#FirstFridays: June Edition
June 4, 2026Every 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
June 5 – September 18: On Friday, June 5th, from 6-8PM join us at WSW’s campus in Rosendale for the opening reception of Rock, Paper, Sister! This two-person exhibition featuring Kate Bingaman-Burt (Oregon) and Elizabeth Saloka (New York) explores how the mundane accrues significance. Moving between accumulation and intimacy, the exhibition asks what it means to notice and to keep. This event is free and open to the public.
722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY 12401
June 13: Join Julie Evanoff (Studio Residency Grant, 2006, Public Mural Art Grant, 2026) Saturday, June 13th, from 4-7PM, at Giorno Poetry Systems for the launch of Repetition and Ruins: The Art of Radical Political Thinking. Featuring a conversation by co-authors and collaborators Julie Evanoff and Dalie Giroux “Repetition and Ruins contemplates and questions our current shared condition as twenty-first-century earthlings living in, by, and against power accumulators: capitalism and the state. The book’s images and concepts are an invitation to notice and interpret the connection between these power accumulators and daily life.” Books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free with RSVP.
222 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
Image: Julie Evanoff during her 2006 Studio Residency
Ohio
May 1 – June 27: Go see Jen P. Harris’ (Ora Schneider Regional Residency Grant, 2012) solo exhibition Thrum at Abattoir Gallery. Combining painting and textile, this exhibition showcases Harris’ “loom paintings,” a series of work where Harris weaves over the painted surface of the canvas by making the canvas frames a loom.
3619 Walton Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113, United States
Image: Jen P. Harris, Forza, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.
California
February 28 – July 18: See work by Beth Fein (Studio Workspace Residency, 2017) at Arc Gallery and Studios’ Spotlight: The Printmakers V exhibition.
1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
United Kingdom
June 13 – April 18: Mikayla Patton (Studio Workspace Residency, 2024, BIMA Artist’s Book Residency Grant 2025) will have work included in the upcoming group exhibition Hold to This Earth at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in collaboration with the Tia Collection. Featuring work by 38 contemporary Indigenous North American artists, “the exhibition highlights both established voices and emerging artists who are shaping contemporary art today.”
West Bretton, United Kingdom