From the
Ground UP Performance Celebration:
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!
From the
Ground UP Conversation:
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!
From the
Ground UP Guided Conversation:
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?
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Who deserves to be remembered? And how?
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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 Frances, 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!
From the
Ground UP Reading:
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 Frances.
@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!
From the
Ground UP Performance:
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!
From the
Ground UP Workshop:
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!
From the
Ground UP Workshop:
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
From the
Ground UP:
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.
View video of Ann Street Gallery Artist Researcher in Residence Artist Talk
Video of Jean-Marc Superville Sovak Artist Talk
from December 16, 2023
from December 16, 2023
From the
Ground UP:
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.
From the
Ground UP:
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.
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.
From the
Ground UP:
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”.
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
Sunday August 27 4-5:30July 13 - August 27
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 2:00-4:00pm
Reception & Gallery Talks Sunday Aug 27th 4:00-5:30pm
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 Workshop 4:
Listening to Non-Humans (Heard and Unheard)
with Kite & Robbie Wing
SUNDAY AUG 27
2-4pm
Free and open to the public; No reservation required
Note: this workshop includes 30+ mins of walking with a small group outside the gallery.
Details here.
Listening to Land Workshop 3:
Feral Hues of
the Hudson River Estuary:
Foraging
& Making Paint with Wild Plants in Newburgh
Led by Ellie Irons
Saturday Aug 19, 20232:00-4:00pm
Free and open to the public; limited to 12 participants
Reservation required; email amcnulty@safe-harbors.org
Confirmed participants will receive an email with schedule and meeting point
Details here.
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.
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND / Listening to Land WORKSHOP 1:
Seed Stories Seed Engraving
with Sergey Jivetin
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
Details here.
Seed Stories Seed Engraving
with Sergey Jivetin
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
Details here.
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND WORKSHOP / Listening to Land WORKSHOP 2: Basswood Cordage with Katie Grove
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.
Details here.
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.
Details here.
Summer Workshops:
July 22 Seed Stories
July 23 Basswood Cordage
Aug 19 Feral Hues
Aug 26 Listeniing to Nonhumans
July 22 Seed Stories
July 23 Basswood Cordage
Aug 19 Feral Hues
Aug 26 Listeniing to Nonhumans
Free public programming supporting ASG’s summer exhibition, Listening to Land, will include engagements with several regional artists, beginning with an interactive Seed Stories engagement with artist-miniaturist Sergey Jivetin on July 22 and a hands-on Basswood Cordage Workshop on July 23 with artist and educator Katie Grove during Upstate Art Weekend. On August 19, Interdisciplinary artist and educator Ellie Irons will lead Feral Hues of the Hudson River Estuary, a hands-on foraging and paint-making workshop focused on the wild, weedy, and feral plants who green the city streets and shoreline of current-day Newburgh.
Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer, Kite, aka Dr. Suzanne Kite, and Robbie Wing, artist and musician from Oklahoma & Citizen of the Cherokee Nation will lead a workshop called Listening to Nonhumans on August 26th.
Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer, Kite, aka Dr. Suzanne Kite, and Robbie Wing, artist and musician from Oklahoma & Citizen of the Cherokee Nation will lead a workshop called Listening to Nonhumans on August 26th.
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.
Summer Exhibition
Listening to Land
July 13 - August 27
Reception Saturday, July 15 4-7pm
Exhibition Details HERE
Listening to Land
July 13 - August 27
Reception Saturday, July 15 4-7pm
Exhibition Details HERE
Kite, Nuŋȟwáuŋzazapi (We Only Hear Snatches of What is Said), Photograph, 3' x 4', 2022
Safe Harbors of the Hudson and Ann Street Gallery are thrilled to introduce the
2023 Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellows:
Rachel Olivia Berg
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(untitled)
Graphite on canvas
12x12”
2016
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Kapemni (Twisting Medicine)
Acrylic, canvas, wood, sage
14 x 18 x 1.75”
2023
Rachel Olivia Berg works in diverse media to create artworks that are rooted in the natural world and Lakota values. Duality and connection are common themes. Her paintings often include traditional Lakota symbols and abstracted landscapes that play with visual planes to invite viewers into an imagined space for reflection and gratitude. Her three dimensional works rely on repetition of natural form or found objects as a means to magnify the elemental qualities of the object so the viewer can contemplate the significance, purpose, and meaning of how those qualities relate to their own lives.
During her fellowship, Rachel aims to address the idea of “decolonization” in a contemporary and local context. Her work addresses the tension in our understanding of shared historical traumas through the exploration and study of nature in the Hudson Valley. Rachel believes that there are truths found in the landscape that present a re-learning of the original ways and the universal lessons that connect our community to the land and each other. She envisions an interactive installation and/or performance event as a central part of her Fellowship work.
Rachel is an artist, designer, curator, teacher, and the founder of LivArtfully Design Studio. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts with a minor in American Studies from Princeton University and a MA in Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College. Since her move to New York in 2004, she has designed, developed, and created custom large scale commissions in commercial projects across Turtle Island, working with top art consultant and interior design firms. Rachel has recently pivoted to engage with her art making in a more personally meaningful way. For many indigenous artists art-making has historically been used as a means to express traditions and provide a link to past indigenous ways of life while creating new and genuine strategies to heal cultural divides. After years of working and mastering various materials and techniques, her studio practice is at a point of urgency where value on her personal perspective calls her to create works with the purpose to voice her experience, celebrate her cultural teachings, and engage with her community in new and emerging ways. Rachel lives with her husband, son, dogs and cat in Greenwood Lake, New York. She is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
(untitled)Graphite on canvas
12x12”
2016
Kapemni (Twisting Medicine)
Acrylic, canvas, wood, sage14 x 18 x 1.75”
2023
Rachel Olivia Berg works in diverse media to create artworks that are rooted in the natural world and Lakota values. Duality and connection are common themes. Her paintings often include traditional Lakota symbols and abstracted landscapes that play with visual planes to invite viewers into an imagined space for reflection and gratitude. Her three dimensional works rely on repetition of natural form or found objects as a means to magnify the elemental qualities of the object so the viewer can contemplate the significance, purpose, and meaning of how those qualities relate to their own lives.
During her fellowship, Rachel aims to address the idea of “decolonization” in a contemporary and local context. Her work addresses the tension in our understanding of shared historical traumas through the exploration and study of nature in the Hudson Valley. Rachel believes that there are truths found in the landscape that present a re-learning of the original ways and the universal lessons that connect our community to the land and each other. She envisions an interactive installation and/or performance event as a central part of her Fellowship work.
Rachel is an artist, designer, curator, teacher, and the founder of LivArtfully Design Studio. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts with a minor in American Studies from Princeton University and a MA in Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College. Since her move to New York in 2004, she has designed, developed, and created custom large scale commissions in commercial projects across Turtle Island, working with top art consultant and interior design firms. Rachel has recently pivoted to engage with her art making in a more personally meaningful way. For many indigenous artists art-making has historically been used as a means to express traditions and provide a link to past indigenous ways of life while creating new and genuine strategies to heal cultural divides. After years of working and mastering various materials and techniques, her studio practice is at a point of urgency where value on her personal perspective calls her to create works with the purpose to voice her experience, celebrate her cultural teachings, and engage with her community in new and emerging ways. Rachel lives with her husband, son, dogs and cat in Greenwood Lake, New York. She is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
Shani Richards
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Bulletproof?
aluminum can tabs and jump rings
3ft X 2 ½’
2015
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Afro American
handmade barb wire, nickel, steel
10 in X 13”
2022
Shani Richards is an activist craft laborer and metalsmith who creates objects that address issues of racism, sexism, and stereotypes to provoke the viewer into critical engagement. Ms. Richards labors to elevate materials that are deemed worthless and uses expensive materials to elevate people that America tries to erase.
During her Fellowship, Ms. Richards will develop a research project inspired by Sojourner Truth who was born in the Hudson Valley by retracing her steps and researching craft objects connected to Truth. Ms. Richards plans to create objects, community engagements, and performances related to this research and the complexity of being American.
Shani Richards was raised in Akron, Ohio. She graduated with a BFA in metalsmithing from the University of Akron in 2006. Ms. Richards lived in New York City for six years, and interned at Noha’s Jewelry and Stony Jewelry. She attended Parsons New School of Design to study fashion marketing and took an independent study focused on teaching jewelry at The University of Akron before moving upstate to attend SUNY New Paltz. Ms. Richards graduated with an MFA in Metal from SUNY New Paltz and presented her Thesis show titled “Make it Plain” at The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Afterwards Ms. Richards returned to her hometown Akron, Ohio. In 2018 she was awarded a Community Fellowship from The League of Creative Interventionists. With the year-long fellowship Ms. Richards developed a community youth project called Akron’s Growing Chefs. In 2020 Ms. Richards was awarded an art residency with The Akron Soul Train. Ms. Richards was one of six artists selected to be a part of The Sculpture Center 2022 Emerging Artists Solo Exhibition Series. In 2023 Ms. Richards was a Visiting Craft Fellow at SUNY New Paltz, sponsored by the Metals Program and The Windgate Foundation.
Bulletproof?aluminum can tabs and jump rings
3ft X 2 ½’
2015
Afro Americanhandmade barb wire, nickel, steel
10 in X 13”
2022
Shani Richards is an activist craft laborer and metalsmith who creates objects that address issues of racism, sexism, and stereotypes to provoke the viewer into critical engagement. Ms. Richards labors to elevate materials that are deemed worthless and uses expensive materials to elevate people that America tries to erase.
During her Fellowship, Ms. Richards will develop a research project inspired by Sojourner Truth who was born in the Hudson Valley by retracing her steps and researching craft objects connected to Truth. Ms. Richards plans to create objects, community engagements, and performances related to this research and the complexity of being American.
Shani Richards was raised in Akron, Ohio. She graduated with a BFA in metalsmithing from the University of Akron in 2006. Ms. Richards lived in New York City for six years, and interned at Noha’s Jewelry and Stony Jewelry. She attended Parsons New School of Design to study fashion marketing and took an independent study focused on teaching jewelry at The University of Akron before moving upstate to attend SUNY New Paltz. Ms. Richards graduated with an MFA in Metal from SUNY New Paltz and presented her Thesis show titled “Make it Plain” at The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. Afterwards Ms. Richards returned to her hometown Akron, Ohio. In 2018 she was awarded a Community Fellowship from The League of Creative Interventionists. With the year-long fellowship Ms. Richards developed a community youth project called Akron’s Growing Chefs. In 2020 Ms. Richards was awarded an art residency with The Akron Soul Train. Ms. Richards was one of six artists selected to be a part of The Sculpture Center 2022 Emerging Artists Solo Exhibition Series. In 2023 Ms. Richards was a Visiting Craft Fellow at SUNY New Paltz, sponsored by the Metals Program and The Windgate Foundation.
Michelle Corporan
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Summit
Kozo Paper, Water, Sumi-ink
5" x 4”
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Forest
Kozo Paper, Water, Sumi-ink
14" x 18”
Michelle Corporan is a trained Sumi-e artist and creative designer based in Newburgh, New York. Michelle's artistic exploration revolves around the interplay of dark and light through multimedia, works on paper, and audiovisuals. She primarily utilizes rice paper and mural painting techniques, emphasizing negative space to evoke natural landscapes and transcendental elements.
During her Fellowship, Michelle will delve into the historical context of the abolitionist movement in Newburgh. Her vision is to create an immersive multimedia artwork focusing on the historical spaces that served as crucial stations on the Underground Railroad and the residences of abolitionists in Newburgh during that era. Michelle intends to highlight the architecture and aura of that time by combining Sumi-e ink, maps, sound, and other historical materials to lend a sense of significance and reverence to invite viewers to reflect on the importance of these historical narratives.
Michelle pursued design studies at Parsons School of Design in 2010 and currently runs her own creative agency. In 2016 she undertook five years of Sumi-e training with Koho Yamamoto in Soho, New York City, and continues to expand her knowledge and study of the practice. Michelle has resided in Newburgh for the past three years and participated in Newburgh Open Studios in 2021. She has performed at White Box Gallery, NYC, shown work at Space776 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and helped curate “The Handshake” show for ARTVEER at Cubico in Soho, NYC. In April 2023 Michelle did art directing, website design, and communication design for “Koho Yamamoto’s 101 springs” at The Leonovich Gallery, New York City. Michelle is actively expanding her artistic endeavors and connections as she delves into various aspects of her practice, including film, audiovisuals, and dark landscapes.
SummitKozo Paper, Water, Sumi-ink
5" x 4”
Forest Kozo Paper, Water, Sumi-ink
14" x 18”
Michelle Corporan is a trained Sumi-e artist and creative designer based in Newburgh, New York. Michelle's artistic exploration revolves around the interplay of dark and light through multimedia, works on paper, and audiovisuals. She primarily utilizes rice paper and mural painting techniques, emphasizing negative space to evoke natural landscapes and transcendental elements.
During her Fellowship, Michelle will delve into the historical context of the abolitionist movement in Newburgh. Her vision is to create an immersive multimedia artwork focusing on the historical spaces that served as crucial stations on the Underground Railroad and the residences of abolitionists in Newburgh during that era. Michelle intends to highlight the architecture and aura of that time by combining Sumi-e ink, maps, sound, and other historical materials to lend a sense of significance and reverence to invite viewers to reflect on the importance of these historical narratives.
Michelle pursued design studies at Parsons School of Design in 2010 and currently runs her own creative agency. In 2016 she undertook five years of Sumi-e training with Koho Yamamoto in Soho, New York City, and continues to expand her knowledge and study of the practice. Michelle has resided in Newburgh for the past three years and participated in Newburgh Open Studios in 2021. She has performed at White Box Gallery, NYC, shown work at Space776 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and helped curate “The Handshake” show for ARTVEER at Cubico in Soho, NYC. In April 2023 Michelle did art directing, website design, and communication design for “Koho Yamamoto’s 101 springs” at The Leonovich Gallery, New York City. Michelle is actively expanding her artistic endeavors and connections as she delves into various aspects of her practice, including film, audiovisuals, and dark landscapes.
This cohort comprises our second annual Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellowship in support of emerging artists in Newburgh and the region, with a focus on those identifying as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color (BIPOC). The fellowship provides three artists with opportunities for mentorship, networking, and professional development as well as a $2000 USD materials and supplies allowance, representation in the gallery during Newburgh Open Studios, and individual guidance toward identifying goals and further opportunities.
The Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellowship aims to provide artists a supportive platform for experimental and substantive growth for a six month fellowship from June through November 2023. Located in the heart of Newburgh NY, Ann Street Gallery is situated at the nexus of community and the arts. Through the Fellowship, artists have direct access to explore the resources offered by the city’s vibrant arts scene and cultural institutions and the possibility to connect and engage with arts professionals and practitioners based in Newburgh and the surrounding region.
ASG is proud to support artists with experimental practices within the visual arts, performance, and interdisciplinary practice as an essential part of Ann Street Gallery’s program. The Fellowship places special emphasis on artists exploring narratives aside or sub-current to those formally acknowledged by art historians, especially practices that foster an active exchange with local organizations and communities, and are rooted in their value as cultural producers.
Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellows are selected by a jury led by Ann Street Gallery’s Director with members from the region’s arts community from applications submitted during an annual open call in the spring of each year.
We thank our partners, mentors, advisors, and collaborators in the fellowship program:
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Jonette O’Kelly Miller, Seph Rodney, Daniel Giordano, Jackie Skrzynski
The Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellowship is generously supported in part by:
The Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellowship aims to provide artists a supportive platform for experimental and substantive growth for a six month fellowship from June through November 2023. Located in the heart of Newburgh NY, Ann Street Gallery is situated at the nexus of community and the arts. Through the Fellowship, artists have direct access to explore the resources offered by the city’s vibrant arts scene and cultural institutions and the possibility to connect and engage with arts professionals and practitioners based in Newburgh and the surrounding region.
ASG is proud to support artists with experimental practices within the visual arts, performance, and interdisciplinary practice as an essential part of Ann Street Gallery’s program. The Fellowship places special emphasis on artists exploring narratives aside or sub-current to those formally acknowledged by art historians, especially practices that foster an active exchange with local organizations and communities, and are rooted in their value as cultural producers.
Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellows are selected by a jury led by Ann Street Gallery’s Director with members from the region’s arts community from applications submitted during an annual open call in the spring of each year.
We thank our partners, mentors, advisors, and collaborators in the fellowship program:
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Jonette O’Kelly Miller, Seph Rodney, Daniel Giordano, Jackie Skrzynski
The Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellowship is generously supported in part by:
Listening to Land Workshop 4:
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.
https://earwaveevent.org/issue/issueseven/
Kite’s photograph and Curated Reading List 03, 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 Workshop 3:
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
Learn more about Ellie’s work:
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)
Listening to Land Workshop 1 (UPSTATE ART WEEKEND):
Seed Stories: Seed Engraving
with Sergey Jivetin
Saturday July 22nd12:00-3:00 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/ and
https://www.seedengraving.com/
Listening to Land Workshop 2 (UPSTATE ART WEEKEND):
Basswood Cordage with Katie Grove
Sunday July 23rd12:00 - 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
https://www.instagram.com/katiegrovebasketry/
Ann Street Gallery is on the 2023
Upstate Art Weekend (UPAW) Program!
We are excited to offer 2 workshops led by artists exhibiting in our summer exhibition, Listening to Land:
Listening to Land
Summer Workshop Series:July 22 Seed Stories
July 23 Basswood Cordage
Aug 19 Feral Hues
Aug 27 Listening to Nonhumans
Free public programming supporting ASG’s summer exhibition, Listening to Land, will include engagements with several regional artists, beginning with an interactive Seed Stories engagement with artist-miniaturist Sergey Jivetin on July 22 and a hands-on Basswood Cordage Workshop on July 23 with artist and educator Katie Grove during Upstate Art Weekend. On August 19, Interdisciplinary artist and educator Ellie Irons will lead Feral Hues of the Hudson River Estuary, a hands-on foraging and paint-making workshop focused on the wild, weedy, and feral plants who green the city streets and shoreline of current-day Newburgh.
Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer, Kite, aka Dr. Suzanne Kite, and Robbie Wing, artist and musician from Oklahoma & Citizen of the Cherokee Nation will lead a workshop called Listening to Nonhumans on August 27th.
Please check back soon for the Aug 19 and 26 workshop details!
Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer, Kite, aka Dr. Suzanne Kite, and Robbie Wing, artist and musician from Oklahoma & Citizen of the Cherokee Nation will lead a workshop called Listening to Nonhumans on August 27th.
Please check back soon for the Aug 19 and 26 workshop details!