Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild mounts exhibitions and organizes events that honor both the cultural legacy established by the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in 1902 and contemporary artistic endeavors. The exhibition program features regional, national, and international artists; fine art and functional crafts; historical traditions and cutting-edge experimental projects.

Sharing the Space

25 October –
30 November 2025

Opening reception Saturday, 25 October  2025, 4-6 PM

Hudson Valley contemporary photographers in dialogue with historic Byrdcliffe artists

 

Since the artist-founders of Byrdcliffe landed in Woodstock in1902, artists have sought refuge in the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley.  Originally designed to combat the societal ills brought on by a series of industrial revolutions, Byrdcliffe’s founders created a utopian community where artists embraced solace and inspiration in nature and cultivated a reverence for the handmade. This tradition continues, as the artists represented in Sharing the Space look to the natural world for stability, for a connection to what is real, and for a sense of awe and wonder. This exhibition brings together historic landscape paintings from the Byrdcliffe collection, in a dialogue across time with landscape photographs from contemporary photographers, all sharing the space of the Hudson Valley.