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Art-in-Ed: Research, Experimentation, Discovery
Dec 01, 2017
For WSW’s fall Art-in-Education program, we asked young artists from Kingston High School to consider the following question: What is research for the artist? Rotating through disciplines in small groups, students focused on a different material every day and derived a new lesson from each one that extended beyond technique. They studied the material… View Article
Art-in-Ed Artist’s Book Residency Grant
May 29, 2015
The Art-in-Education Artist’s Book Grant is a residency awarded to two artists to create a new artist’s book and teach young people in WSW’s studios. Our Art-in-Education program (AIE) is a model for arts education and operates in conjunction with the Kingston City School District. AIE provides a high quality arts experience by bringing students to… View Article
Alumnae Spotlight: Natalie Campbell & Carissa Carman
Jul 30, 2017
WSW alumnae Carissa Carman and Natalie Campbell have spent over a year submerged in the world of contemporary weaving. At times, this means thinking about the physical warp and weft—the vertical and horizontal threads stretched across a loom. Other times, it means looking at weaving without fiber or regularity, or existing in the digital sphere…. View Article
Diving In with Hands-On Art
Dec 08, 2016
Every fall, our studios fill with excited young artists from Kingston High School’s Advanced Placement art program. Once a week for four weeks, they spent a full day working in one of our studio disciplines under the guidance of WSW artists, practicing new skills and techniques. In the studio, KHS students got the… View Article
Hands-on-Art: Experimentation and Collaboration
Nov 23, 2015
Every Fall, students from Kingston High School’s art program join us at the studios for our Art-in-Education program. The first group, from KHS’ Art & Chem class, were only with us for one day, but they immediately got some hands-on papermaking experience. The students worked with studio manager Chris Petrone to harvest ArtFarm fibers, practice… View Article
Artist’s Book Residency Grant
May 29, 2015
The Artist’s Book Grant is an eight- to ten-week residency for artists to produce a limited edition book work. Working intensively in our studios, artists print and bind their own books, and are encouraged to create an edition size no larger than 100 and no smaller than 50. The grant includes a stipend of $350/week,… View Article
#FirstFriday: March Exhibitions We Love!
Mar 05, 2020
Highlighting exhibitions that feature the work of WSW artists, we share the shows near and far that make up our monthly must-see list. New York Aurora Brush (Studio Intern ’19), Lorraine Cruz (Studio Intern ’19), Nina Rivera (Ceramics Intern ’19), Sarah-Anne Winchester (Ceramics Intern ’19), and Emily Wortmann (Nonprofit Management Intern ’19) are part of the group exhibition,… View Article
Leadership Transition at Women’s Studio Workshop
Apr 11, 2024
To Our Community: In our 50th year of service to artists, we take a moment to pause and reflect on our recent years, and look towards the future of Women’s Studio Workshop and the changes to come. At the beginning of February, Co-Executive Director Erin Zona announced her decision to leave Women’s Studio Workshop. With… View Article
In the Studio: Sparking joy with Eleanor Anderson
Mar 01, 2019
In the WSW ceramics studios, Eleanor Anderson is rolling strips of clay, pinching and arranging them into grid-like patterns loosely in square and rectangular shapes. She then glazes these objects in bright and unexpected colors, fires them and dreams up the different possibilities for their installation in space. Unlike functional ceramics that have a clear… View Article
#FirstFriday: March Exhibitions We Love!
Mar 03, 2022
Highlighting exhibitions that feature the work of WSW artists, we share the shows near and far that make up our monthly must-see list. New York Golnar Adili (Legacy Studio Residency Grant 15’, Artist’s Book Residency Grant 21’) artist’sbook, “She Feels Your Absence Deeply”, was reviewed by Megan Liberty for Art in America. Tatana Kellner (WSW Founder) is teaching a print workshop,… View Article
New Faces at WSW: Summer 2018 Edition
Jul 04, 2018
We are excited to welcome our newest interns, Emma Difani and Ashleigh Pillay, to the Workshop! Folks will be well fed during our Summer Art Institute thanks to Emma, the summer intern, who is busy visiting local farmers markets, planning menues, and making delecious meals. Joining us as our third studio intern, Ashleigh jumps right… View Article
Across Time & Space: Sarah Peters in the Studio
Oct 23, 2013
This is the second of two posts on Sarah Peters’s project The Moon Has No Weather. If you missed it, read the first post here. “Sometimes I think this is really doable and sometimes I think this book is never going to get done,” Artist’s Book resident Sarah Peters said on October 3 amidst her final… View Article
#FirstFriday: Must-See August Exhibitions
Aug 30, 2023
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 Aurora Brush (Studio Intern ’19 and Fellow ’21) and founder of Cosmic Dog House Press is hosting A Content Release & Summer Celebration at Blackbird Infoshop… View Article
CHRCH Clothes: Kate Hamilton’s “Studio Lab”
Jul 22, 2014
For the month of July, Cottekill’s CHRCH Project Space has been filling up with yards of sailcloth sculpted and sewn into huge pieces of clothing hanging floor-to-ceiling and attached to a crisscrossing system of pulleys. The pulleys creak as Kate Hamilton tugs at some clotheslines, and the hem of a huge, floor-to-ceiling dress lifts off… View Article
Casting a Concrete Past: Barbara Westermann’s “Regional Planning Lab”
Jul 31, 2015
Public art resident Barbara Westermann points to a dimly-lit photograph on her computer screen. An array of cement bricks lies on a table, illuminated by the harsh light of on-camera flash, in what looks like a basement. “These are what they call ‘test briquettes,’” Barbara says, explaining how engineers would pour cement into these sponge-shaped… View Article
Holding Patterns: Fafnir Adamites
Jul 20, 2018
Growing up in Western Massachusetts, Fafnir Adamites would never have thought to call herself an artist. “I didn’t grow up in a place where being an artist was really valued or realistic, so it took me a long time to claim that term.” A wayfinder by nature, she followed a non-traditional educational path into the… View Article
The Shape of Yes and Other Musings: Malin Abrahamsson in the Studio
Dec 13, 2018
The week prior to Malin Abrahamsson’s arrival I listened to a TED Radio hour podcast featuring designer Ingrid Fetell Lee, author of the Aesthetics of Joy. In the episode, Lee poses the question “what does joy look like?” Malin’s work is a suitable response to this question: it is an embodiment of joy, and it… View Article
Crystal Hammerschmidt
Jun 01, 2015
Crystal Hammerschmidt joined WSW as a studio intern after earning her BFA from Fort Hays State University in Kansas.
#FirstFriday: October Exhibitions We Love!
Oct 02, 2019
Highlighting exhibitions that feature the work of WSW artists, we share the shows near and far that make up our monthly must-see list. New York Veronica Graham (AIE Residency Grant ’17) will be debuting her new Virtual Reality project, Diatribes, at Women’s Studio Workshop on October 12th from 11 am to 5 pm. Sign up to a be… View Article
About Artists’ Books
Dec 29, 2011
An early proponent of the medium, WSW has produced over 230 limited edition artists’ books since our publishing imprint began in 1979. WSW’s publishing schedule includes 4-6 artist’s publications annually across three genres of focus, including handmade artists’ books, zines & print multiples, and our latest addition research publications. Women’s Studio Workshop is known for… View Article