Retrospective: Fran Sutherland
2026-05-03 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-05-02 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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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HAZMAT
2026-05-02 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.

Petals & Pollinators: Illustrating Between the Bees
2026-05-02 12:00 - 17:00
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

Got2Lindy Swing Dance Classes
2026-04-28 18:00 - 21:00, 2026-04-21 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!

Two Seasons
2026-04-26 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-25 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-24 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-19 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-18 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-17 12:00 - 17:00
Two Seasons

Ted Dixon

Showing in the Front Gallery

Opening Reception April 4th @ 3pm

Exhibition April 4 – 26, 2026

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

Ted Dixon’s solo exhibition Two Seasons features abstract paintings inspired by the cyclical rhythms of shared human existence.

“As with art, the change in seasons provides opportunities for reflection,” Dixon writes. “If we had no winter, walking barefoot on a warm sandy beach would take us to a very different place.”

Born in New York City in 1953, Dixon has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1992 and in Rosendale since 2009. He studied at Fordham University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the School of Visual Arts. After a 25-year career as a web designer, Dixon began dedicating himself fully to his artistic practice in 2009.

His work has been exhibited at Montgomery Row Art Space (Rhinebeck), Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, ADS Gallery (Newburgh), Arts Society of Kingston, Gallery at the Rosendale Theatre, and Albany Center Gallery.

Dixon is a Black painter working primarily in abstraction. His work explores perception and memory through layered visual compositions. “How do we learn to see what we cannot yet see?” he asks. “My paintings attempt to capture moments in time shaped by personal experience.”

Inner Worlds, Outer Views
2026-04-26 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-25 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-24 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-19 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-18 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-17 12:00 - 17:00
Inner Worlds, Outer Views

Artists: Oneil Edwards, Eileen Power, Lynn Margileth

Showing in the Spotlight Gallery

Opening Reception April 4th @ 3pm

Exhibition April 4 – 26, 2026

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

Oneil EdwardsThis series is shaped by a lifelong relationship with nature that began in the mountains of Jamaica and continues in the landscapes of the Hudson Valley. By zooming into the landscape until it dissolves into form, color, and light, Edwards seeks moments where harmony and chaos, beauty and the sublime coexist.

O’Neil Edwards is an emerging abstract impressionist painter based in New York’s Hudson Valley. He earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, studying with pioneering abstract painter Jack Whitten. After graduating in 2002, Edwards began his career in graphic design with a small art publication before transitioning into product design. Over the past two decades he has led design initiatives and product design teams for major media and technology companies including The New Yorker, Yahoo Finance, and several startups.

During the pandemic, Edwards began refocusing his professional path toward creating artwork, reconnecting deeply with his studio practice. He continues to pursue this work today. This exhibition marks his first.

Eileen PowerThis body of work was born of grief. A few years ago, my partner Steve passed away after a long battle with cancer. As a way of working through that grief, I began creating artworks using his used drop cloths. The resulting pieces became a testament to our love—somehow, he lives on within them.

Eileen Power creates sculptures and mixed-media works from everyday materials, animating discarded objects in unexpected ways. Her work reflects a deep interest in transformation and renewal through artistic process.

Her sculptures have been exhibited at the Phoenicia Festival of the Arts, the 2025 Biennial Woodstock Byrdcliffe Sculpture Show, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, the Kingston Design Showhouse, and the exhibition Shelter, curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

Power received the Robert Angeloch Printmaking Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 2021 and the Nicholas Buhalis Award for Weaving the Woven in 2024. Her work is held in collections across the United States and Europe.

Lynn MargilethLynn Margileth is an award-winning visual artist working across oil, acrylic, etching, encaustic, and mixed media. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and public collections.

Margileth’s landscapes are inspired by a deep connection to the spirit of the land. Through layered color and energetic brushwork, her paintings guide the viewer through familiar Hudson Valley landscapes toward moments of meditative radiance that transcend reality.

Her canvases explore both vast and intimate spaces—sky, mountains, water reflections, and winding roads—inviting the viewer to soar, wander, and dream. She was recently selected for an artist residency at the Colerain Art Center in Pennsylvania.

Explore Boundaries
2026-04-26 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-25 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-24 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-19 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-18 12:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-17 12:00 - 17:00
Explore Boundaries

Juried by Wayne Montecalvo

Showing in the Members Gallery

Opening Reception April 4th @ 3pm

Exhibition April 4 – 26, 2026

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

Explore Boundaries is an experimental exhibition inviting artists to investigate boundaries in their many forms—from physical borders to emotional, psychological, social, and political limits. Through a broad range of two- and three-dimensional media, participating artists explore ideas that question what separates us, what connects us, and how limits can be tested, dissolved, or redefined.

Participating Artists:Susan Angeles, Edward Bakst, Stuart Bigley, Mary Lynne Bonforte, Dave Channon, James Fossett, Tom Hackett, D.A. Hamlin, Michelle Hughes, Deborah Kittay-Heffler, Terry Murray, Sean Nixon, Jacqueline O’Malley-Satz, Lindsay Peyton, Tom Picasso, Deborah Sanchez, Aleksandra Scepanovic, Steven Sidrane, Suzanne Stokes, The Welcomes, Lisa Wilde, and Vindora Wixom.

Juror: Wayne Montecalvo

Wayne Montecalvo is a multidisciplinary artist working across mixed media, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video, and installation. His work explores perception, material transformation, and the conceptual boundaries of image-making, often foregrounding process as a generative force.

Montecalvo has received numerous awards and residencies including the Awagami Artist-in-Residence Program in Tokushima, Japan; NYFA MARK ’09; fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center; residencies at the Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), the John Michael Kohler Foundation Arts/Industry Residency (Wisconsin), Women’s Studio Workshop, Artists at Work (New York State Council on the Arts), and Cill Rialaig in County Kerry, Ireland.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Awagami Paper Factory (Japan), Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Albany Center Gallery, Truro Center for the Arts, and the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

Hudson Valley Improv: Double Header
2026-04-25 19:00 - 22:00
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Hudson Valley Improv: Double Header!

Saturday April 25, 2026 @ 7pm

Kingston, NY

Overview: An improvised film made live: a desperate director, live composer, cast & audience create a movie in real time.

Fast and furious improv where your suggestions don’t just shape the show, they are the show!

Hudson Valley Improv is bringing two back-to-back live improv shows to the Arts Society of Kingston on Saturday April 25th at 7pm — and it’s the kind of night that reminds you why live performance is unlike anything else.

The evening features two full shows, including a performance by HVI’s National Touring Company. HVI’s signature style is fast, daring, and audience-fueled — your suggestions don’t just shape the show, they are the show.

Learn More: Hudson Valley Improv

Get Tickets Here

Artist Panel: The Power of Art to Help Us Survive
2026-04-24 17:00 - 18:30 | Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 12401, United States
Join exhibiting artists Ted Dixon, Lynn Margileth, Eileen Power, and curator Stephen Olivier for a thought-provoking conversation about the creative processes behind their current exhibitions at the Arts Society of Kingston: Inner Worlds, Outer Views (Margileth, Olivier, Power) and Two Seasons (Dixon), on view through Sunday, April 26. Together, they’ll reflect on how artistic practice helps us make meaning, sustain connection, and navigate uncertain times, offering insight into the role art plays in resilience, reflection, and collective survival.

About the artists:Ted DixonBorn in New York City in 1953, Dixon has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1992 and in Rosendale since 2009. He studied at Fordham University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the School of Visual Arts. After a 25-year career as a web designer, Dixon began dedicating himself fully to his artistic practice in 2009.

His work has been exhibited at Montgomery Row Art Space (Rhinebeck), Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, ADS Gallery (Newburgh), Arts Society of Kingston, Gallery at the Rosendale Theatre, and Albany Center Gallery.

Dixon is a Black American painter working primarily in abstraction. His work explores perception and memory through layered visual compositions. “How do we learn to see what we cannot yet see?” he asks. “My paintings attempt to capture moments in time shaped by personal experience.”Lynn MargilethLynn Margileth is an award-winning visual artist working across oil, acrylic, etching, encaustic, and mixed media. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and is held in public collections.

Margileth’s landscapes emerge from a deep connection to the spirit of the land. Through layered color and energetic brushwork, her paintings guide viewers through familiar Hudson Valley terrain toward moments of meditative radiance that transcend the literal landscape.

Her canvases move between vast and intimate spaces—sky, mountains, water reflections, and winding roads—inviting viewers to soar, wander, and dream. She was recently selected for an artist residency at the Colerain Art Center in Pennsylvania.Stephen Olivier, CuratorStephen 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. His solo exhibitions include Life, Still at Latham & Watkins, New York; Aquaculture at City Aquarium, Brooklyn; Over the Garden Wall at Subdivision Art, Long Island City; and Beforemath at the Octopus Building, Miami.

His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Let the Fur and Feathers Fly at Epperson Gallery (CA), the Texas National Competition at the Cole Art Center (TX), Big Bold Pride at the Arts Society of Kingston, and Truth Unveiled at Art League Rhode Island (all 2025), as well as exhibitions at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, KIPNZ (Walton, NY), and venues throughout New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Berlin.

Olivier was awarded a 2025 residency at NES in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Preparator at White Box and The Annex in New York, installing exhibitions for artists including Carolee Schneemann, Brian Maguire, Javier Téllez, Marianne Vitale, Joel Sternfeld, William Anastasi, Conrad Atkinson, and Jeff Chiplis. His sculptural work also appeared in Shelton Walsmith’s short film The Importance of Being Amber (2011).Eileen PowerEileen Power creates sculptures and mixed-media works from everyday materials, animating discarded objects in unexpected ways. Her work reflects a deep interest in transformation, memory, and renewal through artistic process.

A recent body of work emerged from personal loss following the death of her partner, Steve, after a long battle with cancer. Using his used drop cloths as material, Power created a series of sculptures that serve as quiet testaments to love and continuity—works in which presence endures through making.

Her sculptures have been exhibited at the Phoenicia Festival of the Arts, the 2025 Biennial Woodstock Byrdcliffe Sculpture Show, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, the Kingston Design Showhouse, and Shelter, curated by Melinda Stickney-Gibson for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. She received the Robert Angeloch Printmaking Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum in 2021 and the Nicholas Buhalis Award for Weaving the Woven in 2024. Her work is held in collections across the United States and Europe.

Teresa Smith: Open Source Form
2026-04-24 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

Hudson Valley Improv
2026-04-22 18:00 - 21:00
Hudson Valley Improv

At The Arts Society of Kingston

Wednesdays, April 1 – April 22, 6-9PM

Mondays, May 4 – May 25, 6-9PM

Wednesdays, June 3 – June 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!

SIGN UP HERE

Tickets & booking information at www.hudsonvalleyimprov.com

Sketch Group Monthly
2026-04-17 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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New Work Lab
2026-04-16 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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