Transforming Collage: Hudson Valley
The Exhibition Program of Making Meaning Symposium
Transforming Collage: Hudson Valley is a series of exhibitions presented in conjunction with the Making Meaning symposium. Featuring regional and national artists, the program expands our understanding of collage through curatorial approaches, historical inquiry, and contemporary artistic practice across institutions and independent spaces throughout the Hudson Valley.
All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Vassar College
Hudson Valley
Shapeshifters: Collage to Form
Palmer Gallery, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
JULY 2 - AUGUST 2, 2026
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An exhibition exploring the intersection of image and object in contemporary collage, curated by Andrea Burgay and Monica Church.
Exhibition Artists: Yura Adams, Craig Auge, Edgard Barbosa, Karlos Cárcamo, Jordanna Kalman, Allison Owen, Ransome, Sylvan Robinson
James W. Palmer III Gallery
College Center, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Image: Alison Owen, Split Flower Jar, collage, stoneware, and found frame
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Uncollage—Seamless Unison, cuarted by Todd Bartel, is the world-premiere exhibition introducing the neologism “Uncollage” into the lexicon of Collage practices. Uncollage—Seamless Unison showcases fused imagery across a wide range of media, examining the differences between physical gluing, immaterial gluing, and intellectual coupling.
Washington Gallery
Dutchess Community College
53 Pendell Road
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Curated by collage artist, Rosanne Walsh, Meaning Matters is a celebration of discernment. The keen perception and intellectual skill of sifting through, and combining worldly debris to make connections to the collective unconscious through artistry, goes far beyond cutting and pasting. This exhibit displays the personal or universal meaning that inspires or is born through the work of all collage artists attending the Making Meaning Collage Symposium
Old Bookstore Gallery
College Center, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NYImage: Rosanne Walsh, Biologicals, Collage on Paper
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An exhibition of artists exploring location and place through collage, curated by Sharon Bates.
Exhibition Artists: Laura Cannamela, Monica Church, Elisa Lendvay, Susan Newmark, Barbara Todd
Millbrook Arts Project
3 Friendly Lane
Millbrook, NYImage: Monica Church, The price tea in Munnar, Collage on rice paper
Works from the Collection
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
JULY 2 - AUGUST 2, 2026
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Exhibition of collage works from The Loeb’s collection, curated by Jessica Brier.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
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68 Prince St presents an exhibition expanding the definition of collage, curated by Alan Goolman.
68 Prince Street Gallery
68 Prince Street
Kingston, NYImage: David Hornung, Prodigy
Selections from the Postcard Collective 2019-2026
Vassar College Art Library
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
JULY 9 - OCTOBER 18, 2026
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Given the unfortunate decline of the United States Postal Service, this mail art exhibition honors an exchange that faces extinction due to the high cost of postage and increasing restrictions on what or how things can be mailed. Curator Monica Church has been a participating member of the Tucson, Arizona-based Postcard Collective’s seasonal exchanges since the Fall of 2019, one of a crossover of collage artists who also create works to be sent and received via the mail.
The exhibition shares a selection of postcards from exchanges including works by Allan Bealy, Amelia Morris, Stephen Tomasko, Billy Renkl, Helen Chang, Craig Davidson, Wolfgang Lexington, Mia Beach, and more.
Vassar College Art Library
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NYImage: Amelia Morris, Collage Leftovers, 4th Grade, Chapelwood Elementary, Indianapolis, Indiana; The Postcard Collective: Incomplete Ratio, Fall 2024
Bits and Pieces
Gallery 40
Poughkeepsie, NY
JULY 1 – JUL 31, 2026
Open call for submissions through June 1
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Exhibition of young and emerging artists working in collage, curated by Paola Bari.
Gallery 40
40 Cannon St
Poughkeepsie, NY
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ZK creates portraits of everyday people, sports people, animals and fictional folks.
He will be showing his work alongside photographer Sean Hemmerle’s series basketball hoops from around the world.
CONVEY/ER/OR
299 Main St
Poughkeepsie, NY
Image: ZK Truth, Fast Break, collage made from magazine and newspaper clippings, 12" x 12"
His Master’s Vision: A Still Film by Michael Oatman
Hudson Valley Office Furniture Window Gallery
Poughkeepsie, NY
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His Master’s Vision is a 2026 installation designed for streetside viewing in the former Hudson Valley Office Furniture (HVOF) building in downtown Poughkeepsie. Utilizing over 1,000 glass lantern slides made between 1890 and 1930, it is a visual time capsule of one man’s global travels.
Produced by Owen D. Young—the founder of RCA Corporation—the images represent his “grand tour” of Europe, the Holy Land and various locations around New York State. The slides are a singular glimpse into the life of an early tech billionaire: in a sense, the Elon Musk or Bill Gates of his era.
The installation utilizes both the physical material and a video made from scans of the historic lantern slides. Curiously, about 60 of the slides have fused together during nearly 100 years in storage, resulting in overlaid pictures, much like a dissolve film edit. In that sense, the collision of images echoes the early collages of Hannah Höch, John Heartfield and Max Ernst.
Hudson Valley Office Furniture Window Gallery
375 Main St
Poughkeepsie, NY
Work on view 24 hours a day, 7 days a week