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

Tea House upgrade 2.0: Custom Tatami Mat

Kiyoshi Yamahira

Company: Rumina Naoshima

Kiyoshi is a tatami artist based in Naoshima, Japan, sharing tatami culture with the world.

He creates borderless tatami pieces in the “Honami” weave, an elegant contrast of beige and grey in a traditional twill pattern, reimagining classic tatami as quiet, sculptural surfaces for contemporary spaces.

This unique texture and color provides a distinct contrast to the stained wood finish of the Tea House built on site in 2025 for the inaugural sculpture garden series as the finale to Box 18.

An integral part of this progressive art co-op is to bridge the gap between creative art communities to give opportunities to scale ideas in unexpected ways for our respective regional festivals.

This new tatami installation will be previewed as a backdrop to a new custom indigo + matcha infused concrete tea set developed in Naoshima by Robyn during her 2024-5 art residency.

Loading Art Prints + Little Zines

Amanda Wylie

Company: Zine Machine

Loading Art Prints + Little Zines by local artists that are part of Upstate open studios & Upstate art weekend festival in addition to monthly themes for the summer festival season in Ellenville including Borscht Belt + Blueberry

Creole Vieux Carrè

Kailen Louise Rachal

“I traveled everywhere around the world, but nothing calls me like home but then I remember that New Orleans will always reside within me and I carry it wherever I go. You can take the girl outta New Orleans but you cannot take the New Orleans out of the girl.“

Hmm!

Ingrid Roze

Meadow House Studios

Through the window to the hills

Adi Oren

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Artist In Residence Spring / Summer 2026

Lilly Jenner

Medium: clay to metal

A new series of free-cast works replicating the decay of the natural world, a background in forestry and fire ecology, and renewal in revelation.

Participation in Upstate Open Studios + Upstate Art Weekend

‘I loved that tree that fed me’

If poetry is play within a form, this poet rides tangles, ventricles of the heart, and the hopeful spruing of the casting tree. God forgot to forbid the apple of unknowing.

PAST EVENTS:

Upstate Art Weekend 2025

A weekend of open studios, sculpture, and community programming led by Robyn Squires and the InnWay collective. Explore the sculpture garden, process demos, and pop-up intailations across our evolving creative campus.

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