Transforming Collage: Hudson Valley
The Exhibition Program of Making Meaning Symposium
Transforming Collage: Hudson Valley is a series of exhibitions presented in conjunction with the Making Meaning symposium. Featuring regional and national artists, the program expands our understanding of collage through curatorial approaches, historical inquiry, and contemporary artistic practice across institutions and independent spaces throughout the Hudson Valley.
All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Vassar College
Hudson Valley
Shapeshifters: Collage to Form
Palmer Gallery, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
JULY 2 – AUGUST 8, 2026
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An exhibition exploring the intersection of image and object in contemporary collage, curated by Andrea Burgay and Monica Church.
Exhibiting Artists: Yura Adams, Craig Auge, Edgard Barbosa, Karlos Cárcamo, Jordanna Kalman, Allison Owen, ransome, Sylvan Robinson
James W. Palmer III Gallery
College Center, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dates: July 2 - August 8
Reception: Thursday, July 23, 5–7 pm
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday, 8:30 am–5 pm
Image: Alison Owen, Split Flower Jar, collage, stoneware, and found frame
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Uncollage—Seamless Unison, curated by Todd Bartel, is the world-premiere exhibition introducing the neologism “Uncollage” into the lexicon of Collage practices. Uncollage—Seamless Unison showcases fused imagery across a wide range of media, examining the differences between physical gluing, immaterial gluing, and intellectual coupling.
Exhibiting Artists: Fern Apfel, Roma Bartel, Brian Bishop, Julie Blankenship, Rowan Buffington, Laura Christensen, Will Close, Fran Forman, Leslie Fry, Ginnie Gardiner, Julie Heffernan, Budd Hopkins, Joann, Bo Joseph, Max Labelle, Darryl Lauster, D. Dominick Lombardi, Ruth Marten, Jack Massey, Talin Megherian, Michael Oatman, Justin Richel, Samplerman (Yvan Guillo), Jamie Scott, Wendy Seller, Denise Shaw, Leo Sousa, Amy Talluto, Maggie Taylor, Máximo Tuja (Max-o-matic), Jerry Uelsmann
Washington Gallery
Dutchess Community College
1 Gallery Circle
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dates: June 29–July 31
Reception: Friday, July 24, 3–6 pm
Artist Talk: 4 pm
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Thursday, 9 am–5 pm
Meaning Matters
The Making Meaning Participants Exhibition
Old Bookstore Gallery
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
JULY 10 – JULY 24, 2026
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Curated by collage artist, Rosanne Walsh, Meaning Matters is a celebration of discernment. The keen perception and intellectual skill of sifting through, and combining worldly debris to make connections to the collective unconscious through artistry, goes far beyond cutting and pasting. This exhibit displays the personal or universal meaning that inspires or is born through the work of all collage artists attending the Making Meaning Collage Symposium
Old Bookstore Gallery
College Center, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dates: July 10–24
Reception: Thursday, July 23, 6–8 pm
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday, 8:30 am–7 pmImage: Rosanne Walsh, Biologicals, Collage on Paper
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This exhibition brings together five artists whose collage-based practices investigate place, memory, and materiality. Through acts of collecting, layering, cutting, weaving, stitching, and assembling, fragments of the physical world are transformed into works that navigate both earthly and psychological terrain.
Exhibiting Artists: Laura Cannamela, Monica Church, Elisa Lendvay, Susan Newmark, Barbara Todd
Curator: Sharon Bates
Millbrook Arts Project
3 Friendly Lane
Millbrook, NY
Dates: July 6–August 22
Reception: Friday, July 10, 6–8 pm
Gallery Hours:
Monday & Friday, 12 pm–6 pm
Tuesday & Thursday, 10 am–6 pm
Wednesday, 12 pm–8 pm
Saturday, 10 am–4 pmImage: Laura Cannamela
Works from the Collection
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
MAY 11 – SEPTEMBER 14, 2026
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The Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, will present an installation of works on paper from the permanent collection and Vassar's Special Collections paying homage to collage as a key technique of modernist art, as well as the work of curator and art historian Margaret Miller (Vassar class of 1934), who organized the 1948 exhibition Collage at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA). The exhibition included works by Hans Arp, Joseph Cornell, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, and Robert Motherwell. Works from the Loeb’s collection will represent these artists through collage and other mediums that reference collage practices, alongside photographs and archival materials related to the MoMA exhibition.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dates: May 11–Sept 14
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday–Sunday, 10 am–5 pm
Thursday Nights, 5 pm–7 pm
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68 Prince St presents an exhibition expanding the definition of collage, curated by Alan Goolman.
Exhibiting Artists: Fern Apfel, Elizabeth Brandt, Joanne Brockley, Andrea Burgay, Saul Chernick, Monica Church, Mike Cockrill, Susan Spencer Crowe, Jenne Currie, Colin Devine, Josh Dorman, Jeanne Feinberg, Joan Ffolliott, Sally Frank, Deborah Freedman, Ginnie Gardner, Laura Hart, David Hornung , Beth Humphrey, Ellen Jouret-Epstein, Ellen Kozak, Carole Kunstadt, Nancy Lasar, Annie Lewis, Ann Morris, Doug Navarra, Stephen Niccolls, Denise Oehl, Robert Oehl, Robert Ohnigian, Hearne Pardee, Tracy Phillips, David Pollack, Robin Reynolds, Stephen Reynolds, Sussana Ronner, Ed Rothfarb, Karen Shaw (Estate), Sarah Z. Short, D. Jack Soloman, Buzz Spector, Lynne Tobin, Marianne Van Lent, Mark Van Wagner, Robert Voights, Pamela J. Wallace, Mimi Young, Monica Zarzeczna
68 Prince Street Gallery
68 Prince Street
Kingston, NY
Dates: June 13–July 12
Reception: Saturday, June 13, 5–8 pm
Gallery Hours:
Friday, 12–5 pm
Saturday, 11 am–6 pm
Sunday, 12 pm–5 pmImage: David Hornung, Prodigy
Selections from the Postcard Collective 2019-2026
Vassar College Art Library
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
JULY 9 – OCTOBER 18, 2026
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Given the unfortunate decline of the United States Postal Service, this mail art exhibition honors an exchange that faces extinction due to the high cost of postage and increasing restrictions on what or how things can be mailed. Curator Monica Church has been a participating member of the Tucson, Arizona-based Postcard Collective’s seasonal exchanges since the Fall of 2019, one of a crossover of collage artists who also create works to be sent and received via the mail.
The exhibition shares a selection of postcards from exchanges including works by Allan Bealy, Laura Blakeslee, Cheryl Chudyk, Craig Davidson, Emily Denlinger, Camden Hardy, Amelia Morris, Wolfgang Lexington, Stephen Tomasko, Billy Renkl, Leah Swenson, and more.
Vassar College Art Library
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dates: July 9–October 18
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday, 8:30 am–4:30 pmImage: Amelia Morris, Collage Leftovers, 4th Grade, Chapelwood Elementary, Indianapolis, Indiana; The Postcard Collective: Incomplete Ratio, Fall 2024
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This exhibition of young and emerging artists working in collage, features William PK Carter, and is curated by Paola Bari. Other artists in the exhibition are: Todd Bartel, Debbie Broshi, Hwa Young Caruso, Randi Chalfin, Joseph Eschenberg, Sally Frank, Antonio Ingenito, Esme Jablonsky, Sidney Mauck, John Norris, Laurie Peek, Beth Tolmach, Gaetano Rizzi
Hallway Art Space
40 Cannon St
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dates: July 1–July 26
Reception: Sunday, July 12, 2–4 pm
Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday, 9 am–4 pm
Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–7 pm
and by appointment
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ZK creates portraits of everyday people, sports people, animals and fictional folks.
He will be showing his work alongside Sean Hemmerle’s exhibition, Basketball Stories. A photography series of basketball hoops from around the world.
CONVEY/ER/OR
299 Main St
Poughkeepsie, NY
Reception: Saturday, July 11, 4–6 pm
Gallery Hours:
Sundays, 12 pm–2 pm
Friday, July 24, 12–6 pm
and by appointment (message @conveyeror on Instagram or text 917-334-5357)
Image: ZK Truth, Fast Break, collage made from magazine and newspaper clippings, 12" x 12"
His Master’s Vision: A Still Film by Michael Oatman
Hudson Valley Office Furniture Window Gallery
Poughkeepsie, NY
JULY 9 – AUGUST 29, 2026
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His Master’s Vision is a 2026 installation designed for streetside viewing in the former Hudson Valley Office Furniture (HVOF) building in downtown Poughkeepsie. Utilizing over 1,000 glass lantern slides made between 1890 and 1930, it is a visual time capsule of one man’s global travels.
Produced by Owen D. Young—the founder of RCA Corporation—the images represent his “grand tour” of Europe, the Holy Land and various locations around New York State. The slides are a singular glimpse into the life of an early tech billionaire: in a sense, the Elon Musk or Bill Gates of his era.
The installation utilizes both the physical material and a video made from scans of the historic lantern slides. Curiously, about 60 of the slides have fused together during nearly 100 years in storage, resulting in overlaid pictures, much like a dissolve film edit. In that sense, the collision of images echoes the early collages of Hannah Höch, John Heartfield and Max Ernst.
Hudson Valley Office Furniture Window Gallery
375 Main St
Poughkeepsie, NY
Dates: July 9–August 2
On view:
24 hours a day, 7 days a week