Monday, April 20, 2015

WEINSTEIN GALLERY PRESENTS
KURT SELIGMANN: 
FIRST MESSAGE FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD OF THE OBJECT
Opening in San Francisco Saturday, May 9

We are delighted to share the news of Weinstein Gallery's upcoming exhibition, "First Message from the Spirit World of the Object," the first major solo exhibition of Kurt Seligmann's work in 54 years, which opens in San Francisco Saturday, May 9. We have loaned four paintings for the occasion and look forward to seeing them on view next month. 

Weinstein Gallery has crafted a beautiful website complete with a detailed biography of Seligmann, a chronology of his life by the illustrious Stephen Robeson Miller, and a selection of photographs, including many from our collection. Visit: http://www.weinstein.com/artists/kurt-seligmann/




Wednesday, April 15, 2015

EARTH DAY POTLUCK
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30-8:30pm in Seligmann's Studio at the Seligmann Center
Presented with the Orange County Land Trust and Catalyst Ecovillage
All are welcome



Untitled (Wetsuwet’en Totum measuring 16 meters, Acquired by Kurt Seligmann for the Musee de l'homme), Silver gelatin print, circa 1938

THE FETISH OF PRIMITIVISM IN TWENTIETH CENTURY ART
A LECTURE BY WILLIAM SEATON
Sunday, May 24, 2015, 2:00pm
In Seligmann's Studio at the Seligmann Center

Join us Sunday, May 24 for William Seaton's free public lecture on "The Fetish of Primitivism in Twentieth Century Art."

Seaton is a poet, translator, and critic who has long been involved in the avant-garde both as a participating artist and as a scholar.  As an artist he performed in happenings in the 60s and during the 70s worked with the Cloud House group in San Francisco.  More recently he has produced a series of evenings of performance art under the title Surreal Cabaret.  In the role of scholar he is the author of Dada Poetry: an Introduction, and he has spoken on the concept of the avant-garde in talks presented by the Apocalypse, Millenarism, New Boundaries Conference, the New York College English Association, the New York Council for the Humanities, and the SUNY New Paltz German Department.

Though the impact of what was once called “primitive” art on Cubists, Dadaists, Surrealists, and other modern artists is well-known, it was rarely a matter of simple influence.  Seaton will provide a sketch of the significance of primitivism to artists and writers and will examine in particular their relations in the formation of the ideas of the modern and the avant-garde.

The event will be held in what had been the studio of Surrealist Kurt Seligmann who like many of his circle was fascinated with the art of oral cultures. 

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Thursday, February 19, 2015


BIG KITTY
A CONCERT WITH CHATTANOOGA-BASED FOLK OUTFIT BIG KITTY
Thursday, April 2, 2015  7:00pm. Doors open at 6:45pm
$10 Advance, $12 Day of Show 
Reserve by Phone (845.469.9459) or Online

Hailing from a land of lush rolling pastures, and blue mountain silhouettes on the horizon, Clark "Big Kitty" Williams is a maverick songwriter, performer, producer, outlaw, independent businessman, all-around good citizen, and just a guy.  For the last decade or so, he has lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 




Tuesday, February 10, 2015





COLLABORATIVE IMPROVISATION

THE HUDSON VALLEY JAZZ PLAYERS
& THE ARTISAN DANCE COMPANY
Sunday, February 15, 2015
4:00pm in Kurt Seligmann's Studio
$10 



The Seligmann Center at the Citizens Foundation,  the Artisan Dance Company and the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival present: COLLABORATIVE IMPROVISATION featuring the Hudson Valley Jazz Players and members of the Artisan Dance Company, co-directed by Melissa Padham-Maass. 

Attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing, as there will be opportunities for movement. 

Seligmann's Studio
$10

http://artisandanceny.com/
http://www.hudsonvalleyjazzfestival.org/

Tuesday, January 27, 2015


JANET HAMILL & LOST CEILINGS

Saturday, January 31, 2015, 7:00pm
Seligmann's Studio
Free

Janet Hamill is the author of five books of poetry.  Body of Water (Bowery Books, 2008) was nominated for the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Prize.  Her sixth, and most recent book, Tales from the Eternal CafĂ© (Three Rooms Press, 2014) is Janet’s first full-length collection of short fiction.  It was just named one of the best books of 2014 by Publisher Weekly.

In addition to writing, Janet is a strong proponent of the oral tradition and has released two CD’s of spoken word and music, Flying Nowhere (Yes No Maybe Records) and Genie of the Alphabet (Not Records), in collaboration with Lost Ceilings, previously known as Moving Star.  Some of the original members of Moving Star –Bob Torsello (bass) & Greg Feller (percussion), have reformed h along with guitarist Mark Mcnutt to create Lost Ceilings.  (All of the band members are active in additional musical collaborations, including The Feelies, Shrubs, Armedalite Rifles, Mighty Girl, The Ellisa Jones Band and the Slavbovian Circus of Dreams.)

Janet Hamill and Lost Ceilings’ collaboration creates a marvelous blend of poetry and ambient rock n’roll.  Together, they have performed with literary and musical luminaries, including Bob Holman, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, David Amram and Judith Tullock.   

Presented in Kurt Seligmann's Studio, on the second level of the converted (yellow) barn. 
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Photo by Michael Sean Collins