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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPress Contact: Leslie Hermelin leslie@marauder.com Basilica Hudson Announces 2022 Season  Sets Sights on Ambitious Climate and Community Initiatives  In its first decade Basilica Hudson looked to the last century to build an understanding of the spirit of this place. Now it looks towards the future.  April 7, 2022 – Hudson, NY: Multidisciplinary arts center […]

We entered 2021 under a veil of unpredictability, with the lessons of 2020 as our guide. Through the innovation and trust from our collaborators and supporters, Basilica Hudson was fortunate to present a season of connection, safely welcoming visitors and independent voices back into our reclaimed industrial solar factory. We are honored to have hosted […]

The Basilica Conversation Series Podcast, hosted by Basilica Hudson Co-Founder and Director Melissa Auf der Maur, highlights people and organizations that reflect and inspire our mission to be a platform for independent and innovative voices, and to support artists, filmmakers, musicians and climate change advocates. EPISODE 7: Nakita Reed“Unintentional Consequences of Progress and Other Modern […]

Toolshed was created by artist duo Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris), founders of The Canary Project, a groundbreaking platform for deepening public understanding of climate change (2006 – 2020). Toolsehd is a platform working at the intersection of art, ecology, education and activism. Their tools are those that build a spirit of care, resilient […]

As we reflect on our 2021 season and strategize our upcoming programming, we’d like to thank the friends, artists, sponsors, program partners, individual donors, ticket buyers and event attendees for a beautiful and rejuvenating year at Basilica Hudson.  These past two years have been unlike any other, and your trust and enthusiasm has helped our organization uphold our mission […]

Work On View in the Basilica Gallery BuildingNov 7 – Jan 16 Opening reception Nov 10 as part of Jupiter Nights 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.  Through various […]

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. Irons will utilize seed collecting, data collecting and mapping to gather information on what is living in/around the Basilica Hudson landscape while […]

On November 19, we celebrated the groundbreaking for our Basilica Net Zero Campus Project. Over the next few years, our campus will transform into a carbon neutral facility with winterization to create year-round space for expanded cultural and community programs. That means heat and AC, all powered by a new 150kW solar array (in addition […]

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first in-person Basilica Farm & Flea Holiday Market since 2019. It was truly special to gather again in our industrial church with friends old and new to celebrate the wild abundance of talent, care and craftsmanship in the Hudson Valley. This Giving Tuesday, please consider making […]