VENUES
BASILICA HUDSON
110 S. FRONT STREET
Founded in 2010 by musician Melissa Auf der Maur and filmmaker Tony Stone, Basilica Hudson now operates as a non-profit multidisciplinary arts center, supporting the creation, production, and presentation of independent and innovative arts and culture while fostering a sustainable community. Constructed in 1884, the building originally operated as a factory producing steel railway car wheels and the structure’s intricate truss system pays homage to its industrial past. Basilica Hudson’s programming includes genre-pushing music festivals, large scale marketplace events, regular film screenings, an artist in residency program, a new weekly series of musical performances and art exhibits in their reactivated Gallery Building, and other community collaborations. The majority of its programs are free or sliding scale. Inspiration for its mission and programs is drawn from Hudson’s eclectic and epic history, as well as the regional geography and history. Basilica Hudson invites audiences to discover Hudson and the region and strives to forge experiences that aspire to the scale, grit, and beauty of its surroundings.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
369 WARREN STREET
First Presbyterian Church of Hudson, active in the community for over a century, continues to play a central role in the spiritual and cultural life in the City of Hudson to the present day. The church offers ongoing programs in spiritual development while carrying out projects in foreign ministry and community service including Help Syria’s Kids: the Hudson- Ketermaya Connection- an effort to provide ongoing refugee children in a camp in Ketermaya, Lebanon, and community service, and The New Leaf Garden: 14 raised garden beds that are available at no cost to the community with a produce raised by church members is donated to the Salvation Army kitchen. A historic landmark located on Warren Street, the Gothic Revival style church was designed and built in masonry construction by John A. Woods and R.H.B. Wicks. Characteristic of other Gothic structures during the period of 1800-1849, the church dons features such as decorative crowns on windows, steeply pitched roofs, and rich ornamentation throughout its dual steeples and exterior façade.
GALVAN FOUNDATION
400 STATE STREET
The Federal-style stone building, most recently occupied by the Hudson Area Library, was erected by the city of Hudson in the early nineteenth century as an almshouse to provide shelter for the poor. Over the next two hundred years, the structure successively housed a number of institutions including an asylum for the insane, female academy, orphanage, and ultimately a public library. For a brief period, the building served as the private residence of a prominent Hudson citizen.
The Galvan Foundation Old Library is an example of the classicizing architecture of the Federal style. Through its symmetry, pediment, and gabled roof, the building exudes a sense of permanence and strength, characteristic of its variety of functions throughout its two hundred year life. The original limestone structure was built in 1818, with its rear addition being constructed between the period of 1884 and 1889. In 2008, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo Credit: Peggy Polenberg
HENRY HUDSON RIVERFRONT PARK
108 WATER STREET
Rick’s Point is a community space located along Hudson’s Waterfront. The city has focused efforts on improving Hudson’s Waterfront District through New York State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative, developing purpose-built spaces to promote educational, entrepreneurial, and business development while placing an emphasis on arts industries. The incorporation of greenspace and public parks work to foster a sense of community and engage the public as a center of beautification and gathering within Hudson.
HUDSON AREA LIBRARY
51 N. 5TH STREET
The Hudson Area Library now exists as a welcoming, vibrant, and integral part of Hudson’s intellectual, socio-economic and cultural life. Designed by Isaac G. Perry and built in 1893, the structure was originally an armory military facility, with its masonry architecture characteristic of medieval European castles of the 12th to 15th centuries. The symmetrical center-hall facade houses a two story, brick and stone arcaded pavilion with either side showcasing a rounded tower connected by a gabled roof. The structure was later renovated in 2012 by Vincent Benic Architect as part of the Galvan Community Center redesign. Preservation efforts were made to highlight the original steel windows and wooden doors as well as the blue sandstone and brick exterior. Modern updates include a temperature and humidity-controlled History Room and Community Learning Center. The Library enriches the region’s quality of life by providing free and equal access to programs, services, and resources, and by creating opportunities for all members of the community to connect, create, learn and grow.
Hudson Hall
327 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534
Hudson Hall is located in a historic and landmarked building housing New York State’s oldest surviving theater – a place where Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford showed paintings, Bret Harte read poems, “Blind Tom” Wiggins packed the house with his virtuosity on the piano, Henry Ward Beecher presented a rousing abolitionist lecture, Susan B. Anthony visited thrice, and Teddy Roosevelt regaled a crowd.
After being abandoned for decades, local citizens came together in 1992 to save the building and establish a cultural center founded on a social commitment to serve its diverse community. Step by step, they worked to rehabilitate the building, reopening the first ground floor rooms in 1998, replacing the roof and restoring the cornice, and stabilizing the building.
In 2017, and with tremendous support from the community, Hudson Hall completed a $9.5 million restoration of its magnificent performance hall to serve the City of Hudson and the region, support a thriving creative economy and act as a catalyst for visitors to yield a positive impact on restaurants, shops, businesses, and other destination points in the area.
LIGHTFORMS ARTS CENTER
743 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY 12534
Lightforms is a center for cultural renewal that brings creative artists and their artwork into the public domain in innovative ways that stimulate dialogue around the inner and outer challenges of our time and attempts to serve the spiritual needs of human beings in their daily lives. Lightforms is founded on the spiritual-scientific worldview of Rudolf Steiner which is called anthroposophy.
The artists of Lightforms strive to create works of art, as well as new cultural and social forms, that allow the spiritual in art to serve the ongoing progressive evolution of the world, human society, and each individual. Lightforms is dedicated to accessibility, diversity and community involvement.
Lightforms intends to realize its mission through public presentations, exhibitions, installations, workshops, lectures, conferences, and performances; an artist-in-residence program; a research center for the further development and understanding of the spiritual foundations of the visual arts; a possible artists grants program; a permanent collection/archive; publications; and a small gift shop.
SECOND WARD FOUNDATION
71 N. 3RD STREET
Located in the Hudson Valley, Second Ward occupies the former Charles Williams School in Hudson, NY. Designed by M.F. Cummins and Son of Troy and completed in 1924, the building originally accommodated 480 elementary school students. It is being repurposed into an auditorium, education center, and art galleries.
Second Ward holds events in the building including live music and video screenings by local as well as internationally recognized performers and artists.
The foundation also loans art work to regional, national and international institutions.
Space 428
428 State Street
One of the most stunning architectural gems is this historic 1870 brick church. Recently repurposed as a luxury residence with 30 FT ceilings, Gourmet Kitchen, new bathrooms, central AC, Wifi, Cable TV & a beautiful loft master bedroom with its own original circular stained glass window. Comes fully equipped & tastefully furnished. The vast 2,500 SF clear span space lends itself to anything you can imagine. In the heart of Hudson’s Armory District & minutes from every cultural offering in town. Tenant pays for Utilities, Wifi & Cable TV charges.
SUSAN ELEY FINE ART
433 WARREN STREET
Susan Eley Fine Art (SEFA) was founded in 2006 by Susan Eisner Eley, who continues her tenure as owner and director at the Gallery’s Lower East Side location in NYC—as well as its venue in downtown Hudson in Upstate New York. Between 2006-2022, SEFA NY was situated in an Upper West Side townhouse in Manhattan, where the Gallery offered an intimate viewing experience, differentiating itself from the more formal presentations characteristic of the “white cube” gallery model. Eley established a second location in Hudson in the Summer of 2020, initially as a “pandemic pop-up.” SEFA Hudson has become a principal gallery within the Hudson Valley art scene—integral in welcoming and expanding both local Upstate art communities and visitors to this burgeoning arts region. In response to the success of the Hudson storefront model, Eley moved the uptown NYC gallery to the Lower East Side in the Fall of 2022, where the gallery joins a rich array of museums and cutting edge contemporary galleries in this ever burgeoning, downtown cultural hub. SEFA hosts a dynamic roster of American and international artists, and focuses on contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists, who work in a range of media—encompassing painting, printmaking, sculpture and photography. Solo and group exhibitions at both NY venues showcase abstract and figurative work, created by a diverse body of artists from the US, Latin America, Asia and Europe. In addition to its regular exhibition programming, SEFA has hosted artist talks, political fundraisers, literary and poetry salons and panel discussions on a variety of cultural and political topics—as well as participated in art fairs in Miami, Houston, San Francisco, New York City and Toronto. Eley is committed to adapting to our unprecedented and ever-changing global conditions, while continuing to share art with broad audiences. SEFA is a small business that is female-owned and operated, and that supports feminist and BIPOC artists and principles.
Time & Space Limited
TSL
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary
434 COLUMBIA STREET
Linda Mussmann founded Time & Space Limited Theatre Co., Inc. (TSL) in 1973 in New York City and Claudia Bruce joined as co-director in 1976. For 50 years – 20 in NYC and 30 in Hudson NY – the duo have managed Time & Space Limited Theatre Co., Inc. – aka Time & Space Limited / TSL – an all-inclusive, avant-garde performance space and art house, like no other in the Upstate New York region.
TSL brings to this community and the entire region, programs of creative energy, that testify to the hopes and dreams of great art and artists past, present, and future. The belief that art is what holds us all together is why TSL does what it does.
TSL encourages artistic expression in daily life, and supports the evolution of Hudson NY as a community that celebrates its diversity. TSL encourages audiences to explore themes that reflect the local and global concerns of Hudson Valley residents by offering original theater productions and performances, live music presentations, art exhibitions, multi-media productions, independent and documentary films, live HD simulcasts, poetry and book readings and discussions, community forums, and special events of all kinds. TSL is also home to a popular and bodacious Used Book Space and Stuff Store.
www.timeandspace.org
THE WICK HUDSON
41 CROSS STREET
The Wick, Hudson, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, is a repurposed 1860’s candle factory lovingly restored into a 55 room boutique hotel in Hudson, New York. We have a variety of both king and queen rooms, sprinkled with Junior and Luxury suites. The majority of our rooms have elevated ceiling heights and most have an original historical element such as brick, beams or original wood flooring. We offer free valet parking as well as a EV charging station. Our local shuttle is available for our guests. We are nestled a short distance from Hudson’s Amtrak train station.
TURLEY GALLERY
98 Green St Suite 2, Hudson, NY 12534
Turley Gallery was founded in 2022 by its Director, Ryan Turley. The gallery is focused on emerging and established artists, specifically those who push the boundaries of their respective mediums and create work that is fresh, relevant, and significant to the contemporary art world.
Ryan is a working artist and understands the need for galleries to consider the art business from the artist’s perspective, while simultaneously navigating the challenge of operating a successful contemporary art gallery.
Ryan founded and directed the program, Art Austerlitz, in upstate New York for the three years preceding the opening of Turley Gallery. This program put a spotlight on contemporary artists from the Hudson Valley.
Turley Gallery offers art advisory services to private clients and corporations throughout the United States and can assist with both established and new collections.
Martine Kaczynski, Threshold | Installation photography by Alon Koppel Photography
UPPER DEPOT BREWING CO.
708 State Street, Hudson, NY 12534
Best friends and longtime residents of Columbia County, Monty Bopp and Aaron Maas, opened their dream brewery in Hudson last year in a 19th century train station. Here’s why Upper Depot is well worth a stop.
Maas started making beer as a culinary student at SUNY Cobleskill, and after interning at the Dutch Ale House in Saugerties, he fell in love with the industry. “Since then, it’s just been a longtime goal to open our own brewery,” says Maas. Combined with Bopp’s experience working at a variety of restaurants in Hudson, the duo helped restore a circa-1871 train station, began crafting their own brews, and formally opened Upper Depot on December 28, 2022.
Upper Depot Brewing produces four flagship beers: Upper Depot IPA, Shop the Cooler Stout, No. 999 Steam Ale, and Upper Depot Kölsch. Their best-seller is the IPA, a bold West Coast-style brew with citrus and piney aromas. The Kölsch is a crisp and yeasty golden beer. If you’re a fan of malty notes, the amber-colored ale is for you. Maas’ favorite is the stout, a coffee- and chocolate-flavored brew with dark-roasted malts and oats. Other beers on tap are poured seasonally.
ARTICLE CREDIT : BY MICAELA WARREN
Carrie Haddad Gallery
622 Warren Street
Established in 1991 as the first fine art gallery in Hudson, NY, Carrie Haddad Gallery represents professionally committed artists as well as emerging talent specializing in all types of painting, both large and small sculpture, works on paper and a variety of techniques in photography.
Occupying 3000 sq ft. on Warren Street, the gallery is conveniently located just two hours north of Manhattan. The annual exhibition schedule accommodates 7 exhibits on the main floor as well as a rotating selection of photography displayed on the second floor.
Carrie Haddad Gallery also offers art consultation services, collaborating with design professionals and architects across the country to procure compelling works for private residences and corporate collections. Our diverse inventory offers solutions to fit all criteria and a small staff ensures direct and dedicated project management.
Carrie Haddad is a Bard College alumna, has juried numerous regional art shows and lectured at both the Center for Photography in Woodstock and the Woodstock School of Art. She also served on the board of the Columbia County Council on the Arts for 8 years and produced Hudson's annual Arts Walk for ten years.
https://carriehaddadgallery.com/index.cfm?method=home.welcome
https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2019/03/21/the-eyes-of-carrie-haddad/
WINDOW ON HUDSON
43 S. 3RD STREET
Window On Hudson offers storefront window exhibition space for artists of Hudson and the Hudson Valley. Window On Hudson is committed to providing a platform for established and developing artists to display their work, of all mediums, while also offering professional development opportunities for emerging artists.
Window On Hudson is two large storefront windows located at 43 South Third Street, Hudson NY 12534. The windows are prominently visible 24/7 to all citizens and visitors of the City of Hudson traveling south in NY-9G.
Photo Credit: © Jeremy Kristin Bullis
Artist Credits: Nikolette Bellochhio, CHIMBA, Ifetayo Cobbins, Jeannie LoVullo, Will Squibb
indoor exhibitions: 11am - 5pm daily
Basilica Hudson
Hudson Hall
galvan foundation
LIGHTFORMS ARTS CENTER
Susan eley fine art
the wick hudson
TURLEY GALLERY
window on hudson