Upcoming Events
Art, Land & Future
Unison Arts inaugural Triennial: Art, Land & Future, is a landmark initiative celebrating both the 50th anniversary of Unison Arts and the 250th anniversary of the United States.
Arrivals & Afterlives
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Unison Arts presents Still Becoming: Arrivals & Afterlives, a multidisciplinary program honoring immigrant voices, stories, and creative practices in the Hudson Valley.
The Esperanto Project: A talk with Pablo Helguera
The project consists of a series of typographic posters featuring aphorisms Helguera has written and translated into Esperanto, exploring questions of translation, locality, universality, and cultural interpretation.
Smokefire Spellcasting
Create your own smokefired terracotta charm at Unison on Halloween!
34th Annual Craft, Art & Design Fair
Shop handmade, support local artists, and find one-of-a-kind gifts at Unison’s 34th Annual Craft, Art & Design Fair, December 5–6 at SUNY New Paltz.
Books as Art and Artist Books: R. B. Kitaj's In Our Time and Tom Phillips' A Humument
Join us at the Elting Memorial Library on Sunday, October 18th at 2 PM, for a panel discussion with artists Michael Oatman and Buzz Spector moderated by Reva Wolf, Professor of Art History, SUNY New Paltz. This program is brought to you in partnership with Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and Unison Arts Center.
Arrivals & Afterlives Artists’ Talk
Join us for a guided tour of Still Becoming: Arrivals & Afterlives, a multidisciplinary program honoring immigrant voices, stories, and creative practices in the Hudson Valley.
Arrivals & Afterlives Guided Tour
Join us for a guided tour of Still Becoming: Arrivals & Afterlives, a multidisciplinary program honoring immigrant voices, stories, and creative practices in the Hudson Valley.
Forced Omission
An ongoing series of oil paintings that reinterprets books by intellectuals who were imprisoned, executed, or exiled under the Soviet regime.
Garage Jam
Bring an instrument or use one of ours and jump into the jam, or simply come listen, connect, and enjoy a great time with fellow music lovers. Garage Jam is all about making music together in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere.
Liquid Futures
What does the social, environmental, and political ecology of the Wallkill River look like 50 years from now, 100 years from now, 1000 years from now, after climate change?
Chinese Brush Painting Workshop
Join Maxine for a relaxing, creative, and meditative experience!
A Wallkill Ritual to Invoke the Future
What is the power or change you seek? What future do you want for yourself? Your family? Your community? The world?
Wallkill Futures Opening Reception
While iconic rivers such as the Colorado and the Hudson dominate national attention, the Wallkill flows quietly in the background. It is a working river, used for irrigation and hydropower, but also relied on for recreation and habitat.
Wallkill Futures
While iconic rivers such as the Colorado and the Hudson dominate national attention, the Wallkill flows quietly in the background. It is a working river, used for irrigation and hydropower, but also relied on for recreation and habitat.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Join us at Liberty View Farm for A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Unison’s 50th Anniversary Gala — set against the rolling fields and twilight skies of the Hudson Valley.
Silent Auction
🎉 The countdown is over! Our 50th Anniversary Gala Silent Auction is LIVE!
Garage Jam
Tom and Mike will be rocking the garage with an evening of live music, improvisation, and community spirit. Bring an instrument or use one of ours and jump into the jam, or simply come listen, connect, and enjoy a great time with fellow music lovers. Garage Jam is all about making music together in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere.
Ground Current
Jordan Rosenow’s Ground Current sources metal studs and high-voltage glass and ceramic insulators to create an aquamarine and clay fountain suspended within a stainless steel frame and overtaken by purple and gold and pink pollinator plants.
Es Difícil Ser Un Santo
On Saturday, June 27 at 2:00 pm, Agustin Diocares will present Es Difícil Ser Un Santo in the Unison Arts indoor/outdoor Garage Gallery. This performance uses oranges as a poetic and political image to reflect on immigration, labor, and America’s dependence on undocumented workers.
Flood Futures
Imagined as the science project of post-apocalyptic potter, this installation responds to climate change, flooding, post-industrial landscapes, and survival after systems fail.
Chinese Brush Painting Workshop
Join Maxine for a relaxing, creative, and meditative experience!
Future Waters Commons
This coming Sunday, June 14th 1PM-3PM, as part of the New Paltz Regatta, members of the ecological design collective @spurse01 including @matthewfriday68 and @iainkerr in collaboration with @carolannpaszek will host a natural dyeing workshop to build biodegradable origami boats that will carry seeds selected to stabilize eroded riverbeds. Come find us at the Carmine Liberata bridge in New Paltz!
Power Objects & (Im)Possible Demands: A Wallkill Ritual
Inspired by ancient rituals and contemporary political unrest, this workshop invites participants to sculpt small clay objects that represent a need or desire for transformative change, working in kinship with the Wallkill River and the more-than-human world.
The Changing Room
Join us for another participatory workshop created by four artists (Kate, Tona, Gretchen and Laura) that leans directly into the politics of the present: visitors will design their own currency. At a time when even the symbols on money are subject to control and branding, this gesture asks—who gets to define value? Who signs off on what circulates?
Liquid Futures
What does the social, environmental, and political ecology of the Wallkill River look like 50 years from now, 100 years from now, 1000 years from now, after climate change?

