gallery and other local sites that are free and open to the public with the aim to solicit, discuss, and materialize answers from a wide variety of community stakeholders committed to collectively asking such questions as: How should memorials function? How should the dead, once desecrated, now be honored? What is the reparative capacity of a memorial and how can gestures, space, or objects serve that capacity to its fullest potential?
Saturday’s program will include:
- An introduction to the initiative From the Ground UP from artist and educator, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
- An artist talk and presentation from sculptor Vinnie Bagwell about her visionary work in reframing public art and memorials to include historic black images
- A workshop with community activist Gabrielle Burton Hill, which will provide an overview of the history of the “Newburgh Colored Burial Ground” and the Newburgh Colored Burial Ground Association’s 15 year-long effort to raise awareness about this overlooked aspect of Newburgh’s history. The workshop also aims to identify the priorities of local community stakeholders in the project From the Ground UP
Community Gathering
Saturday
Oct 8, 2023
3-5pm
Broadway & Robinson Ave
Free & open to the public.
Ann Street Gallery is honored to announce Artist Researcher in Residence, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak & his residency project, From The Ground UP
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak is a multidisciplinary artist and teaching professional whose work represents silent histories of multi-racial identities that make up the DNA of this country as well his own. His “a-Historical Landscapes” involve altering original 19th-century landscape engravings to include images from Anti-Slavery publications. His public artwork includes organizing a “Burial for White Supremacy”, retracing steps on the Underground Railroad at Hudson Valley historic sites, monuments to Afro-Dutch pioneers in Rockland County, and a memorial to the earliest Africans to arrive in Rhode Island. A graduate of Bard College (M.F.A. Film/Video), Jean-Marc is the 2023 recipient of Art Mid-Hudson’s Empowering Artist Award and an Individual Artist Commission. Jean-Marc’s art has been exhibited at RecessArt, Brooklyn, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Arts Westchester, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Katonah Museum of Art. Jean-Marc has been a guest curator at the Dorsky Museum and has been Visiting Artist at Bard College, SUNY New Paltz, Columbia University and Vassar College.
From the Ground UP
is a convergence of local community stakeholders and artists led by Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence (ARiR) Jean-Marc Superville Sovak. The project brings Superville Sovak’s creative research and practice together with community members dedicated to imagining, rendering, and presenting collaboratively-designed visions for remembering and honoring African- Americans buried in, and disinterred from, Newburgh’s “Colored Burial Ground” through conversation and the arts.From the Ground UP
is conceived as an open-source feedback loop to display a diversity of ideas and creative forms of what publicly-inspired and collaboratively-designed memorials could look like, including stories, offerings, speculative proposals, performances, readings, discussions, and more.To learn more about Jean-Marc Superville Sovak’s practice and research, visit http://www.supervillesovak.com and follow @supersovak and @FTGU2024.
Collective Re:Manifesting
A Community Engagement on Indigenous People’s Day
Monday October 9, 2023 4-6pm
in the Safe Harbors Green, Newburgh NY
(Corner of Broadway & Liberty)
The 2023 Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellows Rachel Olivia Berg, Michelle Corporan, & Shani Richards invite the public to engage in conversation and questioning surrounding freedom, discovery, and identity toward collective creative actions and commitment to change.
The Ann Street Gallery will be open 3-8:30pm
for the exhibition Re:Manifest and will host a Screening of the documentary “Columbus in America”
in Ann Street Gallery 6:30-8pm
104 Ann St Newburgh, NY 12550
All programming free & open to the public.
Listening to Land
Closing Reception & Gallery Talks
Exhibition
July 13 - August 27
Closing Reception
Sunday August 27 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Please join artists included in “Listening to Land” for an informal closing reception and gallery talks on Sunday, August 27th following Kite and Robbie Wing’s Workshop for Listening to Nonhumans.
The Gallery will be open both Sat Aug 26th and Sun Aug 27th 1:00 - 5:00PM
Listening to Nonhumans Workshop Sunday Aug 27th 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Reception & Gallery Talks Sunday Aug 27th 4:00 - 5:30 PM
These events will close out our summer exhibition! Don’t miss the last weekend to see this show and hear from the
The workshop and reception are free and open to the public and do not require a reservation. We hope you will come and take a closer look and listen with us this weekend!
Listening to Land - Listening to Nonhumans (Heard and Unheard)
A Workshop with Kite & Robbie Wing
SUNDAY AUG 27
2-4pm
Followed by a closing reception with gallery talks 4-5:30
Free and open to the public; No reservation required
Location:
Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street, Newburgh NY 12550
Note: this workshop includes 30+ mins of walking with a small group outside the gallery.
In this workshop, Kite and Robbie Wing will guide participants in listening to the knowable and the unknowable: listening with and through nonhumans in the physical world and nonhumans in the unseen world. This training proposes that the frameworks for ethical decision-making must be learned in relationship with nonhuman beings. Half of this training will involve outdoor soundwalks, the other half will involve dreaming and futuring. Listening to nonhumans, on earth and in the spirit world leads to knowing how nonhumans create new knowledge.
This workshop was developed thinking alongside the work of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, Leroy Little bear, Leanne Simpson, Dylan Robinson, Raven Chacon, Zoe Todd, AM Kanngeiser, Florian Malzacher, Jonas Staal; and Fondazione Sandretto.
Kite’s photograph and Curated Reading List 003, along with Kite and Robbie Wing’s 8-channel sound installation are featured in Ann Street Gallery’s summer exhibition, Listening to Land.
Kite (Dr. Suzanne Kite) is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition,and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakȟóta ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Recently, Kite has been developing body interfaces for machine learning driven performance and sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Kite has published in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), with the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis. Kite is currently a 2023 Creative Capital Award Winner, 2023 USA Fellow, and a 2022-2023 Creative Time Open Call artist with Alisha B. Wormsley. Kite is currently Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Scholar at Bard College and a Research Associate and Residency Coordinator for the Abundant Intelligences (Indigenous AI) project.
http://kitekitekitekite.com/
@kitekitekitekitekite
Robbie Wing (Cherokee) is an artist, musician, and composer. His artistic practice focuses on immersive and spatialized sound installations, ecological sound art, and composition for acoustic instruments, electronics, and field recordings. Robbie holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sustainability and a master's degree in Urban Design from the University of Oklahoma where he developed sound art installations based on his research on environmental psychology and acoustic landscapes. Robbie has presented his work and performed at various venues, including the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship Gallery, Philbrook Museum, University of Kent in Chatham, UK, Institute for Advanced Studies in Kószeg, Hungary, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater and the Center for Arts, Research & Alliances.
RobbieWing.com
@wingrobbie
Listening to Land - Feral Hues of the Hudson River Estuary
A Workshop on Foraging & Making Paint with Wild Plants in Newburgh
with Ellie Irons
Saturday August 19
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Free and open to the public; Limited to 12 participants
Reservation required
Email amcnulty@safe-harbors.org
Location:
Ann Street Gallery, 104 Ann Street, Newburgh NY 12550 & Newburgh Riverfront
Confirmed participants will receive an email with schedule and meeting point
Interdisciplinary artist and educator Ellie Irons will lead a hands-on foraging and paint-making workshop focused on the wild, weedy, and feral plants who green the city streets and shoreline of
Ellie’s Watershed Topography drawings are featured in Ann Street Gallery’s summer exhibition, Listening to Land.
Ellie Irons is an artist and educator living and working on Mohican land in current-day Troy, New York, USA. From foraged watercolor paintings to un-lawning experiments, her work combines socially engaged art, ecology fieldwork, and embodied learning. She is a co-founder of the Next Epoch Seed Library and the Environmental Performance Agency, collaborations investigating relationships between humans and spontaneous urban plants (aka weeds). Her solo and collaborative work has been part of recent exhibitions on contemporary environmental art, including The Department of Human and Natural Services at NURTUREArt, Ecological Consciousness: Artist as Instigator at Wave Hill, and Unsettled Nature at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Her work has been covered by publications ranging from Art in America to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Irons received a BA from Scripps College in Los Angeles and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. In December 2021, she completed a PhD in arts practice at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, focused on socially engaged environmental art. She is currently a community science educator and lab manager at the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s NATURE Lab.
https://ellieirons.com/
@elslaurel
Ellie's recent book Feral Hues: A Guide to Painting with Weeds will be available for purchase. (Sliding scale $15-25)
Ann Street Gallery will participate in Upstate Art Weekend
July 22-23, 2023
ASG Gallery is featured on Route 4 of the UPAW Journeys Route Plan:
“Ann Street 104 Ann Street Curated by Hudson Valley name-to-know Alison McNulty, an artist and educator, is “Listening to Land,” an exhibition of practices that use listening in relation to place and place-making from Margaux Crump, Donna Francis, Katerie Gladdys, Katie Grove, Ellie Irons, Sergey Jivetin, Kite and Robbie Wing, Fernanda Mello, Steve Rossi, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Susan Walsh, and Millicent Young.
Download the Route Plan Here.
Find the customizable MAP Here.
July 22-23, 2023
ASG Gallery is featured on Route 4 of the UPAW Journeys Route Plan:
“Ann Street 104 Ann Street Curated by Hudson Valley name-to-know Alison McNulty, an artist and educator, is “Listening to Land,” an exhibition of practices that use listening in relation to place and place-making from Margaux Crump, Donna Francis, Katerie Gladdys, Katie Grove, Ellie Irons, Sergey Jivetin, Kite and Robbie Wing, Fernanda Mello, Steve Rossi, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Susan Walsh, and Millicent Young.
Download the Route Plan Here.
Find the customizable MAP Here.
Listening to Land - Basswood Cordage
with Katie Grove
Upstate Art Weekend
Sunday July 23rd
12:00 - 3:00 pm
Participants are invited to join for just a few minutes or the entire workshop period.
Free and open to the public.
No Reservation needed.
Cordage, made by twisting two strands of plant fiber together by hand, is one of the oldest technologies in human culture. In this drop-in workshop with artist and basketry teacher Kati Grove participants will learn to make cordage with locally harvested basswood tree bark fiber in an immersive, thought provoking, and welcoming setting. During the workshop the instructor will share stories of how she harvested and processed the fiber as well as the history of this material in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Several works by Katie Grove are featured in Ann Street Gallery’s summer exhibition, Listening to Land.
Katie Grove is an artist and educator whose passion is to inspire both viewers of her art and students in her basketry classes to build a relationship with the plants growing around them. She teaches from her studio in the beautiful Rondout Valley of New York State and enjoys a robust studio practice that merges traditional basketry techniques with sculpture. Katie holds a BF in Printmaking from SUNY New Paltz and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the NOMAD program at University of
Hartford.
To learn more about Katie’s process as an artist and basket maker visit
www.katiegrovestudios.com
@katiegrovebasketry
Listening to Land - Seed Stories
Seed Engraving with Sergey Jivetin
Upstate Art Weekend
Saturday July 22nd
12:00-3:00 pm
There will be a limited number of customized seed engravings created for people who would like to bring sentimental seeds and share a relevant story.
For this free first-come, first-serve program, you must sign up in advance for your 45-minute time slot.
Email Sergey to reserve your spot starting Monday, July 17: sergey@jivetin.com
Hudson Valley-based artist-miniaturist Sergey Jivetin will bring his on-going seed story project to Ann Street Galley. Sergey will hand-engrave seeds with illustrations based on narratives about plants and their deep connection with farmers, seed savers, naturalists, and enthusiast gardeners who nurture and preserve them. If you would like to share your personal story of such a relationship between plants and people, bring a relevant seed and Sergey will illustrate your individual story then engrave his image on your seed!
Several works by Sergey Jivetin are featured in Ann Street Gallery’s summer exhibition, Listening to Land.
Sergey Jivetin makes artwork that blurs the boundaries of fine art, craft, and design. With extensive experience in the various formats of design and manufacturing, including fine and art jewelry, product design, and industrial and medical engineering, Jivetin embodies skillful and thoughtful approaches in both concept and execution of the work in a variety of formats from micro to macro scale. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1977. Living and working in the USA since 1992. Received MFA from SUNY New Paltz, NY, and BFA from Parsons School of Design, NY. Taught at SUNY New Paltz and NJCU, RISD, and Kean University.
Honors include: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation biennial award (2011), New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowships (2009 and 2005); Reed Foundation Individual Artist’s Grant (2007), Herbert Hoffman Preis, Germany (2005); Second Prize and Grand Prize at Itami International Jewelry Biennial, (2009 and 2005)
Work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Art and Design, Mint Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Itami Craft Museum, Japan.
To learn more about Sergey’s work visit
https://www.sergeyjivetin.com/
https://www.seedengraving.com/
Safe Harbors of the Hudson and Ann Street Gallery are thrilled to introduce our 2023 Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellows: Shani Richards, Michelle Corporan, and Rachel Olivia Berg.
Find details about the Fellowship, the selected Fellows, and their projects HERE.
Find details about the Fellowship, the selected Fellows, and their projects HERE.
Listening to Land:
Imaginal Technologies,
Material Conduits,
&
Landscape Translations
Toward Perceiving Place
July 13, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Opening Reception July 15, 4:00-7:00pm
Closing Reception & Gallery Talks August 27, 4:00-5:30pm
Listening to Land is a group exhibition exploring practices of listening in relation to place and the place-making potential of creative acts of listening, wherein to land is a verb, and listening provides a point of ingress.
Artists in the exhibition use storytelling, jam-making, woodworking, basketry, mapping, lenses, microphones, speakers, and other technologies to heighten our ability to relate to our surroundings and other beings, and to extend our capacity to perceive beyond what is visible or knowable in the landscape. Prehistoric, mythical, and contemporary techniques used by the artists help us to imagine futures in which humans are in more reciprocal relationships with each other and the broader cosmology of entities with whom we share the land.
The exhibition offers sounds, portals, and moments of suspension, aiming to inspire silence, slowness, and humility. Materials such as wood, water, stone, soil, plants, glass, metal, horsehair, and minerals act as conduits for the voices of the land from whence they came. The artists invoke the non-human presences of specific places through ultrasensitive explorations of their materials’ inherent qualities and capabilities, inviting us to pause, and reshaping our perceptions.
The works in the exhibition suggest that when one listens to land, the land reveals entanglements with intangible forces and phenomena, with buried histories and lost kinships, and with water systems. Rather than rendering landscapes that delineate land from water, human activity, or the cosmos, the works in the exhibition translate images of landscape into abstractions, experiences, revisions, and mappings that allow us to know the land through intricate and interconnected relationships.
Free public programming supporting the exhibition will include engagements with several regional artists, informal gallery talks at a closing reception walk-through, and Curated Reading List 003 in our Open Reading Room...Learn more here
The exhibition is curated by Gallery Director Alison McNulty and includes works by:
Margaux Crump
Donna Francis
Katerie Gladdys
Katie Grove
Ellie Irons
Sergey Jivetin
Kite and Robbie Wing
Fernanda Mello
Steve Rossi
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
Susan Walsh
Millicent Young
The exhibition, programming, and receptions are free and open to the public, but some workshops accommodate a limited number of participants and require a reservation.
