This Summer, contemporary sculptures have joined the Kaatsbaan Cultural Park for the 2021 season. Starting May 20 with the Kaatsbaan Spring Festival, the artworks will complement the dance, music, poetry, visual and culinary arts programming planned for the upcoming seasonal events.  The participating artists are: Emil Alzamora, Stuart Farmery, Tristan Fitch, Anthony H. Garner, Jared Handelsman, Kenichi Hiratsuka, Bernard Klevickas, Portia Munson, Shelley Parriott, Eileen M. Power, Gregory Steel, Christina Tenaglia, and Millicent Young.

Jen Dragon, of Cross Contemporary Partners, together with Hilary Greene of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, have curated an outdoor sculpture exhibition to accompany the Kaatsbaan Spring Festival. Taking place throughout the 2021 summer season throughout Kaatsbaan’s lush 153-acre campus in the Hudson Valley, the artwork will complement the dance, music, poetry, visual and culinary arts programming planned for this event and other upcoming performances.
Dragon and Greene focused on mid-career sculptors whose work embodies the movement and flow of the Hudson Valley’s natural landscape. From carved stone pillars, to painted wooden forms, silk banners to cast bronze, horsehair and grapevines to ladders, the exhibition at Kaatsbaan displays a wide vocabulary of contemporary sculpture.

Hilary Greene, who is also a Kaatsbaan Board Member, noted, “Last summer Kaatsbaan had the wonderful vision to create an outdoor stage as a venue to liberate world-class dancers to perform in front of live audiences with magnificent views of trees, mountains, and sky. The art and the audience’s response to it felt like salvation during very difficult times.”
“The Summer Festival was a truly seminal event for Kaatsbaan, the Hudson Valley, and the world of dance. It’s very exciting for the Spring Festival to continue the new tradition of outdoor performances while adding world-class sculpture, food, and music to nourish our souls,” she added.

About Kaatsbaan Cultural Park: The mission of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence. As both an incubator for creativity and presenter for world-class artists in dance, theater, music, film, poetry, and visual art, Kaatsbaan provides artists with state-of-the-art dance studios, accommodations, an indoor theater, and two outdoor stages. Sitting on 153 Hudson River adjacent acres, Kaatsbaan is free of urban facilities’ space and time constraints, allowing for exciting levels of artistic exploration, creative action, and achievement – just two hours north of New York City. Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is committed to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts aiming to present, promote, and embrace programming that accurately reflects our society.