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FOOD & DRINK 28 A Spirited Craft Blending tradition and bold experimentation, these five craft cocktail bars are elevating the art of drinking.
37 Sips & Bites Six foodie adventures for October.
Unlocking a state of altered consiousness similar to psychedelics, breathwork is a journey of discovery.
OUTDOORS 56 Such Great Heights Pair peak leaf season with any of these six waterfall hikes for a beautiful fall afternoon.
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The explosive “Underground Railroad Game” comes to Bard October 9-12. Read our preview on page 111. Photo by Ben Arons Photography
features 78 Space Race by Phillip Pantuso
With the specter of gentrification looming large, Hudson Valley cities are testing models of inclusive development.
60 Faces of Change: Kingston Portraits of 11 of Kingston-based activists who are educating, advocating, and organizing for an inclusive, equitable future.
EDUCATION 82 Hudson Valley Vogue From garment design and fabrication to merchandising, the Hudson Valley’s fashion education programs are flourishing.
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111 Whiplash comedy “Underground Railroad Game” tackles, slavery, race, and sexism.
A review of Holly George-Warren’s new biography, Janis: Her Life and Music, plus a round-up of six October book picks spanning from a family courtroom drama to a citywide treasure hunt.
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Album reviews of The Gleaners by Larry Grenadier; It Happened to Me by David Greenberger and Prime Lens; Hooray Beret by Frenchy and the Punk; and Caravan of Dawn by The Levins.
117 “Pollock” sheds light on the pivotal marriage of artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.
106 Poetry
123 Six live music shows to pencil in this month from Tuareg band Les Filles de Illighadad to jazzbo singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones.
Poems by Gabriella Alziari, Glen Armstrong, Robert Basner, Lachlan Brooks, Shane Cashman, Arabella Champaq, Anthony G. Herles, C. Z. Heyward, Jessica Kloss, Piper Jaden Levine, C. P. Masciola, Katherine Moore, Sekaya, JR Solonche, Michael Vahsen, Neal Whitman. Edited by Philip X Levine
119 A gallery guide for October.
128 Parting Shot The surrealist photography of Charlie Murray is on display as part of “Visions of Awareness,” an exhibition of blind artists at ROCA.
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Nocturne I MARTIN WITTFOOTH 72” x 48”, oil on linen, 2013
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artin Wittfooth is a storyteller. The painter, who currently splits his time between Savannah, Georgia, and the Hudson Valley, was drawn to illustration because of its ability to portray powerful allegorical and symbolic narratives. As he points out, the word “illustrate” shares etymological roots with the word “illuminate”—to shed light. Influenced by his upbringing in Finland, Wittfooth’s paintings feel like modern-day fairy tales, which, like the classic Grimm brothers’ stories, don’t shy away from darkness, fear, or the complicated relationship between humans and their environment, industry and nature. Wittfooth’s animal-centric body of work examines how wild creatures make do with the space humans have left them on our shared planet. Eschewing the classic trope of “man versus the wild,” he challenges the very premise that there was ever a separation between humankind and nature in the first place, encouraging viewers to look critically at the measures our species has taken to disassociate ourselves from nature. Incantation—a massive vision of an elephant, 12 CHRONOGRAM 10/19
Above: Incantation (2014) Opposite: Pandora (2018); The Devil's Playground (2010); Wildmother (2018)
adorned with a circus-style headdress, a trunkful of colorful flowers, and notably sawed-off tusks set against a stark black background—greets visitors as they step into the Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY Ulster for the latest installment of the visiting artists’ series. “There’s a duality between the hope and horror of it all,” says Wittfooth of his work. Wittfooth’s exploration of shamanism has bubbled up into his work through contemplations of ritual and collective narrative. “The practice of shamanism is as old as our species, but there’s a resurgence of people discovering it, especially in the West and especially as it relates to getting back to nature,” he says. “I’m trying to ask this question over and over again in my work: in what ways have we started telling ourselves a story that we’re somehow other than nature?” Shamanism’s focus on the power of sound and the use of the voice in ritual is another fascination of Wittfooth’s. “There’s an emphasis on singing in a lot of these practices,” he says. “There’s something beautiful about the idea that we all have something within ourselves that, in coming out into the world, can have magical outcomes.”
In composition and in art, a nocturne typically refers to a dreamy piece that’s evocative of night. Nocturne I, which appears on the cover of this month’s Chronogram, plays with the solitary, melancholic sense of the word while also hinting at the frightening things that lurk in the night. The tiger roars (or maybe it’s an invocation), paws poised almost daintily upon peonies afloat in a pool of water—but the sound is rendered soft, almost tender, as a tiny flock of hummingbirds fly from the beast’s mouth, and we’re left to wonder whether we should be frightened or delighted. “Nature isn’t some kind of mute automaton that we should just be utilizing or marginalizing or be afraid of,” Wittfooth says. “Instead, maybe, if we cared to listen to what nature might have to tell us, we could learn a thing or two and get back on the path of reconnecting with it.” Wittfooth’s work will be on display as part of the SUNY Ulster Visiting Artist Series at the Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery until October 18. Sunyulster.edu —Katherine Speller
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Chronogram In a parallel universe, this month’s cover is a detail from Jerry Pena’s photo of Aviona Carrigan wearing a skatesock designed by Marist student Erika Rothman and a dress designed by Alexa Wisnieski. Shot on Kodak Porta 400 film for Marist College’s FM/AM fashion magazine, overseen by instructor Melissa Halvorson. Bottom: Some more of the photo.
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: In the early part of the last century, a teacher named George Gurdjieff emerged from a long journey visiting monasteries and centers in India, Tibet, Central Asia, and the Middle East teaching a new formulation of a perennial system of inner work toward the completion of human beings. The symbol of the enneagram became the insignia of the teaching and the school that formed around him.
By now millions of people are familiar with the symbol, mostly because it was employed by the philosopher and teacher Oscar Ichazo in describing the spectrum of personality types. Most are not aware of its origin—nor that the system of personality types is but one of an infinite set of holons that the symbol can elucidate. Prior to Gurdjieff ’s introduction, the enneagram does not appear in any known historical records, texts, or monuments. We can assume he either invented it or found it in some very secret, hitherto unknown society. According to Gurdjieff, the enneagram illustrates the three fundamental laws at work in every whole, living system. The first law is embodied in the circle that represents the Law of One. This is the singular, unitive aspect of everything. In this sense, even something we perceive as a multiplicity, the collection of parts, is, in the aggregate, a singularity. The second is the Law of Three embodied in the triangle. This is an expression of the positive, negative, and neutralizing elements at work in every event. Gurdjieff named these as affirming, denying, and reconciling forces. In the enneagram, they are the inputs from outside the system, and each represents the beginning of one of three overlapping processes proceeding around the outside of the circle. The third law of the enneagram is the Law of Seven, rendered as the inner lines of a hexad connecting the points 1-4-2-8-5-7. Its basis is the decimal produced when dividing one (the totality) into seven parts, 0.142857, repeating. The law describes the unfolding of processes, in the way that seven notes comprise the musical octave in its journey from Do to Do, or the doubling of vibrations. The enneagram is understandable only as a living symbol. It is not two-dimensional. It would more accurately be called five-dimensional in the sense that it addresses time as a solid-state phenomenon, including all creative possibilities latent in the continuum, as a singular, simultaneous occurrence. In this fifth-dimensional meaning, the linear steps in a process are perceived as simultaneous with a reality outside of time, an interlocking lattice of interval nodes moving from points 1 to 4, 4 to 2, 2 to 8, 8 to 5, 5 to 7. To experience anything through the lens of the enneagram is to see that reality is never fixed and is always in motion, either evolving or devolving. It is to see that “for everything, there is a season,” times when change is possible and times it is not, times to create, and times to destroy. With this sensibility, one can embody the wisdom of patience. The principle “as above, so below” is also expressed in the formulation from the Old Testament, “[A Completed Human Being] is made in the image of [The Totality]. It expresses the identical nature of holons at degrees of magnitude. The enneagram is both a symbolic portrait of and a roadmap to becoming a completed human being. —Jason Stern 18 CHRONOGRAM 10/19
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his is it, folks. My short but glorious tenure is coming to a close—but not without a final hurrah. I’m especially proud of this October issue. A few months back, Chronogram’s art director—friend, ally, and perennial pain in my ass, David Perry— suggested that we do a photo issue, eschew text and let the images speak. Radical, right? While I was titillated by the idea, as a freshman Big Cheese Editor, the concept of breaking so wildly with the status quo was terrifying, weighing creative vision against the expectations of readers and, yes, advertisers. So, while I couldn’t quite muster the guts to totally leave words in the rearview, what we bring you this month is a collaborative effort that features photos front and center. There is something to the played-out idiom, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” For the past decade, the Hudson Valley has been riding the tidal wave of the craft beverage movement, rediscovering its lost vocation as a producer of artisanal spirits and beer. Alongside the proliferation of small-batch bourbons, ryes, and vodkas, craft cocktail culture has flourished—first in the city and, later, here in the Hudson Valley. This month’s food and drink feature (page 30) brings some of the region’s most skilled cocktail alchemists into the limelight. From hand-cutting ice to boldly exploring new flavor frontiers, these masters of the craft blend tradition with experimentation to create a perfectly balanced drink experience. NB: The photos are great, but the proof is in the (boozy) pudding. For our home feature (page 40), we hit pause on the standard house profiles to pull back the curtain on the impressive lineup of talent represented in the second annual Kingston Design Showhouse, which will be open for viewing October 11-26 at 302 Clinton Avenue. Eighteen design professionals from the Hudson Valley and New York City each transformed a space in the historic Italianate home, to create a sensory feast. Chronogram is a proud sponsor of the showhouse, which is helping put the Hudson Valley on the map as a vibrant hub of interior design by coalescing the regional aesthetic while connecting designers, makers, and tradespeople to each other and to potential clients. For our community pages section (page 60), rather than rehash a narrative about the challenges Kingston faces as it enters a new era—gentrification, discrimination, and other forms of exclusion and oppression—or sugarcoat the influx of outside capital, I decided to focus on the people working every day toward a more equitable and inclusive future. These are the people who are rolling up their sleeves to rally for rent control, advocate for cross-cultural exchange, and bring healthcare to our artists and
art to our streets. They’re fighting for LGBTQ rights, ensuring access to fresh food, celebrating our diversity, and empowering our youth. We teamed up with photographer David McIntyre to take portraits of 11 of the city’s change agents— but be assured, there are plenty more out there. In our education section (page 82), we deepdive into the region’s fashion programs from Ulster BOCES to Marist College, featuring photos of original garments designed, produced, modeled, and shot by local students. Whether these programs are a stepping stone to higher education, the key to competitive internship at a New York City-based fashion label, or the launchpad for a new local business, they are equipping the area’s sartorially minded with the skills to walk the (cat)walk. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, our portfolio (page 90) showcases the stunning work of Kingston-based photographer Isis Charise, who has spent the last decade
photographing women who have had mastectomies. These goddess-like images are striking in their tenderness and defiant in their power. One in every eight women in the US will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, so all of us know someone affected. You can see the images on display this month at the Idea Garden in Midtown Kingston. Take time with this issue. Study the faces of our community—then go and seek them out in person. While we have used brief quotes for many of these portraits, full interviews are available on our website, Chronogram.com, for a majority of the pieces. It’s been a pleasure and an honor to curate the magazine for this stint, shining light into some new and different corners of our region. If you enjoyed my time at the helm, please send fan mail to our publisher advocating for a raise—or just buy me a drink out on the town. Till next time. 10/19 CHRONOGRAM 21
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TMI Project Essay
Pain Cracks the Rock
by Theresa Haney
Since 2012, TMI Project has offered two 10-week storytelling workshops a year in collaboration with the Mental Health Association of Ulster County (MHA). The mission of the program is to destigmatize mental illness through true storytelling. Earlier this year, Theresa Haney, a Red Hookbased creative arts therapist, participated in one of these workshops. What follows is her monologue. To see a video of Theresa performing her story or to learn more about TMI Project, visit Tmiproject.org. A warning: this story includes references to sexual abuse, suicide, and drug abuse. If you are thinking about suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at (800) 273-8255. —Marie Doyon I am the fifth and youngest child born to an Irish Catholic/French Canadian family in Wisconsin. Life is always chaotic. My brother Mike is 4 years my senior and an altar boy. My three older sisters have their own rooms, but Mike and I share one until I am 10. He’s my best friend and I adore him. During the day, he acts like he doesn’t know me in front of his friends and taunts and teases me. But at night he is sweet to me, telling me about the new games he learned at recess or what junior high is like. We have bunk beds and he drapes his blankets from the top to make a fort for hiding. Behind those blankets we have a world to ourselves where the unthinkable occurs. I desperately want to be loved because love is a commodity in our home, dished out sparingly. I figure this is what all brothers and sisters do. I’m 10 years old, and I’m riding my blue stingray bike to the pool in my red-andwhite one-piece bathing suit. I’m still a happy, boisterous kid. As I pass by the home of my brother’s friend, Carl, he comes out and says, “Wanna see my pet monkey?” I am suspicious at first, but the prospect of seeing a real, live monkey is too enticing. He takes me to his room where his monkey is in a cage. I start to walk toward it — I have never seen one outside of a zoo before — but Carl grabs me and throws me on his bed and tears off my bathing suit. At 10 years old I didn’t know what sex or rape is, just that it is familiar and frenzied. Afterward, I hear a noise coming from the closet. I run to open it, but Carl bars the door. “Get out of here!” he shouts. But I know who is in the closet. It’s my brother, Mike. He watched the whole thing. It was his idea. I ride to the pool, jump in and stay there until I have to get out. The water holds me like a hug. I am terrified and shaken with the reality of this betrayal. Life gets harder after that. I never tell anybody what happened, but Carl does. The girls say I’m
a “slut.” Other boys start asking, “How’s Carl?” And pressure me for sex. Many times I relent. At 11, I discover that drugs and alcohol numb the pain. The drugs are what save me. One day when I am 15 and my brother is 19, I find a suicide note that he has written and torn up in the bathroom wastebasket. I tell the school guidance counselor, but he says he can’t help because Mike has already dropped out of school. A few weeks later, he kills himself. I am the one who finds him. After Mike’s death, we move to Ohio. I leave the girl I was back in Wisconsin, but I take the drugs and alcohol with me. They are part of the bubble I create to protect me from those memories. I go on to college. I study dance and art, move to New York City and perform off-, off-, off-Broadway. It’s in graduate school that I find my calling as a creative arts therapist. I start a successful practice, and for the last 26 years, I have been happily married to my beautiful bride. But in 2016, when Trump is elected, I stop walking country roads alone and start locking the doors for the first time. I close my private practice because the triggers are too much. There aren’t enough martinis or pot in the world to hold back the terror. The bubble I have created is slowly losing air. It’s as if I can feel the Earth tremble, like when elephants know to run for higher ground from an impending tsunami. On September 27, 2018, the tsunami is here. Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor, testifies about Brett Kavanaugh in front of the United States Senate. So many details match my own: It was summer; she had been swimming; she was wearing a one-piece bathing suit. The monkey in the cage, my one-piece bathing suit, my brother, watching. The frenzy, the terror. The day everything changed forever. My soul is vanishing. I need help. A friend refers me to a therapist who practices CRM or Comprehensive Resource Model, a neurobiologically based trauma treatment that allows individuals to safely re-experience intolerable moments and heal through guided resources and ancient spiritual practices. Discovering CRM is like finding a hope chest filled with a dowry of divine intelligence. The day I revisit my brother’s suicide is the 42nd anniversary of his death. I sit on my therapist’s couch breathing and listening to music on headphones until I can feel my body relax. He guides me to envision power animals to support me — I choose my mountain lion and an elephant. I’m asked to locate energy points in my body to form a sacred grid and anchor it with an eye position, like a Wonder Woman shield to make me feel omnipotent for the battle ahead. When I am ready, my therapist invites me to return to that ominous day in my mind’s eye
and walk up to the house where our two dogs, Candy and Bucky, are standing outside. I know something is wrong. The house is filled with noxious fumes, and I choke. My eyes water. In my mind, I run to my brother who is lying in the doorway to the attached garage, with the car running. His eyes are like glass. Terror fills my body. I shake him, plead with him to wake up. I cry out, but my therapist is there, assuring me it’s just neurons firing. “Theresa, you have already survived this trauma. You are strong. You can do this.” He encourages me to go back to the memory. I open the windows for air. Nuns, police, and ambulance workers scurry around me, “Please, you’ve got to save him!” I plead. But they can’t save him. I can’t save him. He is dead. I feel a release and my body begins to calm. I stay there for a while, allowing the neurons to clear away this memory—the shame, grief, and guilt that have been locked away inside, driving my life all these years. I realize I can stop chasing his love. Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, wrote, “When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and, ah! Let the soul emerge.” I continue to recover from the traumas, addictions, and the truth of my life, but I am certain that self-love and compassion are helping me search for my true Self, the Self that was before this story began. 10/19 CHRONOGRAM 23
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The Mylo Driver Bag uses mycelium leather.
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Business is Mushrooming at Ecovative Design by Karen Maserjian Shan
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n the village of Green Island, outside of Troy, a biological research and development company has been quietly growing a technological revolution using fungi. Since 2007, Ecovative Design has focused on manipulating mycelium, the complex root structure of fungus, to facilitate the creation of everything from fully biodegradable, sustainable packaging to interior design products and, most recently, non-meat alternatives. The result? Products that simply compost away and food sources that are environmentally sustainable. “Ecovative is dedicated to being a leader in remediating plastics pollution and animal agriculture,” says Lacey Davidson, Brand Manager for Ecovative Design, which includes a small team of engineers, designers, and scientists working in the 35,000-square-foot mycelium foundry in the Capital Region. “Scientists are artists, too,” says Grace Knight, a product fabricator and industrial
designer for Ecovative Design. “We’re a bunch of free-thinkers that are attacking a problem that no one has done before and that excites us. We saw that no one is doing the mycelium scaffold, so we thought we’d take a crack at it. We’ve only scratched the surface.” Because Ecovative Design’s biofabrication processes are done in a controlled environment, the mycelium’s physical properties can be refined to exact specifications to affect attributes like texture and density. The resulting materials are fully biodegradable, capable of decomposing completely within 45 days. The company’s MycoComposite technology uses mycelium as a biological binder with agricultural waste from hemp production. A multi-day process of growing, hydrating, and drying yields custom, bio-based molds that can be used as an environmentally sound alternative to Styrofoam and plastics in everything from packaging to home goods. Ecovative 10/19 CHRONOGRAM ART OF BUSINESS 25
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Design’s MycoFlex technology produces a pure mycelium foam that has a wide range of uses including beauty products like face masks and cosmetic sponges, performance foam for footwear, and insulation for clothing. The company’s latest technological application, Atlast Food Co., uses the cellular scaffolding of mycelium to create plant- and cell-based alternatives to whole cuts of meat that imitate the taste and texture of animal products. Cofounded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduates Eben Bayer, CEO, and Gavin McIntyre, Business Development Director, Ecovative Design is centered on building business-to-business (B2B) partnerships that provide ecological solutions to the marketplace and is actively focused on developing a supply chain to establish more sustainable manufacturers worldwide. The bio-based technologies they
develop are licensed to outside companies that produce the materials themselves to create their own end products. Interest in Ecovative Design’s technologies has taken root. Licensees are in California, the Netherlands (Krown Design), the United Kingdom and New Zealand, including several for sustainable packaging materials and interior decor items made from MycoComposite. Among the companies using Ecovative Design technology for custom compostable packaging are Keap Candles, Seed Probiotics, and Rich Brilliant Willing Lighting. Ecovative Design also has a partnership with fiber and fabric wholesaler Bolt Threads, which is collaborating with Stella McCartney to make handbags out of mycelium leather and has targeted continued development on footwear and technical wear made with the compostable materials.
“[By] partnering with enterprising designers and thought leaders in various industries, Ecovative has been able to accelerate the implementation of sustainable solutions in art and architectural installations, housewares, and, soon, cruelty-free meat-like structure,” Davidson says. Through Ecovative Design’s website, the company offers grow-it-yourself kits to artists and designers looking to use mycelium for innovative applications along with instructional videos. “Mycelium provides a unique biological opportunity to solve major problems on Earth,” says Sam Donato, a research associate at Ecovative Design. “By building a relationship with and understanding of this organism, we can design a more sustainable future—a future comprised of sustainable materials—and the ability to feed an evergrowing population of humans.”
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“For us, ice is the cornerstone. It provides proper temperature, water content, and, if shaken with a single clear rock, it provides great aeration—all these being far superior to using to hotel-style ice.” —Sean Meagher, Head Bartender WM Farmer & Sons 28 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 10/19
food & drink
A Spirited Craft DRINKS + THEIR MAKERS
by Tyler Zielinski Photos by Winona Barton-Ballentine
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hirty years ago, ordering a drink at a bar involved naming its ingredients—Jack and Coke, gin and tonic, vodka soda. If you had tried ordering a French 75, few bartenders would have had any idea how to make it. Modern-day pioneers, such as Dale Degroff (legendary Rainbow Room mixologist), David Wondrich (cocktail historian), Jeff Berry (tiki culture revivalist), Sasha Petraske (owner of modern speakeasy Milk & Honey on the Lower East Side) and the legions of bartenders they influenced have redefined what excellence looks like in terms of both drinks and service. Cocktails have endured a long and arduous journey to return to their current place of prestige in the American gastronomical landscape. In 18th-century Britain, boozy punches reigned supreme—communal bowls of spirits, fruit and citrus juices, spices, and sweeteners. The term “cocktail” didn’t even appear in print until March of 1798 and wasn’t formally defined until 1806, when The Balance and Columbian
Repository of Hudson (yes, our region has a prominent place in cocktail history), defined it as “a stimulating liquor composed of any kind of sugar, water, and bitters, vulgarly called a bittered sling.” While cocktails were very much in their prime throughout the rest of the 19th century—featuring hand-cut ice, seasonal preserves, and creative serves from bartenders who were considered celebrities in some cases—Prohibition killed off this blossoming culture of artisanal beverages, and the craft cocktail would not make a comeback in earnest until the turn of the 21st century. We are now living in a modern golden age of cocktails, with restaurants and bars curating their drink programs with the thoughtfulness formerly reserved for wine lists and gourmet menus. The cocktail renaissance is thriving in the Hudson Valley. The bartenders and bars on this list each have a different story to tell and an approach to craft cocktails that is distinctly their own, but they’ve all done their best at striving for excellence with their own style and form of hospitality.
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Favorite spirit? “I am an equal opportunity bartender. I’m open to all types of spirits for many different reasons depending on what I’m making. That’s like asking a chef, ‘What’s your favorite vegetable to cook with?’ The only thing I can say is I stick to well-made spirits.” —Jessica Gonzalez, Bartender Liberty Street Bistro
“I do a lot of pre-Prohibitionera drinks. I try to stay true to that style and the approach to cocktail-making and bartending as a whole—treat it as a trade rather than a side job.” —Sean Meagher, Head Bartender WM Farmer & Sons
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The Bakery Presents The Night of 100 Pumpkins Pumpkin Carving Contest PRIZES FOR - Petrifying Pumpkins, Pretty Pumpkins, Peculiar Pumpkins, Painted Pumpkins, Panoramic Pumpkins, Classic Jacks & More! For more info and to see all the pumpkins and a list of prizes visit:
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Open to all ages. Bring your pumpkins to The Bakery on October 30. Give us your entry and we’ll give you a free Jack O’ Lantern Cookie.
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After the parade (6-9pm) The Bakery’s Outdoor Café will be filled with glowing ghoulish Jack O’ Lanterns for all to enjoy. Come and see them while we treat you to Hot Cider, Cocoa, and freshly baked Pumpkin Bread!
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October 5 | 1pm | 21+ Wine Festival
Live Music by: Kat Wright with The Big Takeover!
October 12 | 1pm | 21+ CRAFT: Beer, Spirits & Food Festival Live Music by: Andy Frasco & The U.N. with Big Something!
December 7 & 8 | 11am Holiday Market - FREE
To learn more and purchase tickets visit BethelWoodsCenter.org. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit cultural organization that inspires, educates, and empowers individuals through the arts and humanities.
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“A perfect cocktail is all about balance. I’m personally not a sweetdrink person. I err on the side of sucrose from the liquor or the fruit over sugar. I do enjoy my bitters.” —Pia Bazzani, General Manager Crown Lounge
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“We are a cozy welcoming spot—it’s a classic cocktail bar. We make everything in-house from our syrups to our juices. It’s a bartender’s heaven—we have everything at our disposal and we are always playing around with new concoctions.”
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“My favorite cocktail movie scene is in Some Like it Hot when Marilyn Monroe makes a Manhattan in a hot water bottle on the train.”
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Farm-to-table, all-vegetarian, Indian meals based on the ancient dietary practices of Ayurveda.
sips & bites Fermentation Classes October 5, 6 Popular food blogger and photographer Peter Barrett is teaching two new classes this October. On October 5 at 2pm in the Hillsdale General Store, Barrett will demonstrate three different methods of pickling: Japanese-style pickling, classic vinegar-brine pickles, and lacto-fermentation. Attendees will make a jar of tasty pickles during the class that they’ll be able to take home along with bragging rights. On October 6 at 1pm at Bluecashew Kitchen Homestead, Barrett will teach about fermented beverages from sodas, meads, and country wine. There will be samples for attendees to taste and to take home.
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Hudson Valley Veg Fest October 19-20 The Hudson Valley’s annual festival of all things vegan makes its Ulster County debut this year, setting up shop in the back room at BSP Kingston. This celebration of plant-based eating, and its growing social and economic impact, was started in 2017 by Sande Nosonowitz and Rebecca Moore. This year, taste-test sustainable and vegan foods from over 40 Hudson Valley vendors, such as Gone Pie Vegan Bakery and Kingston Candy Bar. Drop in on presentations about the ethics of veganism, watch live cooking demonstrations, and explore the artistic side of the festival with live music and art displays. October 19, 11am-8pm, and October 20, 12-5pm.
Hvvegfest.org
Brew U at the Culinary Institute October 19 You could drive all over New York State hunting down exceptional craft beers and meeting the folks who make them, and you’d probably have a wonderful time. You could—but you could also just head to The Culinary Institute of America on October 19 for their annual event, Brew U, which gathers two dozen of the state’s finest for a symposium on beer brewing and appreciation. This year’s festival will feature four seminars on topics ranging from home-brewing to sake, and the CIA will be giving tours of their own onsite brewery. October 19, 2–5pm. $25-$120.
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October 6 Warwick Valley’s black dirt is an emblem of fertility and abundance, so it is no surprise that the region has a vibrant and enduring culture of harvest festivals. The village’s annual Applefest celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. What started in 1989 as a humble town event has grown into a massive state-wide attraction that draws over 30,000 visitors annually. Aside from tasting and buying all things apple from the dozens of food vendors, browse the local farmers’ market, or participate in the apple pie contest. The festival will feature over 200 craft vendors, 50 local nonprofit exhibitors, live music, and a children’s carnival spread out through the streets of downtown Warwick. October 6, 9am-5pm.
Warwickapplefest.com
Lawrence Park New to Hudson, Lawrence Park, which had its soft launch in late September, leads with strong farmhouse kitchen vibes—a long, wide-board communal table, vintage rustic-patterned dishes, exposed brick, and wooden stools. Opened by hospitality veterans Matt and Margie Colvin, the bar brings together a light menu of cheese, charcuterie, and bar bites with a heavyweight beverage program that features small-batch natural wines, craft beers, and refined, thoughtful cocktails. The space manages to feel intimate and cozy while being capable of accommodating over 125 guests between the main bar area, rear lounge, and outdoor patio. October will see the launch of Tiki Tuesdays—a playful celebration of exotic flavors and over-thetop drinks. Get there first.
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Designer Marla Walker collaborated with artist Ruby Palmer collaborated with Marla Walker to create a custom mural for the showhouse's front hall.
Elizabeth Mercer, of mercer INTERIOR, supervises the overhaul of the showhouse's kitchen.
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Maryline Damour & Mel Jones Jr., Damour Drake Damour, co-owner of Damour Drake and founder of Kingston Design Connection, and designer Mel Jones created a meditation space for the 2019 Kingston Design Showhouse. Built in the mid-1800s this year’s showhouse was a boarding house before the current owners turned into a single-family home 20 years ago. “It's come full circle as an Air Bnb,” Damour says. “It lends itself well to being a showhouse. Design showhouses are really the best opportunity not just to meet on a social level, but to create something together. It really solidifies those relationships.”
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“Hudson Valley designers have a very idiosyncratic point-of-view,” she says. “For example, a ceramicist up here doesn’t just make their own ceramics—they mix their own colors, they make their own wheel, sometimes even their own kiln. It’s all about coming from a very natural space, going back to traditional modes of work, and pulling the best from the traditional and incorporating it with new ideas.” Damour’s interest in interior design was sparked nearly 20 years ago, when she bought her first house—a fixer-upper in Kingston’s Rondout district.“It was only about 1,500 square feet, but I had to choose paint and find furniture,” she recalls. “Interior design just hadn’t been on my radar before that.” She began reading design magazines and researching how to fix up her space. She has long since sold the clapboard house (she now lives in a former fishing cottage converted into a full-time, winterized residence on the Esopus Creek), but that experience began her trajectory as a designer, eventually leading her to enroll in Parsons School of Design and move to Kingston full-time in 2015, when she partnered with contractor Fred Drake to found Damour Drake. Three years into the venture, Damour had attended countless design showcases throughout the area and met a diverse array of makers, artists, contractors, and creatives. Over and over she heard different versions of the same sentiment: “It would be great to be part of a connected design community.” “My brain is always thinking about collaboration and connection,” she says. After researching showhouses in major metropolitan cities around the country, she came up with the idea for the Kingston Design Showhouse as a platform to “collaborate and showcase the breadth and depth of design/build services in the Hudson Valley.” Last year’s showhouse took over a Midtown Victorian and brought together 10 designers, 45 makers, and over 50 local businesses, kicking off a regional conversation between like-minded professionals. For 2019, Damour has nearly doubled the number of participants. “Last year was about introducing Hudson Valley designers to each other,” Damour explains. “This year, it’s continuing on that but we’re also introducing Hudson Valley designers to a broader marketplace. The idea is that we can all grow together.”
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Elizabeth Mercer, mercer INTERIOR The mandate “form follows function” guides all of Mercer's design decisions. This was especially true of the showhouse kitchen, which has to meet the needs of a large family that cooks three meals a day. “My designs are completely informed by how each space will be used," she says. "This project is about utilizing all the space we can for storage and making it accessible.” She found Albany Marble for the countertops and backsplash, and employed Dave Jones Design to refresh the cabinetry.
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Gabriel de La Portilla, Portilla Design De la Portilla took over the showhouse’s third-floor bedroom, applying his characteristic “fresh, modern sensibility grounded in classic traditions" to create an elegant tentlike space with plush textiles and soft light.
Heidi Feiwel, HF Interiors The fall foliage-inspired bedroom. More than anything else, Fiewel relies on a close study of the natural world to inform her design projects. “The daily observation of my surroundings has built in me the capacity to discern, and hopefully, be a better designer,” she explains. Participating in the showhouse was a challenge but she “found support in unexpected places.” She adds, “The showhouse helped me see that there is nothing to fear in failure: It teaches us that there is always a solution to every problem. This philosophy has increased my confidence tremendously.”
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Brooke Nelson, Transformative Spacing Nelson reposes in the showhouse's second-floor kitchenette. “[It’s] a high traffic area used by four AirBnB guest rooms,” she explains. “I had to create a space that gives guests an experience that stands out.” Her self-described “whimsical steampunk” style often combines antiques with offbeat art, colors, and decor. Inspired by her interior designer mother, she often searches the local landscape for ideas. For this striking look, she used the Historic Cornell building on the Kingston waterfront as inspiration.“I love the rust colors of the metal against the brick,” she says. The kitchenette borrows the metallic color scheme and contrasts it with the use of crystal, metal, wood, and velvet.
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“Imagine you’re on the floor of the ocean, and you’re out of air, and then you realize that and swim to the surface,” she explains. “The pattern of your breath would be ‘in, in, out.’” Monroe demonstrates with two deep, quick, bottomof-the-belly inhales, followed by a huge exhale through the mouth, as if gulping the air. It’s completely different from pranayama, the breath control I’ve used in yoga practice. She warns that I might feel strange bodily sensations at first. “It’s like jumping into a cold pool and can be very stimulating, like a surge of energy. You can feel the blood and the oxygen merging, this very effervescent, bubbly sensation.” Yet the bodily commotion will soon give way to something beyond the physical, she advises. “The breath
pattern itself is what helps to break up any mind loops and fixations that we might get stuck in. It’s like an express train to whatever is going on in our lives. Sometimes it’s a surprise, what comes up, because we didn’t even know it existed inside of us.” She tells me that, while I’m in the altered state with my eyes closed, I might want to move my arms and legs. Tears might emerge. I might want to laugh like a wild banshee or scream at the top of my lungs. She will even suggest that I do so when the time is right. “Whatever happens, I am here to hold the space for you. It is my pleasure to do it,” she says as I stretch out on a mat she’s placed on the floor. “It does get wacky. I want to encourage you to have some fun with it. We’re gonna hoot and howl and who knows what.” I tell her I hope that I can actually let go. I’m not a yeller. “That’s okay,” she says. “It doesn’t have to be crazy or painful for it to mean something. We can just have a really good, weird time, and also get some good work done.” She cues up her music. We start to breathe. And off I go. Breath and the Inner Experience Breathwork is a magic carpet ride, a tool for self-discovery and, some say, deep healing. It is not new—ancient and indigenous cultures in the Americas, India, and the East have tapped the power of the breath for centuries in rituals and ceremonies—nor is it a single, uniform practice. Several styles exist, perhaps most famously holotropic breathwork, developed in the 1970s by the Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof and his late wife Christina Grof. Rebirthing, developed by Leonard Orr, is a breathing technique that people use to relive their birth and release and heal traumatic childhood memories. The style Monroe practices is simply called breathwork, a no-frills, straight-up technique taught by David Elliott, a tobacco farmer-turned-actorturned-healer from Kentucky. There is also the breathwork of Wim Hof, “the Iceman,” who defies frigid temperatures. And there is shamanic breathwork, practiced by medicine men and women of yesterday and today. But you don’t have to travel to the rainforest anymore to experience breathwork. You can find group or one-on-one sessions in all sorts of places, from retreat centers to alternative wellness spaces. If breathwork is having a moment right now, that’s because it’s riding on the heels of a revitalized interest in psychedelics (which I wrote about in the September issue). Breathwork can create an expansive state of consciousness that’s wildly similar to the effects of hallucinogens like psilocybin mushrooms and LSD. In fact, after LSD became illegal in the 1960s, the Grofs developed holotropic breathwork as a non-drug method to achieve similar states of consciousness. These days, Holotropic is the technique that’s often used to train the scientists and psychiatrists who facilitate psychedelic clinical trials. While scientific research is exploding around psychedelics, we have surprisingly few solid studies around breathwork. There are just a handful of small trials, including a 1996 study finding that Holotropic Breathwork reduced
death anxiety and increased self-esteem in some subjects, and a 2015 study suggesting that breathwork can increase self-awareness. We need more research not just on breathwork’s effects, but on what’s happening physiologically when we rev up our breath. There’s little consensus about how altering the ratios of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood might contribute to the state of non-ordinary awareness. Hopefully, we’ll have more insight soon, as researchers from Johns Hopkins’ brand-new Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research plan to break ground on breathwork studies. A Route to Wholeness Thanks to its similarity to the psychedelic clinical experience, holotropic breathwork is getting a lot of airtime these days. A psilocybin or LSD journey can last for the better part of a day, and a Holotropic session can go just as long—anywhere from three to eight hours, accompanied by a driving music sequence. Other breathwork styles typically have shorter sessions, but what really distinguishes holotropic is “the ‘set and setting’ or model of safety,” explains Dr. Tom Francescott, a naturopathic doctor and holotropic breathwork
After a little coaching, the breath simply takes over. It’s vigorous and energizing, like running, yet somehow sustainable and not exhausting. My limbs start to move, and what’s happening in my consciousness is astonishing. facilitator based in Rhinebeck. “The idea is that if you provide a safe container and give proper preparation to the psyche, then we can tap into our inner wisdom and inner healing mechanism.” Practicing in groups, people work in pairs: a “breather” who lies on the mat and a “sitter” who provides support (they eventually switch places so both have a turn). To begin, breathers are instructed to breathe fast and deep, with no pause between the inhale and exhale until they are “surprised.” That’s when a state of non-ordinary awareness begins. The material that comes up might be biographical or perinatal (relating to your birth), or it might be what Grof calls “transpersonal,” relating to the archetypal experiences that Carl Jung describes. In this fantasy land, anything can happen. “You could have shamanic experiences, you could turn into an animal, you could be a
bird, you could jump on Jupiter,” says Francescott. While every experience is unique, he describes it like a hero’s journey: “You dive deep into the muck and figure out what’s going on, and then you resurface, kind of newly born with insight and experience.” Afterward, the group devotes time to integrating their material, including drawing a mandala and having a sharing circle. Such closure is essential, he says, “because you can have the greatest epiphany or insight, but if you don’t anchor it or bring it into your life, then there’s no value.” When Francescott first tried the practice 15 years ago, after the death of his sister and both his parents, he knew he needed a cathartic release. He got that and a lot more. “I thought, ‘Nothing’s going happen to me, I’m too locked in my head,’” he recalls. “And in five minutes, I was Jesus on the cross being crucified. It was my first non-ordinary state, and it was pretty crazy.” He released a lifetime of intense grief and also had profound realizations about the deaths he had experienced, discovering, among other things, that subconsciously he had been avoiding relationships due to an irrational belief that if he loved someone, they would die. “Once I had that realization, everything changed. Relationships entered my life and I wasn’t afraid to go with them,” he says. “It was like 20 years of therapy in one session. It changed the entire course of my life, personally and professionally.” Breathwork is not for everyone; it has contraindications, just like psychedelics. These include hypertension, pregnancy, epilepsy, and psychological issues such as psychosis or paranoia. Romping in your own psychic muck is intense, and for the wrong person, it can open up a Pandora’s box. Nonetheless, after completing the extensive Grof Transpersonal Training to become a certified holotropic breathwork practitioner, Francescott has worked with people with multiple personalities, PTSD patients, veterans, survivors of abuse, even Holocaust survivors. “They have profound, deep insights,” he says. “It really helps people make sense of their lives.” A Sacred Container for Exploration Monroe, too, had a transformative experience the first time she tried breathwork. She was in her 20s and living in Costa Rica when a teacher introduced it to her. “It felt like the beginning of a very powerful emotional and energetic awakening,” she recalls. “I was accessing childhood trauma. I found that I could mend heartbreak, even ancestral stuff. I didn’t know I could do that.” After coming back to the States, she lost touch with breathwork but never forgot how powerful it was. A few years later, she met David Elliott through alternative wellness circles and rediscovered breathwork. But this time it was different; she knew right away she wanted to train with him. “David has an accessible way about him that is very straightforward and uncomplicated,” she says. “He’s approachable and so is his breathwork.” She liked the structure—it has a beginning, middle, and end—which felt safer than the original style she tried. (It’s important to note that Elliott’s breathwork differs in many ways 10/19 CHRONOGRAM HEALTH & WELLNESS 51
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SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS SIX HUDSON VALLEY WATERFALLS HIKES By Ian Halim
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runting and sweating your way to a summit is not the only way to take in the wilderness. Unpack your fall wardrobe, pack a lunch, and head out for a waterfall hike. No two visits to a waterfall are the same—with falls swelling in the spring melt and heavy rains, freezing in wintertime, or casting arched rainbows in refracted sunlight. People have shaped waterfalls, too. Take, for instance, the mighty Niagara Falls. In the winter and on summer nights—when fewer visitors are watching—additional water is diverted from the falls into canals that power Niagara’s hydroelectric power stations. They’re also woven in the personal and regional narratives of the region. In the Hudson Valley, High Falls in Columbia County powered 17 separate mills at one time. Kaaterskill Falls inspired William Cullen Bryant to write of “a palace of ice.” Read on for a six Hudson Valley waterfall hikes to check out this fall. Kaaterskill Falls Haines Falls Kaaterskill Falls, perhaps the best-known Hudson Valley cataract, is a two-tiered, 260foot waterfall that drops most of its height in the upper, 180-foot cascade (the longest in New York State). Heather Rolland, former president of the Catskills 3500 Club, calls it “a wilderness Gothic cathedral,” gushing about the infrastructure updates completed in November 2016: increased parking, bluestone steps, and a cantilevered viewing platform. Much like the hard limestone caprock that resists the erosion of Niagara Falls upstream into Lake Erie, a sandstone shelf in between the upper and lower cascades of Kaaterskill acts as an erosion barrier—keeping the lower falls from being worn away and merging with the upper falls. The 2.6-mile out-and-back trail is an easy, dog-friendly route that is heavily trafficked in summer months. 56 OUTDOORS CHRONOGRAM 10/19
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Verkeerderkill Falls Sam’s Point in Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Cragsmoor The Dutch name means, “the wrong stream,” but hikers beg to differ. Verkeerderkill Falls is on an off-the-beaten path rewarding you with a classic layered, pale quartz conglomerate Shawangunk cliff—with the gentle spray of the falls cascading down its steep, step-like face. The moderately difficult 8.3-mile loop trail takes you through a rare dwarf pitch pine barren and offers stunning views of the Rondout Valley and the Catskills for the better part of the part of the trek. The trail is rocky, so be sure to bring sturdy shoes or boots. From the Sam’s Point entry, follow the Road Loop trail to the Verkeerderkill Falls Trail. The Verkeerderkill is part of the Hudson Valley in a very immediate sense— flowing into the Wallkill Creek, one of the tributaries of the Hudson. Stony Kill Falls Minnewaska State Park Preserve, Kerhonkson Minnewaska earns two entries here. The 90-foot-tall Stony Kill Falls is accessible via a 1.5-mile out-and-back hike from the oddly named Shaft 2A Road. The walk out to the falls is unusual—you will pass a helipad—but the trail has also recently been updated with new signage, footbridges, and stone steps ascending to the top of the falls. Visitors advise going after a heavy rain, for fuller falls. As with all waterfalls, exercise caution—even with the improvements, this is a wild area. Make sure everyone in your party feels ready and confident with their footing on steep steps and ledges. High Falls Hudson The Town of Philmont once drew its economic might from waterfalland upstream-dam-powered mills. The town’s logo still features High Falls, and the towering 150-foot-high waterfall is now protected by a 47acre parcel of land as part of the Columbia Land Conservancy. More of a jaunt than a hike, follow the green trail to a gallery overlooking the falls, or take the eastern part of the blue trail to the pool at the base of the falls. Swimming is not allowed, but leashed dogs are. Like the Kaaterskill and Verkeerderkill Falls, High Falls eventually supplies the Hudson River— flowing into the Claverack Creek, which is a tributary of the Hudson. Indian Brook Falls Constitution Marsh Sanctuary, Phillipstown If you like to take in the power and majesty of falling water but aren’t much for long treks, Indian Brook Falls is for you. Cross your fingers and hope to snag one of the eight parking spots at the Constitution Marsh Audubon Center, which is just a 0.3-mile stroll from the waterfall. Start by heading east from the parking area—in the opposite direction of the Hudson and the Marsh—and walk underneath the Route 9D bridge. Soon you will reach Indian Brook Falls, tumbling down slanted slabs of rock, pouring into a pool at its base. (Swimming at the Falls is forbidden). The same parking area also grants access to the well-loved wooden boardwalk of Constitution Marsh itself—an area criss-crossed with channels once dug by a would-be rice farmer, creating a playground for small watercraft. For the bold, follow up your waterfall hike with the trek up the inimitable Breakneck Ridge, and cap off your day of adventuring with a tasty meal at one of the many Cold Spring eateries. Glens Falls and Ice Box Falls Glen Falls House, Round Top The grounds of the 47-acre resort Glen Falls House in Greene County are free and open to the public. They offer access to three waterfalls— the namesake Glen Falls, the Bridal Veil, and Icebox Falls—as well as miles of well-marked trails (maintained by the Round Top Mountain Biking Association) that can be used for hiking, jogging, or foraging. The cascades of water from Icebox Falls are punctuated by a flat, terracelike rock formation that invites a careful amble amidst the falls. The frigid falls were once a source for harvesting large blocks of ice, which were floated downstream to the Hudson and then shipped all over this world to chill the cocktails of the wealthy. After you’ve tuckered yourself out ambling through the forest, stop in at the resort’s onsite restaurant, Trotwood, for a hearty meal of farm-to-table fare.
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The Faces of Change Portraits of Kingston Activists Photos by David McIntyre
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hen we call a particular city to mind, we imagine its physical traits—the Federalist facades of Warren Street in Hudson, the grand Victorians perched above the river in Newburgh, the indelible Manhattan skyline—all imbued with a certain intangible essence that is the vibe of the place. But this conflation of spirit and brick-and-mortar infrastructure obfuscates the actual lifeblood of cities—the inhabitants who walk the streets and run the shops, that protest the government and run for office. As Kingston rises from the ashes of post-industrial decline, it has a rare opportunity to redefine itself, and residents are fighting hard to mold a progressive identity for the future. A future that is inclusive of people of color and the LGBTQ community, that preserves our natural assets, celebrates art, and nurtures our cultural diversity. I asked several community leaders to tap someone less visible who is advocating for change, organizing events, educating the community, and rallying against injustice for a brighter, more equitable future. Hudsonbased portrait photographer David McIntyre captured the faces of 11 of these changemakers, but there are countless others not pictured who deserve recognition. “I spent two days meeting with a number of Kingston’s ‘better angels,’” McIntyre says of the experience. “I was inspired by these smart, dedicated, and selfless people who, without exception, radiated the kind of joy one only gets from giving.” —Marie Doyon
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“Kingston is experiencing rapid change right now, so I see that it could head in several different directions. What I would like to see in five years is a truly diverse and inclusive community, where currently underrepresented communities occupy positions of power throughout the power structure, and where there are no more negative aspects of gentrification.”
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“A lot of people misconstrue healthcare in America. We fight over who has it and why. We don’t think about how very, very small changes could affect thousands of people. A lot of people thought the ACA was going to render O+ unnecessary, but it still left thousands of people under- and sometimes uninsured. We do work year-round to make sure people know they have options.”
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“Everyone loves it here because we have a diverse population with an atmosphere that resembles Southern hospitality. But we need to honor and nurture that and figure out how to use our attributes to thrive and continue being forerunners of progress, and not allow in projects that seek to destroy or deplete our natural resources and change our landscape far beyond what makes Kingston such an attractive city in the first place. The money is not that important of an exchange for something so precious.�
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Tyrone Wilson (left) Harambee “In five years, I hope to see that the Pine Street African Burial Ground is a well-kept, well-known location in the Ulster County for tourism, and a museum and community education center that people can visit from all over the world.”
Frank Waters (right) MyKingstonKids; Harambee “Working with my wife Shaniqua [see page 63] is an honor and a necessity. I don’t make a move without her and vice versa. She’s my ultimate support system and lifelong team member. Having this bond keeps us grounded, active, and constantly improving ourselves so that we can share and participate to inspire and improve the lives of others in Kingston and the world.”
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Julissa Hernandez SUNY Ulster; New Start for Women “One of the challenges that we face as the program is that the cohort sometimes struggles with the stress of trauma, being a single mother, and the current struggles they are facing. Nonetheless, the women take strength in wanting to become successful, and every day they come in ready to learn something new and to continue pushing themselves.”
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97 Broadway (845) 338-0333 / Askforarts.org ASK provides a rich and vibrant range of visual art exhibitions, performances, workshops, classes, and other arts-related events in its multi-arts facility.
3. Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co.
109 Greenkill Avenue (917) 797-1903 / Blackcreekmt.com BCM&T Co. offers enduring, beautiful, and functional handmade wooden furniture and objects that you will love to use as much as we love to make. Monday-Thursday by appointment, Friday-Sunday showroom open 11am-5pm.
4. Cabinet Designers
747 Route 28 (845) 331-2200 / Cabinetdesigners.com Cabinet Designers is known for its handcrafted approach to design. This 30-plus-year-old company helps homeowners think out-of-the-box with an extensive selection of custom, semi-custom, and stock cabinets.
5. Center for Creative Education
15 Railroad Avenue (845) 338-7664 / Cce4me.org The mission of the Center for Creative Education (CCE) is to enrich the social and cultural awareness of our youth and community through arts, wellness, and education.
6. The Dental Office of Drs. Jeffrey and Maureen Viglielmo
56 Lucas Avenue (845) 339-1619 / drvigs.com Biological Doctors providing safe mercury removal , biocompatible restorations and customized periodontal therapy
7. DRAW Kingston
507 Broadway, DRAW Studio at YMCA (845) 633-0815 / Drawkingston.org DRAW is a community of artists, educators, entrepreneurs and students dedicated to providing access to the arts in Kingston.
8. Facets of Earth
22 Broadway (845) 331-2693 / Facetsofearth.com In addition to our open studio workshop, we specialize in custom jewelry and feature handcrafted fine jewelry from select independent jewelry designers from around the globe in our boutique located on the Hudson River waterfront.
9. Hutton Brickyards
200 North Street (845) 213-4742 / Huttonbrickyards.com Hutton Brickyards is an event-ready, industrial-chic, largeformat venue that marries historic structures with the natural beauty of the Hudson River for an unparalleled experience limited only by your imagination.
10. Kingston Ceramics Studio
77 Cornell Street #309 (845) 331-2078 / Kingstonceramicsstudio.com We offer open-studio time to ceramic artists, pottery classes, and parties, as well as lessons for beginner to advanced students of all ages in the Hudson Valley.
11. Livingston Street Early Childhood Community
22 Livingston Street (845) 340-9900 / Livingstonstreet.org At Livingston Street Early Childhood Community, emotional well-being and social competence are nourished in young children through the creation of meaningful relationships.
12. My Cleaning Ladies
50 Main Street #3003 (845)-481-0498 / mycleaningladies.com Professional cleaning service offering deep clean and maintenance for homes and businesses, servicing the counties of Ulster and Dutchess.
13. The Fuller Building
45 Pine Grove Avenue (845) 339-2039 / Fullerbuilding.com The former Fuller Shirt Factory, this 42,000-square-foot renovation welcomes artists, photographers, wellness professionals, and creatives into studio spaces ranging from 200 to 2,000 square feet.
14. Vetere Real Estate
115 Abeel Street (845) 338-0571 / Vetererealestate.com In business for over 25 years, we have experience with sales and listing of commercial and unique properties. We will help you evaluate your real estate, advise you of the current market conditions, set budgets, and manage auctions.
15. YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County
507 Broadway (845) 338-3810 / Ymcaulster.org YMCA is a private nonprofit, community-based organization providing social, health, physical education, and recreation services to the residents of Ulster County.
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Uptown Kingston is full of great things to see and do. Spend the day with us. Explore the shops and businesses. Visit our notable historic sites. 1. Bop to Tottom
334 Wall Street (845) 338 8100 Boptotottom.com The corner store that is a cornerstone.
2. Crown
10 Crown Street (845) 663-9003 10crownstreet.com Lounge featuring bespoke libations and seasonal cocktails, along with local beer and wines.
3. Dietz Stadium Diner
127 N. Front Street (845) 331-5321 Dietzstadiumdiner.com Dietz Stadium Diner—where everyone is treated like family.
4. Exit Nineteen
309 Wall Street (845) 514-2485 Exitnineteen.com A unique and ever-changing emporium of home furnishings, art, lighting, and gifts.
5. Hamilton & Adams
32 John Street (845) 383-1039 Hamiltonandadams.com Men's apparel, skin care, gifts, and more.
6. Herzog's Home & Paint Center 151 Plaza Road (845) 338-6300 Herzogs.com A family-owned hardware store featuring building supplies, paint, kitchen and bath design center, power tools, garden center, and gifts.
7. Hotel Kinsley
301 Wall Street (845) 768-3620 Hotelkinsley.com Hotel Kinsley is a collection of four individually distinct 19th century buildings comprised of 43 guest rooms and a restaurant closely nestled throughout the historic Stockade district in uptown Kingston.
8. Hurley Motorsports
2779 State Route 209 (845) 338-1701 Hurleymotorsportsinc.com The Hudson Valley's Audi specialists. Familyowned and operated for 18 years.
9. Kingston Consignment
66 N. Front Street (845) 481-5759 Kingstonconsignments.com Two stories of antiques, vintage clothing, tools, electronics, lighting, and more.
10. Kingston Opera House
275 Fair Street (845) 331-0898 Potterrealtymanagement@gmail.com Commercial storefronts and 2 levels of handicap-accessible offices. Call Potter Realty Management for leasing information.
11. Kingston Plaza
151 Plaza Road (845) 338-6300 Kingstonplaza.com Kingston Plaza features 35 shops including dining, wine and spirits, beauty and fashion, hardware, fitness, banking, grocery, and pharmacy.
12. North Front Gallery
52 N Front Street (845) 514-2666 Northfrontgallery.com Vintage and contemporary furniture, plus curated objects.
13. O+ Festival
310 Wall Street Opositivefestival.org O+ empowers communities to take control of their collective wellbeing through the exchange of art, music, and wellness.
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14. OAK 42
34 John Street (845) 339-0042 Oak42.com A women’s clothing boutique carrying contemporary brands at affordable prices.
15. Potter Realty
1 John Street (845) 331-0898 Potterrealtymanagement@gmail.com Leasing office and commercial space in Uptown Kingston.
17. Rough Draft Bar & Books
82 John Street (845) 802-0027 Roughdraftny.com Rustic tavern/shop offering draft beer and cider, coffee, wine, baked goods, and books for all ages.
18. Stockade Guitars
41 N. Front Street (845) 331-8600 Stockadeguitars.com New, used, and vintage guitars and amps.
16. Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N. Front Street (845) 331 8217 Facebook.com/rocketnumberninerecords The best selection of vinyl in the Hudson Valley. We buy records.
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nder Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York State is poised to lead the way to a greener future with some of the most ambitious emissions reduction goals in the nation. While there is a range of routes the state could take to reach these bold targets, shifting a large portion of energy supply to renewable sources will be an essential component of any path forward. The different approaches to hitting these sustainability goals vary widely in terms of energy affordability and service reliability for residents. For example, while residential rooftop solar arrays have swelled in popularity in the last decade, this is one of the least costeffective ways to provide clean energy. Energy generated by smallscale rooftop or distributed solar systems cost about $0.14 per kilowatt hour versus $0.06 per kilowatt hour for energy produced at a large-scale solar facility. For comparison, electricity from the power grid today costs about $0.06 cents per kilowatt hour. Central Hudson, the utility company serving the Mid-Hudson Valley, is advocating for affordable and reliable service while the state transitions its energy supply. One facet of their proposal is to allow utilities the ability to own renewable energy generation. During the 1990s, the focus of state oversight in the energy market was to promote competition with the goal of lowering costs for customers, with legislators approving a measure to separate generation of power from distribution. Prior to this, utilities were responsible for operating the entire supply and distribution chain from power plants to utility poles and power lines. For the past 20 years, consumers have had the option of selecting their energy supplier from an array of independent providers. But as solar and wind subsidies have been introduced and private developers have used the opportunity to invest in renewable
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40 Cannon Street complex, formerly the site of King’s Court Hotel, in Poughkeepsie Photo by Paul Hesse
With the specter of gentrification looming large, Hudson in collaboration with Valley cities test models of inclusive development. by Phillip Pantuso
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s the Hudson Valley’s backwoodsvogue lifestyle is adoringly chronicled everywhere from national publications to the pages of this magazine, there looms a hundred-million-dollar question: How do we create thriving, equitable, and culturally rich cities in the 21st century? Walkable neighborhoods, economic opportunity, green spaces, public transit—these are all hallmarks of a thoughtfully developed city. But the rapid transformation of a neighborhood or city by what the writer and activist Jane Jacobs called “cataclysmic money” can be, well, cataclysmic, doing real damage to the lives of longtime residents. Throughout the 20th century, we rezoned and urban renewal-ed neighborhoods out of livability; deregulated housing and urban development, and destabilized local populations. This is no less true in post-industrial cities in the Hudson Valley than in other parts of the country. But now that many of those same cities are starting to rebound, there’s an opportunity to do things differently. 78 FEATURE CHRONOGRAM 10/19
“We can’t make up for the sins of the past, but we can make sure we don’t repeat the sins of the past,” says Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison. The question of how is especially pertinent now, as the population of the nation’s three largest cities continues to shrink. New York City lost about 100,000 residents in 2018 alone. Whereas in the past, many who left the city were consciously trading urban chaos for pastoral peace, today there’s a trend of folks relocating to small and mid-sized cities, driven largely by the need to find affordable housing and a better quality of life. These trends are putting a lot of pressure on more affordable adjacent regions—places like the Hudson Valley. But there are positive signs locally. Legislation passed by the state earlier this year increases renter protections and allows qualifying municipalities to opt in to the rent stabilization rules of the 1974 Emergency Tenant Protection Act. While stipulations on vacancy rate and minimum units will preclude many local communities from qualification, the new rules could have a big impact in the cities where it is
rolled out. Kingston—where the vacancy rate is just 0.58 percent and the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment has surged past $1,000, according to the 2018 Ulster County Rental Housing Survey—looks poised to be the first Mid-Hudson Valley city to adopt the measure. Nonprofits throughout the region are enacting forward-thinking policy and planning strategies to create more equitable cities. And some local leaders have even gotten in on the act, seizing the opportunity provided by renewed interest and investment in the Hudson Valley to create better places to live. What’s Happening Here? As journalist Enav Moskowitz writes in their book How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood, in areas dealing with blight and abandonment, private investment alone usually makes for an unequal recovery. “Believing that hipsters can reverse the consequences of late-stage capitalism is a more attractive thought for city planners in cash-strapped cities than realizing that many
American cities are, for now, screwed thanks to post-industrial decline and growing inequality. Gentrification may provide a new tax base, but it also reshapes what cities are, turning them into explicit supporters of inequality, reliant on it to self-fund, yet still unable to meet the needs of their poor.” In this article, we’ll look at some promising initiatives are aimed at keeping rents affordable and fostering equitable economic development, so that the resurgence of the Hudson Valley doesn’t drive out the people who already live here. It is far from comprehensive; all communities are different, and there are no silver-bullet solutions. But over the last few years, Hudson Valley cities “have really started to take the lead in New York State to attract and retain a skilled workforce by encouraging smart development and supporting small business growth,” according to Michael Oates, president and CEO of the Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation. Oates credits this to a combination of political decisions like “zoning changes that promote healthy, walkable communities that have the right mix of retail and commercial opportunities while protecting our natural resources,” combined with targeted capital investment and support from area nonprofits, business incubators, and state development grants. The Good Kind of Redistricting Oates points to New Rochelle as an example of how smart zoning choices foster sustainable development. In 2015, the Westchester city changed its zoning to create a downtown overlay district, a tool that creates special provisions (often in the form of regulations and/or incentives) to the underlying zone, dictating land usage based on structural placement and design rather than predetermined standards. The resulting plan established six special districts, each with specific form-based building and zoning codes meant to preserve key neighborhood character traits and promote revitalization. The new code also requires all projects to provide 10 percent of the residential square footage at 80 percent of area median income (AMI), on a permanent basis. In three years, New Rochelle has approved more than 30 new projects. The city paired this with a suite of initiatives meant to protect local residents as developers came to town. The most notable of these is the Fair Share Mitigation Fund, which is meant to compensate for development’s impacts on schools, sewage systems, traffic, emergency services, and other local amenities to ensure that taxpayers receive a net benefit. According to city documents, “all projects opting into the DOZ will be required to make a one-time Fair Share Mitigation payment based on square footage, use category, parking spaces, and adjustment factors.” State government has also played a critical role in revitalization efforts. Empire State Development (ESD), an umbrella organization for the state’s two main economic development financing entities, encourages job creation and business investment with loans, grants, tax credits, real estate development, and marketing, among other tools. ESD directs support at the anchors of the Mid-Hudson
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Valley economy: biotech and life sciences, advanced manufacturing, agribusiness, and food and beverage. One recent highlight, according to ESD spokesperson Adam Kilduff, is the redevelopment plan for the Beacon Correctional Facility. The former minimum-security prison campus sits on 39 acres one mile outside downtown Beacon. ESD allocated $6 million in grant funding to redevelop the site and issued a Request for Proposals last September. The winning proposal, from Urban Green Food, “will create a campus focused on food, farming, sports, education, hospitality, and recreation,” and will generate an estimated $62 million in revenue and 150-250 permanent jobs, according to ESD. The developer, Urban Green Builders, is based in New York City, but reportedly will partner with local businesses Common Ground Farm and All You Knead Bakery to complete the project, which still needs to pass board and comptroller approval, and undergo an environmental review process.
This Is Just A Place The 2011 passage of the Land Bank Act in New York has offered local communities a progressive solution to the problem of vacancy and blight and, in Newburgh, a pathway to affordable, high-quality housing. The nonprofit Newburgh Community Land Bank (NCLB) was one of the first land banks established in the state. Since 2012 it has been acquiring vacant or abandoned properties (primarily in the North of Broadway neighborhood), doing all the legwork of assessing damage and making repairs—including structural and environmental assessments, lead and asbestos abatement, clean-up, and renovation—and then transferring the clean, stable shells to new owners, such as small-scale developers, nonprofits like RUPCO and Habitat for Humanity, or first-time homebuyers, through a variety of programs. So far, NCLB has acquired more than 100 properties and returned 60 to active use. Most of the funding comes from grants awarded by the New York State Attorney General’s office. 10/19 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 79
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Properties areSite typically Access sold via a Request for Proposals process, which allows the land bank from West to do the necessary vetting to make sure buyers meet specific requirements of sustainability and community benefit. “The idea is to work with the urban fabric asSource: it is toGoogle createEarth affordable housing and homeownership opportunities for people to live and stay in Newburgh,” says Diana Mangaser, a designer and architect who also runs NCLB’s Artist-in-Vacancy program. “There’s such a great building stock here that if we can rehabilitate and salvage them through partnerships, then we really get a better neighborhood.” On an overcast Thursday last month, Mangaser led me on a walkthrough of a property in the land bank’s Neighbors for Neighborhoods initiative, which will sell fully renovated two-family townhomes at low cost to local homebuyers. The new homeowners will then rent out the second unit at an affordable price, giving them a source of income. The land bank will also connect the new owners with a landlord education course. When NCLB acquired this particular property four years ago, the floors were sagging, the wood was rotted out, the copper wiring had been stripped, and the lower level had been divided into several single-room occupancies. Now after a nice reno, historic detail and character have been preserved, and new fixtures, flooring, and appliances have been added. “There should be no stigma around what affordable housing looks like or what it is,” Mangaser says. NCLB’s founding executive director Madeline Fletcher, a former land use lawyer, quickly recognized the benefits of the land bank movement, which was already active in the Midwest. “Unlike a lot of places around the state, [in the Hudson Valley] we have these concentrated downtowns that are having 80 FEATURE CHRONOGRAM 10/19
renewed interest in development,” she says. “The acquisition is intended to be temporary, so you can make a thoughtful decision. It’s a good model to prevent being totally overwhelmed Appendix B: Site Map by development pressure.” Fletcher has had many conversations with other cities, including Kingston, that are in various stages of organizing land banks as a way to ensure equitable downtown development. “The land bank is a tool to help correct a broken market—we’ll know we have succeeded when we close,” Fletcher says. “The goal is not to make this a fancy and inaccessible place. We want to make this place better, and with that, provide opportunities for everyone who is here.” Gentrification vs. Development Beacon is a microcosm of the debate over development and gentrification in the Hudson Valley. Within a year of Dia:Beacon’s arrival in 2003, the median home price rose 25 percent to $227,623, according to Zillow. It’s now at $318,100. The median household income, meanwhile, has stayed relatively stable, according to a five-year estimate by the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. But Dia’s arrival isn’t the whole story. Mayor Randy Casale, a Beacon native, remembers when “the city was boarded up and Main Street was on the outs.” In the 1980s and ’90s, many buildings on the main drag were left to decay, and renters lived in street-level commercial spaces. Clara Lee Gould, who served as mayor from 1990-2007, installed a full-time code enforcement board, which forced absentee owners to get buildings up to code and regulate use. “That’s really what turned our city around,” Casale says. In 2007, the City of Beacon issued a comprehensive plan (updated in 2017), which altered zoning to allow developers to repurpose
some of Beacon’s old industrial properties as mixed-use, hotel, and commercial property. There’s also been a surge in residential development, which Casale has welcomed but has created affordability concerns. In response, the city passed a measure requiring that for every 10 new rental units that come online, at least one must be “workforce affordable.” There’s no legal definition of workforce-affordable housing, but rents for those units cannot exceed 30 percent of the median household income. Of the 928 units that are either being built, have been approved, or are before the planning board, 216 will be “workforce affordable,” Casale says, and must stay that way forever, with any rent hikes pegged to the Consumer Price Index. “I always say, ‘We’re not developing, we’re redeveloping,’” Casale says. “You need a tax base to run your city.” Casale adds that affordable housing is important, but the “biggest task” facing Beacon is attracting jobs. “The price of housing is going up across the country, but wages are staying flat,” he says. “So we need to be able to create some jobs with incomes so people can afford the cost of housing.” But the pace and scale of development in Beacon has prompted concern among local citizens. Dan Aymar-Blair, one of the organizers of the People’s Committee on Development, which successfully lobbied the city council to adopt a six-month building moratorium in September 2017, is now running for city council on a platform of pushing for transparency, fairness, and sustainability in the face of development pressure. “Every voter I talk to tells me they’re concerned about development,” Aymar-Blair says. He wants to put in place an architectural review board to address the “aesthetic component” of any new development; introduce
A rendering of the new New Rochelle skyline featuring all of the downtown projects that have received site plan approval by the city’s planning board. Opposite: Empire State Development’s site map for the Beacon Correctional Facility property.
community benefit agreements and more sustainable and affordable housing provisions; and offer more training for the city’s zoning board of appeals. “The cautionary tale of Beacon is when you’re trying to attract investment, you better have a plan to make it work in your community,” he says. On this, perhaps, Aymar-Blair and Casale can agree. “I tell other mayors, ‘Watch what you wish for,’” Casale says. “People want to be the last one in. I get that change scares people, but for the city to be prosperous and move forward, we need to do what we’ve been doing.” The Whole Picture Ask a hundred Hudson Valley residents how the region should develop, and you’re likely to hear a hundred different answers, but most will agree that the displacement that usually accompanies gentrification is unwelcome, and that we need to think more holistically when planning redevelopment projects. Instead, according to Poughkeepsie common councilmember Sarah Salem, all too often we do it piecemeal, based on what cities think is a need. “But who’s coming to us to determine those needs?” they ask. Salem describes a recent city council meeting in which members debated a zoning text amendment to expand commercial uses for Poughkeepsie’s Union Street Historic District. When another councilmember asked why she should support the amendment when her ward was dealing with similar issues, Salem wondered why the council hadn’t considered an amendment there, too? “One way we can encourage more equitable and inclusive development is to stretch our minds a little bit and say, ‘This developer and this specific neighborhood is hot right now, but we should be spending more time thinking about sympathetic changes throughout each
zone in our cities,’” Salem says. “Then, multiple neighborhoods benefit from the same changes, benefit from a social ecology that’s mindful of place, space, and the people that exist there.” If Beacon is a cautionary tale of sorts, Poughkeepsie might be a test case for the lessons learned. Both cities have some of the same assets (historic housing stock, proximity to New York City via train, and a waterfront district) to overcome similar problems (blight, disinvestment, the ravages of urban renewal). “In an ironic way, being behind the curve makes us the beneficiary,” says Poughkeepsie community development coordinator Paul Hesse. “We get to observe what other communities are doing right and what they’re challenged with.” Poughkeepsie’s already come a long way. When Rolison took office in 2016, there was no city planning department and no economic development apparatus. Early on, Rolison focused on building capacity and trust with the city’s anchor institutions and community organizations. From a development perspective, Poughkeepsie can accommodate more density than a place like Beacon due to its size, though it also has more distinct neighborhoods to consider when planning, Rolison says. But “we have always considered the downtown area to be most critical to the rebirth of the city, because that’s the economic center,” he adds. “For other areas of the city to flourish, you have to have a vibrant downtown.” As successful examples of development Poughkeepsie, Rolison points to mixed-income artist housing at Queen City Lofts and the adaptive reuse of the old King’s Court Hotel into 40 Cannon Street, a mixed-use complex with apartments, a brewery, wine bar, and gallery space. According to Rolison and Hesse, in the near future the city will look to update its comprehensive plan (last done in 1998)
and address the most visible scars of urban renewal: the Route 9 North-South and Route 44/55 East-West arterials. Poughkeepsie has recently partnered with the Dutchess County Transportation Council on a study that will weigh transportation alternatives that make it easier for the 30 percent of its residents who don’t own a car to get downtown and to their places of work. “It’s a quality-of-life issue, and an equity issue,” Hesse says. “We’re taking the first meaningful steps on studying how to undo these historical wrongs.” Reframing discussions and decisions about development in a more holistic way forces elected leaders not just to state a vision for the future but to answer the types of questions that often don’t figure into quick calculus when there’s a lot of money on the table. Questions like: what kind of city do we want to be? What are we developing toward? “We’re seeing growth, but we have to make sure we’re taking care of the individuals here now, not the ones who might come,” Rolison says. That approach has the promise of repositioning the threat of gentrification into an opportunity to foster effective, equitable, and inclusive economic development in the Hudson Valley. It will require a patchwork of approaches, more visionary thinking, and community involvement. “We’re chipping away at the edges, identifying things errors in our racist and oppressive past,” Salem says. “For a while, the city experienced a lot of neglect and misguidance—handing out space and favors to developers and anyone else who wanted to come in and wring out the city for what it’s worth. That’s a national issue—what we’re dealing with here is not unique. It just feels closer to home because here we are, at home.” Join us as we discuss inclusive community planning at Clarkson University Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries on October 15 from 6-8pm. More info at Chronogram.com/octoberconversations 10/19 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 81
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Ira Pavlova models clothing designed by Marist fashion student Sarah Rexford ’20. Photo by Rachel Brennecke
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or nearly 50 years, thousands of people have flocked to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds each October for the annual Sheep and Wool Festival. The event is one of the largest fiber arts expos in the country, a testament to the Hudson’s Valley deep roots in fiber farming and artisanal garment production. The agricultural heritage of the region, along with its proximity to New York City’s unparalleled fashion industry, and the rise of the maker movement, give the Hudson Valley the perfect confluence of factors to become a thriving style mecca in its own right. Indeed, the growing programs at local institutions dedicated to everything from garment design to sewing and marketing have quietly become a sartorial pipeline, equipping the next generation of fashion professionals with the skills they need to step onto the big stage. From Ulster County BOCES, where high schoolers can earn up to three college credits in the fashion design and merchandising program, to SUNY Ulster, which draws scores of area residents for the five-year-old program’s annual runway show, to the state-of-the-art facility at Marist’s world-renowned fashion program, local opportunities for aspiring designers, makers, and entrepreneurs have never been better. And farmers, dyers, millers, designers, makers, distributors, and retailers have joined forces under the Hudson Valley Textile Project, standing firmly behind the students and teachers—all at a moment when the global fashion industry is increasingly embracing sustainability and ethics. Since 2009, enrollment in the four-year Marist fashion program has risen from 200 to 500. In June 2018, the college announced the $18.1 million purchase of the entire 14th floor of 420 Fifth Avenue, with part of the space dedicated to enhancing that program’s New York-facing doings and involvement in Fashion Week. This
past January, the program moved into its new on-campus home in Poughkeepsie: the renovated Steel Plant, with state-of-the-art fashion studios, a makerspace, an exhibition gallery, and retail laboratory for merchandising students. In May, a Marist fashion design major won the prestigious Council of Fashion Designers of America Liz Claiborne Design Scholarship, while the student-produced fashion magazine FM/AM took home the coveted Gold Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) of Columbia University for the second year in a row. The list of accolades goes on. The program also received badges of excellence for Learning Experience and Long-Term Value in fashion design and for Overall Program, Learning Experience, and Long-Term Value for fashion business and management from the prestigious industry publication Business of Fashion in its global ranking of fashion schools for 2019. “We’re in a state of continual improvement,” says Lyn Lepre, Dean of Marist’s School of Communication and the Arts, of which the fashion program is a flagship element. “Fashion is tremendously fast-moving; the second you blink, something changes. Our faculty are on-point, making sure we stay abreast of the cutting edge. The new building affords us a lot of room to move and grow. In the makerlab space, students can make things with fabric printers; there’s a vinyl cutter, 3D printers, pattern-making software. I’m very excited to see us start utilizing the technology to move the program forward.” Along with fully leveraging their proximity to Manhattan’s fashion stratosphere, nearly 90 percent of Marist’s fashion majors spend at least one term overseas. In Paris, they intern at Mod Spe; at Hong Kong Polytechnic, they’re exposed to a rarified intersection of technology, design, and textile production; a group in Italy recently worked with designer Francesca Libertori to help her through this year’s Milan Fashion Week. 10/19 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 83
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Spring 2018 student fashion show at SUNY Ulster. Photo courtesy of John Halpern
Sustainable Opportunities In recent years, there’s been a growing awareness that “fast fashion”—mass sweatshop production of low-quality, inexpensive garments based on the latest runway trends—carries enormous human and environmental costs. The alternative—slow or “conscious” fashion—involves sustainable sourcing, ethical labor practices, and the production of garments that are built to last. Fashion students at Marist are encouraged to consider the industry’s role in helping make not just a prettier but a better world. “We offer a stand-alone course on sustainability and fashion, but beyond that, it’s talked about in everything we do here, from where clothing is manufactured to the dyes and fabrics used and the merchandising aspect,” says Lepre. “Our students did an entire zero-waste collection utilizing every single bit of fabric on the bolt. Three of our students were featured on ‘Good Morning America’ for an upcycling project with natural dyes. They had a Ziplock bag holding all the waste from the entire project.” Across the river at SUNY Ulster, the fashion program, now run by Kristin Flynn, is five years old. “We’ve got a chain of students at FIT now, and each one takes the next one under their wing and helps them, it’s so beautiful,” says Flynn. “There is a pathway from Ulster BOCES to SUNY Ulster to FIT. Then we have grads who’ve gone straight into business. Calista Allen has her own line of children’s wear. Sarah Stitham started Workday Wear in Olivebridge; she just had her first fashion show in Woodstock last spring. Theresa Naske works with Karina Dresses—we
“I’m three weeks into my second year [at SUNY Ulster], and I already feel like if I was dropped into the industry tomorrow, I could swim.” —Rachel Whitbeck always have an intern there, too. This gives people a skill and a way to create a product they can sell, and there are so many outlets for startups: online, Etsy, maker fairs. It’s a nice renaissance.” Stitching Together a Vision Wurtsboro native Rachel Whitbeck decided to study fashion when she was in fourth grade and never wavered. Graduating high school, she was accepted at several schools and ultimately chose SUNY Ulster. “We all work really hard,” she says. “We come early, stay late, meet up on Fridays to do draping or CAD together, and it feels like the
best thing ever, because we’re finally doing what we want to do. I’m three weeks into my second year, and I already feel like if I was dropped into the industry tomorrow, I could swim. I found a dream job online and looked at the requirements, and I had all the skills they were asking for. I’m considering FIT or Drexel for next year. I’m confident I could get into both; it’s a matter of choosing between New York and Philadelphia.” Flynn credits her team of instructors for the program’s success. “We have accomplished, talented adjuncts who come from the industry side of things, so they’re teaching exactly what the students need to know to graduate with a portfolio, a resume, and a business card, all set for more school or job-hunting,” she says. The college also offers classes in entrepreneurism for those planning to start their own businesses. They offer a week-long camp for kids ages 8-14, where they learn sewing and design drawing from current students and graduates. The camp culminates in a fashion show. “We had 35 kids this year,” says Flynn. “Some kids come back all three years.” When they get to high school, those youngsters can sign up for the BOCES Fashion Design and Merchandising program taught by Marist grad Nicole Foti. “We touch on marketing concepts, design, and technical skills like fashion illustration, portfolio development, and construction, and students sew their own clothing,” Foti says. “They work on industryspecific CAD programs and put together a lookbook at the end of the year.” Working across departments, students put together photo shoots pulling students from the cosmetology 10/19 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 85
Deena McGarvey from New Paltz High School puts the finishing touches on her dress at the Ulster BOCES 2019 Fashion Design class’s end-of-year gallery exhibit.
department to prep the models and carpentry students to build the backdrop. “It’s a complete production, and in a lot of ways, it mimics real-world work life, where you need that collaboration and those soft skills,” Foti says. “We go to Manhattan at least once every year, see design offices and cutting rooms, talk to buyers and tech designers, see the whole breadth of what the industry has to offer in terms of job opportunities.” This year SUNY Ulster had to add a second class to accommodate the lengthy waiting list. “We see a major trend in designers and the industry coming upstate for the same reasons everyone does—affordable space, quality of life,” Foti says. “And local factories are coming back, a lot in Brooklyn and increasingly in Newburgh and Kingston, and our workplace coordinator has been building connections.” A state agricultural literacy grant will enable Foti to ramp up her menu of guest speakers and field trips to industry sites. “Our grant theme is the future of fashion,” she says. “Fabric comes from farms, after all, and I truly believe that the future lies in being more sustainable, conscious, transparent, and local.” Beyond Couture Foti’s predecessor at BOCES, Angela Kunz, graduated from Pratt and had her own clothing line selling in 70 boutiques before realizing she felt alienated by the priorities of the industry. “Consumerism and sexism—ick,” she says. “I dropped out of that world completely for a while. I was living in High Falls with my fiancé, rock climbing, waitressing, and working at Rock and Snow.” 86 EDUCATION CHRONOGRAM 10/19
“The colleges here are churning out kids who are prepared to go into the wider world with great skills and critical thinking. They’re aware of exploitation and climate change, and they want to create viable companies and systems that will do much, much better.” —Paula Kucera She made her own wedding dress and stunned the local tastemakers of the Green Cottage, who were friends with Marist’s fashion program director at the time. “The next thing I knew I was teaching,” Kunz says. “It amazed me. I get to inspire, be creative, and teach what I love without even having to deal with ‘the Industry.’ ” She’s now an adjunct working with Flynn at SUNY Ulster and has watched local students
benefit from the proliferation of programming. “My fifth year at BOCES, I had a student who came from intense backwoods Catskills poverty—the dirty and not-enough-food kind. She had dyslexia so she’d struggled academically, but she absolutely loved making clothes. She had to take two buses to get to BOCES, but she got there. We were just getting SUNY Ulster off the ground. I told her to hang in there. She went to Ulster her first year out of high school and studied fine art, then stayed for two years for the fashion program. She’s kicking butt at FIT now, off the charts, just blossoming.” At White Barn Sheep and Wool in New Paltz, Paula Kucera supplies runway-worthy yarn to Marist students for their Silver Needle Fashion Show projects and serves on the advisory board for Nicole Foti’s BOCES program. She’s met most of the region’s fashion educators over the years. “They’re very active in producing graduates who aren’t just crazy couture people but can slot themselves into great, solid jobs,” she says. “Those BOCES kids have some incredibly impressive lookbooks. The colleges here are churning out kids who are prepared to go into the wider world with great skills and critical thinking, to meet a fashion world that is actually way on top of this already. They’re aware of exploitation and climate change, and they want to create viable companies and systems that will do much, much better.” To get a closer look at the local fiber and fashion scene, join the crew at the New York Sheep and Wool Festival, happening at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck on October 19 and 20.
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The 800 Goddesses of The Grace Project by Isis Charise
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en years ago, Isis Charise was working as a boudoir photographer, photographing women in the plush privacy of the salonlike studio in her Kingston home. After the Poughkeepsie Journal published an article about her business, featuring interviews with several clients who’d had transformative, empowering experiences, Charise got an odd phone call. A man wanted to book a session for his wife. “His wife showed up with all these hat boxes and hangers,” Charise recalls. “She was determined to be covered throughout the shoot, which was curious, because she was doing a boudoir shoot for her husband.” But as the woman began to feel more comfortable, she paused to confess that she was a 12year breast cancer survivor and had never shown her mastectomy scars to anyone other than her husband and her doctor. “Her husband thought she was beautiful and wanted her to feel the way the women in the article felt about their bodies,” Charise says. When they resumed shooting, the woman began to coyly show her nonmastectomy breast. “At a certain point, she was just feeling really sexy, odalisque, lying there on the couch, and she just threw off her shirt and said, ‘Fuck it,’” Charise remembers. “It was this magical moment. I thought, ‘Oh my god, I just watched this woman let go of 12 years of shame.’ It was incredibly powerful and cathartic for me and very healing for her.” Several weeks later, she did a before-and-after shoot for a friend who was having a mastectomy. “I couldn’t get the two of them out of my mind. I felt really drawn to explore this topic as an artist,” Charise says. “When I went online to see what was out there, all I could find were these hideous medical photographs of women’s torsos—head missing, bad fluorescent lighting, harsh scars. There was no humanity to it. I decided I needed to put a face to breast cancer and the beauty and grace that exists through that whole process.”
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As she delved into breast cancer research, she stumbled upon the staggering statistic that every day in the US, 800 people are diagnosed with breast cancer. So she set her goal for the Grace Project, as it came to be called: to photograph 800 women with breast cancer. (Her Instagram handle is @800goddesses). A decade later, she has captured more than 400 women on camera across the country, at various stages in their arc of their illness and grieving process. “When I was first thinking about how to conceptualize the project, I wondered, ‘How do you show something that is broken and hard to look at in a way that is palatable and beautiful?’” she says. “What popped into my head immediately is the Venus de Milo—a broken statue that has survived the trauma of history and yet is this most beautiful cultural icon. So, when it came to the project, it made sense to give women the concept of fabric to play with.” The photographs convey tender, unfettered intimacy; vulnerability and power. The women, draped in gauzy fabrics that catch the light, gazing at the camera through layers of pain and triumph, are archetypal. “I’m not photographing models,” Charise says. “I’m photographing suburban housewives living in the Midwest. Ordinary people. People who would have never posed naked pre-cancer.” The images are printed on silk and hung unframed, so they stir as you walk by and billow in the wind, bringing the women to life. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, selections from the Grace Project will be on display at the Idea Garden in Kingston throughout the month of October. The opening reception will take place October 5 from 4 to 7pm and there will be an artist talk in conjunction with the O+ Festival on October 12 at 3:30pm. —Marie Doyon
“I did not die from cancer but I have to LIVE with it, and I am doing so to the fullest. Posing for the Grace Project was an honor and a privilege. It was part of my celebration of being alive.”
—Virginia
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“My cancer was found early and the entire journey was marked by grace. My photo shoot left me feeling empowered, strong and beautiful, and no matter what happens in life, that is an example I always want to model for my daughter, who was only 18 months old at the time but came with me to my shoot.”
—Amy
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“Breast cancer was never meant to hurt, harm, or kill me, even though it tried, but to give me hope and a future. This shoot— what an unforgettable moment, defying breast cancer with and by His amazing grace.”
—Beth
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“I have the perfect American girl body—Barbie boobs! Plastic breasts with no nipples! When I was first diagnosed, I felt so alone. I was only 30, and no one related to what I was going through. The goddesses that are a part of The Grace Project stand together in a diverse and united front letting women know that they are not alone in this journey.” —Maria
Men make up about 1% of those that are diagnosed with breast cancer. However, because it is not widely known that men can get breast cancer, they are often diagnosed at a later stage, when the disease has spread and their prognosis is much worse. —Isis Charise 94 PORTFOLIO CHRONOGRAM 10/19
“My photographs by Charise for the Grace Project are a significant part of my mental healing after surgery and treatment. The process itself includes me in an incredible group of humans, that have changed my life positively.” —Patti Callahan Misko
“The Grace Project meant freeing myself to be me without caring what the world says about my scars and my uni-boob.”
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International Repercussions Kyaw Kyaw Naing By Peter Aaron Photos by Fionn Reilly
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This beautiful, ancient instrument, known as the pat waing, comes from Burma.
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man sits cross-legged on the bare floor of a basement room on the SUNY New Paltz campus. He’s nearly encircled by what looks like a picket fence, about three feet tall and made of finely carved wood decorated with gold leaf and shards of inlaid mirror. The man is whirling in place, a look of intense concentration on his face. His forearms are a blur as his bare hands rise and fall quickly all around him within his tiny fortress, producing a rapid succession of rubbery tones when they land. Peering over the gilt-covered walls, the source of these resonant sounds comes into view: an arsenal of 21 small drums, which the player pauses occasionally to tune by rubbing their skins with lumps of waxy dampening paste scooped from a plastic container at his side. This beautiful, ancient instrument, known as the pat waing, comes from Burma
(present-day Myanmar), as does the player lording over it: Kyaw Kyaw Naing. “This paste used to be made from rice and tamarind ash,” he says through his daughter, Tet, who translates for us. The modern version of the substance, he explains, is synthetically derived. The genial Naing, whose first name is pronounced “Jojo,” is a third-generation master drummer and the leader of a traditional Burmese percussion orchestra called a hsaing waing. His late father, U Sein Chit Tee, led an orchestra that accompanied folk dancers at the Asia Society in New York in 1975. But despite the notoriety of that event, Burmese music has remained largely unknown in America and other Western countries—a reality Naing is working to change. Naing was born in Myanmar’s former capital city, Rangoon (now called Yangon), in 1964 and
began learning the pattala (bamboo xylophone) at age three. Originally, his older brother was to be the family’s pat waing player, but when their father noticed his younger son’s natural aptitude for the instrument, he encouraged it. However, knowing the economic uncertainty of being a professional musician himself, he was reluctant to push Naing onto the same path. But the clan’s women took a different view. “It was my grandmother’s wish for me to play the drums,” Naing says. “And my mother, who was a dancer, also wanted me to play. There were always drums around [the family’s home]. I was always playing.” He began formal drum studies at four, and just a few years later, he was winning top prizes at national musical competitions, taking first place at the prestigious Burmese Era 3000 contest when he was seven. 10/19 CHRONOGRAM ARTS & CULTURE 99
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Much of Burmese music’s obscurity outside its homeland is due to the military dictatorship that ruled the former British colony from March 1962 until August 1988, when it was deposed by the uprising known as 8888. In the 1960s and ’70s, when record labels like Folkways and Elektra’s Nonesuch Explorer imprint were documenting indigenous music from around the world for the Western market, the nation’s isolationist government under leader Ne Win kept them out. As a young professional musician, Naing saw firsthand the effects of xenophobia on the culture. “I was in orchestras that played concerts where tourists would come,” he recalls. “Burmese people also came, and they were more used to hearing this music, so they didn’t talk to us much about it. For the tourists, the music was something new, and they would give us great feedback about our concerts. But then [the regime] stopped letting the tourists in, and we didn’t get to associate with outside musicians. So, we stopped getting the feedback. Even though we were being paid very well, it was very different.” Despite the change in government after the 1988 revolution, the political undercurrent in Myanmar remained tense and censorial, and for artists, finding steady work there became increasingly difficult. In 1999, the University of California at Los Angeles invited Naing to perform, and while in LA he met members of the city’s growing Burmese expatriate community. He also visited some museums with collections of musical instruments, where he noticed something. “In these museums, there were instruments from everywhere in the world, but there were no Burmese instruments,” he says. “I thought, ‘I need to bring Burmese music to America.’” Despite the disheartening prospect of being separated from his wife and their two young daughters, Naing decided to stay in the US and do exactly that, having his heirloom pat waing and other instruments shipped across the ocean. In 2000, Naing met Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and composing clarinetist Evan Ziporyn at a concert in Boston. Ziporyn invited Naing to perform at a workshop at MIT, and through him, the percussionist met and began performing with Ziporyn’s erstwhile group, the New York-based contemporary music collective Bang on a Can. The latter partnership led to a 2004 album, Bang on a Can Meets: Kyaw Kyaw Naing, and a 2005 relocation to Sunnyside, Queens, where Naing worked as a sushi chef to support himself between tours. In 2006, he took a job running the sushi bar at the Marist College cafeteria and moved to Hyde Park, where his family finally joined him from Myanmar. SUNY Department of Music assistant professor and Burmese music acolyte Alex Peh was stunned to learn that Naing was in the area and immediately reached out to his virtuoso neighbor about working together. “The music is so joyful,” says Peh, a pianist whose family emigrated from Malaysia to New York when he was six. “It starts, it stops, it changes direction and tempo. Kyaw Kyaw is a virtuoso drummer, he plays the drums as fast as I can play a piano. The range of color and
tone that he can draw out of his pat waing is an inspiration to all musicians.” A traditional hsaing waing includes the pat waing as well as several other tuned drums and instruments, such as the kyi waing (small bronze gongs in a circular frame), maung hsaing (larger bronze gongs in a rectangular frame), chauk lon pat (a set of eight drums), si and wa (bell and clapper), and hne (double reed pipe). For more formal and classical performances, the ensemble is sometimes accompanied by the saung gauk (Burmese harp) and the pattala. While the music’s tinkling timbre is akin to that of Indonesian gamelan music, it’s richer sonically due to the presence of the drums, and, as Peh points out, more frenetic and unpredictable. Over the centuries, hsaing waing groups have customarily provided accompaniment for traditional outdoor plays (called a za pwe or na pwe), marionette performances (yokthee pwe), and even movies (a practice that began in the 1920s with silent films and is still done today with sound films). The piano and violin were introduced to Burmese music in the 1800s, giving rise to an entire separate instrumental tradition as they were adapted to native styles. Now a SUNY music instructor himself, Naing has worked with Peh for the past year to develop the college’s nascent Southeast Asian music program. Currently he’s teaching a class of 18 students, who, on October 5, will join him and Peh in a new orchestra that will make its debut with a concert on the New Paltz campus. “We have formed the first Burmese hsaing waing ensemble in America and are hoping to build on this concert to perform around the country,” Peh says. “It’s so thrilling to see our students be the first students in America to learn Burmese percussion with such an acclaimed master and keeper of the tradition.” Peh’s frequent collaborator, acclaimed local drummer Susie Ibarra (profiled in the March 2018 issue of Chronogram), will join the stage, leading an ensemble performing Maguindanaon gong music of the southern Philippines. Peh will accompany Naing on a two-month visit to the drummer’s native country starting in December. The return will no doubt have a strong resonance for Naing and, likely, a bittersweet one. But the smiling musician seems to be delighted both with his family’s present home and his increasingly fruitful work preserving Burma’s deep musical heritage while passing it along to eager new generations. And, as is the case with so many other immigrants who’ve left inhospitable conditions to make a better life in America, he’s contributing to and enriching the culture of both his local region and the country as a whole, adding another storied thread to its colorful quilt. “He’s happiest when he’s playing music,” says Tet about her father. “When he’s doing that, he forgets all about work and everything else.” “With Gongs, Drums, and Pianos: Traditional Southeast Asian Music,” a concert featuring Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Alex Peh, Susie Ibarra, and a studentfaculty Burmese-American percussion ensemble, will take place at the Studley Theatre on the SUNY New Paltz campus on October 5 at 8pm. Newpaltz.edu.
“It’s so thrilling to see our students be the first students in America to learn Burmese percussion with such an acclaimed master and keeper of the tradition.” —Alex Peh
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Janis: Her Life and Music Curling up with a good book under the changing leaves is one of the best ways to spend a fall afternoon. Whether you are in the mood for a mystery, drama, or autobiography, here are six books for you to relax with this October. —Claudia Larsen
and class. “I’m proud that our book invites the reader into a community of solo moms who lay bare their fears, joys, hopes, and challenges,” said coeditor Marika Lindhom.
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
Daron Hagen
Kate Racculia HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, $26
Tuesday Mooney isn’t an outgoing person. She’d prefer to spend her adult life working hard or holed up at home. Yet, when eccentric Boston billionaire Vincent Price dies, leaving behind a trail of clues to his fortune, puzzle-loving Tuesday can’t resist the challenge. The puzzle is not what it seems, and soon Tuesday and her mismatched crew of clue-hunters must face their flaws head-on to solve the puzzle at hand in this witty, quirky, and insightful book.
Trial By Family Roselee Blooston APPRENTICE HOUSE PRESS, $17.99
Family is complicated: a bastion of love and support, but also sometimes a breeding ground for greed and mistrust. Part family drama part courtroom saga, Rosalee Blooston’s novel, Trial by Family, follows the falling out of Alvin Segal and his family. Seeking a little peace and quiet, Alvin gives his second wife, Fay, a large sum of money, thereby compromising his grown children’s estate. The kids fight their way all the way to a jury trial, in this tense, realistic, and relatable drama about the complicated nature of family, entitlement, money, and love.
We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor Marika Lindholm, Cheryl Dumesnil, Domenica Ruta, Katherine Shonk SHE WRITES PRESS, $17.95
We Got This, a tribute to the over 1.5 million single mothers of the world, is a compilation of essays, poems, and prose by 75 moms doing it on their own, including Amy Poehler and Anne Lamott. This collection destigmatizes single motherhood by offering relatable accounts that connect women through their shared struggles across age, race,
Duet With the Past: A Composer’s Memoir MCFARLAND & COMPANY INC, PUBLISHERS, $39.95
Daron Hagen’s life has been steeped in music. In his career, the prolific musician has composed five symphonies, 12 concertos, 13 operas, and more than 350 art songs. Through Duet with the Past, discover the journey of a young man in a family shadowed by death and the sacrifices he makes to become a famous composer. Hagen describes the most impactful moments of his life in detail as well as his musical career, including his time with renowned artists such as Lukas Foss and Gian Carlo Menotti.
Sweet + Salty: The Art of Vegan Chocolates, Truffles, Caramels, and More From Lagusta’s Luscious Lagusta Yearwood LIFELONG BOOKS, IMPRINT OF HACHETTE BOOKS, $30
Written by the founder of the first-ever vegan chocolate shop, Lagusta’s Luscious, Sweet + Salty is the ultimate guide to creating socially and environmentally responsible, plant-based treats from truffles to toffees, hard candies to ganache. Yearwood takes a broader approach to veganism, going beyond the simple avoidance of animal products to the root of the issue—ethical sourcing of ingredients. The recipes in Sweet + Salty make use of responsibly sourced baking essentials like cacao and sugar.
Loopy Mango Knitting: 34 Fashionable Pieces You Can Make in a Day Oejong Kim ABRAMS, $29.99
From Oejong Kim, the cofounder and creative director of the Beacon-based knitwear shop Loopy Mango, comes this DIY guide to chunky knitting. The beautiful hardcover book includes step-bystep instructions on the basics of knitting along with detailed instructions on how to recreate 34 of Loopy Mango’s own designs.
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Raised in a conservative Texas oil town by a conventional, outgoing suburban mother and a brooding, introverted father, Janis Joplin was out of sync with her peers from the get-go: artistically talented, bookish, and drawn to all the wrong people. Her two best girlfriends were Jewish and she had a thing for the Beats and the blues. This didn’t go down well in her segregated hometown, and as soon as she could she fled to bohemian San Francisco—about as culturally far away from Port Arthur, Texas, as one could get. The journey from Port Arthur to Haight-Ashbury serves as a metaphor for Joplin’s musical evolution, as award-winning music writer Holly George-Warren, of Phoenicia, makes clear in her masterful biography, Janis: Her Life and Music. Never having been much of a fan of Joplin’s, I now understand—and more importantly, I now hear—how Joplin took her early love of blues, country, and folk, mixed them in the cauldron of late-’60s psychedelic-rock that was prevalent at the time, and infused them with her gift for melody, to come up with a visionary style and nakedly emotional sound all her own. It wasn’t easy: Joplin had to battle several bands’ worth of stubborn or inept male musicians to get them to realize the sound she heard in her head. George-Warren writes that “Janis suffered appalling sexism” from the musical establishment and the counterculture at large. There was no precedent for a woman-led rock group. Nevertheless, Joplin persisted until Newsweek crowned her “the first female superstar of rock music.” George-Warren is the first biographer to have gained access to reams of Joplin’s correspondence. The letters reveal an artist tortured by lifelong insecurities fed by substance addictions and an inability to commit to the kind of love relationship—with any man or woman—for which she seemed so desperate. For Joplin, the music always came first. She was also consumed by her need for parental approval. In a letter to her folks back home, she writes, “I got an ovation, bigger than any of the other groups, for a slow blues in a minor key. Wow, I can’t help it—I love it! People really treat me with deference. I’m somebody important. SIGH!!” The desperation embedded in that “SIGH!!” speaks volumes. That it all came crashing down upon Joplin at the accursed age of 27, when she died of a drug overdose, doesn’t take away from the magnificent accomplishments of her all-too-brief fouryear career. When we listen to her today, her howls, moans, and cries testify to her pain and struggles with an urgency across time and space. —Seth Rogovoy Holly George-Warren is scheduled to read from and sign copies of Janis: Her Life and Music at the Golden Notebook in Woodstock on November 3; Oblong Books in Rhinebeck on November 13; and the Emerson Resort in Mount Tremper on November 16.
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music Larry Grenadier The Gleaners (ECM Records) Ecmrecords.com With decades of outstanding work alongside some of the greatest figures in music—most notably as a part of pianist Brad Mehldau’s trio—Larry Grenadier represents the gold standard of modern jazz bass, his ample discography showcasing his exemplary finesse, indefatigable swing, and purposeful support with every project. For all that, his first date as a leader is an utter revelation, a dramatic artistic statement for solo bass that rewards repeated listenings. Grenadier notes, “The process for making this record began with a look inward, an excavation into the core elements of who I am as a bass player.” With pieces broken out into roughly half pizzicato and arco, Grenadier’s compositions offer a wealth of textures that fascinate with their simultaneous breadth and simplicity. His bowing ranges from the gorgeous swells of the appropriately titled opener, “Oceanic,” to precise, haunting expressions in the altissimo register on the title track and on John Coltrane’s “Compassion,” contrasting smartly with his superlative walkabout on “Pettiford” and legato arpeggios on “Woebegone.” There’s also an admirable spurning of purism, allowing the briefest of occasional overdubs to augment certain tracks, nowhere more affectingly than in the 48 seconds that comprise “A Novel in a Sigh.” Much like the juxtaposition of a tree bursting with life amid a cityscape on the album’s cover, The Gleaners is a robustly organic model of sophistication and the majestic summation of a remarkable career to date, one that heralds outstanding possibilities for this now all-the-more accomplished musician. —James Keepnews
David Greenberger and Prime Lens It Happened to Me
Frenchy and the Punk Hooray Beret
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Ed Ruscha’s influential word paintings are droll and forthright: aphorisms caught within shimmering sunsets, maxims capping mountain ranges. They reveal new meanings with each new visit but through no specific strategy of their own. The viewer provides the perspective. Ruscha painted the cover of David Greenberger’s latest set of spoken-word “audio paintings,” It Happened to Me, which, if nothing else, proves the latter’s own status in the art world. For 40 years now, Greenberger has been making art out of conversations with the aging. This latest batch, gathered near Ruscha’s LA expanse, and accompanied by the musical ensemble Prime Lens, is perhaps his most humanistic yet, peppered with immigrant tales and sweet recollections of hard lives. Like Ruscha, Greenberger doesn’t provide the emotions, only the words—you can do the rest on your own. —Michael Eck
The Hudson Valley’s steampunk soul twins, Frenchy and the Punk (formerly the Gypsy Nomads), wear weird like a badge, continually defying categorization on every recording with their passionate sound play. Gypsy? Punk? Rock? Cabaret? Tossing them into the generic indie box would be laughable. Having heard and seen them live through several shapeshiftings, I’ll say their boisterous vibe has not faltered one bit. Their sixth album is spirited, fearless, even lawless. It’s no wonder they have been embraced by imaginative, creative steampunks. Samantha Stephenson’s cavorting vocals are reminiscent of Kate Pierson these days—pure merriment. Scott Helland bangs acoustic strings as he did electric strings in his hardcore punk days, still rowdy and precise as hell. This album doesn’t waste time from note one, an energetic urgency catapulting listeners into a 10-song traverse that never soft-pedals. These magnetic mavericks tour like fiends, so catch them as they hurtle from gig to gig. —Haviland S Nichols
The Levins Caravan of Dawn (Independent) TheLevinsMusic.com Husband-and-wife folk-pop duo Ira Levin and Julia Bordenaro, who perform as the Levins, are a gentle throwback to a more harmonious time, musically and otherwise. Their close harmony and unison vocals and eclectic musical stylings—blending folk, pop, jazz, soft-rock, and Eastern music—combined with their inspirational and spiritual-minded lyrics recall such beloved ’70s artists as Seals & Crofts, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Cat Stevens, and America. Julia, who plays piano, and Ira, who handles acoustic guitar duty, are augmented by a talented, sensitive group of musicians, the standout unsurprisingly being the worldrenowned Steve Gorn on evocative Indian flute. Their sophisticated melodicism and soulful, vocal acrobatics are a winning combination, as are their impassioned, timely lyrics: “Let’s go out to meet the modern, willing to embrace / See the gold inside the dust, be the change that’s taking place.” —Seth Rogovoy
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poetry
EDITED BY Phillip X Levine
Are you old? Am I young? When are you going to die?
you’re never gonna guess...right -p
-Piper Jaden Levine (3 1/2 years old)
Days of Our Lives his hospice nurse was the first to notice the hourglass was glued to the table she thought it best to say nothing “It’s the riddle of the sands.” he smiled as he stirred not sweet ‘n low white sugar coffee black black coffee white sugar not sweet ‘n low he smiled as he stirred “It’s the riddle of the sands.” she thought it best to say nothing the hourglass was glued to the table his hospice nurse was the first to notice -Neal Whitman The Corner of Broadway and Prospect (For M.A.) In the building trades we die a hundred times see a thousand murders and a few dozen tasteful suicides once a brother’s had enough. Each layoff is an ending. The next job brings rebirth. That check will come again after another safety orientation and the meaningless doling of stickers. We’re immortal and building America with our livers ironically dying. We go home to wash off the road and expectorate lies told on tax forms. Maybe that’s why the real deal hits harder: We’re accustomed to respawning in some godforsaken elsewhere on a different contractor’s payroll. “See you on the next big one,” we say in jest when two envelopes come. What happens when that joke can’t be made? In a lion’s share of confusion those left will scratch their hard hats as further proof and cursing for a safely unspecified god. -Mike Vahsen 106 POETRY CHRONOGRAM 10/19
Smithereen
Uncle Falls In
My life was threadbare of you. You are the unsewn unthreaded Needle whose jab is ungentle, Whose point is all heart and hem. My attention is hinged on you; I am not unsinged. Through you As through the eye of a needle I spy the soft counterpane, Humane warmth uncanonized: Private love is the secret history Of all things—this tender past. Tenderness is nerve uncauterized— Only rough vivid protrusion Between us, the nudge of care. In the smithy of unlikely forgeries This was of little consequence; In the history of unlikely things, You have no entry, are unchronicled, And yet you seem to me the most Improbable of all; you are canonical In caring, and my memory unsparing of you. This almost came out a love poem, But happily I averted that end All too damaging to the confessor: Confession. But it bears concession That every poem of confusion, Every stuttered syllable, every line, Cluttered thought or shuttered rhyme, Every assertion of disinterestedness Is a love poem prevented. I invented A shelf; I rented a space in myself In which to put you; I left indented Every part of me once pressed by you; I compressed myself to a size Embraceable by you. My secret History is traceable in every patch That’s threaded through with you. We are speckles, morsels, spoonfuls Heaped with one another; I attach To you as if to reattach something Once part of me: attention plays tricks On importance; we seemed threadbare— Seaming’s slow fix—for life is snare And snag and rip, and love is just repair.
I make for you a woman drifting, numb. She takes the burning leaning into. You fill her with rhythm, honeymooning, constant kisses. Your song bone hardens.
-Lachlan Brooks
I am the greatest thunderstorm you will ever meet
Pink Skies and Black Eyes (for Pauline)
-Gabriella Alziari
During the storm they came into the RV and ate like goats— drinking magenta wine and hooting at each other well into the night.
Morning falls like a leaf drifting lazy into noon Children laughing in the street In them, wolves wait for the moon
-Katherine Moore
The woman waits; there are no answers, no guilt. She will give you any shapeless happiness. -C.P. Masciola Chess Too often, I forget the sharpness of my heart It slices like a blade, and recoils when you tremble I don’t need gentleness. I have risen from destruction Once the warrior, now I am the lead Chess pieces fall from the kitchen table, cracking on the floor beneath our dirty feet I grab you by your shirt, and you slip into me
-Sekaya
Blue
Red Wine and Clover
Orchards
If I have a blue brush, I will paint the sky in all her seasons, and the mountains in the distance. I will paint oceans, and rivers, and streams, and rain puddles, and snowy meadows. I will paint dahlias, and delphiniums, and forget-me-nots. I will paint the dog’s eyes, and the jay on the railing. I will paint the gods into this life, and I will worship them all with my blue brush.
She tells me she will stay. The ruins
“Wow, what big peaches,” I said. “Are they bigger than last year?” “They are,” the owner said. “But there are fewer than last year.” “How come?” I said. “The weather,” she said. “A lot of rain. More than normal. And not enough sunny days to dry things out a little. Less than normal sun.” “So it’s a metaphor,” I said. “How’s that?” she said. “You know,” I said. “A short but gloriously full life or a long but average life.” “I’d rather have a bigger harvest of smaller peaches,” she said. “My living depends on it.” “I’m the opposite,” I said. “I’d rather have a handful of glorious poems than a truckload of average ones. My immortality depends on it.” “That’s the difference between poems and peaches, I suppose,” she said. “By the way, I enjoyed your new book. The peaches are free.”
-Arabella Champaq
of a country preparing to end. I tell her there is something that I want to tell her but leave it at that. She tells me red wine and clover are things
Blueberries You were the early summer away and I the late. Now it is well for windows: rusting bucket hung in which blueberries blurred is snowed and swung. It scythes the barn. Snow seethes on headstone hills, the weight of white. And when flannelled hand reaches in coal stove to scrape and grate crumbles of flame, as pine in woods ferned frozen wreaths into itself for warm, shapes of solitude become form. -Robert C. Basner Origin Your beauty is man made. Crafted through intelligence And devotion; an artist was formed by sculpting your arms, Carving your chest, Melting your old self to form something new. Something strong and precise. You take pride in your creation, But I have pride too. I come from the earth and the trees. The rivers smoothed my curves And the mountains shaped my stance. I breathe cold, pure air and your fumes make my head spin. Still, I love what you made. And I love the wild that made me. -J.S. Kloss Haiku Brown chestnut leaf dancing across my weathered deck floor Autumn ballet. -Anthony G. Herles
beyond my window make her feel like the queen
of the past. Of the scrap metal beyond my window, she says nothing. -Glen Armstrong About Mankind (comprised wholly of comments found on a YouTube video) what if in a hundred years a troll king god emperor absolute madman pushed upon his enemies and takes a shot every time potential war is enjoyable for purely selfish reasons who you are a weapon of choice all for it old magician’s trick down to earth blown the world up looking for something that doesn’t exist you just know the doomed would die happy in a low quality goofball landscape who remembers the simple choice between good and evil between shitlord generation and boomer-tier body slam cyber hacks if you’re in it solely for the LOLs then god bless the US destroyed in atomic fire alive in dark times if only we could all laugh together -Shane Cashman
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-J.R. Solonche Broken She delights in the most improbable. like breaking her crayons to hear the pop. a testament to the strength she’s developed in 967 days But when she’s done So are they She wants no part of the tattered ones Dutiful father. I pick them up Not able to teach her just yet that the tattered ones paint the best stories. Their armor easily And willing shed to provide brilliant texture and contrast. I’ll try to teach her to love the broken ones Even as they grow smaller and smaller Speckled with hubris and laughter Tears Love And the hope Of yesterday’s yellow sunshine And rain Green grass. birds shaped like m’s And clouds made the same way. crooked windows And tilted doors I’ll tell her Listen to their stories precious one so that you may know yours. -C. Z. Heyward 10/19 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 107
“WITHOUT FEAR AND FULL OF LOVE” AT BEACON ARTISTS UNION Photographer and poet Meghan Spiro is among the one in four women who has been a victim of physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner. The 23 mixedmedia self-portraits in Spiro’s exhibition constitute an autobiography of her efforts to overcome “PTSD, addictions, and self-loathing.” In one of these, Spiro appears with her head bowed, eyes closed, entangled in black yarn, encircled by images of anger and abuse. In the end, however, Spiro’s is a tale of redemption, of triumph over demons both external and internal. October 12-November 3
The Unkept, The Unmet, The Dreams Memorized, and Not Mine, a photograph by Meghan Spiro.
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Playwrights Scott Shephard and Jennifer Kidwell co-star in the explosive comedy "Underground Railroad Game." Take a seat, students, for an unconventional class at Bard’s Fisher Center. The lesson, delivered in a whiplash of biting comedy, concerns American history, slavery, the Civil War, and today’s problematic intersection of race, sex, and power. “Underground Railroad Game,” which is cowritten and performed by Scott Sheppard and Jennifer Kidwell, is built around Sheppard’s actual childhood memories of a history lesson/game devised by his teachers. Students at his Pennsylvania middle school were divided into teams representing Union and Confederate Armies, and slaves (embodied by dolls) were stealthily spirited past Southerners by the Yankees. Set at Hannover Middle School, the action follows Teacher Caroline (Kidwell), who is black, and Teacher Stuart (Sheppard), who is white, as they reconstruct parts of the game on stage, engaging in intelligent, razor-sharp repartee along the way. When the two begin an off-duty, romantic relationship, lines are blurred between past and present, slave and free man, revealing the breadth of the cultural chasm that separates the two. Humor is a much-needed pressure-relief valve, as Kidwell and Sheppard bushwhack their way through uncomfortable territory of race, sex, and power politics. The play’s structure leaves the audience constantly questioning where, and when they are as the scenes unfold. Is it the Antebellum South? Modern-day middle school in Pennsylvania? Bard College? “It imagines very real, concrete spaces and it also dives into phantasmagoric, psychological spaces,” Sheppard cautions. “Part of the mystery of the piece is that the ground keeps falling out from underneath the audience.” The two first conceived of the piece as a 15-minute sketch in 2013, later developing it into a witty, full-length production. Since debuting the show with Ars Nova in 2016, they’ve toured three continents and staged over 200 performances. Last year, The New York Times
named “Underground Railroad Game” one of the top 25 plays of the past 25 years. The two-person cast requires clever juggling, to be sure, as Sheppard and Kidwell are on-stage for nearly the entire performance, playing multiple characters. “The sweat is real,” Sheppard admits. The cast, crew, and audience are on a roller coaster ride together, so expect slow climbs, plummeting drops, and a fair amount of whiplash. The piece is produced in collaboration with Philadelphia-based theater company, Lighting Rod Special, where Sheppard is a co-director. According to Kidwell, the piece is “brought on home” by the heart and intelligence of director Taibi Magar. Kidwell is quick to point out that although it may be called a “game,” there’s no champion when the buzzer sounds. “It’s an invitation to ask questions,” she explains. “It’s not motivated by a desired response.” “It is a piece that eats its own tail,” Sheppard adds. “It grapples with its own existence, and rather than deliver a message, it tries to open up a space for transformation.” The show is being performed during Bard’s annual Hannah Arendt Center conference, whose 2019 theme of racism and anti-Semitism provides the perfect context for the play’s tough themes. Caleb Hammons, senior producer at the Fisher Center, admits that “Underground Railroad Game” has long been on Bard’s radar since its premier, due to its shocking ferocity in addressing America’s ongoing relationship to racial tensions. “The play, like the conference,” he says, “asks us to come together as a community to face difficult truths about our past and present, and to consider how speaking openly about such truths, while at times uncomfortable, is a necessary act in our current culture.” Performances will take place October 9-12. $5-25. Fishercenter.bard.edu —Anna Barton
Pulling No Punches “UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GAME” AT BARD’S FISHER CENTER October 9-12 Fishercenter.bard.edu
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Declaration of Independence WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL October 2-6 Woodstockfilmfestival.com
Now that Hollywood is essentially a subsidiary of Marvel Comics, independent films are more essential than ever. Human-sized dramas financed by 300 friends find their way to places like the Woodstock Film Festival, which returns this year October 2-6 to venues throughout the Hudson Valley. Independent films have changed a lot since 2000, when the festival began, and the lineup reflects the shifting industry. This year, almost half (23) of the fulllength works were directed by women, and many of the filmmakers are people of color. Here is a rundown of notable offerings at the festival. In the past two decades, the Hudson Valley itself has also become a fertile ground for independent film. #Like, one of the locally made movies that will screen this year, tells the story of Rosie, a Woodstock teenager confronted by a male abuser. Writer and director Sarah Pirozek calls it a “feminist psychological thriller,” and the website Film Threat gives it nine out of 10 stars. Land of Little Rivers is a documentary about flyfishing in the “charmed circle of the Catskills,” an area that includes six blue-ribbon trout streams. Director Aaron Weisblatt interviews angling addicts, one of whom admits, “Fly-fishing is the black hole that I’ve fallen into.” Honey Boy is the story of a child actor, written by Shia LaBeouf and based on his experiences on the ABC TV show “Even Stevens.” LaBeouf, wearing a potbelly and a mullet, movingly portrays his own father, an abusive
ex-rodeo clown and felon. “It was freeing,” LaBeouf says of the experience. The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion investigates the invigorating contributions African American designers have made to our national couture. “Fashion can be political,” remarks codirector Lisa Cortes. Ninety percent of the crew that worked on the film were women. Parkland Rising, which has its world premiere at the festival, documents the survivors of the February 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which led to a national student-led movement for gun control. “I really felt compelled to do something; I couldn’t get it out of my head,” says director Cheryl Horner McDonough, a Florida native with three teenage children. David Hogg and his fellow activists inspired her: “They’re smart, they’re educated, they’re focused, they’re angry—and their friends died. They didn’t have anything to lose.” Parkland survivors will be present at the screening. Another world premiere is Aengus James’s documentary After the Murder of Albert Lima. Thirteen years after his father was murdered in Honduras, Paul Lima travels there to personally apprehend the killer. The live footage is vivid and gripping. Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn is a biography of the repellent lawyer and right-wing ideologue who mentored our current president. The filmmaker, Ivy Meeropol, is the granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were persecuted by Cohn and put to death.
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the festival offers a retrospective screening of the award-winning Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002), directed by Rebecca Miller (daughter of Arthur Miller and wife of Daniel Day Lewis). Based on short stories by Miller, the film focuses on three women facing life-defining crises. There are also 10 collections of short works, divided into four topics: music videos, documentaries, teen films, comedy. (James Franco codirected one narrative entitled Birth of a Poet.) My personal favorite is the animated program, which includes the bewitching German short Carlotta’s Face. “I always like to spotlight the films that don’t have the stars,” remarks Meira Blaustein, founder and director of the festival. “They are the sleepers. More often than not, those are the ones that win awards, that people talk about.” My technique is to go to the festival on a day I’m free and see whatever film is playing that afternoon. Surprise yourself! And ask the sweet-tempered volunteers who work at the festival; they usually know which movies are “hot.” In addition to the nearly 50 screenings that will take place over October 2-6, the festival will include five panel discussions and an intimate conversation with actor Matt Dillon. The awards ceremony will be held October 5 at BSP Kingston. —Sparrow
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Theater Cirque Mei at Orpheum
October 12 Comprised of 40 traditional and contemporary Chinese circus performers, the award-winning troupe Cirque Mei drops into Orpheum Center for Performing Arts in Tannersville for one night only. This traveling act has been on the road since 1976, supporting a rotating cast of 130 performers who have performed both throughout China and around the globe. From acrobats to balancing acts, contortionists to bicyclists, the impressive show of extremes is sure to make you hold your breath with terrified suspense and applaud with delight. Catskillmtn.org
Tech Hudson Valley Tech Festival
October 11-12 Hudson Valley Tech Festival brings developers from across the Hudson Valley and the New York metropolitan area together in a forum to explore technological advances and challenges. The festival will address topics such as small business development, civic/government technologies, educational technologies, open technologies, development, the cloud, and cyber-security. Featured speakers include tech community moguls such as Marva Allen, Joe Cupano, and Diana Montalion. The second day of the festival will feature the first annual Hackathon event on October 12, in which participants will collaborate to brainstorm solutions to challenges in technology that occur in government and education. Hvtechfest.com
Literary Newburgh Literary Festival
October 18-20 Hark, bookworms! Get your nose out of that volume and head to the inaugural Newburgh Literary Festival this October. Sponsored by Safe Harbors of the Hudson Valley, the festival will take place over three days and feature readings, workshops, and moderated discussions. On October 18, the Spring Street Reading Series will feature author Mitchell Jackson of The Residue Years. On October 19, the lineup will include readings, interviews, and Q&A panels with authors such as Molly Ringwald, Maria Dahvana Headley, Crystal Hana Kim, and Panio Gianopoulos. The festival wraps up on October 20 with two writing workshops: “How to Tell the Story of Your Life” with author Danielle Trussoni and “Surprise Yourself; Surprise Your Reader” with author Ruth Danon. Safe-harbors.org
Art Open Studio Hudson
October 12-13 Hudson was recently ranked the sixth most arts-vibrant community in the nation by the National Center for Arts Research. Peek into the studios of the photographers, painters, ceramicists, sculptors, printmakers, and designers that make Hudson’s creative engine purr during the first annual Open Studio Hudson, slated to take place over Columbus Day weekend. Over 40 local artists will participate in this free, self-guided, city-wide tour, offering you a chance to gain insight into artistic processes across a spectrum of mediums. Tours will be open from 12-6pm on Saturday and Sunday, with a closing reception to wrap up the weekend on September 13, 7pm, at Time & Space Limited. Openstudiohudson.com
For comprehensive calendar listings visit Chronogram.com/events.
David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors plays the 2019 O+ Festival in Kingston.
Healing Arts for Healing Artists 2019 KINGSTON O+ FESTIVAL October 11-13 Opositivefestival.org/kingston In 2010, the year the O+ Festival was launched by a team of physicians and community activists in Kingston with the aim of celebrating the arts and offering free healthcare to participating artists, the Affordable Care Act (popularly known as “Obamacare”) was signed into law. It would be another four years before it was implemented, but once the ACA did go into force, there was a collective feeling of hope among artists, a traditionally underinsured group; perhaps now O+’s mission could become more focused on celebrating the arts and less on fixing a broken healthcare system. But today, nearly a decade after that first festival, with the current administration’s focus on slashing social assistance, it’s clear that O+’s benevolent founding principles remain firmly relevant. With this reality in mind, the Kingston O+ Festival returns October 11-13, bringing with it a curated cast of bands and solo musicians, visual and performance artists, and wellness providers. Among the 50 musical acts featured this year are West Coast dance-punk band !!! (pronounced “Chk Chk Chk”), Brooklyn klezmer/jazz ensemble the World Inferno Friendship Society, Argentine-American tunesmith Tall Juan, “The Mystical Arts of Tibet: Sacred Music Sacred Dance” at UPAC, Dirty Projectors frontman David Longstreth, and Columbia County singer-songwriter Elvis Perkins, who hasn’t performed anywhere in the region since 2017. “I’ve been on tour mostly the past couple of years with a theater production, Geoff Sobelle’s ‘HOME,’ for which I wrote songs,” says Perkins, whose O+ concert will take place on October 12 at 9pm at the historic Old Dutch Church. “It so happens this is now the 10th anniversary of [Perkins’s acclaimed 2009 album] Elvis Perkins in Dearland record, so we’ll be playing songs from that,
amongst others, new and old.” Since beginning in Kingston, O+ has spread like a healing virus via sanctioned festivals in California, Poughkeepsie, and North Adams, Massachusetts. Alongside the live musical performances that will once again take over venues throughout the city, the festival will bring back its signature elements of street art with five new public murals; pop-up clinics for enrolled performers and art-makers run by local health and wellness providers; classes in yoga, meditation, dance, and sound healing; Narcan and CPR trainings; film screenings; cycling events; literary salons; and more. No stranger to social causes, Perkins has donated proceeds from the sales of his 2017 single “There Go the Nightmericans” to the Emergent Fund, which supports communities most threatened by Trump administration policies (see Emergentfund.net). In addition to touring with the production of “HOME,” in recent years his soundtrack work for his movie-directing brother Osgood Perkins’s films I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House and The Blackcoat’s Daughter have also kept him away from local stages, and he’s excited that it’s the O+ Festival that will mark his return. “[Soundtrack work] is a more or less solitary exercise in dissonance, tension, and uneasiness,” he says. “So it’s a welcome contrast to be on stage with friends and collectively aim for euphony and expanse.” The 2019 O+ Festival will take place at venues throughout Kingston October 11-13. Tickets are $40- $50. —Peter Aaron 10/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 115
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arrie Haddad Gallery’s latest exhibit, “William Clutz: In Retrospect,” on display through November 10, presents a survey spanning six decades of work by the painter dubbed the “impressionist of the contemporary metropolis.” The paintings of urban light on view in this exhibition are the product of an artist whose gaze is completely immersed in the city, intent on cutting through the noise and visual overload, patiently awaiting the epitomizing moment. The driver of a yellow cab caught between honks; a woman crossing the street solo in the dazzling sun; anonymous pedestrians negotiating the complexities of Lafayette Square in late afternoon light. Clutz etched the city’s changing light in his mind by returning to locations at the same time of day repeatedly, so that back in his studio, he would get it just right. A shop awning he saw passing by on his bicycle, a park downtown, a business man moving to his next appointment—underneath it all is a clarifying stillness and silence suspending the frenetic motion and cacophony that envelopes city life. There is something Hopperesque in the isolation of the figures, but instead of Hopper’s drama, there is a defining absence of same: it’s a just-another-day-in-the-city feeling of doing something ordinary in the glowing, ambient, all-pervasive light. “William Clutz: In Retrospect” is on view concurrently with “Painted Cities: A Group Exhibit” which includes the work of Richard Britell, Matthew Chinian, Susan Hope Fogel, Scott Nelson Foster, Robert Goldstrom, Patty Neal, Dan Rupe, and Darshan Russell. Carriehaddadgallery.com
Theater theater
Film FilmColumbia
October 18-27 This October, FilmColumbia celebrates its 20th year presenting world-class films to Crandell Theatre patrons and Hudson Valley residents. The event began as a small-scale local movie festival and has grown into an attraction for film buffs across the region. The lineup spans categories from documentary to feature film, short, and animated, and young adult films from a blend of international, independent, and local filmmakers and studios. Although the 2019 lineup was not yet finalized at the time of print, many of the films screened during the festival in past years went on to achieve national acclaim, such as the 2018 sneak peak of Green Book, which went on to win three Oscars and three Golden Globes. Crandelltheatre.org/filmcolumbia
Festivals Hudson Valley Pumpkin Festival at Beacon Riverfront Park
October 20 With the metastatic proliferation of “pumpkin spice” that marks every autumn, it’s good to remember that once upon a simpler time this flavor came from actual gourds. Celebrate the harvest and the simpler joys of life at the annual Hudson Valley Pumpkin Festival. Put on by the Beacon Sloop Club, the event brings the bounty of fall to the Beacon waterfront for a shimmering day of pumpkin-carving, pie-eating, cider-sipping, and general merry-making. Browse fresh goodies from area farms and check out the environmental display booths, food vendors, local artisans, and craftspeople. When you’ve tired of land activities, hop aboard the Woody Guthrie sloop for a Hudson River sail. Free. Beaconsloop.org/Festivals.html
"Pollock" brings to life the tense and formative marriage between Jackson Pollock and fellow artist Lee Krasner.
Parties Chronoween at BSP
October 26 Chronoween, Chronogram’s own Halloween bash—and dare we say the best event of the season—returns to the back room at BSP Kingston October 26. Even bigger and better than last time, this year’s event, with the theme Disco of the Dead, features a live disco band and DJs, a photobooth, food from PAKT, and spectacularly spooky decor by the Halloween experts at the Barn of Terror. Don’t take this event lightly, the winner of costume contest will walk away with a $1,000 cash prize. Terrify your friends with your dance moves, er, costume, and enjoy the season of ghosts with this blowout event. $20 advance, $25 at the door. Bspkingston.com
Comedy Ken Jeong at Ridgefield Playhouse
November 1 Famous for his effortlessly hilarious minor roles in smash hit comedies like The Hangover, Knocked Up, Role Models, Step Brothers, and Pineapple Express, Ken Jeong steals the show with his hilarious and eccentric characters. He has also produced and written a handful of films himself, and recently, he’s returned to stand-up comedy roots with the Netflix special Ken Jeong: You Complete Me, Ho. His whirlwind tour will blow into the Ridgefield Playhouse on November 1, with opener Kevin Shea. Strap in for a night of knee-slapping laughter as Jeong recounts his life and his 180-twist from doctor to high-profile Hollywood funny man. Ridgefieldplayhouse.org/event/ken-jeong
For comprehensive calendar listings visit Chronogram.com/events.
Meeting of the Minds "POLLOCK" AT PS21 October 4-6 Ps21.org So often history relegates the partners of famed artists to the one-dimensional role of muse or, at best, private critic. For decades, such was the public story Lee Krasner, whose own artistic career was eclipsed by the success of her husband, Jackson Pollock. Only recently has the extent of her influence on Pollock become clear, as her own body of abstract expressionist paintings and collage works has gained notoriety. Acclaimed French playwright Fabrice Melquiot’s latest play, “Pollock,” places the pair on level footing in a charged drama about the combative love, mutual inspiration, and groundbreaking art created by this pioneering couple during their 11-year marriage. The play, which premiered in New York last year to critical acclaim, makes its Hudson Valley debut in the state-of-the-art black-box theater at PS21 in Chatham, October 4-6. “Lee Krasner was an incredibly important painter overshadowed by Pollock’s fame, and this play speaks equally to both artists,” says Elena Siyanko, Executive Director at PS21. Through tight dialogue and weighted silences, this two-actor production weaves a complex emotional tapestry depicting the influence each artist had on the other’s work and life. French director Paul Desveaux commissioned Melquiot to write the play and translated it himself. “You don’t see a lot of contemporary theater in America written in another language and translated,” Siyanko says. Because “Pollock” focuses on the human condition more than the art itself, familiarity with the methods or work of the two artists isn’t unnecessary; rather, the art is secondary to the human story. As actors Jim Fletcher (Pollock) and Michelle Stern (Krasner) play
out nonlinear, true life-inspired scenes of frustration, brilliance, madness, and creation over 75 minutes, the audience gains insight into Pollock’s genius through his relationship with Krasner. “When I commissioned the play, I wanted to put the emphasis on Lee Krasner, as history had slightly forgotten about her,” says Desveaux, through a translator. “I don’t think she was a muse for Pollock. He doesn’t paint her, never sketches her. She was a partner, a collaborator who pushed him.” The actors use paint on stage, but not in historically accurate methods. Desveaux says it’s meant to be symbolic. “I asked Melquiot to work on a text that would not be a biopic but an impressionist portrait of the couple,” he says. “I imagined a studio space where the actors would be able to leave marks of their movements with paint.” The intimate 99-seat theater at PS21 is located on 80 acres of orchards and meadows in Columbia County, with views of the Catskills and an animal sanctuary on the premises. Though the play is not intended for children, during the October 6 performance, kids can participate in a collage-making workshop inspired by Krasner’s techniques, while learning more about the artist. “Krasner worked on a new definition of the contemporary art form based on Pollock’s experience,” Desveaux says. “We should not forget that Krasner was first recognized by Piet Mondrian and the European School before Pollock. She is an artist who devoted her life to another artist.” —Melissa Dempsey 10/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 117
GALLERY SOUTH - INSTALLATION
Robert Hite “In the Shallows” A solo installation exhibition October 12 - 31 OPENING RECEPTION: October 12, 5pm-8pm
GALLERY NORTH:
Christine Alicino and Ursula Brookbank Artist Residency, October 6-20 ARTIST TALK with INSTEREO Collaborators October 16, 7pm An informal conversation with Ursula Brookbank and Christine Alicino ( IS ) INSTEREO* No. 6 / “HAPPENING” An ongoing empathic, synchronistic exchange between multi-media artists Christine Alicino/Ursula Brookbank Saturday, October 19, 7pm Suggested donation $15.00
J. J. NEWBERRY BUILDING
Sponsored by 11 Jane Street Art Center Michael Pope “SYNEMATIKA 191012” - The 3Dimensional Transmedia Script October 12 - 30 OPENING RECEPTION: October 12, 5pm-8pm Michael Pope LIVE PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION Reading the Unwritten Script Saturday, October 26 DOORS: 6:30p, PERFORMANCE: 7pm For more information visit our website 11 Jane Street, Saugerties, NY www.11janestreet.com
SHAPE of LIGHT Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
On view September 20 – December 15, 2019 The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center | Vassar College | Poughkeepsie, NY fllac.vassar.edu Richard Barnes (American, born 1953), Murmur #23, Dec. 6, 2006, 2006, Archival pigment print, Collection Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, purchase, Advisory Council for Photography, in memory of Phyllis Landes, class of 1950, 2008.9, © Richard Barnes
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exhibits Paulo Nazareth, Mocacene, 2017
“HOW WE LIVE” AT HVMOCA The premise of this exhibition is that artists are at the nexus of change, assimilating the status quo and transforming it through their practices, thereby helping to produce the new reality ad infinitum. Since the 33 artists whose work is included come from 19 different countries, each with its own heritage and culture, there are many disparate realities to be assimilated and transformed. As is often true at HVMOCA, there are several certified art luminaries on view, including Oldenberg, Flavin, Bourgeois, and Harrison. October 12 -July 19, 2020
ERNEST FRAZIER AT THE LACE MILL An artist of color and a Vietnam veteran, Ernest Frazier (1942-2004) had demons to deal with, but in his art, they were under control. His vocabulary of decisive mark-making and refined compositional skills is demonstrated throughout this exhibition of 50-plus works. Look for a painting dominated by orangey-pink, with a totemic figure roaring to life via a minimal number of well-struck brushstrokes. The painting is missing its lower left corner—not a whim but the considered cut of an artist at the top of his game. Through October 27
NORM MAGNUSSON: “KUH-MYOO-NIHKAY-SHUN” AT CMA GALLERY Society’s communication breakdown is mirrored in the visual witticisms of Norm Magnusson’s work on view at CMA. Take, for example, I’m sorry, a thousand times I’m sorry, a piece created by the artist literally overwriting “I’m sorry” one thousand times in the middle of a very nice piece of watercolor paper, thereby rendering the sentiment unintelligible. Magnusson is proffering 14 of these enigmatic but ultimately enlightening headscratchers for consideration. Wear your thinking cap and bring along your decoding ring. Deciphering the message is worth the effort. October 4-December 14
“PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ABSTRACT” AT THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK As its contribution to the five-venue suite of exhibitions “Woodstock Collects,” CPW highlights three Woodstock photographers who, in the 1930s, moved from Pictorialism to abstraction. Konrad Cramer led the way by making images from sound in a process he developed called the “sympalmagraph.” Delineating an invisible physical reality rather than capturing an object as the eye perceives it, the sympalmagraph expanded the reach of Cramer’s photography. Camera and darkroom experiments by Manuel Komroff and Nathan Resnick, the other two photographers in the show, are equally intriguing. Through October 20
“THE DYE GARDEN” AT THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM In the 1960s, American post-war artist Frank Stella went to Morocco on honeymoon and later created paintings inspired by the Arabic tiles he saw. Resisting the prevailing modes of power and extractive economy of the world, Moroccan-French multimedia artist Yto Barrada sees these works of Stella as appropriation. Several of her pieces on view at the Neuberger are reappropriations of Stella’s work, which can be seen as sly putdowns of Orientalism in general and synchronously beautiful reassertions of the authentic Moroccan reality underlying this cross-cultural give-and-take. Through December 22
SAM GILLIAM AT DIA:BEACON Large works by innovative abstract painter Sam Gilliam, who first came to prominence in the 1960s, are currently on view at Dia:Beacon. Two of Gilliam’s unstretched Drape paintings hang from the ceiling, interacting to create one site-specific installation entitled Double Merge. Also exhibited is Spread (1973) from Gilliam’s wall-mounted Beveled-Edge series. Both works occupy a netherworld between sculpture and painting, creating a formal ambiguity that opens up possibilities of direct unfiltered experience; color liberated and form unfettered, unmitigated by the mind’s desire to name and categorize. On long-term view
“MELEKO MOKGOSI: DEMOCRATIC INTUITION” AT JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY: THE SCHOOL Democracy is going through difficult times in many parts of the world. Mokgosi contemplates this reality via the genre of history painting augmented by “cinematic tropes, psychoanalysis, and post-colonial theory.” His focus: how democracy plays out in southern Africa. His goal for the Democratic Intuition project, which he has been working on since 2014, is to address the timely question: “How do normal people understand, reciprocate, have access to, and not have access to the ideas [and levers of power] of democracy?” October 26-Spring 2020 —Carl Van Brunt
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exhibits
Exhibition view of “Paper Media: Boetti, Calzolari, Kounellis,” curated by Francesco Guzzetti at The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz through December 8. Photo by Alexa Hoyer, courtesy Magazzino Italian Art Foundation
“BOETTI, CALZOLARI, KOUNELLIS” AT THE SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM Arte Povera, which began in Italy in the 1960s, was championed by artists who embraced the use of everyday materials and eschewed the industrialized detachment of Minimalism. Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, and Jannis Kounellis considered works on paper not as preparatory for realization in another medium, but as finished works of art. Paper is seen as an extension of the physical world where art happens and the history of a more than 2,000-year-old culture lives on in the erudite movements of an artist’s hand. Through December 8
ALBANY CENTER GALLERY
BEEKMAN LIBRARY
GARRISON ART CENTER
“Then & Now: Journey.” A retrospective of Dorothy Englander’s career. Through October 4.
“Hudson Valley Nature Photography: Rails, Trails, & Vistas by Susan Bores.” The exhibition will feature over 20 works on both metal and paper by lifelong Hudson Valley resident, Susan Bores. Through November 14.
“Method for Proceeding by Henry Klimowicz.” Klimowitz transforms cardboard into exotic and beautiful sculptural forms. Through November 10.
488 BROADWAY, ALBANY
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY
22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK “Christie Scheele: Atlas Project/Forms of Water.” Through November 17.
ANN STREET GALLERY
104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH
11 TOWN CENTER BLVD, HOPEWELL JUNCTION
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY 43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK.
“Cross River Fine Artists Annual Exhibition 2019.” October 10-27. Opening reception October 12, 5-7pm.
23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON
HISTORIC MOUNT LEBANON SITE 202 SHAKER ROAD, NEW LEBANON.
“Granary.” A solo exhibition by Amie Cunat. Through October 14.
HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER 477 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“Text.” Exhibition explores the relationship between visual imagery and words in the practice of artists who integrate a text aesthetic into their work as a mechanism for communicating meaning. Through October 19.
BOSCOBEL
ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER
CUNNEEN-HACKETT ARTS CENTER
“Homely.” The show will include a variety of media, including video, performance and poetry on the theme of “home.” Through November 24.
For the Love of Birds. Photographs by Claudia Gorman & Avian Wire Sculptures by Dick Crenson. Through October 1.
Canopy. Group Exhibition curated by Chris Davison. Feautring works by Gail Robinson, Marieken Cochius, Marlene Lipinski. Through October 6.
DIA:BEACON
HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM
Sam Gilliam. Long-term view.
“Rescuing the River: 50 Years of Environmental Activism on the Hudson.” This exhibit seeks to situate the important work of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper, Hudson River Fisherman’s Association, the NYS DEC, and Scenic Hudson in their proper historical and national context with other regional efforts. For the first time, the Hudson River Maritime Museum will include interactive kiosks to feature additional exhibit materials including short films. Through January 1, 2021.
24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS
BANNERMAN ISLAND GALLERY 150 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“Andre Junget: The Fine Art of Illustration.” Art drawings, renderings, hand-pulled stone lithographs, and scratch board works. Through October 6.
BARD COLLEGE: HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART ROUTE 9G, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON
“Acting Out: This exhibition takes its prompt from artist Leigh Ledare’s The Task, a single channel film of a three-day Group Relations Conference—a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute—that the artist organized in Chicago in 2017. Building upon this gripping portrait of current social dynamics & discontents, the exhibition also includes works by artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O’Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence; historical works that reverberate with themes raised by Ledare’s film. Through October 13.
BEACON ARTIST UNION (BAU) GALLERY 506 MAIN STREET, BEACON
“Joan Phares: Beached” and “Andrew Rust Barger: Porch.” Through October 6.
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1601 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON BOSCOBEL.ORG. “Crosspollination: An Evolution in Foliate Forms.” Through November 3.
12 VASSAR STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE
3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON
DUCK POND GALLERY
128 CANAL ST. TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN “Jean Haines: Little Shop of Horses.” Through October 19.
ECKERT FINE ART GALLERY
12 OLD BARN ROAD, KENT, CT ECKERTFINEART.COM “Hunt Slonem.”October 12-November 3. Opening reception October 12, 3-7pm
FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE
“Shape of Light: Defining Photographs.” Featuring large-scale works. Through December 15. Opening reception October 12, 4pm.
GALLERY 40
40 CANNON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE “A Year in Review.” Featuring artists from the first year of the gallery: Donna Mikkelsen, Marisol Rodriguez, Valerie Sharp, Lois Walsh, Judy Winter, Mark Cohen, Chris Morano, Manny Ofori,. James Bell, Claudia Robles, Junior Gonzalez, Shayla Bradley, and Nalo Camara Hampton. Through October 27.
“Re: Nature.” Works in drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture celebrate nature and art. October 5-28. Opening reception October 5, 2:30-4:30pm.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON
50 RONDOUT LANDING, KINGSTON
HURLEY HERITAGE SOCIETY 52 MAIN STREET, HURLEY
“Winslow Homer’s Hurley: An Artist’s View.” The display includes vivid color reproductions of paintings as well as six original 19thcentury wood engravings from the pictorial press of the day.The exhibit includes pairs of then-and-now photographs of locations depicted in the artworks and an 1875 map of Hurley showing the layout of the village and countryside in Homer’s time. Through October 31.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON Works by Lee Marshall, New Watercolors & Drawings with Arnie Zimmerman, Kim Uchiyama, Stephen Niccolls, Drew Kohler & Celia Gerard. Through October 6.
exhibits
Sojna Sekula’s Pour l’Animal Noir, a 1945 ink and gouache on paper work, part of the exhibition “Sparkling Amazons: Abstract Expressionist Women” at the Katonah Museum October 6-January 26, 2020. Courtesy Peter Blum Gallery, New York
“SPARKLING AMAZONS: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST WOMEN” AT THE KATONAH MUSEUM In 1951, the “9th Street Show” shook the art world by establishing the importance of Abstract Expressionism. Of the more than 60 artists exhibited, 11 were women. With “Sparkling Amazons,” the Katonah Museum has brought together art by all 11 for the first time in 68 years. Many of these women artists, such as Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell, went on to become wellknown while others, like Perle Fine and Anne Ryan, never quite reached critical acclaim. Important gems and scintillating surprises from both groups are on view. October 6-January 26, 2020
KAPLAN HALL, MINDY ROSS GALLERY
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART
“Into the Shining World.” Works by Michael Covello, Jacqui Doyle Schneider, and Elizabeth Schneider explore the diverse opportunities art offers through the various media-mediums utilized by the three artist-educators. Through October 11.
“Tonalism: Pathway from the Hudson River School to Modern Art.” Through December 8.
CORNER OF GRAND & FIRST STREETS, NEWBURGH
KENT ART ASSOCIATION
21 SOUTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CT “Fall Juried Show.” Through October 14.
MANITOGA/THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER
1 HAWK DR, NEW PALTZ
SPENCERTOWN ACADEMY ARTS CENTER 790 ROUTE 203, SPENCERTOWN
“6th Annual Regional Juried Art Show.” This year’s theme is “In the Moment” and the guest juror is Katharine T. Carter. October 5-27. Opening reception October 5, 4-6pm.
and legacy of Thomas Cole (1801-1848), founder of America’s first major art movement, the Hudson River School of painting. Through December 1.
TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI
“Paper, Process, Possibilities.” Through October 20.
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT
“Wild and Beautiful Creatures: The Life and Work of J.J. Audubon.” Through October 13.
584 NY-9D, GARRISON
STANDARD SPACE
“Michele Oka Doner: Close Your Physical Eye.” Through November 11.
147 MAIN STREET, SHARON, CT John-Paul Philippe’s Hortensia. Through November 3.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
STORM KING ART CENTER
1 MUSEUM ROAD, NEW WINDSOR 534-3115.
“Composed to Decompose.” Forty-five artists have composed installations that are intentionally designed to decompose over the course of an entire year. Through July 31, 2020.
“Hardie Truesdale—Travels.” Featuring Truesdale’s latest archival large format photographs from far and wide, along with local favorites. Through November 2.
“Collaborative Concepts Farm Project 2019.” Large sculptural works. Through October 27.
WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION
THE CHATHAM BOOKSTORE
“5th Outdoor Sculpture Biennial Exhibition.” Through October 31.
“An Artist’s Travelogue: Paintings by Richard Trachtman.” Through October 25.
WIRED GALLERY
17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ
MILLBROOK FREE LIBRARY
3 FRIENDLY LANE, MILLBROOK “John Verner: Photographs. Fine art photography influenced by the vibrancy of color, the beauty of nature, and richness of life. Through October 19.
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE
27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM
THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 1946 CAMPUS DRIVE, HYDE PARK
475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON
“State of Ate: New York’s History Through 8 Ingredients.” This exhibit delves into the developing aspects of the history of New York State through the lens of eight ingredients: apples, beef, corn, dairy, oysters, salt, sugar, and wheat. In researching this project, students explored the role of economics and technology in shaping our diet and health and learned how new cultures and peoples impact New York’s foodways and agriculture. Through December 31.
“Libra.” Works by:. Alicia Mikles. Alice Schavoir. Jicky Schnee. Erika Vala. October 5-27.
THE LACE MILL
5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON
“In Frederic Churchs Ombra: Architecture in Conversation with Nature.” Multimedia design concepts and installations, developed by leading architects and select artists. Through November 3.
ONE MILE GALLERY
RIVERWINDS GALLERY
172 MAIN STREET, BEACON “Both Sides Now: New Work By Virginia Donovan.” Oils and acrylics. Through October 6.
ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS
165 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON
UNISON
68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ
330 MORTON ROAD, RHINEBECK
11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS “No People, No: Four Artists and Abstraction.” Kathy Erteman, Deborah Freedman, Lara Giordano, and Pat Travis Rosenberg. The guest curator is Ward Wintz. October 5-27. Opening reception October 5, 5-7pm.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION & MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
“An Artist Legacy: 1 + 1 + 1.” Through December 29.
WOODSTOCK ART EXCHANGE 1396 ROUTE 28, WEST HURLEY
“Ruby Silvious: Reclaimed Canvas.” October 4-December 2. Opening reception October 12, 3-6pm
“The Work of Earnest Frazier.” The late Earnest Frazier, a major contemporary artist will be shown in the West and Main Galleries. Many of his works are owned by the Whitney Museum where he showed often and by other notable venues and collections. Through October 31.
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THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
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Les Filles de Illighadad play BSP Kingston October 7.
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October 4-27 The ShoutOut Saugerties organization aims to highlight the town’s diverse artistic talent while uniting its business and residential communities. Last month, the group launched the 2019 ShoutOut Saugerties Festival, which runs through October 27 and features performing arts events, literary readings, conversations, visual art exhibits, crafts, films, carnivals, culinary arts, and street art. October 5 will see Make Music Saugerties, an all-day program of live performances throughout the town and village by residents Malcolm Cecil, Spaghetti Eastern, Skola Iyengar, and others culminating with a 7:30pm concert by singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson at the Saugerties Reformed Church. (Tickets for Laura Stevenson concert are $15.) Saugerties. Shoutoutsaugerties.org.
October 5 In the Pines, a mini-music festival masterminded by singer-songwriter and Beacon Music Factory honcho Stephen Clair, returns this month after a multi-year hiatus. The event, which will once again take place in and around the University Settlement Camp theater, in the woods on the southern edge of Beacon, will present three regional acts along with beer and refreshments from Hudson Valley Brewery and edibles from Spicy restaurant’s food truck. The lineup features Brooklynbased band Dirt Bikes, local heroes Knock Yourself Out, and Clair himself, playing songs from his new album, Strange Perfume, which was produced by Malcolm Burn (Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop). 5pm. $15, $20. Beacon. Facebook.com/events/658872537955805/.
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October 13 Pianist Matthew Shipp rose to prominence on the New York free jazz scene in the 1990s as a member of saxophonist David S. Ware’s phenomenal quartet. (Shipp also played in various settings with Ware’s busy bassist, William Parker.) An incredibly prolific artist, over the decades he has collaborated with Ivo Perelman, Joe Morris, Antipop Consortium, Jemeel Moondoc, and others and released dozens of recordings on respected labels like Cadence, FMP, Eremite, and Thirsty Ear. Shipp’s superb trio, which features drummer Newman Taylor Baker and bassist Michael Bisio, makes its Kingston debut with this set at the Lace Mill, which welcomes—via a grant from community/arts group RUPCO—its new grand piano for the occasion. (Juma Sultan, Michael Bisio, and Adam Siegel play October 5.) 5pm. Donation requested. Kingston. Thelacemill.com.
October 7 As nomads, it’s in the blood of the Tuareg people of North Africa to wander. Luckily, for lovers of the incredible indigenous “desert blues” made by this confederation of Berbers, many of these musicians have wandered across the ocean to tour America in recent years. (Tinariwen, who played at Fresh Grass last month, and Mdou Moctar are two stellar examples). Yet another amazing Tuareg band will pop into BSP Kingston this month: Nigerian group Les Filles de Illighadad, who are led by Fatou Seidi Gghali, the first Tuareg woman to play guitar professionally. Released on the vital Sahel Sounds label in 2016, the Filles’ mesmerizing self-titled debut was recorded live in the open air of their home village of Illighadad. Spero opens. (Shana Falana soars October 18; Juan Waters sings October 23.) 7pm. $10, $15. Kingston. Bspkingston.com.
October 4 The rambling Massachusetts collective Sunburned Hand of the Man were the de facto figureheads of the late-1990s/early-2000s “free folk” movement, a vaguely defined scene of experimental underground acts that mashed together elements of psychedelic rock, noise, free jazz, and, yes, folk music, albeit of the aciddamaged variety. In addition to a miles-high stack of self-released CDs and cassettes, the group has several recordings out on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace and other uber-cool labels. Here, Tubby’s welcomes the influential band of freaks in their first-ever performance at the club. (ULTRAAM jams October 19; Blank Hellscape and Claire Rousay get weird October 17.) 8pm. $5. Kingston. Tubbyskingston.com.
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RICKIE LEE JONES October 13 In her trademark red beret, jazzbo singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones stood far out on the pop landscape in 1979, the year she appeared on “Saturday Night Live” singing her slinky hit “Check E’s in Love.” Following that iconic performance, Jones went on to win two Grammy Awards, get featured on the cover of Rolling Stone twice, and make VH1’s list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Earlier this year, she released Kicks, her first album of new music in over 12 years. Finally back out on the road after a lengthy hiatus, Jones pays a visit to Infinity Hall for this intimate evening of songs from across her more than 40-year career. (Karla Bonoff comes by October 17; Nick Lowe goes solo November 1.) 7pm. $60-$80. Norfolk, Connecticut. (866) 666-6306. Infinityhall.com. 10/19 CHRONOGRAM THE GUIDE 123
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HARVEST OF HOPE Powerful Pluto stations direct in Capricorn October 3, kicking off the month with positive celestial news.
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After his five-plus-month retrograde, the lord of the underworld, the unconscious, the shadow, and the raw power of phoenix-like transformation is ready to march towards his rendezvous with lord of karma, Saturn, in mid-January. This isn’t an army of Orcs marching from Mordor; it’s the army of the resurrected, marching to the accompaniment of an angelic host. Pluto’s retrograde journey, though painful, has purged remnants of selfishness and greed, transformed by the refiner’s fire. The dross is skimmed away, and what is left is pure gold: a harvest of hope as we re-evaluate our relationship to power and powerlessness, the haves and the have-nots, our place in this world, and our responsibility for ourselves and one another. Mercury and Venus enter deep, passionate Scorpio October 3 and 8, respectively. Secret communications, subrosa romance, and surprising alliances abound. Mars enters Libra October 4, pursuing cooperation in the name of harmony and peace, but not at the expense of justice or righteousness. Diplomacy is the best weapon at the Full Moon in Aries October 13: take caution against rash and impulsive moves. Mars in Libra squares Saturn in Capricorn October 27, when the restrictive power of authority and the power to resist it may both display some original public manifestations. By the New Moon in Scorpio on October 28, desire—both personal and communal—will be strengthened and affirmed. The hope we’re harvesting during October is served up with a side of wisdom. Dish it out and ask for seconds if necessary. The time period between now and mid-January—and how we each use it to strengthen our personal foundation and communal ties—is a gift package with an expiration date. Don’t squander a drop.
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ARIES (March 20–April 19) Your personal Full Moon in Aries on October 13 renews and reenergizes your emotions, sending a shot of vitality through your system and invigorating your will to connect with a partner in meaningful ways. Ruling planet Mars in Libra on October 4 focuses on relationships; by October 27, you’re understanding the extent to which you can share intimately with others while maintaining your own healthy boundaries. The Last Quarter Moon in Cancer October 21 demands an assessment of progress toward your life goals. Weighing security against adventure, risk versus reward, certainty versus the unknown is your task for October.
TAURUS (April 19–May 20) Ruling planet Venus in your solar opposite Scorpio October 8 makes your theme song “All or Nothing at All” during October. The Sun’s entrance into Scorpio on October 23 and the New Moon in Scorpio on October 27 stir up deep desire and passion as well as jealousy and possessiveness. Abrupt, unexpected changes to relationship status October 12 may come as a surprise; offer the peace pipe or a white flag October 14-15. Diplomacy is your superpower October 25-26. Don’t demand ultimatums or litmus tests of love; these will backfire and won’t help achieve the security and stability you’re looking for. A practicing, professional astrologer for over 30 years, Lorelai Kude can be reached for questions and personal consultations via email (lorelaikude@yahoo.com) and her Kabbalah-flavored website is Astrolojew.com
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GEMINI (May 20–June 21) Ruling planet Mercury in Scorpio on October 3 inspires investigation, research, and digging deeply into the archives of your most secret places to unearth nuggets of your own personal truth. Shocking secrets or long-held mysteries may be revealed October 7; transcendent visions and illuminated dreams come to the forefront October 15. Choose wisely with whom you will share these revelations October 17-18. Those who can or cannot be trusted with your confidences are exposed when Mercury conjuncts Venus in Scorpio October 30, right before stationing retrograde on October 31. Protect your investment in creative projects and secure contractual partnership understandings now.
CANCER (June 21–July 22) Moon-ruled Cancer gets an emotional workout during October, with the First Quarter Moon in solar opposite Capricorn on the 5th challenging your sense of security. Fleeting feelings of isolation are soothed by empathetic understanding October 9-10; Full Moon in Aries October 13 emboldens your quest for intimate connection. Strength and encouragement come by the Last Quarter Moon in Cancer on October 21; you’re confident in those you trust to support you in your various endeavors now. Potential allies prove themselves true by the New Moon in Scorpio October 27, ensuring you’ll get by with a little help from your friends.
LEO (July 22–August 23) Leo is all about the love during October, with the Sun in romantic, partnership-oriented Libra through the 23rd, after which he enters passionate, possessive Scorpio. The Sun squares Saturn October 7 and Pluto October 14, demanding that you respect the boundaries of others by enforcing your own. Power-sharing with other powerful people is your challenge this month. Your praise, admiration, and attention are valuable gifts, but you don’t gift the undeserving. You’re the first to demonstrate allegiance to those you’ve deemed worthy. It’s not unreasonable to expect others to hold to your own high ethical standards.
VIRGO (August 23–September 23) Ruling planet Mercury in private investigator Scorpio on October 3 sharpens your already prodigious powers of observation, but what exactly are you observing? Your deepsea-diving expedition this month is to plumb the depths of your own heart. Shakeups in the status quo October 7 make room to grow new structures by October 19-20. The heart has many mansions, and yours is ready for an earthquake-proofing upgrade and seismic remodel. Mercury’s final retrograde of 2019 begins on Halloween: don’t let fear masked as indecision scare you. Filter your critical analysis through the sieve of grace for maximum emotional nutrition!
LIBRA (September 23–October 23) Sun in Libra through October 23 makes this month powerful, especially with ruling planet Venus in hypnotic, passionate Scorpio October 8-31. Your personal charisma is dangerously high, if you define “danger” as the likelihood of intensely personal and intimate bonding opportunities. You’re democratic in your attractions; unusual “others” and foreign, exotic, or just plain unusual people, places, and things draw your attention now. A Full Aries Moon October 13 supports emotional courage, lighting the way to boldly cementing partnerships October 20, assertively negotiating the balance of power October 25, and bravely announcing your news to the world October 30. 10/19 CHRONOGRAM HOROSCOPES 125
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CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20) Powerful Pluto in Capricorn stations direct October 3 after a long retrograde that began in April. The deep inner transformation you’ve found so necessary begins to unfurl at the First Quarter Moon in Capricorn October 5. Mars in Libra squares ruling planet Saturn in Capricorn at the New Moon in Scorpio on October 27, threatening to block ambitious plans, perhaps by legal maneuvers or perhaps in an undercover attempt to preempt your next move. Restrictions and resistance to authority beg for diplomatic solutions, not power plays. The charm offensive is your best bet: dress up as your most enchanting self on Halloween.
AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19) Sun in Libra through October 22 should be smooth sailing for Aquarius the water-bearer. It’s not so much of a lull in the action as it is a time to gather strength through communing with good friends and intimate connections of every kind. Humanitarian concerns open your heart and your hands October 7-8; concern for others fills your veins with courage on the Aries Full Moon October 13. You’re drawn to Earth-based harmonies, communal cooperation, and the real world rather than theoretical solutions to life’s most pressing problems. The power to manifest workable solutions and initiate creative partnerships is yours October 29-30. GROUNDBREAKING CINEMA SINCE 1972
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The artistic process can be conceived of as a mysterious journey that begins with the artist groping in the dark, searching. For many, the darkness is a metaphor, but for Charlie Murray, it is an everyday reality. Murray is legally blind. Murray’s “I Dream of Flying,” is on view this month in “Visions of Awareness” at Rockland Center for the Arts (ROCA) along with works by other visually impaired, low-vision, and totally blind artists who are members of the Seeing with Photography Collective. “Visions of Awareness” expands our concept of art and art-making, challenging the very notion that the sense of sight is a prerequisite for creating visual art. Murray is not totally blind—he can make out differences in light intensity, some patterns on clothing, and the overall posture of a figure. When photographing, he works with a sighted assistant who sets up a digital camera and frames the shot based on his concept. “I just take pictures of what I feel,” Murray says modestly. But there is more to it than that—he is at the heart of the process. His role is like that of an auteur who is both the director and the star of his own film. Murray is the figure portrayed in “I Dream of Flying”—with other members of the collective acting as his crew doing lighting, dressing the set, and giving feedback on the emerging image. Evgen Bavcar, another member of the group, says, “One can’t belong to this world if one cannot imagine it in his own way. When a blind person says, ‘I imagine,’ it means he, too, has an inner representation of external realities.” —Carl Van Brunt “Visions of Awareness” will be on display at ROCA from October 13 to November 25 with an artists’ reception on October 20, 2-5pm. 128 PARTING SHOT CHRONOGRAM 10/19
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