Greetings Saugerties Artists and Creatives!
We’re welcomg Fall in Saugerties!
Are you creating, crafting, performing, or dreaming up something new? Make sure you’re listed in our Artist Directory—a growing hub for local talent to be discovered, supported, and connected. Add yourself today: https://www.saugertiesarts.org/artist-directory
We’re also seeking enthusiastic volunteers and board members (Events Committee and Treasurer) to help grow and energize our arts community. If you're interested in contributing your skills and passion, email us at arts@saugertiesarts.org for more information.
As we move forward, we’re reminded just how vibrant and essential the arts are to Saugerties. There is so much to celebrate—and even more to look forward to. Here’s to a season of inspiration, collaboration, and community. We can’t wait to see what we create together next.
Want to get involved? Email us!
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Want to get involved? Email us! | arts@saugerties.org |
Events & Arts Organizations:
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Saturday September 19th, 2 PM
Estuary Tales: The Life & Times of the Hudson River
Celebrate National Estuaries Week with a special performance by Arm-of-the-Sea Theater! Adults $15, kids $7. Tickets available at www.armofthesea.org
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Dialogue for the Ear and Eye: A Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
9W Diner, 3 Simmons Plaza, SaugertiesSpecial guests this month are: writer Rik Letendre, visual artist Susanna Ronner, percussionist Tani Tabbal. Guests present their work for about twenty minutes each, followed by an open discussion/Q&A. There is an open mic sign up with a three artist maximum and strict three minute limit per artist.
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Thursday, September 17, 6:00 PM
Poetry Caravan
Will Nixon & Patrick Hammer, Jr. with Robert LangdonPlease join us as poet, writer, and publisher of Bushwhack Books, Will Nixon, and poet and author of Saugerties Local, Patrick Hammer, Jr., bring their Poetry Caravan to Inquiring Minds.
They will be joined by Robert Langdon, author of the new poetry collection, Yard Dogs & Broken Birds. Each will read 15 minutes and then those in the audience may read in the Open Reading that will follow.
Patrick Hammer, Jr. lives in the Village of Saugerties where he co-leads the Blue Stone Poets and Jane Street Poets workshops. He facilitates, with Robert Langdon, the last Thursday of the month Open Reading at 6:30 pm at Inquiring Minds in Saugerties. His latest collection of poems is Saugerties Local which will be available, along with other publications, on the night of the reading, or from him directly by contacting him at Phammer82@ Yahoo.com.
Will Nixon’s most recent poetry collection is If Not in Heaven, Then in Saugerties, a town portrait in poems and a sequel of sorts to Acrostic Woodstock, published a decade ago. His other poetry books are My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse and Love in the City of Grudges. As the publisher of Bushwhack Books, he has released a number of local titles in the past few years, including Crossing Divides: My Journey to Standing Rock, by the late Vernon Benjamin. Will Nixon now writes a weekly column, "Against the Grain," for the Kingston Wire.
Robert P. Langdon has been writing poetry since his teen years and is the co-founder of Blue Stone Poets. He reads his work around the Hudson Valley, is a member of the Woodstock Poetry Society and has published a collection of his work, The Candied Road Ahead in 2013. His latest collection Yard Dogs and Broken Birds was published in 2026.
Wednesday, September 23, 6:00 PM
Main Street to Mainframes
Harvey K. Flad with Richard Ocejo
& Leonard NevarezJoin us as we celebrate the new edition of Harvey K. Flad’s landmark book Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie. Dr. Flad will be joined by Richard Ocejo, author of Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City, and Vassar Professor Leonard Nevarez for a conversation about urban, economic, and social history in the Hudson Valley.
Harvey K. Flad is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Vassar College. His recent publications include essays on the preservation of historic and cultural landscapes and the history of artists and landscape designers in the Hudson Valley. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Richard E. Ocejo is professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. In addition to Sixty Miles Upriver, he is the author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy and Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City (both from Princeton University Press).
Leonard Nevarez is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Urban Studies Program. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and joined Vassar’s Sociology Department in 1999. An urban sociologist by training, his research examines how markets and their cultures transform places, formal organizations, and labor reproduction. Currently, he is co-editing a forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Urban Sociology.
Thursday, September 24 6:30-8 PM
Poetry Night with the Bluestone Poets
Last Thirsday of every month. Poetry open mic. Each reader will have 6 mins to share their work. -
SECOND NATURE - Iain Machell
This exhibition takes place from September 19 - October 24, 2026Opening Reception September 19, 4-6 PM
Artist talk: September 26, 1-2 PM
All my work begins with observation from nature. I want to know what lies behind the forms and textures –the marks of time and experience written into everything from fossils and rock formations to plants and trees.My drawings and sculptures are partners in crime and dancing partners. Drawing involves investigative mark-making and sculpture is a form of physical thinking. The combination is a material proposition that invites you to look at the world in a completely different way, to escape words and communicate in a physical way.
Rather than working realistically, I'd rather look beneath the surface to observe raw energy and a struggle. The forces of growth and decay, pressure, time, and adverse human influences work their way into the tension between 2D and 3D. I don’t want to imitate nature, I would rather interrogate it. - Iain Machell 2026
Gallery Hours: Thurs/Sun - 12-5pm, Fri/Sat - 12-6pm -
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Opus 40
356 George Sickle Rd. SaugertiesEarth is Our Home – A Conversation Series
Fridays, September 4, 11, & 18, 2026, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Purchase ticketsThe Art of Noticing: Walk, Wonder, & Watercolor
Saturday, September 12, 2026, 10:30 AM - 12 PM
Purchase ticketsAutumnal Equinox Sound Bath with Alex and Christine Beckman
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Purchase ticketsPerformances
Primal Disco with Michael V
Saturday, September 5, 2026, 6 - 10 PM
Purchase ticketsWorkshops and Nature Walks
Indigenous History Walk: A Glimpse into the Past with Justin Wexler
Sunday, September 13, 2026, 10:30 AM - 12 PM
Purchase ticketsGeology Walk with Dr. Robert Titus
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 10:30 AM - 12 PM
Purchase ticketsFall Wild Harvest:Sharing Mother Nature's Bounty Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk with Dina Falconi
Sunday, September 27, 2026, 11 AM - 1 PM
Purchase ticketsWellness Classes
Sunset Sound Baths with Matia of Above & Within
Friday, September 4, 2026, 7 - 8 PM
Purchase ticketsSaturday Yoga with Shakti Yoga
Saturday, September 5, 2026, 9:30 - 10:30 AM
Purchase ticketsQigong with Jill Ann Schwartz
Sunday, September 6, 2026, 9:30 - 10:30 AM
Purchase ticketsOutdoor Mindfulness: Opus 40 as an embodied experience with Susan West Montgomery
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 1:30 - 3 PM
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August 8 & 9, 2026, 10 am - 6 pm
Private artists’ studios throughout the village and town of Saugerties
This year’s tour will feature 46 artists who are eager to welcome you into their private studios where you will see completed work and works in progress in a wide array of mediums and styles. Whatever your interest, the tour has something for you – painters working in oils, acrylics, watercolors and inks, as well as with digital tools; collage makers and printmakers, photographers; and, sculptors working in steel or industrial debris and found objects, or ceramic artists whose work ranges from figurative to functional with a bit of funk thrown in for good measure. Any and all materials can be transformed into artfully created pieces, such as handcrafted furniture and home accessories made with high quality hardwoods as well as vintage barn wood. And, of course, mixed media artists that like to mix-it-up as well as art created from cast glass and light. Let the Saugerties Artists Studio Tour make you a collector of the finest art produced in Saugerties by Saugerties artists.No fee, no registration required. Free and open to the public. Maps available around Saugerties and on the website
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Saugerties Farmers Market
Every Saturday through October 31. 2026
115 Main Street, Saugerties
Kids Art Corner every Saturday with a special hands-on kids arts and crafts program created each week by the artist, Anita Barbour. Live local music to listen and dance to each week programmed by Danielle DeCicco. All events are free. Come to get fresh and local food good for your taste and your health! Support local farmers, bakers, and makers.cription
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Tekalli Duo (Piano/Violin) perform Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Bernstein, and more!
September 20, 2026, 3 pm
Saugerties United Methodist Church, 67 Washington Ave
The international multi-competition winning violinist Suliman Tekalli, an exciting and versatile concert soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, along with his sister, Jamila Tekalli, a pianist hailed for her delightful and warm performances played with immediacy and conviction, will perform again on our stage on September 20, 2026. Duo performances with her brother and violinist, Suliman Tekalli, have taken Jamila Tekalli throughout Libya in 2010 as an American Cultural Ambassador, promoting musical and cultural exchange through the U.S. Embassy, and concerts at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts (Chicago), Concert Artist Guild (New York), and with the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), before returning to Saugerties.Together, on September 20, at 3 p.m., they’ll perform two violin sonatas: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 5, Op. 24, and Saint-Saëns’ “Spring”: Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75. In addition, pieces by Korngold and Barber will be included as well as Songs from West Side Story by Bernstein as interpreted by Tekalli. These are world-class musicians performing a free concert in a familiar venue for their Saugerties friends and chamber music lovers. Please join us at 67 Washington Ave (Saugerties United Methodist Church).
The concert is free. Donations are accepted. Seating begins at 2:30. There will be a “Meet the Musicians” reception following the performance with free coffee and refreshments. The church is wheelchair accessible and a very comfortable concert venue. Saugerties Pro Musica is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit solely supported by contributions from local businesses, grants, and you, our listening audience.
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Saugerties Public Library
91 Washington Ave. Saugerties, NYMonday September 14, 2026, 6 PM
Eric Roth - Classical GuitarTuesday, September 22, 2026, 5:30 pm
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11 Jane St, Suite A, Saugerties
11 Jane St, Suite A, Saugerties
The Salt: An Abstract Exhibit by ransome
This exhibition takes place from September 19 - October 24, 2026Opening reception: Saturday, September 19, 4-6 PM
Artist talk: Saturday, October 10, 1-2 PM
My artwork centers on my African-American lineage, which is traced back to sharecroppers of the American South who migrated to Northern cities along the East Coast. My pictorial narratives are personal, yet the symbols I use are universal and interplay with larger social, racial, ancestral, economic, and political histories that inform our nation to this day. The history of my family is the history of black Americans, which is the history of all of North America.In my works, I often combine acrylic paint with an array of found, made, and purchased papers. The materials I use are conceptual statements on this legacy of an often-overlooked portion of society that made something out of nothing.
Both my representational and abstract works incorporate a variety of symbols, patterns, and marks to create powerful images filled with the rhythmic properties of music that weave throughout my oeuvre. Born in a generation infused by soul and R&B music, I grew up hearing rap music that freely sampled the music of my childhood, mixing and recomposing these songs to create rhythms befitting to hip hop music. In my work, my natural instinct is to paint and collage on the same surface, applying the same spontaneity of hip hop deejays and the resourcefulness of rural quilters, who use what is at hand, assembling, collaging, and creating.
While made of the energy of contemporary culture, my work is also influenced by Abstract Expressionism and draws from the soulfulness of the quilts from the women of Gee’s Bend. For me, there is a visual rhythm to layering these antipodes: found versus purchased objects, figures versus abstract, paint versus paper, busy versus quiet.
My work aims to imbue each piece with a lyrical yet authentic resilience borne of limited resources and frugality that speaks to the struggle and hope, pain, joy, and soul of folks in the black community.
‘Abstract Collaging’ Workshop with ransome
Sat, Oct 17, 9 AM -4 PM
This one-day workshop will focus on making abstract collages. Come prepared to take an artistic journey in building abstract picture-making skills and developing senses of composition, color, line, space, shape, texture, and value. Working with recycled, purchased, and hand-designed patterned papers, students will build on their unique artistic aesthetics. This workshop will focus on creative thinking and will help students approach collage-making with the eyes of an artmaker, rather than simply emphasizing technique. The goal is to strengthen students’ confidence in abstract artmaking.Throughout this workshop there will be group and individual critiques as well as demos.
For more information on this class, check out our website for updates.
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