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Anna Van Lenten
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Kingston, NY, February 2, 2023– The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) announced today that it has purchased a historic, four-story brick cigar factory building in midtown Kingston for its future headquarters. The Center, which was located in Woodstock for 45 years and moved to Kingston in 2021, is one of the nation’s leading venues for the presentation, teaching, and critical discussion of photography in contemporary culture. CPW will use the 40,000 square-foot space in Kingston to stage exhibitions, conduct workshops, screen films, present lectures, and hold community gatherings.
“We are thrilled that this venerable arts institution has found a permanent home in Midtown,” said Kingston Mayor Steve Noble. “CPW will be another incomparable asset to our Midtown Arts District, and we look forward to seeing new life breathed into this historic factory building.”
In its new building, CPW aims to create a model for a community-based, artist-oriented photography and visual art organization. Once renovated, the majestic space at 25 Dederick Street will establish a significant cultural hub in an economically distressed area targeted for revitalization in Kingston’s 2022 Arts & Culture Master Plan. The building is located close to Kingston City Hall and the Kingston High School, and is one block away from the Empire State Trail and the recently redesigned Broadway-Grand Street intersection, a key part of Kingston’s recent business corridor improvements.
The organization’s goal is to move staff in by the fall of 2023.
CPW founder and current Board Chair Howard Greenberg stated, “It’s hard to imagine, forty-five years after we climbed the rickety staircase to our rented attic on Tinker Street in Woodstock, and put on our first small exhibitions of photographs by Paul Strand and Walker Evans, that CPW would be able to undertake such a significant acquisition as the Dederick Street building–and begin to create a major cultural center in Kingston. I am immensely proud to be a part of it!”
About the Center for Photography at Woodstock
Founded in 1977, the Center for Photography at Woodstock is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to supporting artists working in photography and related media, and engaging audiences through opportunities in which creation, discovery, and learning are made possible.In early 2022, CPW relocated to 474 Broadway in Kingston, where the exhibition Race, Love, and Labor (an excerpt) curated by Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, is now on view. CPW has also organized the massive exhibition, Parallel Lives; Photography, Identity, and Belonging, curated by Maya Benton, and on view at a special pop-up gallery within the former IBM headquarters at Tech City, 101 Enterprise Drive, Kingston.
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