OMI International Art Center
Artists, writers, musicians and dancers from across the world have come to an old farm house in this quiet corner of a small town in upstate New York. The Omi International Arts Center has hosted more than 2,000 artists from more than 100 countries in its residencies in dance and music, art and architecture, writing and translation.
Come to an informal concert and you might hear a wind player from Korea fingering a high melody, while a percussionist from Bogatá keeps a beat with her hands, and an Australian trombonist sits barefoot on a folding chair.
Anyone is welcome to come to events and wander the grounds, free, and they are open daily. Omi sits on 300 acres in the Hudson Valley. Contemporary artists and architects show their work outdoors in the Field Sculpture Park and indoors the galleries. Director Zach Feuer left New York City to open the Retrospective Gallery in Hudson, N.Y. He had run a thriving Manhattan gallery for many years and founded the New Art Dealers Alliance to support new voices in contemporary art.
Former director Bill Maynes produces and directs documentaries of artists and writers, and he also owned a long-running gallery in Chelsea representing contemporary artists in painting, sculpture and photography.
Caroline O'Donnell and Martin Miller's Evitim shapes a sloping tower from leftover wood at Art OMI.
Metal sculpture echoes the shape of a bare tree in the Sculpture Park at OMI International Arts Center.
Caroline O'Donnell and Martin Miller's architectural model at Art OMI creates structures from lattice-like walls.
Wooden beams like railroad ties slant across a field at the OMI International Arts Center.
Musicians rehearse at MusicOMI, the music residency at the OMI International Arts Center.
Musicians rehearse at MusicOMI, the music residency at the OMI International Arts Center.
Musicians rehearse at MusicOMI, the music residency at the OMI International Arts Center.
Metal rings arc against the sky in the sculpture park at Art OMI.
Chemi Rosado-Seijo creates Mahican Pearl-Hole (The Mahican Bowl) at Art OMI.
Agustina Woodgate's The Source I - IV incorporates water and limestone at Art OMI.
Steven Holl's wooden curves in 'Obolin' stand at the corner of the field overlooking Art OMI's architecture exhibits.
