#FirstFriday: October Exhibitions

Every month, we highlight exhibitions, events, and workshops that feature WSW alumnx artists. We share the shows near and far that make up our monthly must-see list.

New York

October 3 – December 12: Join us at Women’s Studio Workshop for the opening of Emily Larned’s solo exhibition WORKSHOPPING. The show will explore conceptual workshops from the archives of WSW and culminate with the release of a new publication through her imprint Alder & Frankia (est. 2016), which focuses on new collaborations, anthologies, and reissues from feminist archives. The opening reception will be October 3rd from 6-8 PM, with a film screening the following afternoon, October 4th, at 4 PM, of A Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot (directed and shot by Annie Laurie Medonis). The screening will take place at the Rosendale Theatre and tickets can be purchased here.

Image: WORKSHOPPING flyer by Emily Larned.

September 6 – October 31: See Rejin Leys (Studio Internship, 1989) solo exhibition Touch Jamaica, displaying new paper relief sculptures before the end of the month. “By casting such things as our oldest tree, public art, and architectural details, Touch Jamaica creates a tactile timeline that explores local history through infrastructure to tell the story of the neighborhood.”

King Manor Museum
153-03 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, NY

Ocotber 11 – January 11: See work by DM Whitman (Studio Workspace Residency, 2012) in the group exhibition Meltdown at ArtsWeschester!

Maine

September 27 – October 18: INLAND gallery is holding a solo exhibition of works by Erin Woodbrey (Studio Internship, 2007), Midwives for a Geologic Afterlife. “Exploring themes of environmental health, reproductive rights, fertility regulation, and caregiving, Woodbrey considers midwifery beyond the context of birth, as a practice of tending to all manner of thresholds, ruptures, passages, and afterlives.”

44 Soaring Eagle Ln
Hope, ME 04847

Image: Erin Woodbrey, studio view, July 2025.

Massachusetts

September 21–January 11: Explore Beth Fein’s (Studio Workspace Residency, 2017) in The Art Complex Museum’s exhibition Making Waves: The Boston Printmakers Members’ Exhibit 2025 !

Image: Beth Fein “Murmuring Waves”, ink on paper, unique woodblock relief pressure print, 30 x 44 in, 2024.

Virginia

September 5 – October 25: Candela Gallery is featuring work by DM Whitman (Studio Workspace Residency, 2012) in the group exhibition Science Girl Party .

North Carolina

September 5 – October 29: Explore Jen Blazina’s (Studio Workspace Residency 2006, Etching Studio Residency Grant 2008, Ceramics) in Material Matters at Blue Spiral 1!

38 Biltmore Ave
Asheville, NC

Image: Jen Blazina “Pretty in Pearl”, cast glass, bronze, pearls, 10 x 16 x 9 in.

California

October 5 – November 8: See more work by Beth Fein (Studio Workspace Residency, 2017) at Main Society of Artists Gallery exhibition Printmaking: Process and Probability.

1515 3rd Street
San Rafael, CA