Julia Whitney Barnes is an artist living in Poughkeepsie, NY who works in a variety of media from cyanotypes, watercolor, gouache, oil paintings, stained glass, murals, and site-specific installations. She has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally including the Dorksy Museum, New Paltz, NY; Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM), Woodstock, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME; Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY; Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT; Garvey|Simon NY, New York, NY and most recently a solo exhibition at Galerie Julian Sander in Cologne, Germany. She was awarded fellowships from New York State Council on the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Arts Mid-Hudson, Abbey Memorial Fund for Mural Painting/National Academy of Fine Arts, and the Gowanus Public Art Initiative, among others.

Born in Newbury, VT, Julia Whitney Barnes spent two decades in Brooklyn, before moving to the Hudson Valley in 2015. She received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA from Hunter College. Whitney Barnes has created site-specific installations at the Albany International Airport, Albany, NY; Brookfield Place/Winter Garden, New York, NY; Arts Brookfield, Brooklyn, NY, the Wilderstein Sculpture Biennial, Rhinebeck, NY; Shaker Heritage Society, Albany NY; The Trolley Barn/Fall Kill Creative Works, Poughkeepsie, NY; GlenLily Grounds, Newburgh, NY; ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY; Gowanus Public Arts Initiative, Brooklyn, NY; Space All Over/Fjellerup Bund i Bund & Grund, Fjellerup, Denmark; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY; Brooklyn School of Inquiry, Brooklyn, NY; New York City Department of Transportation, New York, NY; and Figment Sculpture Garden, Governors Island, NY and among other locations. Whitney Barnes was awarded a glass commission for NYC Public Art for Public Schools/Percent for Art that is slated to be unveiled Fall 2024.

James Casebere (born 1953) grew up outside of Detroit, studied with Siah Armajani as an undergraduate student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and John Baldessari as a graduate student at Cal Arts.

For over 40 years Casebere has built and photographed architecturally based models, which explore the relationship between sculpture, photography, architecture, and film. Starting with Sonsbeek ’86, in Arnhem, Holland through 1992, Casebere made large-scale sculptural installations.

His work is in the collections of and has been shown at major museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum (New York); the Tate Gallery (London); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles); and many others. He has had solo shows at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Canada); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (Spain); Museum of Modern Art Oxford (UK); the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art (Ohio); the Indianapolis Museum of Fine Arts (Indiana); and other museums.

In 2016, his work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany and has been included in exhibitions highlighting the work of what is now widely regarded as the Pictures Generation, the title of a 2009 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Casebere is the recipient of three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three from the New York Foundation for the Arts and one from the Guggenheim Foundation. In April 2019, he was awarded the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize through the American Academy in Rome.

Deville Cohen is a New York City based nondisciplinary artist. He studied sculpture at the KHB Berlin from 2002-2007 and received his MFA in film/video from Bard College NY in 2010. His videos and installations were shown internationally in museums and galleries such as International Objects, MoMA PS1;  SFMoMA; The CCA Tel-Aviv; PS122 Gallery; and The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik. He began creating for the stage during a residency at the Wooster Group Performance Garage in the summer of 2014. His creation underline, in collaboration with the composer Hugo Morales, was commissioned and co-produced by the Deutsche Oper Berlin and The Munich Biennale for New Music Theater in 2016. In 2018 he co-created MENAGERIE with choreographer Shamel Pitts for Gibney Dance Company in NYC. In 2019 his new creation McGuffin was commissioned and produced by The Center of The Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an artist in residence at Recess Art; EMPAC Troy, NY; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) workspace, NYC; Fountainhead in Miami; LMCC Process-Space NYC, and Kinosaito Art Center. Deville is also a founding member of Artists Commit, an NYC based artist-run initiative invested in advocating for a climate-conscious, equitable, and resilient future. As a platform, the group has provided tools and resources to support artists catalyzing climate action, in particular through the impact of the work we make and how it travels through the art world.

Neil Enggist‘s  paintings are orchestrations of oceanic processes, phrases in an extended conversation between human and nature, dance and stillness. My work seeks to embody the random precision through which life and spirit intersect. Within a nomadic environment, I establish a set of conditions where the image can be born through an unfolding of natural currents. I allow the nature of water, the marks of evaporation, melting, freezing, burning, gravity, animal tracks, seasons, dance, feet, time, sand, storms and tides to transform the canvas into a terrain in flux. Nature is a mindful collaborator in a motion of questioning, listening and improvisation. The painting is a site of becoming, left within the tides to express the movement of water in a crossroad poetics of painter, nature, time and ocean. My work is an exploration of the imperfect halo of chaos, circular and broken, a form of transport between material to inner light and space. In my highest ideal, my work would lead viewers toward their own idea of infinity, and provide the wonder and mystery to propel them through the door, into a space of illumination and harmonic union, where the otherwise invisible is held. Through life, I explore the spiritual territory of color from thresholds of the mountain through ancient forests and high deserts down shorelines and borderlands of light and dark, gold and blue
into ultraviolet, seeking the direct experience of color within the void.

Elisa Lendvay is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Poughkeepsie, NY since 2017 after 14 years in NYC. She received an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, and a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin, and Bennington College. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York City at Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, Underdonk, Jason McCoy Gallery, V&A Gallery and Moti Hasson, and in New Haven, Connecticut, at Fred Giampietro Gallery. Her work was recently on view at Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, the Albany International Airport, and the Beatrice M. Haggerty
Gallery at the University of Dallas, Form+Concept, Santa Fe and The Hudson House, Hudson, NY, curated by JAG projects. She has been included in group shows in New York including Klaus Von Nichtaggend Gallery, Kansas Gallery, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Daily Operation, Lesley Heller Gallery, TSA and other venues across the country. Her work has been included in Art Forum (Critic’s picks),The NY Times Style Mag, Time Out NY, Two Coats of Paint, Maake Magazine, and the Huffington Post. She is the recipient of awards and residencies including Edward Albee Fellowship, Santa Fe Art Institute, Vermont Studio Center, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency, New York Foundation of the Arts Artist Fellowship, Sculpture Finalist, The Dallas Museum of Art’s Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award and the Dallas Museum of Art’s DeGolyer Award.

Nate Mars is a producer, sound designer, music technologist and content marketing specialist based in New York City. He has released original music on several labels including Fabric (UK), ZZK (Argentina), and Lustre Kings Productions in addition to having songs licensed for documentary films and television. He has also created SFX and Sound Design for television, including the newly re-launched iconic children’s television show Wonderama.

Nate is passionate about artist-to-artist music education, specifically helping inspire other producers to achieve their music production goals through collaboration and technology.

Shanekia McIntosh is an interdisciplinary artist, encompassing the roles of poet, cultural mapper, and performer. She is an explorer and observer, with the core of her work centered around shaping the narratives of our living history. Her work has been featured in the New Museum, Second Ward Foundation, Charim, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Hudson Hall, NY Live Arts, ICA at VCU, Basilica Hudson, and many others. In 2021, she released her debut chapbook, “Spiral as Ritual,” published by Topos Press. In 2023, McIntosh was an artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NY, and the inaugural recipient of The Spark of Hudson Foundation Creative Arts Fellowship.

Maggie Pate is an ecological artist with roots in slow textiles located in the Hudson Valley at the base of the Berkshires. Her passion for art stems from her collaboration with the natural world. Every piece is a concert with her calloused hands and the bounty of each season – from spruce cones during snow-covered winter, aromatic irises in spring, glowing summer fields of swaying goldenrod, and the fiery foliage of fall. Each piece is a snapshot of time and place – a fingerprint of Mother Nature at that exact moment aimed to spark conversation about the resilience, delicacy, and wonderment of our natural world.

Noteable career works include an exhibition from 2020-2021 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts located in Washington DC. As well as her 2018 book The Natural Colors Cookbook  with Page Street Publishing. Individual Artist grant recipient from New York Council of the Arts. Seen in publications like The New York Times, Domino Magazine, Where Women Work, Folk Magazine, Dinette Magazine.

Aaron Poritz is an American designer and artist born in Massachusetts, in 1984. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the California College of the Arts in 2008. For two years he worked with Morris Adjmi Architects in New York City, gaining professional experience.

In 2011 he worked in Ecuador on a sustainable energy station concept for Equitable Origin, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting socially and environmentally responsible energy development. While living in Ecuador, he also helped to facilitate community-based design projects with the Secoya tribe, an indigenous community located in the northeast portion of the Amazon Basin.

While visiting a friend in Nicaragua in 2012, he encountered a former Peace Corps volunteer who was operating a lumber export business directed at processing old growth trees that fell in hurricane Felix in 2007. He recognized an opportunity to design his first collection of furniture, which was featured in the New York Times in July 2013. Thereafter, his studio developed organically.

Aaron established his studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2014, concentrating on high-end residential furniture and sculpture. His projects are multidisciplinary in that they encompass both design and fabrication under one roof. He grew up working in a wood shop and sculpture studio and has always had a passion for understanding the formation of objects and buildings. This is reflected in the elegant tactile details one discovers in his furniture or by strolling through a space he has designed.

He uses exquisite materials blended with flawless fabrication. His work highlights the natural patterns and texture found in wood, stone and ceramics. The furniture has a timeless quality; though contemporary, it evokes nostalgia. His sculpture is unique, playful and mysterious, inspired by ancient functional forms.

Aaron has been recognized in Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30”, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Domus, Los Angeles Times, Interior Design, Elle Décor, among others.

Nandi Rose  is a singer, songwriter, and producer who writes and performs under the name Half Waif. The project, which blends pop and experimental electronic sounds, has been featured in the New Yorker, Village Voice, Pitchfork, and NPR.

Tim Jones (b. 1957, Pine Plains, New York), is a United States artist and designer, whose works grace locations around the world.  Mr. Jones has been heavily influenced by his deep roots in the New York hamlet of Attlebury, where his family owned and operated the local blacksmith shop for generations since the 1700s. Favoring work in metal as had his forefathers, Tim has been a leader in developing zinc-topped and industrial furniture in America. A renowned portfolio of interior designers has used Tim’s designs in their projects, many of which have been showcased in Country Living, Veranda, Traditional Home, El Decor, Main Street Magazine, The Country and Abroad, and The New York Times, among others.

Silda Wall Spitzer (b. 1957, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) is a New York-based painter, multi-media artist, and sculptor.  Ms. Wall Spitzer’s prominent career in law, finance, public service, and notably as First Lady of New York State has served to inspire her artistic voice.  While a lifelong artist, her passion and devotion to her artistic endeavors have become front and center in a very rich life.  The depth and breadth of her artist talent have been recognized as undeniable by those who have had the opportunity to experience her seminal work.

ARTIST MAGGIE PATE FUNDING CREDIT:

“This project 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 CREATE Council on the Arts.”