Current & Past Artists
CURRENT RESIDENTS
Jessica Chappe and Annie Reynolds
Dec 2021 – August 2022
Reimagining the function of blueprints as used by architects, engineers, and urban planners to design the constructed landscape, Jessica Chappe and Annie Reynolds will create collaborative designs—blueprints—with Hudson-area residents’ questions and experiences.
Toolshed
July 2021 – Dec 2021
Toolshed has launched Toolshed Exchange: a tool lending library that provides Hudson-area residents access to tools and training, promoting a culture of collective stewardship and empowering neighbors to build and maintain more resilient and equitable communities.
Ellie Irons: “Feral Plant Flows“
Dec – Jan 2021
Interdisciplinary artist and educator Ellie Irons will explore how the plants around Basilica Hudson are connected to the larger watershed/bioregion and its peoples, from Troy down to New York Harbor along the Hudson, through seed collecting, data collecting and mapping.
PAST RESIDENTS
REGINALD MADISON
“Home Grown” & MELODIUS THUNK
Aug – Oct 2021
Local artist Reginald Madison has worked in our Back Gallery space exploring several multi media projects, including paintings, sculptures and music.
FRUITING BODIES
July 2021
A project ofPratt Institute’s Inclusive Ecologies centered on the distinctive pawpaw tree. Fruiting bodies is a chance for us to collectively imagine a city structured around participatory rituals of cultivation and care, to relish the messiness of fruit, and fruiting bodies more broadly, including our own. Basilica is the host of the first South Bay pawpaw patch, sharing a picturesque cluster with a Thorny Locust and Box Elder maple, providing shade company and a buffer from the train passing just behind.
GODFREY NELSON AND LORRAINE NELSON WOLF (VIVORS)
June 2021
After a one-year delay due to the Covid pandemic, Vivors will be in residence at the Basilica Hudson for the month of June 2021. They will film vignettes and songs out of the Vivors’ own personal lives. After a month of shooting and editing they will present a virtual performance at a later date (to be announced). Most of the Vivors cast, creative team, and crew are based in the Hudson Valley.
KAMAU AMU PATTON
EIGHT PILLARS : A SERPENT COILED ALONG A BROKEN LINE
May – June 2021
During his time in residence, Patton will continue his research on the poetics of landscape and engage directly with the aspiring Toolshed Garden at Basilica. Patton will develop a composition which uses the landscape as material and inspiration for a new sound work to be premiered at the site.
ERIKA DEVRIES
SEVEN SISTERS/TAKE CARE OF THE PAIN
Feb – April 2021
deVries created a 12-foot neon sculpture displayed on Basilica’s roof and North Hall. The piece called for healing and “tending to where it hurts.” The residency culminated in a community walk and meditation.
MARY MATTINGLY
Ecotopian Library
Oct 2020
Visual artist Mary Mattingly in collaboration with Toolshed created an Ecotopian Library, a long term project that stems from the belief that art and ecotopian thought can be part of cultivating systemic social change, in the City of Hudson.