A Westchester-Area Guide to Upstate Art Weekend 2026

Upstate Art Weekend (UAW) returns June 25-29, bringing exhibitions, performances, open studios, public art, workshops and special programs to cultural spaces across the Hudson Valley and Catskills. This year’s lineup includes a strong group of Westchester and nearby participants, offering local audiences a chance to experience the region’s creative range across galleries, museums, historic sites and public spaces.

The Westchester-area stops on this year’s UAW map show how much is happening close to home, from exhibitions and live music to gardens and family-friendly workshops. ArtsNews’ UAW 2026 guide highlights participating destinations.

What is Upstate Art Weekend?

Upstate Art Weekend is an annual regional arts event that brings together artists, organizations and audiences across the Hudson Valley and Catskills. The artist-forward platform is designed to amplify creative communities throughout the region. The concentrated calendar of events invites visitors to explore exhibitions, programs and cultural spaces over the course of several days.

UAW 2026 Westchester Participants

Hudson Valley MOCA | Peekskill

Hudson Valley MOCA’s UAW weekend marks the debut of Enlighten Peekskill, a public art trail that leads from the Hudson River to Peekskill’s city center. Developed through seven years of collaboration, the project includes 12 murals, four sculptures and works by 46 artists. As part of the City of Peekskill’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant, HVMOCA administered the three projects that make up the trail: Illuminate Peekskill, which brings lighted sculptures to local streets; Making Connections, a mural corridor organized by the Peekskill Arts Alliance; and Five Elements Arches, a set of murals near the train station by Christine Knowlton and Candace Winter.

The weekend begins with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and guided Art Trail Tour (6/25), followed by a Grand Opening and Art Trail Tour with artist comments, dance, drumming, poetry and other performances (6/26). HVMOCA will also host artist panel discussions (6/28), offering an inside look at the artists’ perspectives, curatorial approaches and the challenges of creating public art. A shuttle van will be available during event hours to transport visitors along the Art Trail from the Peekskill Train Station to Downtown Peekskill.

ArtsWestchester | White Plains

Four exhibitions are currently on view in ArtsWestchester’s galleries through August 2. Chioma Nwana’s Forever, Amen captures the oldest Black churches in White Plains and the communities they continue to sustain through black-and-white photography. Art in a Season of Revolution calls on more than 35 artists to reflect on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and explore fresh perspectives on the American experience. The LGBTQ+ Listening Library, curated by musician Christina Picciano in collaboration with the Hudson Valley Queer Collective, is an immersive celebration of queer music and the artists who shape it. Continuum: Terra by Rana Amirtahmasebi transforms ArtsWestchester’s gallery vault into an immersive world of clay, color and intricate pattern.

ArtsWestchester’s UAW programming includes a panel discussion, Preserving Community (6/27), which features exhibiting solo artists Chioma Nwana, Christina Picciano and Rana Amirtahmasebi in conversation with moderator Megan Meadowlark, ArtsWestchester’s associate director of visual arts programming. The panel will explore how creative expression can function as an act of resistance against community erasure and displacement. The weekend also includes Sip & Create: Printmaking (6/25), a hands-on printmaking experience led by artist Laurel Shute.

KinoSaito | Verplanck

KinoSaito’s UAW lineup centers on the opening of its Summer 2026 exhibitions, with extended hours, open studios, workshops, family programming and a Garden Party. The 2026 Summer Opening Reception and Garden Party (6/27) celebrates three new exhibitions: Kikuo Saito: Dime Lake, featuring Saito’s landscape paintings alongside the last painting he completed; All Day Long, a group exhibition that considers landscape through contemporary art, 20th-century influences, nature and abstraction; and an outdoor sculpture by Jongil Ma. The reception will include Cello Echoes with Helen Gillet & My Pal Foot Foot (6/27), a live-looping performance using acoustic cello, synthesized sound, texture and rhythm.

Earlier in the weekend, Pratt Schools of Art and Design Artists-in-Residence Borinquen Gallo and Ari Elefterin will open their studios (6/25), followed by a movement workshop by Elefterin that explores sitting, support and the body’s relationship to design (6/25). Other UAW programs include an Artist Pop-Up with Mayumi Nakao (6/26) and several workshops: Drawing Portraits (6/26), Watercolor Values (6/27) and KinoKids: Postcard Landscapes (6/28).

The Pocantico Center | Tarrytown

At The Pocantico Center, UAW visitors can experience Woven Wonders: Kykuit’s Picasso Tapestries, an exhibition featuring eight large-scale tapestries inspired by Pablo Picasso’s paintings and handwoven by Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach with Picasso’s approval. Commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller, the works reflect a decades-long collaboration that transformed Picasso’s imagery through texture, scale and material. During UAW, visitors can take a closer look at the exhibition during a curator-led tour (6/27) or visit during an additional viewing date (6/28). Outdoors, Pocantico’s Sculpture Walk (6/26 & 27) features works on loan from The Museum of Modern Art by artists including Anton Prinner, Mark di Suvero, Marino Marini, Henry Moore, Herbert Ferber and Ursula von Rydingsvard. The weekend also includes Acting Shakespeare: A One Man Musical (6/26), Kamran Saliani’s revival of Sir Ian McKellen’s solo show, combining Shakespearean monologues, personal storytelling, history, humor and music.

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Katonah Museum of Art | Katonah

For Katonah Museum of Art, UAW marks the opening of Diplomacy at Home: The Domestic Lives of the Founding Families (6/28), with a Curators in Conversation event that features guest curator Grant Quertermous (6/28). The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Friends of John Jay Homestead and the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation, marks the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding through furniture, fine art, decorative objects and personal possessions from the homes of America’s founding generation. Works on view include John Jay’s travelling Barrister Bookcase, a side chair made for Thomas Jefferson’s New York City home, a dinner plate from George Washington’s Society of the Cincinnati service and a letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson. The exhibition considers how domestic spaces, social networks and everyday objects helped shape the early culture of American democracy. Members get additional perks, including a “First Look” for those who are at the Curator’s Circle level and above (6/27) and a Members Preview and Breakfast (6/28). 

The Capa Space | Yorktown

UAW weekend is the last chance for visitors to see The Capa Space’s Richard Sandler: Street Photographer, a photography exhibition featuring Sandler’s images of New York City between 1977 and 2001. Taken as the city was undergoing transformation, the photographs capture split-second moments shaped by composition, light, gesture and timing. The weekend also includes a screening of the 1974 New York City crime thriller The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (6/25), along with a Typewriter Poetry event (6/27) led by poet Chelsea Rae Mize, who will invite visitors to create poems inspired by Sandler’s photographs. The exhibition closes with a reception with Richard Sandler (6/28).

Jacob Burns Film Center | Pleasantville

Jacob Burns Film Center’s UAW weekend offers a wide-ranging lineup of new releases, one-night-only programs, family screenings and live events. New releases like Maddie’s Secret and the Westchester-exclusive Rose of Nevada begin their runs at the theater (6/26). The weekend also includes a screening of Wuthering Heights (1939), which will be followed by a live Q&A and book talk with Professor Deborah Lutz, author of a new Emily Brontë biography (6/27).

Family programming includes a family fun day featuring The Greatest Showman Sing-Along (6/28), which continues upstairs with ice cream, jugglers, face painting, cotton candy, balloons and other activities. Two $5 screenings of John Waters’ Hairspray (1988) take place on 6/27 & 28. JBFC’s Pride Month series also continues during UAW, with screenings of I Carry You With Me (6/25), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (6/25) and Departures (6/26) and stand-up comedy at Take 3 Wine Bar & Café hosted by Kim Berns (6/26).

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Bethany Arts Community | Ossining

Bethany Arts Community’s (BAC) UAW weekend centers on byCONTRAST: Apparent Contradictions (6/25-6/28), an exhibition of 29 art quilts by members of the New Jersey and New York Region of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). On Saturday, SAQA artists will be in the galleries for an Open Process program (6/27), giving visitors a closer look at the techniques and approaches behind the quilt-making process. BAC will also open its studios (6/28), inviting visitors to step inside the workspaces of local studio artists, learn about their processes and see works-in-progress and finished pieces.

Additional weekend programming includes a screening of John Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952) presented by The Ossining Library at BAC (6/27) as well as Express Yourself! Queer Talent Show (6/26), featuring music, drag, poetry and dance.

Caramoor | Katonah

Caramoor’s UAW weekend spans its summer season concerts and opportunities to explore the estate and its grounds. The lineup begins with pianist Hélène Grimaud (6/25), whose recital explores Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. It continues with Isaac Mizrahi: Celebrating Pride (6/26), featuring Mizrahi with his jazz band in a program of songs from Madonna to Sondheim. The weekend’s largest offering is the American Roots Music Festival (6/27), a daylong celebration of Americana, folk, bluegrass and more across Caramoor’s several outdoor performance spaces. On Sunday, pianist Conrad Tao joins orchestral collective The Knights for a program featuring Gershwin, Copland, Margaret Bonds, Jessie Montgomery and Christina Courtin (6/28).

Rosen House programs include tours of the Inside Lucie’s Wardrobe exhibition and Conversations at Caramoor: Behind the Seams (6/25), which highlights research into Lucie Rosen’s clothing and accessories. Afternoon Tea (6/26 & 28) includes access to select Rosen House rooms, while Plein Air Painting and Drawing (6/28) invites participants to capture the Rosen House and Tapestry Hedge in watercolor and pen.

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Lyndhurst Mansion & Gardens | Tarrytown

During UAW, Lyndhurst Mansion & Gardens invites visitors to explore two art experiences across its historic estate. Outdoors, Paula Hayes’ Renewal (6/25-29) is a permanent land-art installation surrounding Lyndhurst’s restored Hudson River Overlook. The garden uses native plants, river pebbles and sculptural works inspired by Victorian garden traditions to create a setting that loosely follows the form of a mandala. The installation also connects to the site’s history, recreating the setting of a raised deck built by Helen Gould in the early 20th century.

Inside the mansion, visitors can see Marc Dennis’ artworks (through September), a group of hyper-realistic contemporary paintings displayed throughout the house and included with mansion tours. Dennis’ works reference floral still lifes and old master painting traditions while exploring contemporary questions of culture, humor and identity.

The Gallery at Yellow Studio | Cross River

The Gallery at Yellow Studio presents Fiber Forward (through 6/29), a group exhibition featuring 38 women and non-binary artists working in fiber. Curated by Tina Villaveces, the exhibition explores fiber art as a site of experimentation and critical inquiry. Works on view include sculpture, installation, embroidery, weaving, mixed media, activist craft kits and quilts made from repurposed domestic textiles. Many of the artists use found, secondhand or repurposed materials, bringing new meaning to what has been discarded or overlooked. Together, the works explore women’s labor, domestic space, memory, resilience and fiber’s possibilities as a vehicle for personal and collective meaning. An Artists’ Talk will take place during UAW (6/27).

Hammond Museum | North Salem

Hammond Museum’s UAW programming includes Threads of Connection: Traditional Forms, Contemporary Stories (through 7/26), an exhibition that brings together Mohamed A. Yakub and Jane Wilson-Marquis, two artists who use fabric and garments to explore memory, identity and cultural exchange. Yakub transforms his photographs into silk kimono that reflect African heritage, Japanese tradition and American identity. Wilson-Marquis draws on four decades of theatrical design to create couture connected to transformation and life’s pivotal moments. The artists will discuss their works during an artist talk on June 27.

The museum will also host an opening reception for ENOUGH and The Mother Trees (6/27). Curated by Simon Draper, ENOUGH (through 8/30) is a group exhibition that explores artmaking beyond the pressures of the art market. Lisa Breznak’s The Mother Trees (through 8/30) is a sculptural tree project inspired by forest networks and the writings of forestry scientist Suzanne Simard.

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Peep Space | Tarrytown

Peep Space presents two solo exhibitions during UAW. In the Main Gallery, Generation Jones: A Yearbook features photographs by Jeremiah Dine taken between 1971 and 1979, beginning when the artist was 12 years old and continuing through his teenage years. The portraits document family, friends, schoolmates and others around him while capturing a distinct generation shaped by the social upheaval, political unrest and cynicism of the 1960s and 1970s. A book signing with Dine will take place during UAW (6/28).

The weekend also marks the inaugural exhibition in Peep Space’s new Back Room. Playground, a miniature world by Carin Kulb Dagnot, features sculptures made entirely of acrylic paint and installed in an intimate environment. The works blur the line between sculpture and painting, allowing paint to become the subject rather than the surface.

Also Nearby: Selected UAW Destinations in Putnam and Rockland

In addition to the Westchester participants above, ArtsNews is highlighting a few nearby UAW destinations in Putnam and Rockland.

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center | Nyack

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center’s UAW programming connects Hopper’s legacy to contemporary art, photography and live music. Inside the museum, James Prosek: Memory, Trees & Shadows (through 10/4) presents more than 20 works exploring humanity’s relationship to the natural world. The museum’s 55th-anniversary celebration continues downtown with #HopperHappens55 (through 7/5), a juried photography exhibition of 55 Hopper-inspired images installed in storefronts and community spaces. On June 27, the museum hosts a Hopper-esque mural workshop, followed by Music in the Garden: “Night Hawk” in Concert, featuring a stage mural unveiling, live music and projections on the Hopper House.

Garrison Art Center | Garrison

Garrison Art Center’s UAW program invites visitors to take part in a Community Indigo Dyeing & Shibori Event (6/27), a hands-on workshop led by teaching artist Katrin Reifeiss. Participants can learn a traditional Japanese shibori technique or experiment with indigo dye by refreshing vintage linens, reviving stained shirts or upcycling well-loved textiles. The event is designed for creative experimentation and community participation.

GARNER Arts Center | Garnerville

GARNER Arts Center’s UAW programming turns its Garnerville campus into a multi-site art experience across galleries, historic buildings and outdoor spaces. In Building 35 Gallery, Those Who Can presents a national exhibition of 29 artist-educators. Elsewhere on campus, site-specific projects move across monumental textiles, video, sound, painting, sculpture, photography and interactive multimedia installation. Highlights include works installed in building interiors, along the waterfall, under the creek, in Brick Alley and throughout the Creekside Sculpture Trail. Together, the offerings invite visitors to move through the campus and encounter contemporary art in galleries, industrial spaces and outdoor settings.

Boscobel House and Gardens | Garrison

Boscobel House and Gardens’ UAW offerings bring together history, decorative arts and landscape overlooking the Hudson River. The Loyalist Legacies: Relics from the Losing Side exhibition explores the lives of those who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution. Through rare objects, stories and new scholarship, the exhibition reconsiders identity, allegiance and Loyalist histories in the Hudson Valley during America’s 250th. Visitors can also take a special eagle-focused tour. The tour highlights carved eagles in the Historic House and explores the symbolism of the eagle in early American decorative arts. Beyond the exhibitions and tours, Boscobel offers access to its 68 acres of grounds, gardens and Hudson River views.

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_{Photos (top to bottom): HVMOCA: Scott Goss, Wind Storm (photo credit: Joseph Squillante); ArtsWestchester panel (l to r): Chioma Nwana, Rana Amirtahmasebi and Christina Picciano (photos courtesy of the artists); KinoSaito: Kikuo Saito, Dime Lake (photo courtesy of KinoSaito); The Pocantico Center: ‘Woven Wonders’ exhibition (photo credit: John Muggenborg); Works on view at Katonah Museum of Art (photo courtesy of KMA); The Capa Space: Photo by Richard Sandler (photo courtesy of The Capa Space); Jacob Burns Film Center: still from I Carry You With Me (photo courtesy of Sony Classics); Bethany Arts Community; Caramoor: Southern Avenue will perform during American Roots Festival (photo courtesy of Caramoor); Lyndhurst Mansion: Paula Hayes, Gazing Globe (photo credit: Clifford Pickett); Yellow Studio: Sammi E, Gatewood (photo courtesy of Yellow Studio); Hammond Museum: Yakei, Kimono 5 (photo credit: Mohamed A. Yakub); Peep Space: Carin Dangot, The Offering (photo courtesy of Peep Space); Edward Hopper House: James Prosek, Remnant (2026)(photo credit: ImageWorks, Westport, CT; Courtesy of the Artist and Waqas Wajahat, New York); Garrison Art Center: Community Indigo Dyeing, GARNER Arts Center: Creekside Sculpture Trail; Boscobel: work on view in Loyalist Legacies: Relics from the Losing Side}