For over 10 years, the artists’ club meets monthly, critiquing works by one or two member artists, sharing dinner, and comradery.
For over 10 years, the artists’ club meets monthly, critiquing works by one or two member artists, sharing dinner, and comradery.
For over 10 years, the artists’ club meets monthly, critiquing works by one or two member artists, sharing dinner, and comradery.
A slide presentation and discussion of how artists measure the benefits of participation in post-grad critiques and artist residencies.
In the spirit of the Thanksgiving season, you are invited to an intimate round table discussion with exhibition curator and collector Livia Straus.
Join us for an interactive day at HVMOCA, with drawing in the exhibition space and black box theater: live model, munchies and wine, and great comradery.
For over 10 years, the artists’ club meets monthly, critiquing works by one or two member artists, sharing dinner, and comradery.
Have you wondered about the illuminated open doors that greet you as you come off the train at night?
This is your opportunity to meet the artist, to understand her thought process as she installs her works in public spaces where a viewer can interact and dream.
Three art educators address the benefits and the need for artists to create communities for ongoing critique and growth.
“There Is A Message In Our Movement.” May 18th & 19th, 2024. STUDIO THEATER IN EXILE@HUDSON VALLEY MOCA is proud to present THERE IS A MESSAGE IN OUR MOVEMENT, a social justice suite choreographed by Sharon Simmons-Wright.
STUDIO THEATER IN EXILE & HUDSON VALLEY MOCA PRESENTS: Exciting new works by poets, playwrights, choreographers, and composers inspired by HVMOCA’s JURIED SHOW WAR – directed by Mara Mills.
‘WAR’: An Art History Lecture by Marcy B. Freedman
WAR: Diary of a Woman by Nili Friedman
Third Annual Juried Exhibition: 'WAR' Opening Reception.
Frozen in Time: A cameo exhibition of works by Susan Obrant. February 15 - April 10, 2024
January 5th, 2024. 3:00pm - 5:00pm. Chappaqua Library & the Town of New Castle present a screening of the filmed performance of the one-woman show, Forever Yours, Olive Thomas by John Arco. A discussion and Q&A will follow with writer John Arco, director Mara Mills, and technical director Jeremy Gratt.
Curated by Bibiana Huang Matheis, founder of Inspiration Art Group International. This is Bibiana's second HVMOCA curated exhibition of artists addressing ecological issues, sustainability, climate change, endangered species, clean water, deforestation and more. Through an open call, artists are drawn from the international as well as the local community.
We were delighted that so many of you joined us on January 21st for the opening of our juried exhibition, ‘Eye of the Needle.’ We, at HVMOCA, are very excited about the way the show came together and the high quality of the applicants works.
Which has put us in a bit of a quandary
There are three awards being offered to recognize outstanding quality. We are in the enviable position of having to choose from many high-quality applications- a difficult decision, and one that we now look to our audience to help.
Let us know your top 3 choices.
The only requirement is that you have seen the exhibition in person
You may use online images to refresh your memory (
E-mail your three choices, in order of preference: 1st, 2nd or 3rd place, to info@hudsonvalleymoca.org Thank you in advance for your participation
Closing Reception for ‘Eye of the Needle’ and Awards Presentations:
Saturday, April 22, 3-5 PM
Artist Talks: An opportunity for exhibiting artists to speak about their works, their processes, and their creative inspirations. If you are an artist in the exhibition let us know in advance if you would like to speak and wish to submit 3 images to be projected so that the audience has a greater sense of your practice. Deadline for image submissions: April 17th, 2023, midnight.
Performance: From Studio Theater in Exile – on stage for the awards – a performance/talk by Marcy Friedman and one of the Writing the Walls poets
Presentation of Artist Awards,
Wine and hors d’oeuvres reception
A PAA and BID Sponsored Public Art Initiative
Making Connections is part of ‘Enlighten Peekskill’, its mission to connect the Peekskill Waterfront to its Downtown.
The Peekskill Artists’ Alliance (PAA) and the Peekskill Business improvement District (BID), under the aegis of the NYS DRI grant ‘Enlighten Peekskill’, are launching Making Connections. A major initiative whose goal is to create art corridors connecting the Peekskill Waterfront to its downtown, Making Connections seeks mural and installation artists for seven identified sites. This project will help secure Peekskill’s identity as an “Arts Community” highlighting extraordinary artworks by local artists alongside those by nationally known professional artists.
Writing the Walls 2023 will consist of plays, poems, monologues, and stories inspired by visual art works from the Through the Eye of the Needle exhibit and selected pieces from How We Live II. Pieces will be performed on the Studio Theater in Exile’s stage housed at Hudson Valley MOCA in March, possibly extended into April. Images and submission instructions are on the websites and linked eblasts in January.
A bit of history: Writing the Walls began in 2005 when Artistic Director MaraMills (STIE) and Livia Straus,co-founder Hudson Valley MOCAcreated WTW and invited poets and playwrights to contribute original works reflective of their interaction with the art. Until Quarantine 2020 there were yearly on-site performances at HVMOCA where the audience moved from artwork to artwork and the poets read in front of them. To keep tradition during the COVID Quarantine STIE and HVMOCA produced Climbing the Walls and Writing (Off) the Walls online. In 2022, STIE became formally housed in the HVMOCA’s black box, complete with stage, sound, lights, projection,and seating.
For the 2023 Writing the Walls performances will be in the theater to take advantage of having a theater space that allows us, in the spirit of Through The Eye of the Needle Exhibit, to weave performance genres.
Submissions are based on inspiration from HVMOCA’s upstairs gallery juried exhibition, Through the Eye of the Needle, and certain pieces from the How We Live II exhibit in the Main Gallery. Please select 1 image. Attached are PDF images of the artwork in the exhibitions chosen for inclusion and the submissions directions.
Through the Eye of the Needle opens on January 21 and closes March 18,2023. If you want to see the works, let the front desk you are there as a Writing the Walls writer for one free admission.
"A full life in 25 years". A celebration of forgotten icon Olive Thomas.
Coal miner's daughter, Ziegfeld girl, actress, Hollywood star, married to Jack Pickford, dead at 25.
An original play staged and filmed by Studio Theater in Exile, available for online streaming.
Written by John Arco
Starring Dakota Martin as Olive Thomas
Director: Mara Mills • Producer: Jeremy Gratt
Crew: Morgan Schroff, Marcus Chavez
Staged and Filmed by Studio Theater in Exile at Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill NY
NOT GOD evokes the delicate bond between a doctor struggling with limitations and a patient in search of clarity and dignity.The play, in poetry, was written by renowned poet and writer, Marc J. Straus, recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Award in the Humanities from Yale, a Yaddo Residency, Annual Writing Award from NYU Bellevue, and more.
Bettina Altman (Patient) is thrilled to make her Studio Theater in Exile debut. A native New Yorker, Bettina began her acting career as a company member with the Hedgerow Theatre in Moylan, Pennsylvania, where she appeared in numerous productions including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Caroline) and John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves (the Little Nun).
Marc J. Straus is a poet, writer, doctor, and art collector who lives with his wife, Livia, in Chappaqua, New York. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and articles on contemporary art, and has published four poetry collections, three by TriQuarterly Books – Northwestern University Press, including Not God, staged Off Broadway in an earlier iteration. His poems and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and many other literary journals. One-Legged Mongoose, a recently published memoir of the years he was ages 10 – 12 memoir and narrated by the boy he was then, has been #1 Best Seller on Amazon.
20 Artists will unite under a common theme as part of the Hudson Valley wide exhibition “Address Earth Art Expo 2022” @ HV MOCA -The Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art.
Artists: Babs Reingold, Bibiana Huang Matheis, Ceci Cole McInturff, Chia-Hui Luo, Corinne Lapin-Cohen, Elisa Pritzker, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Jeremy K. Bullis, Karen Fitzgerald, Lisa Rosenstein, Leonie Castelino, Leslie Connito, Marcy B. Freedman, Mimi Czajka Graminski, Michael Rothman, Riva Weinstein, Rosalind Schneider, Siena Gillann Porta, Sarah Haviland, Tanya Kukucka.
Artist Reception: Saturday, September 17, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Curated by: Bibiana Huang Matheis.
This is our first post-pandemic physical exhibition under the auspices of the Inspiration Arts Group International. The ‘Address Earth Art Expo’ features a collection of voices from dozens of artists from our group, to at once celebrate our planet earth and to use our art to address the critical global issues that affect our world and environment. We are at a critical juncture in the history of our planet where recognizing our common interests and shared well-being are vital. This exhibition celebrates varied aspects of the planet home we all share. Artists will address ecology, sustainability, climate change, endangered species, clean water, deforestation and humanity.
Visit: InspirationArtGroup.org for other exhibits that will take place simultaneously in several locations in the Hudson Valley of New York and Connecticut this summer and autumn.
A collaborative project between Studio Theater in Exile, Adam Niklewicz, visual artist & video sculptures, and Satyaki Dutta, musician.
Mara: “For many years, Brody, Barkman, and I have collaborated on a theater piece to go with the opening of her shows at CERES gallery, NYC. This past year with COVID restrictions in place, we opted to create a video of the Perfect Mind reading that would be paired with a tour of Brody’s and Liz Nydoye’s work. The installation of Brody’s sculptures in Studio Theater in Exile audience brings performance and art into an intimate relationship.”
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band is a documentary about a brilliant outlier, a woman who dared to live on her own terms. In a time when women were expected to stay at home and raise children, Mary Lou Williams forged her own path as an unparalleled jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
Poets chosen from an open call will premiere original, new works that reinterpret the artwork in the exhibition How We Live.
Hudson Valley MOCA Artist members are invited to bring their portfolios for review. This is an opportunity to meet directly with gallerists and professionals in the art industry to identify their strengths and weaknesses and improve their overall portfolio presentation.
In this workshop, you’ll join local students, artists, and your neighbors in Peekskill to make a fabric patch that will fill a piece of a collective Unity Quilt.
Join artist Amanda Browder and ArtsWestchester to create a colorful fabric sculpture that will be on view this spring along the facade of ArtsWestchester’s nine-story neoclassical building in White Plains, NY.
Art history is turned on its head in this continuation of the Art History with a Twist lecture series at Hudson Valley MOCA.
