ARTISTS

Ben Kujawski

Ben Kujawski is a filmmaker, musician, and photographer from Long Island, NY. Having lived on both coasts and in the southwest, his work examines themes of blue collar life in the northeast and the American desert as a place of unchecked freedom. He has shown at the Museum of the Moving Image, Pace Gallery, and The Woodstock Film Festival. Ben is a co-founder of No Name Cinema in Santa Fe, NM. He lives and works in upstate New York.

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”Wild Minds @ Second Ward Foundation”
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bIBIANA hUANG MATHEIS

Bibiana Huang Matheis is an artist, fine arts photographer and curator whose studio is located in Pawling, New York. She studied at the Corcoran School of Art and at the Maryland College of Art and Design, and has been active as an artist since the late 1970s. Bibiana has been involved in a variety of projects ranging from mixed media art installations to performance art. She has conceived and curated major exhibits. Most recently she was honored as recipient of the 2014 Dutchess County Executive Arts Award – Individual Artist – selected in collaboration with Arts Mid-Hudson to recognize outstanding people in the arts. In 2015 she was named in the Top 50 Outstanding Artists in Westchester County, New York by ArtsWestchester on the occasion of their 50th Anniversary. The organization recognized 50 visual artists, writer, musicians and dancers with this prestigious arts award.

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”Spotlight @ Window On Hudson”
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Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most influential artists of the second part of the twentieth century. Her pioneering work in a range of media—painting, film, video, dance and performance, installations, and the written word—is characterized by radical formal experimentation and critical investigations of subjectivity, the erotic and taboo, images of atrocity, and the social construction of the female body. Schneemann received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois. Originally a painter in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Schneemann was uninterested in the masculine heroism of New York painters of the time and turned to performance-based work. Although renowned for her work in performance and other media, Schneemann began her career as a painter, stating, “I’m a painter. I’m still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.” Schneemann has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications throughout her six-decade career, including the retrospective Carolee Schnemann: Body Politics at the Barbican Art Gallery, London (2022–2023) and Carolee Schnemann: Kinetic Painting, presented at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in 2015–2016, the Museum für modern Kunst, Frankfurt, in 2017, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2017–2018. Her work has been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; Tate Modern, London; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, among others. Schneemann is represented by PPOW Gallery, New York. Film and video retrospectives have been held internationally, including at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Film Theatre, London; and Whitney Museum, New York. Recent publications include the book of interviews, From Here and Beyond (Kunsthalle Winterthur, 2022); a book of her early writings, Uncollected Texts (Primary Information, 2018); and the monograph Unforgivable (Black Dog, 2015). Schneemann holds Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from the California Institute of the Arts and the Maine College of Art and, in 2017, was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Biennale.

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”Wild Minds @ Second Ward Foundation”
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Charlotte Stickles

Charlotte Stickles is an interdisciplinary movement artist, performer, and educator with an inquiry around how dance lives beyond its more traditional western performance and pedagogical settings. She has been featured in film and music videos, collaborated with choreographers and playwrights on virtual and physical performance works, and presented her own performance and print work in galleries, public spaces, and on screens. Charlotte graduated from the Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance and is currently based in Hudson, NY.

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”moving theory - dance in hudson” @ Sadhana
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dOLWAIN gREEN

Dolwain Green was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and moved to Hudson, New York when he was 12 years old. After graduating from Hudson High School he attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (PENN), which he did from 1977 – 81. Prior to completing his bachelor’s degree, he took time off to travel, met his wife, Suzanne, and transferred to Cal State University San Marcos in San Diego. There he completed his bachelor’s degree in Cultural History with additional emphasis in Education and Technology. The focus of his degree was on the migration paths of people of African descent from Africa throughout the Caribbean and United States.Dolwain discovered his interest in photography while completing his bachelor’s degree, working on a project to document his study of seasonal migrant farm workers who came from Jamaica to various locations throughout the US. His father was one of those migrant farm workers. Although he enjoys capturing a variety of subjects, his primary photographic interests are of natural formations, landscapes, animal life and urban scenes. Images that depict cultural stories are of special interest to Dolwain.

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”Dolwain Green: Near & Far @ Hudson Area Library”
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Erica Schreiner

Erica Schreiner is an experimental VHS video/performance artist and writer. Based in New York City, Erica's work spans 20 years and has been on display at MoMA, MoMA PS1, Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, Bill Hodges Gallery in NYC and SHOWstudio in London. Erica creates allegorical, ethereal worlds that combine feminist and anarchistic themes, ritual and sensuality, employing her clearly defined style. www.ericaschreiner.com

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”Wild Minds @ Second Ward Foundation”
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FRUTE

Atlanta spawned from family and friends. Female-fronted and five guys backed, six members stir up a synthesis of sounds that are sure to make your nervous system feel something. Make you wanna dance, shake those hips, bob your head, move your arms, shake it off. It’s groove music mixed with move music, a unique brand of jam-based post pop psychedelic rock. Frute loves to play music.

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”FRUTE and Dodongo” @ Park Theater Hudson
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Hana van Der Kolk

I am a queer dancer, artist, and ritual, embodied learning, and celebration facilitator living on unceded Mohican, Mohawk, and Haudenosaunee lands, colonially known as the Hudson Valley, New York. I am made by these lands, the lands of Massachusetts, Vermont, and California, and the low lands of the Netherlands, where both my parents and all of my grandparents are from. I am committed to understanding the past as best we can together, and to everything from here on out being work with the intention for the mutual thriving of all life. I am provoked by a dedication to care, contradiction, reckoning and reparations, joy/grief, eros, and humans’ porous, interconnected, and messy natures. I spend time looking for and creating bridges through pedagogy, performance, language, celebration, and personal and collective restoration and transformation. In this process I create performances, organize events, design and lead workshops, offer one-on-one counseling & sex and gender expansion work, write, and make videos, gifts, talismans, and environments for (re)enchantment. I see my work—which is always collaborative—as a conduit for knowing/unknowing what is here and now, for remembering and practicing intimacy at many proximities.

**Contextual Programming:**
”moving theory - dance in hudson” @ Sadhana
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James Autery

James Autery began photographing and printing in the darkroom in high school. He attended the University of Missouri-Columbia to study photojournalism, becoming a finalist in the Gordon Parks International Photo Competition in 2006. After dropping out of college, he started documenting train hoppers and living that lifestyle for two years. In 2014 he became a full-time freelance photographer and video artist and made a mini documentary with the organization Project Prakash on their work studying the ability of prediction among children with autism. In 2017 he started filming for TIME. In 2018 he exhibited alongside Carolee Schneemann for the Hudson Winter Walk and filmed her in 2019. He has had exhibitions with Tanja Grunert Gallery, Second Ward Foundation, Film Makers Cooperative, Areté Venue and Gallery, Next to Nothing, Hudson Eye, Hudson Hall, Minneapolis Photo Center, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, and has had work listed on Paddle8. He has been an artist in residence with Second Ward Foundation for 3 years in which he completed a 46 minute film, Mantra, an experimental documentary about the meditation of making art. He has been granted the NYSCA Electronic Media/Film fund in partnership with Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund program. He was also a recipient of the Baer Faxt 2020 artist relief fund.

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”Wild Minds @ Second Ward Foundation”
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Mimi Czajka Graminski

Mimi Czajka Graminski is a multi-disciplinary artist working in a variety of media - sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, video. Her work is wide ranging, and is consistently based in the exploration of materials, light and color.
*https://www.mimigraminski.com/about*

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”Spotlight @ Window On Hudson”
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MM Serra

MM Serra is an experimental filmmaker, curator, film archivist, author, and the Executive Director of Film-Makers' Cooperative, the world's oldest and largest archive of independent media until March 2023. She was awarded the Emily Harvey Foundation Venice Residency (in 2023) to create a film titled “Liquid Landscapes”. On May 27, 2023 at Millennium Film Workshop she had a retrospective of her films. On March 21, 2024, Society of Cinema and Media Studies organized a roundtable tribute titled “A Celebration & Reflection on Filmmaker, Curator MM Serra’s 30+ years as Executive Director of Film-Makers’ Cooperative.” Serra was awarded a New Year State Council on the Arts individual arts grant in 2024 to focus on NYC community gardens and urban ecosystems.

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”Wild Minds @ Second Ward Foundation”
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Raymond Pinto

Raymond is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and writer. Their practice focuses on improvisation and visualization through embodied techniques. They're a graduate of the Juilliard School and NYU. Since reconnecting with Jonah Boaker, their collaboration converges on aspects related to one's purpose and discovery of the ways in which dancing presents possibilities of liberation. Where form frees from being bound to meridians flowing through poles; banking between dynamic states of being.

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”Hudson Tea Dance” with DJ Pure Xtra
LGBTQIA+ Gathering
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