Over the fall and winter of 2019, we invited a few talented artists, musicians and writers to create their work here on the Arts Letters & Numbers campus. With safety procedures in place, we offered the space and support to explore and expand creative practice. Today we present a small collection of their works made during the Pilot Light Residency.

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…

Over the course of 7 weeks, Eating Together offered bi-weekly virtually shared meals, inviting individuals to come together while safely remaining in their own environment. These gatherings were hosted by Frida Foberg as a direct response to the social constraints of the spring and summer of 2020.

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.

Thanks to all the support and participation of artists and community, the 14th edition of 3RD-THURSDAY was successfully held an enlightening and inspiring exchange at Arts Letters & Numbers. We express great gratitude to the following presented artists along with visitors and supporters.

We are excited to share an artist in residence show featuring works from our current residents Geuryung Lee & Hojin Lee.

Thanks to all the support and participation of artists and community, the 13th edition of 3RD-THURSDAY was successfully held an enlightening and inspiring exchange at Arts Letters & Numbers. We express great gratitude to the following presented artists along with visitors and supporters.

Spillage is a sculptural interpretation of Yixuan’s album “two breaths forward, one breath back,” exploring the effect of displacement of sound and the impermanence of materiality. Using sound, light, found objects, fabrics, and ink, it invites conversations and reinterpretations of preexisting surroundings, realigning the tension of contemporary politics and history. 

Thanks to all the support and participation of artists and community, the 12th edition of 3RD-THURSDAY was successfully held an enlightening and inspiring exchange at Arts Letters & Numbers. We express great gratitude to the following presented artists along with visitors and supporters.

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).

Thanks to all the support and participation of artists and community, the 11th edition of 3RD-THURSDAY was successfully held an enlightening and inspiring exchange at Arts Letters & Numbers. We express great gratitude to the following presented artists along with visitors and supporters.

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.

A new program was introduced by Arts Letters & Numbers in October 2019. 12 students from Averill Park High School gathered in the studios every Tuesday afternoon for 8 weeks. The program Voices of the Woods was lead by ALN fellow Natasha Holmes, supported by Associate Director Frida Foberg, fellow Jennifer Park and fellow Hyunbae Chang. 

Simultaneously modal and illustrative, Under Milk Wood – named for the Dylan Thomas radio drama which inspired much of the work – manages to eschew its ostensibly concrete underpinnings in contemporary representational art…

the way a child travels, around and around, back home again_As children, we are encouraged to play, explore and even fail. As adults that encouragement becomes lesser. We are encouraged to keep busy, interact less, and ignore fantasy. My work allows the adolescent in us to come out…

Thanks to all the support and participation of artists and community, the 10th edition of 3RD-THURSDAY was successfully held an enlightening and inspiring exchange at Arts Letters & Numbers. We express great gratitude to the following presented artists along with visitors and supporters.

We are pleased to present sondayy, an exhibition from our current artist in residence Mallory Smith. The opening takes place on Sunday morning, seeing her works with coffee and cookies…

This series of work explores the mythical figure of the space cowboy and the world that he attempts to leave behind. Despite centuries of erasure, domestication, and categorization, man continues to depend on the earth and fails to escape his status as animal, one species entwined within millions…

It is night. You stand before your porcelain podium in the warm sconce light and peer into the eyes across from you. We are told to practice in the mirror before making speeches, giving presentations, attending interviews, going on dates.

On September 10th, we had a beautiful artist in residence show by Chelsea Farquhar & Kitt Peacock.