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SUMMARY:HUDSON VALLEY PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL 2026 | Exhibit at WRCA
DESCRIPTION:Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival 2026 Exhibition \nOctober 11 – November 8\, 2026 \n  \nCelebrating America’s 250th Anniversary \nWallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA) is pleased to present the 10th edition of the famed Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival (HVPAF). During this multi-day event (Wednesday to Sunday\, October 7 -11)\, 30 artists are invited to paint on the grounds of selected historic sites and capture these iconic vistas at the height of the autumnal season. \nHistoric sites include Hill-Hold & Brick House Museums\, Brotherhood Winery\, Goshen Historic Track\, City Winery\, Greenwood Lake Farmers Market\, and West Point. “As our nation celebrates its 250th anniversary\, we believe it is essential to shed light on our iconic historic neighbors and highlight the Hudson Valley’s rich heritage at this year’s festival.” states artist and event chair\, Susan Baldwin. \nCome meet the 2026 HVPAF artists on location and view their works in process at Paint-outs\, on-site displays\, pop-up exhibits\, Quick Draw\, and demonstrations. (Schedule of festival events and activities announced shortly.) As the culmination of this multi-day event\, artworks created during the festival exhibited at WRCA Galleries; these works considered for awards and site-specific prizes.\n\n \n2026 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: \nSusan Baldwin\, Sarah Baskin\, John Capowski\, Catherine De Cesare\, Lisa Diebboll\, Jennifer Gibson\, Elissa Gore\, Carl Grauer\, Susan Lais Hostetler\, Shawn Dell Joyce\, Ronna Katz\, Gail Kelly\, Ward Lamb\, Valerie Light\, Marie McCann\, Insiya Pardiwala\, Rick Parenti\, John Park\, Jeanne Plekon\, Geraldine Popko\, Joanne Schwartz\, Mary M Sealfon\, Vaune Sherin\, Patricia Valens\, Nancy Woogen\, Nancy Y\, and Jen Zernhelt.  \n  \nSunday\, October 11\, 4 – 6 pm\nOPENING RECEPTION & AWARDS CEREMONY \nThe public is invited to join us to celebrate the opening of the HVPAF 2026 Exhibit. In addition to meeting the artists and viewing the completed works created during the festival\, awards will be announced. \n  \nJUROR OF AWARDS: Janet Howard Fatta \nHudson Valley artist Janet Howard works predominantly in oil\, with a lifelong commitment to painting the figure\, landscape\, and the fleeting moments of everyday life. Always inspired by light\, color\, and her love of nature\, she strives to create visual representations of what she experiences through her senses. An award-winning artist\, Janet also uses her art to tell the stories of others\, capturing the energy\, relationships\, and emotional moments of celebrations in real time. Her studio practice continues to explore the figure and the human experience. Janet serves as an advisory member of the Orange County Arts Council and facilitates the Warwick Life Drawing Group at Forge 28 Studios in Warwick. She lives in New Hampton\, New York\, on a small oasis attuned to the rhythms of the Wallkill River.\n  \nPANEL OF JURORS: Janet Campbell\, Shawn Dell Joyce\, and Joseph Sundwall \n  \n \n 
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/hudson-valley-plein-air-festival-2026-exhibit-at-wrca/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
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SUMMARY:John McGiff: Painting as Vision
DESCRIPTION:John McGiff: Painting as Vision\nNovember 14 – December 20\, 2026 \n  \nI make images to help map the terrain of the journey I find myself on and figurative narratives are my chosen stage. \nI am naturally inclined towards making series of paintings that are bound by a central narrative idea that often stems from an old story. A reoccurring theme in my work is about the individual journey from innocence to loss to redemption. This is a culturally charged tale and by retelling some of the Greek myths\, I benefit from working with archetypal narratives that are capable of shifting in their focus and\, therefore\, quite elastic in the vision that they imply. \nWhat\, for example\, would Icarus do if he had landed differently and had a second chance at building a life? If Acteon was made to fall asleep by Diana’s pool\, a prelude to his prescribed fate\, what parade of figures would haunt and tantalize his dreams? How did the abduction of Persephone by Hades inform her adulthood and rebirth? This emphasis on one’s ability to transform experience in positive ways is the alchemy I seek from my painting practice \nThe figure is central to the compositions I make in the studio\, as is color and the thrill of moving through pictorial space. I am as interested in humor and grace\, as I am in the dramatics of the narrative\, for the goal is to bring new ways of thinking about how we open up vistas for ourselves as we mark these passages we are on.  \n– John McGiff \n  \nLEARN MORE | About the Artist\, John McGiff \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, November 14\, 3 – 5 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nThe WRCA galleries and art reception are always free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: John McGiff\, Kore and Her Posse Flower Picking\, 48 x48 in.\, gouache on canvas\, 2023
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/john-mcgiff-painting-as-vision/
LOCATION:Wallkill River Center for the Arts\, 232 Ward Street\, Montgomery\, NY\, 12549\, United States
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SUMMARY:Figuratively Speaking: A Regional Exhibition Juried by John McGiff
DESCRIPTION:Figuratively Speaking: A Regional Exhibition Juried by celebrated artist John McGiff\nNovember 14 – December 20\, 2026 \n  \nCALL FOR ARTWORK | Deadline: October 19 \nPROSPECTUS \n  \nThe inclusion of the human figure in image making is as old as art itself. How do we see ourselves\, how do we see others? What’s their story; Is it like our own or different? With all the special attributes that make each of us an individual\, the one truth that we can’t get around is that we all share humanity\, for better or worse. Tell us a story. \n  \nAbout the Juror:\nJohn McGiff is a painter and teacher based in Dutchess County\, NY. John received his B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase\, winning the Dean’s Commendation for Painting and Drawing\, and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. John has received two fellowships in painting from the Delaware Division of the Arts in painting as well as residency fellowships in Brittany\, France\, from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He currently shows his work in galleries in Wilmington\, Lewes\, and Rehoboth and has had exhibitions at The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art and The Delaware Agricultural Museum as well as various other Mid-Atlantic venues. \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, November 14\, 3 – 5 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artists and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nThe WRCA galleries and art reception are always free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: John McGiff\, Icarus Awakens in the Garden (detail)\, gouache on canvas
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/figuratively-speaking/
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SUMMARY:Leslie Bender: Path of Jewels
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Bender: Path of Jewels\nNovember 14 – December 20\, 2026 \n\n“My painting traces my search for consciousness from the darkest shadows to my emerging light.\nbegun 40 years ago\, my search for connection has led me to Love.”  – Leslie Bender\n\n\n  \nLeslie Bender began her societal and cultural obligations as an artist in 1975\, earning a Bachelors in Fine Art from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. After graduating\, she worked with the Brooklyn Arts Council on mural projects in elementary schools and was subsequently hired as a C.E.T.A. mural painter in New Jersey in 1978. After 2 years\, she joined CityArts Workshop in NYC and painted community murals until 1985.  Ms. Bender joined other politically motivated artists\, and the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Downtown in Manhattan exhibited her political prints. \nCurrently\, Bender creates paintings\, drawings and prints in her loft studio in Kingston\, NY\, while exhibiting extensively in the Hudson Valley. She arrived in the Catskill Mountains in 1986\, joining with the Woodstock School of Art. There\, she contributed her printmaking expertise to the fledgling printmaking shop. In 1995\, Bender got a degree in scenic painting for theater\, and created many sets for regional theater and dance companies. In 2008\, she earned an MFA in printmaking from SUNY New Paltz. A 2019 mystical experience aroused 5-dimensional luminosity into an oeuvre of artwork long devoted to the search for Self within the darkness of subconsciousness. \nIn 2024\, Bender’s long held fascination with orchestra musicians was fulfilled with a grant from Arts Mid- Hudson. For a year\, she drew and painted the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra\, and in 2025 had a one-woman exhibit of her art at the Ritz in Newburgh\, NY. \n\n\nLearm more about the artist\, Leslie Bender \n  \nOPENING RECEPTION\nSaturday\, November 14\, 3 – 5 pm \nPlease join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served. \n  \nThe WRCA galleries and art reception are always free and open to the public. \nGallery hours: Friday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm \n  \nImage: Leslie Bender\, Beach Scene with Mentaur\, mixed media on paper\, 23 x 23 in.
URL:https://wallkill.art/event/leslie-bender-path-of-jewels/
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