The Department of Regional Art Workers was conceived as an intergenerational, interdisciplinary arts community providing access to the arts, in midtown, Kingston, NY. Our project space offers a print studio, work, event and, meeting space. The D.R.A.W. community currently includes, P.U.G.G. alumni artists, work study students, local artists and, community members interested in providing access to the Arts and quality community arts education.
DRAW at the Kingston Library's Teen Art Lab
Although we are headquartered at Energy Square, our teaching artists have been teaching throughout the community. Some summers we work with the Kingston Library in their Teen Art Lab. The Art Lab offers students ages 13-18 the opportunity to dive deeply into art making. Photography, Animation and Sculpture, are all common subjects that are taught by local artists.
January, 2018
Rosie Gironda takes up residence at PUGG. She was painting in the print studio for the month of January. Her finished work was on display for the first Saturday in February 3, in the P.U.G.G. Gallery, 624 Broadway, Kingston, NY, 5-8pm
Isabell Simek teaching comic making.
Saturday Comics, January 2018
A series of 3 free workshops, taught by Isabell Simek, in January. Isabell taught all aspects of comic making. Students learned character development, story boarding and inking.
"EFFECTS" WORKS, December 2017
KELLI SILLIK AND FRANK PESKO
The first Saturday in December P.U.G.G. hosted its first show in their Gallery at 624 Broadway. Ceramics and Drawings work by Kelli Sellik and Prints by Frank Pesko. It was a great success an opportunity for the group to share their skills at installation and opening events. Thanks to all of the community that helped renovate and attended.
Hands on Art
Led by professional teaching artists, Kingston, high school, Senior Seminar students attended four day-long workshops in WSW’s papermaking, screen-printing, and intaglio studios. This year’s session asked students to define the word research and consider how it applies to the artist’s career.
Opening reception , December 2, 2017
P.U.G.G. Gallery, 624/626 Broadway
Women’s Studio Workshop.
CHRISTIAN GALLO, "LOUIS SHOTWELLS' DAY OFF" NOV 4 - 28 @ PUGG
Consisting of photographs depicting images of abandoned places and lifelong friends, Gallo takes his influence from the pen name he created, Louis, who represents his creative energy. Louis Shotwell’s Day Off is a play on Gallo’s “Ferris Bueller” like behavior throughout his time attending Kingston High School. The exhibition serves as a memorandum of Gallo’s experiences and a retrospective of his life so far. Gallo graduated KHS in 2008 and attended Queens College to study photography.
Nov. 7 & 14, 2017
The homeschool group, Leadership and Community Action, in Kingston NY worked with D.R.A.W. Teaching Artist and Program Director, JoAnna Ruisi, and Maria Farr, Girls Inc. of Ulster and Duchess counties program facilitator, looking at art as activism. The girls did screenprinting and wordplay as part of their session.
November, 2017
Teen Open Studio began in November. The D.R.A.W. opens its studio and gallery for students, once a week, after school. Journals and materials are available. Students can work independently or with in a mentor artist on a specific project.
November, 2017
High School students explored art and activism, in a workshop taught by Jacinta Bunnell and Rafael Perez.
Costumed Drawing series, facilitated by Rebecca Hellard. Models express themselves through their wardrobe while artists expand their understanding of figure drawing.
"YARD SALE" AN INSTALLATION, ART WALK, SEPTEMBER 23-OCT 28, 2017
"Yard Sale" was a curated collection of charged objects, intriguing artifacts, crafted works, clues, sentimental treasures, etc etc. The room was a portrait and the pieces spoke to a nostalgic, quirky and intimate aesthetic sensibility. Items included a worn ‘ET’ VHS, soap skull, a polaroid titled, ‘Old Friends Bus Trip SF’, drawings, letters, zines and more!… Each with a backstory or sentimental connection.
Orange price stickers adorn the belongings, blurring the line between intimacy and consumer culture.
Wayne Montecalvo, artwalk, september 23-0ct 28, 2017 at studio375
Wayne’s awards and honors include the Awagami Artist-in-Residence Program at Awagami Paper Factory in Tokushima, Japan; NYFA MARK ’09; Two Full Fellowship Awards for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Two Residencies at the Frans Masereel Zentrum voor Grafiek, Kasterlee, Belgium; John Michael Kohler Foundation Arts/Industry Artist-in-Residence, Sheboygan, WI; Women’s Studio Workshop Artists’ Fellowship; and an Artists At Work: New York State Council on the Arts.
August, 2017
Adrielle Farr works with an animation student. Students each made their own stop motion shorts, using paper puppets and collaged backgrounds.
Collograph prints done during the Ben Wigfal project at the D.R.A.W. JULY 2017.
RELIEF PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP,
2017
Frank Pesko is an Alumni of KHS and SUNY Purchase. Frank has a BFA in printmaking and volunteered to teach a free class in relief printing. Our first Saturday workshops.
Frank Pesko teaches relief printmaking.
In-process cyanotype negative.
The Pop Up Gallery Group collaborated with Kingston High School Chemistry for Artist and Drawing and Painting students, to create the “Work Of Art”, a 20’ cyanotype mural exploring the depth of creative work that goes on everyday in midtown, Kingston. The final exposure, took place during Community Day, at the Broadway Commons, 2017.
Animation Workshop at the D.R.A.W. Kingston, 2017
PUGG Artist in Residence Adrielle Farr worked with students to create their first stop animation films.
