OCTOBER SUBMISSIONS OPEN! DEADLINE 9/13, midnight. THEME: Harvest & Circles
Saturday openings @ 3 PM!
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CHBO – in Spotlight
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LARGE WORKS! – in Membership
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Susan Kaufman – in Front Gallery
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SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS, EVENTS & EXHIBITS
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Starting Wednesday 9/3! Hudson Valley Improv! Mondays & Wednesday night classes! Register HERE.
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Starting Thursday 9/4! Teresa Smith Open Source Forms – Movement workshops on Thursday evenings!REGISTER by email: Earthbodybreath@gmail.com
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SEPTEMBER Exhibits: 9/6 – 9/28
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CHBO – in Spotlight
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LARGE WORKS! – in Membership
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Susan Kaufman – in Front Gallery
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Starting Monday 9/8! Pastor Tim Bupp’s free workshops: Spirituality Beyond Religion on Monday evenings, twice monthly – starting in SEPTEMBER! REGISTER by email: ptbupp@yahoo.com
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Starting Tuesday 9/9! Got2Lindy SWING DANCE LESSONS – ALL LEVELS. Register HERE
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Saturday, 9/20! SHOCK EXCHANGE! An unforgettable evening of Harmolodic Jazz with Dave Bryant – keys, John Turner -bass, Chris Bowman – drums/ percussion, with Neil Leonard – saxes. Tix $25 at door.
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Thursday, 9/25, 7 – 9 PM: Transformation and the Myth of Innana – a workshop with Dr. Catherine Svehla. Learn more and register HERE!
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Saturday 9/27 Hudson Valley Improv PERFORMANCE! Get tix HERE!
SIGN UP FOR AWARD WINNING HUDSON VALLEY IMPROV!!!
Hudson Valley Improv is right here at ASK. Come see one of their award-winning shows—always fast, funny, and completely made up on the spot. Or jump into one of their improv classes, designed for adults of all levels, where you’ll laugh, connect, and surprise yourself with what you can do. Looking for something more personal? They also offer private coaching for solo shows and team training that brings people together, builds confidence, and makes communication easier and more fun. These classes sell out quickly! Sign up now!
Tickets & booking information at www.hudsonvalleyimprov.com
Open Source Forms / Dancing the Inner Landscape with Teresa Smith
REGISTER: Earthbodybreath@gmail.com
In OSF classes we enter a creative process; letting go of outer layers of holding to find primal energy and ease. Guided by embodied imagery as a powerful tool for transformation we’ll learn to move with agility, transparency and depth. Through alignment studies, movement exploration and group improvisation we’ll cultivate a deep connection to our inner and outer environments. A remarkably effective and revolutionary way of learning, the OSF approach can catalyze learning and transformation in many kinds of practices and in daily life.
This ASK series is open to adults and teens, all abilities celebrated. Of interest to dancers, artists, writers, musicians, actors, athletes, elders and people of all ages desiring ways to visualize, move and be in their bodies with originality and joy.
Teresa Smith brings to her teaching a warm appreciation of each person’s essence and delights in awakening the creative spirit. She is a certified teacher of OSF and studied the root form Skinner Releasing for several decades. Teresa’s teaching and performing spans the fields of post-modern dance, release techniques, authentic movement, contact improvisation, butoh, ballet, Sufi dance meditation, holotropic breathwork and consciousness studies. Through Earthbody Events she presents performance and workshops emerging from an intimate conversation with the body, psyche and nature environment. Earthbodyevents.
FREE workshop series with Pastor Tim Bupp to explore spirituality that exists beyond the traditional structure of religion. Please register at: ptbupp@yahoo.com
Got2Lindy SWING DANCE CLASSES every Tuesday night at ASK from 6 – 9 PM!
Shock Exchange Reunites for One-Night-Only Harmolodic Jazz Performance at ASK
Kingston, NY — September 20, 2025 — The Arts Society of Kingston (ASK) is proud to present a rare reunion of Shock Exchange, the improvisational jazz ensemble formed in Boston in 1984 with the encouragement and guidance of jazz legend Ornette Coleman. The concert will take place on Saturday, September 20 at 8:00 PM in ASK’s Great Room. Tickets are $25.
Shock Exchange brings together original members Dave Bryant – keys, John Turner -bass, Chris Bowman – drums/ perc. ; with Neil Leonard – saxes for an unforgettable evening of Harmolodic Jazz. The ensemble was one of the earliest to explore Coleman’s radical Harmolodic Theory, a musical approach emphasizing equality among instruments and the liberation of melody, harmony, and rhythm.
The group released its first LP in 1985, featuring liner notes by Ornette Coleman himself. Bryant went on to perform extensively with Coleman’s Prime Time band throughout the 1990s, while the trio with George Garzone and Bob Gullotti recorded Eternal Hang in 1996, which earned 4 stars in DownBeat Magazine. Individually, the members have performed, toured, and recorded worldwide with countless acclaimed artists.
“This is a very special evening for Kingston,” says ASK Executive Director Amy Poux. “To host musicians so deeply rooted in Ornette Coleman’s legacy—and to experience them together again after decades—is a rare gift for our community.”
In addition to the performance, guests are invited to arrive early and explore The Art of CHBO, a visual art exhibition by percussionist Chris Bowman, on view in ASK’s first-floor gallery.
Hudson Valley Improv COMPANY SHOW! Saturday September 27 @ 7 PM! Get Tix HERE
Explore the role of transformation in your life through a guided journey into the ancient myth of the Goddess Inanna and seed your psyche for deeper engagement with the Greater Mysteries, an immersive music-and-ritual project that will culminate in two performances at Widow Jane Mine on Sept 26 and 27. We’ll draw on the power of myth, conversation, journaling, and ritual to step into a mythic space together. Previous knowledge of the myth is not required; click here for details and registration.
Registration closes Monday September 22nd. Group size is limited to allow for the best experience. The workshop fee is $35.
SEPTEMBER EXHIBITS!
SPOTLIGHT GALLERY: Chris Bowman – CHBO
This exhibition showcases the bold and intuitive work of artist Chris Bowman, featuring a collection of abstract paintings and hand-carved wood totem sculptures. The pieces—ranging in size from intimate 2’x2’ canvases to expansive 5’x8’-foot works—create a visual rhythm that will resonate with the progressive jazz concert taking place in ASK’s upstairs performance space on Saturday, September 20th from 7 – 9 PM.
Approximately 25 works will be on view, including layered acrylics on canvas and freestanding wooden totems that echo the pulse and improvisational energy of live jazz. Each piece emerges through an instinctive process, where form, color, and texture interact much like instruments in a band—conversing, clashing, and harmonizing.
This exhibition invites viewers into a shared sensory experience—where the spontaneity of sound and the immediacy of visual art collide in real time.
About the artist: Chris Bowman has been creating visual art from an early age, working primarily in abstract painting and sculptural forms. His practice is rooted in gesture, rhythm, and improvisation—qualities that draw strong parallels to the spirit of jazz. Bowman’s work includes large-scale acrylic paintings and hand-carved wood totems that embody movement and energy. Inspired by the Harmolodic style of Ornette Coleman, Fourth World of Jon Hassel and the NYC Downtown scene, his process is intuitive and layered, allowing the unexpected to emerge as part of the final composition.
Bowman has exhibited multimedia work across a plethora of cities and countries, and continues to explore the intersections between visual art, sound, and physical space. His pieces invite viewers to feel rather than decode—offering a space where instinct, abstraction, and emotion meet.
FRONT GALLERY: Susan Kaufman – Ghosts as Visitors
In this haunting series of shadowbox images, Susan Kaufman’s multi-media work explores the presence of ghosts—not as fleeting apparitions, but as insistent visitors. These figures linger, sometimes inviting us in, other times looming with silent menace.
The ghost appears to us as something both there and not there. It stands as a peculiar kind of memory in which something forgotten or discarded asserts itself.
Through layered visual storytelling and a tactile, dimensional format, Ghosts as Visitors invites viewers to confront the unseen forces that shape memory, identity, and power.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Susan Kaufman has been an artist and art teacher in New York for over 40 years. Her previous roles include being the Art Director at the Hudson Valley Children’s Museum, the Scarsdale Historical Society, and the JCC of Mid-Westchester. Susan has also taught classes at high schools, summer programs, and art centers for life drawing, pop-up cards, paper engineering, and other kinds of paper crafts. Her most recent art exhibitions have been at the JCC of Mid-Westchester, the New Rochelle Art Association, and a solo show at the Harrison Library.
Susan draws inspiration for her work from ghost stories, the uncanny, old black and white photographs, and Victorian architecture.
MEMBERSHIP GALLERY: Big Works
Members large art work in all mediums.
Featuring work by: Edward Bakst, John Dinkey, Michael DiPleco, Ted Dixon, Walter Fancourt, David Holt, Barbara Holt, Lynn Margileth, Zack Paul, Carol Pepper-Cooper, Erik Richards, Aleksandra Scepanovic, Fran Sutherland, Stefan Turr, Nicholas von Bujdoss, Ken Wenger, Karen Wyks-Lindsay.
2025 + 2026 Member Shows – Themes and Dates
Submission Guidelines
- Artwork will be exhibited in Members Gallery.
- Artist must be a current member of ASK.
- *Two small/medium works or one large work (Size limit 60″ wide).
- Artists will submit 1 jpg/png/mp3/mov file per work.
- Artists must have means to transport the work to/from ASK.
- Artists receive 70% of sales during the run of the exhibition. ASK retains 30% of sales. All work must be for sale.
- All artworks will be exhibited as entered in form. This includes the Artist Name, Artwork, Title, Date, Medium, Dimensions, and Price. No changes and/or substitutions will be permitted. Please check your details carefully.
- Must be relevant to the theme.
- Label affixed on back with Phone, Address, Email, Name of work, Price.
- Provide 2nd Label with same info.
- Each work must have proper wire.
- All exhibitors must schedule 1 date to gallery sit.
*To prevent overcrowding, ASK may limit members to 1 work, if needed. Calendar themes are subject to change. Please check often.
| Month | Spotlight Theme | Front Gallery Theme | Member Theme | SUBMISSION DEADLINE | Intake Dates | Exhibit Dates | Pickup Dates |
| September | CHRIS BOWMAN
CHBO |
Big Works: at least 60” – limited space, submission process will close once enough work is received to fill the gallery. Please apply early. | Saturday, 8/9 – 8/16 Midnight | 9/2: 5 – 8 P
9/3: 1 – 4 PM |
9/6 – 9/28 | 9/30: 5 – 8 PM
10/1: 1 – 4 PM |
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| October | 30 YEAR TRIBUTE:
Vindora Wixom
Katharine McKenna
Staats Fasoldt |
Circles & Harvest: artwork in all media that explores themes of life’s cyclical nature; the interplay between beginnings and endings, the abundance and the impermanence of existence. | Saturday, 8/31 – 9/13 Midnight | 9/30: 5 – 8 PM
10/1: 1 – 4 PM |
10/4 – 10/26 | 10/28: 5 – 8 PM 10/29: 1 – 4 PM | |
| November | CURATED: Functional Art Show | Textiles:
OPEN CALL CURATED SHOW |
Saturday, 10/3 – 10/10 Midnight | 10/28: 5 – 8 PM 10/29: 1 – 4 PM | 11/1 – 11/30 | 12/2: 5 – 8 PM
12/3: 1 – 4 PM |
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| December | CURATED: Functional Art Show | Scenes From Life: all mediums, sizes up to 60”. | Saturday, 11/8-11/15 | 12/2: 5 – 8 PM
12/3: 1 – 4 PM |
12/6 – 12/28 | 12/29: 5 – 8 PM
12/30: 1 – 4 PM |
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| January/February | CURATED: Black History Month: In Pursuit of Freedom: Let Freedom Ring | Refraction: Light as it bends through ice, glass, water, memory, time | Saturday, 12/6 – 12/12 Midnight | 12/29: 5 – 8 PM
12/30: 1 – 4 PM |
1/3 – 2/22 | 3/3: 5 – 8 P
3/4: 1 – 4 P |
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| March | SOLO/GROUP | National Women’s history: all women, everywhere | JURIED: Explore Boundaries | Saturday, 2/7 – 2/14/26 Midnight | 3/3: 5 – 8 P
3/4: 1 – 4 P |
3/7 – 3/29 | 4/1: 5 – 8 P
4/2: 1 – 4 P |
| April | BIRD:: Group Show | Save Your Earth | You Can’t Get Off | JURIED: H20 | Saturday, 3/7 – 3/14 Midnight | 4/1: 5 – 8 P
4/2: 1 – 4 P |
4/4 – 4/26 | 4/28: 5 – 8 P
4/29: 1 – 4 P |
| May | SOLO/GROUP | Asian Pacific American heritage | Petals and Pollinators: illustrating between the bees | Saturday, 4/4 – 4/11Midnight | 4/28: 5 – 8 P
4/29: 1 – 4 P |
5/2 – 5/31 | 6/2: 5 – 8 P
6/3: 1 – 4 P |
| June | CURATED: PRIDE: Unveiling Identity & Transformation | Art as an Act of Rebellion | Saturday, 5/2 – 5/9 Midnight | 6/2: 5 – 8 P
6/3: 1 – 4 P |
6/6 – 6/28 | 6/30: 5 – 8 P
7/1: 1 – 4P |
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| July | SOLO/GROUP | Fourth of July | Converging Realities – Altered Perceptions (Surrealist prompt) | Saturday , 6/6 – 6/13 Midnight | 6/30: 5 – 8 P
7/1: 1 – 4P |
7/4 – 7/26 | 7/28: 5 – 8 P
7/29: 1 – 4 P |
| August | SOLO/GROUP | Soapbox Derby | The Essence of Abstraction | Saturday, 7/4 – 7/11 Midnight | 7/28: 5 – 8 P
7/29: 1 – 4 P |
8/1– 8/30 | 9/1: 5 – 4 PM
9/2: 1 – 4 PM |
| September | CURATED: Hispanic/Latino Heritage | Hooley on the Hudson | Poetry of the Ordinary | Saturday, 8/8 – 8/15 Midnight | 9/1: 5 – 4 PM
9/2: 1 – 4 PM |
9/5 – 9/27 | 9/29: 5 – 8 P
9/30: 1 – 4 P |
| October | SOLO/GROUP | Italian American Fest | JURIED: Color Inferno | Saturday, 9/5 – 9/12 Midnight | 9/29: 5 – 8 P
9/30: 1 – 4 P |
10/3 – 10/25 | 10/29: 5 – 8 P
10/30: 1 – 4 P |
| November/December | SOLO/GROUP | National American Indian Heritage | CURATED: Affordable Art Show- Winter Wonderland, Holiday Exhibition | Saturday, 10/10 – 10/17 Midnight | 10/29: 5 – 8 P
10/30: 1 – 4 P |
11/7 – 12/20 | 1/5: 5 – 9 P
1/6: 1 – 5 P |