In October we celebrate ASK’s 30th Year

SEPTEMBER WORKSHOPS, EVENTS & EXHIBITS

  • Thursday, 9/25, 7 – 9 PM: Transformation and the Myth of Innana – a workshop with Dr. Catherine Svehla. Learn more and register HERE!

  • Saturday 9/27 Hudson Valley Improv PERFORMANCE! Get tix HERE!

  • Teresa Smith Open Source Forms – Movement workshops on Thursday evenings!REGISTER by email: Earthbodybreath@gmail.com

  • SEPTEMBER Exhibits: 9/6 – 9/28

      • CHBO – in Spotlight

      • LARGE WORKS! – in Membership

      • Susan Kaufman – in Front Gallery

  • Pastor Tim Bupp’s free workshops: Spirituality Beyond Religion on Monday evenings, twice monthly –  starting in SEPTEMBER! REGISTER by email: ptbupp@yahoo.com

  • Got2Lindy SWING DANCE LESSONS – ALL LEVELS. Register HERE

THIS WEEK @ ASK!

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.

Hudson Valley Improv COMPANY SHOW! Saturday September 27 @ 7 PM! Get Tix HERE

APPLY HERE

This open call invites textile artists to submit contemporary fiber-based artworks, tapestries, and woven works that explore the relationship between textiles and abstraction in modern art. Submissions may also include prints or other artworks that incorporate fiber or textile elements.

Bruce Weber, Artist and historian
Dr. Bruce Weber is an independent art historian specializing in American art of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus in recent years on the historic Woodstock art colony. He received his Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate School of the City University of New York and has served as a curator at the Norton Museum of Art, the National Academy Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York. From 1990 to 2007, he was Director of Research and Exhibitions at Berry-Hill Galleries in New York City.

Over the course of his career, Weber has curated numerous major exhibitions and published extensively on American art, contributing essays on artists such as William Merritt Chase, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Will Barnet. His writing has appeared widely, including regular contributions to The Magazine Antiques.

In recent years, Weber has curated several important exhibitions in the Hudson Valley, including the landscapes of Otto Blerhals at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (2020), the art of Zuma Steele at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, and the Tomas Penning retrospective at the Woodstock School of Art (2023). Since 2020, he has also produced and written for the blog Learning Woodstock Art Colony, which documents the history and ongoing influence of this storied creative community.

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

Thursdays 5:30 – 7 pm
September 4, 11, 18, 25 and October 2, 9, 16,  23,  30

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.com

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!

Graphic of a man and woman doing the Lindy dance. Got2Lindy Dance Studio

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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.
  • 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

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 INVITATIONAL: Functional Art Show Textiles:

OPEN CALL JURIED SHOW

Inviting textile artists to submit contemporary fiber-based artworks, tapestries, and woven works exploring the relationship between textiles and abstraction in modern art. These could also include prints or artwork that includes fiber or textile elements.

BRUCE WEBER – CURATOR

Saturday, 9/22 – 9/29 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

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

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

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

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

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