When life’s rhythms are interrupted and off kilter, we feel the earth shifting, our life routines interrupted. Whether a personal loss, familial upheaval, societal conflict, shifting economics, new technology, human-made or natural disasters, our lives become flooded with images, volcanic upheaval – a tsunami of emotions that uproot and shift our perceptions and visions.
Read MoreWriting the Walls turns to short plays for 2026. February 27, 28, March 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2026, Fridays at 7:00PM, Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00PM brings Black Box Chronicles: Dramatic Disturbance inspired by the Psychological Portrait show at Hudson Valley MOCA.
Read MoreHudson Valley MOCA & Studio Theater in Exile presents: The Conscience of a Nation. An exhibition by V.L. Cox.
Read More‘Writing the Walls’, now 20 years old, began in 2005 when Artistic Director Mara Mills, Studio Theater in Exile, and Livia Straus, co-founder Hudson Valley MOCA, decided to integrate visual arts by reaching the community to contribute original works reflective of their interaction with art in the exhibit. This year, Writing the Walls: REFLECTIONS will be based on two exhibitions, “Psychological Portraits” (in Main Gallery) and the 2025 juried show, “So, You Think I’m too Old to…” (Upstairs Gallery) at HVMOCA.
Read MoreNow, in for its 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, HVMOCA seeks to feature works by artists 62 and older, culled from an open RFP on CAFE, and placed within the context of art history. We are especially interested in the works by artists who reached their prime in their more advanced years
Read MoreArtists for the exhibition Crit Ecologies have been participants in The Crit Lab, a graduate-level critique seminar program for working artists after and outside academia. The Lab is an alternate critical community for artists to come together...
Read MoreA look at how artists use photography and painting to capture the persona of an individual, whether in reactions of the moment, introspective explorations triggered by posed questions or in response to near events
Read MoreWriting the Walls 2024 will build on the Theme 'WAR', with writers and composers asked to create works that are inspired by the visuals to be selected based on an open call for the Juried exhibition 'WAR'.
Read More'WAR', three simple letters inspiring terror. War can take many forms, have many acronyms. The 'Just War', a 'Holy War', a 'War on Terror', 'Going on a Warpath', 'Internal Struggle', 'War against Cancer', 'Sparring Partners', 'Trading Barbs'... War may be external and/or internal, always with an element of tension, of conflict.
Read MoreCurated by Bibiana Huang Matheis, founder of Inspiration Art Group International.
This is Bibiana's second HVMOCA curated exhibition of artists addressing ecological issues, sustainability, climate change, endangered species, clean water, deforestation and more. Through an open call, artists are drawn from the international as well as the local community.
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