Larissa Bates . Rosa Booth . Wells Chandler . Elena del Rivero . Kerry Downey . Judy Glantzman . Glenn Goldberg . Brenda Goodman . James Hannaham . Mala Iqbal . Valesca Lafrance . Shona Macandrew . Linda Mary Montano . Maritza Ranero . Lisa Sanditz . Aparna Sarkar . Dasha Shishkin . Pat Sprott . Raya Terran . Molly Zuckerman-Hartug Curated by Angela Dufresne
A zine produced in conjunction with the Bushel exhibition ‘Producing Humans’ (Aug-Sept 2023), guest-curated by Alexandra Egan, Alyssa Matthews, and Yasmin Reshamwala. The zine was edited by Iris Cushing, designed by Alexandra Egan, and produced by Bushel. With writing by Mirene Arsanios, Iris Cushing, Alexandra Egan, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Emily Johnston, Tricia Vessey, Rachael Guynn Wilson, and L.E. Wood., accompanied by artwork from the exhibition’s participating artists.
Join us for a movement workshop followed by a work-in-progress showing by Pillow Fort AIRs Clark Avery Griffin and D’Aangelo Castro!
Drawing on dance, yoga, and holo-fractal theory, this workshop invites participants to engage with their “healical” nature. From micro to macro, from DNA to spiral movement, through breath, exercises, improvisation and phrase work, the class investigates the idea of “DNA repair” at many scales, allowing wellness, coordination and function to unfold as aesthetic.This workshop will be followed by a Work-in-Progress showing of a new piece Clark is working on that explores ideas introduced in the workshop.
This hand-bound pamphlet contains one text from each author and was produced on the occasion of the June 18, 2023 opening for the group exhibition Waiting in the Deep, at which the authors presented their work.
10: Hobart Festival of Women Writers tenth anniversary collection was conceived of and edited by Breena Clarke, Cheryl Clarke, and Esther Cohen, and designed and produced by Bushel Editions. This volume commemorates ten years of the Hobart Festival of Women Writers and was released on the occasion of the Festival in June 2023.
On July 8, 1pm, at Margaretville Pavillion, join Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, a traditional plant medicine person, for an outdoor plant and tree lecture on cultivating intermediary sensory impressions with surrounding land systems.
June 16-18 in Hobart, NY: three days of poetic programming at the 10th Hobart Festival of Women Writers. See the full details on the festival’s website.
Alex Bingham . Frank Chang . Rebecca Davis . Jennifer Kabat . Eliza Lu Doyle and Perri Cohl Hofmann . Laura Marris . Lize Mogel . Cris Ortiz . Alan Powell . Owyn Ruck . Kamilla Talbot . Christina Hunt Wood
Sep 18–Oct 8, 2022 Drawarama: Drawing Experiments and Workshops
Mercedes Teixido Pareesa Pourian Helen Quinn
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Bushel is thrilled to be hosting its first Alumni-curated show—exhibitions and happenings proposed by artists who have exhibited at Bushel in the past, with a single constraint: to use the opportunity to invite or engage at least one other artist or maker who has not yet been part of a Bushel program. This inaugural installment is from Mercedes Teixido, whose solo exhibition Scroll Left Scroll Right was held at Bushel’s old space at 84 Main Street in August 2016.
For DRAWARAMA, Teixido turns the Bushel space into a collaborative studio where members of the community can join in the creation of art that is drawing-based. She has invited artists Pareesa Pourian and Helen Quinn to join her by teaching one workshop each. All are welcome! No experience necessary.
Drawing is broadly defined and all workshops will include warmup exercises that introduce materials, movement, and vocabulary. Over the course of the month-long exhibit, results from the workshops will be added to the walls, forming a collaborative installation reflecting the time spent in collective drawing.
‘Teaching drawing, I am continually struck by how engaging and challenging and thrilling the experience is for participants. Drawing is an art form that bridges the worlds of the utilitarian and the conceptual, the beautiful, the representational and the enigmatic. I love inviting members of the community to enter a creative space that is so often sharply divided between makers and their audience. Teaching has long been part of my artist practice.’ —Mercedes Teixido
Drawarama Schedule All workshops except the October 2nd class are for adults (18+). $15 suggested donation ($10 for the youth workshop). Limited capacity. Register using the links below. The evening events are free and open to all.
Sunday Sept 18, 2–5pm Doodlerama: An exploration of the doodle and the sketchbook Drawing as we are doing something else. Bring a book or print material to be your doodle sketchbook (small sketchbooks provided if you don’t bring your own). Led by Mercedes Teixido | Sign up for this workshop
Thursday Sept 22, 5:30–7pm Evening Draw & Gather An experiment in social drawing. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.
Sunday Sept 25, 2–5pm Plants and Presence: An exploration of drawing basics through engagement with plants Exercises in drawing that create the basis of common representational drawing language. Led by Pareesa Pourian | Sign up for this workshop
Thursday Sept 29, 5:30–7pm Evening Draw & Gather An experiment in social drawing. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.
Sunday October 2, 11:30 am–1:30 pm Figure drawing for Young Artists (ages 5–15) Explore gesture drawing and blind contours in a fast-paced class for energetic young people. No experience necessary and materials are provided. Please bring a snack. Get ready to have a blast! Led by Helen Quinn | Sign up for this workshop
Sunday October 2, 2–5pm Surrealist Exercises and Speculative Imagery Breaking from the rational and leaving mastery behind. Utopia/dystopia; from non-sense to another kind of sense. Led by Mercedes Teixido | Sign up for this workshop
Thursday October 6, 5:30–7pm Evening Draw & Gather An experiment in social drawing. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.
Saturday October 8, 7:30 pm til the music stops The Drawarama Closing-Night Lounge Music, collaborative drawing, dancing, and generally celebrating the collected drawings and collective endeavor from the show! Refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.
Mercedes Teixido is an artist working in the areas of drawing, textile, and performance. Her work and teaching are based on first-hand engagement, improvisation, and the gestures of the everyday. She is a professor of art at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and lives and works between Claremont and Hamden, New York.
Pareesa Pourian is a painter, poet, and plant student. She currently teaches in the Fine Arts and Writing Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She lives in Delhi, New York.
Helen Quinn is an artist and prop stylist who lives in Jackson Heights, Queens and Treadwell, New York. She makes silkscreen prints and gouache drawings and has taught at Parsons/The New School and NYU. Every summer she looks forward to teaching art camp at Stony Creek Farmstead in Walton. Helen holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
past: Sep 18–Oct 8, 2022 Drawarama: Drawing experiments and workshops Mercedes Teixido, with Pareesa Pourian and Helen Quinn
Aug 27–Sep 11, 2022 And now for something different Bernie Seringer, Jr.
June 18–Aug 14, 2022 Volumes Mark Allen . Zachary Cummings . Jaclyn Guido . Julia Haft-Candell . Leonardo Madriz . Sahra Motalebi
Mar 5–May 1, 2022 Farm Hands Anthony Beck / East Brook Community Farm, Walton, Steve Burnett / Burnett Farm, Bovina, Cicada / East Brook Community Farm, Walton, Sarah Connelly / Weathered Hill Farm, South Kortright, Seth Friedman / Greentopia Farm, East Meredith, Anne Hall / Crespell, Lexington, Andie Hope / East Brook Community Farm, Walton, Ryn Hartka / East Brook Community Farm, Walton, Marshall LaCount / Star Route Farm, Charlotteville, Lynn Loflin / Newton Farm Collective, Westkill, Jess Ludwicki / Echo Orchard, Hamden, Kate and Dan Marsiglio / Stony Creek Farmstead, Sea Matais / Iridescent Earth Collective, Danny Newberg / Double Dee Farm, Delancey. Curated by Tianna Kennedy / Star Route Farm
Bushel is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring nine of the artists who lead Black Ball Projects (BBP), a nonprofit that supports underexposed artists. Also on view will be photos, clippings, and other ephemera tracing the activities of BBP over seven years in its support of more than 150 artists.
“Run by artists for artists, from the start it was always a labor of love,” states BBP co-founder Ana Wolovick. Black Ball Projects isa NYC nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that supports artists through exhibitions, online viewing rooms, and a micro-granting program. BBP’s missionis to serve and support contemporary artists who are underexposed and who have been working diligently on the periphery of the greater art world. Diversity of all kinds, be it gender, racial, or economic, is at the core of the Black Ball Projects organization. https://www.blackballprojects.com
As a nonprofit, artist-run space, Bushel is thrilled to host this exhibition, a cross-pollination between two groups that share a collective ethos. This exhibition is the second in a new series of Bushel-alumni-curated shows, proposed by Pia Dehne whose work was shown in “Beaver Fever,” a three-person show curated by Jennifer Kabat for Bushel’s old space at 84 Main Street in Fall 2017. Bushel-alumni-curated shows are exhibitions and happenings proposed by artists who have exhibited at Bushel in the past, with a single constraint: to use the opportunity to invite or engage at least one other artist or maker who has not yet been part of a Bushel program.
Palma Blank is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Juxtaposing concepts of deep space and flatness, illusion and objecthood, minimalism and maximalism, the handmade and machined, her paintings emerge as charged futuristic spaces for experience and reflection.
Kelly Chang is a New York–based multidisciplinary artist whose work combines the use of digital tools and methods with ceramics and other traditional media to explore themes of personal memory, humanity’s legacy, and the future of life in the universe.
Pia Dehne is a German-born painter living in New York for the past 22 years and in Andes, NY since 2011. Her interests as a painter lie in re-using and transforming images and pre-existing materials from a particular time, ideological moment or movement, into new abstracted and evocative forms.
Diana Delgado is an American-born painter, based in Westchester, NY, whose work combines abstraction and representational drawing to evoke themes of love, whimsy, and childhood nostalgia.
Jen DeNike is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY and Glasgow Scotland. Her multimedia sensory installations function as places of intervention navigating both real and imagined utopias with a sense of sublime temporality.
Laleh Khorramain is a visual artist whose work of the past decade has spanned stop-motion animations, sound, monoprints, drawings, painted landscapes, portraits, and collage. She removes cultural or historical specificity from her narratives in a search for worlds just beyond the concrete, material one around us.
Jac Lahav is an artist, curator, and community organizer, born in Israel and currently living in Connecticut. His work involves re-telling new and old narratives about his community, belonging, and shared cultural history.
Rachel Owens is a sculptor and Associate Professor of Art & Design and Chair of the Sculpture Department at SUNY Purchase College. Her recent work explores the precarious nature of existence, where the limbs of people, plants, and trees fold together. She currently lives and works in Armenia, NY.
Ana Wolovick is an artist and curator, born and raised in New York City, now living and working in Brooklyn. She makes intuitively driven composite-paintings that have quasi-political abstract narratives.
image: Laleh Khorramain, detail of Fallout, 2021, 49 x 28 inches, acrylic, dye, ink, silk and thread on canvas.
These are challenging, anxiety-making times. Coming together in stillness, silence, and meditation can help us keep grounded, connected, and nourished. These Thursday morning sessions are facilitated by Molly Yakusan Stevens.
Meditation sessions are free and open to all, but donations are welcome to support this program. Donate (select “Meditation with Molly” in the notes)
Bushel has hosted many groups, some of which have become converted to occasional programming entities or email lists. Below you’ll find information about these groups, past and present, along with ways to connect. If you would like to express interest in one of the groups (including an interest in reviving a group listed as ‘past’) and no specific contact is listed, send us an email. (A lot of things have happened at Bushel since 2015. If you participated in or organized a group we have left off this list, please let us know!)
Active Groups Join our mailing list and keep an eye on our Events page for upcoming events hosted by active groups.
Farm Club The Farm Club began as a monthly meeting at Bushel gathering Catskills area farmers for unscripted social, political, and practical engagements, how-tos and a little rabble-rousing. Farmer things. Now organized by The National Young Farmers Coalition Catskill chapter, the Farm Club doesn’t always meet monthly but still hosts frequent farm tours, meetups, talks, and other programs. For more information about the National Young Farmer’s coalition please visit them on Facebook or on the web. Farm Club events are, as always, open to all farmers, farm workers, farm enthusiasts and activists.
Bushel Reading Group Periodic short-term reading group, meeting in November and December 2023 to read A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism.
Several Species (Mycology and Herbalism) Several Species began as a monthly meetup, and continues as a not-quite-monthly series of individually scheduled events. The group offers a chance for herbalists, mycologists, foragers, growers, medicine makers, and those curious about any of the above to gather and talk about their projects and goals, share resources, swap materials and order supplies in bulk, geek out on plants and fungi, host teach-ins and demos, and potentially expand into drop-in community clinics, educational walks for the public, guest lectures and anything else that arises. Several Species (Spp) has its own listserv; attend an event hosted by the group or email info@bushelcollective.org to be added to the list.
New Babes New Babes began as a monthly meetup for new parents and carers of babies (newborn to 2 years old). It continues to host occasional swaps and other events, and maintains an active WhatsApp group. To join the group, text Alyssa: 337-512-5019
W.I.D.E WomXn for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (W.I.D.E.) meets up on Third Thursdays, 6–8:30pm, at Bushel (always check the events page to make sure there hasn’t been a change of schedule). W.I.D.E is a social-justice organization that believes in promoting the inclusion and equality of all people through education and community outreach. W.I.D.E.’s main goal is helping to expose children in Delaware County to a variety of books written by and about populations that have been historically marginalized, such as African American, LatinX, American Indian, Asian Pacific American, and LGBTQ communities. W.I.D.E. welcomes any individual who identifies with the gender pronouns she/her/hers or they/them to join the group to participate in the planning of future events and fundraising efforts. For more information about W.I.D.E., please visit their website.
Get Woke Reading Groups Get Woke! Catskills hosts several short-term reading groups and one-time book discussions each year at Bushel. Get Woke! is organized and supported through the efforts of volunteers, non-profit organizations, students and residents in the upper Catskills region. Its primary goal is to use the arts to bring people together to work through and better understand issues around race and identity in the United States, especially within the context of rural communities. For more information about Get Woke!, please visit their website.
Delaware County Solidarity Founded in 2016 at Bushel and now continuing as a listserv, Delaware County Solidarity is a group working to promote the awareness of local issues, advance human rights and social justice, and protect the environment through research, advocacy, information sharing, and community-wide events. Join the list here.
AI Society AI society discussion group meets occasionally, usually around a guest lecture or special topic. The goal of AI society is not only to help us better collectively understand how AI is changing the world out there, but also to engage with the very local question of if/how we want AI to transform our ways of living and working here in the Catskills.
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Past / On Hiatus
Revolutionary Feminisms Reading Group In 2017 and 2018, Bushel hosted a reading group to discuss the contents of this reader from Communist Research Cluster. The group met every other Sunday from 3:00-5:00, with the hour from 3:00-4:00 reserved for quiet reading before the discussion began.
Knit ‘n Stitch Knit ‘n Stitch was a regular meet-up for sewing and knitting led by Candace Egan.
Bushel Writers Group This group began as a writing workshop led by Iris Cushing and continued for several years as a biweekly peer-led group. Currently on hiatus.
Delaware County Tabletop Gaming A queer- and trans-affirming space open to teens aged 14–18, this group aimed to introduce local youth to the magic of tabletop gaming, while providing a safe, engaging, and fun environment. Currently on hiatus.
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image: a mushroom walk led by Erwin Karl, hosted by the Several Species Mycology and Herbalism group
On Tuesday mornings, Bushel is a pick-up location for The 607 CSA! Reserve your season-long CSA share or order à la carte here to enjoy locally grown, supernatural veggies, animal protein, and other delicious food items from area farmers and producers.
From 12:00-3:00pm on Wednesdays, Succurro is offering a community clinic for SourcePoint sessions on a sliding scale/donation basis. The 45-minute sessions are offered by Succurro's Fellows. Reservations and walk-in appointments available.
A 45-minute group meditation session facilitated by Molly Yakusan Stevens, a Walton resident and a chaplain with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. You can read an essay by Molly about leading this group in the Archive section of our website.
The Viewing Booth recounts a unique encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer — exploring the way meaning is attributed to non-fiction images in today’s [...]
Come shop for handmade goods directly from local artists and artisans at our first Bushel Makers Market. There will be food and drink, and our bookshelves and walls will offer indie publications, Bushel Editions, art from our flat files, and ephemera.
On Tuesday mornings, Bushel is a pick-up location for The 607 CSA! Reserve your season-long CSA share or order à la carte here to enjoy locally grown, supernatural veggies, animal protein, and other delicious food items from area farmers and producers.
From 12:00-3:00pm on Wednesdays, Succurro is offering a community clinic for SourcePoint sessions on a sliding scale/donation basis. The 45-minute sessions are offered by Succurro's Fellows. Reservations and walk-in appointments available.
A 45-minute group meditation session facilitated by Molly Yakusan Stevens, a Walton resident and a chaplain with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. You can read an essay by Molly about leading this group in the Archive section of our website.
Visiting Hungarian yoga teacher Eszter Balázs will offer twice-weekly yoga classes at Bushel from mid-November through mid-December. The one-hour classes are based in Hatha yoga [...]
Join us for our monthly Songwriter's Circle at Bushel. Engage in discussions about works-in-progress, connect with fellow songwriters, and gain valuable insights from veteran musicians.
On Tuesday mornings, Bushel is a pick-up location for The 607 CSA! Reserve your season-long CSA share or order à la carte here to enjoy locally grown, supernatural veggies, animal protein, and other delicious food items from area farmers and producers.
Visiting Hungarian yoga teacher Eszter Balázs will offer twice-weekly yoga classes at Bushel from mid-November through mid-December. The one-hour classes are based in Hatha yoga [...]
From 12:00-3:00pm on Wednesdays, Succurro is offering a community clinic for SourcePoint sessions on a sliding scale/donation basis. The 45-minute sessions are offered by Succurro's Fellows. Reservations and walk-in appointments available.
A 45-minute group meditation session facilitated by Molly Yakusan Stevens, a Walton resident and a chaplain with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. You can read an essay by Molly about leading this group in the Archive section of our website.
In conjunction with the current exhibition 'Producing Humans,' this month's Community Film Pick is The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2021), selected and presented by the exhibition's curators, Alexandra Egan, Alyssa Matthews, and Yasmin Reshamwala. Doors at 6:45 pm; screening begins at 7 pm. This program is free to attend.
To launch our new reading group, we are happy to welcome Rebecca Manski of Monthly Review press to provide a contextualizing introduction to A Land With People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism.
The one and only Antonio Prieto will return to Bushel 10am-5pm Sunday November 19 and Monday November 20. Based in New York since 1989—and recognized [...]
Visiting Hungarian yoga teacher Eszter Balázs will offer twice-weekly yoga classes at Bushel from mid-November through mid-December. The one-hour classes are based in Hatha yoga [...]
On Tuesday mornings, Bushel is a pick-up location for The 607 CSA! Reserve your season-long CSA share or order à la carte here to enjoy locally grown, supernatural veggies, animal protein, and other delicious food items from area farmers and producers.
Visiting Hungarian yoga teacher Eszter Balázs will offer twice-weekly yoga classes at Bushel from mid-November through mid-December. The one-hour classes are based in Hatha yoga [...]
From 12:00-3:00pm on Wednesdays, Succurro is offering a community clinic for SourcePoint sessions on a sliding scale/donation basis. The 45-minute sessions are offered by Succurro's Fellows. Reservations and walk-in appointments available.
A 45-minute group meditation session facilitated by Molly Yakusan Stevens, a Walton resident and a chaplain with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. You can read an essay by Molly about leading this group in the Archive section of our website.
Please join us for the opening of "Fiery Fodder," a new group exhibition guest-curated by Angela Dufresne and featuring work by Larissa Bates, Rosa Booth, Wells Chandler, Elena del Rivero, Kerry Downey, Judy Glantzman, Glenn Goldberg, Brenda Goodman, James Hannaham, Mala Iqbal, Valesca Lafrance, Shona Macandrew, Linda Mary Montano, Maritza Ranero, Aparna Sarkar, Lisa Sanditz, Dasha Shishkin, Pat Sprott, Raya Terran, Molly Zuckerman-Hartug.
Visiting Hungarian yoga teacher Eszter Balázs will offer twice-weekly yoga classes at Bushel from mid-November through mid-December. The one-hour classes are based in Hatha yoga and incorporate Pranayama breathing and meditation. All levels are welcome. Mats and blocks are available, but feel free to bring your own mat.
Visiting Hungarian yoga teacher Eszter Balázs will offer twice-weekly yoga classes at Bushel from mid-November through mid-December. The one-hour classes are based in Hatha yoga [...]
From 12:00-3:00pm on Wednesdays, Succurro is offering a community clinic for SourcePoint sessions on a sliding scale/donation basis. The 45-minute sessions are offered by Succurro's Fellows. Reservations and walk-in appointments available.
A 45-minute group meditation session facilitated by Molly Yakusan Stevens, a Walton resident and a chaplain with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. You can read an essay by Molly about leading this group in the Archive section of our website.
Bushel’s neighbors at FOR-DO — Friends of Recovery of Otsego and Delaware Counties — host an ever-increasing number of community classes, workshops, and events including an Open Mic night several nights per month. Check out their calendar here (scroll down for Delhi’s chapter).
They also offer NARCAN training, which takes less than an hour and can save a life. And you can donate or volunteer your support here.