Lightforms Art Center

Free Columbia is crowd funding !!!! and you can help us, thanks in advance !

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Summer courses in Philmont!

I am thinking of the world in this advent time and wondering what I can bring? So I decided to teach an online webinar on the Gospel of John so that through drawing we can experience this sacred text. It will run for 22 weeks and we will do one chapter each week. Jan 3 through May 29. Wednesdays at 1pm New York time. more info at https://www.freecolumbia.org/online-classes
sliding scale, all are welcome!

Jen Zimberg will sing at Lightforms Art Center 3 times !!! Come follow the creation of music ! The first concert is this Saturday, September 2.

"Fire Pond" song release Bridging divides in a time of polarization

"Winging It- angels and other states of being" opens Friday at Lightforms Art Center

Urban First Aide at Lightforms April 1 and 2

An evening of original music with Séamus and Meaghan.

Friday February 18, 7:30pm
at Lightforms Art Center
743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY
Meaghan Witri and Séamus Maynard have been playing and writing music together for 10 years. They have traveled sharing music, leading community singing workshops and continuing to perform their original songs in living rooms, dive bars, on stages, at inner development and meditation workshops, and festivals. Their music, while rooted in the folk idiom, draws on jazz, classical and sacred/spiritual music influences.

Join us at Lightforms on Friday Evening for an inspiring evening of music.
Suggested donation sliding scale $5-25

Loki’s Next Hip Hop Session February 12, 5-7pm will focus on LOVE
Everyone is welcome ! 743 Columbia St, Hudson

Loki will be hosting sessions that explore the history and specific cultural elements of Hip Hop. Each workshop will include a time for sharing our personal and professional experiences, while highlighting our local talents with demos and recorded interviews. We’ll also discuss the different ways Hip Hop has had an impact locally and on the world over the years.
For more info, contact: Loki 239-810-0534

Its cold and snowy outside but Lightforms is a nice place to come and paint!

Saturdays 5-7pm Loki will be hosting sessions that explore the history and specific cultural elements of Hip Hop. Each workshop will include a time for sharing our personal and professional experiences, while highlighting our local talents with demos and recorded interviews. We’ll also discuss the different ways Hip Hop has had an impact locally and on the world over the years.
For more info, contact: Loki 239-810-0534

Lightforms Art Center 743 Columbia Street, Hudson
Hours: Fridays 3-7, Sat/Sun 11:30-5
Exhibit and Art Dispersal Jan 21-Feb 27
Red Thread is progressing ! You are invited to visit often and see how this piece is deveoping and add something into the painting yourself, materials provided.

Come experience painting in the midst of an art gallery !

All paintings in this exhibit will be dispersed in an Art Dispersal on Friday/Saturday/Sunday February 25-27.
Laura Summer [email protected] 518 653 2350.

Red Thread is an interactive community painting experience devoted to relationship. Come help us create it.

Our new show is open starting at 3pm today. No formal opening but Laura Summer will be here most open hours: Fridays 3-7, Saturday/Sunday 11:30-5.

In 2020 I finished 12 paintings in relation to the poetry of Hafiz. I wondered what I would do next. I am interested in questions of contemporary religious or spiritually concerned art. In our world, that is so dedicated to materialism and art as commodity, how can art speak of inner experiences in a way that feels relevant to our time? The poetry of Mary Szybist does this for me. The poems that I used explore the spiritual as it finds its way into the material. What are the aspects of this annunciation? Is it an act between a god and the woman? How does the grass feel under the woman’s knees? Does it have the mood of a garden party or of pain? I am deeply grateful for the year of working with these poems as a painter. They have opened doors for me into the reality of being permeated by the Spirit.

- Laura Summer, Winter 2022

This exhibit will hang at Lightforms Art Center from January 21st to February 26. All paintings in this exhibit will be dispersed in an Art Dispersal on February 25-27. If you wish to reserve a piece you may do so by contacting Laura Summer [email protected] 518 653 2350.