Location: Kingston NY

Maxine Leu is an interdisciplinary artist, art educator, and environmentalist from Taiwan. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Tainan University of Technology (TUT), Tainan, Taiwan and her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her work focuses on the environment, communication, and identity.

https://www.maxineleu.com/

Corina Willette received her MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2020 and BFA in Painting from New England College (formally The New Hampshire Institute of Art) in 2011. Willette is a figurative narrative artist whose subjects represent emotional territory. Currently, Willette is making art in the Hudson Valley and is an adjunct at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

https://www.corinawillette.com/

Jeff Mertz is a Kingston-based multidisciplinary filmmaker, photographer, and video artist with a focus on nonfiction storytelling. His work often aims to render in miniature the effects of large-scale environmental and social paradigms, and he’s particularly drawn to telling stories that galvanize discussion in the realms of environmental conservation and justice, food systems, mental health, and history. He runs a boutique production company, Moonbow Imaging, and is now in post-production on the feature documentary Seven Sentinels: Lighthouses of the Hudson River.

moonbowimaging.com

Ana O’Keefe and Allie Fair Keel draw inspiration from the feminist Surrealists and female artist collectives of history, building on their friendship and experience as mutidisciplinary artists to create in collaboration as The House Opposite. Their connection stems from almost two decades of friendship after meeting at 18 during the first days of art school in New York City. They quickly bonded as friends, roommates, and classmates, developing their skill and aesthetic, collaborating in student shows, and encouraging each other’s artistic growth.

Ana completed a graduate program in Art Education and developed a passion for community-arts practice and social activism. As a K-12 art teacher she has worked in schools and with the artist collective Los Muralistas de El Puente in Brooklyn, NY. Allie Fair worked as a craftsperson for many years with the John Derian Company in NYC before embarking on a masters program and becoming a school counselor providing holistic support and advocacy for students and their families.

After moves abroad and around the country, years both working in education, and becoming mothers within a week of each other, Allie Fair and Ana found themselves once again living close by. Maintaining connection over years and distance has never been hard but their recent proximity was a catalyst for reconnecting with the generative parts of themselves, welcome ,motivation to create in partnership as The House Opposite.

house-opposite.com

Harvey Opgenorth was born in Milwaukee, WI 1977 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. They have been employed in the museum field for over two decades and have worked as an art handler/preparator for major contemporary museums and galleries in Los Angeles for the past decade. Opgenorth’s multi-disciplinary studio practice is informed by their museum work and environment. By utilizing those observations and experiences they seamlessly fold that fodder into a rigorous personal studio practice.

Opgenorth has exhibited artwork internationally, including venues:
La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain),
Caja Madrid (Zaragoza, Spain),
Espai Cultural Caja Madrid (Barcelona, Spain),
Museo del Patrimonio Municipal – MUPAM (Málaga, Spain),
Helsinki Contemporary (Helsinki, Finland),
Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin),
Haggery Museum of Art (Milwaukee, Wisconsin),
Krannert Art Museum (Urbana,Illinois),
The Renaissance Society (Chicago, Illinois),
The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, Minnesota),
Woodbury University Hollywood Exhibitions (Los Angeles, California),
Cordesa Fine Art (Los Angeles, California),
Vanity Projects (NYC, New York & Miami, Florida),
Mireille Mosler Ltd. (NYC, New York),
Bodybuilder & Sportsman (Chicago, Illinois),
Betty Reimer Gallery (Chicago, Illinois),
Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery (Kalamazoo, Michigan), and
Useable Space (Milwaukee, Wisconsin).

Opgenorth’s work has been the subject of articles and reviews, including publications: Art Forum International, Art Papers, New Art Examiner, Bridge Magazine, Smithsonian’s Eye Level, Milwaukee Magazine, Disruptive Pattern Material, The Word is Art, and Camoupedia.

They have been awarded the Mary L. Nohl Established Artist Fellowship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and have lectured at Northwestern University (Illinois), University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Rapids), Figure One Gallery (Illinois), Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (Wisconsin), and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Education and residencies include:
1998 New York Studio Residency Program (AICAD)
1999 Milwaukee Institute of Art And Design – BFA
2014-2015 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2011 MKE<->LAX Residency
2017 Vermont Studio Center Residency

http://harveyopgenorth.com/

Goodnight Stetz is a multi disciplinary New York based rambler and full time mixed media artist.

Ranging in style and technique the artwork of Stetz has been featured in galleries, private collections, and museums all over the globe. His artistic endeavors often break away from traditional studio works to roam the world painting large scale murals and creating fully immersive installations for all age groups to enjoy. The culmination of these practices come together in an organic rhythm of flora and fauna set in a vivid technicolor and sometimes dark ethereal landscape representing all walks of life both vertebrate and invertebrate.

stetzism.com

Dana Florin-Weiss, a native of Vermont, grew up watching people make work in the Bennington College Dance Department. Now a freelance artist, Dana combines her passion for movement with her interest in sound design and the moving image. Her practices investigate the interplay between the architecture of the body, the experience of living and the changeable environments that surround us.

Harriett Meyer is an educator living and working in the Hudson Valley. As a teacher of movement and writing both, she sees a link between the expressive potential of both media, and is passionate about helping young people to find and refine their voices within each.

https://danaflorinweiss.tumblr.com/works

https://harriettmeyer.wordpress.com/

Brenna is a graduate of Bard College and worked in the music industry for a decade before deciding she would rather be creative herself instead of working for other artists. She learned the basics of her crafts while earning her certification in Historic Preservation and Restoration, then developed her skills at a stained glass studio and a gilding studio, both based in NYC, before establishing her own studio in Rosendale, NY.

“I have always been fascinated by anything with a past and its own story, so I love bringing centuries-old traditional crafting techniques into contemporary settings. The inspiration for my work comes from patterns and color palates I see around me: historic buildings, record album covers, an aged iron railing, and nature just outside of my studio windows. Even though stained glass and gold leaf have both existed for centuries, there is so much newness to what has yet to be done in their conventional fields. I’m motivated by the endless possibilities.”
~Brenna Chase, Willow Deep Studio artisan/owner

www.willowdeepstudio.com

Bren (project lead, minigolf frankenstein) is an assistant professor in psychology and neuroscience directing the Imagination & Moral Cognition Lab at SUNY Albany, a member of the Purpose Co-operative makerspace, and apprentices and works closely with Processional Arts Workshop (e.g., puppeteering a butterfly for the Great Pollinator Ramble at Thomas Cole, serving as a tech marshal for the NYC Halloween Parade and Rhinebeck’s SinterKlaas Parade).

Liam (project co-lead, mingolf igor) and his wife have built and operate two businesses in Catskill – Hilo, a cafe/art gallery, and The Avalon Lounge, a Korean restaurant/performance venue – which has given him several years of real-world experience in executing projects and bringing wild ideas alive while keeping an eye on the pragmatic fundamentals.

https://gaesserlab.wixsite.com/gaesserlab

Ben Pinder is an interdisciplinary artist who creates a surreal visual mythology and cosmology that subverts traditional American masculinity. Pinder’s imagery draws from early woodcuts, medieval iconography and children’s drawings to create a playful, funny and yet sharp critique of American myth-making. Pinder’s drawings, sculptures, and videos operate at the intersection of high art traditions and low-brow Americana, piercing through the pride and fantasies of a hyper-masculine society and creating alternative realms to inhabit. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ben was raised in Vermont, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania and is currently in New York. Among other venues Ben’s work has been exhibited at Brooklyn Arts Council, the Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia, Smack Mellon, Wassaic Projects, and The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. He received his Masters in Fine Art from Pratt Institute and now lives in the Hudson Valley.

https://benpinder.com

https://vimeo.com/user2997237

B.A. Miale is a prolific video creator and live projection artist. She has directed and edited over 50 music videos and in 2007 began performing custom live projection art shows at concerts and events. To this date, she has created over 500 unique visual sets around the country and beyond. B.A. lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband Gregory Stovetop and beloved super mutt, Swayze.

www.visualsbybam.com

https://www.youtube.com/@bamalama