On September 20 and 21, Kingston’s studios and galleries will throw open their doors for the 10th annual Art Walk Kingston, showcasing paintings, sculpture, prints, photography, jewelry, and handmade furniture from 200 artists at nearly 50 locations across the city.
Founded in 2016 by photographer Joe Gonzalez and former Arts Mid-Hudson executive director Linda Marston-Reid, the event sprang from a simple question: Why doesn’t Kingston have an open studio tour? A community survey brought an emphatic yes, and the Art Walk was born.
This year’s extras include live jazz in T. R. Gallo Park, giant banners inked and steamrolled by Neighborhood Print Studio, and a student photography show from Gonzalez’s middle school class at the Center for Photography Woodstock.
Top Picks for Art Walk Kingston
- Steamroller Print Fest
The Steamroller Print Fest takes over Iwo Jima Lane on Sunday, September 21, from 11am to 4pm. More than 30 artists roll out two-foot linocuts under the drum of an actual steamroller, turning pavement into printshop. Alongside the action: block-printing demos, food vendors, music, and open houses at the DRAW and the Neighborhood Print Studio. - Andrew Moore Photography Studio
Andrew Moore’s landscape photography balances art and history. His richly colored images draw on Hudson Valley painting traditions—Cole, Church, Durand—yet feel fully contemporary. He captures sites of ruin, water, and second-growth nature, revealing layers of human activity over time. The scale of his prints allows hidden details to surface. - Demetria Chappo Ceramics and Sculpture Studio
Demetria Chappo shapes clay into forms that balance utility and imagination. Her ceramics—vessels, tiles, and wall pieces—draw on natural motifs like eyes, snakes, and seed pods. Smoke-fired surfaces and etched patterns give each work a tactile, elemental quality, merging everyday function with sculptural presence. - Jeffrey Milstein Photography Studio
Jeffrey Milstein frames cities from above. His aerial photography—of urban grids, airports, coastlines, fire-scars—blends precision and atmosphere. He captures the geometry of infrastructure alongside the effects of climate and change, using light and scale to reveal what we build, what we leave behind. Each image feels both familiar and strange. - Julie Hedrick Painting Studio
Julie Hedrick works in abstraction, weaving color, line, and negative space into layered compositions that feel energetic yet meditative. Her recent paintings explore rhythm and light, often through soft hues and dynamic gestures. A poet and painter, her work pulses with an emotional undercurrent—balanced tension, quiet movement, spacious breathing. - Olga Joan Textiles
Olga Joan designs handcrafted home goods—pillows, tea towels, aprons, coasters—with clean lines, geometric forms, and a neutral palette with bright accents. Her work blends Scandinavian restraint with Japanese wabi-sabi sensibilities. Most pieces are small-batch, locally printed or sewn in Kingston. Simple, stylish utility made with care. - BCMT Art & Furniture Gallery
BCMT Gallery, founded by Joshua Vogel and Kelly Zaneto, puts artists and process at the center. The showroom champions high craft and material investigation, with work in clay, wood, fiber, and metal that reflects on the natural world. Exhibiting artists include Kat Howard, Margaret Griffith, Samuel Aguirre, and many others. - The Lace Mill
The Lace Mill hosts “Abstract Trilogy” in its Main and West Galleries, with Reidunn Fraas, Harriet Livathinos, and Charlotte Tusch exploring life through line, form, and color. In the East Gallery, “The Permanent Exhibition” showcases work by resident artists—paintings, photos, and sculptures that trace the creative life of the building. - International Museum of Dinnerware Design
IMoDD dedicates itself to how we eat, entertain, and commune—through objects. Its collection spans international dinnerware from ancient to futuristic, including ceramics, glass, metal, wood, plastic, even fiber and paper. With exhibitions like “Picnic” and “Dining Grails,” this is where form, function, history, and play collide. - Monument Gallery
Now settled on the Rondout, Monument thrives on abundance. Founded by Rich and Sally Cali, the gallery/store blurs boundaries between exhibition, shop, and gathering space. Its salon-style shows pack the walls with painting, sculpture, textiles, and ephemera—an ever-shifting roster that prizes eclecticism, dialogue, and the joyful mess of community.
The walk has become one of the Hudson Valley’s biggest open studio tours, drawing about 200 artists each year. For some, it’s meant more than exposure—curators have discovered new talent, and sales have covered rent for months. “We have a very large arts community here,” says Gonzalez. “Everyone’s here to help each other out.”
Kingston wasn’t always an arts hub. Before the 2010s, political and financial support for the arts was scarce. Former mayors Shayne and T. R. Gallo championed cultural investment, and RUPCO added affordable housing for artists.
Anne Bailey, cofounder of the Midtown Arts District and longtime owner of Bailey Pottery, remembers a city with low morale after IBM left. “Shayne was a great proponent of the arts,” she says. “Artists remind us of who we are. They bring vitality and energy. We burn brightly, and people want to be part of that.”
That spark lit a community effort, and from it, the Kingston Art Walk emerged—a two-day showcase of the city’s creative fire.
This article appears in September 2025.
