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CPW is a gathering place for robust dialogue and creative discovery in photography and related media.

Our mission is to effect social change through innovative programs that explore photography as a medium for understanding ourselvelves and our society.

10/22/2026

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10/17/2026

This month's Photo Club happens Tuesday, October 20!

Slow Looking: A Conversation in Seeing w/ Liz Titone will explore the practice of slow looking with Tanya Marcuse’s current CPW exhibition, Woven | Deer: An Ecological Tapestry.

Staying with an image past the first impression, we notice what settles and what reveals itself over time. It opens a way of receiving what’s present, deepening our engagement with the images we’ve made and the ones we’ve yet to create.

After initial observations, we will listen for what others notice that we did not, and see what emerges during those conversations. In the process, we gather language, encountering alternative words and ways of seeing. Those observations can stay with us, finding their way into our notes, our conversations about photographs, and the images we make.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026. 6-8PM. FREE.
RSVP: https://ow.ly/81Fe50ZY5Q6

Liz Titone built a career around looking. An artist and museum educator for twenty years, she designs programs that invite people to look closely, stay curious, and let what they notice find its way into the images they make. Her photographic practice gives the materials room to lead, welcoming chance and surprise over control, and trusts that attention, given time, reveals what an image holds. Titone holds a B.F.A. in Photography from SUNY Purchase and an M.S.Ed. in Museum Education from Bank Street College. She lives in Kingston, NY.

Image: Tanya Marcuse, Woven, No. 4, detail.

10/16/2026

Amazing news for CPW: father and son Charles and Aaron Traub have donated their legendary Traub Family Lens and Screen Arts book collection to the CPW library! With over 2,700 volumes, this donation is international in scope, focusing primarily on 20th and 21st century photography, with hundreds of key monographs and rare books of many specialties, such as Italian photography, New Bauhaus photographers, African and African-American photographers, and the so-called Kentucky Renaissance and the Lexington Camera Club, of which Charles Traub was a part.

Charles began acquiring these books in the late 1960s to support his development as a photographic artist and educator. Similarly, Aaron started collecting in the late 1980s as he pursued his own creative pursuits in design and the visual arts. One third of the library is from Aaron. Note that Charles, a noted photographer, founded SVA's graduate photography program in 1988, and will retire from it in the spring of 2027. The program will be discontinued at that point.

We are excited to share this extraordinary resource with our community. The CPW library is open by appointment; please email Adam Ryan ([email protected]) to schedule a time!

10/08/2026

Highlights from our Digital Media Lab!

The Digital Media Lab supports a broad range of activities, including large-scale inkjet printing, artwork reproduction, film scanning, and more. Our equipment includes desktop and large-format Epson printers, flatbed and Imacon scanners, and a digital camera copy stand.

New to any of the equipment? Not to worry: one-on-one help is available to walk you through realizing your scanning and printing projects. https://cpw.org/dml/

If you've never been, come by 25 Dederick Street and see the creative buzz at the DML for yourself. Orientations are free and take just 30 minutes!

Featured artists: .photo .rusiecki .1

10/07/2026

The CPW October calendar, event by event!

Note that some workshops are full, but sometimes someone drops out and a spot opens; stay tuned to this space for notifications about that!

Photos:
Slide 10, Justine Kurland
Slide 16, Tanya Marcuse
Slide 18, John Shen

10/06/2026

October 17th is going to be a great day at CPW: photographer Caleb Stein will host a one-day workshop, "Paying Close Attention, Attention," focusing on how the act of attention on one place or subject becomes a kind of ritual that enriches perception. The workshop starts by exploring Stein's experience photographing a Hudson Valley swimming hole for more than a decade, as well as other photographers' work, and then moves into looking at participants' work: photographers may bring prints, an iPad or laptop, or share files in advance for projection; no formal presentation is required.

More info and sign ups: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cpwkingston/2361720

October 17, 10-5pm at CPW.

10/05/2026

On Thursday, October 8, we welcome Pia Paulina Guilmoth to “Meet the Artist.” Pia will present selections from her three most recent books, as well as b-sides and unreleased material spanning the past 10 years of her career. She will have a selection of books and prints for sale throughout the evening.

RSVP: https://ow.ly/TvaR50ZUBB9
Thursday, October 8, 2026. Doors at 5:30pm. Talk 6-7pm. FREE.

Pia Paulina Guilmoth lives and makes art in rural Maine. She works with a 4×5 camera and various experimental analogue techniques. Her work is foremost about beauty and her experience as a trans woman in the small town she lives in. Her work is held in the permanent collection of SFMOMA. Pia released her third book in November 2024 with Stanley/Barker titled "Flowers Drink the River," which received the Jury’s Special Mention for the 2025 Paris-Aperture Book of the Year award. In 2024-2025 she had two major solo exhibitions open—one in London (Webber Gallery) and one in New York (CLAMP). In 2024 she won a Google/Aperture Creator Labs grant and a Peter Reed Foundation grant in photography, and in 2022 she was a MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts. Pia’s fourth book, a collaborative project with Jesse Bull Saffire, titled Fishworm, was published with Void at the end of 2025. In the spring of 2026 Pia presented at the Forum on Contemporary Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Pia’s out-of-print monograph from 2021, At Night Gardens Grow, was re-issued in the summer of 2026 with Stanley/Barker.

“Meet the Artist” is made possible by generous grants from the Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

09/30/2026

Join us Saturday, October 3, 5-8 PM for our next Community Gallery opening! Organized by PHOCUS, Vassar College’s photography club and community darkroom, this exhibition of student work aims to explore the theme of “closeness.” RSVP https://cpw.org/exhibition/closeness-a-phocus-exhibition/

The photographs show a combination of friends, acquaintances, and strangers, places familiar and foreign, and attempt to answer such questions as: Can the relationship between subjects, or between subject and photographer, be discerned from a single static image? How does proximity of a camera to living subjects alter the nature of the moment that is captured? The selections represent an attempt to provoke a renewed engagement with the photographer-subject relationship.

PHOCUS, Vassar’s only student-run photography organization, works to create a broad and inclusive photographic community for students through biweekly meetings, critiques, workshops, guest lectures, and the publication of FIX, an annual photobook of student photography. PHOCUS also maintains the student-run Baldeck Darkroom, loans cameras, and aims to make photography more accessible to the wider student body.

Curated by Sofía Abrahamson, Audrey Amblard, Grace Cabasco, Amritha Dewan, and Madeline Miles Myers

ARTISTS
Ella Sheidley ‘26
Audrey Amblard ‘27
Sofía Abrahamson ‘27
Aviva Barry ‘27
Grace Cabasco ‘27
Peter Chu ‘27
Julian Balsley ‘28
Amritha Dewan ‘28
Aria Kuklinski ‘28
Rosalie Perkinson ‘28
Miles Myers ‘29
Mae Resnick ‘30

Photos: Ella Sheidley, Grace Cabasco, Sofía Abrahamson, Amritha Dewan, Aviva Barry

09/29/2026

On Thursday, October 1, we welcome Lindsay Buchman and D'Angelo Lovell Williams to “Meet the Artist.” Both are current CPW Artists-in-Residence. Buchman will present her long-term project, "Everything I’ve Ever Loved," exploring Southern California’s landscape through fragmented narratives of race, place, and adoption. Copies of her books will be available for sale. Williams will present an overview of their work and artistic practice.

RSVP:https://cpw.org/meet-the-artist-with-lindsay-buchman-and-dangelo-lovell-williams/
Live-stream, CPW YouTube, 6PM.

Thursday, October 1, 2026. Doors at 5:30pm. Talk 6–7pm. FREE.

Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Recent exhibitions include the Penumbra Foundation (NY), CPW (NY), and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (CA). Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Hofstra University.

D’Angelo Lovell Williams (b. 1992, Jackson, Mississippi) is a New York–based artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores Black q***r intimacy, kinship, desire, vulnerability, and self-authorship. Working across photography, video, weaving, and sculpture, Williams constructs staged and poetic encounters with friends, family, lovers, and collaborators, to create spaces where fiction and lived experience intersect.

Williams has exhibited work at such places as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Higher Pictures. Their work is held in the collections of Tate Modern, The Lumpkin-Bocuzzi Collection of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other places.

"Meet the Artist" is made possible by generous grants from the Arnold & Augusta Newman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Woodstock AIR is made possible in part by the Leonian Foundation.

Photos 1-2, D'Angelo Lovell Williams. Photos 4-5, Lindsay Buchman.

09/23/2026

AMPLIFY your impact on CPW! For the month of September, a generous supporter is offering a 2:1 match on all donations CPW receives, no matter the size! So, please, take this opportunity to give to CPW now. Click here to give: https://cpw.org/donate/

CPW is building a new kind of cultural institution in Kingston, a regional center for community engagement and artistic creation. Our exciting exhibitions, engaging public programs, thriving digital media lab, and affordable artists studios make CPW a fantastic place to visit, work, and learn.

Our very generous supporter has offered to triple all donations, meaning $50 becomes $150, $1,000 becomes $3,000 and so on. That’s a huge impact on a small community-based, artist-centered non-profit where entry is always free for all.

A few examples:
$50 ($150 to CPW): supports CPW’s free public programs and artist talks
$100 ($300 to CPW): helps to provide scholarships to CPW workshops and classes
$250 ($750 to CPW): underwrites the Community Gallery, in partnership with local groups
$500 ($1,500 to CPW): supports the Woodstock AIR Residency Program

Join us in making this 2 :1 match multiply CPW’s impact! If you like what we're doing, and are interested in helping us maintain our momentum, this a great chance to show it!

And come see for yourself the exciting ways in which CPW is moving photography and community forward. Click here to give: https://cpw.org/donate/

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