Verse Work/Shop is thrilled to present Talk Shop 7.0 featuring the work of an array of incredible artists and makers, all rooted in the Hudson Valley including:

Sue Allbert / Various Mediums Inc, Kristin Gaudio Endsley, Ellen Jouret-Epstein, Tristan Fitch, Lilah Friedland / Invisiblehand Press, Louise Kalin, Weizitong Kong, Forrest Lewinger / Workaday Handmade, Dana McClure, Seven Cedars NY 

Join us Sunday, March 30th from 3-6PM for the Opening Reception Celebration

The show includes textiles, wood and ceramic sculptures, paintings and print works, as well as lighting.  Please see our website for more information on each artist and their practice 

The collection is featured in vignettes staged with highly crafted furnishings by various regional makers including Finding Form Design, FN Furniture, LAIL Design, New York Heartwoods and Withers Studio. In addition, Verse offers small batch mind and body goods including jewelry by Aglaia Jewelry, Lightfoot Woods and Swish & Hammer, and wellness goods by Care Quarterly, Saboon Maazeh and Treadwell New York.

The Opening Reception is bound to be an exciting celebration of these incredible artists and this incredible time of year!  All are welcome to join!

Talk Shop 7.0 remains on view through May 11.  Typical Verse hours are Thursday-Saturday 12-5PM, Sunday 12-4PM & always by appointment.

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙉𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙬 — Join us at VERSE Work/Shop for an artists + makers Pop-Up celebrating all the GOOD.  Friday, Feb 14 from 5-7PM we invite you to stop in and enjoy a glass of bubbly, shop the pop-up, and receive your very own 𝐎𝐝𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐆𝐨 by the marvelous Lilah Friedland.  Saturday, 12-3PM the Pop-Up and festivities continue.

This Pop-Up, hosted amid the backdrop of Beka Goedde’s exhibition “𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴”, will feature regional artists + makers such as:

Aglaia Jewelry

Care Quarterly

Catskill Chocolate Co.

Ethel Leather

Invisible Hand Press

MO PEPIN

Saboon Maazeh

Swish & Hammer

Treadwell NY

Wild Folk

Windflower

+ 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒

Shop hand and nature dyed silks, jewelry, natural soaps, letterpress, leather goods, wellness products, chocolates and all the goods.

Be ours 💘

ALL ARE WELCOME to attend an Opening Reception, Friday, May 3rd from 3-6PM for “HARD LABOR, SOFT SPACE” Architecture Fellowship Exhibition by Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee.

What does it mean to create an infrastructure of care; and systems of resilience within a capitalist landscape of production, extraction, and exploitation? “Hard Labor, Soft Space” is a research-based design investigation on the current surge of collective farms and radical food systems in and around the Hudson Valley. Against the backdrop of land distribution laws such as the Homestead Act (1862) and the Alien Land Law (1913) that have driven the current racial disparity in agricultural land ownership, this project reframes rurality as a site of radical reclamation. This research forms a comparative genealogy of utopian agrarian projects starting with 19th and 20th Century Abolitionist movements in the United States to the current wave of BIPOC-led radical farms in Hudson Valley. In 1972, Liselotte and Oswald Mathias Ungers’ published “Communes in the New World: 1740-1972* a study on utopian commune living. This project is part-homage, and part-critique by addressing the erasure of racial history: in rural ideation, and explores future living strategies rooted in racial and social justice. Through counter-mapping, archiving and a dinner performance, this exhibit highlights alternative agrarian settlements and renounces models of industrial farming that thrive on the extraction of labor, capital, and lands of others.

Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee is the founder of the Office of Human Resources (OHR), a critical design studio based in New York. Her practice links socio and spatial thinking through the lens of race, land, and labor. Lee’s honors and awards include the Art Omi Architecture Residency (2023), the Art Center Residency through LMCC (2022), and the Future Architecture Fellowship (2020). Her work has been supported by several institutions such as the Architectural League, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Mellon Foundation. Her works have been featured in various exhibitions and publications, including the Haus der Architektur in Graz, Austria (2021), The Funambulist, PLAT, and Archifutures (dpr-barcelona, 2020). Currently, she teaches at Bard College as the 2022-2024 Architecture Fellow.

“Hard Labor, Soft Space” will remain on view at VERSE Work/Shop May 3rd - May 12th (Studio hours as posted Thursday-Sunday)

Stop by VERSE Work/Shop December 16th between 12-5 to Meet the Maker: Elisa Finoli of Aglaia Jewelry & shop an extended line of her good works.

Elisa Finoli, the Founder of Aglaia Jewelry, is an Italian designer who lives and works in NY. Her creations are born out of her passion for clean aesthetics, elegance and the beauty of nature.

She gets inspirations from both her surroundings and far away cultures: her Italian roots and her life experiences living in beloved countries such as India and Nicaragua. Elisa also sites Japanese culture and the 'Wabi-Sabi' philosophy as a source of inspiration. A philosophy based on finding beauty in the imperfect. Imperfection becomes a form of freedom and acceptance, a celebration of nature.

Her aesthetic connection to balance and shape is a clear heritage from her background in design, architecture and photography.

An essential ingredient in her life and work is the consciousness of the world: respecting it, making it better, giving back.

All her pieces are handmade using recycled precious metals or fair-mined gold, pearls and stones are ethically sourced, use of chemicals is limited, her packaging is as sustainable as possible and in her studio uses renewable energy.

The VERSE Work/Shop team is excited to invite you to 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙥 2.0, the second exhibition at our new storefront in the Village of Red Hook.

𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙥 2.0 is co-curated by Beka Goedde and Vanessa Shafer and features the work of Tania Alvarez, Samantha Bittman, Eric Conroe / Finding Form Design, Elisa Finoli / Aglaia Jewelry, Kenji Fujita, Ken Landauer / FN Furniture, Jess Ludwicki / Love Lamb, Liza McLaughlin / LB Felt, Muriel Norman / Down Under Faux, New York Heartwoods, Paris Smeraldo / Ugly Mud Studio, Gret Sterrett Smith, Julianne Swartz, Swish & Hammer, Allison Toepp / Ethel Leather, Emi Winter, and Withers Studio.

𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐄 𝟑𝐑𝐃 / 𝟑-𝟔𝐏𝐌

June 3rd / 3pm-6pm @ VERSE Work/Shop
35 West Market Street, Red Hook, NY

Locally sourced treats and refreshments

Questions: info@verseworkshop.com

Visit VERSE Work/Shop Thursdays 2-7PM, Friday-Monday 12-5PM and by appointment