Open Studios
Margaret McCann and Austin Ballard
11 Apr. 2026 | 1-4pm | Free
Join us for open studios with our current Artists in Residence Margaret McCann of the Art Student League and Austin Ballard. Peak into their studios and chat with them about their practice.
The Art Students League of New York was founded in 1875 by a group of art students who hoped to escape the Academy by founding a member-run art school designed for and run by independent artists. For nearly 150 years, the Art Students League of New York has been a haven for countless artists, who use the freedom it affords them to explore diverse artistic practices, methodologies, and mediums while developing a mastery of traditional techniques.
Love in the Archive Film Series
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
A film by Marie Losier
24 Apr. 2026 | 6pm | RSVP Required
FREE for members | $10 for non-members
A portrait of counterculture icon Genesis P-Orridge and the controversial impact they had on music, art, and performance focusing on their Pandrogyny project – an ongoing examination of identity and gender in which Genesis and their life partner Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge undertake a series of body modifications to become more visually similar in appearance in an attempt to create a conceptual third being.
This film will be presented by Megan Meadowlark, Associate Director of Visual Arts Programming at ArtsWestchester.
Wellness
Sound Bath
with Dayna
1 May 2026 | 6-7pm
$35 | Member discounts* | RSVP required
This monthly Sound Healing experience is an invitation into deep rest, ritual and reconnection through presence, intention and vibration. This experience offers a slow, spacious return to the body and the opportunity to reconnect to the practice of deep listening.
Dayna, an Emergency Room Nurse and Sound Practitioner devoted to creating spaces where rest feels safe, sacred, and shared. Her work weaves sound, breath and somatics to promote nervous system regulation and deep relaxation. She believes rest is a form of resistance in a world that prioritizes productivity and she is honored to hold this space for you to slow down and reconnect to your own natural rhythm.
Snacks and drinks included.
*Discounts for Supporter level members and above apply.
Music Performance
Westchester Jazz Alliance Quartet
17 May 2026 | 3pm
$20 | Member discounts* | RSVP required
The Westchester Jazz Alliance Quartet is a premier jazz quartet that includes Charley Krachy, sax, Dave Frank, piano, Joe Solomon, bass, and Takashi Inoue, drums. Two of the members were closely associated with the legendary jazz pianist/educator, Lennie Tristano. The mission of the Westchester Jazz Alliance and WAJQ is, through education, performances, and jazz parties, to increase awareness, participation, and enjoyment of jazz in the New York area and beyond.
About Charley Krachy
A native son of Verplanck, Charley left at age 17 to join the US Navy. Charley has been playing the saxophone since the age of 10 and professionally for the last 35 years. During this time, he has performed at venues throughout New York - including Birdland and the Blue Note with jazz greats Ted Brown, Connie Crothers, Virg Dzurinko, Kazzrie Jaxen, Roger Mancuso, and Ratzo Harris. In 2016 Charley performed with the Kazzrie Jaxen Quartet at Lincoln Center. Charley has also performed in Stockholm, and Uppsala Sweden with Swedish pianist Boel Dirke and Guitarist Andy Fite.
*Discounts for Supporter level members and above apply.
Love in the Archive Film Series
Films from the Fluxus Archives
29 May 2026 | 6pm | RSVP Required
FREE for members | $10 for non-members
Alison Knowles (b. 1933-2025) was an American visual artist, poet, and founding member of Fluxus. The Fluxus group ethos sought to disassemble traditional barriers between art forms, while rejecting the exclusivity of the art world in favor of art as an open and participatory experience accessible to all.
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus is an unconventional video portrait of the Fluxus movement, produced largely in Venice at the 1990 reunion, when many of the original Fluxus artists met for a major exhibition in connection with the Biennale, almost thirty years after the first iconoclastic Fluxus concerts were held in cities around the world. This portrait includes interviews with leading Fluxus artists, including Alison Knowles and Yoko Ono, plus documentation of their works, and historic archival footage from thirty years of groundbreaking performances, films, and video tapes.
“Topless Cellist” Charlotte Moorman is Nam June Paik's heartfelt tribute to his long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman. This portrait traces Moorman's career as an avant-garde performer, from her classical training to her notorious arrest as the "Topless Cellist" and subsequent talk-show celebrity. Rare documentations of Moorman's performances include Otto Piene's Sky Kiss and Jim McWilliams' Chocolate Cello. Interviews with Moorman's friends, family and collaborators, such as Yoko Ono, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Otto Piene, and Barbara Moore, among others, provide intimate recollections of the inimitable Moorman.
2026 Upstate Art Weekend
Upstate Art Weekend at KinoSaito
25-29 Jun. 2026 | 10-5pm
We are excited to share our participation in the sixth edition of Upstate Art Weekend, June 25-29, 2026! Over 155 cultural organizations will participate in this year’s edition, celebrating art and culture in the Catskills Mountains and Hudson Valley.
Music Performance
Cello Echoes with Helen Gillet & My Pal Foot Foot
27 Jun. 2026 | Time TBA
Free | RSVP required
This performance is a part of Upstate Art Weekend.
Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello and her right foot nicknamed My Pal Foot Foot as live looping producer.
Gillet was raised in Belgium, Singapore, Chicago, Wisconsin and has lived in New Orleans for 23 years and counting. Her prolific career has won her awards of Offbeat Best of the Beat, Gambit Big Easy Awards, featured artist at the New Orleans Jazz Museum and has been nominated three times as a rising star in Downbeat Magazine's Critics Poll. She has played, recorded with many musicians over the past 20 years, including members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, AACM (Chicago), ICP (Holland), Members of Morphine, Kidd Jordan, Marianne Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, Steve Earle, Iron & Wine (North America Tour 2018), Zachary Richard, opened up as a solo artist for Les Claypool at the Orpheum Theatre in New Orleans in 2003 and Jeff Tweedy at Lincoln Center in 2019. She has performed at a variety of festivals and venues worldwide including the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Dark MOFO Festival in Tasmania, Darwin World Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, New Direction Cello Society Festival at Berkeley College of Music, Kennedy Center and at The Big Ears Music Festival in 2024.