Radius 50
Main + Solo Galleries
Aug 29 – Sept. 27
RECEPTION: Sep 5, 2020

JURORS: Candice Maday, Director and Curator; Alyson Baker, Founder and Executive Director, River Valley Arts Collective
SUBMIT ONLINE: Jun 12 – Jul 19
NOTIFICATION via email Aug 5
AWARDS: Nicholas Buhalis Award for Artistic Excellence $500
OPEN TO ARTISTS WITHIN 50 MILES OF WOODSTOCK
FEE: $35 Fee/$15 Members

Radius 50 is a survey of some of the very best art currently being made in our Mid Hudson/ Catskills Region. Artists living within a 50-mile radius of Woodstock are eligible to submit 5 images for consideration online by jurors Candice Maday, Director and Curator and Alyson Baker, Founder and Executive Director of the River Valley Arts Collective. Work in all media will be considered.

About the Jurors

Alyson Baker is the former Executive Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, serving for over eleven years as Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park East River, NYC. She also served as Director of Pat Hearn Gallery, Associate Director of Gagosian Gallery, and Curatorial Assistant in the Contemporary Art Department at the Carnegie Museum of Art. With over thirty years of experience in the arts, she has worked on more than 300 exhibitions with over 800 artists including both emerging artists and world-renowned figures such as Mark di Suvero, Kiki Smith, Chris Burden, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra and Wendell Castle.

Candice Madey founded the pioneering Lower East Side gallery On Stellar Rays in 2008. Prior to that Candice worked on projects with the Museum of Modern Art, New York; MOMA PS1, Queens; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Rose Museum, Waltham, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; The Pulitzer Foundation, St Louis; Ballroom Marfa; Contemporary Austin; Dallas Contemporary; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Zurich; Kunsthaus Baselland; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; Fondazione Prada, Venice, among other institutions.

Small Works
Founders Gallery
July 25 – August 23
RECEPTION: Aug 1, 2020

JUROR: Lena Petersen, Co-director, Carrie Haddad Gallery
SUBMIT AT WAAM Jul 20, 12-6 PM • PICKUP: Aug 24, 12-6 PM
NOTIFICATION via email Jul 22
AWARDS: Helen Gilkey Award $100
OPEN TO ARTISTS WITHIN 50 MILES OF WOODSTOCK
FEE: $35 Fee/Members Free, Size Limit 15 x 15” overall, 24” for sculpture

ABOUT THE JUROR

Lena Petersen is currently co-director of Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY, where she represents a vast array of artists from the Hudson Valley. She curates and installs seven group shows per year and works one on one with art consultants, designers, and collectors to place artists’ work in prominent and private collections. She has also gathered curatorial and gallery experience at the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase, Imogen Holloway Gallery, formerly in Saugerties, NY, The Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, and Gagosian Gallery. 

FOCUS: Magic from the Mundane
Main Gallery
Oct. 24 – Nov. 29
RECEPTION: Oct 24, 2020

JUROR: Mary-Kay Lombino, Fisher Curator and Assistant Director, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
SUBMIT ONLINE: July 23 – Aug 23
NOTIFICATION via email Sep 2
AWARDS: Harriet Tannin Award $100
OPEN TO ARTISTS WITHIN 50 MILES OF WOODSTOCK
FEE: $35 Fee/Members Free

Magic in the Mundane-“What I’m doing is actually very close to our normal way of looking at and thinking about the world. We slowly build up a whole web of associations and meanings.”–Thomas Nozkowski. Any normal, everyday object can spark an artist. Found on a walk, in a secondhand store, or an abandoned garage, the mundane, in the right hands, can grow to beauty. Artists in this show, like Nozkowski, move through their work intuitively, building slowly, step by step, a world particular and personal.

About the Juror – Mary-Kay Lombino is The Emily Hargroves Fisher ’57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator and Assistant Director of Strategic Planning at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College where she oversees the contemporary art and photography collections, exhibitions, and publications. Prior to joining the staff at Vassar she served as Curator of Exhibitions at the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach for six years and Assistant Curator at UCLA Hammer Museum for five years. She has also organized solo shows for numerous artists including Marco Maggi, Eirik Johnson, Phil Collins, Ken Price, Euan Macdonald, Bob Knox, Alice Könitz, and Mungo Thomson.

FOCUS: Magic from the Mundane
Main Gallery
Oct. 24 – Nov. 29
RECEPTION: Oct 24, 2020

JUROR: Mary-Kay Lombino, Fisher Curator and Assistant Director, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
SUBMIT ONLINE: July 23 – Aug 23
NOTIFICATION via email Sep 2
AWARDS: Harriet Tannin Award $100
OPEN TO ARTISTS WITHIN 50 MILES OF WOODSTOCK
FEE: $35 Fee/Members Free

Magic in the Mundane-“What I’m doing is actually very close to our normal way of looking at and thinking about the world. We slowly build up a whole web of associations and meanings.”–Thomas Nozkowski. Any normal, everyday object can spark an artist. Found on a walk, in a secondhand store, or an abandoned garage, the mundane, in the right hands, can grow to beauty. Artists in this show, like Nozkowski, move through their work intuitively, building slowly, step by step, a world particular and personal.

About the Juror – Mary-Kay Lombino is The Emily Hargroves Fisher ’57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator and Assistant Director of Strategic Planning at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College where she oversees the contemporary art and photography collections, exhibitions, and publications. Prior to joining the staff at Vassar she served as Curator of Exhibitions at the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach for six years and Assistant Curator at UCLA Hammer Museum for five years. She has also organized solo shows for numerous artists including Marco Maggi, Eirik Johnson, Phil Collins, Ken Price, Euan Macdonald, Bob Knox, Alice Könitz, and Mungo Thomson.

2021 Solo Show Application
OPEN FOR SUBMISSION: August 14 – September 13

One of benefits of WAAM membership is the opportunity for a one-person exhibition in our solo gallery. Artists selected for Solo Shows have the opportunity to present a focused body of work making a significant statement of the issues and aesthetics that drive their practice. Submissions to Solo Shows take place each year in September for the following year’s schedule of exhibitions. 

Applications are open to all artists within a 50 mile radius of Woodstock. There is no fee for WAAM members. Non-members pay a $40 application fee. Artists selected for a solo show must have a paid-in-full WAAM membership within 30 days of notification of their acceptance. The $40 solo show application fee can applied toward the annual WAAM membership fee.

JUROR: Mara Held, Artist, President of the Al Held Foundation
SUBMISSION FEE: Free for WAAM members, $40 for non-members. Open to artists within a 50 mile radius of Woodstock.
SUBMIT ONLINE: August 14 – September 13
NOTIFICATION: October 1, 2020

ABOUT THE JUROR

Mara Held was born in 1954 and received an MA from Immaculate Heart College in 1979. Her studio is located on a former dairy farm in the picturesque Hudson Valley that has been in her family since the 1960’s. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York City and abroad. Institutions that have collected her work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The New York Public Library; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The International Artists’ Museum, Tel Aviv; and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Mara Held’s work has been profiled by The New York Times, Elle Decor and The Brooklyn Rail.

2021 Solo Show Application
OPEN FOR SUBMISSION: August 14 – September 13

One of benefits of WAAM membership is the opportunity for a one-person exhibition in our solo gallery. Artists selected for Solo Shows have the opportunity to present a focused body of work making a significant statement of the issues and aesthetics that drive their practice. Submissions to Solo Shows take place each year in September for the following year’s schedule of exhibitions. 

Applications are open to all artists within a 50 mile radius of Woodstock. There is no fee for WAAM members. Non-members pay a $40 application fee. Artists selected for a solo show must have a paid-in-full WAAM membership within 30 days of notification of their acceptance. The $40 solo show application fee can applied toward the annual WAAM membership fee.

JUROR: Mara Held, Artist, President of the Al Held Foundation
SUBMISSION FEE: Free for WAAM members, $40 for non-members. Open to artists within a 50 mile radius of Woodstock.
SUBMIT ONLINE: August 14 – September 13
NOTIFICATION: October 1, 2020

ABOUT THE JUROR

Mara Held was born in 1954 and received an MA from Immaculate Heart College in 1979. Her studio is located on a former dairy farm in the picturesque Hudson Valley that has been in her family since the 1960’s. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York City and abroad. Institutions that have collected her work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The New York Public Library; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The International Artists’ Museum, Tel Aviv; and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Mara Held’s work has been profiled by The New York Times, Elle Decor and The Brooklyn Rail.

Small Works
Founders Gallery
Oct. 24 – Nov. 29
RECEPTION: Oct 24, 2020

JUROR: Marline A. Martin, Executive Director CREATE Council on the Arts, Greene County
SUBMIT AT WAAM: Oct 19, 12-6 PM • PICKUP: Nov 30, 12-6 PM
NOTIFICATION via email Oct 21
AWARDS: Lucile Blanch Award $100
OPEN TO ARTISTS WITHIN 50 MILES OF WOODSTOCK
FEE: $35 Fee/Members Free, Size Limit 15 x 15” overall, 24” for sculpture

ABOUT THE JUROR
Marline is an artist, arts administrator, curator, writer and storyteller.   She holds Master of Fine Arts from the City College of New York and is a 2017 recipient of Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Award, a 2012 Community Partner Award recipient from Zeta Phi Beta/Five Pearls Foundation, and a 2008 recipient of Harlem Women of Excellence Award for the Arts.  Marline is the executive director of the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for Resources to Enrich the Arts, Technology & Education and is the former executive director of LeRoy Neiman Art Center and The Children’s Art Carnival, respectively.  At CREATE, she also serves as the Visual Arts Director, curating and organizing multi-media exhibitions for artists in three counties.  She is currently working on a collection of short stories as well as a scholarly essay for publication.

Warm Wishes: Annual Holiday Show
Main Gallery
Dec 4 – Dec 27
RECEPTION: Dec 5, 2020

SUBMIT AT WAAM Nov 30, 12-6 PM
PICKUP: Dec 28, 12-6 PM

AWARDS: Sally Jacobs/Phoebe Towbin Award $500
Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award $500
Leilani Claire Award for Outstanding Photograph of the Year $100
Mary Wilson Award for Outstanding Landscape or Still Life $100, Robert Angeloch Award for Excellence in Printmaking $100
New Member Award $100

OPEN TO CURRENT WAAM MEMBERS
FEE: $10 Hanging Fee, Size Limit 26 x 26” overall, $500 Price Limit

The season of giving provides moments to celebrate the gift of creativity. For WAAM’s 2020 Holiday Show (The Gift) WAAM member artists are asked to submit works of 26 inches or less (including frame), priced at $500 or less, framed, ready to hang, and perfect for Holiday gifting.

Small Works
Founders Gallery
Dec 4 – Dec 27
RECEPTION: Dec 5, 2020

JUROR: Seth David Rubin, Professor of Photography, Ulster Community College
SUBMIT AT WAAM: Nov 30, 12-6 PM • PICKUP: Dec 28, 12-6 PM
NOTIFICATION via email DEC 2
AWARDS: Alan Koff Award $100
OPEN TO ARTISTS WITHIN 50 MILES OF WOODSTOCK
FEE: $35 Fee/Members Free, Size Limit 15 x 15” overall, 24” for sculpture

ABOUT THE JUROR:

Seth David Rubin is a freelance photographer and and teaches photography at Ulster Community College. He graduated from Bard College where he studied photography and received his Masters in Fine Arts from Yale. Rubin’s work has shown in Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Altman Siegel, San Francisco and The Photographer’s Gallery in London, England. His work can be found in  the museum collections of Addison Gallery of American Art and The Worcester Museum of Art. He was an artist in residence with the Merchant Ivory Foundation, based in Claverack, NY for 8 years. Rubin has collaborated with Academy Award-winning director James Ivory on many projects including a Ballet/Opera in Florence, Italy where Rubin designed the sets.  He has worked with Merchant Ivory Films as a photographer and digital imagist for the past 20 years.