NEW PALTZ, N.Y. As the Unison Arts & Learning Center enters 2024, it will prepare to move from its longtime home on Mountain Rest Road to a new location at 9 Paradies Lane just off state Route 299 near the state Thruway. Unison Arts Executive Director Faheem Haider expects them to complete the move […]
NADA x Foreland will run over Upstate Art Weekend, August 28-29. Just a year ago, all socializing was plagued by a sense of tension and restraint. A peculiar and off-putting air of emotional distance accompanied the social distance mandated by health agencies. Gatherings were safest outdoors, and we were forced to accessorize with masks a constant reminder of the bleak state of the world. A year later, in-person events have fully resumed and we cautiously lower our masks to reveal hopeful smiles. With the financial gauntlet that the pandemic thrust upon small businesses, it seems a pretty reliable indicator of our creeping return toward normalcy that new places have begun to open up. Here in the Hudson Valley, a handful of galleries have opened in the past year, adding to the curatorial shaping the the region going forward.