Art Walk Kingston gives you two days to see what the city’s artists are making—and where they make it. On September 19 and 20, studios and galleries open their doors across Kingston, with paintings, photographs, ceramics, sculpture, and a steamroller large enough to turn printmaking into a spectator sport. The tour is compact, and much of it is walkable, so you can follow one studio visit with another without spending the afternoon hunting for parking. Pick up a map, wear comfortable shoes, and leave room for detours. These nine stops are a place to start; the pleasure of an art walk is seeing what else you find.
Steamroller Print Fest
What does it take to make a print two feet across? In Midtown Kingston, MKAD’s answer is a linoleum block, an artist, and a steamroller. More than 25 local artists will print their carved designs live on Iwo Jima Lane on September 19 from 11am-4pm during Steamroller Print Fest, giving Art Walk visitors a chance to watch the work emerge and meet its makers. Try carving a stamp, catch live music from Dog on Fleas to Lapin Coquin Cajun, or bring the kids for a miniature steamroller session. Around the corner, the Neighborhood Print Studio at 49 Greenkill Avenue offers demonstrations and artists’ proofs for sale. Iwo Jima Lane.
Andrew Moore
Andrew Moore has photographed Cuba, Detroit, and the American plains, tracing the marks people leave on landscapes. Since moving his studio to Kingston, he has turned that eye on the Hudson Valley. His large, richly colored photographs invite a long look: At Whiskey Point, East Kingston (which appeared on the December 2023 cover of this magazine), what first appears to be woodland contains the remains of docks from the city’s brickmaking years. Elsewhere, a motorcycle sits beside a grand piano in a former mansion turned rehab center. Moore finds history in the details that make you stop and ask what happened here. The Fuller Building, 45 Pine Grove Avenue, ground floor.
Steve Ladin
The lower half of a former Kingston firehouse on Furnace Street, once Steve Ladin’s home, will open for Art Walk with a vast trove of his artwork. Ladin, who died in 2021, moved freely between painting, ceramics, sculpture, and public art. His porcelain Ladin Ware included angular teapots that were built from modular pieces yet still poured tea; one set belongs to the Dorsky Museum’s collection. He also painted in egg tempera and devised large art installations for Hudson Valley festivals. Seeing so much work gathered in the place he lived offers a rare view of an artist whose curiosity kept finding new forms. 55 Furnace Street.
Helena Palazzi
For more than two decades, Helena Palazzi worked as a fashion and commercial photographer, looking at the world from behind a camera. In “Blue Hour,” the artist considers what happens when she steps into view. Her paintings and works on aluminum build up muted fields of color, then interrupt them with marks, erasures, and forms that only partly emerge. Palazzi draws on the different attitudes toward expression she encountered growing up in Sweden, studying in Italy, and working in New York. The result is a show about deciding how much of yourself to reveal. 534 Broadway.
Jeffrey Milstein
Jeffrey Milstein got his pilot’s license at 17, studied architecture, and eventually made a photographic career of looking at things from unexpected angles. First he photographed aircraft from below as they came in to land. Then he took to the air himself, turning cities, airports, and amusement parks into studies of shape and pattern. In his photographs of Paris, its grand avenues become geometry; his portfolio also includes aerial views of the Hudson Valley. Milstein’s Art Walk stop is an invitation to see familiar places from a perspective few of us will ever get ourselves—and to notice how much design hides in plain sight. 331 Wall Street.
Lynn Woods
A pair of strollers near the Whitney, a corner by Chelsea Market, movers wrestling a refrigerator through Williamsburg: Lynn Woods finds choreography in the ordinary business of a city sidewalk. Her “Sidewalk Ballet” series follows people as they navigate scaffolding, street corners, and one another, giving everyday errands the energy of a performance. Woods has long painted the places around her, including Kingston streets and Hudson Valley landscapes; she is also a writer on art and local history. Her Art Walk stop is a reminder that you don’t need a stage to see a dance. Sometimes you just need to stand at the curb. 68 Pine Street.
Sophie Eisner
What happens when an everyday object changes size, material, or purpose? In her Kingston studio, Sophie Eisner works through that question with sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance. She combines steel and concrete with softer materials such as silicone, often drawing on the rooms and objects we use every day. In The Nature of Intimacy, she connected listeners to an electric guitar through modified stethoscopes: each heard the same performance differently. Eisner’s studio offers a look at work that begins with familiar things and follows them into stranger territory, where a useful object can become a way to think about touch, space, and connection. The Shirt Factory, 77 Cornell Street, Studio 102.
Demetria Chappo
Demetria Chappo’s ceramics look as if they’ve grown, weathered, or washed ashore. The artist and educator makes vessels, sculptures, tiles, and wall pieces in her Midtown Kingston studio, building forms by hand or throwing them on the wheel. Some surfaces carry carved textures and natural motifs; others get their markings from smoke firing, an open-air process in which flame and chance leave their traces. Her newer Thalassa and Xora series draw on the sea, rock formations, and walks along rivers and ridges. The Shirt Factory, 77 Cornell Street, Studio 318.
Jocelyn Bergen
At Jocelyn Bergen’s Kingston studio, a book might fit in your pocket, unfold across a table, or reveal a passage you missed the first time through. Bergen makes limited-edition book art and paper sculpture under the name Zephyrine Press, bringing a designer’s eye to hand-built forms. Her 2026 Fluvial Septet, inspired by Catskills creeks, opens into seven panels of marbled paper; Warehouse Lines can be opened two ways, with a hidden stanza tucked inside. Bergen is opening her studio for Art Walk Kingston, making this a chance to handle—or at least see up close—books whose folds are part of the story. 1-11 Sterling Street, Studio 201G.
