MAY 2026
UAW OPEN STUDIOS
SATURDAY 16TH -
SUNDAY 17TH
JUNE 2026
UAW FESTIVAL
THURSDAY 25TH -
MONDAY 29TH
EVENT OVERVIEW
Moments build Memories 2026
Sqrypt Atelier presents an encore to the ‘Context brings Content’ from the 2025 Sculpture Garden Experience on this property. Over the course of the year, each artist has had the opportunity to pause and reflect on how their art practice is informed physically and/or metaphorically as it weathers through the seasons.
The weaving of textures through our collective senses define space to create moments and build memories.
Life happens in those in-between moments. Those interstitial spaces between energies of construct where our senses truly seek a sense of place.
Curated by Robyn Squires [RYSQ], we will be expanding on the Immersive Sculpture Garden Outdoor Experience on this property in conjunction with a village treasure hunt, and an Indoor Installation Exhibition. New large scale sculptures and installations will be comprised of spatial constructs that include Openings, Beams, Columns, Suspension, Corners, Edges, and Artifacts
The materiality will be diverse in lime plaster, steel, ceramics, paper mache, timber, stone, cables, industrial zip ties, and vintage artifacts.
In the context of the property of the former Way Side Inn of Ellenville, an indoor atrium still stands and now serves as a space for the community for intergenerational programming which is now called Inn Way Art-Coop & Wellbeing Space.
Through an exploration in anthropomorphism and phenomenology of the senses, the dialogue continues with new legacy projects that inspire each individual artist to share their practice in their desired mediums to weave together a narrative about ancient craft and reclaimed materials through the expression of movement, change, suspension, tension, and release
Portal 36
Robyn Squires
Robyn Squires: Portal 36
A portal series inspired by the revival of a gothic species captures the void, holds space, and transforms into an intricately woven instrument to experience the phenomenology of light and sound through the use of reclaimed material, anchors, and roped cables that responds to the weather. The edges are redefined by the elements to frame and cultivate the moments to build memories with.
Structured Freedom
Scott Assumcao Thomson
A suspended exploration of tension and release, transforming industrial zip ties into rhythmic, architectural forms that respond to air and gravity. In this four-part installation, structure becomes weightless and discipline finds unexpected grace in motion.
Votive Artifact
Ben Devoe: Copper
Serves as a sanctuary for a mended history. The installation juxtaposes some wearing away aesthetics of our culture, weathered posters of popular imagery, against the ancient craft of a lime-plaster shrine. It is a relic of a broken masculinity that can heal.
Ceramic Totems
Roslyn Bernstein
Inspired by Indigenous art and her background as an author and professor in creative writing; her medium to cultivate the narrative of expression is through the movement of shaping clay and applying unique glazes for bespoke components that incrementally stack into multi-functional totel pole column forms. Sharing this narrative experience through open studio workshops on site, we will collaborate and build a community totem experience for the village.
Archway Key
Tyler Borchert
Utilizing reclaimed material on the property, a delicate balance of form and function to stack wood and stone to create a door way that harks back on the history of this property with the nostalgia of the Key Restaurant and Way Side Inn. Residual artifacts shall define the edges of the prior building construction to redefine the expansion of the zen garden experience
Doll Derivatives
Barbara Hoff
A hanging free form banner celebrating an ongoing romance with dolls. The lightweight vintage artifacts in conjunction with prismatic crystals to reflect and capture the spirit of this allure with the community.
KINKA Kreatures
Tom Sebazco
Serves to animate public space through an interactive scavenger hunt, inviting participants to discover hidden plant guardians that absorb negative energy, protect their surroundings, and transform exploration into a shared experience of art, folklore, and optimism
PAST EVENTS:
Upstate Art Weekend 2025