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CPW Kingston CPW is a gathering place for robust dialogue and creative discovery in photography and related media.

Our mission is to effect social change through innovative programs that explore photography as a medium for understanding ourselvelves and our society.

10/08/2026

Highlights from our Digital Media Lab!

The Digital Media Lab supports a broad range of activities, including large-scale inkjet printing, artwork reproduction, film scanning, and more. Our equipment includes desktop and large-format Epson printers, flatbed and Imacon scanners, and a digital camera copy stand.

New to any of the equipment? Not to worry: one-on-one help is available to walk you through realizing your scanning and printing projects. https://cpw.org/dml/

If you've never been, come by 25 Dederick Street and see the creative buzz at the DML for yourself. Orientations are free and take just 30 minutes!

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The CPW October calendar, event by event! Note that some workshops are full, but sometimes someone drops out and a spot ...
10/07/2026

The CPW October calendar, event by event!

Note that some workshops are full, but sometimes someone drops out and a spot opens; stay tuned to this space for notifications about that!

Photos:
Slide 10, Justine Kurland
Slide 16, Tanya Marcuse
Slide 18, John Shen

October 17th is going to be a great day at CPW: photographer Caleb Stein will host a one-day workshop, "Paying Close Att...
10/06/2026

October 17th is going to be a great day at CPW: photographer Caleb Stein will host a one-day workshop, "Paying Close Attention, Attention," focusing on how the act of attention on one place or subject becomes a kind of ritual that enriches perception. The workshop starts by exploring Stein's experience photographing a Hudson Valley swimming hole for more than a decade, as well as other photographers' work, and then moves into looking at participants' work: photographers may bring prints, an iPad or laptop, or share files in advance for projection; no formal presentation is required.

More info and sign ups: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cpwkingston/2361720

October 17, 10-5pm at CPW.

On Thursday, October 8, we welcome Pia Paulina Guilmoth to “Meet the Artist.” Pia will present selections from her three...
10/05/2026

On Thursday, October 8, we welcome Pia Paulina Guilmoth to “Meet the Artist.” Pia will present selections from her three most recent books, as well as b-sides and unreleased material spanning the past 10 years of her career. She will have a selection of books and prints for sale throughout the evening.

RSVP: https://ow.ly/TvaR50ZUBB9
Thursday, October 8, 2026. Doors at 5:30pm. Talk 6-7pm. FREE.

Pia Paulina Guilmoth lives and makes art in rural Maine. She works with a 4×5 camera and various experimental analogue techniques. Her work is foremost about beauty and her experience as a trans woman in the small town she lives in. Her work is held in the permanent collection of SFMOMA. Pia released her third book in November 2024 with Stanley/Barker titled "Flowers Drink the River," which received the Jury’s Special Mention for the 2025 Paris-Aperture Book of the Year award. In 2024-2025 she had two major solo exhibitions open—one in London (Webber Gallery) and one in New York (CLAMP). In 2024 she won a Google/Aperture Creator Labs grant and a Peter Reed Foundation grant in photography, and in 2022 she was a MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts. Pia’s fourth book, a collaborative project with Jesse Bull Saffire, titled Fishworm, was published with Void at the end of 2025. In the spring of 2026 Pia presented at the Forum on Contemporary Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Pia’s out-of-print monograph from 2021, At Night Gardens Grow, was re-issued in the summer of 2026 with Stanley/Barker.

“Meet the Artist” is made possible by generous grants from the Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Join us Saturday, October 3, 5-8 PM for our next Community Gallery opening! Organized by PHOCUS, Vassar College’s photog...
09/30/2026

Join us Saturday, October 3, 5-8 PM for our next Community Gallery opening! Organized by PHOCUS, Vassar College’s photography club and community darkroom, this exhibition of student work aims to explore the theme of “closeness.” RSVP https://cpw.org/exhibition/closeness-a-phocus-exhibition/

The photographs show a combination of friends, acquaintances, and strangers, places familiar and foreign, and attempt to answer such questions as: Can the relationship between subjects, or between subject and photographer, be discerned from a single static image? How does proximity of a camera to living subjects alter the nature of the moment that is captured? The selections represent an attempt to provoke a renewed engagement with the photographer-subject relationship.

PHOCUS, Vassar’s only student-run photography organization, works to create a broad and inclusive photographic community for students through biweekly meetings, critiques, workshops, guest lectures, and the publication of FIX, an annual photobook of student photography. PHOCUS also maintains the student-run Baldeck Darkroom, loans cameras, and aims to make photography more accessible to the wider student body.

Curated by Sofía Abrahamson, Audrey Amblard, Grace Cabasco, Amritha Dewan, and Madeline Miles Myers

ARTISTS
Ella Sheidley ‘26
Audrey Amblard ‘27
Sofía Abrahamson ‘27
Aviva Barry ‘27
Grace Cabasco ‘27
Peter Chu ‘27
Julian Balsley ‘28
Amritha Dewan ‘28
Aria Kuklinski ‘28
Rosalie Perkinson ‘28
Miles Myers ‘29
Mae Resnick ‘30

Photos: Ella Sheidley, Grace Cabasco, Sofía Abrahamson, Amritha Dewan, Aviva Barry

On Thursday, October 1, we welcome Lindsay Buchman and D'Angelo Lovell Williams to “Meet the Artist.” Both are current C...
09/29/2026

On Thursday, October 1, we welcome Lindsay Buchman and D'Angelo Lovell Williams to “Meet the Artist.” Both are current CPW Artists-in-Residence. Buchman will present her long-term project, "Everything I’ve Ever Loved," exploring Southern California’s landscape through fragmented narratives of race, place, and adoption. Copies of her books will be available for sale. Williams will present an overview of their work and artistic practice.

RSVP:https://cpw.org/meet-the-artist-with-lindsay-buchman-and-dangelo-lovell-williams/
Live-stream, CPW YouTube, 6PM.

Thursday, October 1, 2026. Doors at 5:30pm. Talk 6–7pm. FREE.

Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Recent exhibitions include the Penumbra Foundation (NY), CPW (NY), and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (CA). Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Hofstra University.

D’Angelo Lovell Williams (b. 1992, Jackson, Mississippi) is a New York–based artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores Black q***r intimacy, kinship, desire, vulnerability, and self-authorship. Working across photography, video, weaving, and sculpture, Williams constructs staged and poetic encounters with friends, family, lovers, and collaborators, to create spaces where fiction and lived experience intersect.

Williams has exhibited work at such places as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Higher Pictures. Their work is held in the collections of Tate Modern, The Lumpkin-Bocuzzi Collection of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other places.

"Meet the Artist" is made possible by generous grants from the Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Woodstock AIR is made possible in part by the Leonian Foundation.

Photos 1-2, D'Angelo Lovell Williams. Photos 4-5, Lindsay Buchman.

AMPLIFY your impact on CPW! For the month of September, a generous supporter is offering a 2:1 match on all donations CP...
09/23/2026

AMPLIFY your impact on CPW! For the month of September, a generous supporter is offering a 2:1 match on all donations CPW receives, no matter the size! So, please, take this opportunity to give to CPW now. Click here to give: https://cpw.org/donate/

CPW is building a new kind of cultural institution in Kingston, a regional center for community engagement and artistic creation. Our exciting exhibitions, engaging public programs, thriving digital media lab, and affordable artists studios make CPW a fantastic place to visit, work, and learn.

Our very generous supporter has offered to triple all donations, meaning $50 becomes $150, $1,000 becomes $3,000 and so on. That’s a huge impact on a small community-based, artist-centered non-profit where entry is always free for all.

A few examples:
$50 ($150 to CPW): supports CPW’s free public programs and artist talks
$100 ($300 to CPW): helps to provide scholarships to CPW workshops and classes
$250 ($750 to CPW): underwrites the Community Gallery, in partnership with local groups
$500 ($1,500 to CPW): supports the Woodstock AIR Residency Program

Join us in making this 2 :1 match multiply CPW’s impact! If you like what we're doing, and are interested in helping us maintain our momentum, this a great chance to show it!

And come see for yourself the exciting ways in which CPW is moving photography and community forward. Click here to give: https://cpw.org/donate/

The goddess artist of the earth and the underworld, aka Tanya Marcuse, opens her exhibition "Woven | Deer: An Ecological...
09/21/2026

The goddess artist of the earth and the underworld, aka Tanya Marcuse, opens her exhibition "Woven | Deer: An Ecological Tapestry," at CPW on October 3. The work in it responds to our current environmental crisis, reflecting on a world in which abundance, inseparable from precarity and loss, tips into plunder, where flourishing nature and environmental ruin coexist

Here she is, mid-install of "Frame," a 5-by-10-foot box made from wood and found flora and fauna, conceived as a living tableau that will undergo change throughout the exhibition as its organic materials dry, decay, and decompose, bringing the processes of transformation and loss depicted in Marcuse’s photographs into the gallery itself.

Marcuse's exhibition includes eight key pieces from "Woven" + the premiere of a new series, "Deer," comprising sixteen photographs, an artist book, and an extraordinary eleven-minute film, made in partnership with Ben Stechshulte.

Click here for more info and to RSVP to the opening party! https://cpw.org/exhibition/tanya-marcuse-woven/

Mary Ellen Mark: "Ward 81." On view January 18 – May 4, 2025In 1976, photographer Mary Ellen Mark (Mary Ellen Mark Found...
09/18/2026

Mary Ellen Mark: "Ward 81." On view January 18 – May 4, 2025

In 1976, photographer Mary Ellen Mark (Mary Ellen Mark Foundation) embarked on an arduous, self-assigned project with sociologist Dr. Karen Folger Jacobs to document the lives of women living in the high-security, all-female wing of the Oregon State Hospital in the city of Salem. The year before, Mark had photographed there on the set of the Milǒs Forman’s film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and she had met several women who lived on Ward 81 of the hospital. The duration of their stay, and their extraordinary access to patients and staff, enabled the collaborators to produce a nuanced and compelling record of female psychiatric treatment in the United States during the mid-1970s.

In 1978, Mark and Jacobs published the seminal book Ward 81, which revealed the often-porous line between sanity and mental illness for women relegated to the margins of society. In the words of Jacobs, “They are the women we might have been or one day become.”

Keisha Scarville: "Recess." On view January 18 – May 4, 2025This exhibition featured the work of 2024 Saltzman Prize win...
09/18/2026

Keisha Scarville: "Recess." On view January 18 – May 4, 2025

This exhibition featured the work of 2024 Saltzman Prize winner Keisha Scarville (American, born 1975).

In Recess, Scarville refers both to the hollow space beneath a flat plane and to any temporary pause or suspension. In this way, Scarville continues her exploration of thresholds. Neither here nor there, thresholds are spaces of becoming; they mark moments of “passing through,” suspended instants that are full of potential and prospects of the unknown. For Scarville, shadows function as these types of spaces. They are not only dark shapes that lack light and clarity, but also deep, productive zones where alternative temporalities and in-between narratives reside.

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