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Aug 15, 2019

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Let’s take a moment to meet the artists of our app

Let’s take a moment to meet the artists of our approaching exhibition, “i had this dream and you were in it,” featuring new work by Women’s Studio Workshop interns Ollantay Avila Alcocer @ollantay.xyz, Carissa Kolcun @carissanicole._k, and Kimberly Jo @blue.nebraska.

WSW Studio Intern Ollantay Avila Alcoceris a Mexican-American artist, designer, and writer from Dallas, Texas. Interested in ornamentation, collection, and annotation, her practice explores everyday design languages, motifs, and the ways in which we visually communicate identity. She challenges traditional notions of authorship and instead looks towards collaborative, DIY, and open-source communities and modes of making. Through writing and language, typography, photography, collage, and printmaking, she considers layered meanings and balances contradictions–irony and sincerity, efficiency and chaos, analog and digital–to capture a multitudinous, dissonant, yet thoughtful voice. In 2024, she graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design.

📆Opening reception, Friday, March 13th ,6-8PM
📍Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY

1: two worms (in looove!) zine by Ollantay Avila Alcocer
2: exhibition poster designed by Ollantay Avila Alcocer

Do you have a pile of clothes in need of repair? A

Do you have a pile of clothes in need of repair? A top you never reach for? Come to Women’s Studio Workshop to mend with a friend! Join us on Monday, March 9th from 6-8PM for our second Meet & Make night and revamp your wardrobe!

🪡RSVP link in bio. While not required, this will help us best prepare the amount of supplies and snacks to provide for the event. Drop in or stay awhile!

🧵Mending supplies and simple printing methods will be available to make patches or print onto clothing. Not sure how to mend? We can figure it out together!

🧶While we will not have sewing machines available for use, we will have needles, thread, embroidery hoops, stamps, and fabric scraps, glue, and ink! Feel free to bring in additional supplies.

Please note, this is not a workshop, and no formal instruction will be given. All levels are welcome, we just ask that you come with an open mind and eagerness to learn as you go! Some informational guides will be available and we encourage skill sharing!

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. A suggested sliding scale donation of $5-20 is encouraged but no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Images: WSW staff’s mended wardrobe :)

Join WSW at Upstate Films @upstatefilms in Midtown

Join WSW at Upstate Films @upstatefilms in Midtown Kingston for a free viewing of “Surviva,” featuring cameos of WSW founders Ann Kalmbach @annkalmbach and Tatana Kellner @tatana1950, and “Well, We Are Alive” Wednesday, March 4th at 5:30PM!

Co-hosted by Women Make Movies, as a part of Upstate Films CLOSE UP series, this screening will be joined by “Surviva” director, Women Make Movies co-founder, and former WSW staff member, Ariel Dougherty @mediaequity.

This event is free and open to the public.

Image: courtesy of Ariel Dougherty

We are one month away from our first weekend works

We are one month away from our first weekend workshop! Join Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo @bluekaza for this two-day workshop, “Broadcast Now: publishing as a tool of survival during fascism and genocide.” Sliding scale tuition, KN95 masks required at all times, priority to local BIPOC community members. Registration is open now!

📅March 28-29, 10AM-4PM
📍Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY

Learn about the use of leaflets as a dissemination tactic during the dictatorship in Chile, the Black Panther newspaper printed in Oakland, CA and mailed nationally, the Detroit Printing Co-op’s role in making printshops a space for collective use, and the ways letters and postcards have enabled close dialogue with our incarcerated community.

Inspired by the long legacy of the printed multiple shaping liberation movements, participants will craft collective and individual banners, posters, and a class newspaper using screenprinting, creative writing, xerox, and risograph printing. This workshop does not require previous printmaking experience.

For more info visit our website. Link in bio.

You’re invited to the opening reception of WSW’s s

You’re invited to the opening reception of WSW’s spring intern exhibition “i had this dream and you were in it,” with new work by Ollantay Avila Alcocer @ollantay.xyz, Carissa Kolcun @carissanicole._k, and Kimberly Jo @blue.nebraska on Friday, March 13th from 6-8PM!

On view through April 10, 2026, the exhibition asks: What does it look like to explore multiple possibilities of dreaming in the studio? Over the past four months, the artists have worked across papermaking, printmaking, and bookbinding to meditate on alternate realities and imagined memories. Moving between individual and collaborative processes, they create intimate, layered works that reflect a shared longing for connection.

Mark your calendars! Join WSW at Upstate Films @up

Mark your calendars! Join WSW at Upstate Films @upstatefilms in Midtown Kingston for a free viewing of “Surviva,” featuring cameos of WSW founders Ann Kalmbach @annkalmbach and Tatana Kellner @tatana1950, and “Well, We Are Alive” on March 4 starting at 5:30PM! Co-hosted by Women Make Movies, as a part of Upstate Films CLOSE UP series, this screening will be joined by “Surviva” director, Women Make Movies co-founder, and former WSW staff member, Ariel Dougherty @mediaequity.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Let’s take a moment to meet the artists of our app

Let’s take a moment to meet the artists of our approaching exhibition, “i had this dream and you were in it,” featuring new work by Women’s Studio Workshop interns Ollantay Avila Alcocer @ollantay.xyz, Carissa Kolcun @carissanicole._k, and Kimberly Jo @blue.nebraska.

WSW Studio Intern Ollantay Avila Alcoceris a Mexican-American artist, designer, and writer from Dallas, Texas. Interested in ornamentation, collection, and annotation, her practice explores everyday design languages, motifs, and the ways in which we visually communicate identity. She challenges traditional notions of authorship and instead looks towards collaborative, DIY, and open-source communities and modes of making. Through writing and language, typography, photography, collage, and printmaking, she considers layered meanings and balances contradictions–irony and sincerity, efficiency and chaos, analog and digital–to capture a multitudinous, dissonant, yet thoughtful voice. In 2024, she graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design.

📆Opening reception, Friday, March 13th ,6-8PM
📍Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY

1: two worms (in looove!) zine by Ollantay Avila Alcocer
2: exhibition poster designed by Ollantay Avila Alcocer

Do you have a pile of clothes in need of repair? A

Do you have a pile of clothes in need of repair? A top you never reach for? Come to Women’s Studio Workshop to mend with a friend! Join us on Monday, March 9th from 6-8PM for our second Meet & Make night and revamp your wardrobe!

🪡RSVP link in bio. While not required, this will help us best prepare the amount of supplies and snacks to provide for the event. Drop in or stay awhile!

🧵Mending supplies and simple printing methods will be available to make patches or print onto clothing. Not sure how to mend? We can figure it out together!

🧶While we will not have sewing machines available for use, we will have needles, thread, embroidery hoops, stamps, and fabric scraps, glue, and ink! Feel free to bring in additional supplies.

Please note, this is not a workshop, and no formal instruction will be given. All levels are welcome, we just ask that you come with an open mind and eagerness to learn as you go! Some informational guides will be available and we encourage skill sharing!

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. A suggested sliding scale donation of $5-20 is encouraged but no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Images: WSW staff’s mended wardrobe :)

Join WSW at Upstate Films @upstatefilms in Midtown

Join WSW at Upstate Films @upstatefilms in Midtown Kingston for a free viewing of “Surviva,” featuring cameos of WSW founders Ann Kalmbach @annkalmbach and Tatana Kellner @tatana1950, and “Well, We Are Alive” Wednesday, March 4th at 5:30PM!

Co-hosted by Women Make Movies, as a part of Upstate Films CLOSE UP series, this screening will be joined by “Surviva” director, Women Make Movies co-founder, and former WSW staff member, Ariel Dougherty @mediaequity.

This event is free and open to the public.

Image: courtesy of Ariel Dougherty

We are one month away from our first weekend works

We are one month away from our first weekend workshop! Join Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo @bluekaza for this two-day workshop, “Broadcast Now: publishing as a tool of survival during fascism and genocide.” Sliding scale tuition, KN95 masks required at all times, priority to local BIPOC community members. Registration is open now!

📅March 28-29, 10AM-4PM
📍Women’s Studio Workshop, 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY

Learn about the use of leaflets as a dissemination tactic during the dictatorship in Chile, the Black Panther newspaper printed in Oakland, CA and mailed nationally, the Detroit Printing Co-op’s role in making printshops a space for collective use, and the ways letters and postcards have enabled close dialogue with our incarcerated community.

Inspired by the long legacy of the printed multiple shaping liberation movements, participants will craft collective and individual banners, posters, and a class newspaper using screenprinting, creative writing, xerox, and risograph printing. This workshop does not require previous printmaking experience.

For more info visit our website. Link in bio.

You’re invited to the opening reception of WSW’s s

You’re invited to the opening reception of WSW’s spring intern exhibition “i had this dream and you were in it,” with new work by Ollantay Avila Alcocer @ollantay.xyz, Carissa Kolcun @carissanicole._k, and Kimberly Jo @blue.nebraska on Friday, March 13th from 6-8PM!

On view through April 10, 2026, the exhibition asks: What does it look like to explore multiple possibilities of dreaming in the studio? Over the past four months, the artists have worked across papermaking, printmaking, and bookbinding to meditate on alternate realities and imagined memories. Moving between individual and collaborative processes, they create intimate, layered works that reflect a shared longing for connection.

Mark your calendars! Join WSW at Upstate Films @up

Mark your calendars! Join WSW at Upstate Films @upstatefilms in Midtown Kingston for a free viewing of “Surviva,” featuring cameos of WSW founders Ann Kalmbach @annkalmbach and Tatana Kellner @tatana1950, and “Well, We Are Alive” on March 4 starting at 5:30PM! Co-hosted by Women Make Movies, as a part of Upstate Films CLOSE UP series, this screening will be joined by “Surviva” director, Women Make Movies co-founder, and former WSW staff member, Ariel Dougherty @mediaequity.

This event is free and open to the public.

On February 26th, from 5:30 - 7PM, the Frances Leh

On February 26th, from 5:30 - 7PM, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College @vassarcollege will be hosting the opening reception of “Women’s Work: Organizing New York Independent Film & Video.” Featuring film screening posters from WSW’s archives, “this exhibition reframes women’s work, showcasing and celebrating the organizing labor that enabled groundbreaking film, video, and community media collectives like Third World Newsreel, Paper Tiger Television, and Women Make Movies to pursue new forms of self expression and advocate for political change from the 1960s–1990s.”

This event is free and open to the public.

Image: “Coalmining Women” (1982), directed by Elizabeth Barrett, 14.25 in x 16.5 in, open edition silkscreen, 40 mins., May 30, 1982

Save the date! On April 11th, our beloved Chili Bo

Save the date! On April 11th, our beloved Chili Bowl Fest Fundraiser returns! For over a quarter century, guests have enjoyed this celebration of community and ceramics–shopping from hundreds of handmade bowls and mugs, with all of the proceeds of the sale going to support WSW’s artistic programming. We will be hosting both an online and in-person sale!

The in-person sale will take place from 2-7PM at Women’s Studio Workshop!
2-4PM: Early admission $10 *Kids get in for free!*
4-7PM: Free!

Each bowl purchase comes with a free serving of chili donated by dozens of local eateries!

The Online Sale opens at 10AM on April 11th. Be sure to bookmark the page and set your alarms, because these bowls will sell out fast!

Link in bio.

Special thanks to former Studio Intern Ellie Swanson @starsheepz for the gorgeous poster design!

WSW’s public events wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our 2026 Fiscal Year Event Sponsors:

Bailey Pottery Ceramic Supply @baileypottery
High Falls Food Co-op @highfallsfoodcoop
Rich & Bander LLP
Ryan and Ryan Insurance Brokers
Ulster Savings Bank @ulstersavings

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