Tag: Art Omi

Guerrillia Basilica Improvisations 2018, Aug 12

This summer’s Art Omi Music residents will perform “guerrilla” collaborations in groupings randomly selected by the audience. The improvisational evening offers the public an opportunity to experience the diverse backgrounds of the residents early in their residency and participate in the process of creative exploration, live.

 

This summer’s Art Omi Music residents will perform “guerrilla” collaborations in groupings randomly selected by the audience. The improvisational evening offers the public an opportunity to experience the diverse backgrounds of the residents early in their residency and participate in the process of creative exploration, live.

Art Omi: Music invites twelve to fifteen musicians and composers from around the globe to come together for two and a half weeks each summer for a uniquely collaborative music making residency.

Art Omi: Music encourages its participants to share ideas, perform each other’s works, and write music for one another, while exploring their own musical vision and broadening their artistic and cultural horizons.

DATE/TIME:
Sunday, August 12, 2018: 3pm – 6pm

ADMISSION:
Free

LOCATION:
Basilica Hudson
110 S. Front St.,
Hudson, NY 12534

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Omi International Arts Center – Tim Youd: The 100 Novels Project

The 100 Novels Project is an ongoing performance art piece in which Youd retypes novels from beginning to end in locations that play a central role in the novels.

Los Angeles-based artist Tim Youd performs at Art Omi as part of a Hudson Valley cycle of The 100 Novels Project, an ongoing performance in which Youd retypes novels from beginning to end at locations that play a central role in the novels. Employing the same make and model typewriter used by the author, Youd types each novel on a single sheet of paper backed by an additional support sheet. When finished with the novel, Youd presents the two sheets a diptych.

While at Art Omi, Tim Youd will retype William Kennedy’s Ironweed at various outdoor locations around The Fields Sculpture Park; the public is invited to find and observe him as he works. Since April, Youd has performed at a series of locations throughout the Hudson Valley region; sites have included Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, and recently the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, where he retyped Light Years by James Salter. The Hudson Valley Cycle culminates with an exhibition of the resulting diptychs at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Focus Gallery, which will be on view August 30 through October 14.

DATE/TIME:
Monday, July 23 – Thursday, July 26

LOCATION:
Omi International Arts Center
Fields Sculpture Park
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075

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Artists Opening Weekend Events at Omi Arts Center, Jul 7 2018

Art Omi celebrates it’s Artists Open Weekend with a dance party, brunch, and Open Studios.

Art Omi celebrates it’s Artists Open Weekend with a dance party, brunch, and Open Studios. The fun begins Saturday night with drinks, hors d’oeuvres and live, energetic music by Nkumu Katalay overlooking the firefly-lit sculpture park at Omi, in the company of the artists-in-residence and upstate arts community.

On Sunday, Art Omi honors their international artists-in-residence and celebrates with a country brunch on the lawn of Ledig House. Mimosas, French toast, and fresh fruit will be served.

Immediately after brunch, you can see the work of 30 international artists in one place. Take a short stroll down to the studio barns, and see what the artists have been working on for the past 4 weeks, along with additional events and installations to be announced! Free and open to the public, no RSVP required.

DATE/TIME:
Dance Party – Saturday, July 7 2018: 8pm – 11:45pm
Country Brunch – Sunday, July 8 2018: 11am – 1pm
Open Studios – Sunday, July 8 2018: 1pm – 5pm

LOCATION:
Omi International Arts Center
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075

COST:
Dance Party – $30 per person
Brunch – $40 per person for members. $50 for non members
Open Studios – Free/no RSVP required

Cash/check/card accepted at the door for dance party.
To RSVP please e-mail events@artomi.org

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Omi International Arts Center – Fields Opening Day 2018

Art Omi invites visitors to welcome new exhibitions on view for the summer season.

Art Omi invites visitors to welcome new exhibitions on view for the summer season. In The Fields Sculpture Park, will inaugurate Scapegoat by Nari Ward, Tamar Ettun’s interactive work Blue inflatable, figurative steel sculptures by Lonnie Holley, and work by Sara Greenberger Rafferty. In the Newmark Gallery will be an exhibition of twenty paintings by Thomas Nozkowski, and in the Benenson Center café, a new site-specific installation by textile artist Rachel Hayes. The opening day festivities will also include hayrides, food, and more.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, June 16, 2018: 1pm – 4:30pm

LOCATION:
Omi International Arts Center
Fields Sculpture Park
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075

COST:
Free

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Architect Alex Schweder Returns to Architecture Fields at Art Omi

Architect Alex Schweder returns to the Architecture Fields at Art Omi for a weekend performance in the spinning, tilting futuristic home ReActor.

ReActor, 2016, Wood and concrete, 16’x44’x8′

Architect Alex Schweder returns to the Architecture Fields at Art Omi for a weekend performance in the spinning, tilting futuristic home ReActor.

ReActor is a 44-foot by 8-foot habitable sculpture that rotates 360-degrees atop a 15-foot concrete column in response to its inhabitants’ movements, exterior forces, and interior conditions, making visible the intimate relationship between architecture and its inhabitants. The work is a collaboration between Architect Alex Schweder and Artist Ward Shelley, and was erected in Architecture Field 01 at Art Omi in June 2016. Since its completion, the pair have inhabited ReActor over a series of three durational performances; during these occupations, onlookers are invited to observe and interact with the residents as they navigate the ever-shifting structure as it reacts to atmospheric conditions. Schweder has described their approach as “performance architecture,” stating that “Our relationship with our audiences is a bit different from many performance art works in that we have conversations about the work with them.”

– artomi.org

DATE/TIME:
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, June 8 – 10, 2018

LOCATION:
Architecture Omi Field 01
1405 County Rt. 22,
Ghent NY

ADMISSION:
Free and Open to the public

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