ArtYard Kingston

CREATIVE COURTYARD & COMMUNITY SPACE

80 Smith Ave, Kingston NY 12401

Image from interactive dance performance by Lina Azalea Dahbour at ArtYard Kingston (Oct 2024).

  • Artyard is an expansion of artport kingston’s contemporary art programming to kingston’s midtown in service of broader, more diverse creative communities.

  • Artyard will be a seasonal, fully accessible creative courtyard for performances, installations, guest exhibitions and community art happenings galore. it will also host our annual low-residency program.

Puddle Observers

Eco-Art & Performances for Hurricane Helene Relief

In October of 2024, ArtYard hosted a day of environmental art, performance, music and more, dedicated to themes of environmentalism and climate resilience. 

Puddle Observers is a traveling sound installation and participatory experience of collaborative imagination. Multidisciplinary artists Becca Rodriguez and Cal Fish shared performances that incorporated their participatory artworks and archiving practices. This event marked the Kingston stop on the artists’ greater Puddle Observers tour, in which places and communities are treated with the metaphor of a puddle–ephemeral habitats breeding new life and co-evolution. Each event in the tour called on local artists to share sound performance and art objects in market-like settings. Featured performances by Cal Fish, Leather Projection, z.No Scott, and others, and artworks by OGA, Camille Modesto, John Stowe, John DeSousa, Rebecca Rodriguez, and others.

ArtStream x Artwalk Kingston

For ArtWalk Kingston 2024, ArtPort Kingston invited participants to help celebrate the soft-launch of our Midtown project-space, ArtYard Kingston! The event served as the launch of our annual public art exhibition, ArtStream Kingston, which features installations from local artists including Cal Fish, Margaret Roleke, Amanda Russo Rubman, Roxanne Faber Savage, Stefan Saffer and more! This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. With ArtStream’s transition from the Rondout to this more accessible space in Midtown, our aim is to engage and integrate public art into broader Kingston communities.