The Center for Photography at Woodstock, the photography non-profit CPW celebrated the opening of its renovated headquarters in Kingston, NY, on January 18, 2025. New exhibitions of Mary Ellen Mark, Colleen and Kathleen Kenyon and Keisha Scarville will be on view on view through May 4 at CPW. Housed in a 40,000-square-foot former cigar factory in the city’s arts district, 90 miles north of New York City, the new space includes 6,000 square feet of gallery space, an expanded digital media lab, workshop and lecture spaces, a visitors’ lounge, and a library.
Founded in 1977 as the Center for Photography at Woodstock, CPW is a not-for-profit arts organization with a dual mission: to support artists working in photography and related media, and to engage audiences through creation, discovery, and learning. At the heart of CPW’s mission is programming that is community-based, artist-centered, and collaborative. To foster public conversation around critical issues in photography, CPW offers exhibitions, workshops, artists’ talks, and access to its Digital Media Lab. In addition to its public programs, CPW supports artists through its long-running Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, established in 1999 to foster critical dialogue on diversity, race, and identity in the context of social justice, which has supported over 150 artists, including LaToya Ruby Frazier, Deana Lawson, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. The next application period will run from Dec. 16, 2024 to Jan. 31, 2025.CPW is also an education space: its program Sanctuary City, Stories of Immigration and Community, led by Wendy Ewald, empowers immigrant students at Kingston High School to tell the histories of their native countries and adopted home through photography.
CPW Kingston
New address: 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY 12401
Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 11:00–5:00 PM
Free admission
For more information, visit cpw.org
