The Barns Art Center to Host Harvest Festival
Hopewell Junction, New York – The newly opened Barns Art Center is pleased to announce Harvest Festival. Held from October 9-10, the convening will feature the premiere of LOST ARTS, a three-screen film experience, the groundbreaking ceremony for a large-scale installation with artist collective Futurefarmers, and a local market.
LOST ARTS Film Premiere – screening times 11:00am-3:00pm
The Barns Art Center will premiere LOST ARTS, a three screen, immersive film experience that explores the art and culture of agriculture in the Hudson Valley. Beyond being a tool for education and a response to our current social and ecological climate, the film is a sensory celebration of the bounty of the Hudson Valley and the profound wisdom that has been unearthed and cultivated here for thousands of years. By looking to the past for forgotten methods, techniques, and philosophies, today’s farmers have found more innovative, sustainable, and equitable ways forward.
The ten featured farmers include: Jack Algiere, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture; Ben and Melany Dobson, Hudson Hemp; Ken Greene, Hudson Valley Seed Company; Anne Hall, Crespell; Don Lewis, Wild Hive Farm; John Michelotti, Catskill Fungi; Rick Osofsky, Ronnybrook Farm Dairy; David Rowe, Rowe’s Apiaries Jalal Sabur, Sweet Freedom Farm; Karen Washington, Garden of Happiness/La Familia Verde/Rise & Root. The film is produced with Kingston-based company Northguild.
In conjunction with the LOST ARTS premiere is a roster of farmer-led, daytime activities:
11:30am Sculpting with Flowers
Flower Arranging Workshop with Anne Hall, Crespell
12:30pm Looking Back – How did we get here?
A conversation with Don Lewis, Ken Greene, David Rowe, Rick Osofsky
1:30pm Spore Printing
Mushroom Walk and Printmaking Workshop with John Michelotti, Catskill Fungi
2:30pm Looking Forward – Farming for the Future – Where can we go?
A conversation with Jack Algiere, Ben and Melany Dobson, Jalal Sabur
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Futurefarmers Of Furrows & Lands in Harps Installation
Futurefarmers breaks ground on their first large-scale public artwork in the United
States. Drawing on the success of their 10-year project Flatbread Society for the city of
Oslo, Of Furrows & Lands in Harps will manifest as an extraordinary architectural
structure and a public program that unfolds over three-years time. The architectural
structure, designed by Belgian architect Lode Vranken, will feature three spaces: a
bakehouse, a meeting space and an extraordinary experimental instrument at the heart
of the work and building called Hum Stone. Hum Stone is made from a millstone and is
able to play other millstones. Drawing from the historical context of the site, once a farm,
then a microchip factory, now The Barns Art Center, this unique instrument points to the
past while invoking the future. Participating composers include Walter Kitundu,
Guillermo Galindo, Annea Lockwood.
A groundbreaking ceremony for Futurefarmers will be held from 3:00-6:00pm:
3:00 Place Stones with artist/choreographer, Elaine Buckholtz
A participatory action involving sound, movement, and the placing of three millstones.
4:00 Impressions from the Stone
A series of limited-edition prints made from rubbings of custom carved millstone by
Walter Kitundu.
Harvest Festival Market 11:00-3:00
The Festival Market will include River Valley Guild Artist and Artisan Market and a Cider
Week New York Tasting, including local food and beverage vendors such as Ronnybrook
Farm Dairy, Sloop Brewing Co., More Good, Fishkill Farms and Treasury Cider, and
more.
More about the The Barns Art Center
The Barns Art Center is a contemporary art initiative located up the Hudson River, 60 miles north of NYC, in East Fishkill at iPark 84. The Barns occupies a 3,200-square-foot museum quality gallery built adjacent a former IBM microchip plant. Aligning with the region’s rich agricultural tradition and history of environmental stewardship, The Barns champions art at the nexus of food, farming, ecology, and sustainability. Stimulating essential dialogue around innovation, conservation, and equity, we hope to cultivate new ways of thinking about the earth, the history we inherit, and the legacy we leave behind. Through its exhibition, education, and empowerment programs, The Barns Art Center strives to create community and catalyze creative expression. We are free, open to the public, and committed to fostering an accessible, interactive, and inclusive environment.
For additional information or materials regarding any of the above programs or events, contact: Tara Anne Dalbow, Gallery Director and Curator, tdalbow@barnsartcenter.org, c.970-376-8668