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.

It has been a remarkable year of growth and transformation for Arts Letters & Numbers and it is a great joy to send you our first newsletter sharing updates on our progress and announcements of what is to come.

Like many serious minded people sensitive to the best situations, places and opportunities to achieve examples of the things we would like to see made possible in the world, I have attempted works of various kinds in many locations.

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.

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

Thanks to all the support and participation of artists and community, the 9th 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.

Together, Revolution: Thesis at ALN and the Summer Residency created a framework for Summer at ALN 2019, which brought people from 13 countries, to participate in the programs. While each of these programs had its own unique character, they both offered space for people to pursue their questions in conversation with others and create emergent works within a creative community.

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. 

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

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

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.

In the shape of a festival - Come Make with Us, as the title hints, was an invitation to the community to experience and participate in the many works created during 'Summer at ALN'. Through multiple forms and medias, the works created a platform for interactions between the audience, the artists, the spaces and the continuous unfolding of the questions.

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.