The Earth Of: Aggregate in Repose is an exercise in the potential for the erasure of both the document and the ability to document. That is to say, the convergent and divergent boundaries between knowing and forgetting: the tectonic shift that creates new landscapes with old scars. Where does this narrative happen…

Mr. Gaspar is the author of six collections of poetry and two novels, and his work has appeared widely in magazines and literary journals, including The New Yorker, The Nation, The Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Tampa Review, Miramar, among others.

We were excited to host an onsite concert, a gift from Creative Music Intensive faculty and visiting artists Michael Harrison, Elliot Cole, Ritvik Yaparpalvi and Payton MacDonald. The concert was opened to all ALN onsite residents, local community and everyone came to ALN on the 21st, as well as all online participants of CMI 2022.

Over 8 weeks Breaking Barriers through Movement and Dance explored the how to use the principles of modern dance to create and explore pathways toward combatting crisis. The program director Omonike Akinyemi focused particularly on movement stemming from Yoruba African dance, Martha Graham, and Katherine Dunham dance techniques.

During the academic year of 2019/2020 Arts Letters & Numbers brought the Harbor Freight Fellowship Initiative to the Capital Region. This nationwide apprenticeship program, designed by Big Picture Learning and Harbor Freight Tools, is an alternative pathway for students whom show significant interest in the trades…

Letters for Others is a platform for artists to share experiences, creative and inventive ways to contribute to this worldwide crisis with love and care.

On Saturday, December 7th, our house on the hill was filled with performance, the second St. Rocco’s Electronic Art and Music (STREAM) salon, by Jack Wright + Zach Darrup (Philadelphia), Michael Peters (Oneonta), Matt Weston (Albany) and Alexis Bhagat (Albany).

On November 21st, Opalka Gallery, Collar Works and Arts Letters & Numbers invited 40 people to dine in the gallery. The dinner was created by Frida Foberg and Natasha Holmes. Three courses were served, each with its own take on how to eat together.

During Summer at ALN, the musicians in residence were invited to perform at the Art Center of the Capital Region.

On September 8th, 2019, smudge studio invited our artists in residence for an interactive micro-production. The micro-production, entitled Cosmos Night Flood of Light included a moon-viewing experience and serving of tea. The event, staged to coincide with the September waxing moon, was held outside the Studios, next to the creek. 

Food has for years been a crucial part of life at Arts Letters & Numbers and has created a depth of interaction within all of the programs. The events are often accompanied by expressive food installations bringing new dimensions to the social engagements of eating together.

Earlier this year, Arts Letters & Numbers established a partnership with the global education organization Big Picture Learning to develop new projects in the Albany Area, as well as, Nationally and Internationally.

Each month the Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy (ACE) holds a Creative Economy Mixer. We are honored to have been the chosen host this months event. This was an incredible opportunity to share ALN with a community who might otherwise not know our organization.

In this talk, Professor David Gersten, will discuss the poetic, spatial imaginations, and social politics in John Hejduk’s works. He will address the poetic imagination as a dimension of human life, and a means of addressing our social political lives.

A short video, “Layering Community on the Wynantskill,” introduces a project initiated by the question “How Will We Live Together?” Actions and workshops over the last months have explored local layers of geology, geography, and history of both structures and people, with engagement from the community at several levels…

What if myth were not a lie but a story truer than truth? This powerfully intimate work enacts wonder, desire and denial across cosmic, cultural and artistic thresholds, with puppets, masked dancers, and digital animation. A specially designed theatre for one heightens the drama of encounter with this elusive deity of doorways…

Swifts are fast flying birds who spend their lives in the air. In late summer evenings, towards dusk, they perform magnificent aerial dances in large flocks. The form of the dance is elusive. It is seemingly unorchestrated and improvised, crystallizing in moments of grand collective gestures or dissipating into fragmentary, individual trajectories. A three dimensional choreography that is impossible to predict and hard to describe yet breathtakingly beautiful…

"The Architecture of Public Spaces as Museums: The case of MOMAFAD" at EMST - Temporary Exhibitions Space (-1), is the inauguration of the 1st MOMAFAD and is being held as part of “SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible,” Arts Letters & Number’s exhibition in the CITYX Venice Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.

In Search Of An Alternative Habitat For The Written Word is a Zoom-based three-session workshop hopes to open a conversation engaging diverse voices through the language and space of the written word. The workshop introduces concepts of self-expression in creating space through the medium of calligraphy…

“Eureka! - I found it!” This famous exclamation of Archimedes as he discovered the law of buoyancy in a bathtub captures the joy of embodied knowledge and heuristic experience. How can dramatic arts infuse architectural pedagogy with Eureka potential, while fostering creative collaboration and ethical imagination? This dialogue among architectural educators reflects on recent theatrical experiments and dramatic approaches to design education.