Arts Society of Kingston

Petals & Pollinators: Illustrating Between the Bees
2026-05-16 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-15 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-14 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-10 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-09 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-07 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-03 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Petals & Pollinators: Illustrating Between the Bees

Showing in the Members Gallery

Opening Reception May 2nd @ 3pm

Exhibition May 2 – 31, 2026

ASK Gallery Hours: Thurs – Sun, Noon – 5pm

This exhibition features work that examines the beauty, fragility, and interdependence of ecological systems from the intimate exchange of pollen to the broader environmental narratives of climate change, habitat loss, and biodiversity. Through all visual mediums, artists interpret “between the bees” expansively: as a literal space of ecological exchange, a metaphor for collaboration and community, or a meditation on the delicate balance that sustains life.

Featured member artists: Larry Arvidson, Bob Barnes, Lawrence Bush, Michael DiPleco, Stacie Flint, Melissa Forbes, Terry Haas, Tom Hackett, Emeline Hastings, Laura Helfant, Kim Henry, Barbara Holt, David Holt, Carrie Hotz-Barth, Locke Johnston, David Joseph, Tom Looney, Joel Mandelbaum, Debbie Martin, James McCann, Carol McCarthy, Julie Michels-Ruiz.

FREE ADMISSION

Retrospective: Fran Sutherland
2026-05-16 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-15 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-14 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-10 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-09 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-07 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-03 12:00 - 17:00 | Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 12401, United States
Retrospective

Fran Sutherland

Showing in the Front Gallery

Opening Reception May 2 @ 3pm

Exhibition May 2 – 31, 2026

ASK Gallery Hours: Fri – Sun, Noon – 5pm

From the oil paintings created in 1958 at SUNY New Paltz until the mixed media art works of 2025, this retrospective features the landscape and bridges of the Hudson Valley inspired by abstract representations of native American (Lenape) sacred stories.

Fran Sutherland, a native New Yorker, is a painter, teacher and restorer of historic homes. Strongly influenced by Eastern aesthetics, Fran’s creative paintings synthesize both Eastern and Western formats in multi-media works. The chosen media and techniques express personal ideas, which is especially evident in her textural compositions emphasizing oil and acrylic resist techniques.

About the artist

Fran Sutherland, a native New Yorker, is a painter, teacher, and restorer of historic homes. Strongly influenced by Eastern aesthetics, Fran’s creative paintings synthesize both Eastern and Western formats in multi-media works. The chosen media and techniques express personal ideas, which is especially evident in her textural compositions emphasizing oil and acrylic resist techniques. Fran’s most recent and unique works reflect the geophysical world, which we all experience in different ways. For this artist, walking, hiking, and motorless boating are meditative and energizing at the same time. To begin looking out or forward is the way Fran Sutherland psychologically and physically approaches the day and life. The Meditative Series depict the top piece that shows an Asian-styled, vertical composition, and the second bottom piece that recognizes what is at one’s feet and depicts the subject in a Western, rectangular format. The two paintings are then presented and suspended as one work of art. This new series of paintings explores and attempts to share the act of looking forward and where one is at the moment, or what is below as well as ahead.

Many of her works, including The Bridge Series, integrate geologic coloration and the play of light and water with local and international sites and architectural structures. Sutherland’s semi-autobiographical paintings continue to be inspired by New York’s Hudson Valley and Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains.

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Sketch Group Monthly
2026-05-15 19:00 - 21:00
Monthly Drop-In Drawing @ ASK

Drop-In Drawing is part of ASK Friday Nights, when Arts Society of Kingston stays open late and admission is free. ASK Sketch Group invites community members to explore sketching in a relaxed, welcoming drop-in session. These gatherings are about observation, curiosity, and creativity, not perfection.

Starting FRIDAY, April 17, 20267pm-9pmAnd every third Friday following.

Sessions are facilitated by ASK Gallery Committee members and guest artists and take place monthly in the ASK classroom and gallery. All skill levels are encouraged, from first-time doodlers to experienced artists.

Participants bring own art materials.

Drop ins & Sign ups welcome.

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HAZMAT
2026-05-15 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-14 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-10 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-09 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-08 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-07 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-03 12:00 - 17:00
HAZMAT

Stephen Olivier

Showing in the Spotlight Gallery

Opening Reception May 2nd @ 3pm

Exhibition May 2 – 31, 2026

ASK Gallery Hours: Fri – Sun, Noon – 5pm

Stephen Olivier’s current body of work includes paintings and sculptural work, that emerge from the collision of biography and belief – a reckoning with the self, built from Catholic guilt, queer identity, and a lifelong quest to resolve the unfinished career of his father.

About the artist

Stephen Olivier is an award winning artist whose work has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and artist-run spaces across the United States and internationally. Olivier was awarded a 2025 residency at NES in Skagaströnd, Iceland. His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Let the Fur and Feathers Fly at Epperson Gallery in California, the Texas National Competition at the Cole Art Center in Texas, Big Bold Pride at the Art Society of Kingston, and Truth Unveiled at Art League Rhode Island. Additional exhibitions include the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, KIPNZ in Walton, NY, and venues throughout New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Berlin. Olivier’s solo exhibitions include Over the Garden Wall at Subdivision Art in Long Island City, and Beforemath at the Octopus Building in Miami.

Olivier’s sculptural work has also appeared in film, including creating thirty resin sculptures for Shelton Walsmith’s short film The Importance of Being Amber. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Preparator at White Box and The Annex in New York, where he installed exhibitions for artists including Carolee Schneemann, Brian Maguire, Javier Téllez, Marianne Vitale, Joel Sternfeld, William Anastasi, Conrad Atkinson, and Jeff Chiplis.

New Work Lab
2026-05-14 19:00 - 21:00
Monthly Lab for Developing Original Theatrical Material @ ASK

Arts Society of Kingston’s MONTHLY New Work Lab is a supportive, artist-centered space for developing original theatrical material at any stage. Open to playwrights, actors, directors, and theater-makers from across the Hudson Valley and beyond. Sign up below.

Starting THURSDAY, April 16, 20267pm-9pmAnd every third Thursday following.

Playwrights are invited to bring in pages, scenes, or full drafts to be read aloud by fellow artists, followed by thoughtful, facilitated conversation. Rooted in ASK’s commitment to creative process, equity, and community care, will use writer-driven (Liz Lehrman) feedback approach. There is no pressure to perform or produce—only the opportunity to hear work out loud, ask questions, and explore what the play wants to become.

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Got2Lindy Swing Dance Classes
2026-05-12 18:00 - 21:00
Got2Lindy Swing Dance Lessons

Beginner to Advance

Every Tuesday Night @ ASK6pm-9pm

4-week sessions:6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Beginner Swing7:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Intermediate Swing8:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Advanced Swing

Register Here!

Hudson Valley Improv
2026-05-11 18:00 - 21:00, 2026-05-04 18:00 - 21:00
Hudson Valley Improv

At Arts Society of Kingston

Wednesdays, June 3, 10, 17, 24, 6-9PM

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!

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Tickets & booking information at www.hudsonvalleyimprov.com

WEiRD: A staged reading
2026-05-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 12401, United States
WEiRD: A Staged Reading & Fundraiser for ASK

Saturday May 9, 2026 @ 7:30pm

Kingston, NY

Overview:

WEiRD is an ensemble play that explores adolescence through the eyes of Grayson, a 13-year-old neurodivergent science prodigy who sees the world in formulas and patterns. Recently placed in a high school biology class far beyond his age, Grayson becomes the emotional center of a loosely connected group of teens and adults navigating grief, identity, family fractures, and the pressure to conform. An allegorical surrealistic play, WEiRD unfolds through multimedia imagery, an immersive soundscape, and minimal set pieces that shape its dreamlike world.

Featuring: Nicholas Scott, Trudy Poux, Aliyah Gruberg-Revty, Josh Crouch, Lex Powell, Norm Magnusson, Arriella Guidubaldi, Hannah Munson, Johnny Poux.

Written & Directed by Amy Poux, Live percussion by Chris Bowman

The play centers on the quiet resilience of teens living on the edge: River, Grayson’s older sibling, who is quietly unraveling under the weight of adult responsibilities; Shiloh, Grayson’s best friend and confidant, and surprising empathy in Wren, an older student who becomes a quiet ally. Meanwhile, Wren’s girlfriend Dakota—a complicated teen grappling with queerness and internalized rage—feels threatened by Grayson’s bond with Wren and begins to lash out. Her brother Bryce, angry and adrift, enables her aggression while navigating his own toxic masculinity and family trauma.

Amy Poux, the project’s writer and director, brings a distinct theatrical style rooted in nonlinear structure, impressionistic imagery, and live audience interaction. Her work draws from Boal and Brechtian traditions, combining poetic storytelling with community engagement to create theater that invites transformation and radical empathy.

WEiRD continues Poux’s commitment to centering voices that are typically marginalized and those living at the intersection of difference and invisibility. The piece does not merely depict trauma, it models resilience, tenderness, and the radical possibilities of inclusion. Stylistically, WEiRD builds on Poux’s prior work (Nona’s Supper Club, Do Nothings TV pilot, and Take To The Bed) by incorporating stylized movement, poetic language, and musicality to draw the audience into the protagonist’s world view.

This staged reading is a fundraiser for Arts Society of Kingston in celebration of the new performing arts venue. All sales will go towards ASK’s operations and support of this vital new space for performing artists.

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Teresa Smith: Open Source Form
2026-05-08 11:00 - 13:00
Open Source Forms / Dancing the Inner Landscape

With Teresa Smith

March 13 & 17, 2026

April 10 & 24, 2026

May 8 & 22, 2026

June 5 & 19, 2026

11Am – 1PM

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. In this series we’ll explore three unique states of dancing; I move, it moves me, It moves! A remarkably effective way of learning, the OSF approach can catalyze transformation in many kinds of practice, in unique movement virtuosity, and in daily life.

What to expect:This is an improvisational movement class for all levels of movers, and can be done with any amount of energy. Kinesthetic insight is approached in multi-directional, structural and poetic ways. Music and silence is interwoven with (spoken) poetic imagery, deep meditations and active, focused improvisation.

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 Open Source Forms™ and practiced the root form Skinner Releasing™ for three decades. Through her dance company ‘Earthbody’ she presents performance, artwork and workshops emerging from an intimate conversation with the body, psyche and natural environment.

Learn more: www.earthbodyevents.com

REGISTER: Earthbodybreath@gmail.com
