2025 ANNUAL FESTIVAL

For 24 years, Jennifer Zackin has integrated public art, sculpture, installation, performance, and community engagement into her creative practice, blending art and ritual into everyday life. Zackin’s work has been exhibited in museums nationally and internationally, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) for “TAPS” on Governors Island in NYC; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; and more. 

Aurora Robson is known predominantly for her innovative, meditative work intercepting the plastic waste stream and has developed numerous techniques for sculpting with plastic debris. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, a TED/Lincoln Re-Imagine Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.

Portia Munson is a visual artist working in a wide range of media, focusing primarily on environmental and cultural themes seen from a feminist perspective. Recent solo exhibitions include: The Pink Bedroom, Museum of Sex, NYC (2023); Bound Angel, PPOW, NYC (2022); Flood, Art Omi, Ghent, NY (2022) and Memento Mori, Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, NY (2022).

From massive temporal site works to explorative furniture, Ian McMahon’s work coaxes materials out of their everyday processes to extend the limits of what is possible.

Heidi Lanino is a figurative abstract artist living and working in the Hudson Valley. Her art has been featured in Palm Beach Mod + Contemporary (2025); Art Miami (2024); Upstate Art Weekend (2023-2025); Lockwood Gallery (2023, 2024; Kingston, NY), curated by Alan Goolman’s the Core Club (2022; New York, NY), curated by Natasha Schl.

Neil Enggist, of Swiss and Taiwanese descent, is known for his “nature action paintings,” collaborations with nature and polyphonic conversations between human spirit and the wild. His work has been shown in New York, Milan, Mumbai, Luzern, and Zurich, and he has produced several poetry volumes of spiritual experience while traveling.

apanese, Brooklyn-based artist Daisuke Kiyomiya creates sculptures ranging from small to large scale, primarily using organic materials such as clay and stone. He has completed large-scale public sculptures in Japan and Switzerland, and notable projects include the New York Public Library, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Brooklyn Bridge, Trinity Church, Tiffany & Co., the Flick Collection, St. Paul Chapel, St. Thomas Church, Grace Church, Greenwood Cemetery, Players Club, and more.

Freeda Electra Handelsman grew up in a family of artists in Catskill, New York. She is currently based in New York, dancing at Tabula Rasa Dance Theater and freelancing, and most recently performing at NYFW’s PUMA show and in the Venice Biennale Danza Festival in Venice, Italy.

Gaston Lachaise was called by ARTnews, “the greatest American sculptor of his time.” Floating Figure has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Muse d’Art Moderne in Paris. Torso of Elevation has been shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Born in Paris and relocated to New York for most of his career, Lachaise played a critical role in the birth of American Modernism, pushing the boundaries of nude figuration with his innovative representations of the human body.