Windham Arts Alliance Presents Art on the Line

In 2024 when everyone has a washer and dryer what do we do with old clothes lines and clothes pins? There is “no dirty laundry hanging here! Come see some great art work on our clotheslines,” says artist Linda Nicholls.

The Windham Arts Alliance is excited to present Art on the Line, a small works show, just in time for the holidays, at the Main Street Community Center in Windham. The affordable art is all priced at only $100. It will be unframed so you can decide how you would like to frame it to hang in your house or to give it as a gift.

“The Windham Arts Alliance has a great variety of member artists each with their own style, point of view, medium, level of expertise and price range. We have decided to try to put together an egalitarian art show, giving the artists the freedom to show what they wanted to without having to squeeze into an assigned category,” says Athena Billias. “We also decided to make the art affordable as a personal purchase or gift during the holiday season. We are looking forward to surprises and high-quality work.”

At the opening on November 2, we are excited to share the music of the Justin and Adriana Duo at 2:30 pm. Come to the Community Center to hear the amazing jazz fusion and original compositions these talented and accomplished artists. This is the first opportunity to hear their music on the mountaintop.

Justin Geyer is a keyboardist, composer, and aspiring music therapist based in the Hudson Valley. As an instrumentalist, he has performed with a wide variety of groups throughout the northeast, in genres including rock, jazz, jam band and experi- mental. He is an accomplished pianist performing throughout the Northeast, sharing his original compositions as well as work by his favorite composers. Justin is also an experienced improviser, and he brings the spirit of improvisation to everything he does musically. Justin Received a B.A. in Jazz composition and performance from Bard College, studying with leading pianists John Esposito, Larry Ham, and Francesca Tanksley, and receiving composition instruction from Erica Lindsay, Matthew Sargent and Joan Tower, each accomplished composers in the jazz, electronic music and modern classical idioms respectively.

Adriana Tampasis is a Hudson Valley-born composer, musician, improviser and poet. Her work is crafted to be critically aware of narrative and space as fuel for musical language that is made up of the bits and pieces of her everyday life. Adriana received her B.A. in Jazz Composition & Performance from Bard College with an emphasis on contemporary and improvised music, mentored by leading female classical and jazz professionals such as saxophonist and composer Erica Lindsay, flutist Patricia Spencer, and composer and pianist Francesca Tanksley. She was awarded the Nesushi Ertegan Scholarship in Music for her accomplishments in jazz performance as well as the Todd Samara Art Fund Award for her accomplishments in the arts as a “renaissance woman” in the City of Kingston.

Art on the Line runs from November 2 through January 10, 2025 at the Main Street Community Center, 5494 State Route 23, Windham. The opening reception is on Saturday, November 2, from 1:30 to 5:00 pm.