Foreland is fueled by contemporary makers of various media, all anchoring their practices and organizations within our campus.

Lyle Ashton Harris

Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. Born in the Bronx, New York, raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and New York, Harris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. 

Harris is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), The Tate Modern and many other collections. Harris’s work has been included in the Venice Biennale, the Busan Biennial, the Bienal de São Paulo and the Whitney Biennial. 

Harris is a Professor of Art at New York University.

Sky Hopinka

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, CA; Portland, OR; and Milwaukee, WI. In Portland, he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and textual work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non-fictional forms of media. Hopinka received his BA from Portland State University and his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He teaches at Bard College.

Hopinka's work has played at festivals including ImagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival (Toronto), Wavelengths (Toronto), Sundance (Park City) and Projections (New York) and he has received jury prizes and awards at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Images (Toronto) and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. His work was a part of the 2016 Wisconsin Triennial, the 2017 Whitney Biennial and the 2018 FRONT Triennial. He was a guest curator of the 2019 Whitney Biennial and was a part of Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou. He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018-2019, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow in 2019 and is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.

Marc Swanson

Marc Swanson is an artist living and working in Catskill, NY. He received his MFA from Bard College  in 2004, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000, and was faculty at Skowhegan in 2014.

As editor/critic David Velasco notes, “Swanson is an automythologist, one who excels in crafting sparkling, enigmatic totems from the messiness of his own history; there kitsch and confession dovetail to reveal, not obscure, visceral thirsts.” His work has been exhibited widely including The Whitney Museum of American Art, MOMA PS1, CAMH Houston, Walker Art Center, ICA Boston, Tensta Konsthall and others. Upcoming solo exhibitions include MASS MoCA and The Thomas Cole House. Mr. Swanson is on the Board of Governors of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Board of Basilica Hudson and on the Advisory Board for the Fire Island Artist Residency.

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter

Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is a mixed-media painter from upstate New York. 

She is a recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant and has been awarded residencies at The Fountainhead Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, NXTHVN, Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, and Yaddo. Group exhibitions include James Cohan Gallery (New York), Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (London), and upcoming solo shows at Mandeville Gallery, Union College (Schenectady) and Fridman Gallery, (Beacon). She earned her BA and MA from SUNY Albany in Painting and Drawing.

Sikelianos-Carter is the inaugural Foreland Fellow. This award of six months of free studio space is conferred biennially on an outstanding artist of color.

Nicole Cherubini

Nicole Cherubini received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and MFA from New York University. 

Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), the Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami), the Santa Monica Museum of Art (Los Angeles), and Albany University Art Museum. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City), MoMA PS1 (Long Island City), Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano (Guadalajara), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Sculpture Center (Long Island City), the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Tishman Speyer Collection (New York) among others. In 2019, Cherubini was an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 

Peggy Ahwesh

Peggy Ahwesh is an experimental filmmaker and video artist. A true bricoleur, her tools include narrative and documentary styles, improvised performance and scripted dialogue, synch-sound film, found footage, digital animation, and crude Pixelvision video.

Her work has been widely shown, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the Balie Theater (Amsterdam), the Filmmuseum (Frankfurt), Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona), the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Microscope Gallery (New York) and Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles), among other venues. Her numerous awards include an Alpert Award in the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, Creative Capital, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Laleh Khorramian

Laleh Khorramian was born in Tehran, Iran and currently lives and works in New York. She received her undergraduate degree at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA at Columbia University, New York.

Khorramian has exhibited internationally, including shows at MASS MOCA, Victoria and Albert Museum, Art Basel Statements, Ballroom Marfa, Istanbul Museum of Art, The Sundance Film Festival and The Queensland Art Gallery. In 2013, Bartleby and Co (Brussels) published her first limited edition artist book Include Amplified Toilet Water, which is housed in the collections of MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Columbia University and the Royal Library of Belgium.

Zia Anger

In 2018 she began touring a new solo performance that traces the last ten-years of her lost and abandoned work, titled 

. The performance was named by The New Yorker as one of the 

“Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking.”

 premiered at the 53rd New York Film Festival. In 2015 her short 

 had its world premiere at New Directors/New Films and its international premiere at Festival del film Locarno.


Caitlin MacBride

Caitlin MacBride is an artist based in Hudson, NY. Her work engages material culture and artifacts in an exploration of labor, desire, and belief systems. MacBride’s paintings balance various languages of painting with the structures of utilitarian objects sourced from museum archives.

MacBride received her MFA in painting at Bard College and holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has shown at Fisher Parrish, Chapter NY, Real Fine Arts, Greene Naftali, Zach Feuer, Jack Barrett Gallery, Hesse Flatow, and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein among others. Her work has been written about in Modern Painters, Art Forum, New York Magazine, and vogue.com.

Theo Anthony

Theo Anthony is a filmmaker based in upstate New York. 

, premiered to critical acclaim at Festival del film Locarno and had a broadcast premiere on PBS' Independent Lens in 2018. Anthony received the 2017 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellowship and the 2018 Simons Foundation Science Sandbox Fellowship. His follow-up, 

, produced for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, played at the 2019 New York Film Festival and was broadcast nationally later that year. His most recent feature, 

, premiered in competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury award.

Julia Weist

Julia Weist is a visual artist whose work explores how the process of record keeping reveals crucial social truths around shared systems of knowledge and power.

Weist's work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The MIT List Visual Arts Center and the City of New York among other collections. Weist’s public artworks include 

 (2015, Queens). Her work has recently been exhibited at the Queens Museum (New York), the Hong-Gah Museum (Taiwan), The Luminary (St. Louis), The Shed (New York), nGbK (Berlin), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam), the Gwangju Biennale and many other venues. In 2019 she was named Public Artist in Residence for New York City’s Department of Records and Information Services.

R.B. Schlather

R.B. Schlather is an American artist, musician and educator. He is known as a director of opera, and associated with critically acclaimed process-art installations and site-specific performances in museums, galleries, theaters, concert halls, historic buildings, warehouses and public spaces. In additional to performance and installation, he paints and creates miniature theatrical dioramas with found materials to continue his investigation into access, ritual, eroticism and architecture.

Schlather has directed performances for Oper Frankfurt, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, Fisher Center Bard, Opera Philadelphia, Curtis Opera Theater, National Sawdust, Boston Lyric Opera, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Barnes Foundation, Green-Wood Cemetery, Perez Art Museum Miami and The School/Jack Shainman Gallery. He has taught at New York University, Princeton University, Curtis Institute of Music, Ithaca College and the Banff Center for Performing Arts.

Stef Halmos

Stef Halmos holds a BFA from Miami University and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been shown internationally, including exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Chelsea Art Museum, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, among many others.

Halmos has received fellowships from the William and Dorothy Yeck foundation, as well as the Murphy and Cadogan foundation, with work published in 

She is the Founder and Executive Director of Foreland and keeps a studio on campus.

Padma Rajendran

Padma Rajendran was born in Klang, Malaysia and now lives and works in Catskill. Her works on fabric experiment with the clash and combination of patterning and storytelling. Her content-rich compositions reference the duality and contradictions of culture and the multi-facetted definitions of universal heritage.

Rajendran studied at Bryn Mawr College and received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited at the International Print Center (New York), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), INDEX (Los Angeles), Beers London (UK), Field Projects (New York), September Gallery (Hudson, NY), and BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn). Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, and Make Magazine and she teaches printmaking at SUNY Purchase.

Corinne May Botz

Corinne May Botz is a Brooklyn-based photographic artist, filmmaker, and educator who received her BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art and her MFA from Bard College.

Her published books combining photography and writing include 

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

 (Monacelli Press, 2010). Botz’s photographs have been internationally exhibited at such institutions as the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Wurttembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart, Germany); De Appel (Amsterdam), Turner Contemporary (UK), and Benrubi Gallery (New York City). Her short film “Bedside Manner” (2016) won the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC. She is on the faculty of International Center of Photography and John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). Botz is represented by Benrubi Gallery in NYC.

Chris Keating

Chris Keating is a multidisciplinary artist, film composer and musician. As the founder and lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band Yeasayer he released 5 albums and toured internationally for over a decade. He is currently scoring films and animations and residing in Hudson.

Maggie Hazen

Maggie Hazen is a New York based artist from Los Angeles and founder of the 

 where she co-authors projects with incarcerated girls at the formerly titled 

. Hazen’s work explores themes of resistance and healing in a cinematically real world of violence through complex images, videos, and sculptures that merge mythology, technology, and advocacy. 

She has exhibited, screened and performed works at The Bronx Museum (New York), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), The Museum of Tolerance (Los Angeles), Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), The Granoff Center (Brown University) and CICA Museum (South Korea) among other venues. She has received residencies and fellowships from Pioneer Works (Brooklyn), The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, I:O at the Helikon Art Center (Turkey) and the Vermont Studio Center. She holds a BFA in sculpture from Biola University and an MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. Hazen has taught at New York University, The Stevens Institute of Technology, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art and is currently a professor at Bard College in Studio Arts.

Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Recent solo exhibitions include the Newport Art Museum (Newport, RI), Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera (New York), and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta), among many others. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Le Consortium (Dijon, France), the Kunstmuseum Luzern (Luzern, Switzerland), and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) in 2021. Hughes’ work belongs to many prominent museum collections including the Dallas Museum of Art, the Denver Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Jorge M. Perez Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of Art, among others.

Susan Lisbin

Susan Lisbin is a sculptor and painter living in Catskill. Her work focuses on relationships using abstract forms. In her sculptural work she uses handbuilt clay, favoring an organic, coil method.

Lisbin is a member of the Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea, NY. Her most recent solo exhibition was at the Catherine Fosnot Gallery and Art Center in New London, CT. Lisbin's work is in many private collections in the New York metropolitan area. She has been awarded a residency fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center and the Horned Dorset Art Colony. Susan holds a master’s degree in painting from Montclair State University.

Heather Bursch

Heather Bursch’s practice is informed in part by her day job as a “touch-up artist” in Manhattan’s luxury domestic interiors. Through that framework, she sees her artworks as pressing revisions to the spaces and contexts in which they circulate.

She holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Awards for her work include a NYFA Fellowship in Digital and Electronic Arts, an Experimental Television Center Grant, and a MacDowell Fellowship.

Tania Alvarez

Tania Alvarez was born Seville, Spain and is now based in Germantown, NY.

Her work has been exhibited most recently at Miriam Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Woodstock 'Artists Association and Museum (Woodstock, NY), Collar Works (Troy, NY), Golden Artists Colors (New Berlin, NY), The Clinton Foundation (Harlem, NY), Jackson Dinsdale Art Center (Hastings, NE), The Untitled Space (New York, NY), Matthew Flowers Gallery (New York, NY), First Street Gallery, (New York, NY), and abroad at The Delphian Gallery (London, UK). Alvarez was a 2019 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant recipient and has been awarded residencies at The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, The Studios at MASS MoCA, Cuttyhunk Island Artists Residency, The Central Academy Of Fine Arts Residency (Beijing, China), and The James Castle House Residency in Boise, Idaho (2022).

Kathryn Lynch

Kathryn Lynch was born in Philadelphia. She holds a BA from William Smith College, an MFA from University of Pennsylvania and has attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Lynch received a 2018 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellowship in painting and has been in residence at Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and was awarded space from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. Recent solo shows include Zephyr and Maize, The Drawing Room Gallery (East Hampton) and Turn Gallery (NYC). Her work has been featured in 

, among other publications. Her work is in public and corporate collections such as the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Microsoft, Johnson and Johnson and others. She is represented by Searspeyton Gallery, Tayloe Piggott Gallery and The Drawing Room.

Paul Woolf Boettiger

Paul Woolf Boettiger is a furniture and architectural designer based in the Hudson Valley. He is the cofounder of the design studio GOWER + WOOLF.

Clair Catillaz

Clair Catillaz makes functional and sculptural ceramic objects. She established a full-time studio practice in Brooklyn in 2009 and relocated to Catskill in 2016. Her work is internationally collected by individuals and design professionals.

Amanda C. Mathis

Amanda C. Mathis was born in Orlando, FL and is currently based in Hudson, NY. Her work encompasses site-specific interventions, assemblage, sculpture, photography and collage.

Mathis received her BFA in ceramics from the University of Central Florida and her MFA in sculpture from Pratt Institute. She's had solo exhibitions at Lesley Heller Gallery (New York), James Nicholson Gallery (New York), Smack Mellon (New York) and Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts (WI). She has been included in group and two-person exhibitions at Open Source Gallery (New York), Kunsthalle Galapagos (New York), the Freedman Gallery at Albright College (PA), helper (New York), Gallery Molly Krom (New York) and Smack Mellon (New York). Mathis has participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts residency. She was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2011 and a NYFA Fellowship (Craft/Sculpture) in 2014.

Beka Goedde

Beka Goedde is a sculptor, printmaker and Artist-in-Residence with the Studio Arts department at Bard College.

Goedde has recently exhibited work with Assembly Room (New York), Sardine Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), Galerie Rene Blouin (Montreal, Canada), Soloway (Brooklyn, NY), Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing, China), Deborah Berke Partners (New York) and Helen Day Art Center (Stowe, VT) among other venues. Goedde has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, JTHAR, Millay Colony and PS122. Goedde was the recipient of a 2020 Bard Research Fund Faculty Grant to produce a collaboration with 10 Grand Press, Brooklyn, NY, and a 2015 Brooklyn Arts Council grant to produce a large outdoor public work, "Fictitious Force," 2015-16, in partnership with NYC Parks & Recreation.

Village Common

The Village Common is comprised of two artists, Benjamin Lebel and Blake Hays, who have come together to create a brand exploring new alternatives to everyday amenities. We believe in creating truly natural products and transparency around health and wellness in home fragrances. We are committed to bringing safe and natural options to our community through our completely unaltered, 100% plant based candles and beyond. Find the Common.

Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition

Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition (HCHC) is a Black-led initiative that empowers public housing and low-income tenants to fight for housing justice. HCHC believes that treating housing as a human right is a form of investment in human and community life that can fundamentally transform society. Realizing this vision involves empowerment, education, and mobilization around housing justice.

Willa's

At Willa’s we make our baked goods and bread fresh daily, along with a rotating selection of breakfast dishes, sandwiches, salads, and desserts. Our food is made from scratch, sourced from fresh ingredients and local providers, and served with care and pride.

As much as possible, we use ingredients from Hudson Valley farms and vendors - part of a commitment to supporting our community and offering the best possible products.

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