Blog — Murals and Installations

A collaboration between The Cronin Gallery, The Dorsky Museum, The Wallkill Valley Land Trust, and Women’s Studio Workshop that places site-specific installations at outdoor locations in Rosendale, New Paltz, and Gardiner. The Wallkill Valley Land Trust is acting as a bridge between the artists, organizations, and the land, bringing contemporary art into trails and open spaces. Each organization is working with a woman-identified artist to present artwork at each location and will be hosting programming throughout the weekend at the different sites in order to engage our visitors and foster conversations around land stewardship and the importance of art in connecting communities.

ALL EVENTS LISTED ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Outdoor Installations / On View from Dawn to Dusk - All Weekend

• Women’s Studio Workshop @ 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston / Artist: Althea James: Over the course of her four-week Public Art Mural Grant Residency, James will create an original work of art for WSW’s mural wall: an ever-evolving canvas for public art that overlooks both their new ADA-accessible outdoor event space and the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail. For this mural, the artist is thinking about the different ways that family can manifest for an individual. In the scene, adults, children, and animals are coming together around games, food, and conversation. A community table is a place where people can share space, be transformed, be challenged, and healed through mutual acts of care. The artist wanted to create an image that demonstrates a re-imagining of family and love, and deeply rooted connections.
• Dorsky Museum @ Nyquist Harcourt  Wildlife Sanctuary, 133 Huguenot St, New Paltz / Artist Emilie Houssart: Dorsky Museum 2021 Artist-in-Residence Emilie Houssart will be presenting new artwork that grew out of her exhibition DIRT: Inside Landscapes. Emilie's multidisciplinary projects address normalized symptoms of human-ecological disassociation, and related violence against ancient, interspecies models of collaboration.

• The Cronin Gallery @ Gardiner Library, 133 Farmer’s Tpke, Gardiner / Artist Bel Falleiros: America (un)Known. Contrasting with the phallic monuments to Columbus and other “New World” colonizers scattered across the Americas, this horizontal circle form of clay-bricks celebrates ancestral and Indigenous forms of construction that bring humans, earth, and the cosmos together. Etched in various bricks are phrases composed by Black, Latinx and Indigenous people of the Americas that touch on ideas of home, belonging, and memory. (Curated by Beth Tully for The Cronin Gallery) 

Indoor Installation / On View Friday - Sunday, 12 pm - 6 pm

• The Cronin Gallery @ Denizen Theatre, 10 Main St, Water St Market, New Paltz, NY / Artist Bel Falleiros: To Ripple with Water  Can we hold the night with our hands? Hold the hole, the well, the water (and earth) from where life begins and ends, begins….(Curated by Beth Tully for The Cronin Gallery) Theatre space generously donated by The Denizen.

Events

Saturday, August 28th:

11 am - 12 pm / The Dorsky Museum @ NH Wildlife Sanctuary, 133 Huguenot St, New Paltz

• DIRTdoors: Following her exhibition, Dirt: Inside Landscapes, The Dorsky’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence Emilie Houssart has created an interactive artwork for visitors to meet the dirt inside a key New Paltz landscape, where conservation and food equity coexist.

• Collective Activation: America (un)known with Bel Falleiros. Join the artist as she shares popular knowledge, and the words of writers, and storytellers. These words, joined with publicly submitted phrases, have been fired into clay-bricks to build a new monument, a living history that is ever-outward-reaching, embracing, and uplifting. ( Curated by Beth Tully for The Cronin Gallery) 

• DIRTdoors: Following her exhibition, Dirt: Inside Landscapes, The Dorsky’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence Emilie Houssart has created an interactive artwork for visitors to meet the dirt inside a key New Paltz landscape, where conservation and food equity coexist.

Sunday, August 29th:

10 am - 12 pm / The Cronin Gallery @ Water Street Market, 10 Main St, New Paltz

• Artist Brunch: Meet the Artists and enjoy light provisions

2 pm - 3 pm / Dorsky Museum @ NH Wildlife Sanctuary, 133 Huguenot St., New Paltz

• DIRTdoors: Following her exhibition, Dirt: Inside Landscapes, The Dorsky’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence Emilie Houssart has created an interactive artwork for visitors to meet the dirt inside a key New Paltz landscape, where conservation and food equity coexist

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm / The Cronin Gallery @ Denizen Theatre, 10 Main St, New Paltz

• To Ripple With Water: A contemplative and immersive experience with Bel Falleiros, provoking us to ask, what remains when we slow down and listen?  The work invites us to ground ourselves, to make space for silence, to recall what’s left in the dark. (Curated by Beth Tully for The Cronin Gallery) Theatre space generously donated by The Denizen.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

• Bel Falleiros is a Brazilian artist whose practice focuses on land, belonging and building space for connection. Starting with her hometown, São Paulo, she has worked to understand how contemporary landscapes, city tissue and its monuments (mis)represent the diverse layers of presence that constitute a place. Walking is core to her practice and fundamental to her first solo show at CAIXA Cultural São Paulo, as well as to her residency at the Sacatar Institute in Bahia, Brazil (2014). Since arriving in the U.S., she has worked to create spaces for grounding and connecting people, including a site-specific installation at Pecos National Park, New Mexico (2016), an earth-work at Burnside Farm, Detroit (2017), sculptures for the garden of Tewa Women United, at the SFAI Equal Justice Residency (2018), and a brick ‘monument’ at Socrates Sculpture Park (2020). Beyond her studio practice, she participates in collaborative projects across the Americas connecting art, education and autonomous thinking. She is currently a More Art Engaging Artist Fellow in New York and a teaching artist at Dia:Beacon.
• Guest Curator Beth Tully has coordinated shows in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago, ranging from solo presentations to multi-layered installations and performances, in collaboration with artists, galleries, and event producers from around the world. Most recently, Beth served as the National Program Director for an arts nonprofit, cultivating creative, educational programming in public libraries across 8 U.S. cities. A former Director of Fountain Art Fair, Beth began her career in gallery sales and holds a degree in Art History from Hunter College.
• The Cronin Gallery is The Hudson Valley home of Contemporary Artist Ryan Cronin, featuring a rotating exhibition curated from his extensive body of original works. Known for his deep sense of color and placement, Cronin takes inspiration from his surroundings and reconfigures the world through art, uniting us through shared experience. Guided by Cronin’s ethos of cultural awareness and inclusivity The Cronin Gallery is also a vibrant community hub where Cronin’s bold iconography taps into a collective nostalgia, creating connection and sparking dialogue. 

The Cronin Gallery, 10 Main Street, Water St Market, Suite 405, New Paltz, NY 12561, 845.430.8470
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The Dorsky Museum

• Emilie Houssart is a Dutch American artist based in upstate New York. Her multidisciplinary projects address symptoms of human-ecological dissociation, and related violence against ancient, interspecies models of collaboration. As the 2021 Artist in Residence, Houssart curated DIRT: Inside Landscapes at the Dorsky Museum and led community projects; shows include Owning Earth at Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY (current), Forest Geometries at Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, and Potatocube, nomadic, Hudson Valley.
• The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz is a college and community art museum with a permanent collection of over 6000 artworks and a lively schedule of programs and exhibitions.Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at  New Paltz , 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561, 845.257.3844
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The Women’s Studio Workshop

• Althea James currently lives and works in New York City. She was born in San Francisco in 1993. She attended undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz where she studied studio art and is currently working towards her masters in arts education at Hunter university. Her work explores ideas around gender, class, time and city living. Her work is a blend of independent and collaborative projects with the goal of using art as a way to navigate our rapidly shifting future not only as individuals but as a collective. 
• Women’s Studio Workshop Founded in 1974, WSW is an artists’ workspace that encourages the voice and vision of individual women and trans, intersex, nonbinary and genderfluid artists. They maintain facilities for etching, letterpress, papermaking, book arts, silkscreen, 3D work, ceramics, and photography housed in a historic building located in the foothills of the Hudson Valley’s Shawangunk Mountains.  Artists can take workshops, rent the studios, or schedule private instruction.

The Women’s Studio Workshop, P.O. Box 489, Rosendale, NY 12472 (722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston) 845.658.9133
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THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE ARTISTS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE LAND 

• Protecting nature for life. Whether you are looking down on the valley from the Shawangunk Ridge or up at the mountains, the trails, farms, and open spaces you see are protected by the work we do every day. 
• WVLT works with landowners to secure conservation easements in order to permanently protect their land from future development for the benefit of present and future generations. We connect our community to the land by providing access to open space, including the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, educating the community on the importance of conservation, and engaging them in caring for the land we protect.

Wallkill Valley Land Trust, PO Box 208, New Paltz, NY 12561, 845.255.2761
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