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Aug 15, 2019

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Last week, Emily Larned @emilylarned returned to o

Last week, Emily Larned @emilylarned returned to our archive, where she spent time fact-checking her research with WSW cofounders Ann Kalmbach @annkalmbach and Tana Kellner @tatana1950 for her upcoming exhibition titled “Workshopping” that will open at WSW on Friday, October 3, with a new publication she is producing in her studio. Stay tuned for more info!

As we look towards the opening reception for the f

As we look towards the opening reception for the fall intern exhibition “light/house” we will be featuring work from each of the participating artists.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Julia Maisel-Berick @julia.rmb is a multi-media artist currently based in the Hudson Valley. Utilizing paper scraps, paint, fabric and glue, Julia crafts images inspired by medical advertisements, Victorian scrap-book homes, and the communal culture of quilting. Second-hand or repurposed materials often guide her compositions, and she is interested in emphasizing the uncanny nature of the mid-century lifestyle magazines collected from antique malls, neighbors, and street corners over the years. While at WSW, Julia’s work has expanded to include processes in print and papermaking as she finds new ways to piece textiles, found images, text, and paintings together. Grounded in a sense of nostalgia, her work crosses disciplines to evoke both the familiar and the peculiar in domestic settings.

Join us Friday September 5th, from 6-8 PM at Unison Arts Center @unison_arts in New Paltz. The exhibition will be on view until Thurs, Sep. 18th. Gallery hours are Thurs - Sat, 1-5 PM or by appointment.

“light/house” embodies dualities, contradictions, and multiplicities that appear both in their life and work. The exhibition is the culmination of five months of living and working in community. For more information visit our website.

We are pleased to share WSW’s latest publication

We are pleased to share WSW’s latest publication, “Relational Sentience” by Rhiannon Skye Tafoya @r.skye.t, which was created offsite in Tafoya’s studio through a production grant funded by the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art @bimuseum

Since the Spring of 2022, Tafoya has immersed herself in the basketry culture of her Eastern Band Cherokee community, creating significant relationships with multi-generational basketmakers as well as the living environment that surrounds her. “Relational Sentience” is about her relationship to four specific natural dyes that are obtained from the roots of the bloodroot and yellowroot plants and the walnut and butternut trees. Each of these dyes is used for white oak, honeysuckle vine, and rivercane basketry, and they provide rich colors that enhance the designs and patterns of the basket. Each page in the accordion fold provides an illustration and a personalized love note to each of the four natural relatives that offer colors to the baskets and make them what they are.

Email books@wsworkshop.org for more information about sales.

We’re thrilled to announce we’ll be participat

We’re thrilled to announce we’ll be participating in Printed Matter’s @printedmatterinc 2025 NY Art Book Fair! Come visit our table to view a selection of artist’s books including our most recent publications Thursday, September 11 through Sunday, September 14! 📖⭐

Check out @printedmatter_artbookfairs to view the program and purchase tickets in advance. We can’t wait to see you there!

Image: Printed Matter’s 2025 flyer with “gender liberators” by Sky Syzygy @sky.syzygy

As we look towards the opening reception for the f

As we look towards the opening reception for the fall intern exhibition “light/house” we will be featuring work from each of the participating artists.

Ollantay Avila Alcocer @ollantay.xyz is 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.

Join us Friday September 5th, from 6-8 PM at Unison Arts Center @unison_arts in New Paltz. The exhibition will be on view until Thurs, Sep. 18th. Gallery hours are Thurs - Sat, 1-5 PM or by appointment.

“light/house” embodies dualities, contradictions, and multiplicities that appear both in their life and work. The exhibition is the culmination of five months of living and working in community. For more information visit our website.

That’s a wrap folks, Summer Art Institute has co

That’s a wrap folks, Summer Art Institute has come to an end! To close out our SAI season, Maisie Broome @myfawny joined us for “Contemporary and Experimental Marbling”. Students spent the week learning the basics of marbling, how to manipulate floating paint to create imagery, and working on two dimensional and three dimensional objects. Thank you everyone for an incredible summer! See you at SAI next year :)

#womensstudioworkshop #summerartinstitute #wswsummerartinstitute #wswsai

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Last week, Emily Larned @emilylarned returned to o

Last week, Emily Larned @emilylarned returned to our archive, where she spent time fact-checking her research with WSW cofounders Ann Kalmbach @annkalmbach and Tana Kellner @tatana1950 for her upcoming exhibition titled “Workshopping” that will open at WSW on Friday, October 3, with a new publication she is producing in her studio. Stay tuned for more info!

As we look towards the opening reception for the f

As we look towards the opening reception for the fall intern exhibition “light/house” we will be featuring work from each of the participating artists.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Julia Maisel-Berick @julia.rmb is a multi-media artist currently based in the Hudson Valley. Utilizing paper scraps, paint, fabric and glue, Julia crafts images inspired by medical advertisements, Victorian scrap-book homes, and the communal culture of quilting. Second-hand or repurposed materials often guide her compositions, and she is interested in emphasizing the uncanny nature of the mid-century lifestyle magazines collected from antique malls, neighbors, and street corners over the years. While at WSW, Julia’s work has expanded to include processes in print and papermaking as she finds new ways to piece textiles, found images, text, and paintings together. Grounded in a sense of nostalgia, her work crosses disciplines to evoke both the familiar and the peculiar in domestic settings.

Join us Friday September 5th, from 6-8 PM at Unison Arts Center @unison_arts in New Paltz. The exhibition will be on view until Thurs, Sep. 18th. Gallery hours are Thurs - Sat, 1-5 PM or by appointment.

“light/house” embodies dualities, contradictions, and multiplicities that appear both in their life and work. The exhibition is the culmination of five months of living and working in community. For more information visit our website.

We are pleased to share WSW’s latest publication

We are pleased to share WSW’s latest publication, “Relational Sentience” by Rhiannon Skye Tafoya @r.skye.t, which was created offsite in Tafoya’s studio through a production grant funded by the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art @bimuseum

Since the Spring of 2022, Tafoya has immersed herself in the basketry culture of her Eastern Band Cherokee community, creating significant relationships with multi-generational basketmakers as well as the living environment that surrounds her. “Relational Sentience” is about her relationship to four specific natural dyes that are obtained from the roots of the bloodroot and yellowroot plants and the walnut and butternut trees. Each of these dyes is used for white oak, honeysuckle vine, and rivercane basketry, and they provide rich colors that enhance the designs and patterns of the basket. Each page in the accordion fold provides an illustration and a personalized love note to each of the four natural relatives that offer colors to the baskets and make them what they are.

Email books@wsworkshop.org for more information about sales.

We’re thrilled to announce we’ll be participat

We’re thrilled to announce we’ll be participating in Printed Matter’s @printedmatterinc 2025 NY Art Book Fair! Come visit our table to view a selection of artist’s books including our most recent publications Thursday, September 11 through Sunday, September 14! 📖⭐

Check out @printedmatter_artbookfairs to view the program and purchase tickets in advance. We can’t wait to see you there!

Image: Printed Matter’s 2025 flyer with “gender liberators” by Sky Syzygy @sky.syzygy

As we look towards the opening reception for the f

As we look towards the opening reception for the fall intern exhibition “light/house” we will be featuring work from each of the participating artists.

Ollantay Avila Alcocer @ollantay.xyz is 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.

Join us Friday September 5th, from 6-8 PM at Unison Arts Center @unison_arts in New Paltz. The exhibition will be on view until Thurs, Sep. 18th. Gallery hours are Thurs - Sat, 1-5 PM or by appointment.

“light/house” embodies dualities, contradictions, and multiplicities that appear both in their life and work. The exhibition is the culmination of five months of living and working in community. For more information visit our website.

That’s a wrap folks, Summer Art Institute has co

That’s a wrap folks, Summer Art Institute has come to an end! To close out our SAI season, Maisie Broome @myfawny joined us for “Contemporary and Experimental Marbling”. Students spent the week learning the basics of marbling, how to manipulate floating paint to create imagery, and working on two dimensional and three dimensional objects. Thank you everyone for an incredible summer! See you at SAI next year :)

#womensstudioworkshop #summerartinstitute #wswsummerartinstitute #wswsai

And just like that Summer Art Institute has come t

And just like that Summer Art Institute has come to an end! This week students learned the basics of marbling, how to manipulate floating paint to create imagery, and working on two dimensional and three dimensional objects. Thank you Maisie Broome @myfawnwy for closing out our SAI season with “Contemporary and Experimental Marbling”.

You’re invited to the opening reception of our F

You’re invited to the opening reception of our Fall intern exhibition, “light/house.” Join us at Unison Arts Center @unison_arts in New Paltz on September 5th from 6-8PM to celebrate our incredible interns as we wrap up their time at WSW!

In “light/house,” Studio Interns Ellie Swanson @starsheepz and Ollantay Avila Alcocer @ollantay.xyz and Administrative Assistant Julia Maisel-Berick @julia.rmb explore visual patterns and motifs—often rooted in nostalgia—to weave personal narratives into a range of media. “light/house” embodies dualities, contradictions, and multiplicities that appear both in their life and work. The exhibition is the culmination of five months of living and working in community.

The sweet air, the song of crickets and frogs, the warm light guides us back to the home we’ve made for ourselves this summer. The familiar shadows stretch and dance across the kitchen tile, the fan hums a gentle lullaby, laughter fills the rooms that so many have passed through. As night falls and the fireflies emerge, that home is a constant and a reminder of the time we shared together.

I’ll leave the light on for you.

The exhibition will be on view until September 18. Unison’s gallery hours are Thursday - Saturday, 1-5PM or by appointment.

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