2025 UPSTATE ART WEEKEND @ ARTPORT KINGSTON

ARTIST-LED WORKSHOPS

 

Image from Natalya Khorover’s “Blooming From Waste” workshop, offered Sunday (7/20) from 2 - 4:30PM.

Throughout the Saturday and Sunday of Upstate Art Weekend, ArtPort Kingston’s Garden of Delights featured artists will be on-site offering hands-on workshops that engage with the themes of their artworks.

These workshops are offered to the public free-of-charge on a walk-in basis, as supplies lasts.

Donations are appreciated, but not required.

Please review the following schedule of workshops, and plan to join us!

✿ SATURDAY WORKSHOPS ✿

  • Artist-Educator Ben Quesnel will offer a cyanotypes workshop for all-ages resulting in a collaborative mural in the Garden of Delights exhibition.

    Saturday, July 19 | 11AM - 2PM

    Learn more about Ben Quesnel

  • The celebrated Hudson Valley-based artist will be on-site engaging visitors in conversation as she actively creates work int eh context of the Garden of Delights.

    Come with questions, topics of conversation, and/or with a drawing pad to join her.

    Saturday, July 19 | 12-3PM

    Learn more about Mary Ann Strandell

  • Join mixed-media artist and Parsons art professor Rachel Urkowitz in a workshop on how to make-your-own upcycled insects and paper flowers for planting around the Garden of Delights exhibition.

    Accepting donations of old folders, card stock of any kind and small containers for “planting”, and old pencils for stems.

    Saturday, July 19 | 1-3PM

    Learn more about Rachel Urkowitz

  • Featured mixed-media artist and ArtPort Kingston Board Member Roxy Savage will offer an interactive bubbling experience for all ages with materials supplied

    Saturday, July 19 | 1-4PM

    Learn more about Roxy Savage

  • “The HTMLgardeness - Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI” is a series of Augmented Reality walks and experiences triggered by scanning the bark of trees, a natural QR-code. A critical yet playful series, it features the HTMLgardeness, a character played by the artist, reflecting on climate and systems, code and fragility, while offering AI-generated harvest. In these walks guests are invited to venture out into different neighborhoods to discover, with smart phone and the artist's WebAR "bARk" in hand, the HTMLgardeness' trees and portals to reveal her tree-inspired AR dances, while sampling tree-specific drinks and snacks offered along the way. For “Garden of Delights” the HTMLgardeness' surroundings will be extended to the neighborhood around ArtYard in midtown Kingston where she will inhabit three new trees! 

    The artist will lead two guided walking tours to experience the artworks, at 2:30PM and 4PM.

    Each tour is approximately 25 minutes.

    The augmented trees will continue to be active and can be visited as self-guided tours also after the event using the artist's WebAR "bARk" at: https://html.bark.garden.

𖧷 SUNDAY WORKSHOPS 𖧷

  • Visit Maria Markham’s “Narcissus Pond” and join the artist in a guided exploration of the mythology behind the artwork!

    Kids will participate in a drawing and coloring activity, while adults will be guided through selfie-drawing experiments to explore the fragmentations of contemporary life via social media.

    Sunday, July 20 | 12 - 3PM

    Learn more about Maria Markham

  • Join us for a joyful, hands-on workshop where we’ll turn soft single-use plastics into colorful flowers using just scissors, imagination, and floral wire.

    Your creations will become part of FENCELINE, a growing public art installation at ArtPort Kingston that celebrates beauty, resilience, and environmental responsibility.

    Learn to transform discarded packaging - like bread bags and produce wrappers - into sculptural blooms while reflecting on plastic pollution and the power of creative reuse.

    What to bring:

    • Clean, soft plastic packaging.

    • All other materials provided.

    Let’s make art, make change, and make the FENCELINE bloom!

    Learn more about Natalya Khorover