Now in its second year, Upstate Art Weekend is a coalition of 61 sculpture parks, museums, galleries, studios, and creative spaces connecting tourists and locals alike with art and the great Upstate New York outdoors.

Open Barn

August 28-29 | 11 AM - 5 PM
Explore 3K+ volumes of poetry, chapbooks, broadsides & ‘zines!

Events

Saturday, August 28 | 3 PM
Poetic License Reading
with The Arts Society of Kingston

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Sunday, August 29 | 2 PM
Chinese Brush Painting Demo
with Linda Schultz

Exhibits

WILL NIXON

Will Nixon’s dark and whimsical photographs plumb the cartography of visual language and poetry.

In 1996, Will Nixon left a previous life in mid-town Manhattan for a Catskills log cabin. In the early 2000s he found his way to Woodstock. He is the author of “The Pocket Guide to Woodstock” and the co-author with Michael Perkins of “Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town.”

LINDA SCHULTZ

Linda Schultz bathes forest and light with spontaneity; a traditional Chinese brush painting concept. Each mounted exploration is a window into nature and wonder.

Linda Schultz is a retired art educator. She holds an MS in art education from the State University of New York and a Certificate of Completion from the Art Farm Gallery for Studies in Chinese Brush painting. Additionally, she has studied with master painters at the Art Institute in Jang Yin, China.

JENA ARGENTA

Jena Argenta’s studies in abstract calligraphy are drawn from various traditions and styles.

Jena Argenta is visual artist, freelance writer, and founder of Brush & Reed—a studio dedicated to intersecting calligraphic iterations. She has taught in NYC, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, and with grieving teens in the Colorado wilderness through Outward Bound.

Her artwork has been privately and commercially commissioned in Morocco, Mexico, & across the US.

GINA DOMINIQUE

Gina Dominique (nee Shorto) is best known for contemporary abstract works that merge feminist and gender-based ideas with spiritual concepts.

She has a national exhibition record, has produced more than one dozen solo shows, and participated in over fifty group exhibitions.

Her paintings, prints and sculptures are included in several public and private collections.

Events

Seats are limited. Please RSVP to hello@poetrybarn.org.